This document discusses how technology could support existing religious and spiritual practices or create new ones. It explores how the spiritual layer of a city, including things like spirit houses, shrines, offerings, and sacred routes, might evolve and interact with technology. Some questions are raised about how tagging sacred spaces could change how people experience and navigate a city, as well as how urban architecture could impact spirit house design and what smart spirit houses of the future may look like and their effect on the city.
3. For much of worlds population, religious
practices are intimately woven into the
fabric of daily life, thus ITCs have the
potential to support a range of existing
religious and spiritual activities, as well as
imagine and create new practices.
Techno-Spiritual Practices
Genevieve Bell, No More SMS from Jesus, p. 141.
17. Route where
monks walk
Place where mother
made offering to
save her childs health
18. I will say to the spirits, I just ask to get by
this way because I have no other route I
can take. Dont take a fancy to me.
avoiding ghosts in traffic
Marlane Guelden, Thailand: Spirits Among Us
20. How might tagging sacred space impact the way people
experience the city? Would wayfinding practices
change? Traffic patterns shift for the spirits? What are
the consequences of connecting a spiritual layer to rest
of the networked city?
questions
How does urban architecture impact the design of the
spirit house? Can we imagine a future when the spirits
demand smart houses? What might these look like and
how would they alter the city?