Welcome to Bundle Explorer

PLEASE NOTE: TRANSLATION OF THE BUNDLE EXPLORER INTO ENGLISH IS IN PROGRESS. CURRENTLY, THE TEXTS IN THE CATEGORY ‘TOUCHING BODIES’ ARE STILL MISSING.

The Bundle Explorer: Touch offers a means to explore the diversity of forms of touch and situations in which touch occurs in digital childhoods. Short films are the basis for investigating the ways in which practices are enacted in bundles with other practices, as well as how their environments and material settings participate. The Bundle Explorer tool has been conceived to open up paths of discovery and inspire thought trajectories. Intriguing juxtapositions of at least two film scenes are presented, descriptions and questions about what has been seen are offered. Identifying the bundle within which practices are interwoven sheds light on how each respective practice is situated; recognising the wider spectrum of potential situations, in turn, offers the basis for a praxeological contouring of ‘touch’ as a practice and a term. On self-selected paths through the Explorer, comparisons, differentiations, and potential classifications are offered, leading to the (tentative) identification of categories, overlapping and boundary cases. The Bundle Explorer provides space for those who engage with it to note and contribute their own observations, thoughts, and reflections, participating thereby in the ongoing evolution of the Explorer.