Interaction - Bachelors
#JOIN THE DINNER PARTY is an interactive ‘manifesto’ micro-website for a speculative digital climate movement of the same name. Born out of recognising a global need for collective action and solidarity in the face of climate change, it provides a scalable platform to educate, inform and visualise a movement. Synthesizing a confronting and overwhelming topic into a digestible rhythmic dialogue, mimicking the power and passion of a call-to-action speech. At the heart of it, inspiring hope and redefining collective action, as it deserves to be celebrated.
It’s a dinner party, after all.
The magnitude and rapidity of these potential effects should place [a population-wide diet transition] at the forefront of strategies for averting disastrous climate change.
DR PAtriCK o. BROWN and michael b. eisen, stanford university 2022
The ultimate goal is collective action to enable population-wide and sustained improvements to the way we eat, and how we feel and think about food
Mingay et al, 2021
Users are invited to explore predominantly through scrolling, an intuitive website interaction method, however, the output differentiates from most websites. Foremost, the content does not flow vertically and statically. Rather, it combines horizontal scrolling and subtle animations to engage users in a rhythmic dialogue. Using repetition, changing text and complementary visuals to digitally mimic a powerful call-to-action speech, and the passion it ignites.
As a complex and information-dense topic, that can feel laborious in itself to engage with, the seamless and straightforward interaction of simply scrolling reduces the cognitive strain required to navigate through the content. However, users are still engaged by being responsible to move the interaction forward, with the freedom of scrolling at their own pace, or using the navigation bar to skip to content. Engagement is further supported through interactable polaroids, flying parallax across the page and responding to mouse location.
Further, users are able to customize their user journey. By default, the content has been simplified to its core essentials, accommodating for the limited attention spans webpages receive. However, users who are captivated are given the option to engage with the content more deeply through optional click interactions.
With a passion for environmental and humanitarian causes, Kiara is an Interaction Design Student enthralled with design’s ability to transform the world. Captivated by speculative, human-centred and eco-feminist approaches, she prides herself on her research-driven and critically reflective creative practice. Aspiring to design innovative avenues to target the multi-faceted and intersectional injustices globally faced.