Landline
Project & Role
Creator
Conceptual Project
Conceptual Project
Gymnopédie No.1 by Erik Satie
his is Sydney.
She's about to retire after a very successful career.
Despite her financial security, Sydney feels a sense of isolation and emotional contraction.
Even her suburban neighborhood feels different - what once felt like a tight knit community has changed.
Even her suburban neighborhood feels different - what once felt like a tight knit community has changed.
This is her story.
HE PIT OF SADNESS
Sydney’s social circles have been contracting.
She doesn’t know what to do with her time.
HE WALK OF EXCITEMENT
Sydney decides to go on a walk, and starts to enjoy herself.
She encounters rather familiar sights along the rather familiar path.
HE NOSTALGIC PLATEAU
Sydney reaches a rather familiar peak, and sits down, looking out over...
...an unfamiliar scene.
She takes a moment.
HE TREAD OF SAD ACCEPTANCE
Sydney walks back home, head hung low.
There's an unspoken issue - an epidemic of disconnect felt by Gen X and beyond...
"
More than one-third of adults aged 45 and older feel lonely, and nearly one-fourth of adults aged 65 and older are considered socially isolated."
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020)
(National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, 2020)
With our sprint of progress, there can often feel like there’s no space for the artifacts of the past.
Landline bridges that space with conversation...
his is Landline.
Landline can breathe new life into forgotten stories...
Voices woven together into
AI-hosted podcasts
Old photos are stitched into
nostalgic AR experiences
...allowing users to connect with others in their local area and step into the past.
1
Upload your story to a channel local to your area
2
Our AI host weaves together a podcast or an AR experience
3
Step into the past and connect with others
Discovery
Podcast of memories
Add your story
Nostalgic AR
This is Sydney's story, with Landline.
Sydney’s journey of reconciliation with the present has become a rediscovery of the past.
The unfamiliar turned re-familiar, allowing every peak to peak higher, but also returning Sydney to an augmented status quo, to one of community…
The unfamiliar turned re-familiar, allowing every peak to peak higher, but also returning Sydney to an augmented status quo, to one of community…
Let's tell this story, one more time.
his is Sydney.
She's about to retire after a very successful career.
ydney decides to use Landline.
She's rediscovering her past, her neighborhood, and her story.
Best part is, Sydney's made some friends along the way.
The End...?
There's always more to the story.
This all started as a rebranding of MapQuest that branched into a new product opportunity - while there are countless tools for navigating physical spaces, there were none for navigating identity and emotion.
Excited to explore more of where this can go.
Huge thanks to Nathan Shedroff for the mentorship!
This all started as a rebranding of MapQuest that branched into a new product opportunity - while there are countless tools for navigating physical spaces, there were none for navigating identity and emotion.
Excited to explore more of where this can go.
Huge thanks to Nathan Shedroff for the mentorship!
