Defining “Creepy Treehouse” | Flexknowlogy

New term for web based elearning spaces.

n. a place, physical or virtual (e.g. online) built by adults with the intention of luring in kids.

People maintaining distance by generating new terminology based on taboos. The notion here is that the creepy treehouse is where a pedophile might lure children for nefarious purposes. It is an emotionally laden term that is designed to keep institutions at a distance.


Defining “Creepy Treehouse” | Flexknowlogy

Trading Places White Flight

Compare with previous memo about white flight and the phenomenon of suburbs as a KYD strategy.
Trading Places

Train design proposes private seating pods - Boing Boing

Australian designer Hamit Kanuni Kuralkan has designed a train for people who don't want to have anything to do with other passengers.

Train design proposes private seating pods - Boing Boing

Interesting to look deeper into this to learn about motivations etc.
Is it elitism? (eureka!) another category dimension of personal distance perhaps. It will be expensive to build and no doubt expensive to ride but people will pay to KYD.

Research memos.

Data collection for dissertation. Good place to save links and develop ideas. Might try to set up a tagging system for categories indicators and dimensions.