Motif: Deceleration / Slowness

Slow Media is the concept of intentionally slowing down or reducing media consumption to prioritize quality over quantity. It encourages engaging with digital and analog media more thoughtfully, or using less media overall, to foster deeper, more mindful, and more gratifying daily habits and experiences.
Rauch, Jennifer. 2018. Slow Media: Why Slow Is Satisfying, Sustainable, and Smart. https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfauth/100/.

Slow Media is the concept of intentionally slowing down or reducing media consumption to prioritize quality over quantity. It encourages engaging with digital and analog media more thoughtfully, or using less media overall, to foster deeper, more mindful, and more gratifying daily habits and experiences.
Rauch, Jennifer. 2018. Slow Media: Why Slow Is Satisfying, Sustainable, and Smart. https://digitalcommons.linfield.edu/linfauth/100/.

The Planet Crafter

The Planet Crafter drops you on a dead planet. No oxygen, no water, no food. Just rocks, sand, and a blinking oxygen meter. You are not fighting enemies here. The enemy is the environment. What makes it stand out is how much of the game is about building a livable world from scratch. You start

The Endless Forest

The Endless Forest is a multiplayer online game PC by Tale of Tales, in which players represent deer in a peaceful forest without goals or the ability to chat. Pictograms above registered deer’s heads represent their names. Players communicate with one another through sounds and body language. From the wiki: “During ‘abiogenesis’, every deer runs

All That Heaven Allows

All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 Hollywood melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. Cary Scott (Wyman) is a well-to-do fortyish widow in the town of Stoningham, in suburban New England, who becomes interested in Ron Kirby (Hudson), a nurseryman who takes care of her trees. Ron, content with his simple life outside the materialistic society in which they live, has

Solar Power

A psychedelic/folk-pop album by New Zealand -born artist Lorde. The album deals with nature as a an escapist haven, introspection, climate anxiety, and more through its lyrics, sonic themes and organic recordings such as the chirping of Cicadas.

Spiritfarer

Spiritfarer is a “cozy management game about death”, as the developer describes it. In Spiritfarer you play as Stella, accompanied by her cat Daffodil, she becomes the ferrymaster of the deceased and takes spirits onto their last journey. The player builds and expands their boat, helps their spirit friends on their last adventures, and cares

Costing the Earth

Costing the Earth is a environmental radio broadcast that airs on BBC Radio 4. The series describes itself as "Fresh ideas from the sharpest minds working toward a cleaner, greener planet".

Animal Crossing

Animal Crossing is a video game series where the player moves into a village populated by animals, where they are encouraged by the inhabitants and biodiversity to display pro-conservation behaviours and attitudes.

Shelter 3

Shelter 3 is the fifth in a series of games, which put the player in the position of an animal having to care for their young in a hostile, stylized natural environment. From the game’s website: “Shelter 3 returns the player to the natural landscapes of Shelter, this time as an elephant mother in charge

Slow Ecocinema, the Forest, and the Eerie in Experimental Film and VR (360-Degree) Nature Videos

Slow Media

The book discusses the influence of Slow philosophy, Slow Food movements, and social and environmental policy on principles and practices as they relate to media, offers a new ethical framework, rooted in sustainability, for the production and consumption of news media and digital devices, provides insight on media non-use and renegotiating media habits through mindfulness,

Grow: Song of the Evertree

Grow your own worlds and nurture a deep natural connection with everything they hold. The game hints at 'slowing down' as part of the intended experience.