With this project our team came up with a physical approach to manipulate digital data and delete it more easily in an physical, expressive way, more suitable and natural for the act of destruction. It should also make aware of how we deal with our digital traces and data and how hard it is at the same time to delete it if you could remove it forever.

Besides focusing on Embodied Interaction and Physical prototying, (anti-)archiving and memories were import topics to explore for our team. Digitally saved information is favorable for archiving but much harder to be completely deleted, so desired. Facebook is one of he worldwide biggest social media platforms were people share and record their activities, memories and feelings. However, removing unwanted data or deleting your Facebook account completely can be a difficult undertaking.

Based on that frustrating experience we created a “physical Facebook” as a concept idea for an exhibition. The book functions as a physical controller, in which the sites represent different information like friends, shared post and pictures, groups, etc. of a connected profile. Every stronger physical interaction with the book has direct impact on the appaerence and content of the connected Facebook profile. punishing the book for example creates optical deformations. Tearing out pages deletes the respective data on the profile.