Input: Scrolling as a Ritual

Scrolling on your phone is second nature. For many young adults, it's also unconscious, passive, and habitual. But how do you make someone see the invisible patterns of their own behavior, especially when they’ve never been asked to question them?

Turn an abstract digital behavior into something tangible, something visible. The project aimed to spark self-awareness around screen time in 18–29-year-olds in Denmark without preaching or pointing fingers. The ambition was to create a space where scrolling became something strange again, something we are not used to, as a means of sparking curiosity and conversation.

I built a speculative exhibition where design became dialogue. Across four distinct installations, each with its own conceptual angle, I reimagined scrolling as a ritual. From defamiliarization to future-scenario storytelling, every piece invited public engagement in a shared space, blurring the digital and the physical. Visitors started reflecting, discussing, and questioning themselves and their behaviours. The exhibition wasn’t about fixing scrolling, but it was about finally noticing it.