This media artifact was envisioned by artist-technologist Brunni Corsato as outcome of the Artist Residency "Exploring Digital Spaces and How Another Urban Social Contract is Possible through Art". In this residency, artists help us translate our research findings and discussions into thought-provoking artworks.
Trust Scripts is a collective exploration on how safety and trust are felt in the body, and how those feelings shift when technology enters the picture. The project began not with a thesis but with a set of questions:
What does safety mean to you? What is digital trust? If technology could earn your trust, what would it need to do more of?
Fifteen anonymous contributors joined this exercise and shared fragments of their inner world: memories of warm coffee cups, yoga rooms without screens, psychedelic beaches, hugs, suspicion, data control, exhaustion, hope. The result is a zine that weaves these voices in a combined narrative of hope for better futures. The process was intentionally simple and relational: I invited people into an act of imagination rather than critique alone. Instead of asking what is wrong with technology, we envisioned what a better relationship might feel like. The responses are full of ambiguity: technology as tool and distraction, connection and surveillance, inevitability and unfulfilled possibility.
Trust Scripts matters because trust permeates everything: It shapes how we move through cities, how we speak to each other, how we rest. Many contributors described feeling stuck, watched, co-dependent — and yet still wanting to believe that a different way is possible. That the future is not fixed, and imagination is an act of resistance.
