Skein is a social media application concept that uses geo-tagging to create more contextual narratives centered around location-based experiences. Pieces of media, or “pins”, are tagged by location and time and then connected to other pins to create sequential narrative threads called “yarns”. These pins can only be accessed by other users from the location where they were created. A pin created in a park, for example, can only be accessed by other users if they are also in that park. Access is not dependent on time, however, so a pin can be seen days, months, even weeks later.

 

Skein imbeds a deeper level of information into digital media, allowing you to tell and explore narratives which are more in tune with the natural limitations of location. You experience another user’s narrative yarn in situ as it unfolded, without such heavy-handed curation. With this application, you are more literally walking a mile in someone else’s shoes.