ESTEL—Reclaiming the Digital NarrativeMateo Mesenholl, Fiona Wong, Lilo Patt, and Janka Beck
Data centres are crucial for our everyday lives. Most of the time, we don’t even realise their impact. They manage our communication and online storage space, including every text message, email and chatroom. For most people, the entire digital setup has become too difficult to understand. We propose ESTEL to rewrite the digital narrative. The name stems from the fantasy language Elvish in The Lord of the Rings and means “hope.” Our vision is to create a responsible future scenario in which third places for knowledge transfer are established to encourage interaction with others and our surroundings. This vision was inspired by the autonomy of the Data Center Stollen Lucerne.