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Trust Scripts

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.