For My Friends

I'm envisioning a project, which shall support me in the mission to see more of my friends. The issue is that currently, in order to meet my friends, I have to coordinate with them a time and place, often weeks in advance. We are all adults with busy lives and many of my friends are parents, too. Meeting impulsively in a life that is made up of appointments and errands seems to become more and more difficult. The other issue is that I don't have a homogenous group of friends. For instance: I have one UX friend, who I have met at a meetup, another who I have studied with and a third, who is my old flat mate (and the list goes on). For the most part, my friends don't know one another. The solution is simple: organise regular meetings where I invite all of my friends! Whoever shows up, shows up, we get to spend a couple of hours together, and who knows, my heterogenous group of friends might become a little more homogenous. For my project, I'll call these happenings "Zusammenkommen",…