Mass communication and information has changed the situation of the city. We need new ways of mapping to document and understand the continually changing world we live in.
Technology has made most places in world easily accessible. Our messages can arrive at almost any place instantaneously, in a sense removing all relevance of distance and time.
These invisible means of communication are creating a new sense of place. They make physical space only one of the places we can be in any one instant. This must have some effect on architecture; the solid becomes permeable, walls no longer form a barrier.
Over the course of a week I collected data from each of my flat mates. They recorded every person they text, phoned, emailed or face booked during that time.
By sandwiching the world to express the instant connection between places, I linked all of these points of communication.
Ironically, though these technologies do give us the opportunity to keep in contact with friends and family around the world, and though we all did use this technology to contact people internationally, the people we contacted the most were each other!
At the very least, what does this say about flat as a place? Some days we probably have more conversations through our cell phones then around our kitchen table.
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