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Public space is not designed for a person on their own. Private romance and the family are the units by which leisure is parcelled out. I want for myself and for others bars with generously sized individual booths, a little locker to stash your valuables while you use the bathroom, a light you can switch on and off to read. Beautiful spaces that li
... See moreAmy Key • Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life
our contemporary world has privatized much of public life. We retreat into our homes, onto our screens, and into our echo chambers. Immersing ourselves in information mediated by algorithms. Always connected, yet rarely connecting with one another. The result is we are less and less practiced in the craft of conversation, our ability to hear one an
... See moreSeth Goldenberg • Radical Curiosity: Questioning Commonly Held Beliefs to Imagine Flourishing Futures
We’ve lost gradients of intimacy, a concept from architecture, the ability to loiter and meander through a space, engaging when we want in varying levels of expression. We don’t have any peripheral vision on the internet. We have to be in one place or the other. Simultaneously, we’re never really in any place—we can always blame connection issues a... See more
Spencer Chang • tiny internets: sidewalks, geocaching, and more · tiny internets
Digital Lockdown with Geert Lovink —
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People will struggle to structure their time now that virtual activities carry more social weight than they did in the past. IRL hangouts have more tangible controls and barriers to entry that prevent people from engaging endlessly, and physical anchors that help form habits and routines. Without that, people are going to either burn out or quickly... See more
Toby Shorin • Premonition
The privatization and compartmentalization of one’s activities in this sphere are able to sustain the illusion one can “outwit the system” and devise a unique or superior relation to these tasks that is either more enterprising or seemingly less compromised.