Our understanding of space is in flux. The creeping spread of hybrid spaces challenges our relationships with and in space. The evolution of public space over the coming years will question our mediation of reality. Our ‘view of the world’ will continue to be moulded and reshaped by experience but these experiences will be extended [...]

Already the pace at which we live due to the technological saturation of our daily lives has led to the widening of our social circles. We stay in contact with many more people than ever before and submit to living in a constant potential of being interrupted by carrying communications devices at all times, everywhere [...]

Reputation is an important factor in our social navigation. When deciding where we consume goods from and which information sources we trust we are faced with trial and error situations. If we have a trusted friend, who can provide advice on where to buy particular goods or services or which newspaper or website to read, [...]

The debate over whether cooperation is an exclusively human trait, whether cooperation is a biological strategy employed to ensure genetic reproduction and whether noble concepts of altruism simply cloak an innate but subtle selfishness is too wide for the scope of this work. However the tension between self-interest and cooperation is crucial in understanding how [...]

We all have a natural desire to establish personal spaces. We buy homes, we have offices and we sit certain distances apart from other passengers on public transport. In an increasingly crowded and mobile society we spend most of our waking lives in the personal spaces we construct for ourselves in transit, whether walking down [...]

Navigating information is an activity that is taking up an increasing amount of people’s lives. Information is imbued in the environment around us, both actual and virtual. We understand the spaces in which we live through our knowledge of specific things and activities and, more frequently, through the application of our general understanding of the [...]

It has become clear that there are many terms for the hybrid spaces that are emerging in many places across society. In understanding such spaces it is important to have a common frame of reference, a common lexicon. I will seek to reach such a lexicon.

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It seems many theorists and practitioners are identifying a coming convergence of several seemingly unrelated technologies into a critical mass that will spawn a widespread revolution in our experience of space.

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As Lev Manovich explains:

The 1990s were about the virtual. We were fascinated [...]

It is important to stress that considering the extension of our models of space is not the sole reserve of scientists. There are several noteworthy cultural theorists from the arts and philosophy whose writings augment our understanding of actual and virtual space.

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In the [...]