[a missing link]

Below are the videos from MIT media lab. The first video, Border Line,  is the emerging technology that helps architects, urban designers, or designers draw a new research opportunity about society and their connectivities.

The representation of the urban identities, “Network & Society” employs a large data set to explore physical interaction, social networks & urban places (with time). How spatial connectivity is being represented is interesting and provoked. How we define our social space is not just limited to the present of chatting or serving the internet, anymore. Telecommunication thru mobile devices play an important role of how we engage to each other, later defining our spaces.

The second project, Dancing Atoms, explores the connection between bits and bodies; the relationships of our bodies and the environments.

“Digital Avatar (Dancing Atoms)” : Roberto’s 3D scan and motion capture are utilized by designers and researchers to interpolate the data and create visualization modes, through software, which are used to study and quantify critical body features, and examine the body in ways never before possible.” (senseable city lab, MIT)

The tangible social spaces and bodily space above are being captured and represented by bits and bites (in different forms, of course). There is no dividing line in it potential possibility of what real or unreal. Once unfamiliar form of information is being integrated and deformed our perception of how we connect, virtually.

[question]

How far (and with which tools) shall we use to observe and trace these on-off line activities?

[design implications]

When space-time has its new meaning moving away from a brick-morta one, designers have a new challenge too. Even though space & time has always been dynamic, with ubiquitous part virtual and part real, how can we construct new space in such a manner that social events can be accommodated, properly? Will the language and grammar of the design and spatial elements change or be impacted by the new blur life, on and off line?  If we, designers, think so, how shall we start?

[credit videos: MIT Media Lab, sensable city lab]