Upper right: House NA, Sou Fujimoto, Ja 83: Emergent Spatial Frames p.41
Lower Right: HopperIntimacy community initial proposal
What does living in community means? Are our needs of sharing our lives via social media applicable to our houses? Can privacy be transformed into a collective experience?
Excerpts from the book Intimacy and Isolation, by John G. McGraw:
"Insofar as intimacy requires actual physical presence of the individuals (...), technological means are useless to create any sort of actual literal heart-to-heart connectedness. Still,
these instruments may serve asa useful proxy for those separated by sheer physical distance.
Goodman writes that today's technology has augmented both our being "in touch and isolated":
It's become easier to keep extensive relationships over time and distance but harder to build the deep ones in our backyard. In the virtual neighborhood, how many have substituted email for intimacy, [fleeting] contacts for confidants, and Facebook for face-to-face [familiarity]? (The Montreal Gazette, 1 July 2006)"
"In today's world, telephones "talk" and computers " talk" and there is no-body there. It is a world of image and digital reality in which it is assumed that our flesh and blood is no longer a requisite part of human dialogue. It is a world which people have come to literally believe is "mental in character" and that they can literally speak from "no-place to no-body!" In an ironic sense, the electronic modes of communication at times mimic a serious problem well recognized by psychiatrists and psychologists and understood to be pathological in character. They represent a state of affairs in which traumatized human beings similarly learn to speak from outside their own bodies, outside their feelings, and outside their own hearts. James Lynch (2000, p.24) "
I love the inspiration, the idea of rear windows. I want to see that made more interior and potentially inviting to "cross through." How does this bodiless existence become embodied? Can it? so intriguing really.
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