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Hybrid Space/Hybrider Raum

A new interdisciplinary field of design, researching the transformations of architectural, urban/regional space of the emerging "information age", explores the dynamic interaction of architecture/urbanism and the space of mass media and communication networks. It develops scenarios for the interplay of public urban and public media space. The products of these alliances of urban/regional and media networks, of architectural and media space, are bastards: ambivalent spaces that are at the same time analog and digital, tactile and abstract, material and immaterial, expanding hyper-sensuality in the time- and placelessness of media flows. These hybrid spatial morphs act simultaneously in urban (local) and media (global) space and mediate between them, unfolding the undefined space between the local and the global, occupying the vacuum between local place and global space. Within the inversions of identity (communication), within the fluid ever-changing densities in the knitted networks, fused analogue/digital cultures are idensified.

idensities™
"The new image of Man looks roughly like this: we have to imagine a network of interhuman relations, a 'field of intersubjective relations'. The threads of this web must be conceived as channels through which information (ideas, feelings, intentions and knowledges etc.) flows. These threads get temporarily knotted and form what we call 'human subjects'. The totality of the threads constitutes the concrete sphere of life and the knots are abstract extrapolations.
[...] The density of the webs of interhuman relations differs from place to place within the network. The greater the density the more concrete' the relations. These dense points form wave troughs in the field [...] The wave troughs exert an 'attractive' force on the surrounding field (pulling it into their gravitational field) so that more and more interhuman relations are drawn in from the periphery. [...] These wave troughs shall be called 'cities'." (V. Flusser, "Die Stadt als Wellental in der Bilderflut", 1990.) beyond you-topia™
"In this sense the new city would be a place where 'we' identify ourselves reciprocally as 'I' and 'you', where 'identity' and 'difference' determine each other. That is not only a question of scattering but one of switching. Such a city presupposes an optimum scattering of interhuman relations: 'others' should become 'neighbours'. And it presupposes that the cables of the interhuman relations are switched reversibly, not in bundles as with television, but in real networks, respons(e)ibly, as in the telephone network. These are technical questions; and they are to be solved by urbanists and architects." (V. Flusser, "Die Stadt als Wellental in der Bilderflut", 1990.) Forced Leisure™
"Das ist die Aufgabe alles Raumgestaltens: Räume zu öffnen, innerhalb welcher etwas hingestellt wird, was vorher nicht vorgestellt werden konnte [...] 'Zeitvertreib' wird dann wohl bedeuten, die von allen Seiten heranstürmende Zukunft durch Raster zu sieben (ja die Zeit nicht mehr aus der Vergangenheit in Richtung Zukunft, sondern als Vergegenwärtigung der Zukunft, also räumlich, erkannt und erlebt werden wird), und Freizeitraum wird daher jener Raum zu sein haben, in welchem die Zukunft vorweggenommen wird (futuriert wird), um die Gegenwart zu informieren." (V. Flusser, "Räume", 1991.)

Personen:
Prof. Frans Vogelaar

Email:
vogelaar@khm.de

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