Pure Imagination! The Crisis of Space in Cognitive Labor, from Bigness to Smallness

Essay, expanding design practices, Marson Korbi, No Density, Territory and mobility

Architect, Architecture&art, Cities, Comfort, Communication, Content, Creativity, Crisis, Digital technologies, Essay, Exhibition, Global social network, Housing, New economies, Political & Economic Approach, Productive City, Research, Scale, Scarcity, Social Media, Space, Tourism, Transportation Systems, Urbanization

If you feel God is following you, you are a believer;
what are you if you know that satellites are following you
… an actor?[1]

—Rem Koolhaas, “?” in Countryside: A Report


Every day we deal with the problem of space. The concept of space has gone in recent times into a deep crisis. As we think about the way we inhabit the contemporary city, the concept of space has been reduced to a mere problem of container vs. content, from big to small scale and from material to immaterial things.