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Collective Perception

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We've had few posts here about various social networking sites ..but here is an interesting post written by Jon here at WAG.

I have been thinking quite a bit recently about networks and architecture, partly for a paper for the recent Defining Space conference in Dublin (which I was unfortunately not able to give in person), and more generally writing around networks for my PhD (The Architecture of the Expanded Mind).

A fair bit of my recent work has been using Clark and Chalmers’ concept of the Extended Mind to think about what might constitute a bridge, of the kind that the geographer Manuel Castell’s describes, when he argues in The rise of the Network Society, Vol 1: The Information Age: “Unless cultural, political and physical bridges are deliberately built between these two forms of space [ie the ‘virtual’ space of flows, and the ‘physical’ space of places], we may be heading towards life in parallel universes whose times cannot meet because they are warped into different dimensions of a social hyperspace.”..........

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_{The Polytechnic was founded in 2004 by Jon Goodbun, Richard Difford, and Will McLean. It exists as a very loose collection of individuals based largely but not exclusively within the architecture school at the University of Westminster, with vague shared interests in something like the roles of technology as a space of discouse within urban and architectural modernity. Collective activities of the Polytechnic have included building a rope computer as a workshop at the Material Matters conference at the University of East London in 2004, and the organisation of the Spatial Interface conference at the University of Westminster in 2006.The Polytechnic weblog was set up by Jon Goodbun and Filip Visnjic. It is intended to act as: i.a general notice board for the interests of the group, ii. a means of disseminating work in progress by members of the group, iii as a public discussion site for its interests.}