Brief - Dometic Thresholds
“In our electronic era, moreover, it is clear that the machines with which we crowd today’s habitat are indeed lifeless but, growing ever more responsive and interactive, increasingly resemble pets beasts which are domesticated (significant verb) into a category half-human, half-object. And just as mechanical devices increasingly seem to be extensions of our body, so our mental attention seems increasingly monopolised and penetrated by media, particularly interactive media.”
Tabor, Philip, ‘Striking Home: The Telematic Assault on Identity’
Our homes are full of holes through which media, data and influence from outside can flow. Philip Tabor describes 3 strategies for dealing with this assault upon the home:
• Sit back and enjoy the dystopia
• Create a cocoon by building thicker walls
• Build an expanded home in this broader world
Build a system to capture, process and render a source of data flowing through the home.
This could be a physical artefact whose behaviour is driven by data, or software which reacts to the physical world through sensors.
Domestic Thresholds by Tobie Kerridge and Andy Boucher
