Architectural space and structures and the mental spaces and structures of philosophical discourses have always been associated with each other.
The new image of Man looks roughly like this: we have to imagine a network of human interrelations, a ‘field of intersubjective relations’. The strands of this web must be conceived as channels through which information (ideas, feelings, intentions and knowledge etc.) flows. When these strands knot for a moment, they form what we call ‘human subjects’. The totality of the strands constitutes the concrete sphere of life and the knots are abstract extrapolations.
Article Vilém Flusser © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, July 1999
Soft Urbanism deals with information/communication processes in space, the soft aspects overlying the urban sprawl.
In architectureâs role of defining and materialising the spaces for social interaction, designing the relationship between the physical and digital public domain is becoming THE challenge: investigating the relation and interconnection of the âsoftâ city with its finite material counterpart, the living environment, speculating about interfaces between the âvirtualâ and the material urban world, and designing hybrid (analog-digital) communication spaces.
Research, Concept, Urban and Architectural Design Soft Urbanism © Hybrid Space Lab, Berlin, 1 December 1995
Often, comparisons, parallels to landscape, are drawn to nature in the work of Behnisch & Partner. Often, comparisons, parallels to landscape, are drawn to nature in the work of Behnisch & Partner. The architectural ensemble is perceived as a continuation of the landscape.
Publication the Work of Behnisch & Partner, Elizabeth Sikiaridi @ ARCH+, Germany, 1 September 1994
Media Babies on CHANEL NO.5 derives its strength from fragmentation in order to develop a truly public ânarrow/broadcasting/catching media network. A local-based public interface the âMedia Babyâ is instrument that seduces its public to use and abuse the television medium, maximizing its possible spontaneity by hijacking the publicâs imagination.
Demand your Right to Broadcast! @ Architectural Association, Architectural Association School of Architecture, 34-36 Bedford Square, London, 24Â July 1991
Hybrid Space stands for the combinations and fusions of media and physical space. Hybrid spaces are the products of the alliances between physical objects and digital information/communication networks, of architectural/urban and media space.
