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“switch”ed city: architecture of mediatise sensory hardware

Mediatized Environments
Kalpita Salvi, 2020


The year 2020 has shifted methods of institutional operations. For years, people used to travel miles to attend a meeting, seminar or a lecture. Today, these tasks are performed  just by sitting home in front of a screen. This has shifted older relations and dismantled clear categories of work, living, leisure as well as neat identity categories such as families, friends, colleagues etc. Over the years, devices with the suffix ‘ware’ have become an integral part of our everyday tasks. Keller Easterling discusses the idea of ‘ware’ as a modifier of intelligence, to suggest a transformation of contemporary culture. Today mediatised hardware devices are enhancing or diminishing our senses to connect to different spatial cartographies, creating various sensoriums around an individual. It makes the human body project itself and interact with hardware, data and space in this new medium of the digital sensorium. Reading from the research and theories by Marshall McLuhan and Michel Foucault, this thesis focuses on the spatialities created by the media extension hardwares and how it affects human societies by expanding their sensoriums. Here, the media and medium are taken as important elements of generators of space. The theoretical framework set up in the dissertation is used to map these spatial changes and the new experiences of space.

The field of study is a suburb of Mumbai called Goregaon. The stories are based in five geographies of the city, in a typical Goregaon apartment, a gated community, on a typical street, on a local transport and in a community event. The thesis works with semi fictional narratives written in the form of scripts and a graphic storyboard that allows for a spatio-temporal retelling of the experience.

The thesis identifies five frameworks of reading this space viz; heterotopias of the frame, city as a panopticon, a space calculator, the hallucinating neighbour and the digital smell. These spatio- temporal narrations allow a completely different reading of the geographies of the Goregaon suburban landscapes that speak of the complex mixing of categories and the new identifications of space produced through the mediatiated interfaces and their extended, often fragmented sensoriums.




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Technosocieties: in the early second millenium

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When is digital in space?


Mediatized Environments
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Spatiality of publicness and new media

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Morphed households as an impact of the digital

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Vikram Veeravalli, 2021
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