MA1 – Age of You: The Architecture of Streaming Architecture

Me. You. Us. Them. We are all part of the game … a game that is dominated by hyperconnectivity and the ubiquitous internet, where streaming data has become the most  mundane activity embedded in the fabric of daily life. At every opportunity, whether at home on our beloved bed, on the train, while grocery shopping, or even during public events, we are persistently streaming data to and from our phones, smartwatches, laptops, or similar devices. Our attention is constantly split between our physical presence, i.e. the feeling of being in a tangible place, and the distant happenings of E-Sports events on Twitch, live podcasts on Clubhouse or the latest exciting series on Netflix. Tele-audiovision (tele = far, from a distance) has fundamentally changed our daily lives, the way we interact and communicate with the world around us, and thus the way we live in general. Of course, this is nothing new and we know it all! 

But … 

… What if we imagine scenarios that go beyond tele-audiovision? 

… What if we imagine a daily life where tele-audiovision is replaced by embodied tele-presence?

… What if we streamed not two-dimensional audiovisual data to our screen-equipped devices, but started to stream actual three-dimensional spaces that can be spontaneously inhabited at every opportunity?

… What would that mean for our understanding of space and architecture? And how would that change our daily lives?