As a former architect, I’ve always been fascinated by differences between ‘spaces’ and ‘places’. Places to me are like dog-eared books. They tell us — we’ve been used, inhabited, owned and perhaps shared. We defined spaces as something that had dimensions, material and other ‘cool’ ingredients. Experiencing space required conditioning and not everyone ‘belonged’ there. This is what the web has been in the past — sterile, static and impersonal.

You’ve hit the nail right on the head with your take on the possibilities for more mobile places in years to come. I hope these places wont rely on the superficial metaphors of chat-rooms that annoy, poke and prod you. The new places have the ability to learn about us, and this is what is fundamentally different about the conventional notion of architectural space.

I hope that we’ll see a lot more of ‘I’m here-ness’ in experiences. I’m also fascinated about how these places that we inhabit, accumulate content, context and memory about ourselves and the relationships we made while we were there.