GET LOST!

According to Kevin Lynch, “Organization is fundamental… to the very survival of free-moving life.” Rather than way-finding, however, people are now confronted with the problem of never being able to be lost. The state of anonymity is a luxury, the secrecy of being lost is an admired state.


How to impose a structure on the fluidity of contemporary life? The premise of an undertaking like this is that everyone is accessible at all times. It is guaranteed that a message can reach anyone at any time. It is clear that what is needed at this point are filters, from junk mail and unknown callers to lighting timers and mail/voice forwarding. The need to filter has become ubiquitous. Inaccessibility has become a desired state (location) and that with the “freedom” of mobility has come the new individual responsibility to dislocate.


What are the architectural implications of the absolutely fluid scheduling of contemporary life?
What are the accessories of the daily tourist, the person unburdened of schedule?
What are strategies for secrecy?
How can one hide in plain sight?

We need to discover the workings of our shared need to control our moments of secret chaos.
We want to reveal the luxury of being lost.
Alone Together.