Social Media is changing how we practice Architecture
Guest editor - Eirini Christofidou
The first statement to be debated
follows last night’s lecture by Prof. José Pérez de Lama Halcón from the
University of Seville.
“Our
territory, the space we occupy, has changed significantly, as there is an added
dimension added to the physical one, digital space. Despite skepticism against
such media and technologies, most of us now carry a hand-device which connects
to the internet and uses social media applications. Our phones, homes, and
cities are globally connected through an open source media, world wide web.
There are potentials in us, as architects, acknowledging the strong presence of
such media in our everyday lives.The question arising is, how do we, as
professionals shape this new way of being in space, in the world? What part can
these media play in our design process? What can such technologies reveal about
a place and people? There is a new public domain, a public space available to
people. Therefore, how do we help create an independent, free and accessible
ecology that everyone can benefit from? We can have authority, create and
appropriate tools to fit the specific context of a problem. We can be our own
actors, by creating a space that speaks of its user.”
