| With the relentless increase in transportation and travel, the inexorable spread of new technologies, and their invasion of everyday life, "supermodern" societies have produced a world of mobilities. They have also engendered a new species of nomad, the neo-nomad, the digitally geared individual who roams mentally, physically, and electronically.; Mental---cultural displacements, physical, and digital mobilities have thus transformed the sociality of places, and call for an investigation of the attachment between bodies on the move and the spaces through which they travel. How would someone always on the move possibly belong to hotel-like places?; I suggest that neo-nomads, having "incorporated" the habits of adapting swiftly to situations and the spaces they inhabit, still dwell-in while on the move. They certainly do---extend, cling, and then detach, in ways that influence the built environment.; The focus of this dissertation is to propose a theoretical framework for looking at and understanding space in the age of mental, physical and digital mobilities. Having developed a method to describe the spaces of neo-nomads, the present document expands on three critical discoveries: how mobility relates to the concept of the bio-; bodies, objects and spaces are containers; neo-nomads' environments, a transmuting collection of containers, hold together because of the mental, physical or digital links between them.; Hence, to design environments for neo-nomads, one must understand that containers organized in a matrix participate in the making of a meta-architecture of storage spaces and the building of taxi-cities.; I am thus proposing scenarios of usage and lines of thoughts such as the concepts of "frugality" and "temperance" so as to foster further inquiry into the field of design in relation to mental, physical and digital mobilities. |
