URBAN NOMADS
>>URBAN NOMADSA lifestyle transformation from passive to fully mobile integrated being.
(c)Widianto Utomo, designer
widianto@yahoo.com
www.geocities.com/widianto/wutomodesign.html
Introduction.
Proliferation of digital technology, especially digital-wireless and broadband technology have change the way human life: their lifestyles, their relationship, their behavior, the way they works, their socio-culture and the way they communicate or interact with others. From those facts as starting point, this project takes Urban Nomads as the main topic (the topic was inspired from the way of Gypsies life, how they lives, socialize and built their own community).
Why urban nomads?
Urban nomads are a new society definition for urban society that has put bigger portion of mobility in their daily lives.
While the mobility term itself in this society means: they can work anywhere, anytime regardless the space and time frame limitation, as their space have integrated with themselves (both time and spatially) through integrated wearable mobile computer or communication enhancer. It will allow them to live, stay and move from one place to another place easier than before (using concept: move, plug, unplug and play), and can easily adaptable to the new society or space (social community and spatial boundaries).
This society then means how the definition, the impact and influence of urban nomads toward their own body, personality, life, behavior, lifestyle and then grow to the bigger community outside their body (family and friends relationship) to the local society (interaction) then toward the country where this community live and at the end to the global society. It is not only interpersonal relationship among urban nomads themselves but also in term of socio-culture, economics and spatial where they move, live and interact.
In socio-culture, how this community will interact between one and another, and how they will give a new definition to themselves as a social creature. How the culture will be reshaped as a result of their community mobility and un-defining space and time where they belong.
In term of economics, the circle of economics movement will go faster, micro and macro economy both in local and global context, as now they are only trafficking data (digital data transmission) instead real money for conducting business. For local economy for instance, the use of virtual money instead real money, as with the integrated devices on their body now they only require doing data exchange or data transfer instead the real physical exchange for any transaction (real or virtual transaction).
This data may contain personal data replacing function of passport or others ID do, medical record, crime record, educational record, or fund/wealth record, will be stored on a special device that integrated to their body. This device will enhance and become complement to the existing natural personal identifications: fingerprint, iris pattern or DNA.
The data that stored on the special device that integrated to their body will become a new part of the body (to form as whole) and the user lifestyle rather than just as additional helper devices. To accommodate the device to the body to become a part of the whole, it will use the body heat/body movement, blood pressure and solar cell to operate the device. And the reason to use internal human body energy are: to reduce the movement limitation, to give total freedom to move, plug/unplug and play anywhere- anytime capabilities and to reduce unnecessary weight of the battery that should be carried to operate the devices.
And in term of spatially, urban nomads can move from on place to another place easily without necessarily to built new personal space (including work space). The new personal space will enhance the existing natural space/personal bubble but not replacing. As when they move to a new place they will be immediately able to build their new space (in term of personal identity, they can plug and unplug the data from one place to another from public exchange control portable port and become a local within seconds). The space now also means unframed time; therefore they can control where they will move, life and work regardless space and time limitation. In this case, how urban nomads will redefine their urban landscape structure and its relationship with them.
Urban nomads means new definition for integration of spatiality (space where they life, work, play and interact with others), time (time frame where they life within), their relationship between their body and the outside world (the way they move, transporting from one place to another), their identities (personality) and their body to form a new lifestyle.
In conclusion, urban nomads definition is a new urban society where the integration of high technology, spatially (both time and space), mobility and independent lifestyle that has become a personality.
>Complete edition on
http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/Teknosphera/utomo/UTOMO_RES.htm http://teknokultura.rrp.upr.edu/rev_31_01_05/Teknosphera/utomo/UTOMO%
Add comment
