Matter Matters is a discourse on the implications that derive from the change of the form of information from physical to digital. As soon as the latter has begun to proliferate into the contemporary lifestyle virtual relationships have been created as equivalents to the physical ones. Thus, the existence of physical spaces as the grounds for incorporating events is being challenged. Consequently, architecture is presented with the challenge todefine ways to protect the places that it has been providing for ages, and enable them to mutually co-exist with virtual spaces.
An exploration of physical libraries becomes the vehicle to approach the theme. Findings from the studies of libraries are combined with theory from affiliated domains to create the component with which the discussion will evolve. Hand-written journal notes are overlaid with photographs that were taken during the visits or downloaded briefly after them. The montages were made on a tablet computer to record the experience of the places during or briefly after the visits. Historic milestones by Wright, architectural positions by Mitchell and Pallasmaa, as well as philosophic and theoretical contribution by Nietzsche and Calvino are the ideas which are discussed. The outcome will promote social networks as the motive force for the thriving of physical spaces and the presence of people as the means for sustainable architectural events.
Several agendas run through the body of Matter Matters. Exformation, i.e. the relevant and consistent information, is promoted as the means to deal with the management of attention. The flâneur is used as the protagonist of this venture and is preferred to the rambler, i.e. the English translation. Both represent the urban stroller who is interested in glimpses and curiosities. However, the first is the reference of an era which is more relevant for the themes that are presented in the study. Individual thought is also part of the discourse. The interest to this bears on the belief that it can become the main ingredients of collective knowledge, in the instance it is intersected with social networks. The path from data to wisdom requires the socialisation of knowledge to be fulfilled.
The scope of the study is to comprise the incipience of future negotiations that will pursue the constitution of an informed society. The latter is considered fundamental for the sustainable progress of the human species.
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