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I want to meander over a few topics: the idea of ‘home’ and making a cozier digital in the form of bedrooms and living rooms, home as self, the private and the public, three kinds of co-created spaces on the web and my desire for a co-created space as ‘garden’. I don’t really have any answers or proposals, but I think the ideas here help richen the flowerbed. This page is one of three on the idea of ‘making a place on the web.’ See the rest here: Project - Making a Place on the Web. To begin, we often talk about creating a home on the internet. What does ‘home’ mean? Drawing from The People, Place, and Space Reader, we typically associate homes with buildings, and Heidegger argues that it’s the way in which we ‘dwell’ within buildings that make it a home. The word ‘building’ has its roots in the Old English / High German version ‘baun’, which means ‘to dwell’. The German words for ‘am’ and ‘are’, as in ‘I am’ (ich bin) and ‘you are’ (du bist) also relates to ‘buan’, so: ‘I dwell’ and ‘

Making a Place on the Web - Home Project I want to meander over a few topics: the idea of ‘home’ and making a cozier digital in the form of bedrooms and living rooms, home as self, the private and the public, three kinds of co-created spaces on the web and my desire for a co-created space as ‘garden’. I don’t really have any answers or proposals, but I think the ideas here help richen the flowerbed. This page is one of three on the idea of ‘making a place on the web.’ See the rest here: Project - Making a Place on the Web . Ideas of Home To begin, we often talk about creating a home on the int

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