<Cesar>This state of total possibility, in the void, you can go in any direction, is it
enjoyable?</Cesar>
<Simone>(...) I Found it extremely difficult. (...)</Simone>
<Cesar>Can you describe the sensation? Do you feel like you are really alone
inside a big space, do you feel you are drawn and there is no...</Cesar>
<Simone>The funny thing is that I have almost no memories of it...<Simone>
<Cesar>It seems that there is so little to focus in a truly open architecture, the
space is so undefined, time passing doesn’t seems to have any manifestations.
Just lacks of sensorial and intellectual content. It can be either infinitely stressful
or calming. The difference between a relaxing warm flotation tank and a dark
prison cell is very small. The main difference is your motivation to be there, your
psychological attitude</Cesar>
<Cesar>What is good about being outside?</Cesar>
<Tony>Not much... You meet a lot of people. 50% are nice and care, the other
50% are not good.</Tony>
<Cesar>Apart from the people what is good about being outside?</Cesar>
<Tony>Freedom. Not many responsibilities, is that a good thing or a bad
thing?</Tony>
<Cesar>You prefer living without responsibilities/Cesar>
<Tony>Some days yes, but not all the time.</Tony>
<Cesar>Because you used to have a lot of responsibilities? Can I ask you what
you used to do?</Cesar>
<Tony>Electrician.</Tony>
<Cesar>Can you describe this freedom that you have?</Cesar>
<Tony>You do what you want, when you want. Except if you need money, than
you got to sit down on here.</Tony>
<Cesar>Ah OK, so when you have collected enough money it is great?!
Do you pay for somewhere to sleep?</Cesar>
<Tony>Yeah.</Tony>
<Jesse>Peers are a much stronger policy than some stupid external system.
Because you care about what people think of you, because they are all you have,
we are social animals. For example in the village structure, or the communities
that I talked about, some of them operated on their own economies of drugs,
of favours, of free culture, the “gift economy” they call it. Lets say on facebook
, it is all pretty obvious, you don’t want to be excommunicated, or not be invited
to events. So you are terrified of screwing up, that would mean the end of your
life as a social being, the end of your identity as we make it.There just not much
space in it. Not much space for me to move around. And I can say exactly what’s
wrong within it : there is so little hope.</Jesse>
For Simone being completely free was just an ‘empty moment’, rather uncomfort-
able.
For Tony the homeless, Open Architecture is a way of life. The social strings are
loose, easily created, easily broken, but the whole situation somehow tragic.
For Jesse that, this openness is militant. Militant also is a social class, a group.
Again, a too pure open architecture is not easy to inhabit unless, you have a ‘con-
structive’ motivation.