<Cesar> If the space that is the most open and offers the less external pressure is
inhabitable there must be other ways to construct space.</Cesar>
<Teodora>Before 9 month of age, when things go off of sight for the infant,
they don’t exist anymore. So if you hide an object under a cloth, for them it is
equivalent as if the object did not exist, they would not go and look for it. And
this disappears later on. At around 12 month if you do the same they will go and
search for it. So this means, in the first part of life, things exists as long as they are
perceived. Out of sight, out of mind.</Teodora>

<Usman>Actually I am less interested in the specific phenomenon like smell,
electromagnetic fields etc, the non-visual architecture, but I am more interested
in the idea that we are perceptual beings, construct our environment through an
amalgamation of all of these senses coming in. One of my favourite project of
my own was “haunt”, I think I came closest to achieving to what I wanted to with
that project, because it was something that can’t be photographed, can’t be vid-
eoed but it is a very physical experience for people who take part in it. Because I
managed to distill this experiential aspect of architecture without having anything
that you could see.</Usman>
<Jesse>For me it is the way I have always understood the energetic world, which
is that there is a thousand streams going on all the time, it is all happening all the
time, tictictictictictictic, you cant possibly see it, you cant possibly understand it at
all, but you might be able to tune into a bit of it sometimes, if you are in the same
wavelength, on your airport Ziiiiiiii.</Jesse>

<Cesar>Now what if we were able to connect everything that is intangible to-
gether? Or even connect virtual worlds – like second life – with our real world via
data streams?</Cesar>

<Usman>Pachube is a service (http://www.pachube.com), a website data stream
manager that enables people to tag and share real time environmental data from
objects, devices and spaces around the world. The key aim is to facilitate interac-
tion between remote environments, both physical and virtual.</Usman>
<Cesar>That may be another form of open architecture, where time and space
are completely distorted, stretched, scattered, demultiplied...</Cesar>

<Cesar>I was totally fascinated by this foto of non-visual architecture : a house,
believed to have been built by a blind man.