“Man is an organism with a wonderful and extraordinary past. He is distinguished from the other animals by virtue of the fact that he has elaborated what I have termed extensions of his organism.” Edward T. Hall

Proxemics
Physical Territory: the cafe VS the airport
Personal Territory: public , social , personal, intimate distance

The others

Digital Territory: Bubbles by Laurent Beslay and Hannu Hakala (pdf):

The Domestication of the Ambient Intelligence Space
"[...] By defining digital borders, the vision of digital territory creates a continuum between the physical world and its digitised counterpart. The construction of digital boundaries consolidates the gateways already established between these two worlds. This paradox will be catalysed by the implementation of a growing number of bridges between the two environments. Location-based services, radio frequency identification tags, body implants, ambient intelligence sensors, etc. will permit the implementation of a trustworthy environment and therefore the domestication of the ambient intelligence space by the individual. The vision will facilitate the transition through a traditional society that coexists with an information society, to a single society whose citizens have accepted and adopted the fusion of physical and digital realities. In this future society, people will still be able to control and manage distance from others with new tools provided by ambient intelligence space technologies."

Virtual Proxemics?

Other Spaces (outer space | aquatic space ...)

"Say it loud, autistic and proud" The Observer

None of them prepared me for the real world of autism; immediately I was struck by the badges they all wore. In place of the impersonal, minimally revealing badges of 'normal' conferences, these were raw shouts from the heart. There were three options. Red meant: 'Do not approach me. I do not wish to socialise with anyone.' Yellow said: 'Do not approach unless I have already told you that you may approach me while I am wearing a yellow badge.' Green declared: 'I would like to socialise, but I have difficulty in initiating. Please feel free to approach.'
My first response was: what a brilliant idea. Who hasn't wished for something similar at a party social occasion? 'I really don't feel like talking this evening unless you are a Bob Dylan fan/ Chelsea supporter.' But, more than that, they immediately challenged one of the most pervasive myths: that autistic people lack a 'theory of mind', that they have no sense that other people have an interior world. While non-autistic people can predict social behaviour by imagining what is going on in other people's minds, so the theory goes, those with autism behave as if other people are machines with no inner world. It's this that makes their social skills so poor. But which shows more awareness of others: 'Mark Tucker: Marketing' or 'Do not approach me'?

What is important is not just that we have bodies and that thought is somehow embodied. What is important is that the very peculiar nature of our bodies shapes our very possibilities for conceptualization and categorization."- Lakoff and Johnson "Philosophy in the Flesh

The Milgram Experiment, Wikipidea

Another Milgram Experiment + the psychology of Urban Life, NYT