Home @ Last

This issue contains a collection of strange pictures: visualisations of spaces in Mediamoo. Moos are very powerful - because fully text-based - virtual realities. You meet people , play or work and you can arrange your own space as you like. You arrange the space by describing it and programming behaviour of elements contained in it. The suggestion of such text can be strong, as strong as the text of a good book can be. So it is actually not necessary to visualise such spaces on paper, but we just couldn't resist. The rooms people create for themselves in moos on the net are examples of the development of a radical, new idea of home. Home has undergone some sweeping changes during the last hundred years. The house as home for the late-modern nuclear family ripened into its definitive form. A reliable, well-thought-out solution. Standardised enough to produce in large quantities and to agree that everyone has the right to one. Everyone knows where he or she belongs - at Home.