MANIFESTO 

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The civic sphere has been corrupted by a mass salaciousness for validation, converting social eclecticism into a pasteurised pastiche of muted, milky sameness. The digital network has birthed a social field in which everyone has become an actor, selling an image of desirability to the social consumer via an ‘avatar’. Individuals func- tion under the conviction that they are the anomaly, but this is a collective constructed illusion. The anomaly or ‘the other’ is hard to discern when our eyes cannot adjust to the darkness anymore. Post millenials have become trapped within cages of self surveillance, incapable of comprehending and digesting blatant otherness. The blue light is blinding us just like our own image reflected in a pool of water.

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A new spatial regime calls for the normalcy of absurdity. It is time for the spatialisation of the social network into a physical environment, within which actors are unable to hide behind atomised digital avatars. Authentic anomalies should not be sanitised and converted into a spectacle for consumption with the condition that they are sporadic in their existence. They should be plentiful in the everyday with no attempt to dilute them for easy digestion or normalise them for digital consumption. This new regime will propose a ‘reverse policy’, in which current legal and moral limitations inhibiting the other will be abolished, and adherence to any previous notions of so- cial tolerance will not be permitted. This policy demands a reconfig- uration of demonised activities into not only acts that are permitted, but that are a performance necessity in the inhabitation of the new realm. There is an expectation that all inhabitants will explore a flu- idity amongst all categories of the ‘queer’, with any identification to one given sexual or gender orientation prohibited. Spaces urgently need to be imagined that emancipate and permit the individual to be gazed upon with curiosity rather than to be devoured by the scrutiny of devaluing and unrequited love. Abrupt contrasts between spaces of domesticity and absurdity will encourage tensions of negativity, creating opportunities for interactions to fester in total opposition to current normality. Generosity through architecture empowers the digital avatar to shed their skin of self design and escape the hell loneliness to occupy real. The ambiguity of the limits of space must remain intentionally undefined so that unexpected activities of en- counter can occur at the periphery. The nature of the street has been framed as the breeding ground for potential threats within the current suburbia. Our regime demands a reclamation of the street as a civic space acting simultaneously as the central and in-between space that belongs to nothing and no one but rather everything and everything. A new domesticity will be born.