Re-Locating

"Yasmine Abbas is a French DPLG architect who graduated with a Master of Science in Architecture Studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with an Aga Khan scholarship and a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Stress is an undesirable offshoot of any kind of travel, forced or voluntary. To soothe the stress of travel, today's mobile individuals — neo-nomads — engage in tactics of re:location, the practice of re-assembling a familiar and cushioned personal space, an image of home. The spaces and objects we design with mobility in mind should focus on bringing comfort to these mobile individuals. We learn however that in today's consumerist, 'liquid' and hypermobile world, linkages between PIGS —People, Information, Goods and Spaces — matter more than PIGS themselves. The territories of neo-nomads relate to linkages and are dynamic as a result." -- From Turbulence