Owing to computers and Internet we live in a highly engeneered and interlaced world today. Into all ranges of our daily life the digitality has meanwhile taken introduction, also into the most intimate corners. We contact our friends via Facebook, settle banking transactions by Online-Banking and watch for Youtube, as the new desk can be assembled best. Do-It-Yourself – a meanwhile nearly 60 years old movement – is closed to a virtual revolution. Who would like to understand that should know what words such as Cocooning, Digital Native or Community denote in future.

Airports are powerful institutions and infrastructures defining and shaping the relations and connectivities of a world of flows and mobilities. They are ‘glocal infrastructures’, built interfaces on the thresholds of terri-torial and global scales. The talk of fundamental airport dependencies signals a new wave in the transport-driven modernisation of society and the economy. Political controversies over the whys and wherefores of giant airports rage in the very centre of the ‘mobile risk society’, not on the periphery. At few other social “loci” do the local and the global interface so tangibly as at the great transfer points of international air traf-fic in London, Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, or Madrid. This, it has been noted, has fundamentally changed the character of mobility politics and mobility policies. It has brought about and it propels ‘glocalisation’ and global interdependencies.

In the interview, originally published by brandeins, the architect and design philosopher Friedrich von Borries critically reflects the enourous impact of increasing corporate city branding and marketing on urbanity and the public sphere, traditionally referred to as comunitas.

We live in an interwoven world of temporal relations where our lives are embedded in a ceaseless process of unforeseeable changes. As we engage in this matrix of evolving links and interchanges, we continually reposition ourselves. This paper argues that place materializes not through the forces of a Vitruvian firmitas, but in a continuum of temporal relations, where place is to be found in the notion of moving points, animated by different forces that interact with one another.

Virtual reality will gain a more and more important role in our everyday life. So it is very important to understand fully the impact and influence virtual reality will have on or view of the world. This article reveals that the interdependencies between the real space and the virtual space are much more subtle and profound then on first sight. Especially the value of several mathematical, physical and biological models and simulation methodologies will be reestimated by the use of virtual reality in the long term. As an example the article describes the historical chain from quaternions to quaoaring and how this may lead to a paradigm change in biology.

Considerations about spatial concepts today have to take into account the actual ongoing loss of space. And of how such a process is able to generate a multitude of new spaces, at the same time. What both kind of processes, juxtaposed as they are, have in common, and what their relation to still another kind of processes is, namely such of formatting, of willingly creating and simulataneously, unwillingly generating a multitude of formats existing in parallel to each other which impact our everyday lifes, and which rest upon basic assumptions about ’space’ and ‘reality’ in general. Related to these processes is a loss of space, in actual terms.

The article contextualizes the view on US everyday life presented to the West German reader of ,Westermanns Monatshefte’ in the 1960s, focussing sociohistorical aspects.

Besides questions of gender, discourse, text, and image, the question of space is ubiquitous and variously engaged in the contemporary praxis of cultural and social sciences. The study of spatial concepts includes a wide array of perspectives, ranging from the sociological, social and cultural traditions of investigation of the ‘classical’ fields to urbanistic issues and [...]