Pablo Calderón Salazar, TRADERS researcher with Social Spaces (MAD Faculty / LUCA School of the Arts), participated on a discussion about the ‘Networked Public Space’, in the context of the ‘Networked Politics’ weekend special at the Architecture Venice Biennial. The NetPol weekend special, in the words of their organizers, “creates a new confrontation between the concreteness of built space and the immateriality of its operational boundaries. It also intends to challenge the dichotomy between virtual and physical networked communication, between individual and public space, between urbanity and domestic sphere“. The weekend special was coordinated  dpr-barcelona (Ethel Baraona Pohl, César Reyes), FOLDER (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual), MAIO (Anna Puigjaner, Guillermo López) and Space Caviar (Joseph Grima, Tamar Shafrir, Simome C. Niquille).

The discussion took place the 6th of September of 2014, and the panel was also composed by Parasite 2.0 Lab, Silvio Lorusso and Tamar Shafrir, and moderated by César Reyes Nájera (dpr-Barcelona). During the discussion, the FOMO (an algorithmic publishing machine) was printing in real time the tweets and feed derived from the topics spoken in the panel. The artists Helson & Jackets also participated via Skype on the conversation, with their project help me obi, which ‘transports’ people in real-time Skype conversation to their interlocutors place via a hologram.