午夜剧场

I recall a conversation with students one day. When asked, "Who is your favorite artist?" surprisingly, everyone there replied, "No one in particular." They explained that they just listen to whatever is streaming. In today's world, where being able to choose anything is the norm, some say they don't know what to pick because there are too many options. This increase in choice overload is being sublimated into a choice of "not choosing"—not deciding on one thing, not staying in one place, and always accepting and letting go of encounters with new things and experiences.

In these times where respect for diversity is championed, people are constantly searching for a unique sense of "comfort" that stems from their own individuality. Even if they encounter a comfortable environment, they do not cling to it; they let it go gracefully and seek the next encounter. By continuing to search for optimal solutions—not just one—from among the countless options flowing endlessly, perhaps they are encountering discoveries they never knew before and truly feeling the act of living.

Lifestyles and ideologies are closely related to the form of the home. The ultimate example of the fluidization of housing is the "address hopper" lifestyle. Its forms vary, including cases of living while moving from hotel to hotel or moving the house itself in a mobile home. This also overlaps with the emergence of minimalists. By keeping the possession of things to a minimum, they enable a light-footed way of living, while also having an ethical aspect of sharing things.

Triggered by the pandemic, previous standards are being ousted from their positions. To begin with, a house—defined as "the range of the environment where daily life is conducted"—encompasses roles as a place for work as well as for eating and sleeping. The perceptions we held until now were merely intentionally created through spatial design based on the division of places by use and operational rationality. Now, after the pandemic, those divisions are becoming increasingly blurred. The normalization of remote work has encouraged the outflow of behaviors fixed to specific locations like workplaces or homes. Workations are blurring not only the temporal boundaries between work and vacation but also the spatial boundaries that link place and behavior.

Where is the form of the home headed? Hints are visible in the ideologies of the people.