2020 is a bizarre moment in time. Our physical social and working lives have ended abruptly, and the once negative connotations of spending time online are now embraced; our lives enacted in totality through online spaces.

These spaces we increasingly occupy are distinctive in their lack of material situatedness and temporality. However, it is precisely this aspatiality, unique to digital space, that enables exploratory methods of interrogation and design.

Media[ted] is a research project that foregrounds the development of an experimental spatial practice, opening a dialogue between physical and digital spaces. Through situation feedback, simultaneity and superimposition, the project utilises adaptive tactics for the development of 3D interior techniques in a 2D landscape. Through iterative design responses, the work documents the process of mediating a [dis]embodied experience in digital space, engaging with ideas of agency and interactivity and highlighting the potentialities of digital space for narrative compression and reconstruction.

The development of a spatial practice within a mass-communication network opens out to compelling possibilities of engagement with an external audience, encouraging projection outwards to broader, geopolitically relevant fields of interest. The tactics now act as a framework for the progression of an ethically engaged practice that will enable contribution to the conversation of the unpredictably changing world we now occupy in the wake of the global crises of 2020.