Involuntary Community Spaces - Intro | Ambient Revolts

A group of hackers is disrupting our daily lives. In bringing down the cellular networks for hours randomly across the city they are creating an Involuntary community for all of us. By taking away some of our most commonly used digital tools like map apps , phone contacts and social media connections we have to look to those around us and learn how to communicate directly again. As more cities begin to experience this phenomenon, chaos slowly turns into community, and inhabitants report a growing sense connection to other parts of the world by walking their familiar, local streets that have now been imprinted with the the names of another city. As time goes on, we are re-entering social spaces long forgotten. The unknown hacker group can be seen as a group with neo-luddistic ideals, but the ability for strangers to form communities gives hope in the darkest of times.