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<P></P><B><BR>portability</B><B><BR></B><BR>On
July 1, 1979, the<I> Sony Walkman TPS-L2</I> went on sale in Japan, ushering in
an age of mobile privatization. Since then, the portability of cultural and
informational content has become ever more portable: television consumers of
today can timeshift with the <I>TiVo</I> and placeshift with the <I>Slingbox,
</I>reminding us that TV, like fast food, need not be different
everywhere.<BR><BR>More object-oriented than the concept of mobility, design for
portability aims to maintain the coherent function, appearance, and identity of
the thing transported: be it a lipstick carried in a purse, software moved to a
competing platform, health care benefits taken to another job, or a Star Trek
officer who needs to be beamed down to the planet. Thus, the pursuit of the
thing's fidelity after transport and transfer is also a quest of
translatability, enabling exchange and reciprocity in an age of translocational
identity. Just as mobility and immobility encapsulate modern social dilemmas,
portability encapsulates all things in transition between times and places, and
the desire to make solid, truthful, and durable, all that melts into air. We are
as much mobile agents, as we are porters of weighty baggage.<BR><BR><B><BR>thresholds 34</B>
invites contributions examining the aesthetic, architectural, political and
technological uses of portability. We invite critical perspectives that explore
these issues in a variety of media, including essays, projects, proposals,
policies, and models. Points of inquiry can include, but need not be limited to,
portable objects, spaces of portage, systems of transport and transfer,
processes of translatability, markets of import and export, and designs on, and
for, a portable life. <BR><BR>Submissions from fields other than art and
architecture are strongly encouraged. Essays are limited to 2500 words. A
digital copy of the text is required as well as 300 dpi digital files of all
images. Please include a two-sentence biography of each author. Thresholds aims
to print material not previously published. <BR><BR>Submissions are due <B>February 15, 2007</B>. <BR>Please
send all materials and correspondence to<B>
thresh@mit.edu</B> <BR>or to: <BR><BR>Winnie Wong,
Editor<BR><B>thresholds<BR></B>MIT Department of Architecture<BR>Room
7-337<BR>77 Massachusetts Ave.<BR>Cambridge, MA 02139<BR><B><BR><BR>thresholds</B> is
the bi-annual critical journal of architecture, art and media culture produced
by editors in the Department of Architecture of the Massachusetts Institute of
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