Reflection

Learning goals

• Contextualise and investigate the hacking
• Define my own hacking
• Specify own topic and research questions

I feel like people is hacking my own space
You are being hacked by me
I am being hacked by you


The subdivision of our social world and the spaces we inhibit into public and private spheres is one of the key features of how a society organises itself.
This affects individuals mental state and experiences, regulates their behaviour, and superimposes a long-lasting structure onto human societies.
Since I moved around the various cities in my childhood, I have always looked for my own space in unfamiliar places.

It was important to find a haven where I could hide to feel comfort.
In an unstable environment, I always felt like my space was being hacked.

If we think of our individual everyday routines, one of the defining features of these routines is how we live in and pass through private and public spaces, and feel and behave accordingly. Now we live in an age when spying is easier than ever. due to the development of technologies, private and public have become completely blurred. We are too close to each other.
Privacy is not only about the use of our data but also about how we create our boundaries with others, how we present ourselves online and how much we reveal to our peers.
What does this mean for understanding personal and private boundaries today?

My small intervention: Secrect box asking people to write their secret. As an extension of my intervention, I wanted to focus the balance or the zone that people make between privacy and public.

The public toilet is the place where everyone can go in but the place toilet is a very private space and it's the time only focusing on myself.


What is privacy?

800 people responded on the issue of what privacy is (James, 2012). It is related to the concept of the relationship between personal and public spaces.
Generally, it consists of eight elements such as comfort, safety, no noise, anonymity, solitude, fewer crowds, freedom from judgment, and freedom of expression.

Privacy might be viewed according to many different views that come from the law, the citizens of right, and protection for consumers (Barnes, 2006).
Privacy might be established within social interaction. Nippert-Eng mentioned that “privacy is a socially gifted commodity”
because diverse types of people grant privacy to an individual or withhold it from him in social relationship (Nippert-Eng, 2007).
As the concept of privacy is influenced by other people, they might not think about their privacy that excludes the public. However, privacy might be contradictory on the concept of public.
Frame, personal zone, and intimate zone are related to privacy among the four level of interaction zone (Hall, 1969).

A total of eight elements of privacy support the idea that ‘Comfort’ is synonymous to physical comfort or mental comfort in public space,
so user feels comfort emotion from space. ‘Safety’ means protection from danger in other words there are no danger such as crime and accident in space,
‘No noise,’ as the term itself implies, means that people do not hear any noise in place. While ‘Solitude’ means distinction of space or separation,
‘Fewer crowds’ means a small number of crowds. It is related to population density in space. ‘Freedom from judgement’ means lack of interest from other people in place,
namely judging other people, and ‘Freedom of expression’ means that people can do an activity and behave in whatever way they want in a particular place.



The network of communication in our pockets means that there are always outside voices beyond our front door.
We are masters of our houses, but we are constantly beset by visitors. Photograph: The Escher museum

Research Question

• What does private area means today in modern society?
• How to create my own space in a world where there is less and less private space?
• Why do people want to peep other people’s life? How do we keep our own space in a world where there is less and less private space?


Inner space of the self and outer space of the world
When I think about my personal space, it closely associated with the inner space of subjectivity as well as the psychological-physical space.
This private space was where I can refuge from the outside world, to feel a sense of belong to this world. On the other hand, some may feel afraid of this sense of isolation.
This distinction between the private and public, therefore starts here, between the inner space of consciousness and the outer space of the world, between the human subject’s psyche and the social and
physical world outside.