Our daily life is under the accurate management of pre-set rules since the industrialization. The rules are made by the developers, planners, and product manufacturers in the process of pursuing productivity. People do select from the standard products and at the same time acquire the social meaning attached to them. As a result, the inhibition of flexibility and self-expression exists in all aspect of our everyday lives. Under this colonization of everyday life, our experience becomes homogeneous and solidified. Our cities are planned in the most effective physical form, losing the sense of belonging; we get information feed from interfaces pushed by its contributors no matter when and where; even the meaning of life is distributed rather than generated - most of us take them as granted. In order to generate the awareness for individualized identity and further revolutionize our daily lives, we look to the critique of everydayness.

 

Today the digital revolution is remolding our urban life that the urban environment becomes increasingly layered under the digital forces. When it comes to the daily life, the ubiquity of digital information and communication technologies that produce and distribute this abstract space generates new possibility of customizable everydayness through the input/output interaction. This subtle change occurs where every fragmented daily activity take place – from all aspects of urban life.

 

I believe that the condition of human life could unfetter some restriction of productive forces in the digital future. As a designer, I already saw cases of responsive environment, smart devices, and real-time data that are adding vitality to the urban life. The gradual awakening of a human-centered everydayness may lie in the near future where there would be more possibility for a pleasant, interactive and customizable urban life.