This publication examines how urban and interior spatial experiences have changed in the digital age and in the aftermath of pandemics. The tension between virtual presence and physical absence is explored across metropolitan settings, home environments, and hybrid public–private interfaces that have undergone rapid transformation through technology and social isolation.

The chapters in this book examine the way the inhabited interior (domus) has been repurposed as a public platform—serving simultaneously as office, classroom, and social lounge—and thus collapsing the traditional divide between civic space and private refuge. Meanwhile, metropolitan streets, plazas, and transit hubs were emptied and reprogrammed as stages of surveillance and desolation, where physical bodies gave way to avatars on video calls, posts on social media, and endless camera feeds.

Technology now allows a body to act, speak, and engage without ever setting foot in a shared space. This fundamental shift carries profound implications for architecture and urban planning: hybrid environments emerge—part digital overlay, part material substrate—while questions arise about the value of touch, co-presence, and the sensory richness of unmediated space.