The McLuhan Global Village Video Prt I

The McLuhan Global Village
"The Frontier"

“Welcome to the Global Village”
Lecture I by: Jen Hanson
Project partner: Aaron Geiger
Final Project / INFO 390
Jon Stone, University of Illinois

“The Frontier”

The McLuhan Global Village seeks to redefine interconnection of humans and electronic mass media. The waves of electronic signals translating to information reverberate through this village and make no differentiation between rural and city sectors. No longer do time and space exist as rigid dividers but rather connectivity is simultaneous. This integration of information allows for the citizens to surpass identity and openly connect with one another. Experiences are never in separation from the every day life. Instead separation exists only in physical distance, not in experience.

In the frontier, citizens live among the rural cabins that spot the landscape. For the rural cabin is a place of solace, of simplicity. Multiple accessible entrances and portals allow for ease of a natural influence on the dwelling. Here nature brings in the day and swallows the night. An instinctive, pure connection between you and the world around you is never out of reach. The organic and fluid architecture reflects the new vision as it is an expression of the never ending circle of communication. Even galaxies that are untouchable can be viewed through an extension of the human eye. To bring even the far away night sky closer allows for an intense closeness for the global village.

Minimalist living is the standard for the McLuhan Global Village. Luxurious possessions and signs of status now are gone. Instead, city-provided technology and print artifacts abound throughout the cabin ready for each citizen to be connected, even in the great countryside. An equal value is place on digital and print media. Furthermore, the intersection of the frontier and the neighborhood is only a few steps away, just as the global village intended.
[Part II of Final Proposal]