Many-Rooms

Tem quickly surveyed the room then turned around and tried the door handle. Locked. Okay. Tem surveilled the room again—slower this time. What was this room about? What was it for? Who was the former occupant. There were many clues scattered about... almost too many things to go through. Where to start? Let's see... directly in front but against the wall was was a desk and chair. On the desk, a stack of papers—laser prints of something—and some paper samples. There is also a scattering of pens ...

Pred assumed that remission was not an option—that they would have to live with the condition all their life (however long that would turn out to be). As had Pred's parents... With a history of the condition running through both their linages, the chances were high that their children would be born with the condition. They made preparations before Pred's birth. Doctor's at the nearby city hospital saw this preempting as a chance to trial new techniques and learn from this occasion. The hospi...

Hotel Review, posted in March 2020: "My partner and I recently visited your city for a short break and to catch up with some old friends. We booked a regular suite at your hotel after recommendations from friends online. The room was nice enough. The windows looked out onto busy tree-lined inner-city street that was quiet at night. The decor could have done with an update but the room was clean enough. Room service was prompt and courteous and the food of a good quality. Very tasty. Our interact...

Upon arrival they had stuck a line of 14 post-it note flags down the side of the wall between the bed and the entrance hall. There was one flag for each day and each day a flag would be removed until there were none and it was time to leave. Two flags were now left. A wodge of A4 sheets had been shoved under the door. They were exiting notices from both the state government and from the hotel they had been quarantined within. The End of Detention notice was the most exciting of the documents....

Inside the room, attached to the ceiling, is a type of chandelier. There are no crystal or glass droplets as you would expect, nor bulbs or candle holders. Instead, its luminescence comes from a glossy entanglement of polished steel mostly obscured by clusters of copper and gold tubes and wires amplified by discretely positioned LED spotlights. These clusters form wave-like patterns swooping towards the ceiling. These elements surround a core. This core also glows with energy. The light reflecti...

There were standards we had to let go of. Some were very recent standards. Standards or tropes? Maybe tropes is a better description. Many will be familiar already (hence tropes). Some of these tropes included: staff member addressing a camera and proceeding to give a guided tour of a space… and the show within a space. The eerily anonymous tour where a camera panned through a space accompanied by a disembodied voice intoning various exhibits as a camera lingered momentarily in various areas. Th...

Day 4 was an exhale... ampmfm via mixcloud Find out more about the Many-Rooms project via @many.rooms.project ...

The day started early, around 6am with some casual live Snapchatting with friends, those that were in similar time zone, and could chat from bed, did. Πthought this was a good way to ease into the day. Sleepy chats were the most relaxing kind of video chats. Πthen moved to Instagram to follow a live stream they had set a reminder for. The founder of a Slack-a-like platform and a representative from an open source video standard were interviewing each other. The conversation was stilted and a...

The form hard to be clear and concise. It was provided to inform, and enforce, but also not to panic anyone. As each returning visitor alighted from the plane and made their way from the jet bridge, through to baggage claim and customs this form act as an important intercept. It would also be the first time a passenger would know exactly where they were going to be for the first 14 days of their detention… Detention. There had to be a better word we could use. It was hard to see the term without...

They entered and stood surveying the space. The room was [of an average size, larger than expected but smaller than one had wished for | was enormous, much too much uninterrupted space for just one person | tiny]. Within the room there was also smaller rooms. There was a shower room, a small lobby area and a walk in wardrobe (if the latter could be described as rooms). A window spanned the wall facing the door allowing for [a nestled, insiders view of city skyline | ample, bird-height views of t...