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Network from Home : An alternative to Internet domestication, the case of Montreal

Ghadi-Delgado, Adam-Joseph
2024

Memories, yours and mine, are stored in an almost invisible blank facade building. Data centers hold raw information to be processed by private companies. This began with the domestication of the Internet in the 1990’s, when telecommunication companies were off to capitalize on the Internet’s access and its storage – the key infrastructural components of the domestic Internet. Service providers have the power redline neighborhoods, while server hosts hold and sell private information. Network from Home proposes responsible redomestication as a critique of aggressive Internet profiteering. It posits an awareness of changing domestic behaviors through Internet phenomenology at home through bits and pieces studied in our theoretical statement Extremely Online: Home in the Advent of the Digital. The proposal uses Montreal, Quebec, to exemplify changes within and outside the home for data sovereignty, culling system redundancies, and democratizing access. This is addressed at the level of legislative agency, educational resources, cultural symbiosis, energy efficiency, and thermal comfort. The project balances a super-peer network master plan with the analogy of carrying our devices like IVs at home, creating an intricate web of small changes in Montreal at various scales, from client to server and the corridors in between. Ultimately, Network from Home envisions a near future where the Internet serves the community equitably, fostering a digitally sovereign and culturally enriched Montreal.

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