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Cameras and Collaborative

Spaces (the Ideagora)

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own.

—Susan Sontag

9.1 OVERVIEW OF CAMERAS, NARRATIVE, AND SOCIAL SPACES FOR MEETINGS

Forty thousand years ago, in the Paleolithic caves of Spain [1], it is possible that early humans had their

rst business meetings. They gathered in one special space, signed in by painting outlines of their hands,

dened their goals with images of their hunting targets, and listened to what the leaders had to say about the

group. Survival in a dangerous, dynamic environment was the main business in those days, as it is today ...