FOAM
Foam refers to the structural characteristics of urban interaction, and how certain relationships suggest a need for the understanding of interconnectivity within our urban environments. Foam suggests that smaller spaces (egospheres) are a part of a larger network implying a close relationship between the human environment and nature instead of two autonomous objects operating separately; once the unification of nature and the human environment occur our cities will become like foam, "ever changing organisms". Charles Darwin says, "It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives, it is the one that is the most adaptable to change."
If we think of foam in a literal sense, we begin to understand its constant change over time with the addition and subtraction of each cell - we see an overall corresponding change to its form. Sloterdijk writes that the "living foam" is comprised of bubbles and forms a container of sorts for the occupant to perform self-relationships1. Sloterdijk also describes the modern political concept and origin of "the masses,"
"This single bubble in a "living-foam" forms a container for the self-relationships of the occupant, who establishes himself in his living unit as the consumer of its primary comforts: for him, the vital capsule of the apartment serves as the stage for his self-pairing, as the operating room for his self-care and as immune system in a highly contaminated field of "connected isolations," also known as "neighborhoods."1
"The modern political concept of "the masses" shows how false images can make history; the metaphorical origin of the masses, associated with a formable and fermenting "dough" allowed for the most harmful ideologies of the last two centuries." 2