Found throughout our urban landscapes, ‘non-places’ are generic transitory spaces that individuals experience routinely—they are airports, passageways, hotel lobbies, elevators. As portable devices such as laptops, tablets and smartphones, become progressively more present in our everyday life, they inevitably mediate our experience of space. If the idea of place is associated with location and our engagement with space, can the portability of a laptop instill a different sense of ‘non-places’?
