This project was inspired by feedback from earlier research investigating people’s sense of belonging.

As part of this research, five participants were given a card with
“Wanted:_____” written on it and asked to write what they ‘wanted’ for their neighbourhood. They were asked to display their card at a relevant site.

One participant wanted “neighbours!”. Looking at this message I realised that after living in Sinclair Road for a year, I still did not know my own neighbours.

Another participant placed his card outside his neighbour’s house. It read “Wanted: the password for a 4Mbps wireless network”.

I tried to initiate ‘iTunes conversations’ with this person through my shared playlists, but got no response, despite their being inside my electronic space.