-Tactics and Concepts for Highly Mobile People

external impacts and thus experiencing continuity. Home feeling is also experienced
through an atmosphere that is created in proximity of the body and through regenerating
when keeping the outside world out.
Artifacting concerns the artifacts that are brought along through which a home feeling is
maintained. The home feeling follows the content being transported and the artifacts are
used to establish an atmosphere related to home feeling or functions as self-­‐expression.
The artifacts brought along gives a sense of continuity and predictability as they are used
again and again in the different places and in that way provides a home feeling.
Connecting is the social bond that people maintain despite physical separation. This is
experienced by means of communication medias or through gift-­‐giving and other ways of
sending a thought to a remote beloved. Social relations and home is highly interrelated
and that is why connecting provides a home feeling. To many ‘home’ equals the family and
the connections gives a sense of continuity even though being apart. The home feeling is
related to nostalgia and dreams when Connecting indirectly to remote close relationships.
Differentiating is about emphasizing the qualities of a specific place and make the
experiences of places different from one another. The tactic is common in relation to
tourist travel as people go away to experience other things than what is at home, but we
also experienced people with multiple homes who aimed towards making the places
differ from each other to get different experiences in different places. This way of homing
is in about making space into place and regenerating in new settings.
Doubling is a tactic where an equal home feeling is pursued in multiple places. This is
done by means of owning multiple similar homes, duplication of interior design and
domestic appliances, but also by choosing hotels that are experienced the same even
though distributed around the globe. This tactic leads to a home feeling through
embodied continuity, the predictable life and the control of the known and familiar.
Rythming is the continuation that goes beyond place, which is experienced either through
keeping the body clock on a certain time zone despite physically in a different zone or
continuing with patterns that are repeated week after week. Rythming gives a home
feeling through the continuity and predictable life. It is furthermore embodied as the
physical routines are unconsciously repeated.
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