The physical world we live in is accompanied by a multitude of imageries that confront us with our domestic understandings of living environments, related image worlds, and with them, distinctly curated spatio-temporal experiences. It is here that platforms mediate between visual and tangible spaces, offering bridges between these parallel realities. The following pieces of writing will investigate forms of display in the seemingly quotidian spaces of habitation and home, and the way images function as mechanisms of staging idealised and controlled visions of these spaces. Putting into question what kind of spatiality platforms offer or allude to, these interventions will explore the extent to which respective imageries have the power to occlude, alter or distort our view of home, and the extent to which we are granted access to these spaces.

It might be argued that these communications, manifested in images and transmitted by a particular use of terminology, act on behalf of actual experiences. In all cases, the malleability of imaginaries and principles of reproduction, repetition, sharing, liking or commenting lead to particular spatial narratives, which in turn reflect prevailing ideals, standards and norms connected – if not tied – to various forms of markets, monetary aims, sovereignties and capital. At the same time, the question arises as to what role technological infrastructures play in regard to accessibility, and whether platforms are controlled spatial realities themselves – realities that are slightly distanced and delayed rather than conflated.