New digital media possibilities are changing the way small-scale spaces are designed to function. In recent proposals for the interior design of NASAs newest lunar modules, for example, elements such as interactive sensate support furniture and interpersonal mediated communication design are emphasized. New digital media technologies have roles in the ways people experience their personal boundaries, extensions, voice, and community. Artists, activists, architects, furniture designers, industrial designers, apparel designers, and wearable computation designers address issues of personal space and agency and connection. In this course we will investigate personal, political and psychological roles of various personal and community spaces. We will use the Digital + Media Special Projects Room as a studio and center for the course, both for developing and building projects that help facilitate and articulate experiences through different forms of personal architectures and apparatuses, and as a meeting and discussion and critique space for community events occasioned as part of the process of the course. We will focus on research, prototyping, discussion and production of projects. Topics will span the areas of art, architecture, furniture, design, engineering, social theory, activism, and critical cultural production. The course is designed as part seminar (1/3) and part studio (2/3), with three or four material+technical workshops that can be open to interested parties in the wider RISD and MIT communities. The course will involve a NASA architect as visitor, as well as participants from MIT. We will look at previous NASA projects as well as artists’ and designers’ work addressing personal space. We will form a community around contemporary investigations of personal space and the wider political and community aspects of its forms and expressions — building, investigating, and iterating together with the objective focus on critical and reflexive research and invention, and the sharing of ideas and perspectives.