Abstract
Approaching the spatial dimension of the social worlds through spatialities leads to an analysis of the “dashboards of metrics” by which actors make trade-offs in their management of distances. We can see that the relations between the three major metric families (co-presence, mobility and telecommunication) are marked by coopetition: they combine rather than exclude each other. This is all the more true today, when a complex, non-hierarchical hybridisation is currently emerging. A pragmatic foresight can help us to see more clearly the futures that are taking shape in this area.