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The crowd exists: the crowd consumer users in advanced societies, the rioting crowds all over the planet and the crowd’s communication. So far, however, it does not exist, in any scientific field, a space definition of crowd.

In the crowd the individual takes the form of a statistical crowd unit. The single crowd unit exists only as a component of a whole into a spatial ordering conceived with the purpose to exceed the mere function of concentration and containment of the crowd itself. The crowd’s space is the outcome of a technopolitical apparatus that operates by means of architecture as much as urban planning. 

MXXY investigates the genealogy of typological "big spaces" through a general western political space timeline: from the first teeming historic containers as arenas, circuses, cathedrals and squares, up to the tumultuous French revolution; from large sets of totalitarianisms of the twentieth century to the affirmation of the performative event entertainment society, up to the virtual space of the network and beyond.