From personal experience, I prefer carrying all things with me when I go for a short business trip… (Global Nomad Experiment) I would not want to loose my business suit if I am going to a conference and even if I can track my missing suitcase with embedded RFID technology. Yet I would not care less about loosing my business suit if I could rent one at my hotel. Business models already exist for people to rent tuxedos, or furniture, and pushchair or all other material one need for his/her baby (Petits Nomades). So why owning an item that you only use occasionally (the business suit may not be the best example… but… losing a suitcase, or its arrival being delayed is rather frequent)? Why carrying with you encumbering items that you only need for a short period of time? This brings into mind the notion of ownership (… and frugality, concept I am currently developing). If neo-nomads move constantly, do they actually need to own (in the old sense) spaces and objects? “Shall we buy or rent?” is a question currently debated by the City on The Move. However this is some food for thoughts: the manifesto of the IS—not the Internationale Situationiste, but the Internationale Squattiste—claims for investing creatively, and for the purpose of creation—spaces that are temporarily not in use. Yet, why is the need to stick to an address, and why not move from empty lots to empty lots? That is a question I shall further develop…

Thank you to Eléonore and Kostas for your contribution!