Digital regionalism was initiated by a theoretical intention questioning a fact: while digital technologies proclaimed a technological revolution in total shift with the existing local conditions, in fact they were integrated to it, changing it in the beginning gradually and only in the depth of time totally. While theories for or against new technologies have been given battles on an imaginary field they have themselves defined, the ground on witch they stood was continuously changing precisely because of digital technologies.

On an evolving local ground, any architectural intention to define a stable approach directly related to an a priori given form led to theoretical impasses. The only way seemed to be to conceptualize the local as it evolves through the digital. To design the conditions of localities continuously changing and not the ultimate Form when the changes will supposedly occur. In other words, to think of a digitally existing local witch in fact is a networked local.  in a translocal condition.

The texts and architectural works in this book refer to the productive tension between local and network identity, in a translocal condition.

Digital regionalism does not aim to the design of local architectural identities digitally augmented, opposing themselves to globalization. Regionalism means that localities are considered through their constant agencement events, in continuous tension, as symptoms of ephemeral equilibrium of forces in presence. What seems stable contains the possibilities of its change. Digital refers to the network paradigm as a dominating scheme through witch we consider our relation to our conditions of being. Through digital regionalism, localities are seen in constant, not soluble, tension between their persisting efforts for the construction of their identity and its dissolution to the bundles of networks they participate, between omoio- poiesis and etero- poiesis.

The book is divided in three parts:

1. Digital Regionalism (the Mediterranean reasoning, critical regionalism, the network scheme, connected localities)
2. Machines of Becoming (library - an abstract machine, Zenetos’ school of Agios Dimitrios as a machine of becoming, quasi – object)
3. Localities – Swarms – Multitudes (interaction, swarms and Ambient Intelligence, multitude)

Each of them contains an introductory theoretical text and a corresponding selection of architectural works made by Dimitris Papalexopoulos Architects - Archsign .