An "experimental design" - in the sense of an understanding that links the experimental sciences with it - is to be understood as a methodical, plan-based arraying of [variable] circumstances for the purpose of placing them under observation. The mode of understanding in the natural science associates this, as a rule, with a laboratory situation from which the public is excluded; only the results are presented to the public. This mode of proceeding is equivalent to those of art forms whose production is independent of the conditions prevailing at the locations where they (consequently) take shape characterized as works of art. As an experimental design in the sense of the empirical social sciences, however, the project intends to produce a situation [a cue] for the purpose of carrying out the controlled observation of its constituent conditions. In other words, the environment [and how this is designed and set up as a result of the cue through the influence of external data] is just as much an object of *Liquid Space* as the internal deliberateness that provokes this influence. The work - the cue and/or the core installation - is merely a part of a process to which it is subordinate. As a project in the context of media art, *Liquid Space* is arranged media-systemically.