The Internet is an emerging informational ecology, created through the combination of a massive volume of data flow and the excipient network of the World Wide Web. This ecology is further fostered through a cybernetic mechanism of iterative usage coupled with freely mutable online content. The Spatial Dataforming workshop, a play on the idea of Terraforming (the transformation or shaping of an entire planet), the will investigate how the forces and logic building this virtual ecology can be used to inform the shaping of spaces both virtual and architectural. The course will look at the protocols of the Internet, the methods of identifying, organizing, structuring and transferring information in a networked environment, and how the specifics of these rules of information interaction and exchange have fostered various online social and cultural phenomena.