Saturday, 30 December 2017

Synthesis: non-places/ Liminal spaces comparison

Stuck: I have a lot of theory on non-places after reading Auge/ the reviews but I find liminal spaces much more interesting !! I could also probably write a better essay on non-places/ I don't want to waist this content. Could I compare liminal spaces and non - places?? Both thresholds - places people pass through but the values of the two literally seem to be the opposite of one another??

Liminal - history, sense of what came before, freedom to wonder as you please, unordered, unclear ownership, what man has left behind/ nature has claimed, detritus, unsettling - unfamiliar - unsystematic life and death - 'threshold between life and death, past, present and future'. 'you might feel as though you are in the past and the future at the same time' (Kinloch 2013)

VS

Non - places - no history but the last 48hrs, continuous circuit of advertising place other non places - empty words - not engaged with suggest atmosphere of place, Lack of freedom - follow strict rules - importance of identity, state ownership, Any sign of nature covered, sense of familiarity in the new - all the same, ordered by man numbered, systematic - systematic life and death thresholds also (Auge, 1995)

Could do a comparison between a sort of abandoned overgrown area (like the horse place in article) and somewhere like a hospital

How do theories on thresholds influence ho you experience space 

- Go to the places - see how knowing the theories influence how I draw, respond to the spaces - Draw in response to the theories, contradict etc.


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