Study Task 7: Looking at essays

- argument clarity - style (this might make it hard to understand - academic, personal)
- look for waffle - over defined concepts etc.
- Quality of research
- Quotes but not too many - describe too
- Backing up statements
- Use bits of process as well as final piece

**Think about when crafting own project

Study Task 3: Images and Theory

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSVXK3PTnVU88KXelwDq-nqmVBwNuN4-iLuM-OAD8584B-JWW-4lphmriK5aBrDLGqyeIM25GS6MhZV/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000

Research: APPLYING General Liminality Concepts

http://sunsetliminal.tumblr.com/liminality
- “Liminality is the threshold of the unexplained.  It is full of concepts without phrases and definitions without meanings'  (Greg Scheiber)
-  'It’s full of ambiguity, uncertainty, and fluidity. For me, it conjures up images of amphibian life, changing seasons, starfish, lucid dreams, big life changes, and (of course) sunsets.” 
(Kate Gulden) 

• Concept of the ambiguity that comes with liminality, fear of the unknown - Can apply this to space - Unexplained objects

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-liminality.htm
- A refugee can be liminal - moving countries - don't belong anywhere for a period of time (like guy in first article)
- Books can have liminal Plots (singleton to finding love) (sunset moment etc)

• Sense of not belonging - Relates to feeling I got in abandoned cafe - unease 
• It is a phase, doesn't last forever - True to space, industry or countryside eventually wins

https://thewritepractice.com/liminality-story/
Liminal Process phases (lit): Deconstruction/ Death; Chaos: destroyed value system, disorientation, discomfort, failure to find new vale system; Transformation: learning to live with tension, embrace, be changed
'of discomfort, of waiting and of transformation' - 'identity disintegrates'

• Confusion of identity - interesting concept - where does it lie?

http://uk.businessinsider.com/dead-horse-bay-new-york-city-photos-2016-6?r=US&IR=T
- Story of forming of dead horse bay

• Perfectly follows The Write System liminality process outline - Death: dying of industry, dumping of detritus/ Liminality - now - chaos, dump, conflict/ Transformation: eventual rejuvenation

Research: Liminality - Richer Texts

• Where the City Meets the Wild Article  - Adrien Kinloch, 2013, A citizen's guide to  the future, slate/ new america/asu

 'once-visible industries have died and nature has crept back to colonise'

 'both beautiful and toxic'

'you might feel as though you are in the past and the future at the same time'

'most of them carry a sense of death, decay and desertion'

'feeling that you're standing on the threshold between present, past and future'

 'unsettling' - the posting of 'rituals' - warning?

• Interesting read, works well to back up my own experiences of liminality - Can apply general theories on liminality to this !!
• I.e. Sunset liminal concept of the ambiguity and the fear of the unknown that comes with Liminality - Illustrated by Kinlochs feeling of unease that comes with creepy abandoned objects/ rituals and not knowing how they got there

• La Shure, C. 2005. “What is Liminality?” http://www.liminality.org/about/whatisliminality/

Summary of the origins of liminality -roots in a ritual context - transitional period, Comes from limen - threshold (key), Turner applies: the state of an individual in modern society 

liminal individuals = polluting/ dangerous/ ‘realm of pure possibility’ ‘betwixt and between', A visible expression of anti - structure, temporarily fallen through the cracks, temporary state

Author Disagrees with T - if temporary state can’t be in it for ur whole life

• Material for introduction - integrate specific concepts - apply to space. Interesting idea: Hasn't left society just in the cracks - So true for space: Still a part of the cityscape just temporarily forgotten about