Space, Environment and Meaning

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How do we discern 'space'? In the space that contains our lives and provides a setting for what we do, we know that it is not merely 'some emptiness' Rather, it connects us to objects and persons in our environment;it separates us from destinations and people deemed too far away, too distant from us; it joins us to others who are closer at hand. As such,'space' entreats us to traverse it, to make our way through it in order to make connections, to cross the vaster distances and to engage with people, converse with them, embrace them. It is an integral part of our lives' architecture, in which weform both experience and memory. We thus give meaning to all the manifestations of this entity called 'space,' making it our envirohment.I would like to offer some exanples in literature, in which we can observehow space, environment and architectural structure can both interact with, and generate meaning through, the participants' own senses and memory.
2010-03-23