Thursday, 1 March 2012

A Sense Of Place: Identity & Visual Culture

Lecture Notes: 

Everyone wants to find their own place
How is a place not a space?

What changes a place from a space, location, site or territory? Does the word place define it as a place or is it something more than that?

It's not defined by a word, but rather the relationship we have with the 'place'.

ENGAGE IN OUR EVERYDAY LIVES.

A place in definition of myself:
somewhere with meaning, somewhere that hold emotions, somewhere with many elements that make up it's definition of a place over a space

How are cities places? How do cities make me feel? Lost, alone? At home, complete? 

Cities make up a huge 'place' with smaller 'places' amongst them. How does this affect the city's definition of place?

Utopianism: the shift from nature to civilisation and vice versa. 

Question of history and how 'places' change and how we adapt to them and how they adapt to us. 'Robert Frank - The Americans' interesting view into a different life.

Territories: How do people define who has the 'right' to claim a place as their own? Non-places, who defines those? Who owns them? Do they exist? Or do they just exist because we've demanded the need for them? Going from 'place' to 'place'?

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