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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