I was surprisingly productive today. I referred back to my chart on Lefebvre’s spatial triad:
1. Spatial Practice (Perceived Space)
a. Seemingly rooted in materialism
b. Embodies daily and urban realities
c. The route that the person takes to work
d. The use of the person’s hands and the function of the organs
e. Not logically conceived or intellectually worked out
2. Representations of Space (Conceived Space)
a. Seemingly rooted in idealism
b. “Conceptualized space” (38) – “the dominant space in any society” (39)
c. Architext’s Space
d. The height, weight, and measurements of a person
e. Tends towards a system of verbal, intellectually worked out signs
3. Representational Spaces (Lived Space)
a. Rooted in between perceived and conceived
b. Space “as directly lived through its associated images and symbols” (39)
c. Anthropological Space
d. A person’s inner thoughts about traffic
e. Tends toward more or less coherent systems of nonverbal symbols and signs
and I’m now starting to piece together some of his commentary on counter-space with Nancy Fraser’s counter-publics. Tomorrow I plan to get back to outline-drafting.
In the meantime, I’m enjoying looking through AREA’s newest issue which has a nice feature on freedom schools in/of Chicago.
