On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of RSaP—Rethinking Space and Place (September 2015–September 2025) — I offer a brief reflection on this journey through the study of spatiality so far and on the road ahead. For at least a century the classical meanings of the paired terms space and place have been under sustained scrutiny across many fields: from…
In September 2014, I participated in the 5th Global Conference on Space and Place, at Mansfield College, Oxford, UK. The conference was organized by Interdisciplinary.net, a former British Association for Interdisciplinary Research and Publishing. My paper, titled From Space to Place, A Necessary Paradigm Shift in Architecture, was included by the organizing committee in the section under the heading ‘Rethinking…
To be (at all) is to be in (some) place Archytian Axiom American philosopher Edward S. Casey reports the Archytian axiom in his book The Fate of Place as follows: ‘… to be (at all) is to be in (some) place.’ [1] The original statement by Archytas, as referenced by Simplicius, and reported by Israeli physicist and professor Shmuel Sambursky…