Category Archive: PROCESSES()SYSTEMS

… all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.

— GEORGE ELIOT

Architecture creates spaces and modifies places for dwelling

Many glibly write about the ‘production of space’ when they imply the making of place.

— JOHN AGNEW

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

— attributed to CONFUCIUS

Education is the ability to perceive hidden connections between phenomena.

— VÁCLAV HAVEL

I am also asking the reader to suppose that the concept of space has nothing to do with perception. Geometrical space is a pure abstraction… The visual third dimension is a misapplication of Descartes’s notion of three axes for a coordinate system. The doctrine that we could not perceive the world around us unless we already had the concept of space is nonsense. It is quite the other way around: We could not conceive of empty space unless we could see the ground under our feet and the sky above. Space is a myth, a ghost, a fiction for geometers. All that sounds very strange, no doubt, but I urge the reader to entertain the hypothesis.

— JAMES J. GIBSON

The potency of place must be a marvelous thing, and take precedence of all other things… That is what place (topos) is: the first unchangeable limit (peras) of that which surrounds.

— ARISTOTLE

To be (at all) is to be in (some) place.

— ARCHYTIAN AXIOM