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Place, Space, and the Unicorn

With this article, I want to make a point on the main traditional presuppositions and personal assumptions I have presented so far concerning the meanings of the concepts of space and place. The basic consideration on which I have founded my research on the concepts of space and place concerns the belief that concepts have not fixed meanings: they may…

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Limit Place Appearance

Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the concept of space almost exclusively attracted my attention. I soon learned — from critics and architects — that Architecture was a discipline concerned with space; but it took me a while to understand what that really meant; and it took me even…

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Place Kicks Us Back, Space…

… does not. Heidegger’s introductory paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended subject of the forthcoming article — is particularly appropriate for further clarification concerning the concepts of place and space (or, at least, it is appropriate for clarification concerning my proposal for rethinking those concepts). As the title of the book suggests, Heidegger’s…

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Václav Havel on Education

Education is the ability to perceive hidden connections between phenomena.[1] Václav Havel Note [1] in Fritjof Capra, The Hidden Connections (London: Flamingo, 2003), viii. Image Credits Featured Image by Alessandro Calvi Rollino Architetto: ‘Archi-texture’, Ydañez Museum, Puente de Genave, ES (in collaboration with architect Sandro Panarese), CC BY-NC-SA