1. Young man at his window: places everywhere This is just common sense: look out the window of your home or office. What do you see? You only see places. A bench, a tree, a park where people converse and children play, a square, a street, a building, a mural on a building’s facade, a bridge, the sun, the sky,…
The first article I posted on this website was dedicated to the revised transcription of the paper that I presented on Friday, the 5th of September 2014, at the ‘5th Global Conference, Space and Place: Exploring Critical Issues’, held at the Mansfield College, Oxford (UK). The conference was organized by Inter-Disciplinary.net, a former British Association for Interdisciplinary Research and Publishing.…
Space and Place: Why They Matter This website explores the meaning of two fundamental concepts: space and place.They are not merely technical terms for physicists, philosophers, social scientists, or architects. They are cross-cutting concepts that shape how we understand the world—from physics to philosophy, from the biological to the social sciences, from culture to everyday life. Yet their meaning is…