Dear All:
It occured to that this chart form David Harvey's book on " The Condition of Postmodernity" could be very useful to all. I find it so. Given the conversations we have had in class with Matt when Marc sugested a day timeline of activities of a trader with a watch maker, and Derick's discussion of a department store during the day and night(these are only the most recent) and given that the time dimensuion is always present this chart should be of use.
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if you have a chance I would wlecome a responce to this chart by you writing a brief comment on how you might see any of his categories as relevant to your project and program.
as i was reading through the typologies that are laid out on this sheet, i was trying to see which of these types of social times would qualify best for my project in particular to the program of the school with the nursing home, but it appears all of these categories can be related in one way or another in regards to how i envision my project to develop at the personal (interior) to the larger exterior scales. I would like to see my project develop in many of these categories where the past (elders/history/stories) is projected in the present and future as well as having this kind of in-between time of uncertainty and accentuated contingency in which present (shadows of children and elders) prevails over past and future (children). the function of the engagement of these inhabitants is to develop a kind of continuity within change where past, present and future are projected into each other so that this kind of social practice can be looked at in a larger scale as a kind of revolutionary ferment or collective creation as a goal.
the other sheet on the 'grid' of spatial practices will help me to become more aware of the kind of issues that must be looked at when I will be in a mode of production of space (design). The "domination and control of space" category seems to be an area for critique in the existing types of spaces relevant to my project and the "appropriation and use of space" category as a means to build upon my mnemospatial practices into the interior of the architectural design.
There's also a really good (and short) reading I ran into last year about different perceptions of time within a Japanese garden. The book is called "Relating Architecture to Landscape" and is by Jan Birksted. Its in the Pratt Library.
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