good morning all.
i could not have expected such a flurry
of active thoughts
over the weekend [as i left it friday]. the thread
is allowing a few heads to be screwed together....
or at least opening eyes
to common interest.
the space/place links/notes are most interesting, deserve a chase,
emphasising
enhancing the collection. good.
so i throw in another>
there is consensual acknowledgement that architectural or anthropological
discources can offer crossover insight and inspiriation, and interpretive
methods for 'creatives'' to engage in ideas of space/place, both rural and
urban.
admittedly much is written or thought about urban space, planning and
intervention. and there is want for more on rural space...
i have been reading archaeological texts now for the last year to get a grip
on this aspect, and the spatio-temporal, phenomenology of landscape. Some of
you probably already know, but i add a few examples of text that will strike
a chord i guess:
the archaeological search of meaning should consider
"the strategies by which narratives of place and biographies of landscape
itself are implicated in the making of the self and the perception of being
in place" [?not sure where this came from]
"at once cultural and natural, connecting values, modes of perception and
representation, experiences, artefacts, histories, natural histories,
dreams, identities, narratives, memories in networks of cultural ecology.
Everything that goes with living in a place. Though historically layered
and composed as tracks and traces, landscape is beyond simple conceptions of
depth and surface, beyond the linearity, chronology, narrative and physical
cartography. Lived meaningful inhabitation, of varying time length and
subject to varying degrees of fragmentation and loss through time, landscape
is a multi-temporal and complicated, folded cultural topography." [shanks01
below]
READING MORE>
Shanks, M. 2001.
"Culture/Archaeology: the dispersion of a discipline and its objects",
'Archaeological Theory Today', Polity Press, Cambridge.
Tilley, C. 1994.
'A Phenomenology of Landscape',
Berg Publishers, Oxford.
Tilley, C. 1996.
'Metaphor and Material Culture',
Blackwell Publishing, Oxford.
Thomas, J. 2001.
"Archaeologies of Place and Landscape",
'Archaeological Theory Today', Polity Press, Cambridge.
Ingold, T. 1993.
"The Temporality of Landscape",
'World Archaeology 25', Vol 2.
Bradley, R. 2000.
'The Archaeology of Natural Places',
Routledge Publishing,
Rapoport, A 1975.
'Australian Aborigines and the definition of place'.
Shelter Sign and Symbol, Barrie & Jenkins.
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Looking forward, not back>
Projects such as Headmap [www.headmap.com] are addressing the social
implications of location-aware mobile devices, raising awareness of
historical precedents of thought and practice, and considering what may
learned, and taken forward with the new technology.
Likewise you may include archaeological interpretations of place/space:
whole interpretative processes which may be tapped. For example, i have
applied the <reversed> process of stratigraphy to assist designing
spatio-temporal information (well i am talking sounds/spoken voice poetry)
for virtual/augmented space.
Here is such reversed methodology:
Interpretation
->
Document (synopsis, subject, narrative etc.)
->
Phasing
-> & these 2 temporal related [phasing, dating]
are an inter-related loop
Dating
->
Record
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i hope the above is of interest, and continues the exchange of posts.
best regards
andrew.
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