Hi Jennifer!
Thanks for referencing such a great research tool. I looked at all the
books listed from 1900-1981. Check this out!
Nothing before '51, and over half of the 342 references were from
1951-54. There was a dark age of holding space from '55-'70, with no
references. And of the 342, over 96% treated "holding space" as a noun,
rather than a process. They are about physical containers for stuff,
livestock, or prisoners.
Below I list the exceptions - some of which seem to hint at the way
"holding space" as an element of facilitation, though none do so
directly. The Leibniz and Kant papers were interesting in that they
peered into the concept of space itself, holding the concept if not
actual space. Very interesting is that the military concept of "holding
space" related to the Vietnam war starts to come close to the
facilitation sense, but the last one by Robert Nozick seems to come the
closest.
1953 - Princeton Alumni Magazine - "holding space" for slots in a talent
show at Princeton.
1971 - The New Yorker Volume 46, Part 7 - page 85 - "Farther toward
Green, a young woman named Vaughan Kaprow, shivering in the evening
cold, began /holding space/ for another organization that had a special
greeting for Billy Graham — the Pasadena Women's Liberation Group."
1973 - A Paper about Leibniz's Philosophy which looks at space
differently, "/holding space/ to be relational."
1973 - the Michigan Library talked about "holding space" for sign ups
for tickets (flights to New York), similar to the holding space for
slots in a talent show in 1953.
1976 - Ecology - Volume 57, Issues 1-3 - Page 286: "Porter (1974)
speculated that the high degree of coexistance on Caribbean reefs is due
to a "balance of abilities" divided among the Caribbean corals, such
that no one species is competitively superior in acquiring and /holding
space/."
1976 - The Philosophy of Kant Explained - Page 89 - "It is thus obvious
that we can only explain how we can have legitimate a priori synthetic
judgments in geometry by /holding space/ as..."
1977 - Object Relations Family Therapy - Page 72 - " the family
therapist gets transference information from the interactions in the
shared /holding space/ of the family." Still a noun.
1977 - All quiet on the Eastern front: the death of South Vietnam: "Time
was a secondary dependent variable, a function of our success in winning
and /holding space/."
1978 - BBC transcript - Many reasons why: the American involvement in
Vietnam - "it's because you're holding this space in the territory of
the rural areas. Also you're /holding space/ in another sense altogether"
1979 - Arts Magazine - Volume 53, Issues 6-8: "Moss now opens wide gaps
in the grid, erasing large segments of the retaining wall that had been
holding space 'back'. A new spontaneity and elasticity develops between
color and field: an energy."
1981 - Kant and the Transcendental Object - "And to all these impressive
reasons for /holding space/ and time to be phenomenal, Kant adds the
further reason that there are a great many axiomatic principles which
govern things in space and time, which are not logically necessary,
since ...
1981 - Robert Nozick: Philosophical Explanations Page 83 - " The word
"I" might be the marker for the blank, /holding space/ in which the self
can appear."
Regards,
Harold
On 10/20/14 7:41 AM, JenniferHurley-HFA via OSList wrote:
If Google Scholar is any indication, the usage, at least in print,
seems fairly recent:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Holding+space&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2CHolding%20space%3B%2Cc0
Jennifer Hurley
Hurley-Franks & Associates
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On Oct 20, 2014, at 9:20 AM, Daniel Mezick <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This is extremely helpful, Jennifer! Thank you
On 10/20/14 9:14 AM, JenniferHurley-HFA wrote:
I have no idea about the earliest usage, but it's a phrase often
used by Quakers.
Jennifer Hurley
Hurley-Franks & Associates
267-971-4598
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 19, 2014, at 7:33 PM, Daniel Mezick via OSList
<[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Since July 2011, I continue to wander, searching for the earliest
known reference to the term "holding the space." Anybody know?
http://lists.openspacetech.org/pipermail/oslist-openspacetech.org/2011-July/334185.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoSn2Y-b6wI
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