I wanted to go back to a post Anne-Laure wrote some days ago about drifting along. I agree… not sure we lean more toward the physical space.To me, “Drift” is a word too tied to the aimless wandering of the Situationists. I am not interested in aimless wandering (though you may argue that even in aimlessness there is an aim). To make sense of the eclectic conversation, one necessarily needs to think from the “right brain” (Studies have shown that right brained are global thinkers (instead of left brained who are sequential thinkers) and arrive faster to solutions; they are innovators though may have difficulties to explain why they came to the solution. A quick read for info, a book by Béatrice Millêtre ).Anyway, having a global mind seems to fit our era of overflow of information and channels. I like the word “encompassing” better for that it means to “include comprehensively”; it is “rounded” (has the word “compass” in it), suggests a fluidity, space in-between the things it encompasses; it encompasses the word “passing” which fits the Deleuzian mobile minds (Whom I believe are right brained).What is there to encompass? We are Building Space With Words. It is difficult to encompass how and why we are building a SPACE, which SPACE? WITH, indicating the tool, words, which and what WORDS? In the physical word, building space happens not only through brick and mortar but also through “inhabiting”.Habit-Habitat-Habitude (Habitude is the French word for “habits”; Habit means clothing). So what you wear, how you represent yourself in everyday life (Goffman, 1959) links to rituals and to space making. It is not so different from what happens in the digital world. The WORDS that we blog and exchange, like clothing are also meant to mark a territory, building a (new?) discourse on space and the digital.So what have we been saying?

1. That space making in the digital word isn’t so (it is, but how?) different than space making in the physical world. In fact Anne-Laure mentions rightly the words propinquity and privacy which belong to both worlds.

2. The space we are talking about is multiple:

a. Physical: the installation

b. Digital: the blog

c. Mental: the discourse

3. We build space with words also to advance our knowledge of place making (building) so to suggest spaces/experiences/services that are relevant today.