http://blogs.poly.edu/bsww/2009/03/16/you-are-here/ a conversation about space - physical and virtual - how it shapes our interactions and how our interactions shape it Sat, 21 Nov 2009 16:24:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 http://blogs.poly.edu/bsww/2009/03/16/you-are-here/#comment-335 alf Wed, 25 Mar 2009 02:13:42 +0000 http://blogs.poly.edu/bsww/2009/03/16/you-are-here/#comment-335 thinking about a comment made by Austin Henderson (one of our blog contributors) when he was visiting the space yesterday re. the relevance of the metaphor of virtual space (are the affordances of space in any way enacted in "virtual spaces"?), I was wondering if the choice of this metaphor and the difficulty of going away from it does not come for our attraction to map and our situatedness (we are physically embodied in space, in spaces). It does not tell us whether the metaphor is relevant, but it might explain why it is so hard to avoid it. Austin suggested to think in terms of process rather than in terms of location, e.g "spacing", "interacting"... al thinking about a comment made by Austin Henderson (one of our blog contributors) when he was visiting the space yesterday re. the relevance of the metaphor of virtual space (are the affordances of space in any way enacted in “virtual spaces”?), I was wondering if the choice of this metaphor and the difficulty of going away from it does not come for our attraction to map and our situatedness (we are physically embodied in space, in spaces). It does not tell us whether the metaphor is relevant, but it might explain why it is so hard to avoid it.
Austin suggested to think in terms of process rather than in terms of location, e.g “spacing”, “interacting”…
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