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Thoughts on. Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space: Nests
The equivalent of Nests in the modern urban environment such as Singapore would be high rise flats. As a single living with my parents/sister’s family, I always find it interesting the multitude of emotions and meanings people attach towards their living spaces. In a sense, I am without roots, without emotional investment, baggageless and free.
Locally, it is customary for young Read more →
Thoughts: Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (1958), Section 4: Nests
The concept of a home space that is compared to the nest of birds was a very interesting concept that I found myself understanding in this reading. Amongst the many poetic concepts and stories that were mentioned in this chapter, what impacted me the most is the human’s way of perceiving what is ‘home’. A very common perception is of Read more →
Reflection on Body, Personal Relations and Spatial Values
The breakdown of Space in that it is a complex set of ideas, transcend that of a physical space in which we build our lives around. In fact, it provides a deep overview of how Space and our bodies interact, in that we are in it, that it in us. The spatial values, as propelled by the notion that space Read more →
Ch 4 — Space and Place Reflections
Initial Thoughts
Yi Fu Tuan talks about how we as humans define the space around us and assign meanings, indicators and labels to this abstract intangible dimension in an attempt to navigate and operate within in – we are after all bound by space – physical, psychological, emotional. Tuan proposes that the definition of space has its roots in Read more →
Reading Reflection 1
The main idea of this chapter seems to be talking about how the human body is a factor that defines “some spatial division and values”. The notion that taller buildings command prestige, why certain ways that people arrange spaces to show superiority. Why is it that people see the sky as more superior? The up direction is labeled as the Read more →
Relation with Space and The Mind - Reflection
While going through the chapter, a TED talk that I watched came to mind. It shared a different perspective of how language shapes the way we think and how it affects the person’s sense of direction, spacial organisation and time.
Video here.
A different school of thought about the concept of body, space and time are that the language shapes our Read more →
Reflection: Ch 4 – Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values by Yi Fu Tuan
After reading this particular chapter, I have a deeper understanding on the perceptions of space and how it has evolved from an unknown concept to something that contains multiple meanings and perceptions.
It was interesting to find out the initial perception of personal space through the human body, and his understandings of directions and subsequently the labelled meanings of different directions. Read more →
Thoughts on: Ch 4 - Body, Personal Relations, and Spatial Values by Yi Fu Tuan
The article talks about a variety of concepts with relation to orientation, scale, spatiality and other units of measurement(distance etc). I found the section about how chosen words can imply certain/specific meanings of particular interest.
Bearing the overwhelming assault of cultures across the globe, via the Internet or New Media, I observe a noticeable change in the way people speak and correspondingly, Read more →