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Space, place, strategy, and tactic are terms that can be seen as essential to any experience. Because of their common nature they are often confused and used interchangeably (Ref A. Schroeder).
Strategy
Anything that can be recognized as an authority or exerting authority over individuals. The practice of creating planned architectural spaces can clearly be seen as a strategy. The planning of a town is definitely strategic, so is the way agriculture relates to nature.
Strategies are manifested through physical structures and rules/regulations.
Place
Tangible, finite and relatively defined / recognisable unit of space, as experienced through body/senses. However, a place can have subjective character, ie by being tied to feelings of security, inhabitation, and “being”.
Space
Abstract and conceptual. Associated with a sense of freedom and infinite extension. Primarily experienced with the mind.
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Tactic
Individuals or groups that form in response to the situations and spaces of strategies. Have specific, short-term goals and dissipate after these are achieved.
Starting points for discussion (ref)
Identify a work or project in that responds to or is inspired by a place of personal, cultural, social or historical significance.
What ideas, meanings or feelings related to place does this work suggest?
How are these ideas or meanings suggested?
Identify a site-specific work or project that interests you.
How does the work relate to the place or space around it?
What is it about this work that you find interesting?
Find a work or project that represents a familiar or unremarkable place.
Describe how the artist or artists have represented this place.
What meanings or ideas does this suggest to you?
Find a work or project that depicts an imaginary place or space.
Describe this place or space and how the artist or artists have depicted it.
What do you think might have inspired this work?
Reading
Certeau, Michel de (1984) The Practice of Everyday Life - Part III. Spatial PracticesChapter VII. Walking in the City
Gunila Jivén & Peter J. Larjham (2003( Sense of Place, Authenticity and Character: A Commentary, Journal of Urban Design, Vol. 8, No. 1, 67–81, 2003
Samuel Jones and Melissa Mean resilient places
Lefebvre, Henri. The Production of Space (excerpt)
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