Monday 30 July 2007

Interesting project

One of my plans with this site is to share my research process.
This of course is not just practical research, and I though it was about time I posted some of my reading matter.
I came accross this project a little while ago, here's and extract, and a lnk to find the full article by ALESSANDRA SUN.

"Choreographers and architects often say that dance and architecture share the same concern, and the shared concern is space; dancing bodies and the architectural built environment manipulate space.
But what is space? Is it static and always there, or is it ‘produced’ by movement and by construction? Is it three-dimensional as we commonly understand it, or is Time also part of the equation, as Einstein and the physicists after him have proposed – giving us notions of ‘spacetime’? Is it measurable, or is space itself a measure? Is it a conceptual framework, or does it have its own ontology – its own nature of being and existence? Is space a perception? Can it be owned or, what do we really own when a ‘space’ is ours?

These are not my questions; they have been, for centuries, part of the philosophical and scientific discourse about space. They make it clear at once that space and spatiality – or spatial property – are complex and multi-layered; the space which dance and architecture claim to share is not only physical, for there is more to space than we see in its physicality" Alessandra Sun

www.humanitieslab.stanford.edu/49/75

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