http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/04/30/mediated-space-or-how-to-translate-the-logic-of-media-into-architecture/ Mobile Media and Urban Design Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:57:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.themobilecity.nl/2009/04/30/mediated-space-or-how-to-translate-the-logic-of-media-into-architecture/comment-page-1/#comment-20143 Michiel de Lange Fri, 08 May 2009 11:16:25 +0000 http://www.themobilecity.nl/?p=490#comment-20143 Interesting stuff. Just as a thought, a helpful analytical distinction for this other way of looking at the relation between media technologies and (urban) space is given by Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre in his difficult to read work 'The Production of Space' (first published in French in 1974). His main argument is that space is neither absolute Euclidian space that is 'out there', as Descartes argued, nor a categorical part of a priori consciousness, as Kant said. Instead, Lefebvre tries to bridge the gaps between physical, mental and social spaces, and argues for a unitary theory of space in which space is always socially produced, a product of political powers. He makes a conceptual triad of space, distinguishing (1) spatial practice: how space and places are produced and reproduced; (2) representations of space: how space is conceptualized and ordered in knowledge, signs, and codes; (3) representational spaces: how space is 'lived' and imagined through its images and symbols. As you say, the tendency is to look mostly at (1) and (3), whereas your examples are clearly of representations of space (2). The aim perhaps should be to give an integrated account of all three aspects of the triad... Interesting stuff. Just as a thought, a helpful analytical distinction for this other way of looking at the relation between media technologies and (urban) space is given by Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre in his difficult to read work ‘The Production of Space’ (first published in French in 1974). His main argument is that space is neither absolute Euclidian space that is ‘out there’, as Descartes argued, nor a categorical part of a priori consciousness, as Kant said. Instead, Lefebvre tries to bridge the gaps between physical, mental and social spaces, and argues for a unitary theory of space in which space is always socially produced, a product of political powers. He makes a conceptual triad of space, distinguishing (1) spatial practice: how space and places are produced and reproduced; (2) representations of space: how space is conceptualized and ordered in knowledge, signs, and codes; (3) representational spaces: how space is ‘lived’ and imagined through its images and symbols. As you say, the tendency is to look mostly at (1) and (3), whereas your examples are clearly of representations of space (2). The aim perhaps should be to give an integrated account of all three aspects of the triad…

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