Month: February 2025

Advanced capitalism - hyper individualism 

Today - Self as Other 

Homi Bhabha – The Third Space is a postcolonial sociolinguistic theory of identity and community realized through language. It is attributed to Homi K. Bhabha. Third Space Theory explains the uniqueness of each person, actor or context as a “hybrid”.^{[1][non-primary source needed]} See Edward W. Soja for a conceptualization of the term within the social sciences and from a critical urban theory perspective.

Third Space theory emerges from the sociocultural tradition^[2] in psychology identified with Lev Vygotsky.^[3] Sociocultural approaches are concerned with the “… constitutive role of culture in mind, i.e., on how mind develops by incorporating the community’s shared artifacts accumulated over generations”.^[4] Bhabha applies socioculturalism directly to the postcolonial condition, where there are, “… unequal and uneven forces of cultural representation”.^[5]

Another contemporary construction of three "spaces" is that one space is the domestic sphere: the family and the home;[11] a second space is the sphere of civic engagement including school, work and other forms of public participation; and set against these is a Third Space where individual, sometimes professional,[12][13] and sometimes transgressive acts are played out: where people let their "real" selves show.

Third Space Theory can explain some of the complexity of poverty, social exclusion and social inclusion, and might help predict what sort of initiatives would more effectively ameliorate poverty and exclusion. Bonds of affinity (class, kin, location: e.g. neighbourhood, etc.) can function as "poverty traps".[15] Third Space Theory suggests that every person is a hybrid of their unique set of affinities (identity factors). Conditions and locations of social and cultural exclusion have their reflection in symbolic conditions and locations of cultural exchange. It appears to be accepted in policy that neither social capital nor cultural capital, alone or together, are sufficient to overcome social exclusion. Third Space Theory suggests that policies of remediation based in models of the Other are likely to be inadequate.[citation needed]

'space of cultural encounter in which the
colonizer and the colonized negotiate, producing hybridity in culture. This type of
culture subverts colonial domination by deconstructing essentialist identity and binary
opposition of the colonizer and colonized or the East and the West.' Nagendra Bahadur Bhandari, PhD

THIRD SPACE --- SECOND WORLD 




Made a cohort Locatiom Map - a starting point in mapping our coordinates 


https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1gU6MUfxaTX_5X_8mw9xyzPtVhH9e5Ac&usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M9t0qllMK4GQMszWQg_-gENiDVbA-SkMrYXQPsvdrwQ/edit?usp=sharing

New concept - 'Sensorial Otherness' 

'Anthropology of the senses' - to explore in more depth ! 

An intense week of learning and trying to break through the puzzle of Unit 2 submission.

Have been looking at mapping, deep mapping, psychogeography.

Love the idea of maps being emotional as well as territorial, and how their physicality can be affected by emotions.

Went to the CSM library and got out 

'Mapping it Out' - Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist

Mercator - cylindrical projection (atlas) 

Learnt about Buckminster Fuller - the inventor of the Geodome
crazy inventor 

Ephemirasation, doing more with less 
Taking things apart and putting them back together 


BK - Radical democracy 

Mallarme + Mike Kelley (rearranging words) 
Nancy Peluso - counter mapping, 1995 




Madeleine de Scudery - 
La carte du Tendre, 1654, based on sentimetal relationships

Buckminster Fuller 

Dynamic
Maximum 
Tension 
Map
+ 
Archive 

Dymaxion Map - 3-D atlas visualisaton without distortion 

Isochahedron - below

Decahedron - 10 sided shape - one for every one on the course?? 

Fahlstrom -

Arianne Littman - Wounded maps 

SOFIA - an invisible city 

not featured in list of European cities in artist experiment 

Headlands centre 


DEEP ATLAS  - Lise Mogel - counter cartographer 

https://whitney.org/education/community/programs/art-project
People don't question maps 

AIM - 
me in relation to others 
Positionality map - step 1 

Ephasis on creative practice and practice in relation to others 

Emotional Geographies - Bjork - Emotional Landscapes 

Draw from cohort skillsets

Make a LEGEND for mapping 

Identify something in their practice

Topography?? May be relate it to age etc.?

Multi - modal 

Intergrate feedback 
Misunderstandings of meaning 

WHAT TO INCLUDE: 

Borges Short Story