Space, Communication, and Gestures

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In the modern society, people have been obsessed with the idea of defining the relationships between the virtual space and the physical space. Many post structuralist architects, such as Peter Eisenman explored this field. In Elizabeth A. Grosz’s essays on Eisenman’s work, the author openly acknowledges the relation between virtual or cyberspace and the real space as a relation of mind to body1. Now we are living in a world where technology and computation are integrated with the culture so deeply and pervasively that the boundaries between the two worlds (virtual/ physical) are becoming more vague than ever before. This being the case,…

how do we define space in a world like this?

what are meanings of mind and body in a world like this?

what do gestures mean in space? 

 

1. Elizbeth A. Grosz, Peter Eisenman, Architecture From The Outside (MIT Press, 2001)