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Space. Space : Background. This element will analyze the diagramming of space. Space can be defined as urban spaces, community spaces, personal spaces, campus spaces, and geographical spaces.
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Space: Background • This element will analyze the diagramming of space. • Space can be defined as urban spaces, community spaces, personal spaces, campus spaces, and geographical spaces. • This analysis will take into consideration race, education, social economic class, geographic and political themes.
Space is interdisciplinary. Consider those who study geography.
Space can show that land is private properties within a larger space, some of which is public.
Air space and flight routes (here’s an image of the radar at LAX)
Random or Purposeful? • Geographic spaces, such as the Grand Canyon, can be explained by science and centuries of geological changes.
Random or Purposeful? • Its meaning differs from, say…
Random or Purposeful? • …the meaning – and purpose – of Disneyland.
The Space of the University • Is there an identity?
SPACE The diagramming of space can show efforts to implement Modernity in every space. Modernity: The quality or condition of being modern; modernness of character or style.
SPACE Modernity: An intellectual tendency or social perspective characterized by departure from or repudiation of traditional ideas, doctrines, and cultural values in favour of contemporary or radical values and beliefs (chiefly those of scientific rationalism and liberalism). In the late 20th Century: Often defined by social movements.
Is there one culture that defines Los Angeles? Or many? They are defined by cultural perspectives.
And an example of public space suddenly becoming private space…
Sunset Strip West Hollywood, CA
Echo Park Sunset Blvd.
Spaces within greater a Space: Korea Town
The Rhetoric of Space • Space, like other genres of rhetoric, have the following: • A Writer or Composer (e.g. Architect) • A Topic (In this case, the type of Space) • A Purpose (A philosophy for purposing the space) • An Audience (those who enter the space) • Context (how and why the space is composed)
Objects in Space • No, not like asteroids…the objects that help define a space. (e.g. Chalkboards in a class versus state-of-the-art projectors say what about the campus?) • What about electronics?