Space in contemporory culture and everydaylife

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In "The Practice of Everyday Life", DeCerteau pointed out that "space is existential" and "existence is spatial" , that is to say that space locates an existence, and existence is carried out in a place. DeCerteau further explains the notion of space and place in this way: a "place" is the configuration of different static elements in relationship with each other. A "space", on the other hand, is activated by the various interactions and intersections of …

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…and the house is just at a drawn of a piece of cloth. Conclusion How this little corner of the house reacts to the rest of the house and its occupants differs tremendously from it being just a dinning area to a personal room of a person. The different elements like walls and windows also, because of what has happened to the space, serve different, or rather additional purposes than what they used to do.