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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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People’s common understanding seems contradict with Michel’s  “space is practiced space” which I think is because we don’t realize our practice’s contributions to surroundings. People are born with the sensitivity of their surroundings. Walter Benjamin also indicate that people can receive architecture without concentration as they can really touch it. When the film focuses on exploring this kind of space, it can dig out people’s lifestyles. As an example, Mateo Bendesky’s movie These Days shows people’s loneliness and depression during quarantine without capturing any figure. A tap that no one turned off, a crooked sofa, a handle on an unmade

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Space and places cannot be easily separated. According to my understanding, “space is a practiced place” refers to that a place is gradually developed and stabilized (or changed) through successively appearing spaces. An example is the formation of some spontaneously formed internet-famous sites. The famous blue dome church in Santorini, Greece, at first, is not a must-see for the tourists. Someone took a nice picture there, and then more and more people took photos at the same spot, copying the same camera angle. Through the repetition of the process, this specific church inadvertently becomes a golden photography destination and even

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After reading Michel’s article, I have a clearer mindset on the difference between some similar words like “space & place” and “tour & map”. In my opinion, space can be everywhere, but a place is a space with having a history, story, memory, or special meaning for humans. We can take “home” as an example. I believe that no one would call their home space but not a place. It is because people have a lot of memory and story in their homes. We can also take “outer space” as another example. Why no one calls it “outer place”? It

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After reading the article, I think more on the relationship between “space” and “place”. I believe that space is meaningless without any stories in it; while a space with stories become a place. A space can be anywhere, in any location, but a place can only be where you define it. In other words, in the same location, it can be different places for different people. Take Central as an example, for many Hong Kong people, it is a CBD, and it is a place where people work; however, in the same location, for the foreign domestic helper, it is 

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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau and Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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I think be it on macro-scale or micro-perspective, spaces are fragmentary, most likely are passive too, that they are being decided to be connected or kept isolated. A space with no participants has no stories and is a void. The connection systems: skyways, bridges etc. with their functions to connect or fate to be burnt are tools used for making spaces within spaces, as what the author described “multilevel”. In such multiform matrix of spatial content, stories are manifested more dimensional, with more species or simply the plain flavors, but the spirit is to survive or to excel or to

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Reading Response: Michel de Certeau

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Michel de Certeau mentioned several concepts in the ‘Spatial Stories’ part of his book ‘The Practice of Everyday Life’. Among his discussions of space and place, map and tour, I am obsessed with the relationship between space and place. Space and place are similar, but each has its own features. The author understands a place as “the order in accord with which elements are distributed in relationships of coexistence” while space is “composed of intersections of mobile elements”. In other words, “space is a practiced place”. This seems to be contradictory to the idea “place is a space practised” that

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[Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James]

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When I first read about the pedestrian systems in “The Multilevel Metropolis”, I was able to think of Hong Kong’s advanced infrastructure immediately. Just like the picture shown in this reading, Hong Kong is a well-known city for its numerous footbridges, skyways, and escalators on the streets. Whenever I walk down the streets of Hong Kong, I have always questioned myself about the development of pedestrian systems and their advantages. After reading this article, I was able to answer these questions with a better understanding of multilevel pedestrian systems. According to the points that Jennifer and Vincent mentioned, Hong Kong has

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Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James

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Hong Kong’s way of utilizing skyways to provide access to different facilities around Hong Kong has helped Hong Kong evolve into a very dense yet accessible city for citizens. Skyways give a different approach when it comes to urban planning where we are able to achieve avoiding over-crowding in areas without having stress over building placements. These skyways are found everywhere in Hong Kong and yet I have failed to notice how often they utilize this technique around the city as I was so used to using them in my daily life. This very simple method is very effective in

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[Reading Response: Jennifer Yoos and Vincent James]

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Huge cities are becoming multi-layers, with footbridges built above the ground and also with their underground counterparts. Governments or commercial organizations promote it to enable a multi-functional space or making more commercial incomes, however, the function is never locked or unchanged as how it was designed and expected, but keep changing. They are infrastructures as the designers believed, but meanwhile re-defined as other “places” by residents, tourists, or even by fictional stories including films. As architectures, it has to have its public features and its meanings and usages are difficult to be precisely expected. Like the bus terminal in Lam

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Reading Response: De Certeau

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The article “Spatial Stories” is written by De Certeau puts some comments on the relationship between space&place and tours&maps, which really fascinates me. What interests me most is the relationship between maps and tours. In general, it is pretty difficult to figure out the differences. However, Mr. De Certeau’s explanation refreshed my original thought. Maps are more like a definition, while tours are likely to relate to a movement. Maps already told us the destination, the only thing we need to do is to follow the instructions. Comparing to maps, tours require more imagination and curiosity. Every step we take

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