It was not until I read ‘Spatial Stories’, that I realised space and place are actually two different things. While places usually have a static representation of the locations, spaces represent the movements of things around them.
For example, in many Hong Kong movies, the view from the Peak of the Victoria Harbour is a ‘place’ which symbolises Hong Kong. ‘Place’ is like about the setting of the story. While filming the streets, how the people or things travel along, is the dynamic representation of the story, which contains more illustrative information, and curates the meaning of ‘time’ and ‘vector’.
Usually, spaces are created when there are changes of activities in places; while at the single frame of the timeline of space, here we have place, which is a representation of the moment. This is how I distinguish ‘place’ and ‘space’ now.
— Jeannie Qin Tsz Yan, 3035932678
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In fact time, vector and movement are parameters to measure space. Place could be described as the identity, location, boundary, and even laws related to a certain area. The Peak is a recognized landmark of Hong Kong, a famous place in the city, but when users activate the space, they convert a place, which is static, into a space, which is flowing. Therefore there is this saying in the reading: space is a practiced place. What about vice versa?