‘A space exists when one takes into consideration vectors of direction, velocities, and time variables. Thus space is composed of intersections of mobile elements.’ is one of the lines that resonates with my thought. I like photography and sometimes I like to take time-lapse videos when I am traveling (an example below is a footage of Field-Homework 2 but I eventually did not pick the clip due hand-held shakiness), one of the reason is that time-lapses give a general picture of how people move and interact in a certain space, which I find very fascinating, and it helps you to understand and explore a space while considering the fourth dimensional elements. However, we often neglect the natural aspects and focus on human movements, especially in a course named Architecture and Film, ‘space is a practised place’ sounds very artificial. Sometimes, nature also participate in practising a place, such as day and night, summer and winter, or even water, wind, plants, animals might interact and ‘practise’ space or architecture, and thats worth more attention especially in an environmentally dying Earth.
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A perceptive reflection on the text and also the course. In the course, we are mainly discussing the social-economics effects on architecture and the film. Nature and environment issues are not the main consideration. As you have mentioned, “nature” can also practice space. Thus, the understanding of de Certeau’s notion of space is not limited to humans’ interactions in a physical space.