Tag: Reading response: Michel de Certeau

Cat Links Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

Michel de Certeau

Posted on u3580585

A place is something stable created through spaces.A space on the other hand is something mobile, created through memories and stories of people who move around in these spaces. For example the students walking around in HKU, the security guards patrolling and the professors rushing to their lectures all create spaces through movement and interaction. Though HKU is considered to be a place for education, it is not the only thing that happens in it. HKU wouldn’t be a place without all the interactions and stories that take place in the spaces of HKU, giving it a significance of a

Continue readingMichel de Certeau

Cat Links Lecture 5 Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

Posted on u3577758

Certeau examines the relativity of “place” and “space” in the article. I regard “place” as a artificially defined “space”, that we give a specific “space” a definition, like a name or a feeling, to make it a space. For example, The Peking Road in Canton, which is the central of the city, is always preserved but its name varied from era: in Qing Dynasty, it was named “WingCing”, meaning the long-life of Qing; then Sir Sun Yat-sen renamed it as “WingHon”, meaning the long-life of Han; then the street renamed as “Peking” in Culture Revolution, showing that places are the

Continue reading[Reading Response: Michel de Certeau]

Cat Links Urban Infrastructure as Event

[Reading response] Michel de Certeau

Posted on daeun

Before reading this article, there were few terms that I was unaware of their differences. Understanding exact meanings and differences between them, it made me think and reflect upon movies that I know and Re-examine the use of these terms as a tool. Place and space. I used to think that these two terms have same meaning, just used at different context. However, the article explains that place is an area with fixed objects and space is area with experience (movement). For example, a city square with buildings is a place but once people experience this place, it becomes a

Continue reading[Reading response] Michel de Certeau