Mobility is of goods, people and information. What happens if we didnt move in the physical anymore.. just in the virtual.. Anyway thats just an idea......
I'm reading invisible cities. Its a series of descriptions mostly by marco polo of his travels to different cities.. He depicts fantasy cites to Kublar khan the emperor.
Its plays on his imagination. On our imagination.. and how we imagine a place to be. We can imagine a place that is not confined to physical principles..
In response to what you said about the Pyramids we need to see them in reality to really experience them (in context.)
I'm interested in our preconception or perception of a place. We all have a mental image of what New York is like or Rio. However we know our preconception will differ to the reality of the place... we will not have had the full sensory experience of the place.. We will miss the smell the hustle and bustle the noises the real atmosphere.
We will all have a different perspective of a place. due to infinite factors. Take Birmingham for instance we all have a different mental map or emotional mapping of the place. We pick out urban landscape to create a mental map of a place. This is owed to how we experience our city. Some of us travel by bus, some by car some walk or cycle. Sometime the same routes but we will all have a different image of the city.
Leading on from this I began to think about physical mobility in our society. Yes it can be banal. The regular journey to work or school every day.. the same traffic lights, stuck on the same road. or waiting for a train in the same waiting room. In this place of insignificance. A NON PLACE.
But these NON places are valuable. An airport waiting room, a stretch of motor way. these places give time to our emotions. A place for anticipation to build, For us to develop our preconception of a place. How we choose to move through it.. Is this similar to the different types of territories you mentioned lee? How our own different territories personal to us, influence our experience of a space. We will move differently through different space.
i like the idea that our perception of a place is not limited to its actual physical manifestation, that we interact with it by means of our imagination.
ReplyDeletei seem to remember someone else BLOGGING about how reality isn't revealed to us by our senses but rather by our perception of that reality offered to us.
and yes that is exactly what i am getting at with territories that our preconceptions control how we move through space and that these preconceptions do become manifest in the physical world (such as uniforms, railings, kerbs, zebra crossings how formal/informal a space is)and these things all limit the roles we are willing to play/ routes we are willing to take.
Like you said we all have preconceptions of what new york is like and so when anticipating a trip there we would formalise an itineray before hand of places that would be of interest to us based purely on preconception or common sense)this obviously controls/ limits the spaces we physically move through?