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    This document discusses the concepts of place and non-place. [1] It explores how landscape is both a natural scene shaped by culture as well as a represented and presented space that acts as both a signifier and signified. [2] It examines the idea of genius loci, or the unique spirit of a place, and how places give humans a sense of identity and location. [3] It then contrasts specific places with non-places like airports and shopping malls that lack distinctive characteristics and identities.

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    This document discusses the concepts of place and non-place. [1] It explores how landscape is both a natural scene shaped by culture as well as a represented and presented space that acts as both a signifier and signified. [2] It examines the idea of genius loci, or the unique spirit of a place, and how places give humans a sense of identity and location. [3] It then contrasts specific places with non-places like airports and shopping malls that lack distinctive characteristics and identities.

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    Place and Non-Place

    Lecture 3
    Landscape is a natural scene mediated
    by culture.

    It is both a represented and presented


    space, both a signifier and a signified.

    WJT Mitchell
    GENIUS LOCI

    The unique spirit of place

    To be human is to live in a world


    that is filled with significant
    places: to be human is to have and
    know your place

    E Relph (Place and Placelessness)


    Oliver Bomberg, Courtyard, 1997
    Thomas Demand, Rolltreppe (escalator), 2000
    Thomas Demand, Gate, 2004
    People do not
    simply locate
    themselves,
    they define
    themselves
    through a sense
    of place.

    Michael Chang
    Cultural Geography

    Nathan Coley
    Villa Savoye
    1997
    MACDONALDLAND

    In its brightness and its suggestion of


    fantasy that is not realised, in its
    superficial gloss to disguise a very ordinary
    product, in its intimations of adventure and
    freedom that barely obscure a precise and
    rigid organisation, and especially in its
    obvious and seductive appeal for
    commercial ends.

    E Relph
    Brent Cross, London
    Oklahoma City
    ‘Little Italy’, New York New York, Las Vegas
    What is ‘non-place’?

    Can ‘non-place’ be a place?


    Marc Augé,
    Non-Places:
    Introduction to an
    Anthropology of
    Supermodernity, 1995

    Willie Doherty 2000


    Hong Kong
    Airport
    Heathrow Airport
    Stuttgart Airport
    Kansai Airport,
    Germany
    Osaka Japan

    I suspect that the airport will be the true city of the 21st
    century. The great airports of the planet are already suburbs of
    an invisible world capital … a centripetal city whose population
    forever circles its notional centre, and will never need to gain
    access to its dark heart

    JG Ballard
    Untitled (Tokyo)
    Peter Fischli / David Weiss, 1990/2003
    Placelessness

    Carol Rhodes
    Service Station, 1998
    Oliver Bomberg, Concrete Bridge, 1997
    Willie Doherty 2000
    Placelessness

    Oliver Bomberg, City


    Tunnel, 1998
    Mass communication appears to result
    in a growing uniformity of landscape
    and a lessening diversity of places by
    encouraging and transmitting general
    and standardised tastes and fashions

    E Relph
    Elvira Hufschmid
    Highway Poem, 2004
    Jennie Pineus, Head Cocoons and Cocoonchair, 2000
    Lucy Orta
    Refuge Wear, 2001
    Perhaps all this movement blurs our
    surroundings, like a view from a train window,
    separating ‘us’ from ‘them’.

    …is place becoming increasingly dissolved by


    the developments of the modern world? Is the
    local vernacular being replaced by
    international conformity? Are we losing
    distinct places and places of distinction? Are
    our most powerful relationships with other
    places mediated by the screen?

    Tacita Dean / Jeremy Millar - Place


    The real voyage
    of discovery
    consists in not
    seeking new
    landscapes, but
    in having new
    Map Rock eyes
    Snake River, Idaho
    Artist and date unknown
    Marcel Proust
    For the Seminar:

    • Choose an image which you feel represents


    the concept of ‘placelessness’ or ‘non-place’
    • How does this image challenge ideas of ‘place’
    discussed earlier in the programme?
    • Can ‘nowhere’ also be somewhere?

    Bring your Critical Notebook and come


    prepared to discuss your ideas for your
    essay!

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