How much
time do you spend every day in consumption spaces? Places like train stations,
airports, supermarkets and highways. Observing our society, the tendency to
spend more and more time in transit spaces, grows. We commute to get to work,
we travel, and we buy.
A book,
which really inspired me, is “Non-places” by the french anthroposophist Marc
Augé. He defines a “place” as a space with an identity, a history. In contrast
to that, Augé describes these transit spaces as “non-places”.
After reading his
book, some years ago, I started digging into the field of spatial-theories.
Augé already gives us many explanations about the changes of using spaces in
our world. But there is one answer, I could not find in his book:
Which
psychological impact do non-places have on us?
As books
can’t offer me the answer, I want to find it by myself. Therefore I am
searching people who live or have lived in transit. Do you spend a lot of time by
commuting to job? Is the ICE your second home? Are you collecting flight miles?
Is the airport your second home?
If you feel
addressed, I would love you to leave me a message. The idea is to interview and
portray some people and their thoughts concerning “non-places”. It can be
everything – and therefore I am curious to listen to your stories.
The
interviews will be published on my blog www.embody-your-mind.blogspot.de
I am open
to meet up at the train station or in a plane to have that conversation. ;)
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