Been thinking a lot about space and how it influences how and what we learn. Living in downtown San Diego's shiny downtown coupled with conversations with close friends around the impact of built environments, along with my focused thought on urban youth and identity, has me pondering playgrounds.
All of these thoughts started with a conversation on the situationists, a group of thinkers in France who furthered Marx's ideas around capitalism, probably over many glasses of wine, and ribald conversations. Here is a little wiki to desribe a little of their thought, not specifically related to spatial relationship, but nonetheless interesting.
Drawing from Marx, which argued that under a capitalist society the wealth is degraded to an immense accumulation of commodities, Debord argues that in advanced capitalism, life is reduced to an immense accumulation of spectacles, a triumph of mere appearance were "all that once was directly lived has become mere representation".[12][13] The spectacle, which according to Debord is the core feature of the advanced capitalist societies, has his "most glaring superficial manifestation" in the advertising-mass media-marketing complex.[14]
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