"Looking
Around the Edges of the World"
by Ed Casey
Department of Philosophy, State University of New York
at Stony Brook
This paper will explore notions of
limit, boundary, and edge to gain a better understanding
of what constitutes a place-world. Not only its contents
-- things, people, buildings -- but their corners and
surfaces are essential to the layout of places in a
given world, human or natural. Architectural discourse
concerning "space," "place," and
"region" has become increasingly prominent
in the last decade, yet without a coherent vocabulary
of the precise ways in which places and regions are
bounded or open (e.g., in the case of the outskirts
of a city), their full sense is not attained. Employing
phenomenological description and Gibsonian ecological
concepts, Casey will pursue what it means to be situated
in the world around us through its several kinds of
edges.
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