BEYOND SPACES : EXPLORING THE FORGOTTEN BITS OF THE INSIDE&OUTSIDE.

We had a very intersting lecture about the fogottend, neglected spaces inside&outside the world that is around us. 

And it was very closely related to our project obviously but I feel like our was veeeery closely related.

In this period of the time, because of super efficiency we don't have the sense of places anymore and the world we live in, the city is not percived as a community anymore because of the super efficency& supe modernity.

We go as fast as we can from point A to point B without stoping and looking around us. 

Our pathway is the same concept, people see the corridor as a transitional space but it isn't, they just don't stop to see it, they just walk throught it; and these days it is the same with streets, cities, countries, the entier world. We make the life easie, faster and more efficient so we don't 'waste time' but in the end we miss it all.

Like in this hallway, people can't figure where the shots were filmed but they are standing right in it.

People are not intersted anymore to explore these repressed spaces anymore, or maybe they don't even think of them. They take the easiest, fastest way to get somewhere and stop looking around them. 

The world need to take their eyes off their iphone and look around, outside&inside the city.

We have to take time to experience the experience of spaces.

Some spaces inside a building for example, or in your house, are putted away by our mind because our mind relate it to some imaginery from (mostly) our childhood (ex: under the bed, the attic,..). It is a psychological respond to go explore these spaces. By exploring these spaces we also go on the discovery of ourselves, our mind and the spaces of our mind that we forgot about.

I think that the project we are doing is all about that. I mean, the fact that we make a video, with a poem, and all these details that we couldn't really see without a proper look at the spaces etc, it is all going in that way of exploring a 'closed' space and therefore our mind. 

At least for me, it contribuated to the discovery of the audio/visual impact on our mind; moving imagery combinded with sound is something that really work on my mind. Also the corridor I saw it a bit as an allegory of different things, but because it was in the basement and it has this kind of scary conotation I thought more about  the path to death, the corridor of the lost wandering souls desperately seeking for they delivrance, etc. I think every part of it had its contribution and that it was a specific space at a specific time made it what it is.

The inside is also a space to dream, imagine, create and every pat of the inside had a meaning we just have to find it. The inside is our psychological space, we couldn't  ceate withut it. « People need houses in order to dream, in order to imagine » (Stilgoe, 1994 :viii)

For the outside spaces, it is quite the same thing but we need to stop and look around, or maybe like the situationists take a map of amsterdam to get lost in paris.

We have to start thinking outside this little box the society pepared for each one of us. Start looking at the world in a fresh way. Because otherwise we are not free. We have to drift in order to move freely around the city. And get away from the big roads and start being in the in-between parts of the world, and make something out of them because things are not only what we see, there is a whole world beyond it.

After the lecture I talked to the lecturer and asked him: what if we discover all these spaces, it takes their magic away.

And indeed he agreed, but there is always something to exploe, to get lost in to, or to dream about.