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How does space affect us? To what extent are we influenced by our environment? |!FengShui| is one example of this very intimate relationship, while more thoughts can be provoked through other means.

From http://www.knowledgeboard.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=141744:

Angela and Clive set up a series of 'exhibits' and asked us to respond to them on cards for later analysis - images and sound (including a coat rack!) all with clues and themes to get us thinking about what space meant to us, and how it affected us.

There were clues pointing to Panopticons, Dinner parties, modern architecture, looped samples of music and voices, Butlins holiday camps ("the most inspirational building for
knowledge-sharing in modern buildings"). We had also been asked to bring in two pictures - of our preferred knowledge space, and the other an example of a knowledge sharing space. These naturally grouped themselves into four themes - open space and the great outdoors, food and drink, virtual spaces, and homely locations.

This was a daring experiment (I gather that there were no formal deliverables or direct briefing from David), and one which vexed us initially, but has grown in my mind since. Where do you do your best thinking and sharing? I like to meet people in the local market, and eat sausages next to multi-cultural octagenarians, punks, socialists and raving teenagers. It keeps our meetings fresh, and reminds us of the world at large (not to mention all the stories that pass you by every minute).

Where do you do your thinking? Where do you meet people? Do you like windows in meeting rooms? Do they have to be square? Do you need to sit down? This was a broad session designed to open questions rather than close them.

See also...

• On Line Vs Off Line Architecture As AControl Device.

Outside...

• Space and Culture blog