Space and Place

From skyscrapers to open-pit mines, landscape paintings to gardens, from the artist’s studio to the architecture of incarceration, we engage with space and place on a daily basis. Human and non-human agents imagine, create, occupy, and transform these environments as sites of creative expression as well as domains of cultural history. Experiences and imaginings of space and place have also given rise to cosmologies and cartographies that both anticipate and define human behaviors through their production and use.

• What does it mean to recognize both power and resistance in space and place? 
• How do culture and environment work mutually to constitute each other over time? 
• Why do designers, users, reformers, and destroyers work together and against one another to co-author space and place over time and how can scholars effectively trace this multiplicity of agents and motivations?