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Elective AS FOUND // encountering the ordinary

The Production of Space: Henri Lefebvre

On Social Space
Mariana de Delas

On the PRODCUTION OF SPACE; DEFINITON 1. Production or producing for the Hegelianism was the base of creation, ideas produced a world, and nature produced human ,and humans produced history through labour. Marx thought of it only as product = production, product and labour. Lefreuve takes from both and believes its only the human who produces, as nature only creates. A work is irreplaceable, it has something unique about it A product can be reproduced exactly, and is a the result of repetitive acts and gestures. Nature does not produce, nature creates. WHY? Because it does not labour, it does not now anything about its creations it just appears. A rose blooms because it blooms, it cares not wether its seen. It is unaware that it is beautiful. Humanity (or social practice) creates works and products , it is an organized sequence with certain objectives. Humanity follows a goal. None of this actions can be skipped it is an all to one pretty much. When industrialization came everybody started counting, everything was measured, money does not speak the truth about itself. Its a lie, it dissimulate the labour it has behind and the social relationships it affects and dominates. Products lie to tend themselves as absolutes; they appear to be more real than the productivity activity itself. Nature in the other hand is transparent, now cruel, now generous, but it does not seek to deceive. 2. Social Space is not a thing among other things or a product among other products; it is the outcome of a sequence and set of operations. It is the outcome of past actions which permits fresh actions to occur. Pretty much we can extend our view from houses to outskirts, from architecture to urbanisms from micro to macro. Obvious that repetition has defeated uniqueness and that what is here can be there. Repetitious spaces are the outcome 2

kinetic energy diagram socail network diagram

of repetitious gestures associated with tools that are designed to duplicate. Can this space be a work? No.. it is a product All these are made with the visible in mind, for them to be looked at. Lets take Venice as an example; it is a unique space but it is not a work of art because it wasnt planned in advanced. It was born from the sea but gradually grew. But even in Venice social space is produced and reproduced in connection with the forces of production, by carpenters and crafters.

3.Form of space We dont only have one social space, but many., an innite multiplicity, it all depends on the point of view of the specialization. It is not a set of boundaries , which collide with other boundaries, there is continuity. It is like an analogy of hydrodynamics; great movements vast rhythms and immense waves collide and interfere with one another. Social spaces are not simply juxtaposed like they may be in nature they can combine or collide or superimposed. national space embraces, and world space is not only regions but formations. This principle of interpenetration means that each fragment of space has not only one social relationship but it has as much as analysis can demonstrate.. 4. Time and Space Space is social morphology; it is to lived experience what form itself is to living organism, and just as intimately bound with function and structure. It is not a frame ,a container a recipient, it is the biggest error to think that what is inside has to be preserved.. The error is to be content to see a space without conceiving it, without understanding its relationships only awar of its containing forms. The real social space is to a geographer a town planner a socialist the true space. It is the space within the time. We live time, we live stations, day time,. Before modernization each placed showed its age, time was inscribed in space, with modernization we hide it we eliminated everywhere expect for clocks itself that are isolated and functionally specialized for time itself. time is no longer visible it is only consumed and it leaves no traces. to x this inexistent time we use tautology or the use of show space by means of space itself.

5.Space and Marx For Marx after describing essential concepts such as labour, he goes on to the essential, which is not a substance but a form. A pure form is that of the circulation or exchange of goods. It is a concrete abstraction developed in time and space until it reaches a social practice, money or labour. The form of material exchange does not determine what is exchanged. Money is 2

for fruit etc. so something that has a use is also an object to exchange. The social space will be the encounter, the assembly and the simultaneity. Urban space gathers crowds, products in markets, symbols. it concentrates them and accumulates them. Social space is a bit work and product it is the materialization of social being.

Elective AS FOUND // encountering the ordinary

Title: Tutor: Daniela Konrad Pole: Expanded Field Date: Semester 1, 2009 This and other documented examples of elective subjects run as part of the RMIT University Architecture program can be found on issuu.com

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