Michel De Certeau

Spatial Practices

Henri Lefebvre - it was his one in philosophy that was the underpinning of
the 68 social revolutions in France. Star status among French
philosophers. First publication that had influence on social movement was
called the critique of everyday life. How us as individuals engage with the
world. how every1 has an agency where we have a certain amount of
control and a certain amount owe dont. how do we deal with the world
that we manage it and enter. Enter it with being, thought, how we engage
with the world engaged with us. Like this room, it discourages class
teaching when you sit at the back. we as agents deal, how we can and
cant control. we cant rebuild this room but we can seat ourselves to
solve the problems.

he homed in and made a more direct and critical and analysis of that
relationship in a later publication. which was in a complete form of
production of space in 1974, after French 68 revolutions. he refined that
notion of relationship between the individual and the world by calling it a
3-point dialectic relationship. Point A and point B, creating a point C
meaning. idea of our perception, our own perception, the theorised space.
the room -certain theories in how it is constructed i.e. better innovative
teaching. Time is the last continuum that provides a constant through this
relationship between our perceptions and the space we engage with. its
never static, its always changing. through our discussions, our perception
will change. the room wont change but our perception might change.

The practice of everyday life - Michel de Certeau

Less interested in mind, body relationships - the perceived world and how
it engaged - more in Psychoanalysis, the notion of narrative, what the
engaged world has to tell us.

Talking about the interception of space with people in it and how they
engage with that. what narratives are told and what can be told.

Chapter on spatiality, on spatial concepts begins in first chapter called

walking in the city. starts at top of etc looking down on street of New York.
looking down at the interceptor, the idea of the economic, political control
of space, organisation of labour, the activity and the people moving
through the city. you have 2 forms of activity - strategy of being
empowers (building structures, the authority, the base of the city) and we
see how people not empowered, have their own agency, a limited one,
how they react as a mass within that, they call the reaction - tactics.
tactics vs strategy. E.g. strategy of putting paths around squares of grass,
organising human behaviour, and then regularly tactic of people walking
across the grass.
See that interception of strategy and tactic.

Gadabou who saw the best form of communicating these ideas through
practice-based response. ideas exist there in space, they change through
our interactions, he said lets do that, write with our bodies, our action.
through our own actions that we change things.

basically, what Gadabou, derive map, what he asking you to do is say

okay, we have this space, that exhibits this theoretical specialisation of
that space, how do we explore it, how can we establish a practice based
critique. one way is to take another space, and apply it to another space.