A list of interests

A good friend, who is a year behind me in the Landscape Program, asked me to list a few words as to what I was thinking about for my thesis.

Here are some of those words with brief descriptions below:

Sociology of physical space

• Space is one of the factors that shapes the interactions between people
• Space is reflective of norms and values of the users and occupants of that space
• Space can build ties and brake bonds
  

Parallax (in formal expression)

• Defined as the apparent displacement of an observed object due to a change in the position of the observer (I hate to say it but wikipedia has a good definition and has an amiation that makes it a little clearer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax)
  

Sites of Contention

• Sites that have histories of social and ecological conflict (i.e. protest grounds, old factories that now are toxic and need remediation

Vacancies

• At all scales: abandoned roads, office parks/strip malls, houses, fallen trees, missing bricks

I don't know how all of these interests will come together. I can't see the links right now, but all of them swirl in my head in proximity to one another constantly. Maybe diagraming them in a visual way will help. If anyone has any suggestions let me know....