why third spaces are sacred
mapping the demise and re-desire of third spaces. exploring the importance they play in battling loneliness and nurturing scenes
why third spaces are sacred
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we exist in a new context now, after a long decade of global homogenization and the Uberification of life. A global pandemic causes simulation to crash or at least to reveal itself, forcing us to search for new identities, new communities, and new ideals
Friends With Benefits • "3D Chess: The Metaphysics of Party Culture" by A. L. Bahta & Corrine Ciani at FEST24
Why are airports full of Hugo Boss stores and Mont Blanc pens? Spacefiller.What about a short-form Barry’s/1Rebel (where you can rent some kit). Yoga or meditation. What about that ‘stretch’ concept where they Theragun you? Maybe the best Kidzania ever.Feels like cryotherapy or an oxygen chamber would be a winning prelude to 9 hours of fake air. An... See more
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Studies have shown that just having a diversity of folks in your life ... more informal and infrequent and unplanned, can be really protective for health and well-being,” Finlay says. “Classically, third places were sites where you could build up these bridging ties.”
Allie Volpe • If You Want to Belong, Find a Third Place
Even prior to the pandemic, these institutions were shuttering, according to research. As Americans spend more time alone and practice individualized forms of leisure, like marathoning television series on streaming services and passively scrolling on social platforms, they aren’t gathering communally as often as they were in decades past — a shift... See more
Allie Volpe • If You Want to Belong, Find a Third Place
Wherever there are people – in buildings, in neighborhoods, in city centers, in recreational areas, and so on – it is generally true that people and human activities attract other people. People are attracted to other people. They gather with and move about with others and seek to place themselves near others. New activities begin in the vicinity o
... See moreJan Gehl • Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Cities, then, are environments that are ripe for exaptation, because they cultivate specialized skills and interests, and they create a liquid network where information can leak out of those subcultures, and influence their neighbors in surprising ways.
Steven Johnson • Where Good Ideas Come From
After all, cities are where people are supposed to have serendipitous encounters—as the writer and critic Jane Jacobs said, “The metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.” By comparison, the cliché goes, people become more atomized the farther they move from urban environments into the clinical, safe,... See more
