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
It’s true that walking through central London in 2024 can feel like navigating a bleak, postmodern satire of the thrills of urban spontaneity: ballpit bars and escape rooms for contrived office socials; expensive, ticketed mega-events; and security guards cosplaying as cops, moving civilians on from heavily surveilled POPS, or privately-owned
... See moreDan Hancox • Don’t Sit at Home Mourning the Loss of Britain’s Nightclubs – Go Out and Rave
With TV, we at least understood ourselves to be passive observers of the screen, but the interactive nature of the internet fostered the illusion that message boards, Discord servers, and Twitter feeds are digital “places” where we can in fact hang out. If nothing else, this is a trick that gets us to stick around longer. A better analogy for
... See moreDrew Austin • It's Time to Lie Down and Be Counted
There are indeed few places for teenagers to hang out outside of the home. Skate parks are being turned into pickleball courts with “no loitering” signs, malls are shuttering and you can no longer spend $1 on a McChicken to justify hanging out in the McDonald’s dining area for hours. But as the Atlantic piece explains, the dwindling of places to be... See more
Matter
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
First of all, we need to remember that we produce culture merely by existing in it . The people who are in the photos and dancing to the music are just as important as the people making them;
MØRNING • Q̾u̾i̾c̾k̾ ̾F̾i̾r̾e̾: Creation Anxiety
A new trend is sweeping through China's first-tier cities — the "homebar." Imagine a cozy living room where strangers gather, break the ice, and enjoy a relaxed drinking experience. It's not as noisy as a bar, nor as posh as a quiet lounge, but something uniquely in-between.
Born in Shanghai and spreading to cities like Beijing and Hangzhou,... See more
Born in Shanghai and spreading to cities like Beijing and Hangzhou,... See more
instagram.com • Psalm 27:1-2 Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the
Don’t Sit at Home Mourning the Loss of Britain’s Nightclubs – Go Out and Rave
Dan Hancoxtheguardian.comWe’ve lost gradients of intimacy, a concept from architecture, the ability to loiter and meander through a space, engaging when we want in varying levels of expression. We don’t have any peripheral vision on the internet. We have to be in one place or the other. Simultaneously, we’re never really in any place—we can always blame connection issues... See more