liminality

intermediality as a liminal form

floorplan metaphor

different floorplans = different degrees of intermediality/different degrees of mixed media

[lecture notes 22/09]

Liminal creativity can help carve a path from disorientation to discovery, from uncertainty to curiosity, from fear to innovation. It can turn scary situations into transformational experiences of self-discovery and self-authorship. In fact, life itself is a liminal space between birth and death.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Liminal Creativity

Liminal spaces are necessary for personal growth. When you’re in a liminal space, you have to allow yourself to exist in between dichotomies without putting pressure on yourself to pick a side. For perfectionists who are losing control and gaining power, this looks like allowing yourself to be in the transition space of no longer feeling that your

Katherine Morgan Schafler • The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control

Liminality (from the Latin word līmen, “threshold”) is the ambiguity that emerges in the middle of a fundamental transition. Liminality is the “in-between”, where the space and the participants no longer hold their past status, but have not yet fully transformed to their post-transition self.

Anne-Laure Le Cunff • Liminal Creativity

wild card by jen cownie & fiona lensvelt

the hanged man card

“The Hanged Man knows that it can take time to reorient your perspective on the world, to grow into your new knowledge, your new self. This is a between-space, a liminal space, and you can only cross it once you’re ready.”

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