6. Rares - Dehaize shop at Beurse
``Think and experience the space knowing this (a print out about the Belgian Jules Delhaize and his food distribution empire). One interesting thing would be to think in terms of ``losing`` or ''losing and winning''.`` notes of rares
``Think and experience the space knowing this (a print out about the Belgian Jules Delhaize and his food distribution empire). One interesting thing would be to think in terms of ``losing`` or ''losing and winning''.`` notes of rares
Some of the people from the group think they know the space. I cannot say what this place used to be before it was a shop. Very efficient work on stripping the place of its former identity. Critical judgement is suspended by the mental of the shopping mode. We are more trained to complete the shopping list than think about the origin of things.
ReplyDeleteSupermarket/ st catherine
ReplyDeleteThe technique of giving me historic information before entering a space has very little impact on my perception of the space I think this is due to a lack of affective information. And an abundance of factual information that stays locked in the area of my brain that doesn't influence the way I exsperience a place in fact it tends to re-unforced the existing norms, eg ideology, societal ect. It reinforces the banality of consuming a space as an historic landmark
This place had been more crowded than anywhere we’ve been that day!
ReplyDeleteWe’ve talked about the effect of its function in determination of a place; but the dominancy of the activity of shopping in the supermarket almost excludes any possibility of another type of action. The focused looks, eyes blind to any contact, mostly individuals or couples/groups communicating through product of consummation exert themselves as the sole mode of existence in this space: buying. So the principally public (free entrance) space of supermarket is mainly open to you when you are buying. That reminds me of without shopping exit doors at the far ends, suspicious looks when you just wander around, even the bag check I was subjected to when I wanted to leave a supermarket without buying anything (in Marseille).
Another issue that Delhaize brought about is personal space. These people highly concentrated on the activity of shopping project their personal space to the products they are focused at. Or, this is my interpretation of the reduction of personal space takes place when people easily get really close or even touch in narrow corridors or according to proximity of THEIR products, while it is not possible to touch somebody else’s products.