1. Notice how ______ moves through ______.
The first prompt asks you to attend to a feeling or quality in particular spaces.
Pull one card from Deck 1 for the first blank (these are the affects or qualities of a space) and pull on a card from Deck 2 (these are types of spaces or places).
Ex: Notice how mourning moves through sidewalks.
AFFECTS and SPACES
Read more about what makes up Deck A and Deck B for Prompt 1.Â
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DECK A: AFFECT
Affect can be thought of as a force, intensity, or feeling; a flow or potential coursing through a scene, creating a scene. Affect is a quality of a space, a body, an encounter that does something to us: something sticks to us, lingering long after we leave the scene, or we are compelled to take a particular action. It's the "buzz", "hum", "scratch", or "flutter". We affect and are affected by the scene.
Affects compose Deck A. These are the qualities, attributes, or feelings of a space to which we hope you will attend, noticing how they are made by and make a space and the consequences they have on its human and nonhuman inhabitants.
DECK B: SPACES
Space can be described as the co-composed entities and experiences that occur through the interrelations between human beings and their environments. Place is both a location and the meanings that people assign to those locations. Together, space and place describe our relationships to how our built environments are created, organized, and experienced.
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Spaces compose Deck B. We ask you to focus your observations on a particular kind of space. Notice whether your relationship to this environment and to other people, beings, and things that occupy this environment has shifted.
