ECOLOGY – The Lived Human Environment – Space and Place

ART & ORGANISM

DEEP ETHOLOGY: ECOLOGY

The Human Lived Environment

.

SPACE & PLACE, in Yi-Fu Tuan’s (1977)[i] wonderful volume on how we understand ‘the nature and qualities of the human environment”—our place in the lived worlds of home, community, even cosmos based on experience (defined as “all the modes by which a person knows and constructs reality”).  “Place is security, space is freedom: We are attached to the one and long for the other” (p.3)