Re-place-ing space

  • Harrison S
  • Dourish P
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Abstract

Many collaborative and communicative environments use notions of “space” and spatial organisation to facilitate and structure interaction. We argue that a focus on spatial models is misplaced. Drawing on understandings from architecture and urban design, as well as from our own research findings, we highlight the critical distinction between “space” and “place”. While designers use spatial models to support inter- action, we show how it is actually a notion of “place” which fram-es interactive behaviour. This leads us to re-evaluate spatial systems, and discuss how “place”, rather than “space”, can support CSCW design.

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Harrison, S., & Dourish, P. (1996). Re-place-ing space (pp. 67–76). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). https://doi.org/10.1145/240080.240193

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