At the start of every breif, I like to create mind maps to help explore my initial ideas. This is to get me thinking of various pathways and possible concepts to focus on. My first initial research led me to a restricted area...WIKIPEDIA!
Marc Augé (born September 2, 1935 in Poitiers) is a French anthropologist.
In an essay and book of the same title, Non-Places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity (1995), Marc Augé coined the phrase "non-place" to refer to anthropological spaces of transience that do not hold enough significance to be regarded as "places". Examples of a non-place would be a motorway, a hotel room, an airport or a supermarket.[1]
So once I roughly got my head around what this crazy man was talking about, my mind maps definitely helped to widen my idea. First of all I didn't want to focus on the particular examples that was given as I wanted to put my own twist on my chosen concept. I decided to list all the physical and the non physical places and before I knew it, I sharply found myself tangled up amungst the clouds of dreams...
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