Heterotopia- Spaces of Otherness

Each variable method returns to Foucault’s condition of ‘heterotopia.’ Spaces of otherness that are ‘neither here nor there’ but which are simultaneously cooperative, serving as a microcosm of different environments which blur classic territories or prejudices....

Scenarios

“There is no place of power – it is both everywhere and no where.” [1] Resort: Easterling explores a level of tourism that exists universally. It characteristically first and foremost has territory over a given amount of land. It establishes a presence over the local...
The Garden

The Garden

Foucault describes the garden as “a sort of happy, universalizing heterotopia since the beginnings of antiquity” (Foucault 6). In contrary, the contemporary garden, in most cases is designed to exclude the other, for example the rambunctious youth or the homeless. How...
The Celestial

The Celestial

A cemetery has the opportunity to provided diverse slices of time, functioning “at full capacity when men arrive at a sort of absolute break with their traditional time” (Foucault 6). A cemetery functions as a cities connective tissue of sorts, equalizing men and...