#proxemics
Critial reviews of place and space as examples for my courses in proxemics
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9/11 Remembered in Memorials
On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was sitting in a classroom on the first day of the term at Furman University. I had just finished the first course of my senior year – “Freedom in the Western Tradition” – and was settling into my second of the day – “Islam.” The irony of…
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“Out of the Mountain of Despair, a Stone of Hope”
As I entered the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, DC this week, I marched through the mountain of despair. Looking through the gap, all I saw was the east, the water, the promise of life greater than myself. I can only imagine that this was the designer’s intent: that we would walk through the mountain…
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Offices Don’t Need Walls
On my commute this morning, I noticed the most curious of offices. Naturally, I photographed and tweeted my haphazard discovery: Offices. Increasingly mobile and no longer constrained by walls: http://twitpic.com/3r6q86 — John A. McArthur (@JAMcArthur) January 18, 2011 The result of my single, innocent tweet has been a backlash of comments about the cultural and sociological…
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Diana, Queen of the Inanimate Twitterverse
Amidst elements that threaten to oxidize, cleanse, sear and scar, the bronze statue of Young Diana nobly stands, keeping watch over those who pass her by. Cast by renowned sculptor Anna Hyatt Huntington in 1924, the bronze was a gift to the university from the artist herself in 1940. This year, Diana celebrates her seventieth…
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