This week’s reading raised many questions for me. Namely, is there a difference between reading a text and reading a space and if so – what is it? Reading engages many of the same faculties – it can arguably be an audio, visual, tactile act. Although, I must admit that it’s rather tenuous to compare feeling the page as you turn it to the act of walking through or standing in a space. Perhaps its that then – the heightening of physicality – where the two diverge. This physical act changes the way that we understand the data or information – it’s not just an extension of ourselves (an appendage), it is us. Our presence within the space is what alters it’s meaning or rather how we encode/decode.
How will the ability to parse space like text change the way that one interprets or understands the world? Does it collapse the distance between the reader and the idea/data/information? And what rules or boundaries will be imposed by “space”? Is it finite? More “authentic” / true (and what does that mean in this context)?