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Quality of space and human dwelling

This study focuses on human housing, as a task involving constructing, inhabiting and understanding the world. This task starts with inventing one's own body, the first instrument for living and one's first dwelling place. Since humans are made up of memory and conviviality, daily space and time are essential to this task, to the reconstruction of nature. Man's house is first and foremost the place of presence and construction of histories. Alarm, which is essential to examine the situation of the subject, finds empty spaces, "nowhere lands", now infinitely multiplied, where subjects emerge, but where they can also get lost forever. We confirm, through the analysis of human housing, that there is no public health, but a collective health, to be continuously invented from new versions presented by subjects in the cultural scene.

Space and Quality of Life; Subject's Situation; Subjectivity and Space


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