2020-12-20

2020-12-20

A Liminal Space

While reading “Global Tools 1973–1975. When Education Coincides With Life”, I encountered the term “Habitat”, and I wrote it in my notebook. The context in which Global Tools was born is that of the years of lead and the energy crisis of the early 70s, years in which terror in Italy has been experienced on the streets, fomented by extremist factions both on the right and on the left. The students’ uprisings, with their failure and the consequent return to order within Italian universities, denote in the Global Tools a tendency in researching and experimenting “with extra-institutional spaces of learning”. Ultimately arriving “at the creative strategy of producing liminal spaces, breaking away from established and regulated environments associated with the acquisition of knowledge.” A liminal space denotes a place of transition, a season of waiting, and often not knowing.