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.
