情境的逻辑:空间、绘图与地方感

The Logic of the Situation:Space,Mapping and the Sense of Place

迷失经验令我们本能地意识到空间和地方。不知身在何处,也不知如何到达想去的地方,伴随而至的是迷失感、害怕和恐惧等存在焦虑:这些都让我们清楚地意识到我们在空间中的“位置”和“位移”。但对今天的许多人而言,体验空间局限性往往伴随着一种强烈的空间性意识和空间中的情境感,并带有类似程度的焦虑。我们对自己所在的地方并不陌生,特别是当我们“在家”的时候,但“情境”却发生了变化,因为情境必须被看作更广阔的对象,而不仅仅是空间背景中可辨识的点或一组坐标。本文将在空间表征或绘图的背景下考察情境的逻辑。作者认为,若要成为真正有意义的活动并产生有用的结果,此类绘图需要关注的远远不止空间图表中各种几何点的比喻性表达;我们的空间表征应当结合情境的逻辑,强调地方的根本重要性,从而在各种时空情境和参照系中给予自己更强的地方感。

The experience of being lost is probably the condition under which we are most viscerally aware of space and place.The Angst-ridden disorientation,fear,and dread that comes with not knowing where we are and not knowing how to get to where we want to be:this makes us all-tooconscious of our place,or perhaps our displacement,in space.But for many today the experience of spatial limitation carries with it a powerful sense of our spatiality and situatedness in space,with similar levels of anxiety.The places that we find ourselves located are not at all unfamiliar,especially when we are literally staying"at home",but the situation,which must be understood more expansively than as merely a discernible point or set of coordinates in a spatial context,is changed.This essay will examine the logic of the situation in the context of spatial representation or mapping.I argue that,if it is to serve as a truly meaningful activity and yield useful results,such mapping must pay attention to far more than the mere figuration of various geometrical points in a spatial diagram.Our efforts at spatial representation should incorporate the logic of the situation,emphasizing the fundamental meaningfulness of place,and thereby helping to lend a greater sense of place to ourselves in our various spatiotemporal situations and frames of reference.