The Production of Space

Henri Lefebvre's The Production of Space

"Change life! Change Society! These ideas lose completely their meaning without producing an appropriate space. A lesson to be learned from soviet constructivists from the 1920s and 30s, and of their failure, is that new social relations demand a new space, and vice-versa.
(Lefebvre in Criticism of Soviet urban planner’s modernist model of urban design)


This argument is like the famous one “which one came first? Egg or the chicken?”

In theory we can change the meaning of things as we wish, argue them, make them to a theory, lecture them or whatever we want to do with them, but the true meaning of them as we know them, understand and imaging them stays as it is.

I distinguish a meaning between work and product and that to me is, work as a physical activity by consuming energy and product is the result of our work to create something in need, or as he describes it “the energy utilized for the satisfaction of a need” exactly how we create a room or a city, a country.... according their sizes we give them a name to just imaging it easier.

I suppose Venice was built as a result of a need of space or possibly the person or persons simply liked that place to stay and live. For sure Venice was not build based on a plan. You could say “one thing lead to another” or simply the role and effect of the water developed that accidental creation of space. Maybe London is a good example of that development to look at.

On the “Nature” discussion, if I want to follow the theory of “nature create and no produce” or a flower does not know that is a flower, then I would argue that if a flower has a life as a living thing, then it should know is a flower a I know that I am a human and not a tree!

It’s like those theories that recently we have been true that all this happening is nothing but our mind imagination or “Matrix” that even David Icke was supportive of it. Theory of “Big Bang”.

That I could argue that if all this happened by a big bang what caused the big bang, mega explosion or whatever you name it, if no explosive there would be no explosion.... look at the detail of our amazing body, how many of those accident could have happened that eyes are where they should be as your mouth, ears, brain......and this should not make me religious or a man of God.