Locative Media & The City

We are clearly warned at the beginning of Lefebvre’s article that the concept of production remains purely abstract, but what he does offer however, is an analytical understanding of the shift between productions to social spaces. Keeping in mind that social spaces transcend the notion of object vs. subject, how are they created? And what is its relationship to the process of forming social spaces? Lefebvre suggests that the key is in looking at how objects and subjects are looked at, understood and expressed or lived. But these sorts of interactions aren’t fixed and are determined by a variety of elements because social space works within material space and outside of it. Setting up a binary understanding of this process we have the ‘representation of space,’ which seems to define a particular model used to direct space by those in political and economic power and ‘representational space,’ which I understand as the social relationship between people in a given environment. With this in mind, the negotiation of space is what bears society and how humans interact and it seems that Lefebvre is suggesting that both the ‘representation of space’ and the ‘representational space’ are mutually exclusive and change with time, economics and history. What remains in the center is a number of spaces producing and reproducing themselves with time while concealing some level of ‘truth.’ (…As he states about the products of nature on page 80.) But is his study simply trying to unmask truth or is he questioning the idea that society produces ‘truth’?