The continuous becoming of our physical reality, subject to sudden environmental changes, and its perceptive implications call for some reflections on the role of contemporary space and its design reinterpretation. Our community life unfolds through numerous variables that describe reality in its various forms, serving practical purposes for existence and extending to magical and spiritual abstractions. From late nineteenth-century research on continuous space-rooted in the philosophical and mathematical theories of Russell, and applied also to communicative and social relations-through the concepts of pure mathematical space, relative space (space–time), and finally the still-enigmatic “quantum space,” one may ask whether Cassirer’s psycho-physiological interpretation can still be regarded as valid for decoding our apparent reality as it is translated into everyday life. In fact, partial perception, which operates by synthesizing sensory data through established forms and meanings, today appears inadequate in the face of simultaneous processes inherent in the most advanced technological systems, which essentially transcend the notion that the traditional physical datum should be understood as an “absolute property of events”. All these aspects are confronted in the necessary “redesign” of our current living environments, still conceived as three-dimensional physical spaces of a Cartesian nature, that city “of non-places” that needs the stitching together of its interior and exterior, for a definitive redemption. A self-regenerative and circular city, according to the master model of nature, which Rem Koolhaas has effectively called “non-urban architecture”.

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Reflections on Partial and Simultaneous Reality Perception

  • Eugenio Guglielmi

摘要

The continuous becoming of our physical reality, subject to sudden environmental changes, and its perceptive implications call for some reflections on the role of contemporary space and its design reinterpretation. Our community life unfolds through numerous variables that describe reality in its various forms, serving practical purposes for existence and extending to magical and spiritual abstractions. From late nineteenth-century research on continuous space-rooted in the philosophical and mathematical theories of Russell, and applied also to communicative and social relations-through the concepts of pure mathematical space, relative space (space–time), and finally the still-enigmatic “quantum space,” one may ask whether Cassirer’s psycho-physiological interpretation can still be regarded as valid for decoding our apparent reality as it is translated into everyday life. In fact, partial perception, which operates by synthesizing sensory data through established forms and meanings, today appears inadequate in the face of simultaneous processes inherent in the most advanced technological systems, which essentially transcend the notion that the traditional physical datum should be understood as an “absolute property of events”. All these aspects are confronted in the necessary “redesign” of our current living environments, still conceived as three-dimensional physical spaces of a Cartesian nature, that city “of non-places” that needs the stitching together of its interior and exterior, for a definitive redemption. A self-regenerative and circular city, according to the master model of nature, which Rem Koolhaas has effectively called “non-urban architecture”.