Getting to know the Spaces Model

The Model proposes 4 Spaces of human viewpoint:

1 The ESSENCE, within and unique to the individual, "Inner Space", or the "mind's eye". One's hopes dreams, aspirations, contemplations etc.

2 DOMESTIC or "personal space", the immediate surrounds, in company or context with others in your group together, like dinner tables at the restaurant.

3 “OUTDOORS Space”, like the Railway Yard, or the Main street intersection, these belong to no one in particular and yet everyone.

4 Community Space. This might be the hardest space to conceive of, it is not so much a physical space, but the combined space of a society, its role and portrayal. The interconnectedness of all things related to a society. Like a ball game, the football might be kicked about a physical field but the event more often represents a broader “community space”, a clash between teams and community’s, and the roles of all players, and supporters. Or, great historic moments, like the fall of the Berlin Wall, amounts to Community Space. It refers to people’s professional and vocational roles, the police or fire engine, or Nurses turning up to an event, then brings in “community space”. It includes political and media events and includes values that bond people into a groups & socities. The internet is a type of community space.

In this picture of a famous kiss in amongst a football riot we have a graphic example of “personal space”, (DOMESTIC) the embrace of togetherness defining a couple’s space, distinct from their surroundings. Also, on show are the stark OUTDOOR public streetscape surroundings. In the foreground and backgrounds are COMMUNITY space figureheads of society’s authority, riot police. For those aware of the event, it is a football riot, a community event. The stunning photo invites the reader into contemplation of the moment, within the mind’s eye (ESSENCE); it provokes gentle voyeurism and inner reflection, and suggests a disturbed private space for the couple in the photo. This photo demonstrates an example of a full range of spaces all interconnecting.

Essence

Essence borders the domestic space as the expression of individuality in the company of others, in the crossover between private and personal space. (It need not be literally domestic or household space)
Essence also borders community space, as private endeavours are realised in ways that affect the broader community at large, for example, an architect’s scribbles becomes plans, and finally a building that becomes part of a community’s history and conscience.
Essence need not be tangible in order to be real to the individual. It includes the subconscious, motivations, reflection, etc.

Domestic Space

Domestic Space defines the personal space of a group, it is where personal space prevails and it borders the inner space (essence) of the individual. Domestic space can also extend into the outdoors, like a group at a small local cafe or a retired couple on a cruise, with their own cabin space.

Outdoor Space

Outdoors space defines public access including the vacant corridor that exists between more intimate groups. It borders the Domestic space of the groups within. Outdoors space also borders the Community space of the events that the outdoor space hosts, the sports field becomes a community event point, the tarmac is the place of the community event of a jumbo jet lifting off.

Community Space

Community Space encompasses all that drives, defines and shapes a community or society. Being part of the collective conscience of a community it is often beyond any one particular space. The space borders the outdoors space at which such events often occur. It also borders the individual’s essence; for example with the individual's essence coming out as creativity in the theatre. Community Space alters and widens the normal sense of space we are concerned with, events on the other side of the planet, in places we have never seen can become part of our Community Space, for example when going on a work conference. It is relevant to more than one person and prevalent in areas like like politics, law, medicine, economics, arts and technology.

These spaces intermingle, any one set of charactersics may prevail and define the space. Usually, there is at least a couple of defining spaces that intersect. In the photo of the kiss, the energy can be felt. When spaces collide and intersect they create SPATIAL ENERGY