Identities that resist the nation state ideology and are, therefore anti-hierarchical, can be framed as “Third,” named for the condition of unpredictability and chaos that arises when not two variables, but three are inserted into a system.
Advances in social technology have increased connectivity and standardized lifestyles
across cultures. Increased freedom of movement across borders has intensified travel and
migration. The increasingly global nature of all phenomena, especially to do with climate and conflict, fuels this emergent phenomenon.
across cultures. Increased freedom of movement across borders has intensified travel and
migration. The increasingly global nature of all phenomena, especially to do with climate and conflict, fuels this emergent phenomenon.
Third spaces can exist across complex and far reaching networks or in physical localities, and often exist in both states simultaneously.
If thirdness can be fairly categorized as a condition, it can in theory be architecturalized. The ambition of Third Space was to begin investigating ways in which constellating experience in transparent boxes of program, challenging the section through ramping, visual projection of floor plates onto facades, and other experiments could begin to propose Thirdness as a generator of form.
Sited in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, the building serves as a Civic Guild for people of the Third Culture.
