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Banal Functions
The presence of these functions is on principle equal for any person;
they are the basis for every cycle.
Eating
Eating, traditionally is an event which brings the inhabitants closer
to each other; jointly around the table on a set time. This has perished.
The choice of dishes and their preparations ought to be considered,
consuming them, on the other hand is an occupation assimilated in other
activities. The dinner table is replaced by a couch, desk train, car
or walk.
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Sleeping
Sleeping literally is a pause, traditionally adjusted to the day-night
rhythm of the surrounding world. Thomas Alva Edison once said he would
end 'everything standing in the way of or slowing down working'. One of
his great inventions -the electrical light bulb- is in this context very
successful. Sleeping is not done anymore on a set time (day or night),
it is become dependant on other occupations/activities. This has its repercussion
on the experience of sleeping; its mutual aspect is getting/vanishing/disappearing
to/in the background. Sleeping is more and more taking over the image
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Sanitary facilities
The social aspect of the thermae, has disappeared for a long time; sanitary
occupations are private. They are merely a result of other activities
(sleeping - bath / eating - toilet) ; an obstacle which has to be taken.
The pleasure of taking a bath, is only looked for outdoors. They have
to be present - nothing more and nothing less. of an escape- only then,
when you really can't go on. |
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bounded space &
obtained space -
a utopistic relation
The well known door you close behind yourself after a day of work,
is gone. The strict separation between work and relaxation (leisure
time), has turned grey. Instead of this a new relation has arisen; a
utopia. Working at home and the 24-hour economy are the results of this
relation and will procure this much further. Working is losing its strict
meaning of just making money, while leisure time, mainly psychological
seen, is not as leisure as the name is intending. |
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withdrawing space
- run off or lock up -
a search for rest
The need for a moment of seclusion isn't new; running away en locking
yourself up are already well known items from your teens. They are often
the result of a problematic situation, which you avoid by doing this.
The result of such action however, is the confrontation with yourself,
after which you afresh can handle the problem, or are capable to solve
it.
In the continuous flow of contemporarily occupations, described above,
1 factor is missing - rest. It is this factor which you are searching
for, when the system is surpassing you. A search that begins with stepping
out of the system, both literally and figuratively speaking. |
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