Spatial Dramaturgy and the Composition of Desire

Summary

Amahra Spence on how we might “reshape the spaces around us” as “co-authors of meaning”. Space becomes a site of conflict and power; architecture “a score for living”; designing a kind of composing that begins with longing. Through Black feminist thought, it asks: “What is this space rehearsing? And what other stories and worlds might it be capable of holding?”

Rationale

“What is this space rehearsing?” is a question for what Part 2 calls the ‘Built’ zone, where town planners and architects form dispositions whether or not they mean to.