Re: importance of architecture
Katherine Brown (kbrown who-is-at weber.ucsd.edu)
Tue, 23 Sep 1997 17:04:56 -0700 (PDT)
On the question of settings:
>From page 6 of the new Kirshner and Whitson volume Situated Cognition
"The supermarket for example as arena is the product of pattrns of
capital formation and political economy. It is not negotiable directly
by the individual It is outside of yet encompasses the individual, providing a
higher order institutional framework within which setting is constituted.
At the same time, for individual shoppers the supermarket is
(my caps)
A REPEATEDLY EXPERIENCED PERSONALLY ORDERD AND EDITED VERSION OF THE
ARENA. IN THIS ASPECT, IT MAY BE TERMED A SETTING FOR ACTIVITY.
(Lave, 1988, p. 151).
Katherine Brown