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Church was the only homogenous, one purpose space inthe traditional society.
Modern society: Cultural temples theatres, museums, galleries
Coloseums of entertaiment and sport cinemas, stadiums,pools, thematic parks;
Cathedrals of finance banks, stock exchanges, insurancecompanies;
Industrial facilities factories, mines, power plants
Transport halls airports, train stations, bus terminals, ports Consumer basilicas shoping malls, Hyper markets,
Shrines of privacy flats, private houses, sleeping settlements.
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Temples of professionality
Professions usually have ther sacred ground: Doctors hospitals
Lawyers courts
Teachers schools
Soldiers barracks Facade outward representation of moral and social
mission
Inside spatial arrangement of the meaning and function Hierachy, ideology and knowledge, control
Departments, classes, cells divide and name the inmatesestablish taxonomic order and the spirit of the profession.
Professionals: priest explain and order the space. Rules and language
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Social work as antithesis to closed
space
Becoming of social work coincides with first
crisis of total institutions in capitalism
It was resistance and revolt against closing but
also against living conditions of working class
While homogenous space of templar professions
dictates the behaviour and language of client
social work has to learn the language and theculture of the users
But also create own spaces
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Spaces of Social Work
Space Mode
Life world Outreach
Communication Talking and
negotiating
Social security Recording andreporting
Inter-institutional Teamwork
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Social cartography - mapping
Ethnographic and cartographic
How people live
To orient in their life world To learn the connections, positions, networks
between different
Actors, resources, forces and circumstances Map of territory to know how to move, use it
and act in it.
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Maps
do not produce social rules or laws. They observe themand make the landscape discernible.
They enable us to get the whole picture and see howthing relate one to another.
Sometimes they enable us to know unknowable.
They enable us to look on the life-world. Thus to becomesubjects, to think and decide about where to go and whatto do. It can be an instrument of dialogue.
Maps containg the history and the future. They tells us
what has happened but also enable to see what canhappen.
Bridging the past and future.
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Maps
Personal
Group
Community District
Thematic (drug use, old people)
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Spaces of social work
Office accesibility
Private spaces respectful visit
Public spaces accindental and neutral Institutional hybrid spaces niches
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Leaving the institution
Transforming the institutional spacenormalisation, domestification,democratisation
Resettlement group homes NIMBY
Problem of mini institution
Creating a personal space - Distance of help
Loneliness
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Transformation of space
Institutional
Personal
Common
Diversification of space
Spaces of waiting spaces of action
New spaces of freedom
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