Open AccessIf walls had ears (and voices too)
Author(s) -
Jane Lawrence,
Rachel Hurst
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
idea/idea journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2208-9217
pISSN - 1445-5412
DOI - 10.37113/ideaj.vi0.246
Subject(s) - face (sociological concept) , fence (mathematics) , line (geometry) , connection (principal bundle) , front (military) , history , geometry , engineering , linguistics , structural engineering , philosophy , mathematics , mechanical engineering
What is a wall? Is it a thing of separation or connection? Does it divide or bring face to face two identifiably different sides, an inside an outside (depending on where you’re standing); in front of the wall or behind it; protected by it or incarcerated by it? Does the origin of a wall emerge from the desire to draw an abstract distinction, then a line of posts, then a wire fence, then a line of stones piled upon one another and so on?