We need to acknowledge that all spaces are steeped in political and individual intentions, power relations, and desires that function as models of engagement with the world. No space is model-free. This condition does not represent a loss, as many people might think, deploring the elimination of unmediated presence. On the contrary, the idea that the world consists of a conglomeration of models carries a liberating potential as it makes the renegotiation of our surroundings possible. This, in turn, opens the potential for recognition of the differences between individuals. What we have in common is that we are different. The conception of space as static and clearly definable thus becomes untenable – and undesirable. As agents in the ceaseless modelling and remodelling of our surroundings and the ways in which we interact, we may advocate the idea of a spatial multiplicity and co-production.
