How often do you notice the spaces you inhabit? Could the weird mojo in your home or office have something to do with sterile airflow and icky light? How does the placement of a building affect your relationship with your environment? How do you wind and find your way through the streets of a city? Where do our spaces come together and fall apart?

No doubt, our societies seem unprecedentedly cosmopolitan, more urban, shifting, and vivaciously fluctuating. The very spaces we inhabit reflect this shifting in our society: in architecture, urban planning, landscaping, home décor, etc. Constant tensions between these shifts, the quest for prosperity, and ideas about the common good define the spaces that surround us, with which we surround ourselves, that we move in and out of, and that we continually construct.

Our movement in and out of real and conceptual spaces positions each of us at the intersection of individual, shared, and public spaces. This blog explores these intersections. It is about spaces that make up our lives; everything from the street corner where our public life plays out to the bedrooms that—we imagine—hide our private actions.