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Platial Rhythm

March 2023

March 2023

DOI:10.17605/OSF.IO/N6DU5

Conference: Spatial Knowledge and Information 2023
At: Banff, Alberta

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McGill University

McGill University

Scholarly works abound on the concept of place and platial representations, often disagreeing with one another. There is also an impressive corpus on matters of time, rhythm, and their interaction with space and place. Existing conceptualizations of these subjects continue to grapple with the challenge of modelling place, especially with respect to the diverse ontological framings of place in the literature. This short paper begins with the suppositions that place and temporality are embodied and enacted, followed by an introduction of “platial rhythm”, a concept which operates on the intersection between place and temporality and describes their mutual unfolding. Building from existing arguments about space and place, and time and temporality, we posit that place is ontologically constructed through platial rhythm.

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