{"blyg":"0.4","id":"5vkq3d0epm42src168hjhbbk02","kind":"thread","origin":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/","page":"t/5vkq3d0epm42src168hjhbbk02/","author":{"name":"Aneesh Sathe","url":"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/"},"created":"2026-10-19T22:21:17Z","updated":"2026-10-19T22:21:17Z","version":1,"content_md":"![[0k255qvr5k3mncbb9v944k3c24 | Mood-boarding for Blygger inspired by Yi Fu Tuan]]\n\n- Tuan treats spaciousness as a feeling of freedom: room to move, a horizon that invites. Space is abstract until something in it draws us closer.\n- People map the world around a known core. Past its edge lies a fuzzy, half-imagined region that still orients them. Tuan calls this mythical space.\n- Movement lets us experience space. Each time we stop, a location has the chance to become a place.\n- The upright human body organizes space: front is the future, back is the past, up is aspiration, down is ground. Our words for value come from this posture.\n- Tuan saw people swinging between the hearth (kin, locality, the familiar) and the cosmos (the wide world, strangers, universal ideas). Neither is enough on its own.\n- Built form sharpens awareness. A door or gate marks the change between outside and inside, and crossing it changes how we feel.\n- Tuan wrote to colleagues in long letters for years. Distance and time were part of the message: the place a letter came from and how long it travelled.\n- The most moving places are often small and unremarked: a corner, a shared meal. Intimacy depends on scale; it cannot happen in a crowd.\n- _Place is time made visible. A sense of place builds slowly, from years of small experiences settling on each other._\n- Topophilia is the affective bond between people and place. It grows through repeated, ordinary contact more than through spectacle.\n\n\n","content_html":"<blockquote class=\"blyg-transclusion\" data-blyg-id=\"0k255qvr5k3mncbb9v944k3c24\" data-blyg-version=\"1\">\n<p>Mood-boarding for Blygger inspired by Yi Fu Tuan</p>\n<p><img src=\"https://blyg.aneeshsathe.com/media/0xv5rxkg.png\" alt=\"\"></p>\n\n</blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Tuan treats spaciousness as a feeling of freedom: room to move, a horizon that invites. Space is abstract until something in it draws us closer.</li>\n<li>People map the world around a known core. Past its edge lies a fuzzy, half-imagined region that still orients them. Tuan calls this mythical space.</li>\n<li>Movement lets us experience space. Each time we stop, a location has the chance to become a place.</li>\n<li>The upright human body organizes space: front is the future, back is the past, up is aspiration, down is ground. Our words for value come from this posture.</li>\n<li>Tuan saw people swinging between the hearth (kin, locality, the familiar) and the cosmos (the wide world, strangers, universal ideas). Neither is enough on its own.</li>\n<li>Built form sharpens awareness. A door or gate marks the change between outside and inside, and crossing it changes how we feel.</li>\n<li>Tuan wrote to colleagues in long letters for years. Distance and time were part of the message: the place a letter came from and how long it travelled.</li>\n<li>The most moving places are often small and unremarked: a corner, a shared meal. Intimacy depends on scale; it cannot happen in a crowd.</li>\n<li><em>Place is time made visible. A sense of place builds slowly, from years of small experiences settling on each other.</em></li>\n<li>Topophilia is the affective bond between people and place. It grows through repeated, ordinary contact more than through spectacle.</li>\n</ul>\n","content_hash":"sha256:5539ed925c11634e4b388806c38e7b43de9ed96a10da881862f1559f7aa8e98b","media":[],"transclusions":[{"id":"0k255qvr5k3mncbb9v944k3c24","version":1}],"changelog":[{"version":1,"at":"2026-10-19T22:21:17Z","note":null}]}