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Church was the only homogenous, one purpose space inthe traditional society.

Modern society: Cultural temples theatres, museums, galleries

Coloseums of entertaiment and sport cinemas, stadiums,pools, thematic parks;

Cathedrals of finance banks, stock exchanges, insurancecompanies;

Industrial facilities factories, mines, power plants

Transport halls airports, train stations, bus terminals, ports Consumer basilicas shoping malls, Hyper markets,

Shrines of privacy flats, private houses, sleeping settlements.

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Temples of professionality

Professions usually have ther sacred ground: Doctors hospitals

Lawyers courts

Teachers schools

Soldiers barracks Facade outward representation of moral and social

mission

Inside spatial arrangement of the meaning and function Hierachy, ideology and knowledge, control

Departments, classes, cells divide and name the inmatesestablish taxonomic order and the spirit of the profession.

Professionals: priest explain and order the space. Rules and language

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Social work as antithesis to closed

space

Becoming of social work coincides with first

crisis of total institutions in capitalism

It was resistance and revolt against closing but

also against living conditions of working class

While homogenous space of templar professions

dictates the behaviour and language of client

social work has to learn the language and theculture of the users

But also create own spaces

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Spaces of Social Work

Space Mode

Life world Outreach

Communication Talking and

negotiating

Social security Recording andreporting

Inter-institutional Teamwork

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Social cartography - mapping

Ethnographic and cartographic

How people live

To orient in their life world To learn the connections, positions, networks

between different

Actors, resources, forces and circumstances Map of territory to know how to move, use it

and act in it.

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Maps

do not produce social rules or laws. They observe themand make the landscape discernible.

They enable us to get the whole picture and see howthing relate one to another.

Sometimes they enable us to know unknowable.

They enable us to look on the life-world. Thus to becomesubjects, to think and decide about where to go and whatto do. It can be an instrument of dialogue.

Maps containg the history and the future. They tells us

what has happened but also enable to see what canhappen.

Bridging the past and future.

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Maps

Personal

Group

Community District

Thematic (drug use, old people)

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Spaces of social work

Office accesibility

Private spaces respectful visit

Public spaces accindental and neutral Institutional hybrid spaces niches

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Leaving the institution

Transforming the institutional spacenormalisation, domestification,democratisation

Resettlement group homes NIMBY

Problem of mini institution

Creating a personal space - Distance of help

Loneliness

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Transformation of space

Institutional

Personal

Common

Diversification of space

Spaces of waiting spaces of action

New spaces of freedom