transitional spaces

So today we recieved the brief for our first PHVP 2406 (still image and moving image research and development.) (scanned brief to the left.) Our basic brief is to explore TRANSITIONAL SPACES via the medium of film and stills. 

The first thing to come to my mind is what exactly is a transitional space? how is it defined. In the brief its giving some suggestions on how to be read but it is a rather open topic. 

So in the brief it is suggested:

• 'the sort of place we pass through on route to somewhere else. E.g a waiting room, a motor way service station
• temporary spaces, which are often ignored or seen as unimportant due to there transient nature.
• influential or important, symbolizing who we are or who we want to be. 
• a particular frame of mind which changes with emotional state
• shifting beliefs or opinions through experience. 

When we first got the brief the first thing that struck me was the word SPACE. thinking of Wide open spaces, and transitional, an area constantly changing, constantly moving, re-growing, almost as if it was alive. 

Looking into the idea of transitional spaces to gather a greater understanding of the term i found a few interesting pieces:

Marc Auge (1995) 'Place and non Place [transitional spaces] are rather like opposed polarity; the first never completely erased, the second never totally completed' Which i interoperate to be saying that although something may change. How it once was is never really the same. While the new can never be complete. Almost as if saying, if you break something, such as a glass,  it will never be fixed again, because the damage caused never really allows it to be complete after. 

While its rather difficult finding photographers who focus on transitional space as a whole a few interesting quotes have come from personal pages and such talking about how:

• transitional spaces are where our home meets the city
• Transitional spaces for the homeless 
• the internet as a transitional space
• Mapping physical change in a location