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Appendix
Concrete
Interference
Stand-in
Tardis
Traffic Island
Waiting

CULTURAL ASPECTS

First World has been political and economical category. Globalisation of economy brings also a certain cultural identity. Beside being a member of a certain nation or being European, belonging to the developed world is becoming stronger and stronger identity. The culture of the first world is based on exclusion / inclusion, having or not having rights, having possibilities or not having them ... The identity of the first world culture is built on the phantasm of having a choice.

"Arnold Van Gennep in his book Rite De Passage speaks of three phases a person goes through with changes in his social status or so. The phase of separation, transition, and incorporation. What seems to be most interesting to Gennep is the second one, the transitional phase. He calls it 'margin' or 'limen' (meaning threshold in Latin), where the subject passes through a period or an area of ambiguity, a sort of social limbo, which according to him, has few though sometimes most crucial of the attributes of either the preceding or subsequent statuses of cultural states." writes Lina Issa.

The culture happens in the undefined places. Culture creates certain capsule of open, undefined, nonhierarchical field in which encounters, exchange and conflicts happen. Those capsules are necessary in order to establish relations and values of a particular context. Culture is always a place of mobility and mobilization.

Students developed projects raising questions of identity (Stand-In), distance (Tardis), relation between body, products and space (Appendix, Traffic Island), mobilization of language (Concrete) and capsularity of waiting spaces (Waiting, Interference). In the works presented mobility is reflected as both restricting and potential concept.