Abstract
Yi-Fu Tuan gently circles space, carefully probing how humans experience the essence and liminality of place through their senses and bodies. At first thought, the idea of digital space and place – a world with no materiality – seems inconsistent with Tuan’s embodied, poetic approach. Technology eliminates any visceral experience of the world. Yet we cannot abandon our bodies. No matter where we are in digital space, our bodies remain in real and absolute space – breathing, digesting and working to be alive. This bifurcated experience of space and place is something new. It did not exist in 1977 when Tuan published Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience. What might he have written about digital space and place if he were alive today? What would he have said about how we bridge the digital and physical worlds?
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