Space in Time

By Rhonda C Daugherty

Martin Heidegger viewed phenomenology as social phenomena of controlled behavior. In Being and time, he talks about the dasein (Harries, 1990). When he speaks about dasein, he is speaking in a language of phenomena that repeated and social. Simply stating, humans do what everyone has already done before. For example, when one walks through a door, he or she is walking through the door the way everyone has walked through the door before him or her (Harries, 1990). Behavior is trained, controlled, and practical. The design thesis is going to examine the way humans are trained and how perceptions are already perceived.


The design this is focusing heavily on how one engages and perceives objects in space. Martin Heidegger define phenomenology “to let that which shows itself be seen from itself the very way it shows itself” ( (Harries, 1990)128 (Sallis, 1978)). The notion of an object appearing to a person, simply as it is design to appear, begin to investigate the idea of form, materials, and light. One could argue that the bases of phenomenology is to experience objects in spaces through previous thought but what if the object is completely native to human eye (Sallis, 1978). How one does began to rationalize an unfamiliar object in a dimly lit room in comparison to a well-lit room? Does it even matter how the light is adjust in the room. The subject is simply going to analysis the object and categorize the object the way people have already trained the dasein to perceive.