Space and Psychology

What’s heterotopia?!!!

  • The literal meaning of Heterotopia is other spaces. 
  • Foucault juxtaposition Heterotopias with Utopias.

Heterotopias 6 principles:

1.   Heterotopias can be found across cultures

2.  The function of a heterotopia may change with time.

3. The heterotopia is capable of juxtaposing several incompatible spaces in a single real space.

4.  Heterotopias open into slices of time that Foucault calls (Heterochronies)

5.  Heterotopias can not be entered or explored without restrictions.

6.  Heterotopias have a function in relation to all spaces that remains.