Space: In Two Parts is a two book series which explores our deep relationship with space. Space addresses this intimacy one has with “safe space” not in the spatial sense, but in the mental, non-tangible experience of being in space. This thesis seeks to observe and make clear to readers what gives us comfort in spaces, ultimately, giving readers the tools to imagine space outside of the material, physical idea of safe space. My project argues that the goodness of space then, outside the physical, lies in its ephemerality. Space is an attempt to capture that ephemerality of sensations in “spaces”.

The Survey Booklet is the first installment of my investigation on space. It exists as a meditative tool to understand what safe space can be for others, making clear that we can capture the ephemeral feeling of being in space by using memory and imagination. Simultaneously, The Survey Booklet makes transparent my research for my thesis, a survey asking 50+ anonymous creators about the elements of their safe space. These responses tease out the themes, the nuances of intimate, good, safe space and are curated and presented in The Survey Booklet. These curated responses and themes created a precedent for inspiring the content and form of the following book of this project, Good Space Journal.

Space: In Two Parts ostensibly answers the question of how can we capture a fleeting moment or memory of tender, safe, good space?

Created by Tiffany Tong