Thresholds: From one to another

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https://www.earthlymission.com/amazing-visualization-of-swedish-immigration-into-the-united-states/

https://www.parishink.com/meandering-mississippi-river-print-15.html

The map above has been inspired by the existing representation of the records of years of the Swedish immigrants in the United States. I saw this as an opportunity to look at it as a threshold which could be shown in an abstract manner for my observation. The second example the map took was from the mapping of the Mississippi River along the years which allowed me to explore ways to show my daily movement in a month time period.


Every day we cross a number of spatial boundaries to reach a different zone. Threshold spaces are required for the transition from one zone to another. The phenomenon of thresholds thrives on spatial ambivalence. 

They live in a sequence of what lies in the past, present and future. This means, threshold space also lives in the expectation of what is to come. As transition points, they usually are complex spatial structures, Because in terms of perception it becomes a challenge to the interacting human senses. Interpretation of social thresholds and as well as culture are something which is fully dependent on human senses and their behaviour. 

The question is whether the desired transparency indeed makes it easier to read a threshold space and orient oneself in it?


Garima Sinha

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