Term: In-Between

Fellow Author(s)

Research Project

‘Places in the In-Between’
An Exhibition

Term: In-Between

In-Betweenness relates to the perceived emotional tensions between belonging and anonymity in cities and urban environments. Since cities are simultaneously serving as repositories of history and as sites of continuous and steady transformation and neverending developments they inevitably become spaces where identities are ongoingly negotiated.

In this sphere the complexity of the navigations of shifting boundaries between inclusion and exclusion arise for both individuals and communities. This is exacerbated because in the urban environment every corner and nook holds traces of a past life which is continuously redefined by the pulse of the present and the already looming future ahead.

In short, the notion of In-Betweenness in the urban context concerns itself with the complexities of identity and belonging in today‘s urban landscapes and aims to start a process of reconsideration of the spaces we inhabit physically and emotionally. Ultimately this leads to the question: Can a place ever really belong to us and vice versa, if an urban space is always imbued by the past, the present and the future?