FROM NON-PLACES TO INTERTWINING PLACES?

The word non place identifies two different aspects of the reality: spaces created in relation to sites used for transport, transit, commerce or leisure, and the relation between people and those spaces. The increasing loss of meaning of place as a recipient of social customs, historical memories and symbolic contents has led to the emergence of these non-places with provisional uses, linked to a contemporaneity which cares more about satisfying immediate consumption than sedimenting traces of culture. Indeed, places and non-places often overlap and intertwine. And in any place there is the possibility of becoming a non place and vice versa. Starting from these premises, aim of this paper is to explore the more common examples of non places in order to understand "if" and "how" their perception and use by people is currently changed or is changing from "nonplaces to intertwining places".