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 "non-places to intertwining places".