Video excerpts, interactive thesaurus and images of vacant spaces on show at 4th Space They remind us that emptiness is a temporary and subjective state.Ĭentech (former Rio Tinto-Alcan planetarium) Empty space or emptied spaces remain inhabited by their past and potential for reinvention. By visiting vacant spaces, we revisit erased histories and invisible territories which these places - or lack thereof - remain the guardians of. The concepts explored are those of Emptiness, Space/Place, Memory, Territory/Land, Resource, Ownership, Expropriation and Time/Transience/Permanence.
We then decided to explore the concepts of Emptiness and Vacancy through a film that would be our pretext and strategy for accessing vacant spaces and contributions from various artists, thinkers and social activists. It became indispensable to think not only of how people connect with empty spaces, but also of how they are disconnected from them. However the pandemic and our reflections on “why and how emptiness exists in the city” soon diverted our interest.
THESAURUS SUBVERT SERIES
The initial point of this research was to collect different strategies for accessing vacant spaces through a series of interviews. We wish to invite a broader community to become acquainted with our process and work-in-progress, provide us with feedback, and interact with the concepts that we have developed around the notions of emptiness and vacancy. To learn more, see the privacy policy.At the term of a research creation project around the notion of vacancy, the Grey Areas Desk of the Office of Rules and Norms has produced A Film about Emptiness and a complementary Thesaurus of No-place.
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Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, WordNet, and note that Reverse Dictionary uses third party scripts (such as Google Analytics and advertisements) which use cookies.
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The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource. In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available).
For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter. It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query.
The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple.
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