Marsha Lieberman

Both neuronal and digital pathways process information, yet in fundamentally different ways. Pathways in our brains arise from experience and are not fixed or predetermined. They are messy, overlapping, and incapable of the precise repetition possible in the digital. The system is decentralized, yet endlessly interconnected. If digital pathways resemble the regularity and predictability of… Read more: Pathways

How do people naturally orient themselves?  What is the role of wandering in knowing where we are? How does making mistakes (taking “wrong” turns) strengthen our sense of where we are? There is an internal tracking system built into our neurophysiology. Is coordination between that system and the ability to note and recall landmarks key… Read more: Orientation

This is an imaginary landscape where shapes represent significant landmarks. Which shapes connect? Which ones overlap? Which are contained in part by another shape? Which are contained completely by another? Which shapes have no relationship whatsoever with any other? Which have no visible relationship at all, but are the same in every way– size, color,… Read more: Spatial Relationships

The world may be described as a network of constantly shifting relations, where things overlap, share edges, and sometimes even contain one another. Could ideas be described in the same way, adding that they emerge without definitive and singular origin, coming instead from multiple directions during unpredictable or chance encounters?

Thinking about walking as a practice – Walkers can cross predetermined boundaries and more accurately depict the lived spatial experience of an individual or a community. This activity, if made visible, would not be unlike the mark-making a visual artist makes on paper or a canvas, and reminds us that the boundaries described in official […]