sketching up social space types when camping in a tent

Camp space and social places when in a tent – Research sketch

Drawing and text by Frits Ahlefeldt

Most people living in houses experience only a few very separate levels of social space. Most often you are either in private or public space. When compared to the social spaces that can be found in a less separated environment, like in a tent camp, the picture is different. In tents you can hear things from the social interactions both going on outside in the shared places – but also often hear clearly the conversations going on in the tents surrounding yours. A camp is in some ways a much more complex and fine grained social environment where you get many different levels of intimacy, very close to each other