¶ Privacy
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Privacy:
"Get yourself the tools and ways of enclosing enormous amounts of space, and make it possible for large numbers of human beings to come together under more preferred conditions than have ever come together. Then give them large clear spaces so that their privacy results from having sufficient distance between people or groups of people. Get over the idea of partitions. Partitions are like socialism. They came out of living and working in fortresses where there wasn’t enough room to go around, so they put up partitions-- really making cells. Partitions simply say you shall not pass. That’s all they do. They are improvised to make that which is fundamentally inadequate work ‘after a fashion.’
“There are four kinds of privacy: if I can’t touch you, we’re tactilely private; if I can’t smell you, we’re olfactorily private; if I can’t hear you, we’re aurally private; and if I can’t see you, we’re visually private. Just a little space will take care of the first three. For the fourth-- since we can see a great distance-- all we need are delicate occulting membranes, possibly rose bushes or soap bubbles or smoke screens.”
¶ Citations
- EDUCATION AUTOMATION, pp.83-84, 22 Apr’61
