Seeking Lefebvre’s Vécu in a “Deaf Space” Classroom

Abstract

Lefebvre’s spatial triad is well-known to geographers, and increasingly understood beyond the Field for me not to labour their description. Emerging from Lefebvre’s quest for Totalité—a quest that he posited in spatial terms as the pursuit of a moment in which, rather than finding itself squeezed into ill-fitting and ill-constructed spaces, we might integrate ourselves and our environments in ways that allow complete integrity and freedom—Lefebvre’s spatial triad manifested as the building blocks of encounter, three spatial moments that are innocently devoid of any over-authoring.