Harbour

Frame · Functional spaces spatial

A place of arrival and departure – the threshold between the known and the unknown, between mainland and sea.

Design question – Your play space has a harbour. Who arrives, who leaves – and what happens in the waiting time between arrival and departure?

Associations

• Typical Activities – Loading, Shipping, Arriving, Departing

Coherence

Mechanisms: Import/Export, Network (trade routes), Loading (loading as an action phase), Event (ship arrivals). Activities: Loading, Shipping, Arriving, Departing. Ludic Organisational Structures: economic order (trade), spatial order (a node in the network).