Conclusion: Connecting the diversity of the immured space

Abstract

This chapter analysis the cases examined in the book where it is exhibited that in immured spaces, spatial and temporal characteristics co-exist and interrelate to mental perceptions and elaborations. One characteristic which transcends categories of cases and applies to all immured spaces is that they have a reciprocal effect/impact on the character of social interactions in and around them. As shown above, immured spaces combine functional dimensions of both material and mental spaces with no exceptions. The time factor also grants them with kairotic properties so that their identity emerges as being composed by time, space and social interactions. In this sense, immured spaces exist, and function differently than the other spaces and they fully justify the characterization of immured space as the ‘thirdspace’ where spatial reality and spatial imagination coalesce as a mental space which is nourished by the material space. © Balkiz Yapicioglu and Konstantinos Lalenis 2022.