Actions are the choice made by a human being, by anticipating the existing condition and individual's capabilities, wishes, and goals, in multiple aspects.
This documentation considers the relation between space and action as primary, thus, reflecting on it, the multiple aspects contributing to the kind of choices and actions, that place an artefact into existence. Hence, I refer to the existing schools of thought that discussing the process of space making, including, but not limited to, knowing, thinking, and designing.
ON THE ACT OF THINKING
Jane Jacobs, 1960. The deaths and lives of American Cities
"I think the most important habits of thought are these:
1. To think about processes;
2. To work inductively, reasoning from particular to the general, rather than the reverse;
3. To seek for "unaverage" clues involving very small quantities, which reveal the way larger and more "average" quantities are operating."
ON THE ACT OF DESIGNING
Bill Hillier, 1986
"... the designer to effect the translation from individual, organisational and social needs to physical artefacts."
ON THE ACT OF KNOWING
David Leatherbarrow, 1993:37. The roots of architectural invention.
"Nothing exists without an edge; no temple, no person, no mere object is without its limits; everything must end somewhere for its identity to be apparent."