“....When we are watching or listening or even reading a book,” writes Cathy Davidson in her essay “Project Classroom Makeover”, “the imagination is engaged in making connections in all of those forms , as it is in anything we experienced” (Davidson 55). Imagination plays a key role in the human’s ability to associate with other people’s constructed spaces, whether it is through watching, listening or even reading it; it allows people to connect with seemingly unrelatable content. They can only do so, however, by latching onto relevant components as a base where their own imaginations can originate. Using the results from her iPod experiment conducted at Duke University, Davidson focuses on how an …show more content…
In Azar Nafisi 's “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, Nafisi describes how she and her students in Iran were able to to customize an author’s preserved constructed space into a way where they can find relate it back towards their own lives. Regardless of the setting of where each essay takes place, these two essay share a common theme about how people find success after being exposed to a constructed space. People find success in constructed spaces that are made to be open-ended where such space is not confined to a specific circumstance. The open-endedness allows the acceptance of all ideologies within, even those that society deems irrelevent. Visitors of these spaces can take advantage of its tolerance as a freedom to customize it into anything they want by letting their imaginations run unrestricted within these spaces.
A constructed space can be a venue for a person to replace socially given definitions of a topic with a different meaning. Davidson notice of how the introduction of technology is creating