Research in Topoi I (2007–2012)

knowledge about space

The exhaustively surveying of the two dimensions of space and knowledge in Topoi required a continual oscillation between space-driven analyses of knowledge and knowledge-driven analyses of space. In the first funding phase of Topoi, space represented the central category and thematic nexus in our considerations of knowledge. The topic was knowledge about space.


Areas Topoi 1


During the first funding period (2007-2012) the cluster was subdivided into five research areas. Four of them concentrated on the time from the 10th millennium B.C. to late antiquity. The area Transformations (E) studied the processing of ancient ideas of space, spatial orders and spatial cognition in later cultures own to the present day.