AIRSIDE
Terminal case
Airports, it’s sometimes said, are liminal spaces. They lie between home and a resort, a business hotel and the next conference or appointment. Then there are the corridors and stairways through which we have to move to reach a departure gate, a border official’s booth or a luggage carousel. In an airport, we seem always to find ourselves in a non-place between places.
Except what if that’s the wrong way to look at airports? What if we should rather see airports as concrete-and-glass actualisations of what the academic David Pascoe has dubbed airspace, a distinct if discrete place in itself that extends from terminal to terminal, crisscrossing time zones?