What is Chora?
Chora is a Greek word, and means place. Place is, just like nature and culture , a concept with many meanings, and there are several ways to understand place. Maybe it is time to begin to learn anew what place is, and what place means in our lives. There is a general tendency today to understand the world’s cultural and biological diversity as threatened. Place is a part of this diversity. Our human condition is rooted in the surroundings, that is, nature, place, and body. These are the material conditions for life. Many people experience placeless-ness and loss of place, which means a lack of rooted-ness in the surroundings. Placeless-ness is not only a modern phenomenon, while modern placeless-ness is, however, characterized by a crisis in the understanding of human surroundings. Placeless-ness is an attitude and a part of modern culture expressed through public planning, habitation, and settlement. It is ways of acting and thinking that we are socialized into over t...