This document discusses religious and spiritual practices in Bangkok, Thailand and how they are woven into the fabric of the city. It mentions sacred tracks and routes to temples, spirit houses, offerings made at shrines, and how urban change may impact traditional spiritual ways of experiencing the city. It raises questions about how tagging sacred spaces or altering wayfinding practices could influence how people and spirits experience and interact with the urban environment.
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population,
religious
practices
are
intimately
c h n o -S p i r i t u a l P r a c t i c
woven into
the fabric
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get by this
way because
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20. How might
tagging sacred
space impact
the way people
experience the
city? Would
q u e s t io n s
wayfinding
practices
How does urban
change?
architecture
Traffic
impact the
patterns shift
design of the
for the spirits?
spirit house?
What are the
Can we imagine a