We know that round spaces afford conversation, enclosed spaces afford intimacy, and high spaces afford achievement –for children as well as adults. In this video clip, four children joyously race back and forth between a wall mirror and a cushioned corner. A study of this clip reveals yet another affordance of space. Let’s call it “bounding events.”We notice that when the children race to the mirror, they press their faces close to the glass, and when they race back to the cushion corner, they tumble into its softness. These two endpoints contain more than location. Each offers an interesting event that emphasizes the arrival at that location. The spaces provide the children with bounding events.

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