Angelique Yang
About me

1. Koj Nam Hlub Koj!
2. Over and Over
3. Third Place
4. Knowledge Gift
   
5. Image Making
   

Get in touch
Email:
nglq.yng@gmail.com

Instagram:
@leeeeked

Third Place
Third Place is a publication that explores the Oldenburg idea of third places. The term was coined by the US sociologist, in his 1989 book - The Great Good Place. Your first place is your home, your second place is your workplace, and your third place is your social surroundings that are separate from the two usual environments. Commonly, these surroundings or dwellings include libraries, bookshops, cafes, bars and anywhere you frequently visit. Through COVID, the increase of virtual places, and workplaces trying to introduce third place into the second place, third places have begun vanishing. These places are essential for the promotion of self and community through socialising and immersing yourself in different or comfortable environments outside of the first and second places. My book takes the form of a traditional hardcover book or sketchbook on the exterior, but once opened the pages are a continuous accordion fold. The pages of the accordion fold consist of type from the Wikipedia article about third places, my own sketches of third places and people conversing or traversing through crowds. While the book gives insight into third places, it itself becomes its own third place taking up space and promotes an idea that reading or drawing in a book can create a third place wherever and whenever. 

Angelique Yang2026

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