What makes a digital space feel like a place?
As opposed to publishing an edited piece of text, a ‘space’ is malleable, which makes for a fertile ground for growing and presenting evolving ideas, rather than fixed outcomes. A space incentivises for decluttering, or mindful storage of information; something new is added, something no longer relevant is removed. Knowledge creation in this sense becomes ‘idea improvement’ rather than progress towards a ‘true’ belief (Read
Marlene Scardamalia and Carl Bereiter on this topic). A space invites us to share unfinished ideas, which is where the most fruitful thinking often happens.