An exploration of heterotopic space.

The aim of the paper will be to explore the term Heterotopia, coined by Foucault in his 1967 work Of other spaces (Des espaces autres), that has remained a source of uncertainty and discussion ever since publication. Heterotopia, literally meaning ‘other places’, is a diverse concept that describes a world misaligned with respect to normal or everyday space. Foucault theorises heterotopias as places where the technologies and disciplines of social orders are out of sequence or momentarily suspended, then re-sequenced or reconstructed to generate new spaces where microcosms of society are transformed and cosseted