ABSTRACT
This chapter explores Friedman and van Ingen's challenge using an illustrative example of a physical cultural studies (PCS) critical inquiry into one very specific healthified space in one particular school whose motto – 'Be Fit to Learn and Learn to Be Fit' – was insinuated into the very architecture of the school, thus engendering specific spatial imaginaries and practices. It explains the spatial practices of everyday lives; how space is represented and imagined, how it is symbolically linked to aspirations and desires, as well as an interrogation of how space is deployed, and to what effects. The students' enthusiastic narratives about their school space confirm its place in their imagination. The narrative aligns with the participatory imperative and the 'new prudentialism'. In City Secondary School, the hallway spaces are lauded for their openness and freedom but the over-sportification of the school space can engender the heteronormative, masculinist and exclusionary hierarchies that are characteristic of sports spaces.
