ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the word private to denote individual assignments and work that individual students choose as well the overall routes through the unit that individual students end up following when they make a succession of choices about particular assignments. The concept of privacy likewise ranges from a group of four or five gathered at a single picnic site in a public park to a private apartment occupied by one tenant. Porches and colonnades offer another example of privacy, although most architects view these two structures as transitional spaces between the public and the private. The person sitting on a porch or under a colonnade has a view of the public space outside and can be seen by passersby. The chapter provides the concept of the public, attempting to shed light on common classroom activities from a perspective of civic celebration.
