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Another viewpoint can transform how we understand space. Could space programming become an open-source practice? Have we forgotten the importance of script and meanings on physical form? Space affects people in two ways. The first is in a physical way, where the forms and dimensions of spaces and objects, together with their relations gives opportunities, a framework, that decides where it is possible to sit, stand, run, walk or eat soup. etc. But this physical side of space is on the other hand also given a cultural meaning. What they are is not only shaped by its physical form, but also how human culture relate towards it. Holy cows appear everywhere in our common way of understanding space. One could say that this is the software-side of space. A software that gives the physical form a meaning. Often set aside is that this software is not a constant. The meaning of spaces can change; the American dream becomes a nightmare suburbia; a street is reduced to a means of transp