These spaces are not to be defined by the lived experience but by living.

"Beginning with space-as-matter, paradigmatic contrasts proliferated: abundance versus barrenness, congeniality versus hostility and so on".[13]

The barren threshold space is still space and although it is neither an object, or a subject it is still matter and as Lefebvre has suggested, space as matter, can be investigated.

To understand the space we must interrogate the fetishisation of it.