Conversation is clipped, with noises from the street (which, symbolically, is being torn up) more dominant than any dialogue, and an absence of music allowing the ambient sounds to clatter around the hard-surfaced living spaces to alienating effect.
This was a bold, some might say reckless attempt to make a feature of that, turn the very space that alienates us most into a hearth, a home, a community.
"Galleries were perceived to be white, elitist, alienating spaces.
At first, it appears the result was huge boulevards for tanks, windswept squares looked down on by scowling statues, and scrubby open space between concrete slabs – alienating, inhumane, authoritarian.
The pair first came to the city to shoot a hip-hop documentary and stayed to realize public painting projects, working with local youths to add colorful designs to the exteriors of decrepit housing and to alienating public spaces in a way that merges graffiti art, mural painting and installation art.
The pointedly titled "Ghosts" (2005), an inverted chance-and-coincidence film in which the connections among the characters are fleeting and perhaps even imagined, transplants a Grimm fairy tale about a grieving mother into the wooded parks and alienating urban spaces of present-day Berlin.
Besides it's easier to correct a mistake when you come from a compassionate space, than when you're blaming and alienating people.
AutoItalia's space is carefully staged for the occasion, becoming immersive and alienating.
They told Polygon that tablets were "inherently social", "less alienating to new players", and "possibly the best space for multiplayer play".
However, Amazon hasn't made any moves yet into the broader toy space — and it may not do so, given the potential for alienating toy makers whose brands it needs to list and sell.
