Spatial Metanoia: From Constriction to Co-Spatial Forgiveness

Spatial Metanoia: From Constriction to Co-Spatial Forgiveness proposes a four-zone spatial mechanism within the theoretical framework of Design as Event. The manuscript examines distress not as a private psychological state alone, but as a contraction of spatial capacity; displacement as the event that fractures immobility; metanoia as a threshold of cognitive reorientation; and forgiveness as a co-spatial residual field in which the trace remains without dominating the whole field. The work develops a conceptual and design-theoretical model grounded in embodied cognition, multisensory architectural experience, temporal points, spatial directionality, key-frame logic, and residual transformation. It argues that space should not merely represent emotional or ethical states, but can operate as a mechanism through which constriction becomes path, path becomes reorientation, and reorientation becomes renewed spatial capacity. The manuscript forms part of the broader Design as Event research trajectory, where form is understood not as a static object but as a state undergoing transformation through event, temporal articulation, and residual continuity.