Mlinar's monograph on the spatial organisation of existence is an important resource for social work. Social work was invented in the late 19th century asresistance against homogenisation of the space by institutions of care and control. Being a unique profession without its own temple it has to produce a virtual space of communication, social security inscription and organisation. In relation to real space it has to explore the space in which where people reside and create new spaces that enable people to live better. In order to do that, social work has to develop its own cartographies and methods of space creation. The cartographies may be of a person, group, community or larger, they can be thematic (e.g. drug use, long-term care) or comprehensive for a certain territory (e.g. Mlinar concerning Koper). A good example of altering and creating space is the process of deinstitutionalisation. The institutional space has to be changed in the process, rendering it more open, democratic and heterogeneous, inmates have to be resettled into the community and the community has to change to accept them, intermediate structures have to be invented and personal spaces of care must be created, along with new collective spaces of freedom
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