Public/ private space

Public VS private can be dependent upon architectural conventions. By social convention, a window mediates between private(inside) and public(outside) space. The interior seen defines or is deifned by the publicly accepted notion of privacy. An architectural division, the "house", separateds the "private" person from the "public" person and sanctions certain kinds of behavior for each. The meaning of privacy, beyond its mere distinguishability from publicness, is more complexly connected to other social rules. For example: a private home limits access to members of one family; a bathroom within that house is private as it allows usage by only one person at a time (whereas a toilet in a public space is public as it allows multiple access, but is gender restricted); the individual bedroom of a child or adult member of the family may be considered to be private at certain times. Moral sanctions are attached to violation of these codes.