So "Place - Context - Site" then?

Take a monumental and historical building. For this recipe, I recommend the Mackintosh. Add three words, specifically three words that relate to the core concerns of environmental art. Mix well. Season with a blank wall and an empty blogspot. Then bake thoroughly. Hopefully, you should have made yourself a pretty daunting project brief.

Yeah, so I probably took that too far.

Anyway, my initial plan of attack was to define those crucial three words. What follows is the definition that proved most important to my thought processes. I'd post all three but I'm not sure everyone shares my enthusiasm for dictionaries. Which is probably a healthier attitude to have in all honesty.

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Context

n

1. the parts of a piece of writing, speech etc. that precede and follow a word or passage and contribute to its full meaning: it is unfair to quote out of context
2. the conditions and circumstances that are relevant to an event, fact etc.

[C15: from latin contexus a putting, from contexere to interweave, from com together + texere to weave, braid]

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The words emboldened were those which sparked connotations, connections and catalysts in my mind. They seemed to be at the nexus of the Mackintosh building's function as a foundation for an artistic community to grow upon. I began to think of the forming of a community as a gradual knitting together of peoples, ideas, experiences, emotions and so on, until a rich and many-layered tapestry is formed, strongly bound together despite its delicate formation process.

Much like a weave.

So I have an idea but I'm also pretty gutted I didn't take textiles.