Map: A representation in outline of the surface features of the earth, the moon etc., or of part of it, usually on a plane surface; a similar plan of the stars in the sky; a representation, scheme or example of the layout or state of anything. (verb) The action of mapping, planning or laying out geographical or other data.

Make believe: To pretend or imagine a situation or person is real.

Manifestation: Physical presence of an idea or spirit; making visible something dark or secret.

Mimic: (verb) To copy, resemble or imitate. (noun) Someone who copies another person's characteristics, often to make fun or riducule them.

Mundane: Ordinary, usual or everyday thing or event; dull or uninteresting.

Metaphor: A mode of written or spoken language, or visual effect, where something stands for something else. Writers and artists use it to express new and unexpected meanings e.g. referring to the press as vultures and jackals, or using the colour green to signify hope, newness and childhood.

Migrate: To pass from one place to another; to change one's place of abode to another country; to change habitat according to season. Migration: the act or instance of migrating.

Multicultural: A society or made up of many cultural groups. Multiculturalism: the policy or ideology of embracing many different cultural groups without prejudice or heirarchy.

Nation: A body of people marked off by common descent, language, culture or historical tradition, whether or not bounded by the defined territorial limits of a state; an American Indian tribe or federation of tribes; a set of people. (adjective) National: belonging or particular to, characteristic of or controlled by a nation. Nationalism: to favour or strive after the unity, independence, interests or domination of a nation.

Nomad: A member of a people or tribe who move from place to place to find food or pasture; a wanderer; Someone with no permanent, fixed home.

Periphery: The edge or line around the outside of anything; the surrounding region. Peripheral: on the edges; incidental; not the most important.

Performance: An act, function or behaviour; to sing, dance, act, play, do tricks for an audience. Performance art is an artform which is theatrical, that is it happens as a live event, usually in public or before an audience, and may combine a number of media.

Place: A portion of space; a portion of the earth's surface, or any surface; a position in space, or on the earth's surface, or in any system order or arrangement; a point in a book, narrative, conversation etc; a particular locality; an open space or square; a seat or accomodation; space occumpied, assigned or booked; room; position in a series; rank or standing. (verb) To assign, put, lay, appoint, identify, invest or arrange.

Primitive: Used to describe people or things as unsophisticated, not advanced in skills, understanding or techology. Sometimes used in an insulting way to refer to non-industrialised peoples or societies.

Psychology: The science of studying the mind, mental states, the way people think and behave.

Public: Part of or belonging to the people, society or community; not private; open to all.

Refugee: A person displaced from their own country by war, violence, famine or politics, who seeks refuge or shelter in another country.

Representation: an image or form; a symbol or depiction of an object or idea. Represent (verb): to depict, typify or stand in for someone or something.

Risk: (noun) A danger or hazard; the possibility of loss or failure. (verb) to take a chance on or gamble with possible loss or danger.

Ritual: The performance of a rite, that is a ceremonial or traditional form of actions or behavior (eg rite of passage). An often repeated act, or code. A ritual might be religious or cultural.

Rule: A binding instruction, code of conduct or law governing behavior or play; a guiding principal. To rule (verb): to govern, control or exercise power over; to draw a straight line.

Satire: Wit or humour, very often literary, which aims to ridicule or criticise foolish or corrupt (often political) behaviour.

Scenario: A sketched out or planned version of a scene; An imagined possible set of future events.

Simulate: To copy, or behave identically to; to recreate similar or identical conditions; to take on the exact appearance of something (eg fake fur). The computer game 'Sim City' is a simulated urban environment.

Slapstick: A form of physical or visual comedy which, as its name implies, comes from people being knocked about and falling over alot.

Space: That in which material bodies have extension; a portion of such; room; intrevening distance; an interval; an open or empty place; the near vacuum surrounding all bodies in the universe; regions remote from the earth; an interval between lines or words; a portion, extent or interval of time.

Site: Situation,esp. of a building; an area set aside for some specific purpose or activity. (verb) To locate, position. Global Spherical; worldwide; comprehensive; affecting or taking into account the whole world or all peoples.

Site Specific: A phrase which refers to a piece of art made or constructed in a particular place, where the work takes its meaning and form at least in part from the context of its environment.

Stereotype: An image or idea of a person, or group of people which characterises them all by typical physical attributes or cultural behaviour; A broadly generalised or simplistic image based on a specific example. For instance the idea of French men all wearing striped sweaters, black berets riding bicycles with onions round their necks is a stereotype. So is the idea that Chinese people all run takeaway restaurants and Pakistani people all have corner shops.

Territory: Country, region or large area of land, belonging to or under the sovereignty of the state, government, royal family or ruling tribe; marked or mapped land; site of animal habitation.

Tour: A prolonged journey from place to place. Tourist: a person who makes a tour or sightseeing trip, Tourism: the activity of tourists and the industry which promotes and facilitates their journeys.

Transgress: To break a rule, code or convention. To step out of line or go beyond accepted forms of behaviour.

Unconscious: The opposite of conscious; unknowing. The part of the human mind which is beyond our knowing or control. Sigmund Freud believed those impulses or memories which we repress, show themselves through dreams and slips of the tongue as well as more serious psychological conditions.