Open space may refer to:
- In urban planning and conservation ethics
- Landscape, areas of land without human-built structures
- Open space reserve, areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Urban open space, urban areas of protected or conserved land on which development is indefinitely set aside
- Greenway (landscape), a linear chain of open space reserves or a recreational corridor through the same
- Public space, areas left open for the use of the public, such as a piazza, plaza, park, and courtyard
- In business terminology
- A procedure for conducting a business conference:
- Open Space Technology
- Open-space meeting
- Other uses
- Open Space (band), an indie rock band from Minsk, Belarus
- Open Space (BBC TV) BBC TV programme produced by their Community Programme Unit
- Open Space Theatre, a defunct London theatre run by Charles Marowitz
- Open Space (publications), a music publishing collective
Famous quotes containing the words open and/or space:
“Parents’ accepting attitudes can help children learn to be open and tolerant. Parents can explain unfamiliar behavior or physical handicaps and show children that the appropriate response to differences should be interest rather than revulsion.”
—Dian G. Smith (20th century)
“This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.”
—Thomas Traherne (1636–1674)