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2008
Making Sense of Place explores place from myriad perspectives and through evocative encounters. The Great Barrier Reef is experienced through the sense of touch, Lake Mungo is encountered through sound and ‘listening’, and light is shed on the meaning of place for deaf people. Case studies include the Maze prison in Northern Ireland, Inuit hunting grounds in Northern Canada, and the songlines of the Anangu people in Central Australia. Iconic landscapes, lookouts, buildings, gardens, suburbs, grieving places, the car as place — all provide contexts for experiencing and understanding ‘place’ and our ‘sense of place’.
Reflections on the Emergence, Aspects and Essence of Place
A review of the surge of interest in place, especially since about 1990, with a summary of the diverse aspects of place (such as sense of place, roots, home, placelessness and non-place, placemaking and place fabrication) and a discussion of what I consider to be the essence of place and its inextricable connections with our very existence.
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
2012
Heritage Matters is a series of edited and single-authored volumes which addresses the whole range of issues that confront the cultural heritage sector as we face the global challenges of the twenty-first century. The series follows the ethos of the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies (ICCHS) at Newcastle University, where these issues are seen as part of an integrated whole, including both cultural and natural agendas, and thus encompasses challenges faced by all types of museums, art galleries, heritage sites and the organisations and individuals that work with, and are affected by them.
Rethinking the notion of place
Concepts such as non-place and placelessness can provide planners and designers with new insights to better capture the essence of place. This essay first reviews the literature of place and its byproducts, namely non-place and placelessness. Against such a backdrop, the paper then explores how the contemporary transformation of the three components of place, namely locale, location and sense of place, has contributed to a narrative of loss. Characterized by loss of meaning and loss of proper connection between locations, the geographies of 'otherness' and 'nowhereness' and the crisis of identity are among the major implications of this narrative.
This is the first part (slightly revised in September 2018 to correct typos) of an unpublished two part essay on the changes that have happened to place since the publication of my book Place and Placelessness in 1976. It considers how experiences of places have changed since then as a consequence of heritage protection, postmodernism, place branding, and placemaking. The second part examines changes because of increases in mobility, multi-centred living and electronic communications, and offers some theoretical speculations about heterotopia and the openness of place. While both essays draw on ideas I have published elsewhere or posted on my Placeness website, this comprehensive synthesis is new and unlikely to be published. The central theme is that there changes since 1975 have had profound implications for how places are made and experienced.
Rethinking Place in South Asian and Islamic Art, 1500–Present, 2017
The volume is singular in its engagement with place as a new paradigm for understanding art in South Asia. Cutting across from the medieval to the contemporary, and an extensive geography beyond South Asia to the Islamic world, it profoundly addresses pressing concerns of our times: ecology, democracy, religion and nationalism." Parul Dave Mukherji, Jawaharlal Nehru University "An exciting and provocative volume of essays investigating how the concept of place affects the ways objects are seen and used, the ways they move and change, and the ways they are defined by their patrons and institutions. A good read that stimulates interdisciplinary ways of understanding works of art."
Theories of Place Seminar (fall 2018)
Overview This course introduces students to qualitative, descriptive approaches to research in environmental behavior. The first part of the course explores methods for studying the built environment intuitively, particularly the approach of phenomenology. Next, the course examines such themes as space-as-experienced, sense of place, environmental encounter, built form as experiential symbol, and architecture and landscape architecture as community making. A major focus is architecture and environmental design as place making. Seminar objectives ▪ To consider the experience of place and to recognize its multi-dimensional nature that includes experiential, social, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions. ▪ To introduce students to various conceptual approaches to place, including analytic, ethnographic, and phenomenological perspectives. ▪ To review various theoretical and practical approaches to place making, including space syntax, pattern language, responsive environments, and design for social and cultural diversity. ▪ To demonstrate the value of understanding human behavior and experience in relation to environmental and architectural concerns. ▪ To recognize the architect's responsibility to work in the public interest and to improve the quality of life. ▪ To strengthen students' abilities to read, interpret, and write effectively. ▪ To illustrate the value of applied research for architecture and environmental design.