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ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (summer/fall 2020)

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, 2020

The 2020 summer/fall issue includes the following entries: • An “in memoriam” for architect and sacred geometer Keith Critchlow, who died in London in April; • A “book note” on philosopher Dermot Moran’s study, Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (2010); • A “book note” on philosopher Ingrid Leman Stefanovic’s The Wonder of Water (2020), an edited collection examining how human experience relates to decisions about water; • Torontonian Robert Fabian’s update on downtown neighborhood planning in his city; • Philosopher John Russon’s exploration of the lived ambiguity of travelling to a foreign place; • Independent researcher Stephen Wood’s discussion of two contrasting modes of science teaching—what he calls “knowledge-based learning” vs. “understanding-based learning”; • Philosopher of science Henri Bortoft’s explication of Goethe’s proto-phenomenology of nature as one example of a science of wholeness (originally published as four separate essays in the last four EAP issues and now integrated into one).

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY--special 30th-year anniversary issue (summer/fall 2019)

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, 2019

Besides “items of interest,” and “citations received,” this issue includes the following items:  An “in memoriam” for phenomenological sociologist George Psathas, who died last November;  A “book note” on philosopher Dan Zahavi’s just-published Phenomenology: The Basics, an introduction to phenomenological principles and methods (Routledge, 2019);  A “book note” on naturalist Paul Krafel’s recent Roaming Upward, a text that continues his novel efforts to reverse environmental and human entropy;  The third part of the late philosopher Henri Bortoft’s 1999 conference presentation on Goethean science;  Sociologist Julia Bennett’s overview of her doctoral research relating to belonging among families who have lived in one English town for multiple generations;  Environmental educator John Cameron’s continuing discussion of “lived interiority” via consideration of landscape character as understood by several well-known thinkers and writers;  Australian artist and photograph Sue Michael’s introductory text and several works that were part of her recent painting and photography exhibit, “Settled Areas”;  To mark EAP’s 30th year of publication, editor David Seamon’s discussion of current conceptual and methodological concerns relating to phenomenology as a philosophy and conceptual approach. He considers: (1) placing phenomenology; (2) displacing phenomenology; and (3) evaluating phenomenology. This issue also includes a list of 23 definitions of phenomenology.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (winter/spring 2020)

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, 2020

This 2020 winter/spring issue includes:  An “in memoriam” for architectural theorist Bill Hillier, who died in November.  Entries relating to Goethean science as a phenomenology of nature, including three “book notes” on recently-published volumes as well as the last part of philosopher Henri Bortoft’s essay, “Goethean Science and the Wholeness of Nature.”  A “book note” on sociologist Michael Hviid Jacobsen’s Encountering the Everyday: An Introduction to the Sociology of the Unnoticed.  Essays by writer David Ferlic (“Walking the Dog Phenomenologically”) and anthropologist Kevin Browne (“Negotiating National Memory and Forgetting through Cemeteries”).  Psychologist Akihiro Yoshida’s Japanese translation of the “twenty-three definitions of phenomenology,” originally published in the 2019 summer/fall issue of EAP.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (summer/fall 2023)

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, 2023

This EAP completes 34 years of publication and begins with items of interest and citations received. The issue includes four essays:  Zoologist Stephen Wood examines jizz—the singular presence of a living being instantly recognizable without the involvement of conscious attention; his focus is the jizz of birds.  Geographer Edward Relph considers aspects of a phenomenology of climate change by examining how the phenomenon is understood and experienced via both everyday and extreme environmental situations and events.  Philosopher Robert Josef Kozljanič overviews the study of genius loci (sense of place), giving particular attention to recent phenomenological research on the topic, including the “New Phenomenology of philosopher Hermann Schmitz.  Artist and place researcher Victoria King recounts her Australian experiences with indigenous women of the Outback and their work in sand painting, giving particular attention to the work of Emily Kngwarreye (c. 1910–1996), an elderly woman artist from Utopia, an area of 16 small Aboriginal communities spread across 2,400 kilometers in Australia’s red, arid interior.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (summer/fall 2017)

Besides items of interest and “citations received,” this issue of ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY includes the following entries: • A “book note” on Jane Jacobs’ VITAL LITTLE PLANS, a recently published posthumous collection of her unpublished articles, lectures, and portions of uncompleted books. • Museum curator Robert Barzan’s personal consideration of the relationship between ethics and place. • Anthropologist Jenny Quillien’s account of her recent travel experiences in Bhutan and what they might mean for understanding “place-ness.” • Environmental educator John Cameron’s twelfth and final “Letter from Far South.” • Philosopher Isis Brook’s review of Cameron’s recently published BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES: PLACE-MAKING ON A TASMANIAN ISLAND, a compilation of his twelve letters in book form. Since the last EAP, two major figures associated with phenomenological work have died—in January, philosopher Lester Embree (1938-2017); in July, geographer Anne Buttimer (1983-2017). Both thinkers were devoted advocates of phenomenological research, and they are remembered in this issue.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (winter 2016)

The winter 2016 issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology is now available. This issue begins 27 years of publication and marks the first digital-only edition. Because of this shift to on-line EAPs only, we are reducing the number of issues from three to two—winter and fall. This issue includes the regular EAP features of “comments from readers,” “items of interest” and “citations received.” The issue also includes: A tribute to phenomenological psychologist Bernd Jager, who passed away in March, 2015. In memoriam, we reprint passages from two of his most noteworthy writings, “Theorizing, Journeying, Dwelling” (1975) and “Theorizing the Elaboration of Place” (1983). A “book note” that reproduces a portion of an interview with phenomenological philosopher Edward Casey, published in the recent volume, Exploring the Work of Edward Casey, edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes. A book review of archaeologist Christopher Tilley’s Interpreting Landscapes, by Northern Earth Editor John Billingsley. A commentary that philosopher Dylan Trigg presented at the special session on “Twenty-Five years of EAP,” held at the annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) in October. Independent researcher Stephen Wood’s “Moving: Remaking a Lifeworld,” in which he offers a first-person phenomenology of moving to a new house, including the lived significance of embodied emplacement. Anthropologist Jenny Quillien’s “Wordless Walkabouts on a Chinese Campus,” which discusses the “sense of place” Quillien experienced while spending three weeks in the South Chinese city of Guangzhou. Artist Victoria King’s “The Imprint of Place,” which considers how King’s sense of artistic creativity has shifted over time, partly because of maturing personal experience and partly because of changes in her lived geography and a deepening understanding of place. Architect Gary Coates’ “Reinventing the Screened Porch: Bioclimatic Design in the American Midwest,” which presents an experiential analysis of a porch Coates designed for his Kansas home.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (winter/spring 2018)

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, winter/spring, 2018

This EAP includes “items of interest” and “citations received.” We include a “book note” on anthropologists Christopher Tilley and Kate Careron-Daum’s Anthropology of Landscape, a phenomenology of how different users experience southwestern England’s East Devon Pebblebed heathland. Longer entries begin with architect Thomas Barrie’s review of architect Ben Jack’s A House and Its Atmosphere. Architectural writer Barbara Erwine recounts her day-long experience of observing and recording the social dynamics of a small central square in Spain’s Andalusian hilltown of El Bosque. Next, geographer Edward Relph considers the shifting relationship between physical places and electronic media. Philosopher Dennis Pohl examines philosophical studies that make connections between architectural thinking and the ideas of philosopher Martin Heidegger. The issue ends with five poems by Texan poet Sheryl L. Nelms.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (summer/fall 2018)

This summer/fall 2018 issue of Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology includes the following items: • A “book note” on the recently published 2nd edition of philosopher Jeff Malpas’ groundbreaking Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography, originally published in 1999. This expanded version includes a new chapter on place and technological modernity, “especially the seeming loss of place in the contemporary world.” • A “book note” on EAP editor David Seamon’s recently published Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making, which gives particular attention to the generative aspects of place and locates six place processes that Seamon identifies as place interaction, place identity, place release, place realization, place intensification, and place creation. • An essay by the late philosopher and science educator Henri Bortoft, who focuses on ways of thinking holistically, including the conceptual efforts of proto-phenomenologist Wolfgang Johann von Goethe; physicists Niels Bohr and David Bohm; and philosophers J. G. Bennett, Edmund Husserl, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. • An essay by retired environmental educator John Cameron, who begins a new series of essays on the lived relationship between interiority and exteriority, particularly as qualities of the natural world and place contribute to that relationship.

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY (winter/spring 2022)

ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, 2022

The 2022 winter/spring issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology Includes the following entries: Five “book notes”:  Philosopher Quill R. Kukla’s City Living (Oxford Univ. Press, 2021);  Phenomenologists Michael and Max van Manen’s Classical Writings for a Phenomenology of Practice (Routledge, 2021);  Philosopher Sebastian Luft’s Subjectivity and Lifeworld in Transcendental Phenomenology (Northwestern Univ. Press, 2021, softcover);  Philosopher Jeff Malpas’ Rethinking Dwelling (Bloomsbury, 2021);  Architects Akkelies van Nes and Claudia Yamu’s Introduction to Space Syntax in Urban Studies (Springer, 2021, open-access). The issue also includes two essays: zoologist Stephen Wood’s consideration of becoming familiar with a natural place; and religious-studies scholar Harry Oldmeadow’s portrait of the holiness of mountains. A complete digital EAP archive (1990-2021) is available at: http://krex.k-state.edu/dspace/handle/2097/1522