“Awakening to the World as Phenomenon”: The Value of Phenomenology for a Pedagogy of Place and Place Making (2020) (original) (raw)
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D. Seamon, 1984. Toward a Phenomenology of Place and Place Making: Interpreting Landscape, Lifeworld and Aesthetics (co authored with Gary J. Coates), Oz, 6 (May): 6 9. The design results of the Meadowcreek studio are presented in: Coates, G. J. & Seamon, D., Promoting a Foundational Ecology Practically Through Christopher Alexander's Pattern Language: The Example of Meadowcreek, in D. Seamon, ed., Dwelling, Seeing and Designing: Toward a Phenomenological Ecology, pp. 331-55 (Albany, NY: SUNY Press and posted here at academia.edu under 1993 entries).
PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PLACE, LIFEWORLDS, AND LIVED EMPLACEMENT, 2023
THIS BOOK IS NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK--https://www.routledge.com/Phenomenological-Perspectives-on-Place-Lifeworlds-and-Lived-Emplacement-The-Selected-Writings-of-David-Seamon/Seamon/p/book/9781032357324 This volume is a compilation of 17 previously published entries that focus on the significance of places and place experiences in human life. Chapters are broken into three parts. Part I includes four chapters that consider what phenomenology offers studies of place and place making. These chapters illustrate the theoretical and practical value of phenomenological concepts like lifeworld, homeworld, natural attitude, and bodily actions in place. Part II incorporates five chapters that aim to understand place and lived emplacement phenomenologically. These chapters consider Merleau-Ponty's thinking on place-as-situatedness, the value of phenomenology for a pedagogy of place making, how architecture might be understood phenomenologically, and the significance of place serendipity in human life. Part III presents phenomenological explications of real-world places and place experience, drawing on photography (André Kertész's Meudon), television (Alan Ball's Six Feet Under), film (John Sayles's Limbo and Sunshine State), and imaginative literature (Doris Lessing's Four-Gated City, Penelope Lively's Spiderweb, and Louis Bromfield's The World We Live in).
Phenomenology, Place, Environment, and Architecture: A Review (2000)
Phenomenology, Place, Environment, and Architecture: A Review David Seamon Editor, Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter This review article introduces the reader to the nature of phenomenology and reviews phenomenological research dealing with environmental and architectural concerns. An extensive list of references is provided at the end of the article. A much-abbreviated version of this review appears as “A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research,” published in S. Wapner, J. Demick, T. Yamamoto, and H Minami (Eds.), Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research (pp. 157-78). New York: Plenum, 2000. This shorter, published version is available here at academi.edu at the following link: https://www.academia.edu/39758883/A\_way\_of\_seeing\_people\_and\_place\_phenomenology\_in\_environment-behavior\_research\_2000\_
Dwelling, Place and Environment: Towards a Phenomenology of Person and World
Geographical Review, 1987
When the first edition of Dwelling, Place and Environment was published in 1985, phenomenological research on environmental and architectural issues was in its infancy. Already, scholars working independently from each other had laid conceptual foundations for understanding how environments, places, and buildings might have bearing on human identity, wholeness, and life.
Place, Place Identity, and Phenomenology (2012)
NOTE: The ideas and examples in this article are now much more fully developed in David Seamon, LIFE TAKES PLACE: PHENOMENOLOGY, LIFEWORLDS, AND PLACEMAKING (London: Routledge, 2018). The most important shift is the author's realizing that genius loci is part of a broader phenomenon that he identifies as "common presence"--"the material and lived 'togetherness' of a place impelled by both its physical and experiential qualities" (Seamon 2018, p. 87). I would ask readers of thIs article to complement their understanding by studying LIFE TAKES PLACE. ABSTRACT OF ORIGINAL ARTICLE: As recent phenomenological studies have demonstrated (Casey 1997, 2009; Malpas 1999, 2006; Mugerauer 2008; Stefanovic 2000), the phenomenon of place is a multivalent structure sophisticated and complex in its existential constitution. In this chapter, I offer one phenomenological vantage point from which to examine this lived complexity. I contend that, as an integral structure of human life, place can be understood in terms of three dimensions: first, the geographical ensemble—i.e., the material environment, including both its natural and human-made dimensions; second, people-in-place, including individual and group actions, intentions, and meanings; and, third, spirit of place, or genius loci. Drawing on the conceptual approach of “systematics” developed by the British philosopher J. G. Bennett, I argue that these three dimensions can engage in six different ways, each of which relates to one particular lived mode whereby place contributes to human life. These six modes are: (1) place interaction; (2) place identity; (3) place creation; (4) place intensification; (5) place realization; and (6) place release. I argue that place identity is important for understanding the nature of place but is complemented by other modes of relationship that together help clarify the complexity and richness of place and place experience.
Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, 2021
Reviewing Tara Page’s book, Placemaking, A New Materialist Theory of Pedagogy for Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research, specifically its section Affecting Affirmative Reviews, was an affective and material placemaking journey(ing). Taking new materialist thinking and doing, Page explores how we make and learn place through the entanglements of body with the socio-materiality of place-world. Page’s book is an invitation to a journey of placemaking, with the children of a particular place-world, the Australian Bush, and with Page, herself, an Australian artist scholar based in London. The reader learns and makes place with Land and Bush alongside Page and her human and more-than-human participants. Through a series of images, Page’s embodied and embedded experiences of the Bush, walking with children in their everyday placemaking practices, show us how learning, knowing and becoming happen through the intra-action of bodies of humans, the Land, Bush, dirt, rain, clouds, their colour, texture, sounds, tastes and feelings.
Transforming Space into Place: Exploring Phenomenology in the Built Environment
The Journal of Research Review, 2024
Phenomenology has always been a part of designing, but has been underutilized for years. By acknowledging certain senses, a space can grow from being just a “space” into a “place”. In order to create a truly unique and memorable place, it needs to access more than one sense in the visitor. Introducing the concept of phenomenology into a designed space can shed a new light on the space and create an overall better experience for the environment its in. To comply with this type of thinking, I hereby propose a study of designed spaces at the University of Illinois Urbana-‐Champaign that successfully acknowledge the use of phenomenology. This study is to be carried out in a qualitative manner, determining why the visitors repeatedly come to the building and what about the building attracts them. The results will determine if the phenomenological outlook on the space was successful and what successes should be applied to other spaces. The findings aim to provide insight into how sensory-rich environments influence behaviour and attachment, offering strategies for future designs to better resonate with users. The purpose of the study is to highlight the need for architects and designers to move beyond visual aesthetics and embrace multisensory design elements to enhance the user's experience leading to a profound connection between people and place
A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research
This review examines the phenomenological approach as it might be used to explore environmental and architectural issues. After discussing the nature of phenomenology in broad terms, the review presents two major assumptions of the phenomenological approach: (1) that people and environment compose an indivisible whole; (2) that phenomenological method can be described in terms of a "radical empiricism." The review then considers three specific phenomenological methods: (1) firstperson phenomenological research; (2) existential-phenomenological research; and (3) hermeneutical-phenomenological research. Next, the article discusses trustworthiness and reliability as they can be understood phenomenologically. Finally, the review considers the value of phenomenology for environmental design.