Sense Of Place
4.5. Sense of place
One of the important and effective concepts in relation to human and environment is the sense of place which is considered among the basic criteria for assessing quality of environments. This is a witness of reaching the environmental meaning and has different levels representing a range of relations between person and environment. Shamai (1991) refers to three main levels of belonging, attachment, and commitment to place in relation to the formation of different levels of sense of place, and categorizes this sense in seven degrees that are: indifference towards place, awareness of being in a place, belonging, attachment, uniting with the goals of place, enchanting, and eventually sacrificing for place. Explaining that the first two levels include mainly the perceptual and cognitive aspects of the person relative to the environment, and from the third level on, its emotional …show more content…
The results of past research have shown that physical factors of the environment play the role of mediators in the formation of a sense of place and can be effective at two levels (Javan Forouzandeh & Motallebi, 2011): 1. Satisfaction of individual (first) and social needs arising from collective activities (at a later stage) by coordinating with the activities and afford them, and 2. Establishing a visual interface for creating a connection between the user's mind and place as cultural elements and symbols. These effects are reflected in a variety of dimensions, so that they are manifested within the domain of perception and cognition by defining territory and privacy, enclosure of space, physical distinction between places, connection between indoor and outdoor environments, legibility and adaptation to the patterns of behavior, etc., and in the emotional dimension by representing the physical form of symbols, memories and mental images of human. There are different approaches to this, most notably in the fields of phenomenology, ontology, and
One of the important and effective concepts in relation to human and environment is the sense of place which is considered among the basic criteria for assessing quality of environments. This is a witness of reaching the environmental meaning and has different levels representing a range of relations between person and environment. Shamai (1991) refers to three main levels of belonging, attachment, and commitment to place in relation to the formation of different levels of sense of place, and categorizes this sense in seven degrees that are: indifference towards place, awareness of being in a place, belonging, attachment, uniting with the goals of place, enchanting, and eventually sacrificing for place. Explaining that the first two levels include mainly the perceptual and cognitive aspects of the person relative to the environment, and from the third level on, its emotional …show more content…
The results of past research have shown that physical factors of the environment play the role of mediators in the formation of a sense of place and can be effective at two levels (Javan Forouzandeh & Motallebi, 2011): 1. Satisfaction of individual (first) and social needs arising from collective activities (at a later stage) by coordinating with the activities and afford them, and 2. Establishing a visual interface for creating a connection between the user's mind and place as cultural elements and symbols. These effects are reflected in a variety of dimensions, so that they are manifested within the domain of perception and cognition by defining territory and privacy, enclosure of space, physical distinction between places, connection between indoor and outdoor environments, legibility and adaptation to the patterns of behavior, etc., and in the emotional dimension by representing the physical form of symbols, memories and mental images of human. There are different approaches to this, most notably in the fields of phenomenology, ontology, and