scholarly journals Shapeshifting the Scottish Borders: A Geopoetic Dance of Place

Arts ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Claire Pençak
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Embodied Knowing

In this paper, I unite dance theory and practice and geopoetics in order to reflect on edges, peripheries and borders in a geographic region, the Scottish Borders, where the dominant cultural narrative is and has historically been based on rivalry. I draw here on the writing of the Scottish poet-philosopher Kenneth White, the practices of specific dancers and choreographers and on relational accounts of place and more-than-human perspectives. Rather than ‘sense of place’, my interest is in sensing place and thinking through sites. Threaded throughout are descriptions of perception practices exploring woodland, stone and riverways, which take the reader into the more experiential realm of embodied knowing. These passages are an invitation to be present with more-than-human others, to be in contact with the vitality of materials and to allow for being shaped, rather than being the shaping force. The intention is to bring different bodies of knowledge into contact as a way of revealing other vocabularies within place, which suggest alternative cultural narratives and help create the conditions for place—making a more collaborative, ethical and less anthropocentric endeavour, open to the influence and organising principles of the more-than-human.

Sense of Place in Place Making of Creative Multimedia Foundation Studies Annual Exhibition

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 34-56
Author(s):  
Elyna Amir Sharji ◽  
Lim Yan Peng ◽  
Peter Charles Woods ◽  
Vimala Perumal ◽  
Rose Linda Zainal Abidin
Keyword(s):  
Observational Study ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Empty Space ◽  
Design Criteria ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Individual Behaviour ◽  
The People

The challenge of transforming an empty space into a gallery setting takes on the concept of place making. A place can be seen as space that has meaning when the setting considers space, surroundings, contents, the people and its activities. This research concentrates on investigating how visitors perceive the space by gauging their sense of place (sense of belonging towards a place). Galleries are currently facing changes in this technological era whereby multiple content and context, space and form, display modes, tools and devices are introduced in one single space. An observational study was done during the Foundation Studies Annual Exhibition held at Faculty of Creative Multimedia, Multimedia University. The exhibition was curated and managed by staff and students of Foundation Year showcasing an array of design works. Analogue and digital presentations of paintings, drawings, sculptures, photography and video works were displayed.. The outcome of this research will contribute towards a better design criteria of place making which affects individual behaviour, social values and attitudes. Characterizing types of visitor experience will improve the understanding of a better design criteria of place making, acceptance, understanding and satisfaction.

Narrative Continuity/Rupture: Projected Professional Futures amid Pervasive Employment Precarity

2021 ◽  
pp. 073088842110282
Author(s):  
Elena Ayala-Hurtado
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Institutional Support ◽  
University Graduates ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Future Projections ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stable Employment ◽  
Past Conditions

As working conditions change worldwide, employment precarity is increasing, including for groups for whom such conditions are unexpected. This study investigates how members of one such group—educationally advantaged young adults—describe their professional futures in a context of unprecedented employment precarity where their expected trajectories are no longer easily achievable. Using 75 interviews with young university graduates in Madrid, Spain, I find that most young graduates drew on a long-standing cultural narrative, which I call the “achievement narrative,” to imagine future stable employment. Simultaneously, most denounced this narrative as fraudulent. To explain this finding, I draw on the concept of hysteresis: the mismatch between beliefs that are dependent on the past conditions that produced them and the available opportunities in the present. I argue that hysteresis can extend into future projections; projected futures can be guided by beliefs based on past conditions more than by lived experiences in the present. Further, I argue that the achievement narrative itself reinforces hysteresis in future projections due to its resonance and institutional support. The paper offers new insights into projected futures and employment precarity by analyzing the future projections of a privileged cohort facing unexpected precarity, further develops the concept of hysteresis, and extends the study of cultural narratives.

scholarly journals New Urbanism as Urban Political Development: Racial Geographies of ‘Intercurrence’ across Greater Seattle

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 417-428
Author(s):  
Yonn Dierwechter
Keyword(s):  
Political Development ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
New Urbanism ◽  
American Political Development ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Planning Theory ◽  
Simultaneous Operation ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Policy Regimes ◽  
New Urbanist

While New Urbanism is now subject to a range of theorizations from different perspectives and disciplinary approaches, it is rarely framed as part of a society’s overall political development. This article explores New Urbanism through recently ‘cosmopolitanized’ and ‘urbanized’ theories of American Political Development (APD). For many years, APD scholars like Skowronek and Orren have emphasized the conceptual importance of ‘intercurrence,’ which refers to the simultaneous operation of multiple political orders in specific places and thus to the tensions and abrasions between these orders as explanations for change. Urban scholars have engaged with these ideas for some time, particularly in studies of urban politics and policy regimes, but APD’s influence on urban planning theory and practice remains underdeveloped. This article takes up this lacuna, applying select APD ideas, notably intercurrence, to understand how multi-scalar governments develop space though New Urbanist theories of place-making, with special attention paid to race. Examples from metropolitan Seattle are used to illustrate (if not fully elaborate) the article’s overall arguments and themes.

Place-Making and Sustainable Community Development

2019 ◽  
pp. 253-272
Author(s):  
Rosario Adapon Turvey
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
Healthy Environment ◽  
Sustainable Community

This review chapter explores place-making in terms of how it is linked with sustainable community development (SCD). Place-making as it relates to sustainable community development has not been understood in the practice of sustainability, urban planning, and community development. Here, place-making is a process of planning, designing, managing, and programming spaces to create patterns and activities in cultural, social, economic, and ecological terms to achieve a better quality of life, a prosperous economy, and healthy environment. As informed by research, it can be an approach to sustainability thinking as a strategy for transforming cities and public spaces to promote well-being and prosperity in a local place, urban area, or neighborhood. In the long-term, the theory and practice of sustainable community development relative to place-making will evolve and eventually produce well-grounded meanings and conceptualizations as we engage in more research on sustainability and sustainable development.

scholarly journals Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Máiréad Nic Craith ◽  
Michaela Fenske
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Place Making

How do people use history to shape their lives, places and ‘worlds’? Which kind of history do they use, and in what ways? What are the functions of history in this context? How do people interact with places and spaces by constructing history, and what are the implications of these constructions for a sense of place? These are some of the questions explored in this special issue of the Anthropological Journal of European Cultures on history and place-making.

scholarly journals Tinjauan Ulang Potensi Sense of place dalam Pelestarian Kawasan Pusaka Perkotaan

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392
Author(s):  
Christin Dameria ◽  
Roos Akbar ◽  
Petrus Natalivan Indradjati ◽  
Dewi Sawitri Tjokropandojo
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Heritage Conservation ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Urban Heritage ◽  
Place Experience ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Heritage Planning ◽  
Guidance Information

Urban heritage conservation planning seeks to produce place experience with historical characteristics to bring sense of place that is a relation between human and place. However heritage urban planning that focuses on the sense of place actually gets criticized for being stuck in place-making purposes only and ignores the human dimension. The study of the sense of place potential in the urban heritage conservation is indeed still limited even though this potential needs to be studied futher because urban heritage place have cultural significant values which should be conserved by involving human dimensions. This paper is a literature review that intends to explore others sense of place potential related to human dimensions that can be used to successfully urban heritage conservation. In urban heritage conservation, besides being beneficial for place-making, it was found that the sense of place also has the potential as guidance information in the urban heritage spatial planning, factors that influence the participation of local residents to be involved in urban heritage planning and factors related to heritage conserving behavior.

scholarly journals Turning ‘Space’ into ‘Place’ with Food

2018 ◽  
Vol 106 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-234
Author(s):  
Jennifer Hough Evans
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Immigrant Women ◽  
Grocery Store ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Food Identity

This article on food, identity, and place-making, examines the lives of twelve immigrant women in post-1945 North Bay, Ontario. It demonstrates how these women, as they navigated their way through kitchen and grocery store spaces, negotiated their sense of place, in connection with their identities, their memories brought from home, and their material contexts.

Place-based business models for resilient local economies

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dante Di Gregorio
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Tight Coupling ◽  
Economic Resilience ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Context Specific

Purpose This purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the concept of place-based business models, by which entrepreneurs use highly context-specific strategies and linkages to a “sense of place” as sources of value creation. To illustrate how place-based business models create unique value, case studies are reviewed from three sectors in Italy: Slow Food (Coop Italia and Eataly), agritourism (Spannocchia) and the albergo diffuso (Sextantio). Design/methodology/approach This is a conceptual paper with case studies from qualitative data and external sources. Findings The case studies demonstrate the value-creating potential of opportunities for the implementation of place-based business models. In contrast with conventional harm reduction perspectives, these models show how organizational contributions to local and regional resilience may also directly generate competitive advantage. The cases also illustrate challenges such as scaling up while maintaining authenticity, and coping with the public goods-nature of place-based resources. Originality/value Conventional management theory and practice treat environmental context as a distraction from which the technical core of the organization must be protected. Place-based business models diverge from convention by using tight coupling with local context to create value, enhance local economic resilience and contribute to a “sense of place”.

Forensic psychiatry

2021 ◽  
pp. 529-554
Author(s):  
Philip Candilis ◽  
Richard Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Forensic Psychiatry ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Integrative Approach ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Cultural Narrative ◽  
Self Reflection ◽  
Innovative Thinking ◽  
Cultural Assessment

Forensic psychiatry derives the ethics of the subspecialty from a review of its historical evolution. From its early origins in community psychiatry to its contemporary applications in cultural narrative and human rights, forensic ethics has come to recognize multiple perspectives in its theory and practice. Tools like narrative, cultural assessment, and self-reflection now characterize a professional ethics that adopts an integrative approach to the intersection of two very different value systems, those of Law and Medicine. As practitioners recognize the vulnerability of persons and values caught at this junction, innovative thinking about social justice and human rights enhances the ethical understanding of the profession’s goals and purpose.

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