scholarly journals Narrative research + the built environment

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
Dianne Smith
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Graphical Representations ◽  
Stained Glass ◽  
Environmental Interpretation ◽  
Design Experience ◽  
Glass Movement

Narration or story telling is proposed as a process which enables researchers in interior design/architecture to deal with the crux of environmental design - experience and relationships. This approach addresses the limitations of more superficial understandings of the built environment represented by discussions of form or appearance. Narration generally occurs as written or verbal accounts, but it may also involve graphical representations, stained glass, movement, dance, or music (Barthes: 1979). How narrative inquiry is of value in the study of interior architecture, and consequently for research into the built environment is discussed in this paper with specific attention to identifying how these concepts may be applicable for research focusing on environmental interpretation and the construction of meaning.

Narrative Inquiry as a Relational Methodology

2022 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Vicki G. Mokuria ◽  
Alankrita Chhikara
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Dominant Narratives ◽  
Ways Of Being

The authors present an overview of narrative research and focus primarily on narrative inquiry, highlighting what distinguishes this approach from other research methods. Narrative inquiry allows scholars to go beyond positivism and explore how research can be conducted based on participants' stories, rather than using a purely scientific methodological approach. This research method acknowledges and honors narrative truths and provides a scholarly framework that makes space for voices often marginalized or excluded when dominant narratives and/or data hold a prominent place in a research agenda. As such, narrative inquiry can be used in academic research to challenge the status quo, thus harnessing research to stretch beyond hegemonic ways of being and knowing. The authors provide a robust overview and conceptualization of this approach, along with foundational concepts and exemplars that comprise this method of research.

Narrative Research in Education

Education ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Jean Clandinin ◽  
Vera Caine ◽  
Margot Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Written Text ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Methodology ◽  
Research In Education

While the study of narratology has a long history, narrative research became a methodology for the study of phenomena in the social sciences in the 1980s. Since that time there has been what some have called a narrative revolution, which is reflected in the rapid uptake in the use of narrative methodology across disciplines. There are diverse definitions of narrative research with different ontological and epistemological commitments, which range from semiotic studies and discourse analysis of spoken and written text to analysis of textual structures of speech and performances of texts as in narrative analysis to the relational studies of narrative inquiry where a focus on lived and told experience is central.

Thinking big with small stories in narrative and identity analysis

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Georgakopoulou
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Meeting Point ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Interactional Features

Narrative research is frequently described as a rich and diverse enterprise, yet the kinds of narrative data that it bases itself on present a striking consensus: they are autobiographical in kind (i.e., about non-shared, personal experience, single past events). In this paper, I put forth a case for under-represented narrative data which I collectively call (following Bamberg 2004a, b; also Georgakopoulou & Bamberg, 2005) “small stories” (partly literally, partly metaphorically). My aim is to flesh small stories out, to urge for the sort of systematic research that will establish connections between their interactional features and their sites of engagement and finally to consider the implications of their inclusion in narrative research for identity analysis (as the main agenda of much of narrative research). I will thus propose small stories research as a “new” narrative turn that can provide a needed meeting point for narrative analysis and narrative inquiry.

The Impact of Environmental Design on Teamwork and Communication in Healthcare Facilities: A Systematic Literature Review

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arsalan Gharaveis ◽  
D. Kirk Hamilton ◽  
Debajyoti Pati
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
English Language ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Healthcare Facility ◽  
Environmental Research ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
The Impact

The purpose of this systematic review is to investigate the current knowledge about the impact of healthcare facility design on teamwork and communication by exploring the relevant literature. Teamwork and communication are behavioral factors that are impacted by physical design. However, the effects of environmental factors on teamwork and communication have not been investigated extensively in healthcare design literature. There are no published systematic reviews on the current topic. Searches were conducted in PubMed and Google Scholar databases in addition to targeted design journals including Health Environmental Research & Design, Environment and Behavior, Environmental Psychology, and Applied Ergonomics. Inclusion criteria were (a) full-text English language articles related to teamwork and communication and (b) involving any healthcare built environment and space design published in peer-reviewed journals between 1984 and 2017. Studies were extracted using defined inclusion and exclusion criteria. In the first phase, 26 of the 195 articles most relevant to teamwork and 19 studies of the 147 were identified and reviewed to understand the impact of communication in healthcare facilities. The literature regarding the impact of built environment on teamwork and communication were reviewed and explored in detail. Eighteen studies were selected and succinctly summarized as the final product of this review. Environmental design, which involves nurses, support staff, and physicians, is one of the critical factors that promotes the efficiency of teamwork and collaborative communication. Layout design, visibility, and accessibility levels are the most cited aspects of design which can affect the level of communication and teamwork in healthcare facilities.

scholarly journals An investigation into practical experiences as an aspect of interior design education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
William W. Kilborn
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Interior Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
Educational Training ◽  
Practical Design ◽  
Incomplete Design ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Design Experience

"The purpose of the present study is to discover whether an Interior Design student exposed to practical design experience during his formal education might possibly have an advantage over, (1) the student with educational training only; or (2) the designer with a minimum amount of practical experience and incomplete design education - in terms of problem solving and academic performance."--Introduction.

scholarly journals Silenced Motherhood(s): Forbidden Motherings in the Early Childhood Classroom

Genealogy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Dana Frantz Bentley
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Narrative Inquiry ◽  
Narrative Research ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Early Childhood Classroom ◽  
Classroom Relationships ◽  
Early Childhood Pedagogy

What is the role of mothering in the early childhood classroom? Given the focus of the field of “professionalization” and “scientific” practices, how might the role of maternal nurturance be woven into our understandings of pedagogies? This paper addresses the disempowerment experienced by an early childhood practitioner when maternal subjectivities and practices are framed as oppositional to the “professionalization” of the field. Through narrative research as a teacher-scholar, I explore my own experiences around my role as “not-mother” in the classroom, looking critically at the interwovenness of mothering and teaching in classroom relationships and communities. Through this narrative examination, I explore the role of maternal relationships in early childhood, in conversation with my practices of mothering as the teacher-not-mother. Through narrative inquiry and analysis, I attempt to make visible the forbidden subjectivities of the not-mother, and her centrality to meaningful early childhood pedagogy.

SoftAssertions

2017 ◽  
pp. 65-86
Author(s):  
Peter A. Di Sabatino
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Student Work ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Professional Boundaries ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Interior Designers ◽  
The City

This Chapter glances at the shifting landscape of disciplines and professions, with particular focus towards “Interior Design.” In spite of trends and increasing examples of the erosion and overlapping of disciplinary and professional boundaries, ironically or not, there remains the need for some sort of definition; in other words, there needs to be a body of knowledge and skills defined and practiced. This is especially relevant in a world of inter-, multi-, and trans-disciplinary work and comprehensive creative practices. After a very quick look at “Environmental Design” – or the design of environments and experiences – the paper spends a bit more time examining possible core aspects of Interior Design while promoting its expanded field. An articulated interior urbanism creates clear areas of contribution from the interior designers within the city. Additionally, the chapter explores the curricular use of intensive design workshops with a singular focus of the student's attention; selected student work from Politecnico di Milano is included.

On the Eco-Building for Sustainable Development Thinking and Practising Environmental Design

2013 ◽  
Vol 448-453 ◽  
pp. 1325-1328
Author(s):  
Hong Kun Peng
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Design ◽  
Human Potential ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Ecological Construction

Ignoring the coordinated development and the natural environment carrying capacity plight caught the traditional development model, emphasizing the natural environment and the economy to adapt to the pursuit of harmony between man and nature, sustainable development become a wise choice, eco-design of the built environment is a human realization important tool for sustainable development. Sustainable eco-design of the built environment and the long-term goal of the current interests combine to maintain maximum coordination with the natural environment, not only become the reality of human needs, while also considering the needs of the human potential. Ecological construction and environmental protection around the significance of in-depth discussion of the needle eco-building for sustainable development thinking and practice of environmental design, environmental design proposed ecological architecture reflects the theme of sustainable development, while recycling is designed to achieve low carbon, environmentally friendly eco-building environment design approach.

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