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Case study: climate action (SDG13)
Published in Emmanuel Tsekleves, Rachel Cooper, Jak Spencer, Design for Global Challenges and Goals, 2021
Anna Kooi, Mariana Martínez Balvanera
The deceptively simple tool of the mobile kitchen – where a wide range of regional residents meet, cook and taste together – enables an informal exchange of knowledge about relevant topics such as the origins of edible products, the resourcefulness of the rainforest, agricultural practices and local gastronomy. Initiated as brief interventions in public spaces of local towns aimed at identifying local narratives and assets, the street kitchen actions (SKAs) quickly evolved into weekly collective moments. Since ‘sense of place’ refers to the way in which “people perceive, experience, express and give meaning to place” (Axford & Hockings, 2005, p. 1), collective moments fulfil a crucial role in creating shared identities. Embedded in both the physical and socio-economic landscape, food provides a powerful tool to create a unified identity within a community. By connecting local knowledge and values to edible products, such as achiote paste,6 a shared sense of pride arose among practitioners.
Maritime and Port Security: A Manager’s Perspective
Published in Kenneth Christopher, Port Security Management, 2014
When thinking of what the word security actually means, it can be understood as a static and somewhat predictable environment in which an individual or a group may go about its business without disruption or harm, and without fear of disturbance or injury. Security can also be viewed as a system or orderly method for establishing conditions and procedures for stability. The system of security is arranged so that all aspects of the organization are functioning as planned. Security can also relate to people’s comfort level with respect to their environment. This sense of place describes a feeling people have as they interact with their environments. To what extent do people become involved in protecting themselves from perceived threats? The answer may depend on the settings they find themselves in. These settings change constantly as security threats and risks to safety exist everywhere. How safe do you feel when you leave your home? As you drive in your car? Ride the bus? Walk in a department store? Sit in a baseball stadium? Enter a skyscraper? Ride an elevator? Board a ship? As the environmental conditions change, a person’s sense of place changes and the degree to which people increase or decrease their security plans changes. The sense of place is important to security management because it goes to the heart of the security mission in a given organization. If the mission of an organization is to provide a safe and secure environment for people to operate a business, the security manager’s task is to establish a secure sense of place for the relative community. For example, crime rates and people’s perceptions of crime or fears about specific criminal activities are a factor in assessing security needs because they influence the sense of place. People will raise their defenses when they know the risk of being in a certain neighborhood or setting is greater than others. It becomes important for the manager to understand these dynamics and integrate security concerns at various levels in the organization to meet the mission challenges.
An insight into the urban smellscape: the transformation of traditional to contemporary urban place experience
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2023
Kalyani Wankhede, Amit Deshmukh, Amit Wahurwagh, Akshay Patil, Mahesh Varma
The urban ambiances are shaped and embodied experienced as a result of diverse, at times distinctive, a fusion of seeing, hearing, tasting, touching, and smelling atmospheric characteristics (Thibaud 2011). Senses perform a vital role in shaping the people–place relationship, and this long-term relationship establishes identities and meanings to the physical environments that create a sense of place (Davidson and Milligan 2004). Sense of place expresses how people feel about the place, and level of sense of place varies depending on activities and meaning of place. The higher level of sense of place encourages the people interaction to connect with that place, and that is why the creation and conservation of sense of place is important in maintaining the quality of the place (Nijafi, Kamal, and Mohd Shariff 2011). The experiences of smells enrich our understanding of places and behavioral responses in places (Classen, Howes, and Synnott 1994). The smell plays different roles in place experience and leads to behavioral changes, such as therapeutic smells, natural smell affects the human behavior positively; on contrary, the smells such as smell from waste and traffic negatively affect the place experience and quality of life (Henshaw 2013; Xiao, Aletta, and Radicchi 2022). The focus on eradication and deodorization of smell in planning policies resulted in olfactory blandness of place, which often contributes to a loss of the sense of place (Meighan 2007), so the smell-sensitive urban planning is important for sustainable development.
Comprehensive assessment to residents’ perceptions to historic urban center in megacity: a case study of Yuexiu District, Guangzhou, China
Published in Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering, 2021
Zhaohua Deng, Dantong Chen, Xiaoling Qin, Shifu Wang
Reimaging cities through careful preservation and regeneration strategies that target urban renaissances (Punter 2009) has long been the main approach in revitalizing decaying city centers, particularly in historic cores. In such locations, the sense of place is often emphasized through their unique and authentic imageability, usually using urban design (Heath, Oc, and Tiesdell 2013), to address the historical, cultural, economic, or environmental values (Bandarin and van Oers 2012). In addition to historic preservation measures, most of the conventional planning and design approaches applied to historic quarters focus on place-promotion (Cuthbert 2006) to improve their competitiveness in retail, culture, and tourism and compete with suburbanization. However, these practices are highly criticized for their gentrification consequences (Tallon 2013). Although the local communities’ crucial role in historic urban center development has been documented (Nasser 2003), the relationship between residents and the preservation and regeneration strategies remains underexplored. This case also applies to social sustainability in urban design strategies for historic urban centers, containing complex urban center functions and invaluable built heritages.
Digital heritage interpretation: a conceptual framework
Published in Digital Creativity, 2018
In this context, this paper aims to develop a conceptual framework for interpretation of digital heritage, which would help the end-users to attain the desired perceptual sense of place and culture. This paper addresses the issues by investigating theories and methods of heritage interpretation from real-world context; followed by further enquiry on Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human Behavioural Studies. This way, issues regarding embodiment, sense of place, co-experience, meaning making and inter-subjectivity have led this research to consider digital heritage interpretation as a ‘cultural synthesis’—a continuous process rather than a product. Instead of pre-determined instructional sequences or descriptive interpretation, this paper tries to merge the concept of ‘re-construction’ (Uzzell 1989) and ‘popular interpretation’ (Fitch 1982), which opens up the possibility of exploring the interaction setting as participatory and contributory, where the end-users and the environment can engage in dialogue and interaction or ‘dialogic interaction’ (Witcomb 2003; Rahaman and Tan 2011).