Which Way is Up?

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 55-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Glen Farrelly
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
History Of

Despite the growing prominence of locative media, its potential influence on our relationships to our places has not been well understood. Based on previous studies, this paper argues that locative media can affect our spatial relationships in various ways and thereby improve our sense of place. To understand how this can be accomplished it is important to examine the features and affordances of the medium along with user practices and outcomes in relation to place. A brief history of locative media is offered to demonstrate a progression from an early focus on wayfinding to current applications that offer a variety of place-related experiences. Subsequent sections outline four qualities about locative media that combine to differentiate it from other media in regards to place, which are its interactivity, reach, mobility, and vocality. The possible user outcomes of social navigation, autobiographical insideness, defamiliarization and refamiliarlization, and spatial interaction are examined as ways in which locative media can enhance sense of place.

Which Way Is Up?

2016 ◽  
pp. 1737-1750
Author(s):  
Glen Farrelly
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
History Of

Despite the growing prominence of locative media, its potential influence on our relationships to our places has not been well understood. Based on previous studies, this paper argues that locative media can affect our spatial relationships in various ways and thereby improve our sense of place. To understand how this can be accomplished it is important to examine the features and affordances of the medium along with user practices and outcomes in relation to place. A brief history of locative media is offered to demonstrate a progression from an early focus on wayfinding to current applications that offer a variety of place-related experiences. Subsequent sections outline four qualities about locative media that combine to differentiate it from other media in regards to place, which are its interactivity, reach, mobility, and vocality. The possible user outcomes of social navigation, autobiographical insideness, defamiliarization and refamiliarlization, and spatial interaction are examined as ways in which locative media can enhance sense of place.

Exploring a Sense of Place in Lu Cuo Xiamen

2014 ◽  
Vol 584-586 ◽  
pp. 713-716
Author(s):  
Xiao Jian Yu
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Overseas Chinese ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
The South ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
History Of ◽  
The City

South-Fujian is one of the most famous hometowns for overseas Chinese. Lu Cuo is the most significant landscape architecture of the South-Fujian. The development of Lu Cuo is a struggle history of South-Fujianese. Locating in the center of the city, Lu Cuo has faced the danger of being destroyed as many of valuable Cuo. This study investigated landscape features of Lu Cuo, including the arcade, dovetail roof ridge, red brick, and exquisite carvings. The results showed that Lu Cuo is the pluralistic coexistence with Chinese and Western architectural styles. Therefore, the study suggests that cultural vale and physical value are importance for preserving and managing Lu Cuo and its surrounding area.

scholarly journals Developing a Sense of Place with Locative Media: An “Underview Effect”

Leonardo ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Speed
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Representations Of Space

The author explores the potential for locative media to offer a sense of a place. Frank White's “Overview Effect” is cited as a model for perceiving a sense of place in a global context. The paper describes the inherent limitations of Cartesian representations of space in supporting this perception. Finally, the author proposes that the capacity of locative media to connect people offers a path for a creative reconciliation between space and time. The author proposes that this kind of connected model may provide an “Underview Effect” and foster an appreciation of a global sense of place.

Mobile Spatial Interaction and Mediated Social Navigation

2011 ◽  
pp. 2604-2608
Author(s):  
Mark Bilandzic ◽  
Marcus Foth
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Mobile Networks ◽  
Spatial Interaction ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Handheld Devices ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Social Navigation ◽  
Global Positioning ◽  
Community Platforms

The increasing ubiquity of location and context-aware mobile devices and applications, geographic information systems (GIS) and sophisticated 3D representations of the physical world accessible by lay users is enabling more people to use and manipulate information relevant to their current surroundings (Scharl & Tochtermann, 2007). The relationship between users, their current geographic location and their devices are summarised by the term “mobile spatial interaction” (MSI), and stands for the emerging opportunities and affordances that location sensitive and Internet capable devices provide to its users. The first major academic event which coined the term in its current usage was a workshop on MSI (see http://msi.ftw.at/) at the CHI 2007 (Fröhlich et al., 2007). Mobile spatial interaction is grounded in a number of technologies that recently started to converge. First, the development of mobile networks and mobile Internet technologies enables people to request and exchange specific information from anywhere at anytime. Using their handheld devices people can, for example, check the latest news, request recent stock exchange values or communicate via mobile instant messaging. The second enabler is global positioning technology. Mobile devices with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers—soon to be joined by the Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) and the European Galileo system—are aware of their current latitude and longitude coordinates and can use this data as value added information for context-aware services, that is, mobile applications that refer to information relevant to the current location of the user. A possible use scenario for such an information request would be, for example, “find all clubs and pubs in a radius of 500 meters from my current position.” The focus of this work is to enrich the opportunities given by such location aware services with selected Web 2.0 design paradigms (Beer & Burrows, 2007; Kolbitsch & Maurer, 2006) toward mobile social networking services that are bound to specific physical places. User participation, folksonomy and geotagging are three design methods that have become popular in Web 2.0 community-platforms and proven to be effective information management tools for various domains (Casey & Savastinuk, 2007; Courtney, 2007; Macgregor & McCulloch, 2006). Applying such a design approach for a mobile information system creates a new experience of collaboration between mobile users, a step toward what Jaokar refers to as the Mobile Web 2.0 (Jaokar & Fish, 2006), that is, a chance for mediated social navigation in physical spaces.

scholarly journals Metabolic dysfunction in women with bipolar disorder: the potential influence of family history of type 2 diabetes mellitus

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 504-513 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie L Rasgon ◽  
Heather A Kenna ◽  
Margaret F Reynolds-May ◽  
Pascale G Stemmle ◽  
Mytilee Vemuri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes ◽  
Bipolar Disorder ◽  
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Family History ◽  
Metabolic Dysfunction ◽  
Potential Influence ◽  
History Of

Bigger Than Life

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Doane
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Early Cinema ◽  
Surround Sound ◽  
Modern Subject ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of

In Bigger Than Life Mary Ann Doane examines how the scalar operations of cinema, especially those of the close-up, disturb and reconfigure the spectator's sense of place, space, and orientation. Doane traces the history of scalar transformations from early cinema to the contemporary use of digital technology. In the early years of cinema, audiences regarded the monumental close-up, particularly of the face, as grotesque and often horrifying, even as it sought to expose a character's interiority through its magnification of detail and expression. Today, large-scale technologies such as IMAX and surround sound strive to dissolve the cinematic frame and invade the spectator's space, “immersing” them in image and sound. The notion of immersion, Doane contends, is symptomatic of a crisis of location in technologically mediated space and a reconceptualization of position, scale, and distance. In this way, cinematic scale and its modes of spatialization and despatialization have shaped the modern subject, interpolating them into the incessant expansion of commodification.

Holistic Houses and a Sense of Place

Museum Worlds ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-195
Author(s):  
Jennifer G. Kahn
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Hybrid Form ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Museum Exhibits ◽  
Initial Location ◽  
Settler Societies ◽  
History Of

ABSTRACTThis article discusses the process of refinding the initial location of the Bishop Museum’s hale pili (Hawaiian pole and thatch house) and an archaeological investigation of the site’s surface architecture, use of space, and subsurface activities. The study touches upon themes relevant to representations of culture and place in museum exhibits, analysis of existing museum collections to holistically interpret material culture, and the history of anthropological collecting. The hale pili represents a “hybrid” form, with elements of precontact Hawaiian folk housing and European concepts introduced in the postcontact period. This problematizes the notion of “traditional” when used in relation to indigenous cultures in settler societies and the practice of exhibiting unique examples of “authentic” housing in isolation. Such analyses increase our interpretive abilities for museum collections and exhibits in the long term, particularly in reunifying folk housing and other material culture with location, a sense of place, and locale.

Now & Then: Garden Designer: A Short History of Gardens

1998 ◽  
Vol 3 (6) ◽  
pp. 428-433
Author(s):  
Nansee Greeley ◽  
Theresa Reardon Offerman
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Relationships ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Short History ◽  
Garden Design ◽  
Use Of Space ◽  
Geometrical Symmetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
House Gardens

Now… From the angle of the sun as it moves across the sky to the structure of the containers that hold the plants, designing a garden requires mathematics because of its use of space and spatial relationships. Many people who design gardens focus on the plants rather than the space, but Martin Stern and Richard Meacock, partners and proprietors of Squire House Gardens in Afton, Minnesota, believe that quite the opposite is true. They think that the space in which they work is the basis of their garden designs and that the art of garden design is making the geometrical symmetry invisible to everyone but those who are searching for it. Martin extends this use of space to what he calls “the pyramid of space.” When designing a garden, he considers the ceiling, floor, and walls, regardless of their size. A background of shrubs might be the walls; the tallest trees, the ceiling; and the walkways or groundcover, the floor. To make the garden flow, all parts of the pyramid must be considered.

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