Phenomenology, place, environment, and architecture: A review of the literature

Phenomenology, Place, Environment, and Architecture: A Review David Seamon Editor, Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Newsletter This review article introduces the reader to the nature of phenomenology and reviews phenomenological research dealing with environmental and architectural concerns. An extensive list of references is provided at the end of the article. A much-abbreviated version of this review appears as “A Way of Seeing People and Place: Phenomenology in Environment-Behavior Research,” published in S. Wapner, J. Demick, T. Yamamoto, and H Minami (Eds.), Theoretical Perspectives in Environment-Behavior Research (pp. 157-78). New York: Plenum, 2000. This shorter, published version is available here at academi.edu at the following link: https://www.academia.edu/39758883/A_way_of_seeing_people_and_place_phenomenology_in_environment-behavior_research_2000_

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2016

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This special issue of EAP celebrates 25 years of publication and includes 19 invited essays organized in terms of four themes: 1. Place—lived emplacement, place attachment, and environmental design as place making; 2. Nature—the lived constitution of the natural environment and natural world; 3. Real-world applications of phenomenological principles (transit design; virtual reality; environmental education); 4. Broader conceptual issues (the subjectivity-objectivity duality; phenomenology vs. analytic science; phenomenology as practiced by non-phenomenologists; phenomenological understanding vs. practical applications; parallels between real-world and phenomenological pathways). Contributors and essay titles are as follows: David Seamon, “Human-Immersion-in-World: Twenty-Five Years of EAP”; Robert Mugerauer, “It’s about People”; Jeff Malpas, “Human Being as Placed Being”; Eva-Maria Simms, “Going Deep into Place”; Sue Michaels, “Viewing Two Sides”; Dennis Skocz, “Giving Space to Thoughts on Place”; Bruce Janz, “Place, Philosophy, and Non-Philosophy”; Janet Donohoe, “Can there be a Phenomenology of Nature”; Tim Ingold, A Phenomenology with the Natural World”; Mark Riegner, “A Phenomenology of Betweenness”; Bryan E. Bannon, “Evolving Conceptions of Environmental Phenomenology”; John Cameron, “Place Making, Phenomenology, and Lived Sustainability”; Lena Hopsch, Social Space and Daily Commuting: Phenomenological Implications”; Matthew S. Bower, “Topologies of Illumination”; Paul Krafel, “Navigating by the Light”; Yi-Fu Tuan, “Points of View and Objectivity: The Phenomenologist’s Challenge”; Julio Bermudez, “Considering the Relationship between Phenomenology and Science”; Edward Relph, “Varieties of Phenomenological Description”; Ingrid Leman Stefanovic, “Phenomenology, Philosophy, and Praxis”; Elizabeth A. Behnke, “In Celebration of a Conversation of Pathways.”

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ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY, vol. 25, no. 2, 2014

"This spring issue includes four essays. In describing the phenomenon of “running-with-a-stroller,” psychologist Tomo Imamichi makes a contribution to what might be called “everyday phenomenology.” Second, geographer Jacobs Sowers draws on a phenomenological approach to explore the unique character and ambience of southern California’s “Wonder Valley,” an unusual place inhabited by three different lifestyle groups that Jacobs identifies as “homesteaders,” “dystopics,” and “utopics.” In the third essay, independent researcher Stephen Wood probes his interest in place attachment by examining two lived dialectics: the spatial tension between inward and outward aspects of place; and the temporal tension between repetitive and singular events relating to place. In closing out this issue, environmental educator John Cameron writes a ninth “letter” from his island home off the coast of Tasmania. Drawing on an unusual environmental encounter with “phosphorescence,” Cameron ponders the difficult lived and conceptual tension between understanding and imagination. Current and back issues of EAP are available at: http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/EAP.html "

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This summer/fall 2018 issue of Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology includes the following items: • A “book note” on the recently published 2nd edition of philosopher Jeff Malpas’ groundbreaking Place and Experience: A Philosophical Topography, originally published in 1999. This expanded version includes a new chapter on place and technological modernity, “especially the seeming loss of place in the contemporary world.” • A “book note” on EAP editor David Seamon’s recently published Life Takes Place: Phenomenology, Lifeworlds and Place Making, which gives particular attention to the generative aspects of place and locates six place processes that Seamon identifies as place interaction, place identity, place release, place realization, place intensification, and place creation. • An essay by the late philosopher and science educator Henri Bortoft, who focuses on ways of thinking holistically, including the conceptual efforts of proto-phenomenologist Wolfgang Johann von Goethe; physicists Niels Bohr and David Bohm; and philosophers J. G. Bennett, Edmund Husserl, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. • An essay by retired environmental educator John Cameron, who begins a new series of essays on the lived relationship between interiority and exteriority, particularly as qualities of the natural world and place contribute to that relationship.

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2016

s is January 11, 2011. Contact: Dr. John Murungi: jmurungi@towson.edu. The 13 annual conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Media will be held in Furtwangen and Freiburg, Germany, March 16-19, 2011. Abstracts for papers and panels should be received by January 14, 2011. Send abstracts, panel proposals, and questions to the conference host: Prof. Dr. Miguel A. García Hochschule Furtwangen; garcia@hs-furtwangen.de. The International Journal of Transpersonal Studies (IJTS), published twice a year, is dedicated to work involving an “interdisciplinary approach to understanding human nature and the world around us. It attempts to synthesize many complementary disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, religious studies, art, anthropology, history, and healing. Transpersonal studies may be generally described as a multidisciplinary movement concerned with the exploration of higher consciousness, expanded self/identity, spirituality, and human potential.” www.transpersonalstudi...

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The winter 2016 issue of Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology is now available. This issue begins 27 years of publication and marks the first digital-only edition. Because of this shift to on-line EAPs only, we are reducing the number of issues from three to two—winter and fall. This issue includes the regular EAP features of “comments from readers,” “items of interest” and “citations received.” The issue also includes: A tribute to phenomenological psychologist Bernd Jager, who passed away in March, 2015. In memoriam, we reprint passages from two of his most noteworthy writings, “Theorizing, Journeying, Dwelling” (1975) and “Theorizing the Elaboration of Place” (1983). A “book note” that reproduces a portion of an interview with phenomenological philosopher Edward Casey, published in the recent volume, Exploring the Work of Edward Casey, edited by Azucena Cruz-Pierre and Donald A. Landes. A book review of archaeologist Christopher Tilley’s Interpreting Landscapes, by Northern Earth Editor John Billingsley. A commentary that philosopher Dylan Trigg presented at the special session on “Twenty-Five years of EAP,” held at the annual meeting of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) in October. Independent researcher Stephen Wood’s “Moving: Remaking a Lifeworld,” in which he offers a first-person phenomenology of moving to a new house, including the lived significance of embodied emplacement. Anthropologist Jenny Quillien’s “Wordless Walkabouts on a Chinese Campus,” which discusses the “sense of place” Quillien experienced while spending three weeks in the South Chinese city of Guangzhou. Artist Victoria King’s “The Imprint of Place,” which considers how King’s sense of artistic creativity has shifted over time, partly because of maturing personal experience and partly because of changes in her lived geography and a deepening understanding of place. Architect Gary Coates’ “Reinventing the Screened Porch: Bioclimatic Design in the American Midwest,” which presents an experiential analysis of a porch Coates designed for his Kansas home.

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