http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1309 Search the Channel search http://krex.ksu.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1697 Title: A way of seeing people and place: Phenomenology in environment-behavior research<br/><br/>Authors: Seamon, David<br/><br/>Editors: Wapner, Seymour; Demick, Jack; Yamamoto, Takiji; Minami, Hirofumi<br/><br/>Abstract: This review examines the phenomenological approach as it might be used to explore environmental and architectural issues. After discussing the nature of phenomenology in broad terms, the review presents two major assumptions of the phenomenological approach: (1) that people and environment compose an indivisible whole; (2) that phenomenological method can be described in terms of a “radical empiricism.” The review then considers three specific phenomenological methods: (1) first-person phenomenological research; (2) existential-phenomenological research; and (3) hermeneutical-phenomenological research. Next, the article discusses trustworthiness and reliability as they can be understood phenomenologically. Finally, the review considers the value of phenomenology for environmental design. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1692 Title: Interconnections, relationships, and environmental wholes: A phenomenological ecology of natural and built worlds<br/><br/>Authors: Seamon, David<br/><br/>Editors: Geib, Melissa<br/><br/>Abstract: In this article, I ask what the relationships, interconnections, and environmental wholes of ecology become in a phenomenological perspective. To answer this question, I consider one phenomenon from the natural world—color—and one phenomenon from the human-made world—vibrant urban places. To discuss a phenomenology of vibrant urban places, I turn to my own work on the bodily dimensions of environmental experience and action, especially as the lived body comes to know its everyday environment through the regularity and routine of extended time-space patterns contributing to the transformation of physical space into lived place. I also emphasize, after architectural theorist Bill Hillier, that the physical structure of place, particularly the spatial configuration of pathways, plays a major role in establishing whether streets are well used and animated or empty and lifeless. To discuss a phenomenology of color, I turn to the proto-phenomenology of Goethe, who devised a qualitative way of seeing and understanding that can rightly be called a phenomenology of the natural world. Most significantly for a phenomenological understanding of relationships, interconnections and environmental wholes, Goethe’s work demonstrates how light and color involve an underlying “belonging” seen in perceptual presence but only understood through a moment of insight in which all the parts are understood together and have a fitting place. This article was originally prepared as a keynote address delivered at the symposium, “Renew the Face of the Earth: Phenomenology and Ecology,” organized by the Simon Silverman Phenomenology Center at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pa., March, 12, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1689 Title: A lived hermetic of people and place: Phenomenology and space syntax<br/><br/>Authors: Seamon, David<br/><br/>Abstract: This paper examines ways in which a phenomenological approach might contribute tospace syntax research, drawing on three themes that mark the heart ofphenomenological investigation: (1) understanding grounded in real-world experience; (2) human immersion in world; and (3) describing the lifeworld—a person or group’s everyday world of taken-for-grantedness of which the person or group is typically unaware. A major phenomenological question is how space syntax concepts,particularly the spatial configuration of the “deformed grid,” point toward a particular kind of place structure in which the spatial-temporal regularity of individual participants potentially coalesces into a larger environmental dynamic—what is termed “place ballet”—that both sustains and is sustained by an attachment to and a sense of place. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1688 Title: Place, placelessness, insideness, and outsideness in John Sayles' Sunshine State<br/><br/>Authors: Seamon, David<br/><br/>Abstract: John Sayles is one of America's most successful independent filmmakers, whose works include "Return of the Secaucus Seven" (1980), "City of Hope" (1991), and "Lone Star" (1996). This article examines Sayles' portrait of place in "Sunshine State" (2002), a film set in Plantation Island, Florida, where large-scale corporate development is transforming two communities- one black, the other white - into upscale winter resorts. Sayles' film probes the place experience of some sixteen vividly drawn characters and illuminiates how the same physical place, for different individuals and groups, can evoke a broad spectrum of situations, meanings, and potential futures. One of Sayles" conclusions is that people cannot escape the place in which they find themselves. They can, however, learn from that place and thereby decide wheter and in what ways they will offer that place commitment or not.