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Call for Proposals: "Place"
The paper attempts to present a phenomenological ontology of place by examining spatial themes found in Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Otto Bollnow, Nishida Kitarō, and Ueda Shizuteru, among others. Wherever we are we are implaced, delimited in our being-in-the-world constituted by a horizon that implaces and de-limits us, not only literally but metaphorically, both semantically and ontologically. Whether we take place in its semantic sense or as ontological, I underscore its duplicity—taking off from Ueda Shizuteru’s concept of being-in-the-twofold-world (nijū sekai naisonzai)—as on the one hand demarcating a realm of determinacy, our ontological finitude or our social imaginary world, and on the other hand through its horizonal nature as pointing to its nether side or other, an exteriority demarcating or delimiting the world wherein we are implaced. That latter may be characterized as an excess irreducible to semantic or ontological determination or as a nothing or a-meaning. Jaspers had something like this in mind when he spoke of the “embracing” (das Umgreifende) and Heidegger spoke of this in terms of the “region/ing” (Gegend) or “that which regions” (Gegnet). Hence place at the limit-point of its horizon implies the interface of meaning and a-meaning, nomos and anomy, order and chaos, principles and anarché, or in Nishidian terms being and nothing (mu), in Heideggerian terms unconcealment and concealment or world and earth, horizon and region. In its contact with the unassmilable or irreducible excess beyond, the horizon’s line of demarcation is in flux and unpredictable. The horizon that constitutes our place or world thus entails both finitude within and an openness beyond, entailing alterity and alteration. The place determined within its horizon will thus always be provisional despite any appearance or claims to the contrary. Its determination is indeterminate. Towards the end of this presentation I would like to discuss the implications of this understanding of the world in such terms of place and horizon, especially in relation to the world’s globalization, where previously isolated or demarcated regional cultural spheres are forced to confront and deal with one another and intermingle and face the threat of homogenization. But on the reverse side the alterity and alterations belonging to this place-horizon dynamic are also made explicit in our contemporary situation thus precluding complete homogenization. All of these issues have existential-ethical implications that must be addressed.
International Communication of Chinese Culture
Introduction to special issue: Confucianism and place2017 •
Expanding Fields of Architectural Discourse and Practice: Curated Works from the P.E.A.R. Journal
Place as a reflexive conversation with the situation2020 •
2014 •
What makes a place a place? A question that has eluded thinkers, from Aristotle to some of the leading social scientists of our age. Intuitively it can be sensed that ‘place’ belongs to a different register or modality of existence than other geographic signifiers such as ‘space’ or ‘site’. The question I wish to pose in this chapter is how we can find ways to begin to re-conceputalize place in a manner that, with the words of Donna Haraway (2010), ‘stays with the trouble’ of the entangled ontological complexity of the phenomenon of place instead of forcing us to succumb to unwarranted reductions. A conceptualization that may be of help in highlighting just how the concept of place appears to transverse the ingrained but highly artificial subject/object-divide which is latent in much of Western thinking. Instead I hope to showcase some of the intellectual tooling that may be of help in tracing the intertwinement, or even mutual constitution, of the ‘subjective’ and ‘objective’, as well as the ‘material’ and the ‘social’, which complex ontological phenomena such as places may help to open our eyes to. Borrowing words from Dovey, we can hopefully find some ways to explorehow to “move beyond a false choice between place as pre-given or as socially constructed” (Dovey, 2010:6).
Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences
Introduction to understandings of place: a multidisciplinary symposium2015 •
Overview This course introduces students to qualitative, descriptive approaches to research in environmental behavior. The first part of the course explores methods for studying the built environment intuitively, particularly the approach of phenomenology. Next, the course examines such themes as space-as-experienced, sense of place, environmental encounter, built form as experiential symbol, and architecture and landscape architecture as community making. A major focus is architecture and environmental design as place making. Seminar objectives ▪ To consider the experience of place and to recognize its multi-dimensional nature that includes experiential, social, cultural, aesthetic, and political dimensions. ▪ To introduce students to various conceptual approaches to place, including analytic, ethnographic, and phenomenological perspectives. ▪ To review various theoretical and practical approaches to place making, including space syntax, pattern language, responsive environments, and design for social and cultural diversity. ▪ To demonstrate the value of understanding human behavior and experience in relation to environmental and architectural concerns. ▪ To recognize the architect's responsibility to work in the public interest and to improve the quality of life. ▪ To strengthen students' abilities to read, interpret, and write effectively. ▪ To illustrate the value of applied research for architecture and environmental design.
This is a summarized version of my book Place and Placelessness, which was first published in 1976, and which is the foundation for all my subsequent writing about place. I have made this summary partly for the benefit of those who have not have read it, but also because I will soon post on Academia original essays about how I think places, experiences of places, and conceptualizations of place have changed in since 1976
Modernity operates in and through a mode of spatialization in which things are increasingly rendered as part of a single encompassing system. As spatializing, that system is also both homogenising and quantizing. Architecture becomes both an expression of this form of spatialization and one of the means by which it operates. Yet what would it mean for architecture to operate differently – to operate in a way that was indeed attentive to place – and why should it even try to so? These two questions are taken up here, but as part of broader account of the role of place in thought and practice – as part of a sketch of a ‘topographical’ or ‘topological’ approach. Such an approach takes seriously the old claim that nothing is that is not placed – and tries to understand what that means and might imply.
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Preoperative localization techniques during thoracoscopic operations2003 •
Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFG
CORTES DE DROGAS NO BRASIL: A HERANÇA DO PROJETO DE FREDERICO WESTPHALEN/RS - DOI: http://dx.doi.org/ 10.5216/rfd.v%vi%i.42402Physical Review C
Dissipative properties of hot and dense hadronic matter in an excluded-volume hadron resonance gas model2015 •
Hypertension (Dallas, Tex. : 1979)
Hypertension and Its Complications in a Young Man With Autoimmune Disease2017 •
DIETAS PARA FILHOTES DE TAMANDUÁ-BANDEIRA (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) EM CATIVEIRO
DIETAS PARA FILHOTES DE TAMANDUÁ-BANDEIRA (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) EM CATIVEIRO: revisão bibliográfica para adequação nutricional2022 •
Cahiers de géographie du Québec
RAIBAUD, Yves (2005) Territoires musicaux en région. L’émergence des musiques amplifiées en Aquitaine. Pessac, MSHA, 332 p. (ISBN 2-85892-324-8)2006 •
Chemosphere
Effects of the antimicrobial agent sulfamethazine on metolachlor persistence and sorption in soil2006 •
2016 •
Geophysical Research Letters
A magnetotelluric investigation of the San Andreas Fault at Carrizo Plain, California1997 •
Society & Natural Resources
Rural Community Views on the Role of Local and Extralocal Interests in Public Lands Governance2010 •
2017 •
Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Liquefaction resistance of Fraser River sand improved by a microbially-induced cementation2020 •
2007 •
Revista del cuerpo médico del HNAAA
Brote de malaria en relación con un conglomerado de casos importados en una zona fronteriza, PerúInfectious Diseases and Therapy
GMMA Technology for the Development of Safe Vaccines: Meta-Analysis of Individual Patient Data to Assess the Safety Profile of Shigella sonnei 1790GAHB Vaccine in Healthy Adults, with Special Focus on Neutropenia2022 •
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe)
SUSANE, a device for sampling chemical gradients in the benthic water column2020 •
Journal of Cellular Physiology
Neurotransmitters and Neuropeptides: New Players in the Control of Islet of Langerhans' Cell Mass and Function2015 •
arXiv (Cornell University)
Energy loss reduction of a charge moving through an anisotropic plasma-like medium2020 •
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT
A Model to Determine the Commodity Derivative Turnover in Commodity Exchanges in India2020 •