Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology

Exemplary Topics Covered

Exemplary topics covered:

• The nature of environmental and architectural experience;
• Sense of place, including place identity and place attachment;
• Architectural and landscape meaning;
• The environmental, architectural, spatial, and material dimensions of lifeworlds;
• Changing conceptions of space, place, and nature;
• Home, dwelling, journey, and mobility;
• Environmental encounter and its relation to environmental responsibility and action;
• Environmental design as place making;
• Environmental and architectural atmospheres and ambiences;
• The role of everyday things—furnishings, tools, clothing, interior design, landscape features, and so forth—in supporting people’s sense of environmental wellbeing;
• Sacred space, landscape, and architecture;
• The practice of a lived environmental ethic.