Yodan Rofe adresses the "Place of Feeling in Christopher Alexander's theory" and explains how to measure and map feelings in a built environment.
# Feeling in Alexander's Theory - in the Notes on the Synthesis of Form: - feelings are shared and it is related to the quality of places
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# Some Parallels - Csikszentmihalyi's experience sampling method (ESM) and theory of flow as state of well-being. Happiness is being involved in purposeful activity which challenges us but is within our capacity. - Analogy between the process of personal growth and the intensification of the field of centers (you can think about your own life as a process of strengthening the center/s within yourself). - D'Amasio's theory of feeling - difference between emotion and feeling. Feeling a reflexive (transmitted through special neurons) sense of bodily sensations, so it is not an immediate response - Kahneman's notion of "experienced utility" and "objective happiness" as the sum of experience utility moments; people are pretty good at expressing how they feel right now,
# How do we map feelings? - impossible to do alone in a neighborhood - zone a place, go there and map 1-feels very good, 2 - feels good, 3 - feels bad, 4 - feels very bad -> four level scale recommended because on a 5 level scale people tend to opt for the neutral -> the process has a lot of metodological complications; as any method influences the feeling - do two or more surveys - correlate with physical and other factors -> create an aggregated feeling map - do statistical analysis of the single observations of people - do the Cronbach reliability test (Cronbach's alpha was calculated for cells containing a minimum of 3 observation - you'd have to divide, i.e. create a cell-structure following as much as possible the architectural structure, f.i. half a block - -> with two persons per block a very reliable map was possible. Variation and Agreement about Feeling in a Neighborhood - tenure, age, years of residence and gender were associated with difference in feelings - however the effect of place was more significant - ina logit model social variables alone predicted 50% of responses while location (street) predicts 60% - there is variation as a result of context and knowledge about the place - variation as a result of direction of view
# What are the Sources of Feeling? - the majority of positive responses were about neighbors and the maintenance of homes and gardens - the predominant negative ...?
# Feeling and Place - fairly well established that feelings about places are rather shared - affected by personal and social variables but place is a stronger predictor - no strong correlations with particular structural variables in the environment - different in every place - we don't have a consistent way to describe the spatial environment in an analytic fashion - patterns and centers are not easily mapped and hard to quantify - we need to rely on human judgement - So how do we transform the feeling map into a diagnosis of place?
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Presentation by Yodan Rofe at Purplsoc 2017