Looking at space-people relationship through the anthropotopy approach
Résumé
The relationship humans have with their spaces have been studied in multiple dimensions and from various disciplinary angles. The words, vernacular notions and scientific concepts to designate these spaces and relationships are numerous and their examination have shed more detailed light on our understanding of the dynamics at work between humans and spaces. My proposal built up on all these achievements while using a new perspective to look at this topic: a gaze from the specific and differential relationships that people have with their spaces. This approach is not intended to be revolutionary. The idea is to test a different perspective in order to stimulate heuristic analysis and help better understand some kinds of contexts and challenges humans are faced with, in our contemporary world. This paper offers a brief introduction of this new perspective, which I called the anthropotopy approach. I’ll also explain how I came to this project and what kind of research it may lead to. This presentation is divided in four parts. First, I will discuss the choice of the research scope, a large scope including any kinds of affected space. Then we’ll switch to the core of the approach taking into account, from the start, the different ways in which a same space can be considered by people. This will lead us to the concept of anthropotopy. In a third step we’ll move forward to the implications of looking at space-human relationship through this perspective. I will conclude with a selection of research avenues for this approach, based on case-studies and research projects I am currently engaged with in Ba-Shu and Sicily.
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