LECTURE - Sensory Spaces 2: the senses, space and the social order - feeling at home and feeling out of place

 

• The role of the senses in feeling in place and out of place in the library

• Libraries were designed to avoid noise

• The sonic landscape operates as a disciplinary machine

• The Seattle public library

• We have already examined the qualities of the space that produced a sense of the risk of exposing a lack of belonging in the place…

• But how does the sensory environment succeed in producing this feeling in some more than others?

• What are the mechanisms and relationships that produce exclusion?

 

• Habitus

• Merleau-Ponty: Habituated responses are organised by our bodily senses – the senses mediate the way our body “understands” what to do

• Bourdieu – we approach every situation with a set of embodied dispositions – habitus- that provide us with a bodily sense of our place in certain settings and spaces

• Our habitus is formed as a result of upbringing and then continues to be shaped by our experiences. It guides the way we improvise our way through encounters and experiences.

• The sonic environment where even small noises are accentuated and noticed presents a risk to those who feel out of place – a risk of exposing their lack of familiarity.

• We can never just see then senses as something to tack on as designers

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The Reading:

 

• The reading talks about experiencing the world mainly through our eyes leave us a distant observer. By watching something we create within creating the object.

• Its all about how the senses interact with each other and what they have in common, for example, how would it feel to be a cinema and not see anything?

• How we distance ourselves from unexplained or unusual senses, like when you hear a scary noise but can't see what it is.

• “The experience of home is structured by distinct activities – cooking, eating, socialising, reading, storing, sleeping, intimate acts – not by visual elements.

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Group work:

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Today we discussed what parts everyone was going to do, Below is a list of each person's responsibilities.

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Amy: 

- Notes From the Reading

- Research on deaf people in general

- The Reflection/Comparison of both Marie and Jeffery's interview and experience

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Tayla:

- Lecture 1 Summary

- Lecture 2 Summary

- Put together all reading notes

- Design for the future paragraph

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Luciana:

- Interview of Jeffery

- Research on Deaf People

- Notes from the Reading

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Marie:

- Interview experiment and her experience

- Case Study

- Notes from the Reading

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Some images below that I found when doing my research: