环境艺术设计毕业设计外文翻译—设计空间的含义

设计空间的含义

Meanings of Designed Spaces

Meanings of Designed Spaces

Spaces of Everyday Life, Self, and Social Constructions Significant space, house, habitat, home, dwelling, gender, social status, spatial arrangements, living well, escapism, semiology, cultural and visual content analysis, politically social spaces, social space construction, theatrical space construction, cultural space construction, public and private spaces, political spaces, proxemics.

AFTER READING THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

· Glean ideas about social spaces, spaces of living, and how spaces become places of social constructions.

· Differentiate philosophical approaches to spaces of living.

· Consider what constitutes a significant space.

· Distinguish concepts of "living well" versus "home as defining a sense of self."

· Understand spaces of living and the social constructions of space and place.

· Identify characteristics of house as home, dwelling as home, and house as habitat.

· Consider cultural contexts to issues of dwelling, gender, and space.

· Understand how identity frames spaces as places of dwelling.

INTRODUCTION

Spaces we live in formulate our experiences. We attribute meaning to the things and spaces that surround us. Our sense of self, the way we engage in our daily life, depends on our surroundings, our home, our place of work, and the places we hold dear. Spaces of living impact our sense of self, what we do, and the ways that we define ourselves in society, and in turn they provide us with meanings alongside a host of multiple perceptions and reactions. How might spaces of the everyday be understood from the perspectives of domestic life? How do living spaces reflect social constructions that affect our sense of self and who we are in the world?

While spaces are created with visual and aesthetic properties in mind, they are ultimately meant for people to experience. People appropriate spaces they occupy and change them to suit their purposes. People attach value to the things that they have,while values are also imposed by society and are complicated by the fracturing of contemporary society. This is further complicated by the ways spaces are framed that determine social status as much as

well-being. What values we hold as a society also affect both our capacity to make choices and our social place in the world, and often inadvertently frame our design decision making. All these factors affect the spaces we inhabit, the ways we design these spaces, and the underlying values that shape spatial constructions we then experience.

We place great value on culture, politics, and social norms and customs while we are also caught up in changing values. Among the underlying values that shape a society are social customs, voices of diverse people, or cultural customs. Although dwellings vary greatly as spaces depending on the societal values, economic location, and a host of factors that drive how we live, dwellings also are places where people often look to others to

help them achieve meaning.

Christian Norberg-Shultz has Suggested that home represents

the very nature of human existence. It gives man a place to be, a place in which to stay and spend time in safety and comfort. (Rengel, 2003, pp. 51-52)

And while our aspirations are to achieve these goals, for many in our world, their places and spaces of living are far from this ideal. More often the values we set in terms of our dwelling places are tied to the acquisition of material goods, while for others this is a distant reality as they eke out an existence on the fringe (Poldma, 2008). Furthermore, this problem of value-setting creates a need for some to actualize values through the designs of lived spaces at the expense of the meaning of home and house. In a philosophical sense, the meanings of house and home have been subjugated:

We look for meaning in our dwellings, and some hire architects and designers to actualize their values spatially. . . . and many do not know how to do so. The meanings of home and house have become lost in the quest to dwell, and the quest for dwelling has become lost in the acquisition of more goods and cultural symbols of that same house and home in a given society. (Poldma, 2008)

These issues will be examined in this chapter from the perspectives of dwelling and gender as social or philosophical spaces. Two theoretical papers examine meanings of house and home. Virginie LaSalle takes a philosophical perspective about how the concept of "living well" intersects with notions of design spaces by providing spaces that form places of habitation that symbolize beauty and material wealth. She examines the sense of home as a habitat, and how an individual's experience of inhabiting is more than the physical and material visual attributes we assign. She explores Bachelard and Serfaty-Garzon's ideas of intimate spaces. She further juxtaposes the symbolic views of home with the philosophies of Heidegger and Levinas, who examine the dichotomy of the environment/spaces of living as a concept versus the daily experiences of the inhabitants. LaSalle is promoting the concept of a