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Article
Affective Spaces in Urban Transformation’s Contexts
Author(s)
Paola Gregory
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2018.08.003
Affiliation(s)
Department of Architecture and Design (DAD), Politecnico of Turin, Viale Mattioli 39, 10125 Turin, Italy
ABSTRACT
According to the contributions coming from different fields of research—from aesthetics to cognitive science—the paper intends to address the topic
of urban transformation within the framework of the concept of “affective space”, which associates
the emotions with all stimuli both internal to the agent and within its
environment. The central research question will be: what is the influence of
the affective sphere on changes that take place in the city and vice versa how
much do these changes affect the emotional sphere? By placing subjects at the
center of the research, the paper intends to study the relationship between
individuals—as well as groups and
communities—and urban spaces they
inhabit. This can be done by guaranteeing centrality to the pre-reflective
emotional impact that spatial situations produce on subjects, where for “spatial situation” it is intended the
inclusive description of a specific condition, including both the material
articulation of space and its intangible qualities that influence the subject’s emotional sphere.
KEYWORDS
Affective space, atmosphere, embodied mind, empathy, memory.
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