I’ve been engaging with an issue I’ve deemed the Pedagogy Problem. A legitimate phenomenological question to ask about, say, a library would be “What is a successful library experience and how does the Watzek library building sustain or undermine that experience?” Asking a question framed in such a way would give the researcher a platform from which […]

This week I’ve been focusing on reading more about the methodology of architectural phenomenology. I’ve certainly been learning a lot about the ‘doing’ of architectural phenomenology and have been exercising my nascent skills while spending time in my daily spaces. I’m starting to see my process as a way of holding space, similar to how […]

The developments of the last week have included; further reading of architectural phenomenology and theory, new questions, and a decision. I’ll start with my decision. Let it be known, I have decided to focus my research on two Living Buildings here in the PNW (instead of the 4 I had identified earlier). Henceforth, I will […]

In this game called ENVS 397 I was making moves. Then I took some time to rest. And that’s when I encountered…. Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology! The title of this post is taken from the title of Dr. David Seamon‘s doctoral dissertation on the phenomenology of everyday environmental experience. My initial reading of Dr. Seamon’s […]

Let’s tie some things together: Data, information, and knowledge. Three ‘things’ that seem very closely related. In fact, one might even identify a sort of hierarchy linking each to the next. Data is collected, becomes information through interpretation, and finally, knowledge arises from experiential application of the information. But such a linear description hardly does […]