Place and belonging: what can we learn from Claremont Court Housing Scheme?

该项目涉及公众关注的一个关键领域：归属感。拟议的研究询问地点如何影响属于地点和社区的人。这个问题汇集了来自不同学科（建筑学、社会学和社会工作）的三位研究人员和一群居民，是研究物理和生活空间的独特跨学科方法的基础，并以Claremont Court住房方案（爱丁堡）为例进行了研究。Claremont Court是一个大型的战后混合开发住房计划，其中包括将场所制作作为其创始原则之一。随着时间的推移，随着社会的重大变化和住房政策的转变，该计划的组成也发生了变化。因此，它是揭示地方和归属之间联系的合适地点。该研究建立在两个假设之上：首先，它将地点（生活空间）理解为物理空间和空间氛围（赋予其意义的那些现象或生活方面）。其次，它认为居住和归属是可以互换的。我们的假设是，创造场所的过程会导致归属感。拟议的研究确定了三个相互关联的部分，它们构成了潜在的研究问题：空间、氛围和归属感。这些研究需要一个五阶段的新的跨学科方法，将建筑理论和社会科学的方法和评估过程结合起来。这项研究的独创性在于运用了跨学科的研究，以一种演绎的方式来证实或否定一种建筑理论。现象学方法（即研究人类经验的方法）已经被用于探索人们对场所的体验，以及建筑如何成为场所制造的载体。然而，建筑理论的概念方法与居住空间的研究之间的差距仍然需要弥合。

This project engages with a key area of public concern: sense of belonging. The proposed research asks how place influences belonging to place and community. This question, which brings together three researchers from different disciplines (Architecture, Sociology and Social Work) and a collective of residents, is the basis of a unique cross-disciplinary approach that studies both physical and lived space, using as a case study Claremont Court housing scheme (Edinburgh). Claremont Court is a large post-war mixed development housing scheme, which included place-making as one of its founding principles. Over time and with significant societal changes and shifts in housing policy, the composition of the scheme has changed. It is therefore an apposite site for uncovering connections between place and belonging.The research is built on two assumptions: first, it understands place (lived space) as the physical space together with the spatial atmosphere (those phenomena or lived aspects that give meaning to it). Second, it takes dwelling and belonging as interchangeable. Our assumption is that the process of place-making leads to belonging. The proposed research identifies three interlinked strands that frame the underlying research question: space, atmosphere and belonging. These research strands require a five-stage new cross-disciplinary methodology that combines methods and evaluation processes from architectural theory with those of the social sciences. The originality of this research is the use of cross-disciplinary research in a deductive approach to confirm or not an architectural theory of place-making.A phenomenological approach (i.e., one which studies human experience) has been used already to explore people's experience of place and how architecture can be a vehicle for place making. However, the gap between the conceptual approach of architectural theory and the study of lived space has still to be bridged.