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。拟议中的研究问地方如何影响归属的地方和社区。这个问题，它汇集了来自不同学科（建筑学，社会学和社会工作）和居民的集体三名研究人员，是一个独特的跨学科的方法，研究物理和生活空间的基础上，作为一个案例研究克莱蒙法院住房计划（爱丁堡）。克莱蒙法院是一个大型的战后混合发展住房计划，其中包括地方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。研究基于两个假设：首先，它将场所（生活空间）理解为物理空间和空间氛围（赋予其意义的现象或生活方面）。第二，它认为居住和归属是可以互换的。我们的假设是，地方制造的过程导致归属感。拟议的研究确定了构成基本研究问题的三个相互关联的方面：空间、大气层和归属。这些研究链需要一个五阶段的新的跨学科方法，结合方法和评估过程，从建筑理论与社会科学。本研究的创新之处在于运用跨学科的研究方法，以演绎的方式来证实或否定一种建筑学的场所营造理论。一个研究人类经验的领域）已经被用来探索人们对场所的体验以及建筑如何成为场所制作的载体。然而，建筑理论的概念方法与生活空间研究之间的差距仍有待弥合。

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.