Emotional space
Sensation, emotions and feelings are crucial indicators for well-being and survival. When touching a hot stove, the sensation of heat will trigger retreat. Emotions of fear will trigger escape. Also more complex feelings like love, compassion, hate or alienation, inspire human behaviour. Sensations, emotions and feelings deeply influence the sense of place. When being in conflict even a large palace can be experienced as suffocating. When in love, a small bed can be paradise. Phsyical sensations inform about the nature and construction of environments. Emotions and feelings reflect the atmoshere that happen in an environment, touching the heart of human beings involved. As result a sense of place is constructed.
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Being witness is context defined
When addressing witnessed presence in crisis situations, Parthasarathi elaborated on the media…
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Change in transaction
Parthasarathi’s research suggests that in live performances early 20th century in India the…
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Presence is a universal concept, witnessing is not
When transposing a concept like Witnessed Presence from one culture to another some tuning is…
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Staged performance
In her research Upadhya found that in the IT industry a very specific kind of personal performance…
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Cross cultural communication gaps
In the IT industry people talk about ‘becoming global’, referring to a meaning of the word ‘global’…
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Low trust dynamic
Upadhya describes the dynamic as follows: “Because of cultural stereotypes it is implied that there…
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Being Indian, yet a global employee
Big Indian outsourcing companies like WIPRO, Infosys, TCS have developed their own models and they…
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Loose network during relief phase
Dinesh argues that it is very hard to say that a system can be used during the relief; maybe…
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All that matters to a specific place
Dinesh and his team decided that because of these developments it did not make sense anymore to…
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Politics of presence in rehabilitation phase
Even in times of crisis reputation building is very important, more important than collaborating in…
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Being acknowledged for rescue effort
There was a lot of potential for somebody to make an impression. And, very important, a lot of…
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Judging and witnessing
As one witnesses another human being, one also judges the other human being. And this is again even…
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Land is not only material
In her PhD research Zainab Bawa takes the standpoint that ‘land’ is a very physical and material…
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Zero footprint of carbon energy
For Jansma the most important requirement of today’s technology is very simple: there should be…
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Feedback of realness
For Jansma technology is wonderful. Without it we couldn’t have the complicated urban society with…
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Body and breathing are key
When designing buildings and infrastructure the human body is always key to the design. Vision