3. The Phenomenon of Place
“Sense of place”
“He went to that place”
“Put things back in their place”
“He’s all over the place”
“She found her place in the world”
“I feel out-of-place”
“I’m going to put you in-your-place”
“This place is
freaky”
9. Place is Nested
This Classroom
SF Prep
The Eastside
Santa Fe
Northern New Mexico
The Southwest
“How Big is Here?”
10.
11. Places are Dynamically Co-
Created
Land
Water
Climate
Animals
Human
Settlement
Patterns
Economic
Forces
Cultural
Traditions
Religious
Beliefs
Political
Trends
Plants
18. “A preferred position for the
system, such that if the system
is started from another state it
will evolve until it arrives at the
attractor, and will then stay
there in the absence of other
factors”
Attractors
24. “Caring evolves through
attachment to a place.
As one puts down roots
in a certain location and
becomes familiar with
the surroundings, one
begins to distinguish
subtle differences in
even the most ordinary
landscapes”
– Kazuo Matsubayashi
(Zen Monk)
27. Symbols of Place
“As one settles and becomes attached to a
location, one activates space and time… We mark
a space with signs and decorations to distinguish it
from other places, and we punctuate time with rites
or transition. – Kazuo Matsubayashi
(Zen Monk)
30. “A building should tell you everything about the
society you live in; it’s history, its possibilities,
and its future”
– Vine Deloria
(Indigenous Educator)
33. “The concept of a ‘homeland,’ although abstract and elusive,
has at least three basic elements: a people, a place, and
identity with place… People must have lived in a place long
enough to have adjusted to its natural environment and to
have left their impress in the form of a cultural landscape. And
from their interactions with the natural and cultural totality of
the place they must have developed an identity with the land.”
- Richard Nostrand (Cultural Geographer)
Homeland
39. Questions
• How big is here?
• How is this place processing me?
• Why here ? How did this place come to be what it is today?
• What is this place wanting to be/become?