Hi Shailaja,

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NOTE: I have no relevant skill in the areas you're mentioning. I think you should add different tags to your topic in order to get specialists in your area to be able to check your question. Your current tags are: "Frameworks", "Place", "Spatial Data", "Spatial Analysis", "Home". I would advise adding "Phenomenology" and "Architecture".

If you do search Research Gate with those last two tags I've suggested you'll get to topics such as this:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Searching_for_papers_that_touch_upon_the_topic_of_artifacts_influence_on_memory_and_authentication_of_place3

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_study_or_development_on_phenomenology_of_designing

I'm suggesting this because your questions will be forward to other researchers based on the tags you give. I'm a developer and researcher in spatial mathematics and that's why your question has appeared to me.

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That said I do not know of any central "place" where you can get exactly what you are looking for. My recommendation would be for you to search for journals and the conferences in your target areas:

http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/EAP.html

http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/show/architecture-and-phenomenology

If you do want to do "Spatial Analysis" on your phenomenological data (testimony based) than you'll probably need to consider some kind of bias correction since this type of data is usually noisy.

There are some methodologies I've used in the past to "correct" the bias of one spatial data set with high uncertainty by using the statistical distribution of another adequate spatial data set with low uncertainty.

It actually end up being a small scientific package freely available here:

https://github.com/armatita/simdist

If you need more leverage in that regard just comment here and I'll try to help.

Hi Shailaja,

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NOTE: I have no relevant skill in the areas you're mentioning. I think you should add different tags to your topic in order to get specialists in your area to be able to check your question. Your current tags are: "Frameworks", "Place", "Spatial Data", "Spatial Analysis", "Home". I would advise adding "Phenomenology" and "Architecture".

If you do search Research Gate with those last two tags I've suggested you'll get to topics such as this:

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Searching_for_papers_that_touch_upon_the_topic_of_artifacts_influence_on_memory_and_authentication_of_place3

https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_there_any_study_or_development_on_phenomenology_of_designing

I'm suggesting this because your questions will be forward to other researchers based on the tags you give. I'm a developer and researcher in spatial mathematics and that's why your question has appeared to me.

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That said I do not know of any central "place" where you can get exactly what you are looking for. My recommendation would be for you to search for journals and the conferences in your target areas:

http://www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/EAP.html

http://www.footprintjournal.org/issues/show/architecture-and-phenomenology

If you do want to do "Spatial Analysis" on your phenomenological data (testimony based) than you'll probably need to consider some kind of bias correction since this type of data is usually noisy.

There are some methodologies I've used in the past to "correct" the bias of one spatial data set with high uncertainty by using the statistical distribution of another adequate spatial data set with low uncertainty.

It actually end up being a small scientific package freely available here:

https://github.com/armatita/simdist

If you need more leverage in that regard just comment here and I'll try to help.

Please look at issues of ENVIRONMENTAL & ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENOLOGY. One of the aims of that publication is to offer a forum for non-verbal ways to portray environmental and architectural experiences and meanings. This is a difficult but important topic. I don't think you can interpret interview descriptions in non-verbal ways but I do think you can present aspects of those interviews non-verbally. Also, you might think of ways whereby your respondents present their sense of home and at-homeness non-verbally--e.g., through drawings or paintings. Or even sounds.

Also look at my webpage at academia.edu. There is a paper there on qualitative methods in environmental and architectural research--includes a section on phenomenology.

David Seamon

Hi Shailaja,

David Seamon is one of the best expert of the topic. Believe me!. As for literature I can recommend you philosophical, geographical and of course of architecture.

 I would start with Norbeg-Schulz (an architect) and he is closed to my heart. He wrote about Prague and published nice black-white pictures!

Jaroslav

This is slightly orthogonal but may be helpful. We performed quantitative linguistic analysis on written descriptions and found that certain spatial themes emerged:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281637495_The_Language_of_Ineffability_Linguistic_Analysis_of_Mystical_Experiences

You may be able to use a similar method to explore written descriptions of buildings?

Article The Language of Ineffability: Linguistic Analysis of Mystica...