We sought to create a comprehensive model to address the lack of a conceptual framework that capt... more We sought to create a comprehensive model to address the lack of a conceptual framework that captures the dynamic (re)production of place attachment in the context of change and time, and the partial neglect of the role of physical and social places. Our proposed model informed by critical literature review describes how residents, affected by urban displacement (change), negotiate the neighborhood's affordances and shape its socio-spatial network, community ties, and continuity/familiarity dimensions. Singapore's massive displacement programsrelocating the citizens from villages to urban public housing (Village Clearance, 1927-1990) and more recently from aging housing stocks to alternative sites (Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, SERS, since 1995) have enabled urban redevelopment and renewal over the years. The implementation of the ongoing SERS policy provides a context for this study. Mixed-method research in Tanglin Halt public housing neighborhood which underwent three SERS phases, included a policy review, initial spatial mapping, first-person observations and interviews (N = 38). The findings validate the proposed model and provide a new taxonomy on a community's affordances to trace how attachments change over time. Furthermore, it indicates the significance of a sociospatial heart(s) and residents' agency for communities to dynamically negotiate displacement, which can inform urban regeneration policy.
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2023
Declines in sensory and cognitive capacity are common with ageing and deeply affect daily functio... more Declines in sensory and cognitive capacity are common with ageing and deeply affect daily functioning of older adults. However, empirical studies investigating seniors’ multi-sensory spatial experience are scarce. This study employs mobile eye-tracking and post-walk interviews in two high-density public housing neighbourhoods in Singapore to empirically examine the ways they perceive their familiar outdoor settings. Methods prove to be fruitful for gathering and interlinking complex and dynamic, quantitative and qualitative data on multi-sensory experience, through active and embodied spatial engagement. Key findings indicate that the majority of seniors spend most of their time visually engaged with the ground. This may result from higher safety concerns among seniors, but also from the lack of engaging features in investigated neighbourhoods. Comfort, safety, aesthetic and ethical/social judgement, inter-generational interaction, health and wayfinding are among the most reoccurring themes revealed, which can inform better multi-sensory integration for empathetic and enabling ageing-friendly neighbourhood design.
This paper looks into a type of creative placemaking that is informed by socially engaged art and... more This paper looks into a type of creative placemaking that is informed by socially engaged art and makes inquiries about the theatrical approaches to transforming spaces into places. Existing studies typically analyze theatrical approaches from the perspective of a single scenario while overlooking the scenario-to-scenario perspective. Underpinned by the conceptual framework of cultural rhizome, this study examines the Xisan Film Studio project in Guangzhou, China, and addresses the nexus between scenario network assembly and place creation. The findings demonstrate the approach to construct scenarios in symbiosis with everyday life, which catalyze everyday practices informed by individual expression to make a place.
Twenty years since Ray Forrest and Ade Kearns (2001) foregrounded the neighbourhood as "the ... more Twenty years since Ray Forrest and Ade Kearns (2001) foregrounded the neighbourhood as "the receptacle for many of the informal resources of […] mutual aid and self-help, facilitated by a diversity of loose ties" (p. 2139) in their oft-cited article, we witnessed for the first time increasingly widespread phenomenon of neighbours helping neighbours (Jones et al., 2020). As the global COVID-19 pandemic reminded us of the importance of public spaces, social life and mutual care for mental and social health (Zandieh et al., 2020), membership in apps for neighbourhood social network surged (The Economist, 2020) and many offered their help toolder neighbours and vulnerable persons, whether with grocery shopping or simply lifting their moods (Jones et al., 2020).
Through theoretical discourses of power and multi-sensory experience, this paper traces manifesta... more Through theoretical discourses of power and multi-sensory experience, this paper traces manifestations and implications of seductive design strategies employed in contemporary shopping spaces. The premise is that seduction should not be understood as necessarily negative strategy, but rather a mode of power manifested in pleasant sensual dialogue with space ambience. On-site experiments were conducted in 4 shopping malls in Singapore and Belgrade, Serbia, comprising purposeful photo-journeys, interviews and questionnaires, sensory mapping, photo and narrative analyses. Key findings indicate that, besides consumption, shopping spaces are also perceived as pleasant settings for recreation and social interaction. Seductive experience considerably depends on quantity, intensity and arrangement of overall sensory information in space.
Multi-sensorial, emotional and symbolic interactions with space are critical to our experience, u... more Multi-sensorial, emotional and symbolic interactions with space are critical to our experience, use and appreciation of built environments and profoundly shape our overall sense of well-being. However, our contemporary cities are often either sensory overwhelming or sensory deprived, while design practices keep embracing values of ocularcentrism and pragmatism. In result, cities keep generating stressful conditions and inequality, instead of becoming healing, empathetic, sensitive and inclusive environments for all. The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of sensory experience in planning and designing healthier neighbourhoods in high-density contexts for all ages, beyond passive and non-integrated provision of healthcare and eldercare facilities, universal design, hygiene and safety. Focusing on, subjective multisensorial experience, overall ambience and culture-specific clues, housing neighbourhoods are seen as supportive “devices” with capacities to build up residents’ physi...
Re-Framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the... more Re-Framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious and contested commodity, but also one of the key vehicles for achieving socially, environmentally and economically sustainable urban living. Past research has been predominantly focused on familiar models of urban space, such as squares, plazas, streets, parks and arcades, without consistent and clear rules on what constitutes good urban space, let alone what constitutes good urban space in a "high-density context." Through an innovative and integrative research framework, Re-Framing Urban Space guides the assessment, planning, design and redesign of urban spaces at various stages of the decisionmaking process, facilitating an understanding of how enduring qualities are expressed and negotiated through design measures in high-density urban environments. This book explores over 50 best practice case studies of recent urban design projects in high-density contexts, including Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, New York and Rotterdam. Visually compelling and insightful, Re-Framing Urban Space provides a comprehensive and accessible means to understand the critical properties that shape new urban spaces, illustrating key design components and principles. An invaluable guide to the stages of urban design, planning, policy and decision making, this book is essential reading for urban design and planning professionals, academics and students interested in public spaces within high-density urban development.
In this paper we explore various formulas and power strategies often used in design of contempora... more In this paper we explore various formulas and power strategies often used in design of contemporary consumption spaces t o im pose certa in experiences and ultimately fulfil higher consumption goals. P redominant i n recent researc h is a belief that these strategies manipulate users’ se nsorial an d em otional ex periences i n such a way th at th eir actions ar e c onsiderably constrained. We challenge these critiques and focus on power of sedu ction and ambience, as well as user ’s subjective reading of spaces, starting with the as sumption that curr ent design strategies are not necess arily negative phe nomena. Recent transformations in t he design of consum ption spaces m ay result from the softening of re presentations of power , and vice versa. Usin g multidisciplinary, human-oriented and phenomenological a pproach we ai m to de velop a n appropriate research instrument for investigating seduction as a subjective and elusive phenomenon.
We sought to create a comprehensive model to address the lack of a conceptual framework that capt... more We sought to create a comprehensive model to address the lack of a conceptual framework that captures the dynamic (re)production of place attachment in the context of change and time, and the partial neglect of the role of physical and social places. Our proposed model informed by critical literature review describes how residents, affected by urban displacement (change), negotiate the neighborhood's affordances and shape its socio-spatial network, community ties, and continuity/familiarity dimensions. Singapore's massive displacement programsrelocating the citizens from villages to urban public housing (Village Clearance, 1927-1990) and more recently from aging housing stocks to alternative sites (Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme, SERS, since 1995) have enabled urban redevelopment and renewal over the years. The implementation of the ongoing SERS policy provides a context for this study. Mixed-method research in Tanglin Halt public housing neighborhood which underwent three SERS phases, included a policy review, initial spatial mapping, first-person observations and interviews (N = 38). The findings validate the proposed model and provide a new taxonomy on a community's affordances to trace how attachments change over time. Furthermore, it indicates the significance of a sociospatial heart(s) and residents' agency for communities to dynamically negotiate displacement, which can inform urban regeneration policy.
Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability, 2023
Declines in sensory and cognitive capacity are common with ageing and deeply affect daily functio... more Declines in sensory and cognitive capacity are common with ageing and deeply affect daily functioning of older adults. However, empirical studies investigating seniors’ multi-sensory spatial experience are scarce. This study employs mobile eye-tracking and post-walk interviews in two high-density public housing neighbourhoods in Singapore to empirically examine the ways they perceive their familiar outdoor settings. Methods prove to be fruitful for gathering and interlinking complex and dynamic, quantitative and qualitative data on multi-sensory experience, through active and embodied spatial engagement. Key findings indicate that the majority of seniors spend most of their time visually engaged with the ground. This may result from higher safety concerns among seniors, but also from the lack of engaging features in investigated neighbourhoods. Comfort, safety, aesthetic and ethical/social judgement, inter-generational interaction, health and wayfinding are among the most reoccurring themes revealed, which can inform better multi-sensory integration for empathetic and enabling ageing-friendly neighbourhood design.
This paper looks into a type of creative placemaking that is informed by socially engaged art and... more This paper looks into a type of creative placemaking that is informed by socially engaged art and makes inquiries about the theatrical approaches to transforming spaces into places. Existing studies typically analyze theatrical approaches from the perspective of a single scenario while overlooking the scenario-to-scenario perspective. Underpinned by the conceptual framework of cultural rhizome, this study examines the Xisan Film Studio project in Guangzhou, China, and addresses the nexus between scenario network assembly and place creation. The findings demonstrate the approach to construct scenarios in symbiosis with everyday life, which catalyze everyday practices informed by individual expression to make a place.
Twenty years since Ray Forrest and Ade Kearns (2001) foregrounded the neighbourhood as "the ... more Twenty years since Ray Forrest and Ade Kearns (2001) foregrounded the neighbourhood as "the receptacle for many of the informal resources of […] mutual aid and self-help, facilitated by a diversity of loose ties" (p. 2139) in their oft-cited article, we witnessed for the first time increasingly widespread phenomenon of neighbours helping neighbours (Jones et al., 2020). As the global COVID-19 pandemic reminded us of the importance of public spaces, social life and mutual care for mental and social health (Zandieh et al., 2020), membership in apps for neighbourhood social network surged (The Economist, 2020) and many offered their help toolder neighbours and vulnerable persons, whether with grocery shopping or simply lifting their moods (Jones et al., 2020).
Through theoretical discourses of power and multi-sensory experience, this paper traces manifesta... more Through theoretical discourses of power and multi-sensory experience, this paper traces manifestations and implications of seductive design strategies employed in contemporary shopping spaces. The premise is that seduction should not be understood as necessarily negative strategy, but rather a mode of power manifested in pleasant sensual dialogue with space ambience. On-site experiments were conducted in 4 shopping malls in Singapore and Belgrade, Serbia, comprising purposeful photo-journeys, interviews and questionnaires, sensory mapping, photo and narrative analyses. Key findings indicate that, besides consumption, shopping spaces are also perceived as pleasant settings for recreation and social interaction. Seductive experience considerably depends on quantity, intensity and arrangement of overall sensory information in space.
Multi-sensorial, emotional and symbolic interactions with space are critical to our experience, u... more Multi-sensorial, emotional and symbolic interactions with space are critical to our experience, use and appreciation of built environments and profoundly shape our overall sense of well-being. However, our contemporary cities are often either sensory overwhelming or sensory deprived, while design practices keep embracing values of ocularcentrism and pragmatism. In result, cities keep generating stressful conditions and inequality, instead of becoming healing, empathetic, sensitive and inclusive environments for all. The aim of this paper is to discuss the role of sensory experience in planning and designing healthier neighbourhoods in high-density contexts for all ages, beyond passive and non-integrated provision of healthcare and eldercare facilities, universal design, hygiene and safety. Focusing on, subjective multisensorial experience, overall ambience and culture-specific clues, housing neighbourhoods are seen as supportive “devices” with capacities to build up residents’ physi...
Re-Framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the... more Re-Framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious and contested commodity, but also one of the key vehicles for achieving socially, environmentally and economically sustainable urban living. Past research has been predominantly focused on familiar models of urban space, such as squares, plazas, streets, parks and arcades, without consistent and clear rules on what constitutes good urban space, let alone what constitutes good urban space in a "high-density context." Through an innovative and integrative research framework, Re-Framing Urban Space guides the assessment, planning, design and redesign of urban spaces at various stages of the decisionmaking process, facilitating an understanding of how enduring qualities are expressed and negotiated through design measures in high-density urban environments. This book explores over 50 best practice case studies of recent urban design projects in high-density contexts, including Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, New York and Rotterdam. Visually compelling and insightful, Re-Framing Urban Space provides a comprehensive and accessible means to understand the critical properties that shape new urban spaces, illustrating key design components and principles. An invaluable guide to the stages of urban design, planning, policy and decision making, this book is essential reading for urban design and planning professionals, academics and students interested in public spaces within high-density urban development.
In this paper we explore various formulas and power strategies often used in design of contempora... more In this paper we explore various formulas and power strategies often used in design of contemporary consumption spaces t o im pose certa in experiences and ultimately fulfil higher consumption goals. P redominant i n recent researc h is a belief that these strategies manipulate users’ se nsorial an d em otional ex periences i n such a way th at th eir actions ar e c onsiderably constrained. We challenge these critiques and focus on power of sedu ction and ambience, as well as user ’s subjective reading of spaces, starting with the as sumption that curr ent design strategies are not necess arily negative phe nomena. Recent transformations in t he design of consum ption spaces m ay result from the softening of re presentations of power , and vice versa. Usin g multidisciplinary, human-oriented and phenomenological a pproach we ai m to de velop a n appropriate research instrument for investigating seduction as a subjective and elusive phenomenon.
What Can Space Do for the Arts?; What Can Arts Do for Space?; and What Can Arts and Space Do for the Community?
Through the lenses of creative placemaking and neighbourhood arts ecology, Trivic re-examines the position of community arts in the spatial, social and cultural landscape. Emphasising urban design considerations of complex interdependent relationships between arts, space and people, he re-explores the role of community-based arts activities in shaping urban neighbourhoods, enriching public life and empowering communities. This is divided into an analysis of spatial opportunities for the arts in the neighbourhood; and a study of the impacts of bringing arts and culture activities into local neighbourhoods and communities, using Singapore’s nodal approach as a developed case study. Using spatial opportunity analysis, the book demonstrates a step-by-step procedure for identification and evaluation of the neighbourhood spaces that work best for community arts and culture activities. In the study of impacts, Trivic proposes a holistic framework for capturing and evaluating the non-economic impacts of arts and culture, on space, society, well-being, education and participation.
An invaluable template for arts event organisers and artists to assess and maximise the outcomes of their creative efforts in local neighbourhoods, as well as an important reading for students and practitioners of neighbourhood planning, urban design, and creative placemaking.
Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the... more Re-framing Urban Space: Urban Design for Emerging Hybrid and High-Density Conditions rethinks the role and meaning of urban spaces through current trends and challenges in urban development. In emerging dense, hybrid, complex and dynamic urban conditions, public urban space is not only a precious and contested commodity, but also one of the key vehicles for achieving socially, environmentally and economically sustainable urban living. Past research has been predominantly focused on familiar models of urban space, such as squares, plazas, streets, parks and arcades, without consistent and clear rules on what constitutes good urban space, let alone what constitutes good urban space in ‘high-density context’.
Through an innovative and integrative research framework, Re-Framing Urban Space guides the assessment, planning, design and re-design of urban spaces at various stages of the decision-making process, facilitating an understanding of how enduring qualities are expressed and negotiated through design measures in high-density urban environments. This book explores over 50 best practice case studies of recent urban design projects in high-density contexts, including Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, and Rotterdam.
Visually compelling and insightful, Re-Framing Urban Space provides a comprehensive and accessible means to understand the critical properties that shape new urban spaces, illustrating key design components and principles. An invaluable guide to the stages of urban design, planning, policy and decision making, this book is essential reading for urban design and planning professionals, academics and students interested in public spaces within high-density urban development.
Our understanding and experience of the built environment are primarily shaped by multi-sensory a... more Our understanding and experience of the built environment are primarily shaped by multi-sensory and emotional modes of exchange with space. Meaningful interaction with environmental stimuli and processing of multi-sensory information are vital for physical and psychological well-being. Yet, due to increased urban densification, hybridization and intensification, our contemporary cities are often either sensory overwhelming or sensory depleting.
The premise is that in order to trigger suggestive and positive relationships between space and users, all segments of urban developments would need to acquire an active role of healing. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to discuss the capacities of contemporary shopping spaces to overcome the mere consumption motifs and to acquire a health-supportive role, in spite of their manipulative design and “quasi-publicness”. Shopping malls have become influential model for various urban developments (including healthcare) and are tightly knitted into the everyday environment of many dense Asian cities, such as Singapore, Hong Kong or Tokyo. In these cities, they may arguably be seen as perpetual laboratories of “positive stress” (positive distractions). Qualitative approach employed consists of discourse analysis of health and space related theories and a comparative case study analysis of consumption spaces in Singapore (and Belgrade, Serbia). The case study analysis combines spatial explorations, first-person observations, participatory photo-journeys, multi-sensory mapping, interviews and on-site questionnaires.
Key findings show that consumption space users tend to seek positive stimulation. The richness and arrangement of overall sensory information available in space (visual and spatial complexity, tactile, auditory, olfactory and gustatory) considerably shape users’ subjective perception of and emotional response to shopping environments. The presence of nature, micro-climate, way-finding, access, safety and hygiene, but also subjective bodily and mental self-awareness, crowd and shared identity, social activities and phantasmagorical experiences, are perceived as important ingredients of “healing places” and as “stress fighters” within high-density urban contexts.
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What Can Space Do for the Arts?; What Can Arts Do for Space?; and What Can Arts and Space Do for the Community?
Through the lenses of creative placemaking and neighbourhood arts ecology, Trivic re-examines the position of community arts in the spatial, social and cultural landscape. Emphasising urban design considerations of complex interdependent relationships between arts, space and people, he re-explores the role of community-based arts activities in shaping urban neighbourhoods, enriching public life and empowering communities. This is divided into an analysis of spatial opportunities for the arts in the neighbourhood; and a study of the impacts of bringing arts and culture activities into local neighbourhoods and communities, using Singapore’s nodal approach as a developed case study. Using spatial opportunity analysis, the book demonstrates a step-by-step procedure for identification and evaluation of the neighbourhood spaces that work best for community arts and culture activities. In the study of impacts, Trivic proposes a holistic framework for capturing and evaluating the non-economic impacts of arts and culture, on space, society, well-being, education and participation.
An invaluable template for arts event organisers and artists to assess and maximise the outcomes of their creative efforts in local neighbourhoods, as well as an important reading for students and practitioners of neighbourhood planning, urban design, and creative placemaking.
Through an innovative and integrative research framework, Re-Framing Urban Space guides the assessment, planning, design and re-design of urban spaces at various stages of the decision-making process, facilitating an understanding of how enduring qualities are expressed and negotiated through design measures in high-density urban environments. This book explores over 50 best practice case studies of recent urban design projects in high-density contexts, including Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, New York, and Rotterdam.
Visually compelling and insightful, Re-Framing Urban Space provides a comprehensive and accessible means to understand the critical properties that shape new urban spaces, illustrating key design components and principles. An invaluable guide to the stages of urban design, planning, policy and decision making, this book is essential reading for urban design and planning professionals, academics and students interested in public spaces within high-density urban development.
The premise is that in order to trigger suggestive and positive relationships between space and users, all segments of urban developments would need to acquire an active role of healing. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to discuss the capacities of contemporary shopping spaces to overcome the mere consumption motifs and to acquire a health-supportive role, in spite of their manipulative design and “quasi-publicness”. Shopping malls have become influential model for various urban developments (including healthcare) and are tightly knitted into the everyday environment of many dense Asian cities, such as Singapore, Hong Kong or Tokyo. In these cities, they may arguably be seen as perpetual laboratories of “positive stress” (positive distractions). Qualitative approach employed consists of discourse analysis of health and space related theories and a comparative case study analysis of consumption spaces in Singapore (and Belgrade, Serbia). The case study analysis combines spatial explorations, first-person observations, participatory photo-journeys, multi-sensory mapping, interviews and on-site questionnaires.
Key findings show that consumption space users tend to seek positive stimulation. The richness and arrangement of overall sensory information available in space (visual and spatial complexity, tactile, auditory, olfactory and gustatory) considerably shape users’ subjective perception of and emotional response to shopping environments. The presence of nature, micro-climate, way-finding, access, safety and hygiene, but also subjective bodily and mental self-awareness, crowd and shared identity, social activities and phantasmagorical experiences, are perceived as important ingredients of “healing places” and as “stress fighters” within high-density urban contexts.