IMAGES AND THE MEANING OF PLACE

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HABIBI R.S.

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Journal: HONAR-HA-YE-ZIBA Year:2008 | Volume:- | Issue:35 Page(s): 39-50

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Title

IMAGES AND THE MEANING OF PLACE

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HABIBI R.S. | Issue Writer Certificate

Keywords

PLACEQ3

PLACE IDENTITYQ3

SENSE OF PLACEQ3

COLLECTIVE MEMORYQ3

IMAGEQ2

NIAVARAN STREETQ3

Abstract

PLACE is the main element of its residents’ identities. Man can know himself through knowing PLACE. One of the reasons that man is wandering today is that he has not proceeded with the concept of PLACE and thus the lack of any PLACE identity. Today, modernistic PLACEs have been made regardless of the surrounding environment and quality needs and they inevitably meet man’s temporary needs and excitements without any meaning or original characteristic. PLACE is somewhere in which we have full understanding of our lives and existences. PLACE becomes PLACE once man stands in relation to the other layers of his existence. These layers can appear through joint activities with other fellow creatures, standing in relation to the nature and/or standing in the corner of an artificial environment and in this way, man becomes familiar with other layers of his existence that are present in some way in the objective world and in this way his knowledge of himself and the surrounding environment improves. Man has different IMAGEs in his mind from different PLACEs. His feelings may influence on his perceptions from the environment and the formation of mental IMAGE from PLACE. Man’s mental IMAGEs give identity to PLACE. In addition to mold structure of PLACE, the memories of individuals are also effective in giving identity to PLACE. Man and PLACE have similar specifications like memory and identity. Man can grant identity to PLACE and PLACE can enhance man’s entity and these two are interdependent. Man needs to recognize the environment around him in order to know himself better and this is accomplished once he has a clear mental IMAGE from himself and his environment and PLACE is formed when man perceives it with all his feelings and perceptions. PLACE finds a material definition through the physical structure and activity which occurs in it and finds meaning and spirit by the formation of its IMAGE and memory in man’s mind over the time, the meaning and the spirit which will last for ever and will remind man’s existence. In this article, we are seeking for the answers to some questions such as the following: What is PLACE? What are the characteristics of a meaningful PLACE? How is the identity of PLACE created and under which factors? For this purpose, the terminology and concept of PLACE is investigated from its classical viewpoint, i.e., the viewpoints of Iranian wise men and Greek philosophers in ancient times and also from the viewpoints of environmental phenomenologist-psychologist theorists in the contemporary times (such as Norberg-Scholtz and Edward Relft) and the relationship of PLACE and COLLECTIVE MEMORY and mental IMAGE resulted from the PLACE will be dealt with. This research seeks the factors creating identity and the meaning of PLACE and its impact on man, and the obtained results have been applied as case study in NIAVARAN STREET and the effective factors in the formation of mental IMAGE from this street and its destructive factors have been tested.

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