Emotions, affections, and experiences in the urban-architectural characterization. The place attachment in the travels of memory

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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022197245

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place attachment, urban characterization methodologies, emotional knowledge of the environment, memory and Architecture, Affective Turn, migrations

Abstract

Memory, experiences, emotions and affections have always played a key role in the processes of human settlement and in the understanding of the reality of our cities. The discoveries of Neuroscience also guarantee that knowledge is only possible with the integration of the emotional with the most assumed rational component. Although in a first stage marked by diverse contexts such as the phenomenological one and the subsequent Cultural Turn, Architecture and Urbanism had a leading role in this field of knowledge, in the recent Affective Turn it has lost relevance compared to other disciplines. This research is included in this last period through one of the concepts that have had the longest journey: place attachment. Quantitative methodologies, those integrated with qualitative ones and those that also incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS) convert this emotional and affective component into new metadata called to complete the comprehensive model of the urban and architectural understanding. The review of the methodological cases selected for this study reveals the essential role of experiences, emotions and affections for the understanding of urban complexity, with special interest in the specific case of migration in relation to the city.

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Author Biographies

Adrián Rodríguez-Segura, University of Seville

Adrián Rodríguez-Segura (Seville, 1993) architect from the University of Seville US (2011-2017). First of the promotion with awards: Primer Premio Nacional Fin de Carrera 2021 (Ministry of Universities), R Real Maestranza de Caballería 2017 (Real Maestranza de Caballería and US), Premio Extraordinario Fin de Estudios 2017 (US), Excmo. Ayuntamiento of Seville award 2017 (City Council of Seville and US). Research Teaching Staff since 2020 in the US with a University Teacher Training Scholarship (FPU) 2019 (Ministry of Universities). Member of the UNESCO Chair in Built Urban Heritage in the digital era CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration) since 2019. Ph.D. student since 2019 in the doctoral program in Architecture at the US (director and tutor: Mar Loren-Méndez). Member of the Research Group HUM-666: City, Architecture and Contemporary heritage (CAPC) of the US.  Member of the UNESCO Chair in Built Urban Heritage in the Digital Age CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration) since 2019. CEO of the professional architecture studio JMR Arquitectos since 2017.

Mar Loren-Méndez, University of Seville

Mar Loren-Méndez (Málaga, 1968) Ph.D. in Architecture from the University of Seville US (1994, 2004), Master in Heritage and New Technologies −Leonardo Da Vinci European Program− (1996), Advanced Master Design Studies, Harvard University (1998). Professor of the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition, Higher Technical School of Architecture, US (2019), where she has taught since 1999. Director of the Research Group Contemporary City, Architecture and heritage. Chairholder of the UNESCO Chair in Built Urban Heritage in the Digital Age CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration) since 2019. National and international publications present in Avery, Riba, A&H Index or JCR endorse his research production: Arquitectura COAM (2008), Apuntes (Colombia) (2008), AS (Chile) (2009 ), Construction Reports (2012), EGA (2014), Geographical Review (USA) (2016, 2020), TDSR (Berkeley) (2017), PPA (2017), VLC (2018), IJGI (Switzerland) (2018), DoCoMOMO International (2019).

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2023-02-11

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Rodríguez-Segura, A., & Loren-Méndez, M. (2023). Emotions, affections, and experiences in the urban-architectural characterization. The place attachment in the travels of memory. ZARCH. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism, (19), 70–87. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022197245

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No. 19 (2022): Form and behaviour: modelling urbanity

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