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Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Volume 20 Number 3 Article 1 9-22-2009 Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology. Vol. 20, No. 3 Kansas State University. Architecture Department Follow this and additional works at: https://newprairiepress.org/eap Part of the Environmental Design Commons, and the Other Architecture Commons Vol. 20, No. 3, Fall 2009 (includes "items of interest," "citations received," and essays by Bernd Jager, Karsten Harries, Jeff Malpas & Edward Relph). Recommended Citation Kansas State University. Architecture Department (2009) "Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology. Vol. 20, No. 3," Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology: Vol. 20: No. 3. This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by New Prairie Press. It has been accepted for inclusion in Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology by an authorized administrator of New Prairie Press. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 20 [2009], No. Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology Vol. 20 ▪ No. 3 ISSN 1083-9194 www.arch.ksu.edu/seamon/EAP.html Fall ▪ 2009 th 1990—2009: Special 20 -anniversary issue! his EAP is a special issue to celebrate our scale realm of other places and global interconnect- 20th year of publication. It includes essays edness. Editor David Seamon begins this special by four scholars who have made impor- issue by discussing some key concerns readers have tant contributions to environmental and brought forward over the years in regard to the phe- Tarchitectural phenomenology. Psychologist Bernd nomenological efforts promoted by EAP. Jager explores how the lived nature of thresholds plays an indispensable role in human inhabitation, Below: In the very first issue of EAP, we asked whether there and philosopher Karsten Harries considers archi- might be a phenomenologically-inspired graphics of places, buildings, and environmental experiences. We reprinted sev- tecture as it might sustain physical and spiritual eral illustrations, including the one here, from Mary Hufford’s shelter. In turn, philosopher Jeff Malpas refutes the One Space, Many Places (Washington, DC: American Folklife criticism of place as possession-based and exclu- Center, 1986). This work is a qualitative study of the “Pine- sionary, and geographer Edward Relph delineates lands,” a distinct natural and cultural region of coastal New a “pragmatic sense of place”—a style of reflection Jersey. This drawing illustrates the construction of a tradi- tional Pinelands “crossway”—a pole road enabling woods- and practice that looks inward toward the unique- men to haul cedar timber over infirm swampland. Drawing by ness of particular places but recognizes that those J. Adkins; used with permission of American Folklife Center. places are integrally related outward to the larger- ISSN: 1083-9194 1 Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 20 [2009], No. the end of May or in early June in conjunction with EAP/IAEP Conference Session the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities The 2009 meeting of the International Association of Canada. In addition, EPTC publishes biannual for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP) will be issues of PhaenEx, a peer-reviewed, open-access held in Arlington, Virginia, October 31—November electronic journal; and a triennial electronic news- 2, immediately following the annual meetings of letter, About the Things Themselves. www.eptc- SPEP (Society for Phenomenology and Existential tcep.net. Philosophy) and SPHS (Society for Phenomenol- ogy and the Human Sciences). EAP will sponsor a special IAEP Monday-morning session (Nov. 2) on News from Readers “phenomenological reconsiderations of conven- We received the following email from Finish archi- tional environmental and ecological conceptions tect and phenomenologist Juhani Pallasmaa in re- and problems.” Presenters include: biologist Leon gard to M. Reza Shirazi’s spring EAP essay discuss- Chartrand, geographer Edward Relph, philosophers ing Pallasmaa’s phenomenological writings on ar- Robert Mugerauer and Ingrid Stefanovic, and EAP chitecture: “Thank you for the latest issue of EAP. I editor David Seamon. read the review of my writings by M. Reza Shirazi. www.environmentalphilosophy.org.; I agree with most of his observations and see no www.spep.org/; reason to respond [in detail]. Of course, a certain http://pages.slu.edu/faculty/harriss3/SPHS/. collage-like fragmentation is the very structuring idea of the kind of ‘fragile architecture’ that I write about as opposed to an architecture of ‘strong im- Items of Interest age’ that aims at domination. The conference, Flesh and Space—Intertwining “Some years ago I received an unexpected Merleau-Ponty and Architecture, will be held phone call from the Foreign Ministry in Helsinki Wednesday, September 9, 2009 at the Mississippi with the message that the President of the Constitu- State University School of Architecture in Missis- tional Court of South Africa (who had written the sippi State, MS. This conference will be held in South African Constitution with Nelson Mandela) conjunction with the annual meeting of the Merleau was on an official visit in Finland and wanted to see Ponty Circle, September 10—12. The theme of the me. I did not know the gentleman but welcomed meeting is The Experience and Expression of him in my office. As he entered and we greeted, he Space. Contact organizers Rachel McCann or congratulated me for my design of the new building Patricia Locke at: www.caad.edu/merleau-ponty/. for the Constitutional Court in Pretoria. “‘There must be a misunderstanding’, I said. ‘I The Third International and Interdisciplinary have lectured in your country three times but never Conference on Emotional Geographies will be designed anything’. ‘Yes, you have’, he answered. held at The University of South Australia in Ade- ‘When I was the chairman of the building commit- laide, April 5-7, 2010. Papers are invited that “inter- tee, I read your essay on ‘fragile architecture’ rogate emotion, society and space from diverse dis- [“Hapticity and Time”] carefully and gave a copy of ciplinary and multidisciplinary backgrounds. We are it to every member of the committee, and we fol- interested in specific case studies as well as theo- lowed your instructions carefully’. retical examinations of the nature of connections “Before he left my office, he gave me a video among these terms.” Contact: tape of the completed Constitutional Court Build- [email protected]. ing, and told me that he himself had been develop- ing a theory of ‘fragile law’. The Society for Existential and Phenomenologi- “This true story may interest you as an example cal Theory and Culture (EPTC) is a Canadian- of a rather unexpected consequence of a piece of based international society of academics from vari- architectural writing—one of the pieces, by the way, ous disciplines. EPTC hosts an annual conference at that Mr. Shirazi reads as ‘vague’.” 2 DOI: 2 Environmental & Architectural Phenomenology, Vol. 20 [2009], No. Twenty Years of EAP David Seamon, Editor, EAP t is difficult to believe that 20 years have pen spontaneously in the course of daily life. The as- passed since philosopher Robert Mugerauer, sumption is that there is no world “beneath” or “be- interior-design educator Margaret Boschetti, hind” the world of lived experience, which means and I met over breakfast at an annual Envi- that conceptual understandings and applied actions Ironmental Design Research Association (EDRA) must be grounded in this lived realm of reality. meeting and envisioned a publication covering phe- Realizing that this relationship between experi- nomenological and related qualitative work explor- ence and its secondhand depictions can be presented ing environmental and architectural concerns. in simpler and more complicated ways, we have tried At that time, Boschetti and I were colleagues at to offer a continuum of interpretive styles and venues Kansas State University, and we took on the task of ranging from narrative accounts that read like stories co-editing a newsletter that would be published to sophisticated philosophical discussions that require three times a year. As a way to incorporate the wide considerable directed effort and attention. Much less range of environmental scales and topics that we successfully, we have attempted to offer graphic pres- wished to include, we eventually settled on the entations that describe phenomenological insights and rather lengthy title of Environmental and Architec- principles in ways that might appeal to readers unin- tural Phenomenology, or EAP, for short. terested in or disinclined to expend the effort on more In the 20 years since that beginning, we have cerebral, word-based presentations. published 60 EAP issues that have included some As one might expect, more philosophically in- 150 essays; 60 book and film reviews; 130 news clined readers have sometimes complained that EAP from readers; 350 items of interest; 470 publication entries are not purely or rigorously phenomenological citations; and 14 poems. Topics discussed have run enough, while readers less concerned with academic the gamut from doing phenomenological research to precision and depth have sometimes complained that the controversial matter of whether and how phe- EAP entries are too “dense” and unnecessarily com- nomenological insights might have pragmatic value plicated. We have tried to shape most EAP issues in for designers and other practitioners. such a way that
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