Writing Project 1 Summary

For my space I observed one of my friend’s room’s. I chose the space since it was familiar to me and I could make a lot of in depth observations. For my applied lens I used Frank Vanclay’s Making Sense of Place. I figured that a lens would be interesting if the person I was observing the space through actually owned it. For observation of the space I asked my friend a couple questions about the space and what she felt about it. Vanclay asserts in his passage that some who invests in their space goes through a process of place making and establishes a biophysical connection with their space. I wanted to explore this assertion and see how place making works. I also explored Vanclay’s ideas on pluralities of space. He argues that different people can have different feeling about a space based of their experiences and how they relate to the space. I felt that since she personally lives their and I only visit from time to time we may have vastly different views of the space which would be a very interesting idea to explore and see how our views differ from one another. Through my observations I have come to really respect Vanclays ideas and observations and now have a much more developed and broader perspective.