concept
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concept:personal-trace-in-the-environmentPersonal trace in the environment
The visible imprint of an individual's making on their surroundings, such as a paw print in concrete, that fosters intimate belonging
Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count
Quotes (1)
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- Vernacular testimony illustrating how personal making creates belonging through visible imperfection
Chapters (1)
chapter
- Belonging And Not-BelongingmentionsChapter 1 of Volume 3, introducing the concepts of belonging and not-belonging in the built environment
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cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- Objects that show human use and adaptation, such as the zone behind the bed, making a space more alive.
- The idea that a living garden records its past through successive unfoldings, like the memory of the Kiri tree expressed in paths and gardens.
- The physical or conceptual space where loose parts are situated.
- Idea that users should customize and restructure tools for idiosyncratic needs; central thesis of the paper.
- The philosophical question of what constitutes identity over time, applied to the problem of what a dialogue agent would seek to preserve
- The diverse materials, shapes, phenomena, media, sounds, etc. that constitute loose parts and drive inventiveness.
- The ability of individuals and communities to shape, own, and modify their living spaces; a prerequisite for belonging
- The sense in which a person is justified in holding a belief, tied to phenomenal consciousness.