Private belonging

Individual environments that reflect personal identity through unique, imperfect adaptations, inviting love

Neighborhood — ranked by edge-count

concept

Belonging (public and private)
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The twin needs for communal public space and individually expressive private territory, addressed by the four-fold pattern.
Belonging
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A sense of true connection to oneself, society, and the physical environment; an emotional necessity for human well-being

artifact

Photographs: Four family doorways from East Wahdat, Jordan, 1990
about
Show ordinary, unique doorways created by families themselves, demonstrating individual belonging through modern public planning

chapter

Belonging And Not-Belonging
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Chapter 1 of Volume 3, introducing the concepts of belonging and not-belonging in the built environment

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

True belongingconcept0.822
Belonging that arises from living processes and unique adaptation, not from wealth or ostentation
Not-belongingconcept0.807
The anonymous, faceless quality of modern built environments that lack personal connection
Private spaceconcept0.772
Individually owned gardens and building lots that provide personal belonging.
The private or individual space which is created by money, in today's society, is rarely making or fostering belonging.claim0.744
Distinguishes wealth-driven uniqueness from the true uniqueness born of living process
Private Gardenconcept0.738
A small, private outdoor space belonging exclusively to one family, identified as highly desired.
Privacyconcept0.736
Selfingconcept0.723
Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
The structures needed for our belonging — both private and public — can be generated almost without effort, autonomously, by any truly living process allowed to exist in society.claim0.720
Optimistic assertion that living process effortlessly brings forth the spatial conditions for belonging