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Jose Tapia reported personal life change after moving into Mexicali housing: 'I feel more potent in myself... it has changed my personal life.'

Testimonial evidence that living structure in housing can alter daily activities and self-perception.

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It is possible for us to build a world in which people are emotionally free, fully themselves, and alive, as demonstrated by contemporary projects.
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Optimism based on Mexicali, Eishin, and Whidbey Island.

Artifacts (1)

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Mexicali Housing Project
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Low-cost housing for Mexican families, built with family participation, where Jose Tapia experienced personal change.

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I feel more potent in myself, not in relation to society, but in relation to the small things I do every day, when I am in the home, and when I come home from work.quote0.734
Jose Tapia's testimony about life change in Mexicali.
When living and working intermingle, a place becomes more real.claim0.719
Links functional mix to phenomenological authenticity.
It was very powerful to witness my perceptions undergoing such a basic alteration ... a fundamental and profound change in the way I perceive things. ... I am acutely moved, as if a very deep part of me is recognizing some long lost elemental truths.quote0.717
A participant's testimony about the transformative effect of the mirror-of-the-self experience.
The wholeness of a place is actually different — not merely perceived differently — when the cultural saliences of its occupants changeclaim0.707
Argument illustrated by the chair-plus-scrap-iron and Point Lobos Yurok examples
Centers which have life increase our own life because we ourselves are centers too; we feel more wholesome in the presence of things which have wholesomeness in themclaim0.705
Describes a resonance mechanism between living centers in the world and the center that is the human self
The Self is subject to significant change in real-time, both slow maturation and radical material remodeling.claim0.705
Plasticity of the Self is a fundamental property of life.
Places have the capacity to deny us permission to be ourselves; even in our own apartments, we may not be able to attain the blissful state without the right adapted geometry.claim0.703
A stronger assertion about the power of physical environment over psychological state.
The more you use the properties, the more you find they correspond to your feeling, giving permission to liberate your feeling.claim0.702