Assessing the Multi-Sensory Qualities of Urban Space: A methodological approach and notational system for recording and designing the multi-sensory experience of urban space

Lucas, Raymond; Rómice, Ombretta

doi:10.1174/217119710791175678

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“…During on-site observations, student researchers explored various available tools to record and assess sensory experience systematically. The primary tool used was the sensory notation chart developed by Lucas and Romice [ 85 ] to capture and evaluate the presence, type and intensity of visual, aural, tactile, kinetic, thermal and chemical (smell) sensory properties of a place, each on a 5-point scale. This intuitive yet systematic tool provided means for uncovering the most dominant and the weakest sensory qualities at different points in the neighbourhood.…”

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“…In architecture and urban design disciplines, several recent studies focused on approaches to capturing, measuring, evaluating, analysing and visualising sensory qualities of urban environments and subjective multi-sensory experiences (e.g., [ 82 , 83 , 84 ]). Among these, a study by Lucas and Romice [ 85 ] represents one of the rare attempts to systematically employ sensory experience in urban design research and practice, based on notational systems and sensory multi-modality. Their sensory notation system builds mainly upon the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty [ 1 ], which focuses on perception rather than on being and experience (discussed by Heidegger), and on description rather than analysis.…”

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A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

Trivic

2021

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Associated sensory and cognitive declines progress with ageing and profoundly impact the daily living and quality of life of older adults. In the context of an increased ageing population globally, this paper outlines an exploratory study of socio-sensory properties of two high-density housing neighbourhoods in Singapore and the ways senior local residents perceive their familiar built environments. This study employed exploratory on-site exercises with 44 student researchers (including sensory photo-journeys, documentation of sensory properties and daily activity patterns), and 301 socio-perceptual surveys with local residents, the majority of whom were older adults. The findings reveal important aspects related to sensory assessment and appreciation (e.g., crowdedness, noise, smell, cleanliness), walking experience (e.g., safety, wayfinding) and overall satisfaction with the neighbourhood (e.g., available public amenities, opportunities for inter-generational bonding), some of which correlated with age and reported health condition. Multi-sensory assessment shows the capacity to inform more integrated, empathetic, ability-building and context-specific ageing-friendly neighbourhood design.

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A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

Trivic

2021

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“…Perbedaan dari ketiga penelitian terletak pada variabelnya, penelitian pertama melakukan pengujian kualitas variabel descriptors dari Lucas & Romice (Lucas & Romice, 2010). Penelitian kedua menguji efisiensi dengan membandingkan VR dan model fisik (maket), dan penelitian ketiga menguji kualitas VR berdasarkan pengalaman langsung di dunia nyata dengan variable descriptors yang disimpulkan oleh Abubakar & Mahmud (Abubakar et al, 2013).…”

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Kajian Persepsi Makna Sakral Arsitektur Tradisional Jawa Secara Virtual Bagi Mahasiswa Arsitektur

Agraputri,

Phoebe,

Victory

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Virtual Reality (VR) technology can provide a spatial experience that almost resembles real conditions. Through VR, it is hoped that it can also present sacred meanings/perceptions that are usually strongly felt when entering certain buildings. This research conducted VR simulations on three types of traditional Javanese buildings, to identify respondents' perceptions of the sacred by entering a virtual space experience. This research uses quantitative methods with a descriptive approach and is supported by qualitative methods in selecting parameters. Data collection in this study used a questionnaire with a list of questions asked to respondents online via Google Form while accessing the 360 virtual tour. The research results show that respondents can feel and rank the level of sacredness of Javanese architecture. The strongest sense of the sacred is conveyed through the scale of the building, including the area and height of the building, the weight of materials, loudness of sound and lighting. The most dominant descriptor felt by respondents was material weight. From the results obtained, it can be concluded that sacredness is more pronounced from descriptors related to spatial scale than related to function. Through this research, it is hoped that VR technology can be enriched so that it can optimally present architectural works that have various implied meanings.

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“…Informed by soundscape and public space-related literature, users' written descriptions of their activities were analysed using acontent analysis strategy,amethod using processes of systematic coding and theme identification to analyse the content of text data [63]. To this end, we used (1) an apriori coding scheme in relation to the levelofsocial interaction [62], and (2) open-coding strategies [63], building on the demonstrated restoration and relaxation effects of users' auditory environments in parks [26].…”

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“…The activities that theyp erform in public spaces are influenced by and influence, in turn, howt heir environments appear,sound or feel. Repeated calls have been made to acknowledge the importance of asensual /sensuous understanding of the city,both in practices for investigating and "making" the city,drivenbygrowing recognition of the relevance of the other senses for the urban experience ( [1,2,3,4,5] inter alios). However, mainstream research and design initiativesremain overwhelmingly focused on visual aspects (see e.g.…”

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An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Activities on Public Space Users' Descriptions of Their Auditory Environments on Site: The Case of Amsterdam

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Pfeffer²,

Coler³

et al. 2019

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This paper is an exploration into whether public space users performing different activities describe their auditory environments in noticeably different ways. Building on soundscape and psycholinguistic literature, aq uestionnaire study wasconducted in alarge park in Amsterdam (NL),where 92 park users described, in writing, their activities and auditory environments. Users' self-reported activities were categorized based on their levelofsocial interaction (solitary vs. socially interactive), and using open coding, generating categories of activities grouped by semantic range. The written corpus on auditory environment descriptions wasa nalysed through ap roposed classificatory framework, coding descriptions at three semantic and one syntactic level. We preliminarily tested whether there are associations between various categories of activities and of auditory environment descriptions, categorized at different levels. Our results suggest that, while for detailed levels of activity categorization there were no non-distinct patterns, the levelo fs ocial interaction of users' activities has an observable effect over users' descriptions of their auditory environments. This holds particularly in relation to types of sounds listed, as well as for differences in descriptions at asyntactic level. These findings point towards subtly different auditory experiences in the same public space for users performing solitary or socially interactive activities.

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Assessing the Multi-Sensory Qualities of Urban Space: A methodological approach and notational system for recording and designing the multi-sensory experience of urban space

Cited by 13 publications

References 7 publications

A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

A Study of Older Adults’ Perception of High-Density Housing Neighbourhoods in Singapore: Multi-Sensory Perspective

Kajian Persepsi Makna Sakral Arsitektur Tradisional Jawa Secara Virtual Bagi Mahasiswa Arsitektur

An Exploratory Study on the Influence of Activities on Public Space Users' Descriptions of Their Auditory Environments on Site: The Case of Amsterdam

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