地方感的研究路径探索:心象运动论的方法

EXPLORING A RESEARCH APPROACH FOR SENSE OF PLACE: A METHOD OF MIND-IMAGE-MOTION

通过多理论思辨,本文认为地方感理论研究中,不同流派之间存在的三对矛盾:流动性与在地性的矛盾,历时性与即时性的矛盾,个体经验与集体意识的矛盾。为调和这三对矛盾,本文探索新的研究方法,即地方感的心象运动路径,主要包括以下内容:(1)心象与心象运动的概念;(2)心象运动的认识论;(3)心象运动论的研究方法。通过这些理论探索,提出地方感研究的新路径,为城市政府的社区管治、提升居民的归属感提供政策参考。

Through multiple theoretical considerations, this paper argues that there are three pairs of contradictions between different schools of thought in the study of sense of place: The contradiction between mobility and locality, the contradiction between ephemerality and immediacy, and the contradiction between individual experience and collective consciousness. In order to reconcile these three pairs of contradictions, this paper explores a new research approach, namely, the mind-image motion of sense of place, which mainly includes the following: The concept of mind-image and mind-image-motion;the epistemology of mind-imagemotion;and the research method of mind-image-motion. First, mind-image is a mapping of consciousness that connects feelings and cognition, and the new research approach understands sense of place as an intentional flow of mind images that leads to phenomenal experiences, knowledge representations, and memories of place. Second, the analogy and multidimensional structure that human consciousness has makes the flow of mind-image-motion possible. The new approach proposes a boat-anchor metaphor for the sense of place that can help understand the mechanism and process of mind-image-motion. The sense of place can be seen as a boat anchor, while the boat represents the individual’s life trajectory, and the water symbolizes the flow of human consciousness. Finally, the new research method designs an experiment on "augmented dérive method" for sense of place. A drift map was generated via a smartphone app in a real city scenario. Following a randomly generated route, participants were asked to wander through the city. By experiencing the city as an unknown space, participants also redefined the urban landscape and its sense of place with new meanings and experiences. Through these theoretical explorations, this paper expects to propose a new approach for the study of sense of place, which will provide policy reference for the community governance of urban government and enhance the sense of belonging of residents.