Exploring Tangible and Intangible Landscapes of Evocative Places

Exploring Tangible and Intangible Landscapes of Evocative Places: Case Study of the City of Vitória in Brazil

Poplin, Alenka (Iowa State University)
de Andrade, Bruno (TU Delft Heritage & Values; University College Dublin)
Mahmud, Shoaib (Iowa State University)

Edler, Dennis (editor)
Jenal, Corinna (editor)
Kühne, Olaf (editor)

2021

This paper explores tangible and intangible characteristics of places. It concentrates on gathering characteristics, emotions, memories and stories related to self-selected evocative places in a city. Evocative places are defined as places that evoke images, memories or emotions. There are two goals identified for this article. The first goal is to study which words citizens use to describe the main characteristics of their self-selected evocative places. The second goal is to map emotions associated with the self-selected evocative places. The case study selected in this research is the city of Vitória in Brazil. We collected 192 evocative places and their characteristics with the help of an online mapping platform that links an online questionnaire with an interactive map. This paper summarizes the main results gathered empirically about evocative places in Vitória, their characteristics and the emotions felt at these places. These places are then mapped in a geographic information system (GIS) in order to understand their locations and concentrations. On the basis of this empirical work in Vitória , and the work accomplished in the cities of Hamburg (Germany), Vienna (Austria), Ames and Grinnell (both Iowa, USA), we also designed and expanded the conceptual model of evocative places presented in this paper for the first time. The conceptual model includes four main categories with which an evocative place can be described including its physical characteristics, experiences, senses and values. We conclude the article with a discussion and further research directions.

place characteristics
place experiences
emotions
evocative places
Urban design
GIS
mapping methodologies
Participatory techniques
digital citizenship
Digitalization
Visualization tool
heritage values

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c63e761f-4537-4e18-970d-93a504e43946

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30956-5_29

Springer, Wiesbaden, Germany

2023-02-01

978-3-658-30955-8

Modern Approaches to the Visualization of Landscapes

RaumFragen: Stadt – Region – Landschaft

Accepted Author Manuscript

Institutional Repository

book chapter

© 2021 Alenka Poplin, Bruno de Andrade, Shoaib Mahmud