Reclaiming Place as ‘Home’: Lived Experience, Meaning and Space

Monday, 23 December
Start at 18:10
Language – English
Graduate School of Urbanism
(13/4 Myasnitskaya str., room 400.1)
Free entrance

Faculty of Urban and Regional Development kindly invites you to the guest lecture “Reclaiming Place as ‘Home’: Lived Experience, Meaning and Space” by  Maria Lichrou (University of Limerick) and Aggelos Panayiotopoulos (Cardiff Metropolitan University).

The notion of ‘home’ connects people with place. Using the case studies of Santorini and Dubrovnik, we explore how lived experience and socio-spatial analysis can contribute to a critical discussion of local identity and use of space. Lived experience, in the case of Santorini, was explored through the use of narrative interviewing where ‘home’ emerged as a vanishing yet important sense of place. In Dubrovnik, socio-spatial analysis proposed a new urban armature. Going beyond mere structural support, this urban armature brings together space and meaning, to facilitate shared experiences that bind communities together. Thus, place is reimagined as home.

The discussant of the lecture is Olga Lavrenova, Dr.hab., PhD (equiv.), the President of International Association for Semiotics of Space and Time (IASSp+T/AISE+T), leading research fellow at the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INION RAN). Ivan Mitin, PhD (equiv.), Associate Professor at the HSE Vysokovsky Graduate School of Urbanism, will moderate the discussion.

Free entrance. If you need access into the HSE University, please contact Ivan Mitin via e-mail: imitin@hse.ru.