Mapping-Stories research project interactive map stories layer
MAPPING-STORIES: Unfolding The Hidden Potential of Happy Urban Place
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Leading Research on Higher Education Grants 2013-2014, Universitas Indonesia
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The research addressed the issue of urban happiness as a critical aspect of well-being in urban living. The experience of happiness plays an important role in promoting the quality of life of urban actors. Urban spaces have significant role as the spatial settings where the experiences of urban living take place. The objective of this research was to reveal the phenomenon of spatial transformation of urban spaces as the setting for the events and experiences of happiness for urban actors. In particular this research attempted to identify the interdependence among actors, spaces, time and events as the ingredients of happy events and experiences, and to map such interdependence as a narrative of spatial experiences in a systematic way. The mapping process was based on the understanding that the experience of happiness in urban context could be comprehended as a narrative or a story (De Certeau, 1987; Psarra, 2009). Mapping becomes a main approach in this research as it becomes a creative approach of representation that could reveal the hidden potential of spatial contexts (Corner, 1999; Graafland, 2010). In this research, the stories of happiness of the urban actors were comprehended as spatial journeys, which happened throughout sequential events in certain spatial settings.
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explore an alternative way to draw the urban narratives in order to depict the quality of urban atmosphere
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Mapping-Stories research project
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Verarisa Anastasia Ujung
The journey is attained by route. Throughout the journey, there are many decisions involved, in deciding the possibility of tracks or routes, orientations, actors, time, as well as necessary conditions for the complete optimal experience. As soon as the goals and decisions define a system of action, they sequentially generates social practise of happiness.
Mapping-Stories research project
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Verarisa Anastasia Ujung
A systematic mapping procedure was developed in order to unfold the spatial experiences, and to understand how the ingredients of the stories of happiness were interrelated in urban spatial contexts. It opens the possibilities to “craft� our own tools (Silver, 2006) and explore the possibilities of representation through computational medium within the spatial journeys, which happened throughout sequential events in certain spatial settings.