Experience

1. Human being and the world (Phenomenological approach)
1.1. Subject vs. Object?
1.2. The indivisible attachment of human being to the world (environment).
1.3. The relationship between subject and space is not only cognitive but perceptive and emotional.
1.4. Environmental perception, cognition and emotion.
1.5. There is a need to understand locality and region in terms of the person who lives and uses in the place-- life-world.
1.6. Perception (inside-ness) is prior to cognition, a pre-condition for objective thought (outside-ness).

2. Spatial experience as perception (知覺)
2.1. Embodied self: through body and senses, we attach to the world.
2.2. Our body movements -- postures and gestures -- merged with the world.
2.3. Perceptive structure is not universal to everyone.
2.4. Perception is situated at social dynamics (gender, class, ethnic, ...)

3. Exploring perception
3.1. A reflexive understanding for both insider and outsider.
3.2. (For insiders) Critical awareness of the perceptive structures and their contexts
3.3. (For outsiders) Critique of the cognitive models of space.
3.4. The interaction between perception and cognition or sense and representation.

4. Further applications
4.1. Community/ participatory planning (US) and social architecture (UK)
4.2. Post-occupancy evaluation
4.3. Example I: Pattern language
4.4. Example II: 社區營造