Perception of Public Spaces through the Senses: The Golden Horn Coastal Park Example

Abstract

People conduct the perception process through a much more complex set of senses than is commonly known. During this process, they attribute meaning to their surroundings as they perceive them, shaping their behaviors accordingly. Numerous studies have examined people's basic senses and spatial perception processes. Humans possess additional senses beyond their fundamental ones. This study examines the impact of human senses on environmental perception using public spaces as an example. Human senses were evaluated in eight categories. This research aimed to assess the impact of conscious and subconscious senses on public space perceptions by reviewing past research and conducting a field study focusing on two selected senses. For this purpose, one conscious sense and one unconscious sense were selected. Perceptual maps, motion maps, surveys, and word cloud analysis methods were used to measure the impact of the selected senses on spatial perception. The maps were overlaid, and results were obtained by analyzing surveys using Excel and the word cloud using MAXQDA. The data showed a link between spatial awareness and the chosen senses.

Keywords

• Vestibular sense
• visual sense
• public space
• perception

Kamusal Mekânların Duyular ile Algılanması: Haliç Kıyı Park Örneği

Abstract

İnsanlar, bilinenden çok daha fazla ve karmaşık duyular aracılığıyla algılama sürecini yürütmektedirler. Bu süreçte, çevrelerine algıladıkları kadar anlam yükleyerek davranışlarını algılarına göre şekillendirirler. Literatürde bulunan birçok çalışma insanların temel duyuları ile mekânsal algılama süreçleri üzerinde bulunmuştur. Ancak insanların temel duyularına ek olarak başka duyuları da bulunmaktadır. Bu çalışma kapsamında, insan duyularının çevresel algılama üzerindeki etkisi, kamusal mekân örneği üzerinden ele alınmaktadır. Bu doğrultuda, insan duyuları sekiz kategoride değerlendirilmiştir. Çalışmanın temel amacı, bilinçli ve bilinçsiz kullanılan duyuların kamusal mekân algısı üzerindeki etkisini literatür bazlı değerlendirmek ve sonrasında seçilen iki duyu üzerinden saha çalışması gerçekleştirmektir. Bu doğrultuda, kamusal mekân algısında bir bilinçli duyu ve bir bilinçsiz duyu seçilmiştir. Seçilen duyuların mekânsal algılama üzerindeki etkisini ölçümlemek için algı haritası, hareket haritası, anket çalışması ve kelime bulutu analiz yöntemleri kullanılmıştır. Haritalar çakıştırılmış, anketler Excel programı üzerinden, kelime bulutu ise MAXQDA programında analiz edilerek sonuçlar elde edilmiştir. Elde edilen veriler ışığında, mekân algısı ve seçilen duyular arasındaki ilişki ortaya konulmuştur.

Keywords

• Vestibüler duyu
• görme duyusu
• kamusal mekân
• algı

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