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Private Space (private + space)

Distribution by Scientific Domains

Humanities and Social Sciences	25%
Engineering	25%

Selected Abstracts

After the Public Realm: Spaces of Representation, Transition and Plurality

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, Issue 3 2000
Malcolm Miles
This essay questions the privileging of the design of public over domestic spaces and buildings in architecture and urban design, and their education, and the identification of public space with a public realm seen as the location of democracy. It cites the case made by Doreen Massey that the division of public and private realms is gendered, allowing men the freedom of public affairs whilst confining women to domesticity; and argues that a dualism of public and private space ignores a third area of transitional spaces which affect patterns of urban sociation. The case of redevelopment in El Raval, Barcelona, demonstrates that public space may be, today, part of an anti-democratic strategy of gentrification. But, if public space constructs a gendered public realm as imposition, there remains, as Hannah Arendt contends, a need for locations of social mixing in which difference is visible. What, if not public space, enables this? [source]

The American Master Bedroom: Its Changing Location and Significance to the Family

JOURNAL OF INTERIOR DESIGN, Issue 1 2005
John L. Vollmer M. S.
ABSTRACT This article discusses the possible relationship between changes in the master bedroom and parenting values in middle class America. The authors review information from the US homebuilding industry, statistical data on housing trends, literature on the history of the bedroom from the Colonial period to the present, and literature on family sleep practices. The owner's bedroom, one domain among various domains in the home, is an individual-private domain that functions to ensure adult privacy and increase physical barriers between parents and children. The authors contend that changes in the location and function of the master bedroom in the American home over the past centuries reflect the upward social mobility afforded by rising incomes, expansive and undeveloped land, and shared concepts of prestige held by home builders and homeowners. These influences have helped develop a purely American sense of parenting among middle and upper-income families that reflects their individualism. Middle class parents have encouraged more physical distance between themselves and their offspring. Consistent with this trend, they have shown a preference for houses with large master suites that are sometimes located at a distance from other bedrooms in the house. Using a model by Chermayeff and Alexander (1965), the authors examine the relationship between parenting practices and private space, highlighting the implications of this trend for home planners and interior designers. [source]

Les Scènes de la vie privée ou le regard interdit

ORBIS LITERARUM, Issue 6 2000
Anne-Marie Baron
The pre-cinematographic conception of space in Balzac leads us to predict the distinction made by Eric Rohmer between pictorial and architectural space or between ,entre champ' and ,hors-champ'. In Scènes de la vie privée there is a permanent play on private space as an accessible ,hors-champ.' The difficulties exasperate the desire and pleasure of looking while also increasing its fascination. Balzac's narrative strategy can be defined as a prefiguration of the filmic relationship between a field of vision and a field of blindness with the effect of a valorisation of fantasmatic objects, most often the female body. [source]

Through the Iron Curtain: analytical space in post-Soviet Russia

THE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2006
Angela Connolly
Abstract: This paper discusses the experience of working as an analyst in post-totalitarian Russia in order to explore some of the general theoretical and clinical issues involved in working in a different cultural and linguistic context, and the particular problems encountered in the Russian cultural context. It describes how the Soviet regime worked actively to create a new totally collective mentality through the destruction of individual differences and the collectivization of private space, and the effects this produced in the individual and collective psyche. It examines the difficulties encountered when working with Russian analysands in creating and maintaining the setting, in preserving boundaries, in creating analytical space, and in working with certain particular transference-countertransference dynamics. It focuses on the contrast between my own Western experience of space and the spatial experience of the analysands, and describes the process of helping them use analytical space to interiorize and create a new experience of psychic space. The paper uses dreams to illustrate some of these dynamics, and the particular psychic problems associated with the traumas created by totalitarian regimes. [source]

,May we please have sex tonight?', people with learning difficulties pursuing privacy in residential group settings

BRITISH JOURNAL OF LEARNING DISABILITIES, Issue 2 2009
Andrea Hollomotz
Accessible summary ,,Everyone has the right to privacy and relationships. ,,Some people who live in group homes are not allowed to be private with their partner. ,,We will explain how this makes us feel. ,,We will say what should change. ,,Parts written in ,bold' font are in plain English. Read them to find out more. Summary Many residential group settings for people with learning difficulties do not provide individuals with the private space in which they can explore their sexual relationships in a safe and dignified manner. Lack of agreed private spaces seriously infringes the individual's human rights. Many people with learning difficulties who lack privacy have no other option but to escape to isolated public or semi-private spaces to be sexually active. This places individuals at risk. It is suggested that self-advocacy driven policy guidance must be developed which must require residential services to review their practice to ensure that they accommodate residents' need for privacy, whilst supporting them to lead safe sexual relationships. [source]

Women's Place in the Family and the Convent: A Reconsideration of Public and Private in Renaissance Florence

JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION, Issue 2 2001
Saundra Weddle
The public-private dichotomy has traditionally been defined by contrasting spaces that are open to those that are enclosed. Historical studies of Renaissance Italian architecture and cities have generally accepted this categorization and have relegated women of the period to the private realm,the domestic or the conventual setting. An examination of contemporary writings and of the function of so-called private spaces of a Florentine convent demonstrates that our understanding ofpublic andprivate must go beyond a consideration of formal criteria, and must also consider the identity and activities of the individuals who occupy the spaces in question. [source]

Bridging the spheres: political and personal conversation in public and private spaces

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, Issue 1 2000
RO Wyatt
For some theorists, talk about politics is infrequent, difficult, divisive, and, to be efficacious, must proceed according to special rules in protected spaces. We, however, examined ordinary political conversation in common spaces, asking Americans how freely and how often they talked about 9 political and personal topics at home, work, civic organizations, and elsewhere. Respondents felt free to talk about all topics. Most topics were talked about most frequently at home and at work, suggesting that the electronic cottage is wired to the public sphere. Political conversation in most loci correlated significantly with opinion quality and political participation, indicating that such conversation is a vital component of actual democratic practice, despite the emphasis given to argumentation and formal deliberation by some normative theorists. [source]