| Title |
An Interpretive Analysis of the Existential Meaning of Privacy and Private Place in Childhood |
| Abstract |
This study explores the concept of privacy and the existential meaning of private places in child-hood. The focus of this study is to interpret the experience of privacy through informants' place memories as expriential data. The research approach applied is a phenomenological interpretation of informants' thick discription of privacy based on their lived-world experience. Discussion centers on self-ego dimensions and social perspectives of childhood privacy. The results of interpretive analysis are highlighted under the following 5 issues; self-identity and the meaning of private place, individual autonomy and the meaning of private place, the peer group formation and the meaning of private place, social intimacy and the physical proximity of private place, and the meaning of small scale space as private place. These issues also invoke designers to rethink today's trend of technology-oriented architectural design which often ignore inner meaning of th eplace deeply involved with real inhabitants' everyday life. |