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1.2 A Sense of Place in Neighbourhoods

1. The document discusses how people develop a sense of place in their neighborhoods through repeated encounters with familiar locations, landmarks, and meaningful experiences. 2. A sense of place can be represented through various media like television, social media, texts and images, which can enhance people's connection to a place by revealing new information or contradict it by expressing different emotions. 3. Exercises are suggested for learningers to document their daily journeys and reflect on the people, objects, and places that help give them a sense of place in their neighborhood.

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1.2 A Sense of Place in Neighbourhoods

1. The document discusses how people develop a sense of place in their neighborhoods through repeated encounters with familiar locations, landmarks, and meaningful experiences. 2. A sense of place can be represented through various media like television, social media, texts and images, which can enhance people's connection to a place by revealing new information or contradict it by expressing different emotions. 3. Exercises are suggested for learningers to document their daily journeys and reflect on the people, objects, and places that help give them a sense of place in their neighborhood.

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Geography in

Everyday Life
Cluster
Topic 1: Thinking Geographically
1.2 A sense of place in neighbourhoods
Learning Outcomes:
You will learn …
• concept of sense of place
• how people acquire a sense of place in their neighbourhoods
• how sense of place is represented using different forms and
types of media to express people’s sense of place
• how individuals’ sense of place could be enhanced or
contradicted by these different representations
Sense of place
• A space or location with meaning
• Emotions someone attaches to an area based on their experiences.
• Place can be applied at any scale and does not necessarily have to be
fixed in either time or space.
• Additionally, due to globalization, place can change over time as its
physical setting and cultures are influenced by new ideas or technologies.
a w
’ s dr
e t
L Mental Maps
Mental maps are a mix of
objective knowledge and
subjective perceptions: precise
knowledge about the location
of geographic features as well
as impressions of places, rough
estimates of size and location,
and a general sense of the
connections between places.
How do people acquire a sense of place in
their neighbourhood?
1. Repeated encounters with objects and people
• We may acquire and strengthen our sense of place due to our repeated encounters with
objects and people along familiar paths during our daily travels.
• This helps us to recall the features of places that we come across and associate
meanings and memories with them.
• When we travel from our neighbourhoods to other locations, we may travel by motor
vehicles through expressways. The speed at which we are travelling may be faster,
hence we may only notice larger objects like trees, buildings and structures.
Unique features

The Toa Payoh Dragon


Playground at Lorong
6 Toa Payoh is one of
two full-sized Dragon
Playgrounds remaining
in Singapore
How do people acquire a sense of place in
their neighbourhood?
2. Significant or memorable events at local landmarks and gathering
places
• We may also acquire our sense of place from significant or memorable
events that took place at local landmarks and gathering places.
• Landmarks are buildings or structures with distinguishing characteristics
that are easily recognised.
• Landmarks are highly visible, easy for most of us to remember and
associate with experiences that develop our sense of place.
Historical/ Symbolic
landmarks

The conserved Bukit Timah


Railway Station building was built
in 1932 and is one of two extant
railway stations in Singapore.
Along with its key architectural
and railway elements, the railway
station has been sensitively and
carefully restored and repurposed
as a heritage gallery for visitors to
learn about its history and that of
the Rail Corridor.
Bite-size fieldwork task!

• Over a span of a week, capture your journey from


home to school/ school to home either in a journal/
speed-up video/ sketch/ sound journal
• Include description/ narration of people and object
encounters.
How is the sense of place represented?
• Sense of place may be represented through different forms and types of
media.
• Range from entertainment to news media, including traditional media
such as television, and new media such as social media.
• This reflects people’s ideas, memories and significance of the location.
• An individual may express their personal sense of place in different forms
such as texts, audio, graphics, still and moving images. This can then be
shared with others through various media types such as print media,
broadcast media and internet-based media.
Collective
sense of place
Bus, HDB, mrt, hawker culture,

Why is the Singapore’s


National Day video
for 2021 considered as
collective sense of
place?
Unique
features and
memories

How may representations of sense of place enhance or


contradict an individual’s sense of place?

• The different emotions expressed by others through media might either


enhance or contradict our sense of place.
• Our sense of place shapes our identity, hence, we respond well to
representations that agree with how we feel about places in our
neighbourhood.
• Such representations add new layers of meanings to these places by
revealing interesting information about them, thus enhancing our sense of
place.
FACTS FEELINGS & REACTIONS
[What are the important facts and details] [How do I feel about what I’m learning]

Talking about the places and how I am connected to it Nothing much

QUESTIONS CONNECTIONS
[What questions come to mind? What am I curious about?] [How does this relate to my experiences or to things that I have
I am curious how this is going to learnt?]
be tested for exam

My way back home

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