Immersive Design
  • Introduction
  • Course Program
  • Showcase
  • References
  • Class 0-2 Bootcamp
    • The Last Great Battle of the Samurai
    • Class 0: Sensing
    • Class 1: Design Tools
    • Class 2: Evaluation Basics
  • Spatial
    • Spatial Rationales: Food for Thought
    • Spatial Intimacy: Public Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Social Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Personal Space
    • Spatial Intimacy: Intimate Space
    • Spatial Form: Proportion & Rhythm
    • Spatial Flow: Movement & Direction
    • Spatial Sensing: Sensory Expressions
    • Spatial Sound: Edible Flavor
  • Embodiment
    • Embodiment: Kinesthetic Space
    • Embodiment: Gestural Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Bodily Kinesphere
    • Embodiment: Harmony & Balance
    • Embodiment: Affordances & Microinteractions
  • Evaluation
    • Evaluation Topics: Immersion & Presence
    • Evaluation Topics: Emotional Immersion
    • Evaluation Topics: Body-Ownership
    • Evaluation Topics: User Tasks
    • Evaluation Topics: Navigation
    • Evaluation Topics: Wayfinding
    • Evaluation Topics: Human-System Control
    • Evaluation Topics: Feedback, feedforward & force feedback
  • Methods
    • Evaluation Methods: Setting up an Experiment
    • Evaluation Methods: Quantitative & Qualitative
    • Evaluation Methods: Materials
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Spatial Intimacy: Social Space

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Edward T. Hall described the interpersonal distances of man (the relative distances between people) in four distinct zones:

Proxemics is the study of human use of space and the effects that population density has on behaviour, communication and social interaction.

Social distance is reserved for strangers, newly formed groups, and interaction with new acquaintances.

  • Close phase – 4 to 7 feet (1.2 to 2.1 m)

  • Far phase – 7 to 12 feet (2.1 to 3.7 m)

Example Kohnstammhof at HvA

All actors of HvA make use of the Kohnstammhof, by walking, sitting or chatting with colleagues & students. Everybody consensually 'knows' that Kohnstammhof is a place that is informal, open and transparant, yet it is dedicated to the educational institution of the HvA.

Human Values in Social Space‌

Humans try to make sense of their own behavior, and others’ behavior, over time, and the main way in which we do that is by collecting our own and other people’s reasons and assembling these sets of reasons into an “identity” — a simplified model of ourselves or of others. Our sense of one another’s identity (and of a set of shared values) is what justifies cooperation.

A social space is physical or virtual space, where people gather and interact. Within social spaces a system of 'adapted' expectations and responses occur, which are rarely articulated as such because they seem obvious.

While a small number of values have names (“freedom”, “equality”, “honesty”, “generosity”) most of them don’t. But values without names can usually be referred to by phrases (“honoring the dead”, “building the capacity of the team to handle problems together”). Much of human conversation amounts to asking the question “what is important in such-and-such-a-situation?” and answering it with value-phrases of this sort.

'Space is social: it involves assigning more or less appropriated places to social relations....social space has thus always been a social product'. -

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