Framing essay II
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Framing essay II. / Tietjen, Anne; Kaae Fisker, Jens.
Rural quality of life. ed. / Pia Heike Johansen; Anne Tietjen; Evald Bundgård Iversen; Henrik Lauridsen Lolle; Jens Kaae Fisker. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2022. p. 113-117.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Framing essay II
AU - Tietjen, Anne
AU - Kaae Fisker, Jens
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - The places of rural life have changed dramatically in the past generation. The ongoing transformation of built environments and landscapes is putting a strain on everyday life in many places. At the same time, place-based spatial development, especially through participatory processes of placemaking, is increasingly being viewed as a means not only to achieve attractive and functional built environments but to promote a sense of community, place attachment, social cohesion, and to help stimulate local economies – in short to enhance rural dwellers’ quality of life and well-being. The essay frames the critical examination of interventions in rural built environments in European countries, China and South Africa, with an eye to their role in constructing quality of life. Importantly, this includes the (potential) role of planning and spatial design to enable rural places to flourish and to enhance individual and collective well-being. The framing takes its point of departure in a situated and relational understanding of well-being. People, things and places are assembled in everyday encounters and well-being is conceived of as an effect arising from such complex socio-material assemblages. We have thus tasked authors to critically question the ways in which built interventions and transformation processes instigate new relationships between people, things and places, and how this may contribute to quality of life, while remaining open to the possibility that such interventions might not always be beneficial for quality of life.
AB - The places of rural life have changed dramatically in the past generation. The ongoing transformation of built environments and landscapes is putting a strain on everyday life in many places. At the same time, place-based spatial development, especially through participatory processes of placemaking, is increasingly being viewed as a means not only to achieve attractive and functional built environments but to promote a sense of community, place attachment, social cohesion, and to help stimulate local economies – in short to enhance rural dwellers’ quality of life and well-being. The essay frames the critical examination of interventions in rural built environments in European countries, China and South Africa, with an eye to their role in constructing quality of life. Importantly, this includes the (potential) role of planning and spatial design to enable rural places to flourish and to enhance individual and collective well-being. The framing takes its point of departure in a situated and relational understanding of well-being. People, things and places are assembled in everyday encounters and well-being is conceived of as an effect arising from such complex socio-material assemblages. We have thus tasked authors to critically question the ways in which built interventions and transformation processes instigate new relationships between people, things and places, and how this may contribute to quality of life, while remaining open to the possibility that such interventions might not always be beneficial for quality of life.
KW - Faculty of Science
KW - Rural
KW - Quality of life
KW - Spatial planning
KW - Built environment
KW - Everyday life
KW - Civil society
KW - Well-being
KW - Countryside
U2 - 10.7765/9781526161642.00016
DO - 10.7765/9781526161642.00016
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781526161635
SP - 113
EP - 117
BT - Rural quality of life
A2 - Johansen, Pia Heike
A2 - Tietjen, Anne
A2 - Bundgård Iversen, Evald
A2 - Lauridsen Lolle, Henrik
A2 - Kaae Fisker, Jens
PB - Manchester University Press
CY - Manchester
ER -
ID: 366311927