Placeways Glossary

Cacotope: A bad place.

Chorophilia: Love of place.

Energy: The capacity to cause changes in interest, feeling or action

Expressive Intelligibility: Making sense through a whole experience of perceptions, ideas, images, dramatic encounters and stories; knowledge with its centre in the life of feeling.

Expressive space: A specific milieu laden with emotional and symbolic features of experience: a place that contains feelings and meanings, which may be expressed through objects, structures, forms, surfaces, images, stories, myths, memories and dreams.

Pathetecture: The process of building feelings and meanings by the arrangement of material objects, especially through construction, dilapidation, and excavation.

Periegete: A guide to a place.

Place: A location of experience; the container of shapes, power, feelings, and meanings.

Ruins: Physical remains shaping a location of experience that is past but not completed.

Structure of mutual immanence: The system of effective presences dwelling together in a place.

Theoria: An ancient way of grasping experience that involves all the senses and feelings.

Therapeia: Close attendance.

Theraputae: People who give close attendance.

Topistics: A holistic mode of enquiry designed to make the identity, character, and experience of a place intelligible.

Topoclasm: Destruction of a place.

Topomorphic revolution: A fundamental change in a mode of dwelling together in a place.

Topotherapy: The responsive dwelling, close attendance, cultivation and care of a place.

Wilderness: A location of unsettled experience.

Walter, E,V. (1998) Placeways: A Theory of the Human Environment, USA: UNC Press Books. p.215