Awareness is the experiencing in life. It is how you experience being yourself in your surroundings moment by moment. But of all the possible things you can be aware of in the moment, it is something that always takes the spotlight. Attention is that directing spotlight. Attention is the focus in the open field of awareness. Attention is something that we have all the time, but it seems to be constrained to the experience of a thought or emotion that we have in the moment. We have a feeling that we are our thoughts and therefor as soon as something arises in the mind, we have an urge to strive towards what´s pleasant and pushing away what´s not. But the attention is directed towards what seems more important at the moment and our values can therefor change due to the circumstance that we are in, and instead of acting in our environment, we react. Meanwhile we habitually direct our attention towards so many things that we hope will contribute to our wellbeing, that we don’t have time to see that we are directing the attention in the completely wrong direction. Wellbeing isn’t the effect of any outer condition, it is a state of mind. Our minds are the space where our lives are played out. Which means that the only thing we could possibly have control over, is how we respond to the situations that occur in our lives. To make us the director of our attention, to not lose more moments to a momentary reactive mind is hard. During my investigations of how Japanese architectural strategies activates the mind, the aim for my project was developed, to shape spaces that activates awareness. The challenge is to not direct the attention in another direction, but to put the attention on attention itself. This project tries to do this by merging body with space, or by making the mind the space.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-171757 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Aktanius Franzon, Emelie |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess, info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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