Ninth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

This research focuses on exploring children and their daily routines and common practices that inhabited spaces reflect. As a study territory, the village of Pevidém emerges as a place experienced by residents and neighbouring communities, through processes of observation and recognition. It is intended to understand how personal, spatial, and temporal relationships are created. Starting with an initial action of observation, through fourteen field visits, the observer walks through Pevidém, visit after visit, in order to recognise the spaces of children within the community. After the initial observation, it is proceeded to the second act of the research: the dialogue. Thirteen distinct conversations reflected in twelve personal maps drawn by those who live them daily, represent routines, movements, and actions. The space becomes a place experienced by people, by routines, by the everyday life. Dialogue portrays the progress over observation, allowing an in-depth proximity to Pevidém, in order to understand and map the socio-spatial narratives of this common lived place.