- Title
- Applying prospect-refuge theory to a local environment : My house and the nature strip outside my house
- Creator
- Ryan, Vin
- Date
- 2016
- Type
- Text; Thesis; PhD
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/154501
- Identifier
- vital:11164
- Identifier
- https://library.federation.edu.au/record=b2713123
- Abstract
- Jay Appleton’s prospect-refuge theory asserts that there are innate, evolutionary factors that influence how we respond to the landscapes around us. Appleton identifies an instinctive desire for prospect and refuge as significant factors that influence the way that we read and respond to our surroundings. Appleton’s notion of prospect is one that encapsulates our desire to seek opportunity and interest from our surroundings. His notion of refuge refers to a desire to seek safety and shelter from within the same environment. Where Appleton seeks meaning from historical notions of landscape, subsequent writers and practitioners have applied prospect-refuge theory to broader categories that encapsulate a notion of environment, this is particularly the case within the field of architecture. Since prospect-refuge theory is largely forgotten within the field of fine art, this project seeks to test its currency as an applicable and useful tool for a contemporary visual art practitioner. My aim here is to test the limits of prospect-refuge theory by applying its universal principles to a set of parochial and idiosyncratic concerns that form part of my visual arts practice. Specifically I look at a personal set of associations that I have with the spaces of my suburban home and nature strip. I seek to use prospect-refuge theory as a means through which to contextualise these personal responses within a broader and more complex discourse.; Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- Federation University Australia
- Rights
- Copyright Vin Ryan
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Prospect-refugee theory; Local environment
- Full Text
- Thesis Supervisor
- Jones-O'Neill, Jennifer
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