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Surveying my bedroom, I see walls scattered with pictures of friends and posters they made, magazines cut outs, photo collages of trips taken and so much more. The decorational pieces do not match, but each item appeals to me in a certain way and is significant. Objects that are part of the different phases in life I have been through, and despite the fact I have moved on to another stage in life, they are all coalesced in a single, undersized bedroom. It might sounds like any other girl’s room but it epitomizes me. My life and history. Home is, in Mary Douglas’s phrase, ‘a memory machine’ (1993,p.268).To me, a bedroom is an “archive of memories”, the original, secret diary, the handkerchief which has been able to dry my tears for almost nineteen years, the camera containing all the films of my life. It reflects who I was in the past and who I am at present.
According to Low and Altman, in the context of “place attachment”, place is defined as a “space that has been given a meaning through personal, group, or cultural processes”(1992, p.5). The literature on place attachment emphasizes emotional bonding to environmental settings that are satisfying, and the attachment to places may be based largely on our
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“Behaviour setting theories” is about the “relationship between human behaviour and the physical environment” (Hutchinson, 1999, p.225). Whenever I am in a room which is not my own, I have difficulty sleeping. I feel uncomfortable, and even if I do manage to fall asleep, it will be a listless nap marred by unnerving dreams. The bed definitely did not inflict this predicament. Fact is, I feel displaced having to sleep in an unfamiliar surrounding. When it is dark, I fumble to find the light switch, an inconvenience I never encounter in my own bedroom. I have a mental map of my room which I believe has developed through the sense of belonging I have towards it. People tend to control and ‘shape’ their bedroom in a way which maximize their ease in moving through it and in using it. Hence, the setting of the bedroom will trigger some habits in them. Undeniably, the physical environment has an inescapable influence on human behaviour. Just as people have formed their private environment, the physical milieu has also influenced humans.
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