ABSTRACT
“Place” implies a strong emotional tie between a person or group of people at a particular physical location and is related to the lived experience of people. While intangible and impossible to explain through either formal or behavioral analysis, sense of place as an individual experience is also difficult to define in terms of particular physical characteristics. Childhood memory is always related to a particular place represented by the memory sketch of the adult revealing spatial qualities that generate a sense of place.
The Place Generators, such as “boundary,” “center,” “path,” “threshold,” and “edge,” that the author has consistently found present in the memory sketches of adults and hypothetically named to explain the possibility of creating sense of place will be introduced to cross-check with the children’s drawing of their current school place based on an assumption that creating sense of place in school could be possible through the design applying those spatial configurations embedded in the children’s schema formed from their school place.
