Understanding Place – listen and reflect
If you have not read the definition of Place and Placemaking in the introduction to this theme, go back and read this before you continue.
Read or listen to the story Snoopy and the negotiation of home.
Music by Coma-Media and Slicebeats from Pixabay
- Based on the Snoopy story, make a visualization of how the three dimensions are visible: Location: Where is Snoopy now and where does he long to be (Location)?
- What materials and practices defines the place he is now and the place he longs to be (Locale)? Why, according to Snoopy, does he feel differently about the places mentioned in the story and what seems to be important to Snoopy in order to belong (sense of place)? What consequences does Snoopy’s’ sense of place have together with the municipalities service offers?
- Conclude your visualization with a short reflection on the offers of help Snoopy is given in the story: Using the concept of place, how can these suggestions be understood? What possibilities of actions does this knowledge about Snoopy’s sense of place give you as a social worker?
