ABSTRACT

This paper presents a grounded theory study conceptualizing the socio-spatial relationships of residents with dementia diagnoses in two residential care homes in the United Kingdom. The study challenges generalizations and abstractions of occupants in the design the care home and prioritizes residents’ lived experiences and aspirations as rich sources of design knowledge to enabling articulation of new conceptual-spatial relationships between residents and their physical environment. Mixed qualitative methods were used to build knowledge and construct theory directly from participants in fieldwork and the constant comparison method was used to derive a grounded theory of the research context. A theory model is constructed that encompasses embodied spatial characteristics and discrepancies in the representation and realization of residential care homes. Moreover, the paper illustrates ethical and methodological approaches to architectural research fieldwork in environments with vulnerable people and suggests further research to address co-design methodologies and ethics in architectural research.

摘要

本文提出了一项扎根理论研究，概念化了英国两个寄宿疗养院中诊断为痴呆症的居民的社会空间关系。该研究挑战了护理院设计中居住者的概括和抽象，并优先考虑居民的生活经历和愿望，将其作为设计知识的丰富来源，从而能够阐明居民与其物理环境之间的新概念空间关系。使用混合定性方法直接从实地考察参与者那里建立知识和构建理论，并使用不断比较方法来得出研究背景的扎根理论。构建了一个理论模型，其中包含了住宅护理院的具体空间特征以及表示和实现方面的差异。此外，本文阐述了在弱势群体环境中进行建筑研究实地工作的伦理和方法论方法，并建议进一步研究以解决建筑研究中的协同设计方法论和伦理问题。