Healing in the third place: Exploring A life-enhancing method from spatial and social aspects for stressed people in daily life

Abstract

The main question is about “how to reduce social stress of humans from spatial and social aspects by the life-enhancing third place under Göteborg’s transformation context.” Nowadays, people always suffer from social stress, which leads to anxiety, frustration, and nervousness because of the imbalance between demanding work and the ability to manage them. Since the mid-1990s, the proportion of people suffering from stress symptoms has risen and fallen in step with employment levels. Since the beginning of the 1980s, growing numbers of people in gainful employment have experienced their work as hectic and mentally taxing. Those facts may indicate that the balance between healthy and unhealthy factors impacting the actively employed has tilted towards less favorable conditions. (Danielsson et al. , 2012, p6) The social and spatial environment are the two main external factors affecting people’s moods and well-being. Humanoriented space should be the complexity of spatial orders, inter-personal programs, and psychological requirements, which can address all the senses simultaneously and help to strengthen the experience of our knowledge of being-in-reality and being self. How to achieve it? The thesis wants to explore a life-enhancing methodology as a bridge connected to human psychological needs and physical reality, build up an evaluation method from the quantity and quality aspects, which refers to program, opening, and scale. The aiming of this master thesis is to reduce the main stress-related feeling, or instance, frustrated, anxiousness, upset, nervousness. In order to achieve the goal, the project zooms in the gap between people’s work and home as a showcase, the third-place where people have a chance to feel free from demanding duties and focus on their inside sounds. The third places, provides one with a sense of security, familiarity, control, and relaxation in one’s everyday life”, which involves positively experienced bonds, sometimes occurring without awareness, that develope over time from the behavioral, affective, and cognitive ties between individuals or groups and their sociophysical environment. (Hanks, 2020) As the consideration of the Gothenburg context, frihammen will be festival and meeting gathering place in the future in Goteborg’s future development, which is mostly empty for life living as well as the surrounding area. The chosen site is in Ringön, which has a large number of industrial assets, and it is very close to Frihammen. After the industrial revolution, the urban landscape was changing, and industrial harbors were growing along the river Göta älv. Nowadays, there are significant amounts of infrastructures in industrial-scale but would be abandon now, or a few years later, it provides a perfect opportunity for a life-enhancing methodology to test the research process and outcome.