Place as a concept, and memory as a phenomenon is researched through literature studies. The essay investigates how we think about Place and how we experience and relate to it. Memory is discussed both as personal memory and collective memory. Place is a strong source of memory. When we return to a Place, we recognize not only the Place itself, but also the things we did there, the people we met and the thoughts passing through our mind when we last were there. Pieces of ourselves are stored in the memories awaken when we revisit a Place.

The aim of this study is to investigate the meaning of the librarycafé for its visitors as a Place. By this study we want to see howimportant the library café is as a Place. Our theoretical departurepoint is an adaption of the space and Place-theory, by Fisher,Saxton, Edwards & Mai. By adapting the theory to a libraryperspective it helps us to understand how library users look uponthe library café as Place.Using a qualitative approach the empirical material has beencollected through observations and interviews. We observed andcarried out interviews with six library café visitors at threedifferent library cafés.Our findings are that the library café is used in many differentways and by many different peoples.

Place is on the one hand a commonsense everyday word with diversely connotative meanings, and on the other a contested concept with different interpretations across a broad range of academic disciplines and discourses. This thesis researches theories of Place and their implications for the theory and design practice of landscape architecture. Responding to problems of insufficient theoretical grounding and inconsistent use of the concept of Place within the discipline presently, it argues the need for a theory of Place better articulated in relation to landscape architecture. It seeks to contribute to such theory formation by drawing on ideas from related disciplines ? tracing diverse understandings of Place beyond the commonsense meanings of the word and into the deeper reaches of Place theory as tools to explain physical, social and spiritual aspects of the environment, and human relationships with it.

This Master's thesis concerns the public library as a public meeting Place. Our aim has been to find out why and how the library as a social meeting Place has been discussed within the Swedish library community and if there has been a constant core in the discussions from the mid 70's and up to the present day. In order to do this we apply a Place and space-perspective. The result of the study is that the core of the said discussions concerning the library as a meeting Place is to create belongingness. This is the reason why the library community has an interest in the public library's function as a meeting Place with the idea that people, by using the public library in that aspect, may experience a feeling of belonging to the society.

This thesis examines how library employees experience the library as a meeting Place. Our questions are: What effect has the concept of a "library as a meeting-Place" for library staff?How do they see the library as a meeting Place? How do they see their workPlace as a venue for meetings? The respondents interviewed work in public libraries. We were inspired by a cultural geographic theory that we re-designed. The following divisions were made in order to give the work a definitive structure:The "mental space"The library as a meeting Place on a global and universal level;The "conceived space"Librarians and planners' thinking on the specific library as a meeting Place;The "living space"How library staff perceive that the library is used as a meeting Place in reality.In our analysis, we use a phenomenographic qualitative interpretive methodology.

I have investigated the interaction between man and environment, between my inner reality and a physical Place, using a camera as my primary tool. What conceptions do I have and how do they affect how I relate to the outer world? I am not a passive receiver of the surrounding world. Instead I actively (but usually unconsciously) choose what to take in and how I experience it. If we as landscape architects do not reflect upon our conceptions, they will unconsciously affect our decisions. Only when we accept our experiences as subjective, can honest communication take Place. By means of literature studies I have connected my own conceptions with different definitions of Place: Place as enclosure (location, space), Place as inner meaning (genius loci) and Place as action (the Place-creating process).

This thesis examines how techniques from Place marketing, developed to market Places, can be used in the process of designing a visual identity for an institution. The thesis is a case study of the development of a new visual identity for the public art institution Malmö konsthall. The essay presents Malmö Konsthall, defines the term visual identity and describes the main principles in Place branding. I then define target audiences and key values, discuss the application of Place marketing principle and go through the design process of the new visual identity. The process showed that theories about flagship buildings, signature design and signature districts have the biggest influence on the design.

Turismen i Kalmar har ökat de senaste åren, men hamnar till synes i skymundan av Öland och Glasriket. Hur får man besökare att få upp ögonen för Kalmar som primära resmålet och hur får man dem att stanna? Vi har i denna uppsats intresserat oss för att ta reda på hur ett starkt platsvarumärke skapas och vad som således krävs för att bli en framgångsrik destination, samt hur man kan använda sig av platsmarknadsföring för att nå ut med platsvarumärket till potentiella målgrupper..

Öland?s Business Office is on the verge of developing a strategy for the island?s future tourism. Before any work with developing Öland can be carried out, it is essential to gain an understanding of how the Place is perceived today.The purpose of this essay is to study the island?s current image and make recommendations for how the Place brand could be developed.The methods used are literature studies and qualitative group interviews. The participants have been inhabitants of Öland and returning visitors from the Kalmar region.

This work is a study in how I as a designer can create the conditions for people to work, socializing and refreshments at one Place. A Place that encourages creativity, where I made a suggestion at a community table designed for Urban Deli?s new business. By visiting various similar sites I have identified what I think is important in an environment like this and then gave an answer to it in a visual form.A cafe-office will draw lots of different people. Which guests come here to work? Residents, freelancers, but also those who may want surrounded by a new creative work Place and maybe leave their regular offices for a day at Urban Deli.

The aim of this Master thesis is to study the public libraries' function as a Place for people to meet. Four major questions are taken up: + Do the public libraries have the function of a meeting Place? + How important do the librarians and the visitors find the libraries possible function as a meeting Place? Do they think that this function is important? + What differs the public libraries from other Places in society when it comes to the function of a meeting Place? + What differences are there between a larger and a smaller library when it comes to the function of a meeting Place ? The basis of this study are interviews with employees at a province library in Jönköping and at a smaller library in Sjöbo in Borås municipality. Our study deals with the history of public libraries, its functions as a meeting Place, its architecture, culture, and statistics concerning numbers of visitors and loans of books. The conclusions that are drawn are that the public libraries have qualifications to function as a meeting Place even if that isn't always the case.

This case study, ?The sense of Place in a courtyard in Gothenburg?, examines whether the city planners? vision correspond to the residents? perception regarding the sense of Place and the physical environment in a courtyard in Gothenburg. By carrying out a questionnaire survey, the inhabitants? perception has been explicated, which we have then compared to the total vision for the design of the courtyard that we have gathered from doing interviews with the planning executive, the developer and the landscape architect as well as reviewing the development plan. The study has shown that the vision coincides relatively well with the residents? perception, but it differenciates when it comes to social aspects.

Vätternrundan is an annual sporting event that takes Place in the Swedish town Motala since 1966. It is one of the world largest recreational bicycle rides and attracts over 20 000 participants each year. This study focuses on event effects and how an event can be of value within the principles of Place marketing. Within this study five representatives were interviewed with semi-structured interviews.The results show that the representatives describe Vätternrundan as a positive event which mostly generates positive effects for the city itself and for the people living and working there. The effects consist of the events ability to create awareness of the Place, the possibility to extend the tourism season and several social effects like solidarity and interaction.The result also shows that Vätternrundan is a well-known brand and because of this it can be used as an advantage in Place marketing.

The main focus for this essay is to describe the relationship between human and nature through a material investigation that takes its shape through sculpture. With the help of a fairytale-like story the reader can share the creation of the sculpture and how my thoughts flow through the process that will result in an exam project. Rooted in earlier projects I discuss the crash between civilization and the wilderness as well as talking about the likeness of the creative process and child play. I also discuss the body's Place in the forest and the loneliness that we humans created that has cut us off from the rest of the creatures and plants in the forest. My aim is that in the final piece I will create a fiction Place where these can be joined together again.

The bachelor thesis examines conceptions behind the Swedish public librarian?s opinions of the public library as a meeting Place. The study uses the critical discourse analysis, developed by Ernest Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, to analyze a focus group interview. The discourse analysis identifies four themes in the empirical material: the imagined arena of the meeting Place, the behaviour in the meeting Place, the meeting Place?s librarian and the polemic against the meeting Place.