Exercise 1 - Definitions of Home and Statements

Statements
Porteous, J. D. (1976). Home: The territorial core. Geographical Review, 66(4), 383-390

"Home provides both the individual and the small primary group known as the
family with all three territorial satisfactions. These satisfactions derive from the
control of physical space, and this control is secured by two major means. The
personalization of space is an assertion of identity and a means of ensuring stimulation."

"Home is not only the focus of psychic satisfactions, it is also the fulcrum of the
individual's activity space, the locus at which individual control of fixed physical
space is paramount."

"Home is more than a house, an apartment, or any other physical structure. It is a
building unit or area, of more or less measurable dimensions, in which a considerable
emotional investment is made by the individual."

Mallett, S. (2004). Understanding home: a critical review of the literature. The Sociological Review, 52(1), 62-89.

"Home
n. 1. The place or a place where one lives: have you no home to go to?...
14. at home in, on, or with. familiar or conversant with."

"Home encompasses the house or dwelling that a person lived... Childhood house(s). I also symbolizes the family relationships and life courses enacted within the spaces... 'It shelters our daydreaming, cradles our thoughts and memories and provides us with a sense of stability... Through our lives the house... remains "physically inscribed in us"."

"Without the family a home is 'only a house'"

Concepts
Home can be summed down within 3 concepts as seen by the prescribed set quotes written above being
1. Home and stimulation
2. Home and activity
3. Home and family

Stimulation of the home is as stated by Porteous one of the two major means of the home. It is fundamental as the space personalises and asserts identity of that space to the owner. Home and journey are co-dependant on each other as the journey and past experiences of the owner of the home scculpts it and crafts it into an extension of being who lives in it. As stated by Porteous it is a considerable emotional investment made by the individual.   Home and family is critical in an environment it builds a form of security and as seen by statements by Mallet can sculpt the people living in the habitat as it defines their memories and persona.