The Potential Features of Civic Sympathy and Affect

Sammanfattning: This piece of work aims at gaining a better understanding of how cognitive and sensual experiences takes place when we interact within the social encounter processes of shared spaces. The structure of this thesis starts off with a theoretical review based on the aspects of social encounters divided into the following areas: affect theory, the ideal of sympathy, and situated multiplicity. These three chosen focus areas aims to cover some of the different perspectives towards the scope of social encounters. Thereafter a synthesis of the main concepts covering the diverse perspectives on social encounters has been made into a set of guidelines. These set of featuring guidelines is then visualized into specific spatial qualities and tested out on the case study of the parking lot of Lund Central Station. This exploration of the guidelines within the case study is carried through as a means of investigating its potential to generate social encounters through the means of creating to some extent a sense of affect and sympathy among the commuting citizens.