Environmental Psychology 101

Reading Spaces. An Introduction given by Ms.Annie, in this topic we are to learn and observe the environment as well as the interaction that occurs in a location. From lecture one I have gathered the 4 main categories in our study of classifying spaces.

1. Public
Within a social distance, people beyond this circle would be nothing more than noticeable by us, but the closer they are the more we prepare ourselves where it be conciously or not, in anticipation of action.

2. Social
Everyone has our own social cliques. And in these zones, it is basically having people within a comfortable radius; close enough to communicate but not to the extent where we would call it ''too close for comfort''. Situations as such would refer to e.g supper at a mamak stall with friends as well as tag alongs.

3. Intimate
A person who is in the area that is either within an arms span or there s an obvious connection between two individuals. It refers to anything from a the touch, body language and the eye contact made.

​Site Application
Now to apply all these, I have chosen to locations. A vape shop "Vapology" and a mamak stall "Silva's Restaurant". These two places in my view has similiar content but it each differs in many ways. For example, the mamak stall is a place of public communion, where demographics spans over all ages with the peaks at specific eating hours. Unlike the vape shop which opens from 3pm to 2am to cater to customers and students coming after work or study from the nearby institutions. 

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