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Abstract
This thesis is concerning about the research of how to explicate 「place」; the researcher constructed the meaning and local knowledge of everyday life of 「Shin-Kong Station」via in the process of concerning, reading, explaining, and involvement in this place. Also, the researcher described the reasons and the social meaning of 「Shin-Kong Station」transferred to 「Shin-Kong railroad park」
The researching tried to find back the lacking of historical meaning in a natural science place. The discussion topics including「Local place construction process 」「Local collective memory 」「Local life experience in everyday」, these 3 topics helps to construct the「Shin-Kong Station」, which has disappeared. By mutual construction and processing in the local times, places, characters, and things, to discuss the occurrence of self-identity of「Shin-Kong Station」, and the mutual thought between people and place, also learn to read the meaning of community culture while gaze in the fated process of a place.
On methodology side, taken from cultural heritage, historical documents and graphs of sugar rail, collective of old photos, local elders, life experience from inhabitant, and space experience by body, to process the deep reading of space. On knowledge side, via Greetz’s The Interpretation of Cultures to had a deeper explication, aid with Heidegger’s phenomenology of being, Merleau－Ponty phenomenology of perception, and Benjamin’s treatise to help researcher gaze in the space. Attempt from the aspect of the space construction, memory, and body involvement in everyday life to discuss and introvert the break-even saying in human’s experience of the space.
The station is actually a town, it records the historical fact of inhabitant’s living memory in different areas by transporting; and will become the eternal home in the heart of inhabitant, because in the process of meeting then togetherness.
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