Concept Of Home Research Articles

We are wales: taking the hospital to the community - an engagement experiment

Abstract In Wales we are facing two major barriers to public health engagement. The first is describing our communities as ‘hard to reach’ when in public service we make little effort to reach them, and second, we do not consider in population level research or practice how we are perpetuating the sense of, and real, inequality in our communities that our work on social determinants of health and health inequalities seeks to address. In Wales we want to take the ‘hospital to the community’; to meet people where they are at, where they live and work and where they experience barriers to inclusion, discrimination, lack of trust and fear. ‘We are Wales’ is is built on the Museum of the United Nations concept of a global we - except we will start small with a small nation that as yet has not worked out how to include and involve everyone in our communities in the policy and practice decisions that may help, or hinder us all from leading a healthier, happier life. ‘We are Wales’ is a simple concept; it is about amplifying and connecting people who would not normally do so, because they do not have the resources or capacity to travel or take time out. It is about equal power in a connection to find solutions to adversity and trauma caused by structural inequality; it is about relationships, inclusion, kindness and compassion - and listening, sharing and taking action without judgement. We have taken a dome to communities in economically deprived areas of Wales and stimulated conversation between politicians, young people and communities around the concept of home. Using a virtual reality dome to project images to encourage discussion we have provided a safe space to amplify and include the voices of those who want to be heard and deserve to be listened to. Key messages • ‘Take the hospital to the community’ - meet people where they are at and feel safe. • power sharing and an equal place at the table stimulates ideas and knowledge change in a trauma-informed way.

‘Home is just a feeling’: Essentialist and anti-essentialist views on home among Ukrainian war refugees

The notion of home, understood as a distinct and meaningful place is frequently explored in migration studies. It emerges as an especially significant point of reference, though it is often marked by ambiguity and ambivalence, especially in the narratives of war refugees. This article examines how Ukrainian refugees in Poland define and experience home, exploring the evolving meanings of home in the context of displacement and resettlement. We conducted semi-structured interviews with thirteen refugees and forced migrants who left Ukraine after Russia's full-scale invasion on February 24th, 2022. Using a theoretical framework of essentialist and constructivist (anti-essentialist) notions of place, we identified three major themes in the way refugees perceive home. The first theme highlights attachment to home, where refugees express feelings of security, stability, and rootedness. The second reveals a profound sense of ‘non-home’, where home is lost or unattainable. The third theme explores how refugees attempt to reconcile a fixed sense of home with their experiences of mobility, reshaping home through multiple, meaningful sites. By integrating these theoretical perspectives this study offers a nuanced understanding of how displacement and migration reshape the concept of home for refugees.

Solar Passive House Conceptand Thermal System Design

This aricle puts forward a concept of family home enclosed in a greenhouse. Inspired by Naturhus and Earthship ideas, it leverages thermofluid technologies inspired by nuclear power passive cooling systems. The solar gain of the greenhouse allows for enhanced heating fuel efficiency in winter, while a system of solar-drive heat exchangers dissipates excess heat in summer. This general living qualities of such innovative housing concepts are discussed, followed by an outline of the computational challenges that need to be overcome by experiment-driven modelling, aiming for the demonstrator that successfully controls summer daily temperature peaks.

Counter Home: Unravelling the Socio-Spatial Dynamics of Hijra Dwellings of Khulna, Bangladesh

Amidst limited social acceptance and scant governmental and non-governmental support for third gender communities in Bangladesh, this paper explores the intricate relationship between the conception of hijra and its profound impact on redefining the notion of home. In the queer tropics, hijra communities form a unique identity within South Asia’s urban fabric. Employing ethnographic methods and spatial analysis, this multidisciplinary study investigates the hijra home-making process in Khulna, Bangladesh, shedding light on their lived experiences. It unravels the complex interplay of tropical architecture leading to their transformation into, and stigmatisation as, hijras, investigating the spatial implications of their stigma in the organisation of household spaces based on hijra notions of publicness-privateness, spatial sequencing/order, layering, and hierarchy. The formal articulation of homes and their integration into the larger urban scale signifies a distinctive counter-spatial culture within this marginalised community, which acts to counter prevailing ideas of stability, ownership, and family within the concept of home. This counter-culture, as the paper unveils, makes the hijra home dynamics a process of socio-spatial transaction where gender identities manifest and are subverted/shaped by the domestic space. The findings of the paper enrich our understanding of the diverse spatial ways social discriminations are interwoven into the ordinary fabric of contemporary urban living in the tropical city of Khulna.

Home in Han Suyin’s 'Till Morning Comes' from the Perspective of New Cultural Geography

Viewed through the lens of new cultural geography, a geographical landscape is a symbolic system showing the beliefs and values of society, as in the case of the home landscape. The article employs Mike Crang’s concepts of landscape and home to examine different homes in Han Suyin’s Till Morning Comes (1982). From leaving homes, searching for homes to returning homes, Stephanie, an American woman in diaspora, is exposed to different cultures, experiencing a sense of home in China, a sense of homelessness in both China and America, and a sense of being between worlds. In the process of searching for a home, Stephanie constructs her identity as a Chinese and eventually as a world citizen. The home in the novel is more than just a dwelling place; it is a place signifying cultural identity and a meaningful space that influences the identity transformation of a diasporic woman. The article therefore uses a textual analysis approach to explore how homes are represented and how a diasporic woman’s identity is affected by the home landscape she experiences in Till Morning Comes. This novel’s exploration of home illuminates the unique experience of a diasporic woman, highlighting the importance of re-evaluating Han’s work within the framework of contemporary cultural geography.

Is home where the heart is? Investigating the relationship between hometown and entrepreneurship

ABSTRACT The importance of home and hometown for entrepreneurs has significant implications for entrepreneurial identities, venture success, and broader contextual dynamics. Traditionally, the concept of home in entrepreneurship literature is viewed instrumentally, largely focusing on the unit of dwelling (i.e. premises/house/apartment), the implications of location choices, and their effects on performance. We employ a mobilities lens, broadening the concept of home to the city/town scale of ‘hometown’, offering a more holistic understanding of what it means for entrepreneurs from various origins and returns. Our qualitative case study in Norwich, UK, provides nuanced theoretical advancements into understanding home beyond materiality and mere location, highlighting how this is inextricably linked to dynamic renewal within peripheral urban places and different migration pathways (i.e. local, migrant, returnee). Our contributions are threefold: 1) we reveal that varying degrees of localness complicate the local versus non-local binary, impacting entrepreneurial dynamics; 2) our relational model of hometown entrepreneurship challenges the rigid leave-learn-return narrative, demonstrating return migration as a complex detach-experience-revalue socio-cultural reconnection which feeds into the local entrepreneurial ecosystem; 3) exploring the interactions of diverse actors in peripheral urban hometowns provides insights into regional development moving us beyond instrumental views in existing literature.

Smart Home

The concept of a smart home integrates wireless electronic systems that connect household devices to a central interface, enabling remote control via smartphones or wall panels through Wi-Fi networks. This paper explores the core components of smart homes, including smart devices such as speakers, thermostats, lighting, and security systems, as well as the role of mobile applications in managing these devices. The paper discusses the various applications of smart homes, from home automation and security monitoring to energy management and health-focused initiatives.

The illusion of home and belongingness: a representation and (dis)location of home in Tabish Khair’s novels

ABSTRACT This paper foregrounds Khair’s two novels, The Bus Stopped and Filming: A Love Story, examining the concepts of home, representation, (dis)locations and its non-belongingness, focusing on the discourses of Indian nationalism and national identity. There is a massive gap between the living styles of rural and urban people in India. How people live in a country is vital to a modern nation and its nationalism. Khair says, ‘houses do not make homes’ because the concept of home varies according to the socio-economic conditions. Many poor people in India do not have a permanent home and constantly migrate from one place to another. They mostly make a temporary one-night stand for home, but unfortunately, their journey becomes a permanent home. That makes their existence neither inside nor outside society, creating a different kind of third space, but far more precarious than Bhabha’s notion of a third space. In Khair’s novels, the concept of third space is far less empowering than Bhabha’s notion of third space in postcolonial studies. Khair also shows that home is an illusion, not a permanent place that constantly changes like a dream and never gets concretised.

“No Way Out”: The Gothic Concept of Home in Shirley Jackson’s Horror Fiction

The “haunted house formula” is a central component in every Female Gothic narrative from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Typically, it revolves around a heroine trapped in a gloomy mansion, seeking to escape a male villain. This trope, which covertly explores feminine anxieties such as domestic confinement and familial oppression, recurs multiple times in Shirley Jackson’s “house trilogy” as well, namely The Sundial, The Haunting of Hill House, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle. However, as noted by many critics, while Female Gothic narratives usually conclude with the protagonist’s successful escape and her marriage to the male hero, in Jackson’s fiction, there is “no way out”. Her protagonists remain confined within the domestic space. This essay explores Jackson’s reappropriation of the haunted house trope as a symbol of the paranoia experienced by women in 1950s suburban America. The analysis begins by outlining the theme in traditional Female Gothic fiction, followed by an account of the sociohistorical context in which Jackson operated, without dismissing the significancy of her personal life experiences as well. Jackson’s “house trilogy” will then be examined, paying particular attention to the ways in which the haunted house formula is subverted to function not as an escape narrative, but as a metaphor for modern women’s inescapable confinement.

Analisis Kesesuaian Desain Rumah Tinggal Orang Minangkabau Perantauan terhadap Konsep Greenship Home

Currently, there are still many who build housing without thinking about the green concept. This causes the problem of global warming. With the very fast development process, especially in Jakarta, it will have an impact on environmental damage. The way to solve this problem is to implement the greenship home concept to residential. The greenship home concept is a development of sustainable development goals (SDG's). The homes of overseas Minangkabau people are said to carry the concept of social sustainability, which is a link between the design of the physical world and the social world, which means that even the comfortable housing is important, home design that is able to maintain social relations and cultural development must also be considered. The culture and traditions of the Minangkabau people who have migrated are still preserved for the sake of continued social interaction or what is known as social sustainability. This research aims to analyze and validate the suitability of residential designs for overseas Minangkabau people, especially those living in Jakarta, to the greenship home concept. The method used is mix-method/combined research which combines qualitative and quantitative approaches. Qualitative with a cultural approach to describe and compare with the standard greenship home assessment system, while quantitative because the data is in the form of numbers. Data was collected through observation and interview methods. The findings of this research are related to the level of suitability of the design of spatial arrangements in the homes of overseas Minangkabau people to the greenship home concept, especially in upper middle class housing in Jakarta, which is in accordance with a percentage of suitability value of 73%, or equivalent to the minimum value at platinum rank (the highest rank ) namely with a score of 56. This research is also expected to become a basis for criticism and evaluation for developers when designing housing in the future.

Smart Home

The concept of a smart home integrates wireless electronic systems that connect household devices to a central interface, enabling remote control via smartphones or wall panels through Wi-Fi networks. This paper explores the core components of smart homes, including smart devices such as speakers, thermostats, lighting, and security systems, as well as the role of mobile applications in managing these devices. The paper discusses the various applications of smart homes, from home automation and security monitoring to energy management and health-focused initiatives. Additionally, it evaluates the pros and cons of smart home technology, highlighting benefits such as enhanced security, energy efficiency, and user convenience, while also addressing challenges related to cost, complexity, and cybersecurity risks. The paper concludes by emphasizing the transformative potential of smart homes in modern living, while recognizing the need for strategic approaches to mitigate associated challenges.

The experience of a dweller: exploring the concept of modernist planning in Ataköy housing

ABSTRACT Designed by local urban planners and architects in the 1950s, led by Italian architect Luigi Piccinato, the Ataköy housing in İstanbul has become a modernist landmark. While Ataköy satellite city has received criticism for its urban form and impact on the texture of urban life, in today’s globalised world, the specificity of place is often lost, and Ataköy satellite city can evoke and strengthen a sense of place and belonging. This article addresses the concept and experience of home in Ataköy and as experienced through autoethnographic analysis. Given the lack of an ‘insider’ understanding of home in the existing literature, this article makes a unique contribution to the literature by providing an autoethnographic account of Ataköy. The analysis illustrates that architecture and urbanism are more than just design fields, strategies or narratives generated by planners; they are lived realities experienced and felt by those who inhabit spaces. By considering my own lived experiences and those of the dwellers and incorporating these into placemaking, I aim to develop an ‘insider’ approach to evaluating housing design that transcends and integrates the deficiencies commonly identified in modernist environments. This approach helps to develop a more comprehensive understanding of housing in urban environments.

Employee Well-being: An Emerging Strategy for Human Capital Management

Wellbeing is fundamentally associated with numerous aspects in one's life say health, job, family, community, environment, and financial benefits to name a few of them. The term employee wellbeing is very comprehensive and hence it has a widespread impact not only on the employee's performance at the workplace and her/his life at home but also creates a great impact on the organizations where they are working. After the COVID-19 pandemic employers are focusing more on wellbeing now than ever before. On one side it is seen that this pandemic has introduced the Work from Home (WFH) concept more rigorously and employees could balance work and life profoundly. In contrast, on the other side, some found juggling between work and life, as there are no distinctive boundaries between work and life. When employees can maintain healthy and positive mental states, they can take on their roles confidently and enthusiastically, leading to higher productivity and job satisfaction. This article explores the concept of employee well-being, examining its advantages for organizations and current practices in Indian companies. Further, it offers recommendations for strategies that organizations can implement to enhance employee well-being.

Writing a way home

This article discusses my (impossible) attempt to find a way home by writing a play — Home. Home is constructed by weaving together fragments from my grandmother’s memoirs and my own writing (Thorp 1945, 2016). My grandmother, born and brought up in Myanmar, had never visited Britain until her family moved ‘home’ when she was sixteen, while I moved to Singapore in my thirties. As a child, my grandmother could not return home to Myanmar, while the COVID-19 pandemic meant that I was unable to leave Singapore. By comparing our experiences of being at home, and of not being able to go home, I aim tell a wider story about identity and belonging in migrant experiences that reach beyond our own intimate recollections. In Home, the page becomes a playground where I explore notions of home, identity, belonging, non-belonging, and the trickster nature of memory. This autoethnographic investigation combines my experience of writing Home with theoretical and methodological reflections on it. Through this process, the concept of home reveals itself as embodied, liminal, shifting, and troubles notions of identity and belonging for both my grandmother and me. Extending Sara Ahmed’s notion of home as skin (1999), I suggest that not only can home permeate the skin, but that there is a connection between home and sickness. In attempting to understand my grandmother’s experience of home in her cultural and ethnographic context, I expose my own post-colonial discomfort about her claim that Myanmar was her home. These feelings affect how I select and reuse text from her memoirs, so that I reveal myself to be an unreliable narrator, biographer, and even an unreliable playwright. Ultimately, playwriting becomes a method that allows identity and belonging for my grandmother and I to exist in a third space (Bhabha 1994), both on the page and embodied in a character that is both of us and neither of us.

The Meanings of Home: The Case of the Vinan Refugee Families and the 1923 Greek-Turkish Population Exchange

Abstract With drastic changes in borders and regimes in the post-World War I period, what meaning did home have for those on the ground? How can we understand different conceptualizations of “home” and “homeland”? The 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange enshrined a notion of “unmixing” that rested on a presumed overlap between religion and ethnicity: Orthodox Christians in Anatolia would be deported to Greece and Greek Muslim nationals would be deported to Turkey. The reduction of identity left other communities that necessarily did not understand themselves as “Turks” or “Greeks” vulnerable to deportation. This article examines the case of an Albanian-speaking Muslim village in Greece, Vinan (Vineni), and the people from there who were deported to Turkey as part of the exchange process. This case illuminates the ways refugees navigated consulates and new national regimes in an attempt to return to their original village. New migration pathways and concepts of home and homeland were negotiated through the process with and for the refugees. This article takes the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange as an ongoing process of forging new migration pathways and conceptions of home, as opposed to understanding the 1923 Greek-Turkish population exchange as a singular event.

Re/connecting with “home”: a mixed methods study of service provider and patient perspectives to facilitate implementing rehabilitation in the home for reconditioning

Purpose To explore the views of healthcare professionals and patients about the advantages and disadvantages of rehabilitation in the home (RITH) for reconditioning, and identify factors that should contribute to the successful implementation of a consensus-based RITH model for reconditioning. Materials and methods Interviews with 24 healthcare professionals and 21 surveys (comprising Likert scale and free text responses) of inpatients undergoing rehabilitation for reconditioning provided study data. Interpretive thematic analysis was used to analyse interview data; descriptive statistics analysed Likert scale responses; patient written responses assisted with the interpretation of themes developed from the interview data. Results Two major themes were elicited in this study: the home is a physical setting and the home is a lived space. Advantages and disadvantages of RITH for patients, carers and healthcare professionals were identified within these themes. Appropriate patient selection; effective communication with patients and carers, and within RITH teams; adequate patient and carer support; ensuring the safety of patients and staff; and education of patients, carers and healthcare professionals are essential for the satisfactory implementation of RITH. Conclusion The concept of home shapes the delivery of RITH. Recognising the advantages and disadvantages of RITH highlights important considerations needed to successfully implement RITH for reconditioning.

PSYCHOLINGUISTIC INTERPRETATION OF THE CONCEPT OF HOME: UKRAINIAN REALITIES

Since the beginning of the war, Ukrainians have suffered many heavy losses and painful changes. One of the such changes in the usual way of life were forced to move to safer zones for accommodation, search for shelter, temporary home, which are the basic value in the psychomental environment space of Ukrainians. However, it is this concept that has undergone moral and ethical changes in the realities of war, semantic transformations in the conceptual and linguistic picture of the world of our compatriots. Identify this dynamic, find out the semantic dominants of awareness the analyzed concept, the vectors of its perceptual characteristics provides an opportunity to psycholinguistic interpretation, primarily an associative experiment that makes it possible obtaining "live", up-to-date models of processes of deep reconstruction of the environment the world. The object of research is the associative meaning of the concept of HOME as the basic one in the system value coordinates of Ukrainians, the subject is the perceptual specificity of this concept in the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The leading method used in the work was experimental-a free associative experiment, as well as an analysis of the obtained results and further synthesis for obtaining objective generalizations and verification author’s hypotheses related to the assumption of semantic dynamics of basic concepts under the influence of crisis exogenous factors. Component-based methods are also applied, descriptive and comparative analysis. Theoretical value and scientific novelty of the obtained results the results are determined by a certain contribution to the deepening of theories of psycholinguistics, semantics, linguoculturology, in particular problems of factors of dynamics of perceptual processes, their influence on the semantic transformations of basic concepts in projections on the specifics of the national mentality. The practical significance of the conducted research can to be implemented in the educational process in appropriate lecture courses, in lexicographic in practice and in the scientific work of applicants for higher education at various levels. Actual the material includes more than 200 reactions received from respondents from different social groups. The results of the free associative experiment, where the stimulus was HOME allowed us to form its associative field (2022), identify coincidences and discrepancies in the perception of the analyzed concept with the corresponding field represented in Ukrainian associative dictionary S. Martinek (2002-2005), find out the semantic dynamics and emotional-expressive halo of the word-stimulus in various extralingual conditions. So, it is common to understand the HOME as a ‘place of family’, ‘place of residence’, ‘apartment’, ‘room’, ‘house’, which dominate the structure of the associative field of the early 2000s. However, there are fewer semantic-related reactions in the 2022 associative field ‘home-house’, and much more reactions that have non-constant, neutral character, and show feelings, emotions in relation to this concept, having a bright connotative, for example, home is comfort, warmth, peace, protection, safety, comfort and others, as well as typical reactions only for modern realities like security, Ukraine, which illustrates heightened in the realities of war awareness of seemingly ordinary phenomena, but in reality — conceptual and fundamental values.

Multi-landscapes of Hà Nội in three poetic generations of ethnic minorities

Born with the August Revolution in 1945, the generations of modern Vietnamese ethnic minority writers form their own appearance, contributing to creating unique voices and identities. In this paper, we argue that three generations of ethnic minority poets, which represent three waves of writers, create three types of geographical landscapes of Hanoi. Firstly, the country’s capital in wartime is portrayed vaguely in the dreams of the periphery. It is a central geographical entity that holds the beliefs and aspirations of the entire nation. Secondly, Hanoi is presented through its everyday appearance, which is full of contradictions that make residents leave and dream of an idealised mountainous region. Finally, Hanoi is described as a decentralised metropolis through the gazes of ethnic minority poets who were born in Hanoi. This creates in their poetry the process of deterritorialization, i.e. the process of becoming the Other. It can be said that geographical shifts have created new spaces, thus giving people different concepts of home.

‘Nowhere home’

Abstract The war in Gaza is killing home. Some are asking whether domicide should be a crime. But is there more at stake? This essay explores the concept of home in international law, the role of international law in the global regime of homemaking, and the prospects and limits of criminalising the destruction of home.

Smart Home Automation

The Smart Home Concept responds to the increasing need for integrating smart appliances and systems within residential environments. It includes a growing array of devices, services, and applications designed to simplify daily tasks and enhance the quality of life. Utilizing various technologies and standards, numerous device suppliers offer a wide range of solutions, including meters, actuators, sensors, and micro systems, which are integrated into the home environment. This advanced system incorporates sensors, artificial intelligence, and machine learning algorithms to develop an intelligent, responsive, and personalized living space. Continuous sensor data collection on environmental conditions and user behaviors allows AI to autonomously manage various home functions. The system emphasizes interoperability and standardization to ensure compatibility with a wide range of devices. Improvements in natural language processing and voice recognition further enhance human-machine interactions. This comprehensive approach aims to optimize energy efficiency, bolster security, and streamline daily activities, providing residents with a more intuitive and adaptable smart home experience in the evolving field of home automation.