Worlding the sense of place: narrative design approach to reimagining regional resources

ABSTRACT: This paper reconsiders the concept of sense of place through the perspective of worlding. While often defined as the emotional and cognitive bond between people and environments, this study expands it toward a design-oriented view that reinterprets and regenerates local meanings. Based on a design inquiry into regional contexts, it examines how making and storytelling can translate local materials into prototypes that evoke new relations to place. The study suggests worlding as a generative process through which place is continuously reimagined and experienced within dynamic local contexts.