FOR A GEOGRAPHY OF DWELLING: ESSAY ON HOMES AND PLACES

As an element that allows the human signification of space, dwelling is a relevant component to the comprehension of geographical reality. On the Cultural and Humanist Geography approach, there is an ongoing reflection about how world and subject encounter each other on home building. This discussion follows the intentionality of understanding spatial experiences as complete wholes with nuanced micro and macro scales. It is intended to unravel ways by which the dwelling fundaments the phenomenological approach to place's concept. By the means of a bibliographical essay, philosophical elements of dwelling are articulated with geographical references about subject-place. It is understood that the relational potentiality of being-in-the-world is the means through which Earth is transformed. Experience articulates the geographicity that follows the construction of places in the world. Dwelling, in this sense, is the ontological necessity that directs the place-making processes. Homes are built environments that embodies human beings' wills and desires to create spaces and affirm presences as active agents in geographical realities.