The research question to be defined for this project:
How can the environment for international students be adapted to help them cope with their emotions around social belonging
Definitions of environments related to emotion and belonging could be narrative environment, microcosm, geographical environment
For this week’s research, I researched psychogeography which was inspired by the article I read last week mentioned about Halls of Residences being read as ‘micro-geographies’. The study from the field of student geographies. They all describe how it influent emotions because of the environment, raising awareness of the natural and cultural environment.
According to the reading I did last week, there are three kinds of loneliness identified in the article related to the sense of belonging. Among collective loneliness intersects most closely with aspects of belonging that reach into narrative environment(Lim et al.,2021). Collective loneliness concerns voluntary associations, wider social networks, and connections on the peripheries of ‘attentional space'(Cacioppo et al., 2015:240). Collective loneliness is especially at stake in the university environment, which organises itself as a public space with thousands of people in its purview.