IMMERSIVE QUALITIES AND LIMINALITY OF SPACE IN TELEWORK-FROM-HOME CONTEXT: A POSTPHENOMENOLOGICAL APPROACH

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2024-9-2

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SÖNMEZ, ORKUN

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The thesis investigates human-space relations in the new spaces emerged in the context of telework from home, deriving from the literature ranging from architecture to psychology, organizational studies and virtual reality research. Looking from a postphenomenological perspective, it conceptualizes all virtual and/or physical spatial features as technologies with spatial capabilities and limitations within context and conditions in which they are issued, and technologies which can also constitute immersive qualities to be involved in subjective experiences of presence in any particular lifeworld such as work life or home life. Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative methods, this thesis reveals new insights about how different individuals teleworking from home use and experience this new space, and insights about the relationship among work-home balance, immersion and liminality. It demonstrates that flexibility of architectural space is a major factor that affects these individuals’ experience and work-home balance, and that architecture can utilize postphenomenological perspective to explore human-space relations.

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Postphenomenological Research, Immersion, Liminality, Flexibility, Telework-From-Home

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111534

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis