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The State University of New York Press series, Environmental and Architectural Phenomenology, is edited by Dr. David Seamon, Professor, Department of Architecture, Kansas State University.

This series seeks authored and edited manuscripts that incorporate a qualitative, descriptive approach to architectural and environmental experience and behavior. Scholarly and design work with an explicit existential-phenomenological or hermeneutical stance will receive first priority.

In addition, the series editor will consider other scholarly or popular writings that point implicitly toward phenomenological or hermeneutical discussions of architecture or environment.

Suggestive topics include:

• the phenomenology and hermeneutics of environment and architecture;

• the phenomenology of place and placelessness;

• architecture and environmental design as place making;

• the environmental and architectural dimensions of lifeworld, both for human beings and other creatures;

• relationships among environment, technology, and human experience;

• the lived-meaning of sacred space, sacred landscape, and sacred architecture;

• the role of everyday things—furnishings, tools, clothing, landscape features, and so forth—in supporting peoples' sense of environmental well-being;

• a phenomenology of environmental ethics;

• sensual, bodily, and emotional dimensions of environmental and architectural experience;

• the interpretation of artistic media such as painting, music, cinema, and imaginative literature as a way to understand environmental and architectural experience;

• the physical environment as lived-symbol;

• research, design, education, and policy that foster an enduring sense of care and duty toward the natural and built environment and that seek to translate these lived qualities into individual and group action.