An Affordance Study on Healing Public Space in University Campus—— A Case Study of Shenzhen Campus of Jinan University

Abstract

The campus space of universities is an important part of cities’ public environment and the main activity space for college students. This paper takes the self-developed PPGIS mobile terminal as the research tool, the perceptual map combined with a questionnaire as the research method, and 90 college students in Shenzhen Campus of Jinan University as the research objects to investigate the current affordance situation of the healing public space in universities and the affordance of ideal university space for college students. The findings are as follows: (1) The analytical structure of affordance on the healing campus space presents the characteristics: used affordance> perceived affordance > shaped affordance. (2) In the ideal environment, the number of perceived affordances has little change, while that of used affordance and shaped affordance increases, among which the latter increases the most. (3) In an ideal environment, " fitness equipment" is expanded into " activity facilities", " roads" into " characteristic roads", and " plants" into " ecological category". In addition, three types of environmental elements such as " sports venues", " landscape pieces" and " water bodies" are added. (4) The environmental elements that provide different levels of affordance in the current environment are all basic and meet the requirements of normal life, while the depth of those that provide different levels of affordance in the ideal environment has increased.