The Places​

’Places’ refer to where social interactions occur, to locations where children engage in social interactions and activities. Children’s experiences of places create emotional responses and attachment to those places. They are, like interpersonal relationships, affective. Feelings, moods, and emotions affect the bonds formed with places in a person’s life and how they evaluate those places (e.g. positively, negatively). The relational view of place and the practice of place-making are essential for the conceptualisation of places within the conceptual framework of the Social Exposome: Individuals move between places daily and over their life-course, and places and their features can be defined differently by individuals and groups. All the places can be further characterised in terms of their physical environment. For example, the home and places for learning and working are affected by the indoor environmental quality, the neighbourhood by the outdoor environmental quality, amenities and the structure of the urban fabric. The Figure gives an overview of ‘places’ relevant for children.