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Abstract
Familiarity is an important concept that reveals aesthetic and ethical connections in everyday environments. However, it is unclear what a particular object of familiarity is in our daily lives. Identifying the object of familiarity is important for respecting residents’ perspectives in practices such as community redevelopment. This study uses two concepts, past-oriented and future-oriented framing, to clarify the process of identifying objects with which we feel familiar in our everyday environments. A past-oriented frame is invoked by a loss experienced in an everyday environment and refers to memories relating to our habits therein. A future-oriented frame is called upon by the process of planning for the future, referring not only to personal memory but also to collective memory. The proposed concepts facilitate the verbalizations of residents’ perspectives, valuable in community redevelopment and revitalization efforts.