In considering the notion of “Healing” the socio-spatial wounds of Fietas, one considers the idea of healing as a process. Healing may be understood as meaning to restore something to a sound, stable condition (Webster).
In the experience of a deep wound, the sking undergoes an autonomous process of healing and restoring itself. To facilitate this natural process of the skin healing itself, and to ensure greater success at restoration, various catalysts are used.
Catalysts such as band-aids, plasters, casts, stitching, ointment, etc are used not necessarily due to any healing properties they inherently have, but rather because of their catalytic effect to fast-track the body’s natural systems of healing. These catalysts bear the largest effect in the first stage of healing, (Hemostasis) in which the body reacts to stop blood loss and begin repairing the skin.
The notion of healing may be considered as a metaphore to describe the response to the socio-spatial woundedness existent in Fietas. In responding to the socio-spatial wounds in Fietas, architecture may be considered as a catalyst to facilitate the healing process.
In instances of severe physical wounds, the resultant trauma calls for relieving not just the physical wounds, but the psychological effects of the wounds also. A comprehensive healing approach is thus followed in such instances, to deal with the long terms effects.
Comprehensive healing refers to a multifaceted, systematic appraoch to dealing with the results of a variety of health issues, from substance abuse, to cancer. The notion of comprehensive healing may also be borrowed as a metaphor, in referring to an approach to healing that attempts to go further than the surface of a condition, but also the resultant effects thereof.
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