One interesting expression of the growing awareness of the relationship between the “stuff” of the world and the subtle feelings it can elicit is the enormous popularity of Marie Kondo’s book, “The Live-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.”
The entire foundation of her system for organizing is to examine one’s possessions and one by one hold each item closely and ask if it “sparks joy.”
“When something sparks joy, you should feel a little thrill, as if the cells in your body are slowly rising.”
Her goal is not a focus on creating ‘living structure” in the same sense of Chris Alexander’s, but the recognition of the link between stuff in the material world and the felt experience, of some stuff bringing one to a greater sense of aliveness and other stuff not so much so. This use of feeling as a methodology for guiding one on how to proceed certainly sounds related to those used in living structure. The fact of her extraordinary success may bode well for the potential eventual acceptance of ideas we are here advocating.