scholarly journals Putting Space Syntax to the Test

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-224
Author(s):  
David Fredrick ◽  
Rhodora G Vennarucci
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Predictive Models ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Visibility Graphs ◽  
The Social ◽  
Subject Pool

While space syntax analysis has been widely applied to archaeological sites (including Pompeii), it is fundamentally limited by its isolation within the social sciences and its omission of decoration from the analysis of human cognition and movement within structures. At the same time, phenomenology in archaeology has typically arisen from the physical experiences of a limited number of professional archaeologists in a landscape, with little interest in digital embodiment in virtual spaces. The Virtual Pompeii Project has produced an updated version of space syntax which combines network measures common in the social sciences with visibility graphs to produce predictive models of movement within a set of three ancient Roman houses in Pompeii. These predictive models are tested through the navigation of virtual models of the houses by human subjects, demonstrating the significance of decoration in shaping movement, and, through quantitative and qualitative data, the value of digitally embodied phenomenology. This points ahead to the use of crowd-sourced, web-based global testing, diversifying the subject pool far beyond the narrow bounds of professional classicists or archaeologists.

Concluding Summary

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Figdor
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Cognitive Capacity ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Conceptual Foundation ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Research ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Conceptual Confusion

Chapter 10 provides a summary of the argument of the book. It elaborates some of the benefits of Literalism, such as less conceptual confusion and an expanded range of entities for research that might illuminate human cognition. It motivates distinguishing the questions of whether something has a cognitive capacity from whether it is intuitively like us. It provides a conceptual foundation for the social sciences appropriate for the increasing role of modeling in these sciences. It also promotes convergence in terms of the roles of internal and external factors in explaining both human and nonhuman behavior. Finally, it sketches some of the areas of new research that it supports, including group cognition and artificial intelligence.

scholarly journals The implications for qualitative research methodology of the struggle between the individualised subject of phenomenology and the emergent multiplicities of the poststructuralist subject: the problem of agency

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bronwyn Davies
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Academic Work ◽  
Reggio Emilia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Qualitative Research Methodology ◽  
Poststructuralist Theory ◽  
The Subject

This paper re-visits the problem of how we re-conceptualize human subjects within poststructuralist research. The turn to poststructuralist theory to inform research in the social sciences is complicated by the difficulty in thinking through what it means to put the subject under erasure. Drawing on a study in a Reggio Emilia inspired preschool in Sweden, and a study of neoliberalism's impact on academic work, this paper opens up thought about poststructuralism's subject. It argues that agency is the province of that subject. 

THE STATICS OF SPACE SYNTAX: ANALYSIS FOR STATIONARY OBSERVERS

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 280
Author(s):  
Khaled Tarabieh ◽  
Khaled Nassar ◽  
Natheer Abu-Obied ◽  
Fuad Malkawi
Keyword(s):  
Space Syntax ◽  
Bilateral Symmetry ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Visibility Graphs ◽  
Spatial Configurations ◽  
Dynamic Views ◽  
Typical Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis ◽  
Static Space

Space Syntax is a set of techniques for the analysis of spatial configurations of all kinds including architectural designs. Traditional Space Syntax has been devoted to analysing dynamic views of an observer moving through space, which is the case in most building spaces. However, some architectural spaces are usually experienced from static viewpoints. Consequentially, the way this space is viewed has a significant impact on the spatial cognition and experience of the occupants. Examples of such buildings where the occupant may observe spaces from mostly static points of view are religious spaces such as mosque or churches’ prayer halls. This paper presents an analysis of a typical “static space” in terms of its spatial logic. A typical configuration for a prayer hall consisting of a bilateral symmetry space with four columns is considered. This configuration is manifested in many religious buildings and is assessed using visibility graphs, axial lines as well as various isovist field properties and measures. This paper shows how the most basic alterations to the configuration of the plan can affect the spatial experience and cognition of the place. In addition, special Space Syntax measures that are relevant to the design of the static spaces are extracted and discussed as well as the consequences of an omni-visual observer of typical Space Syntax in comparison to the directional observer in a static space. The analysis presented in the paper has implications for both architectural designs of spaces with similar configurations as well as for research on Space Syntax focusing on stationary observers.

The Case against Ethics Review in the Social Sciences

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 120-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary M. Schrag
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Subjects ◽  
Ethics Committees ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Prior Review ◽  
Ethics Review ◽  
The Social

For decades, scholars in the social sciences and humanities have questioned the appropriateness and utility of prior review of their research by human subjects' ethics committees. This essay seeks to organize thematically some of their published complaints and to serve as a brief restatement of the major critiques of ethics review. In particular, it argues that 1) ethics committees impose silly restrictions, 2) ethics review is a solution in search of a problem, 3) ethics committees lack expertise, 4) ethics committees apply inappropriate principles, 5) ethics review harms the innocent, and 6) better options exist.

scholarly journals Examination of Traditional Residences in Bitlis on the Zeydan District Scale in the Context of Space Syntax Analysis Techniques

SAGE Open ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 215824402091951
Author(s):  
Ender Şen ◽  
Mine Baran
Keyword(s):  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Spatial Configuration ◽  
Space Syntax ◽  
Scientific Data ◽  
Spatial Integration ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Visibility Graphs ◽  
Numeric Data ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis

Spatial and spatio-visual analysis are space syntax analysis techniques that examine spatial configuration with graphs and numeric data. This study is based on spatial and spatio-visual analyses of traditional residences and comparison of these analyses. The historically and strategically important city of Bitlis in eastern Turkey was chosen as the study area. The most important structures that constitute the historical urban fabric within this protected area are the traditional residences in Bitlis. The spatial integration values obtained by the accessibility graphs and the visual integration values obtained by the visibility graphs are compared in 15 traditional residences plans using space syntax analysis techniques. For “accessibility” graphs, “Agraph” software and for “visibility” graphs, “Depthmap” software were used. Both programs are based on the theoretical and conceptual basis of space syntax analysis techniques. This research is important in terms of interpreting the existence of social and cultural information as well as environmental factors behind the space configuration of Bitlis traditional residences by examining them using scientific data.

scholarly journals Web-Based Reference Resources for the Social Sciences

2005 ◽  
Vol 44 (91-92) ◽  
pp. 211-234
Author(s):  
Brian Quinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Social

Theory and practice in the study of Mesopotamian domestic space

Antiquity ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (299) ◽  
pp. 142-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paolo Brusasco
Keyword(s):  
Space Syntax ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Domestic Space ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Syntax Analysis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Space Syntax Analysis

This study compares the results of space syntax analysis of houses in Babylonian Ur with similar analyses on modern households in Baghdad and among the Ashanti. The social organisations identified were then compared with the written evidence for Ur surviving on site in cuneiform tablets. This opportunity to examine spatial, ethnographic and documentary evidence together offers a deep reading of Ur society.

Celebrations: Religious Events beyond the Dichotomy of Individualization and Communitization

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-121
Author(s):  
Meike Haken
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Popular Religion ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Theory Of Religion ◽  
The Social

Abstract This contribution contrasts the dichotomization of individualization and communitization of religion, which is still prominent in the social sciences, with a religious phenomenon that shows that religion must be understood beyond the opposition of these spheres. Against the background of a corresponding concept of religion, the popular religion (Knoblauch 2009), which continues Thomas Luckmann’s theory of religion (1967), the concept of Celebrations will be presented. This empirically generated concept relies on self-recorded video data of Christian events in Europe. Celebrations are to be understood as religious events that are based on a specific affective order, which is able to merge the most diverse cultural communicative forms on the level of individual religiosity and community (cf. Haken 2020a, 2020b). Referring to web-based data on the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India, the transferability of the concept of Celebrations is exploratively applied to another religious event.

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