scholarly journals Editorial: Interiority as Relations

Interiority ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 87-90
Author(s):  
Paramita Atmodiwirjo ◽  
Yandi Andri Yatmo
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Physical Manifestation

Understanding the relations between human being and its environment is critical in our attempt to create an appropriate built environment. Interior as a discipline has a privilege to be in the intersection between subjective experience of human users and the physical manifestation of environment occupied by the human. Looking at interiority as a relational construct that occurs between the users and environment should be an essential basis for design practice. This issue of Interiority intends to explore various forms of relational construct that emerge in the interaction between space and the users and to identify possible challenges posed by such relations for spatial design practice.

Geomemory and Genre Friction: Infrastructural Violence and Plantation Afterlives in Contemporary African American Novels

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Evans
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
American Fiction ◽  
Us South ◽  
American Novels ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
The Us

Abstract This essay argues that contemporary African American novels turn to the gothic in order to dramatize the uncanny infrastructural and spatial afterlives of the plantation through a literary strategy it identifies as geomemory: a genre friction between mimetic and gothic modes in which postplantation spaces in the US South are imbued with temporal slippages such that past and present meet through the built environment. Tracing the plantation’s environmental and infrastructural presence in the Gulf Coast and throughout the US South, this essay argues that the plantation’s presence is fundamentally gothic. Geomemory, a trope evident across the emerging canon of contemporary African American fiction, allows writers to address the representational challenge of infrastructural and spatial violence via a defamiliarizing chronotope in which past, present, and future come into uneasy contact. Further, geomemory’s particular enmeshment with spatial design and infrastructure means that it moves from identifying the modern afterlife of the plantation to situating the present in the long context of plantation modernity.

The Shelves that Won't Hold: Material Politics and Social Inequality in Spatial Design Practice

Design Issues ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 61-68
Author(s):  
Mona Sloane
Keyword(s):  
Poor Quality ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Power Struggle ◽  
Unequal Treatment ◽  
Vulnerable Communities ◽  
Community Theater ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Material Politics ◽  
Unequal Access ◽  
Quality Material

This article discusses how a material divide that leaves vulnerable communities with homes made of poor quality material is perpetuated in the system of spatial design. It examines a vignette about the development of the community theater in London to illustrate the unequal access to and participation in the design process as “intentional problem-solving” by different stakeholders. The discussion outlines how materiality can become the locus of public dispute and power struggle, as well as the key reference point for valuation frameworks and calculation practices. The article points out that material politics within spatial design practice play a central role in legitimizing unequal treatment within the material planning of space, and that individual designers can rarely challenge these structures themselves.

Discipline and Play in Structural Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-84
Author(s):  
Eric M. Hines
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Creative Process ◽  
Structural Design ◽  
Structural Engineering ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Human Spirit ◽  
Practical Project ◽  
Technological World

The existence of structural art has implications far beyond the aesthetics of the built environment. Beauty is the purest expression of the human spirit, and its potential to coexist in the engineering imagination with practical project requirements is a powerful symbol for what is possible not only in structural engineering but in all engineering. Understanding the potential for structural art provides a key to strengthening the connection between our thoughts and our feelings, as they relate to our technological world and its improved coexistence with nature. The paper identifies and discusses sympathies between structural art and art in general and then uses examples from structural design practice to illustrate how the languages of drawing, simple calculations and project narrative are fundamental to the creative process in engineering.

scholarly journals Imagination and cinema: the notion of anthropos from the figure of the spectator

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-130
Author(s):  
Ignacio Riffo ◽  
Rubén Dittus
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Direct Contact ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Critical Reading ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Cornelius Castoriadis ◽  
The Spectator

The present work is presented as an approach between the notion of the imaginary with the theory of the film viewer, formulated in 1956 by Edgar Morin, in his classic text The cinema or the imaginary man and enlarged by Francesco Casetti with the thesis of the enunciation in the cinema. In this way, the main objective of this article is to capture theoretical bases from the reflection of both conceptualizations. Thus, this initiatory work aims to be an epistemological contribution to future research projects. For this, at the methodological level, an initial theoretical path is developed that has its anchor -and its respective critical reading- in the contributions of Gilbert Durand and Cornelius Castoriadis, in the permanent concern of both for “drawing” those elements inherent in anthropos that allow the construction of their historical-social environment from subjectivity. The latter conceived as intrinsic peculiarity to the human being. It is concluded that through an artificial-imaginary state the viewer feels close and is able to recognize the reality of the images that the big screen offers him, coming into direct contact with his fantasies, fears and dreams. In other words, here the double dimension of the film is observed as an artifact and as a subjective experience.

scholarly journals Transcending disciplines in architecture, structural and building services engineering: a new multidisciplinary educational approach

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonja Oliveira ◽  
Luke Olsen ◽  
Liora Malki-Epshtein ◽  
Dejan Mumovic ◽  
Dina D’Ayala
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Mixed Data ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Educational Approach ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
Multidisciplinary Education ◽  
Building Services Engineering ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractThis paper reflects upon the mechanisms that enable development of curricular approaches to multidisciplinary architecture/engineering higher education. Building upon recent calls for integrated multidisciplinary building design practice, academics at UCL, industry partners and respective professional bodies embarked upon developing a new course that challenged disciplinary boundaries and defined the needs of a new design professional. Whilst there have been attempts internationally to better integrate architecture as well as engineering education, efforts have largely been focused on bolt-on solutions based on pre-existing education programmes. In addition, there has been little discussion (empirical or theoretical) on practical measures associated with developing multidisciplinary education in the built environment. Drawing on mixed data including documentary evidence, semi structured interviews and observations, the study begins to shed light on the approaches underpinning the development of a multidisciplinary built environment MEng course at UCL that integrates architecture, building services and civil engineering. The paper’s contribution is threefold. First, the findings have implications for developing multidisciplinary built environment education curricula, through revealing key mechanisms including the need for shared attitudes and expectations. Second, the paper highlights the conditions that enable the negotiation of multidisciplinary curricula including institutional support, shared values and a collective need and willingness to explore new solutions. Third, the paper reflects upon the value of design studio learning as a critical integrative component to the delivery of multidisciplinary education in the built environment and STEM more widely.

scholarly journals The Application of Advanced Mapping Methods and Tools for Spatial-Visual Analysis in Landscape Design Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (14) ◽  
pp. 7952
Author(s):  
Mei Liu ◽  
Steffen Nijhuis
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Architecture ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Visual Analysis ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Core ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Mapping Techniques

Spatial design is at the core of landscape architecture. Mapping spatial–visual characteristics is of significance for landscape architects to interpret and talk about space. Advanced mapping methods and tools for spatial–visual analysis (i.e., mapping techniques describing landscape architectonic compositions from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives) offer great potential to increase knowledge of spatial organization and reveal design principles. Despite the availability and wide range of possibilities, the application of advanced mapping methods and tools for spatial–visual analysis is still not common in landscape architecture. The main reasons include the lack of awareness and prejudice. In order to get a more detailed understanding of the problem, this study presents the outcome of semi-structured open-ended interviews with 11 practitioners with a design background in landscape architecture. The paper discusses the relevance of advanced mapping methods and tools with practitioners in order to gain a better understanding about what methods landscape practitioners use to describe and experience space in their daily work. Findings demonstrate the critical bottlenecks of implementing advanced mapping methods in daily practices and how the practitioners think about the implementation of advanced mapping methods in the future of landscape practices.

scholarly journals role of perceived satisfaction and the built environment on the frequency of cycle-commuting

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomás Echiburú ◽  
Ricardo Hurtubia ◽  
Juan Carlos Muñoz
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Travel Behavior ◽  
Latent Variable ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Subjective Experience ◽  
Central Business District ◽  
Variable Model ◽  
Perceived Satisfaction ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Impact

Understanding how several street attributes influence the frequency of cycle commuting is relevant for policymaking in urban planning. However, to better understand the impact of the built environment on people's choices, we must understand the subjective experience of individuals while cycling. This study examines the relationship between perceived satisfaction and the attributes of the built environment along the route. Data was collected from a survey carried out within one district of Santiago’s central business district (N=2,545). It included socio-demographic information, origin-destination and route, travel behavior habits, and psychometric indicators. Two models were estimated. The first, a satisfaction latent variable model by mode, confirms previous findings in the literature, such as the correlation between cycling and a more enjoyable experience, while adding some new findings. For instance, satisfaction increases with distance and the number of trips per week. The second is a hybrid ordered logit model for cycle commuting frequency that includes satisfaction, through a structural equation, that shows this latent variable plays a significant role in travel behavior. The presence of buses along the route decreases cycling satisfaction and frequency, while the trip length and the availability of cycle paths has the opposite effect for male and female cyclists. These results allow us to understand the main factors that deliver satisfaction to cyclists and therefore induce frequent cycle commuting. Overall, our study provides evidence of the need for policymakers to focus their strategies so as to effectively promote cycling among different types of commuters.

scholarly journals Unhuman Entities that Shaped a Century: Non- Anthropocentric Analysis of the Case of Great Stink and Pandemic, Victorian London

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hidayet Softaoğlu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Constructive Method ◽  
Human Being ◽  
History Of ◽  
Object Oriented Ontology

The history of architectural and urban design has expanded its scope and started adopting new philosophical approaches from other disciplines to explore the built environment. Theorist discusses whether we still live in a humanist world where a human being has more priority over the unhuman things or not to answer that; should we design architecture and urban within an anthropocentric approach. As a recent pandemic show, things that are not human, like animals or viruses, could control and navigate a new style of living. This research will introduce Bruno Latour's ANT and Graham Harman's Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) as a new constructive method to analyse how human and unhuman bodies are equally the affective actors of daily practices in the urban realm. 19th-century Great Stink and epidemic in Victorian London will be a case study to picture urban dwellers of London that shaped determined the destiny of health and hygiene of London in 1858.

scholarly journals Spatial Design Makes a Difference in Student Academic Engagement Levels: A Pilot Study for Grades 9-12

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennie Scott-Webber ◽  
Roger Konyndyk ◽  
Raechel French ◽  
Jason Lembke ◽  
Taryn Kinney
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Academic Engagement ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Spatial Design ◽  
High Level ◽  
K 12

Our research question was, ‘Can we demonstrate that the design of the built environment for grades 9-12 impacts student academic engagement levels?’ A pilot study was conducted using a convenience sample, a high school (grades 9-12) in the USA’s mid-west with a four-year old design solution. To answer the question we designed two online survey instruments, one for students and one for educators, enabling us to construct engagement indexes for each. We then correlated the level of self-reported engagement, as measured by our indexes, with the perceptions of the built environment. A mixed-methodology research technique was used for this research project. Focused interviews used K-12 architects (n=6), administrators (n=3), teachers (n=35), students (n=25). A fifteen (15) question ‘Alpha’/pilot survey was then designed, developed, pre-tested and then submitted to the full membership of the school. Findings revealed that both students and educators agreed that the design of the built environment makes a difference relative to their engagement at both the macro (i.e., Overall) and micro (i.e., Classrooms) at a high level of significance (p<.0001); spatial design makes a difference. The survey proved to be both reliable and valid. Finally, we pay particular attention to questions relating to “movement” and learning.

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