Workshops

09.00-09.30

Welcome (Professor Julienne Hanson, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
Keynote address (Professor Peter Cook - The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, UK)

09.30-10.15

10.15-11.00

11.30-13.00

Room 1: Morphology & modelling of retail environments - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Dr. Rui Carvalho, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Space layout affects search efficiency for agents with vision (Alan Penn and Alasdair Turner - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
2. What makes big dumb bells a mega shopping mall? (Polly Fong - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
3. Spatial and functional differentiation: a symbiotic and systematic relationship (Dr. Apiradee Kasemsook - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
   

Room 2: Urban growth and form - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Weiling He, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

1. From compact colonial villages to sparse metropolis: investigating grid integration, compactness and form of the integration core in Brazilian cities (Valério Augusto Soares De Medeiros, Dr. Frederico Rosa Borges de Holanda - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil; and Dr. Edja Bezerra Faria Trigueiro - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
2. Human scales: understanding places of centering and de-centering (Dr. Stephen Read and Luki Budiarto - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
3. The tale of two cities: the dynamics of the city Isfahan in the past and present (Dr. Kayvan Karimi - Space Syntax Limited, UK; and Nooshin Motamed - UK)

Room 3: Agent-based modelling - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Deborah Middleton, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

1. Reversing the process of living: generating ecomorphic environments (Alasdair Turner - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
2. Squatter settlements consolidation: spatial analysis in an agent-based environment (Dr. Fabiano Sobreira - Faculdade de Ciencias Humanas, ESUDA, Brazil)

14.30-16.30

Room 1: Urban space and structure - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Dr. Kayvan Karimi, Space Syntax Limited, UK)

1. Building space and myth at the edge of empire: Space Syntax analysis of St. Petersburg, 1703-1913 (Professor Kenneth Knoespel - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
2. Building on geometries of intelligibility: Planning the Leiden region as a layered movement fabric (Camelia Kusumo and Dr.Stephen Read - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
3. Heraklion and Chania: a study of the evolution of their spatial and functional patterns (Irini Perdikogianni - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
4. Marginal heritage: studying effects of change in spatial integration over land-use patterns and architectural conservation in the old town centre of Natal, Brazil (Dr. Edja Bezerra Faria Trigueiro - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; and Valério Augusto Soares de Medeiros - Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)

Room 2: Morphology and meaning in domestic space - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Maria Zerdila, Space Syntax Limited, UK)

1. Examining the impact of Euro-Canadian Architecture on Inuit families living in Arctic Canada (Dr. Peter C. Dawson - University of Calgary, Canada)
2. Alice’s mirror: marketing strategies and the creation of the ideal home (Dr. Luiz Amorim and Dr. Claudia Loureiro - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
3. The Would, the Could, the Should and the Is: the role of the architect and client in the production of the spatial characteristics of the contemporary Greek-Cypriot house (Dr. Christos Hadjichristos - Architect, Cyprus)
4. My bedroom, my world: domestic space between modernity and tradition (Franciney Carreiro de França and Dr. Frederico Rosa Borges de Holanda - Universidade de Brasília, Brazil)

Room 3: Space Syntax and design - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Dr. Sophia Psarra, Welsh School of Architecture, UK)

1. Designing games: structure, playability and intelligibility (Dr. Aarati Kanekar - University of Cincinnati, USA)
2. Variations as compressions of analytic and synthetic moments in design (Iris Lycourioti - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)
3. Configurations of experience (Thomas Dine - Architect, UK)
4. Combining grammars and Space Syntax: formulating, evaluating, and generating designs (Professor Teresa Heitor, Assistant Professor Dr. José Pinto Duarte and Rafaela Marques Pinto - Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal)

17.00-17.30

17.30-17.50

17.50-18.10

18.50-19.10

19.10-19.30

19.30-19.50

09.00-11.00

Room 1: Bodies and buildings - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Ioanna Spanou, National University of Athens, Greece)

1. Path, theme and narrative in open plan exhibition settings (Dr. John Peponis, Dr. Ruth Conroy Dalton - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA; Professor Jean Wineman - University of Michigan, USA; and Nick Sheep Dalton - Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, USA)
2. Modalities of Poetic Syntax in the work of Hejduk (Weiling He and Dr. John Peponis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
3. Top-down and bottom-up characterisations of shape and space (Dr. Sophia Psarra - Welsh School of Architecture, UK)
4. Inscribing structures of dance into architecture (Evelyn Gavrilou - National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

Room 2: Urban models and measures - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Luki Budiarto, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

1. The city as object of human agency (Professor Romulo Krafta, Denise de Oliveira and Rafael Bordini - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
2. Scaling and universality in the micro-structure of urban space (Dr. Rui Carvalho, Alan Penn and Shinichi Iida - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
3. A proposed methodology to normalise total depth values when applying the visibility graph analysis (Dr. Maria Beatriz de Arruda Campos - Space Syntax Limited, UK; and Polly S.P. Fong - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
4. A measure of universal distance using Space Syntax analysis (Dr. Mohamed A. Salheen - Ain-Shams University, Egypt)

Room 3: Housing and neighbourhood - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Shibu Raman, Oxford Brookes University, UK)

1. Analyzing the effects of spatial configuration on human movement and social interaction in Canadian Arctic communities (Dr. Peter C. Dawson - University of Calgary, Canada)
2. Housing and community consolidation in informal settlements: a case of movement economy (Dr. Margarita Greene - Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
3. From vernacular to collage city (Andrea Moura and Dr. Frederico Rosa Borges de Holanda - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)
4. Original and converted social housing: spatial configurations and residents’ attitudes (Dr. Antônio Tarcisio da Luz Reis - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia)
   

Room 1: Knowledge generation in the workplace - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Johanna Wiklander, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

1. Light, views and money: average perimeter distance and its relation to floor plate geometry (Ermal Shpuza - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
2. Hybrid infrastructures for knowledge work (John W. Bakke and Birgitte Yttri - Telenor Research and Development, Norway)
3. Organizational constructs and the structure of space: a comparative study of office layouts (Dr. Mahbub Rashid and Professor Craig Zimring - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Room 2: Security, safety, design and crime - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Sania Zaki, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Accessibility and security: syntactic and perceptual analysis in two low-income housing estates (Dr. Antônio Tarcisio da Luz Reis - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia); Adriana Araujo Portella, Janise Gaddo Bennett - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; and Dr. Maria Cristina Lay - - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil (Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of Sydney, Australia))
2. Methods and principles of police deployment within “chaotic” urban structure (Dr. Elena Rodina - President of the Urban Chaos Research Group, USA; Professor Vladimir Rodin - Voronezh State University, Russia; and Dr. Vladislav Dumachev - Voronezh Institute of Police, Russia)
3. Spatial configuration and vulnerability of residential burglary: a case study of a city in Taiwan (Dr. Simon C. F. Shu - Feng Chia University, Taiwan; and Jason N. H. Huang - Changhua County Goverment, Taiwan)

Room 3: New dimensions in Space Syntax - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Dr. Maria Beatrix de Arruda Campos, Space Syntax Limited, UK)

1. Application of geotechnology to urban configuration (Rômulo José da Costa Ribeiro and Dr. Frederico Rosa Borges de Holanda - Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil)
2. Introducing the third dimension on space syntax: application on the historical Istanbul (Professor Yasushi Asami - University of Tokyo, Japan; Professor Ayse Sema Kubat - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey; Kensuke Kitagawa - University of Tokyo, Japan; and Shinichi Iida - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
3. Lines and squares: Towards a configurational approach to the morphology of open spaces (Dr. Valerio Cutini - Universita di Pisa, Italy)

14.30-16.30

Room 1: Modelling scale and risk - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Dr. Akkelies Van Nes, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

1. Bending the axial line: smoothly continuous road centre-line segments as a basis for road network analysis (Dr. Robert C. Thomson - the Robert Gordon University, UK)
2. Looking both ways: Space Syntax for pedestrian exposure forecasting and collision risk analysis (Noah Raford - University of California, Berkeley, Traffic Safety Center, USA)
3. Urban safety in residential areas (Dr. Margarita Greene and Ricardo Greene - Catholic University of Chile, Chile)
4. Representing urban cognitive structure as a spatial differentiation measure (Ana Paula Neto de Faria and Professor Romulo Krafta - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)

Room 2: Understanding home cultures through syntactic analysis - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Kyung Wook Seo, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Spatial analysis of different home environments in the city of Trabzon, Turkey (Dr. Pelin Dursun and Professor Gulsun Saglamer - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)
2. Family structure and spatial configuration in Turkish house form in Anatolia from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. (Umut Toker and Zeynep Toker - North Carolina State University, USA)
3. The visibility graph: an approach to the analysis of domestic M’zabite traditional spaces (Bellal Tahar - University of Sétif, Algeria; and Dr. Frank Brown - Manchester University, UK)
4. Detective work with a deficient sample: syntactic analysis of the houses of conflict (Ciler Kirsan - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

Room 3: Ways of seeing - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Alasdair Turner, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Body, eye and imagination: dynamics of space in French and English gardening (Professor Yves Abrioux - Université Paris 3, France)
2. The syntactical image of the city: a reciprocal definition of spatial elements and spatial syntaxes (Dr. Ruth Conroy Dalton and Dr. Sonit Bafna - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
3. Architectural atmosphere and the spatially situated body (Ioanna Spanou - National University of Athens, Greece; and Dr. John Peponis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
4. 'The book and the labyrinth were one and the same': narrative and architecture in Borges' fictions (Dr. Sophia Psarra - Welsh School of Architecture, UK)

17.00-18.10

09.00-09.30

09.30-09.50

09.50-10.10

10.10-10.20

10.20-12.20

Room 1: Space Syntax: the next generation - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Polly Fong, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. The shape of habitable space (Alan Penn - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
2. Storing directionality in axial lines using complex node depths (Nick Sheep Dalton - Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, USA)
3. Addressing normalisation in the pursuit of comparable integration (Gillian E. Livesey and Dr. Anthony Donegan - University of Ulster, UK)
4. To tame a TIGER one has to know its nature: extending weighted angular integration analysis to the description of GIS road-centerline data for large scale urban analysis (Nick Sheep Dalton - Georgia Regional Transportation Authority, USA; Dr. John Peponis and Dr. Ruth Conroy Dalton - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Room 2: Navigation and narrative in complex buildings - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Evelyn Gavrilou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece)

1. The spatial construction of seeing at Castelvecchio (Gianna Stavroulaki - National Technical University of Athens, Greece; and Dr. John Peponis - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
2. An approach to the microstructure of the gallery space: the case of the Sainsbury Wing (Kali Tzortzi - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
3. Ability and intelligibility: wayfinding and environmental cognition in the designed environment (Assistant Professor Saif Haq and Sara Girotto - Texas Tech University, USA)
4. The question of social potential in space use (Dr. Zoe Georgiadou - Technological Educational Institution, Greece)

Room 3: Urban navigation and cognition - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Maximo Martinez, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Phenomenal space: attitudes and methods (Mir Azimzadeh and Professor Björn Klarqvist - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
2. Legible cities: the role of visual clues and pathway configuration in legibility of cities (Mahshid Shokouhi - Associate Professor, University of Art, Iran)
3. A model of hierarchical cognitive map and human memory designed for reactive and planned navigation (Romain Thomas and Dr. Stephane Donikian - IRISA/CNRS, France)
4. Using Space Syntax to understand multi-layer high density urban environments (Ra'anan Gabay - Israel Institute of Technology & Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel; and Dr. Iris Aravot - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)

13.50-15.20

Room 1: Community, identity and culture - Levinsky Room

(Chair: Boashan Han, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

1. Communities and spatial culture of a communally diverse city: Ahmedabad, India (Shibu Raman - Oxford Brookes University, UK)
2. Informal economy and spatial configuration in Quilicura, Santiago (Rodrigo Mora - Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Chile)
3. Uncovering the spatial patterns of Portland’s gentrification: an analysis of the phenomena of gentrification according to the urban grid structure (Kelly Howsley - Portland State University, USA)

Room 2: Retail intensification and the urban grid - Kennedy Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Dr. Apiradee Kasemsook, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Survival of bazaars: global spatial impact and local self-organizing processes (Mir Azimzadeh - Chalmers Institute of Technology, Sweden)
2. A configurative approach to understand pedestrian-based and car-based shopping centres: configurative studies on Oslo and Eindhoven (Dr. Akkelies Van Nes - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)
3. Dwellers and strangers: socio-cultural entity, space-use, and spatial configuration in kampung settlements of Jakarta, Indonesia (Luki Budiarto - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands)

Room 3: New directions in the analysis of domestic space - Lower Ground Floor Lecture Theatre

(Chair: Ciler Kirsan, The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

1. Topological paths in housing evolution (Kyung W Seo - The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)
2. The multiplicity of built form manifestations: situating the domestic form within interwoven syntactic and semiotic domains (Dr. Shatha Malhis - University of Petra, Jordan)
3. Relation of domestic space preferences with Space Syntax parameters (Dr. Erincik Edgu - Yeditepe University, Turkey; and Professor Alper Unlu - Istanbul Technical University, Turkey)

Plenary Session: Embodied societies - Kennedy Lecture Theatre
Chaired by Professor Bill Hillier (The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, UK)

15.40-16.10

16.10-16.30

16.30-16.50

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