?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=How+the+individual%2C+society+and+space+become+structurally+coupled+over+time&rft.creator=Griffiths%2C+Sam&rft.creator=Quick%2C+Tom&rft.description=How+are+we+to+understand+the+ambiguous+nature+of+a+space%3A+the+simultaneous+possibility+of+standing+still%2C+moving+around+it+or+moving+through+it%3F+To+answer+this+question%0D%0Arequires+%E2%80%98seeing%E2%80%99+the+configuration+through+the+eyes+of+the+human+subject.+Taking+the+phenomenological+formulation+of+the+subjective+%E2%80%98lifeworld%E2%80%99+and+bringing+to+it+our+knowledge+of%0D%0Aspatial+properties+identified+by+space+syntax+techniques%2C+it+becomes+possible+to+conceive+of%0D%0Aan+individual%E2%80%99s+interpretative+horizon+as+possessing+an+identifiable+morphology%2C+developed%0D%0Ahistorically+through+situated+social+practices%2C+which+brings+forth+reality+for+the+embodied%0D%0Asubject.%0D%0ASpace+syntax+theory+rejects+the+man-environment+paradigm%2C+positing+instead+an+emergent+socio-spatial+configuration+that+generates+the+co-presence+and+movement+necessary%0D%0Afor+social+existence.+However%2C+the+question+of+precisely+how+the+human+subject+engages+in%0D%0Are-embodying+the+spatial+configuration+remains+opaque.+One+reason+for+this+is+the+absence%0D%0Aof+a+clear+understanding+of+what+it+is+meant+by+%E2%80%98embodiment%E2%80%99+in+space.+Consequently%2C+the%0D%0Agenerative%2C+%E2%80%98bottom-up%E2%80%99+nature+of+the+spatial+configuration+appears+absent+from+analyses%0D%0Amore+concerned+with+its+top-down+functioning.+In+effect+this+privileges+the+structural+and%0D%0Ageneric+over+the+historical+and+contingent+aspects+of+the+space-society+relation.%0D%0AThis+paper+reasserts+the+role+of+the+individual+actor+embodied+in+space.+We+present+an%0D%0Aempirically+grounded+definition+of+%E2%80%98embodiment%E2%80%99+based+on+information+theory+and+structural+coupling+to+provide+a+bottom-up+account+of+the+emergent+congruence+between+space%2C%0D%0Athe+individual+and+society.%0D%0AEmbodiment%2C+so+defined%2C+implies+that+human+subjects%E2%80%99+relation+with+their+%E2%80%98environment%E2%80%99+is+multi-faceted%3B+that+the+emergence+of+a+relational+socio-spatial+system+consists%0D%0Aof+agents+coupling+with+the+environment+and+with+each+other%2C+developing+relationships%0D%0Athrough+the+transformation+of+their+internal+structures.&rft.publisher=Techne+Press&rft.contributor=Van+Nes%2C+Akkelies&rft.date=2005-06-01&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+Van+Nes%2C+Akkelies%2C+(ed.)+Proceedings+of+the+5th+International+Space+Syntax+Symposium.++(pp.+pp.+447-458).++Techne+Press%3A+Amsterdam%2C+The+Netherlands.+(2005)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10163496%2F1%2Fgriffithsquick_coupling_2005.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F10163496%2F&rft.rights=open