Griffiths, S;
(2017)
To Go With the Flows or to Flow With the Nodes? An Exploration of ‘post-disciplinary’ Theories of Movement in Space Syntax and Mobilities Research.
In: Heitor, T and Serra, M and Silva, JP and Bacharel, M and Da Silva, LC, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 11th Space Syntax Symposium - 2017.
(pp. 64.1-64.10).
Instituto Superior Técnico, Departamento de Engenharia Civil, Arquitetura e Georrecursos, Portugal: Lisbon Portugal.
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Abstract
All too often the dialogue between space syntax and the social sciences pits space against society. For this reason the recent ‘mobilities’ turn in urban studies – stimulated by John Urry’s key (2007) text Mobilities – presents space syntax research with an opportunity but also a theoretical challenge. Urry’s ‘mobilities paradigm’ advocates a broad ‘post-disciplinary’ convergence on infrastructural systems as agents actively creating and restraining social competences through the effects they have on movement and communication. Space syntax theory and research is well placed to make a substantial contribution to this emerging field. For example, the theories of ‘natural movement’ and ‘movement economy’ offer a radical conceptualization of quotidian pedestrian and vehicular movement-space that, in comparison with other forms of transport and communications infrastructure, are seriously under-conceptualized by Urry. For space syntax theory, on the other hand, the mobilities emphasis on the infrastructure of movement-space as enabling social practices to emerge in particular historical, geographical and cultural contexts invites consideration on the extent to which the implicit normativity of the space syntax theory of urban movement has been repressed in the name of prioritizing the objectivity of its contribution to the design process, over the benefits of wider interdisciplinary – or indeed ‘post-disciplinary’ engagements.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | To Go With the Flows or to Flow With the Nodes? An Exploration of ‘post-disciplinary’ Theories of Movement in Space Syntax and Mobilities Research |
| Event: | 11th International Space Syntax Symposium - 2017 |
| Location: | Lisbon |
| Dates: | 03 July 2017 - 07 July 2017 |
| ISBN-13: | 978-972-98994-4-7 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Publisher version: | http://www.11ssslisbon.pt/docs/book-proceedings-05... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Space syntax theory, John Urry, mobilities, movement, interdisciplinarity |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Architecture |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1570558 |
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