9th INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM 2013

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<Call for Abstracts>

It is hereby announced that the next international space syntax symposium will be held in Seoul, South Korea, 31 October - 3 November 2013.

The organising committee of the symposium invites any interested parties to submit their papers of original research for presentation at the symposium. Abstracts for your papers can be submitted electronically through the symposium web page which will be opened from 20 October 2012. And also they should:

- Be no longer than 500 words.

- Include at most 5 keywords.

- Indicate to which of the 8 Themes it corresponds.

Paper submission requires a prior submission of abstract, so you may not be able to register papers unless you have the abstract submitted.

Further information on the symposium will be announced continually through this mail base and the symposium web page.

<Symposium Themes>

The symposium especially invites papers on the following themes, while other Space Syntax themes are also certainly welcome.

- Spatial Analysis and Architectural Theory

- Modelling and Methodological Development

- Urban Space and Social, Economic and Cultural Phenomena

- Building Morphology and Performativity

- Architectural Design and Practices

- Historical Evolution of Built Form

- Spatial Cognition and Behaviours

- Green Urbanism and Sustainable Developments

<Calendar>

Below are found the important dates to remember. Note that they may be subject to change. Notices will be made in that case, so please check back often.

10 February 2013 - Last date for abstract submission

26 May 2013 - Last date for paper submission

26 May 2013 - Early registration begins

1 August 2013 - Final notification of acceptance of papers

1 September 2013 - Last date for paper re-submission with correction

1 September 2013 - Early registration ends

21 October 2013 - Paper available on web-site

31 October 2013 - Symposium starts

Bem conectado

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Objetivos e programa da UC

A Unidade Curricular de SINTAXE ESPACIAL E COMPLEXIDADE tem como objectivo principal a aquisição de conhecimentos para o entendimento da cidade enquanto um sistema complexo e não totalmente previsível.

Tendo como pano de fundo as teorias da complexidade apresentam-se novas abordagens ao desenho urbano numa lógica bottom-up nomeadamente através da teoria da sintaxe espacial que visa examinar as relações entre o espaço e a sociedade a várias escalas e nos três níveis analíticos seguintes: padrões espaciais, vida espacial e vida social.

O programa da UC será.

CP1: Teorias da complexidade aplicadas à cidade: Origens e implicações no planeamento e desenho urbano.

CP2: A cidade como um sistema complexo: A cidade como organismo ou como máquina. Ordem, desordem, planeamento e auto-organização. Abordagens top-down e bottom-up. Árvores e semi-retículas.

CP3: Modelos matemáticos e computacionais como ferramentas de análise, projecto ou simulação de sistemas urbanos complexos: Space syntax, Gramáticas da forma, Cellular autómata, Parametrização, Biomimetismo.

CP4: O espaço-forma das cidades: Concepções tradicionais de espaço. O espaço como questão científica em arquitectura. Espaço e espacialidade. Configuração espacial.

CP5: Sintaxe Espacial - Teoria, tecnologia e prática

CP6: Ferramentas de leitura e representação do espaço: a análise sintática do espaço por meio dos mapas axial e de visibilidade no software Depthmap.

CP7: Técnicas de observação do espaço urbano: mapa vivencial, avaliação pós-ocupação (APO), observação em time-lapse

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The main goal of SPACE SYNTAX AND COMPLEXITY course is the acquisition of knowledge for understanding the city as complex and not completely predictable system.

With a background in the complexity theories this course aims to present new bottom-up urban design theories. These will be addressed essentially using space syntax theories which aim to examine the relations that occur between space and society within different scales and at three analytical levels: spatial patterns, special life and social life.

The syllabus will be:

CP1: Caos and complexity theories applied to the city: origins and implications in the urban design;

CP2: The city as a complex system:  the city as an organism or as a machine. Order, disorder, planning and self-organization. Top-down to bottom-up approaches. Trees and semi-reticules.

CP3: Mathematic and computational models as tools for analyze, design and simulations complex urban systems : space syntax, shape grammar, cellular automata, parametric design, biomimetics

CP4: The city space-shape: traditional conceptions of the space. Space as a scientific issue in architecture. Space and spatiality. Spatial configuration.

CP5: Space syntax: theory, technology and practice.

CP6: Tools for reading and representing space: syntactic analysis by axial maps and visibility maps using Depthmap.
CP7: Techniques to observe public space: living map, pos occupancy evaluation (POE), time-lapse registration process.