Transcript PhD Workshop 5th International Space Syntax Symposium

Doing Research into DSO with Space
Syntax:
an Afternoon Workshop for Doctoral Students
5th International Space Syntax Symposium
University of Delft, June 13th 2005
13.00 - 15.00 p.m.
Professor Julienne Hanson, UCL
Professor Julienne Hanson
Welcome and Introductions
(time check 13. 00 -13. 30 max)
• Workshop attendees briefly introduce
themselves and their research topic to the rest
of the audience;
and
• Each attendee reads out the most important
question or issue they want to bring to the
discussion for consideration by the group.
• As this is going on JH groups and classifies
the points raised, by clustering the cards.
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Prioritisation of Topics
(time check - allow 10 minutes)
• Briefly review what people have flagged up,
what can be achieved in the next hour and
what expertise there is available in the room
to address the issues;
and
• Invite the delegates to ‘vote’ for the three
most popular themes they want to discuss
(bring red dots to stick on their ‘favourite’
cards). This will give rank order the themes.
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Open Discussion of Most Popular
Topics
(time check - stop at 2.45 p.m.)
• Julienne initiates and facilitates the
discussion, starting with the issue or topic
that most people want talk about and
working down through all the suggestions
on the cards from the most to the least
popular.
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Take Home Messages
(allow 10 minutes if not covered earlier)
• From stereotypes to
samples:
– dozens to hundreds of
examples, depending
on the number of
variables under
investigation;
– take sample
construction seriously.
Sample frames, typical
or representative
selection of plans etc.
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Representation
• How to get from a plan to
a space break up:
– people used to agonise
about this but are now
becoming more relaxed;
– depends on the research
question or hypothesis;
– select the most appropriate
method and stick with it;
– describe the protocol used
and its rationale;
– be consistent.
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Software Developments
• Software developments
for the analysis of DSO:
– Netbox;
– Alasdair’s VGA;
– Sheep’s latest version of
PESH;
– Bendik’s new
programme,AGRAPH;
– Because houses are small,
we can hand calculate
everything.
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Classifying Your Data
• Handy hints for sorting and
classifying house plans:
– Unlike buildings or towns,
classification of plans an
important aspect of this
enterprise;
– Still hard to beat visual
inspection, put on cards so can
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about using different criteria;
– Ruth’s ‘string theory’
programme to compare the
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Inequality Genotypes
• Theoretically, the strong
hypothesis is that these exist where
we have stable cultures / traditions,
and that most cultures will have
more than one, reflecting the
different sub-cultures within
society:
– Phenotypes present themselves as
messy data with few repeat plans;
– Rank order of rooms / functions
activities / zones not invariant;
– Students are often disappointed at this
stage. Persevere. Try all options.
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We can make patterns of integration visually clear by assigning colours to values, with red for the
most integrated through to dark blue for the least. In this way we can decipher , and mathematially
check, common underlying patterns, or 'genotypes', even where the geometry or construction of the
houses may be different, as in the three cases above.
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Don’t Neglect the Obvious
• Built form and building
construction:
– Need to consider the
constraints built form and
construction techniques
place on layout possibilities;
– Kyung’s method for keeping
track of relative position of
rooms in plans;
– François’ analysis of
construction cycles in
Montreal apartments.
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Combining Qualitative and
Quantitative Approaches
• Growth in the number of
studies devoted to the
material culture of home:
– Questionnaire design, focus
groups with topics guide;
– Furniture inventories, drawn
and photographic records;
– Activity patterns, people
traces, domestic routines;
– Conversations about
meaning of home,
construction of identity.
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Involving Real People
• Data protection and ethical
issues:
– Difficulty of getting access to
people’s homes
(snowballing);
– Storage of personal data;
– Informed consent to
participate in a research
project;
– Importance of understanding
the role of University
Research Ethics Committees.
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Publication
• Reaching out to
different audiences:
– Most theses are rarely
consulted and lie unread
on library shelves;
– Make a poster/ posters to
use as a ‘calling card’;
– Alternatives to E+P ‘B’;
– Practice writing short (23,000) word papers that
are sharply focused and
addressed to different
audiences.
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Next Steps
• Suggestions to build on
the momentum of the
workshop:
– One of the challenges of a
PhD is social isolation;
– Space syntax mailbase;
– International Housing
Database;
– Housing network within the
larger space syntax
community;
– Virtual mentoring.
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Wrap Up
(time check - 14.55 -15.00 p.m.)
Thank everyone for their contributions and
insights. Will ensure that the presentation is
mounted on the Symposium Website.
Remind everyone that the next event is
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