Visual Spatial Enquiry - Diagrams and Metaphors for Architects and Spatial Thinkers

List of contents

1. Diagrams and Metaphors for Seeing, Doing and Making Space Section 1: Seeing Space 2.Time and Space in Words and Pictures: a Rear View of Suburban Change in Western Australia 3. Writing Visual Observations: Ways of watching and waiting 4. A Co-Inquiry Journey into Early Childhood Settings: a Rapid Appraisal Approach for the Joint Construction of Knowledge 5. Visualising Travel and Activity Geographies of Children’s Wellbeing: Three Layers of Spatial Data Using Mixed Methods Section 2: Doing Space 6. Masking tape, Mats and Imagination 7. The House Game: a Visual Method for Eliciting Aboriginal Housing Parameters 8. Split Vision Urbanism LA: Extrapolating the Visual and the Textual in Design Research Section 3: Making Space 9. Weaving the Emergent 10. ‘Negotiation-as-active-knowing’ as a Form of Immersive Visual, Spatial and Experiential Enquiry: Case Study of Mongolia 11. The Gathering Method: a Social Setting for Developing Successful Exegetical Writing in Creative Fields 12. Where Are All the Architects and Spatial Thinkers?

About the author

Robyn Creagh is a Senior Lecturer in architecture in the School of Arts and Sciences at The University of Notre Dame Fremantle, Australia. Robyn’s research and creative practice explores the interaction of sense of place, embodied experience and built environment design.

Sarah McGann is the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at The University of Notre Dame Fremantle, Australia. Sarah's research interests and publications build upon her architectural research and practice background particularly within the ‘social life of buildings'.

Summary

With an array of international contributions from across the arts, social sciences and humanities, this book explores textual and visual language to reappraise and reconsider research approaches, methods and processes in diverse fields such as architecture, design and planning.

Product details

• Authors: Robyn (Curtin University Creagh, Robyn Mcgann Creagh
• Assisted by: Robyn Creagh (Editor), Sarah McGann (Editor), McGann Sarah (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367732226
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73222-6
• No. of pages: 196
• Series: Routledge Research in Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Methods & Materials, ARCHITECTURE / General, ARCHITECTURE / Urban & Land Use Planning, City & town planning - architectural aspects, Urban & municipal planning, History of Architecture, Hydrology & the hydrosphere, Urban communities, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Theory of architecture, Hydrology and the hydrosphere, City and town planning: architectural aspects, Urban communities / city life