Exploring Spatial Qualities: Evaluating Movement as a Source for Spatial Knowledge

Our hunch is that movement is a valuable form of communication which may expose new insights concerning spatial experiences which might of use in architectural design processes. In that sense investigating movement visualisations and notations can be a way to reveal new knowledge related to spatial qualities, as well as qualities related to embodied experience. These reflections were the motive to set up Mapping, Drawing, Visualising the Experienced as a research-based master elective. In this elective, we investigated how existing movement visualisations and notations could be a manner to explore and reveal new knowledge and insights related to spatial qualities, as well as qualities related to the embodied spatial experience and subsequently how these insights can enrich the architectural design process. Within this paper, we elaborate on the context, content and the intention of the course and critically reflect on the obtained results.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Teach.2019.39

Volume Editors
Richard Blythe & Johan De Walsche

ISBN
978-1-944214-23-4