Qualifying movement: Choreography, spatial configuration, and movement notation in museums
2024 (English)In: Space Syntax Symposium 14 / [ed] Nadia Charalambous, Chrystalla Psathiti, Ilaria Geddes, Roma: tab edizioni , 2024, p. 553-589Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Movement has been a central concept in space syntax research since its conception, and the field has significantly contributed to knowledge on relations between the articulation and configuration of space, patterns of movement flows, spatial cognition, and experience. However, this understanding remains largely focused on cognition as a mental process, and on the perceiving subject through affordances of accessibility-visibility combinations. Movement “as such” tends to remain largely undifferentiated, understood as either rates, densities, or paths. This raises questions concerning the role of embodied experience as well as bodily expressions, communication, and forms of knowledge. This paper engages with choreographic studies to develop a differentiated understanding of movement and find experiential, communicative, and qualitative aspects that can be further linked to spatial configuration, where choreographic concepts such as path, figure, and gesture are understood to operate through architectural formulations. Building on these concepts, this paper addresses the need to (1) develop how configurative analysis can be employed to capture if, how, where, and when movement is differentiated and characterized into different choreographies, and (2) develop notational techniques that enable observations to include such qualitative characteristics and thereby enable more thoroughly qualitative analysis of relations between architecture and movement.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Roma: tab edizioni , 2024. p. 553-589
Keywords [en]
movement, choreography, rhythm, interruption, movement flows, museums, spatial configuration
National Category
Architecture
Research subject
Architecture
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-358095DOI: 10.36158/979125669032927Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-86000271984OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-358095DiVA, id: diva2:1924574
Conference
14th International Space Syntax Symposium, Nicosia, Cyprus, 24-28 June, 2024
Note
Part of ISBN 979-12-5669-032-9
QC 20250320
2025-01-072025-01-072025-03-20Bibliographically approved