‘in-between’: architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse

Troiani, Igea; Carless, Tonia

doi:10.1080/13602365.2015.1027720

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“…Spatial collage as an innovative approach for built environment research is explored by Troiani and Carless (2015), whose methodological work shows the potential of integrating orthogonal drawings and collage as “a functional analysis of the space with a history of everyday life overlaid” (p. 278). Their research demonstrates how spatial collage can be used as an ethnographic method, fusing together architectural drawings, photography, and illustration in handmade collages to understand the relationship between identity and housing.…”

Section: Architectural Multisensory Methodsmentioning

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Enriching social work research through architectural multisensory methods: Strategies for connecting the built environment and human experience

Grittner

Burns

2020

Qualitative Social Work

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Scholars have called for greater emphasis on the physical environment to expand social work research, policy, and practice; however, there has been little focus on the role of the built environment. Redressing this gap in the literature, this methodological paper explicates how four multisensory research methods commonly used in architecture—sketch walks, photography, spatial visualization, and mapping—can be used in social work research to create a greater understanding of the complex, interconnected, and multidimensional nature of built environments in relationship to human experience. The methods explored in this paper provide social work researchers with a methodological conduit to explore the relationship between the built environment and vulnerable populations, understand and advocate for spatial justice, and participate knowledgeably in interdisciplinary policy realms involving the built environment and marginalized populations.

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Section: Architectural Multisensory Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Enriching social work research through architectural multisensory methods: Strategies for connecting the built environment and human experience

Grittner

Burns

2020

Qualitative Social Work

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“…In the visual narratives, we used drawing as a way of ‘communicating a plot, revealing a situation’ (Troiani and Carless, 2015: 270), thereby developing an approach that allowed us to decode the meaning of the designed space based on the patterns of use and spatial practices which are adopted by residents. The visual narrative is therefore ‘a method of textual analysis’ (Troiani and Carless, 2015: 269). The visual narrative method was devised not as a ‘realistic’ image but as an out-of-scale representation of space.…”

Section: The Thresholdmentioning

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Researching the home using architectural and social science methods

Lewis

May

Hicks

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This article explores the possibilities of using innovative, interdisciplinary methods for understanding home-making. Drawing on a study of Claremont Court (1959-1962), a postwar social housing scheme designed by Sir Basil Spence in Edinburgh, we discuss the methodological potentials of combining architectural and social science methods to study the home. Claremont Court was built in the postwar era as part of Scotland's social housing drive. It was designed following the principles of 'cross-class' living in order to foster a sense of community. In subsequent years, inhabitants of the court have adapted their dwellings in numerous ways and the population of the court has changed dramatically. But, while meanings of home and understandings of the division between public and private have been reconfigured, the spatial layouts of the dwellings continue to shape residents' sense of home. To explore how residents make home at Claremont Court, we use 'facet methodology', which opens up new ways of thinking about the research process through a 'playful' approach to epistemology. In doing so, we develop an innovative approach which combines architectural methods (including survey drawings and visual mappings of both dwellings and communal areas) with social science methods (including 'traditional' interviews and walk-along interviews). To conclude, we discuss the possibility of widening the scope of qualitative research by bringing architectural and social science methods into dialogue through visual methods, in order to attend to spatial and material aspects of the home. We argue that our novel cross-disciplinary approach broadens understandings of home, by bringing attention to the unspoken dimensions of physical space, embodied elements of home and what people said about their homes, all of which are central to home-making.

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“…: 75). Because ‘architects do not make buildings; they make drawings of buildings’ (Robin Evans cited in Clear 2013: 72), their discourse is embedded in drawing, and thus an interdisciplinary design research and ‘other challenging techniques’ are ‘a potential avenue to liberate architectural projections because it allows them to contain other disciplinary knowledge’ (Troiani and Carless 2015: 269).…”

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As the World Leaks into the Work: Composition and architecture

Alvim

2017

Org. Sound

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This article proposes a framework as a contribution to the expansion of compositional practice. It analyses and problematises different dimensions of architectural thinking and practice, and transposes them to the field of music. This way it suggests and develops compositional strategies that are more deeply engaged with the several spatialities of music creation, performance and listening.Material,site,drawing,programmeanduseoperate as conceptual tools to articulate music and architecture in a discussion towards a more comprehensive understanding of music composition. This was the theoretical ground of a practice-based PhD research in which I developed a portfolio of works. I will describe some of these to contextualise and demonstrate the contemporary relevance of this framework.

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‘in-between’: architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse

Cited by 4 publications

References 4 publications

Enriching social work research through architectural multisensory methods: Strategies for connecting the built environment and human experience

Enriching social work research through architectural multisensory methods: Strategies for connecting the built environment and human experience

Researching the home using architectural and social science methods

As the World Leaks into the Work: Composition and architecture

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