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Investigations in Spatial Morphology is a core module on the MSc/ MRes Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities programmes. It invites students to consider spatial morphology as a distinctive epistemological proposition in understanding the relationship of people to built environments. It engages students in critically evaluating diverse source materials and their construction as 鈥榚vidence鈥� for undertaking interdisciplinary research with a strong spatial-morphological dimension. Spatial-morphological investigations into selected events, situations and other scenarios draw on a combination of contingent and curated evidence types to generate researchable propositions into how people inhabit and represent spaces as sites of social action, identifying commonalities and differences between the case studies. The value of these propositions is interrogated in critical dialogue with relevant disciplinary perspectives that share a comparable topic focus. Space syntax is offered as grounding for a forensic approach to decoding the time-space descriptions of specific sites, situations and events as these are represented in available source materials including, but not limited to, maps, plans, images, texts, socio-economic data and the ethnographic record. The module also contains an academic craftsmanship component to support students鈥� studies in their MSc and MRes programmes, pivoting around the critical use of evidence in developing scholarly arguments.
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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