Spatial Cultures

Sam Griffiths is Lecturer in Spatial Cultures and a member of the Space Syntax Laboratory at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. His research interests include the spatial cultures of industrial cities, processional culture, high streets, the representation of spatial cultures in literary and historical writing, and interdisciplinary spatial-morphological theory and methods. He teaches a range of topics in spatial cultures on UCL’s Arts and Sciences BASc and MSc 'Spatial Design: Architecture and Cities' programmes. He has published widely on a range of urban and suburban topics. Alexander von Lünen is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at the University of Huddersfield. He holds a degree in computer science and a doctorate in history, both from the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. From 2007 to 2012 he was technical lead for the Great Britain Historical GIS and its website 'A Vision of Britain through Time'. He is co-editor, with Charles Travis, of History and GIS: Epistemologies, Considerations and Reflections (2013).

1: Spatial cultures in the ancient and medieval worlds; 1: Ancient Rome; 2: The ancient city and Huizinga's Homo Ludens; 3: ‘Spatial culture' of an institution; 4: Approaching a lived experience of ancient domestic space; 5: Space for neighbourhood; 2: Spatial cultures in the long nineteenth century; 6: Thirdspace?; 7: From lines on maps to symbolic order in the city?; 8: Weaving patterns in the suburban fabric; 9: Plasticine cities; 10: What has the future of urban parks to do with their past?; 3: Historical cities, contemporary spatial cultures; 11: Between urban and digital spaces; 12: Artefact and rhythm; 13: Mediated spatial cultures; 14: Commuting with others; 15: Grindr Guys #7; 4: Perspectives and methods for spatial cultures research; 16: So long, and thanks for the GIS; 17: Making space for each other; 18: Reassembling Durkheimian sociology of space; 19: Movement in Adaptive Architecture; 20: Mobilities Design