New paper alert!
My wonderful collaborator Julie Zook led on this study of an inpatient unit in a hospital in the US showing how greater levels of visibility in the spatial layout seems to support team communication
For all the German speakers in my network: this wonderful and entertaining podcast by ZEIT Wissen takes my research on workplace environments and makes it personal by walking through their own offices, assessing them and checking in with staff on how they feel
The big question: which office form is best? Single offices, shared or open-plan? Assigned desks or activity based working?
Must listen! 
https://open.spotify.com/episode/5CuqFTjxS7hDyBmpVdqqMh?si=Fcg4ss3bRm22AeWzfuMPuw
Interested in how #architecture can be understood sociologically?
In this podcast hosted by Alon Schwartz, I'm discussing how architecture can integrate human needs and usage processes in workplaces
So much fun to rise to the deep and challenging questions Alon threw at me
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1wCeoThFDBZ4LMbzYZpLyN?si=XUO1a_FrRuK-ct6PqshniA
#SociologyOfArchitecture #EvidenceBasedDesign #sociology #spaceSyntax @sociology
New paper alert
Together with my co-authors, we compare two different diagnostic clinics of Moorfields Eye Hospital in London regarding their spatial designs and effective patient flows
We highlight the importance of line of sight relationships between diagnostic test stations to ease patient flow and coordination and suggest an ideal clinic configuration based on queuing models
Published #openAccess in Buildings & Cities
https://journal-buildingscities.org/articles/10.5334/bc.545
Looking forward to joining the panel for the book launch of @uclpress book 'Selected papers by Bill Hillier' this evening, 7 May at 6pm BST at the Bartlett School of Architecture, London
Join the launch event online:
https://ucl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_XLieT_aGQz-DjvO96idoxQ#/registration
More info on the book:
https://sciences.social/@kerstinsailer/114425924271982629
For all the German speakers in my network: my research on spatial layouts and communication has been featured in a lovely and detailed article in the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit discussing the manifold relations between architecture and social outcomes, ranging from political coalition negotiations to the mutiny on the Bounty, from team meetings in offices to places for living
A short blog post by Laura Vaughan describes the new book 'Space Syntax - Selected papers by Bill Hillier' as an attempt to make the groundbreaking work of Hillier putting architecture on a scientific basis more accessible
It's publication day for 'Space Syntax - Selected papers by Bill Hillier', edited by my wonderful Bartlett School of Architecture colleague Laura Vaughan with John Peponis and Ruth Conroy Dalton.
The book brings together Hillier's groundbreaking work spanning half a century with current commentaries by international researchers
It is available #openAccess by
@uclpress.bsky.social
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/space-syntax/
Interested in #postgraduate studies at #TheBartlett #BuiltEnvironment faculty at UCL (where I teach on the amazing MSc Space Syntax: Architecture and Cities)?
Join the open evening in London on 5th February 2025
More info and to register:
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/events/2025/feb/bartlett-person-postgraduate-open-evening
The #SpaceSyntax Symposium proceedings (link 
) also contain a short summary paper of my keynote talk "Learning from sociology: Diversifying what we mean by usage behaviours in space syntax" and the response talk by Dr Daryl Martin: "Sociologists learning from architects: The somatic politics of the end user"
The proceedings of the 14th International #SpaceSyntax symposium are now published, containing papers from scholars all around the world on topics such as #architecture #ArchitectureResearch #ComplexBuildings #Urbanism #UrbanMorphology #methodology #EvidenceBasedDesign #SpatialCognition and #SpaceUseBehaviours
https://www.tabedizioni.it/shop/product/space-syntax-symposium-14-1734?order=ordering+desc&open_access=1
#OpenAccess
Three funded #PhD projects advertised across different European institutions in the domains of #architecture, #urbanism, spatial #mapping, #navigation and #SpaceSyntax - will share details in a thread 
#academicChatter #PhDchat
I've reviewed the book 'Architecture and Spatial Culture' by John Peponis for Buildings & Cities.
"a remarkable marriage of the subjective and the objective, of the personal and the scientific, of everyday life and extraordinary pieces of #architecture, of imaginative design considerations and the rigorous yet abstract foundations of #SpaceSyntax. It is to be hoped that Architecture and Spatial Culture will be read widely"
https://www.buildingsandcities.org/insights/reviews/architecture_spatial_culture.html
The book on "Parliament Buildings" includes a short chapter written by me on "Degrees of opposition and cooperation: how seating plans and parliament layouts reflect and give rise to political cultures"
In this, I compare visibility relations in the House of Commons and the German Bundestag, and analyse who sits next to whom in the plenary of the European Parliament in Brussels and how that shapes solidarities and political cultures
More on #parliament #buildings and the #architecture of power in this book edited by Sophia Psarra, Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg
Available for free to download from #UCL #UCLPress #OpenAccess
Fascinating blog post by my #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture colleague Prof Sophia Psarra on the configuration of the House of Commons and how Labour's supermajority might change the dynamics of the opposing benches political culture
#archidon #SpaceSyntax #Architecture #parliament @politicalscience
Looking forward to delivering tomorrow's keynote at the #SpaceSyntax Symposium#sss14cy alongside sociologist Dr Daryl Martin
I will be presenting ideas on 'Learning from sociology: Diversifying what we mean by space usage behaviours in space syntax'
And I'll be giving a keynote (remotely) at the #SpaceSyntax Symposium #sss14cy myself together with sociologist Daryl Martin on 'Architecture meets Sociology – re-imagining users from two disciplinary perspectives'
My wonderful #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture colleague @urban_formation is giving a keynote talk at the #SpaceSyntax Symposium #sss14cy alongside her collaborator Rosie McEachan on the spatial syntax of health
Another current PhD student, Xiaoming Li is presenting his work on social interfaces in elderly care homes in China
His paper:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZRi2plAFISswOTldtGi-e8T-fUOAQxs-/view
