Sensory Synaesthesia: Combined Analyses Based on Space Syntax in African Urban Contexts

dc.contributor.authorBaumanová, Monika
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-07T10:00:14Z
dc.date.available2020-09-07T10:00:14Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstract-translatedThe organization of past urban space continues to be an important focus of archaeological research in sub-Saharan Africa where the methods of space syntax now offer new interpretations of the built environment. Traditionally, space syntax uses access analysis graphs for buildings and axial maps for towns to represent and analyze the configuration of space as a network. Using perspectives from neuroscience and the social sciences, this paper presents several case studies to illustrate how space syntax can be adapted to provide a multisensory “synaesthetic” perspective on African urban environments while also addressing their cultural contexts. These case studies, which focus on historic towns from East and West Africa, incorporate analyses of visibility and movement as tactile perception to examine house layout, street networks, and the socio-spatial role of urban quarters. This demonstrates how the graphic representation of space syntax analyses can help us better understand spatial partitioning and material dimensions of urban space as cultural heritage that affects sensory perceptions such as vision and kinaesthetics.en
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dc.identifier.citationBAUMANOVÁ, M. Sensory Synaesthesia: Combined Analyses Based on Space Syntax in African Urban Contexts. African Archaeological Review, 2020, roč. 37, č. 1, s. 125-141. ISSN 0263-0338.en
dc.identifier.document-number516258600001
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10437-020-09368-9
dc.identifier.issn0263-0338
dc.identifier.obd43929444
dc.identifier.uri2-s2.0-85079366452
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11025/39610
dc.language.isoenen
dc.project.IDGA20-02725Y/Srovnání transformace městské morfologie z předkoloniálních do koloniálních urbánních tradiccs
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrican Archaeological Reviewen
dc.rightsPlný text je přístupný v rámci univerzity přihlášeným uživatelům.cs
dc.rights© Springeren
dc.rights.accessrestrictedAccessen
dc.subject.translatedspace syntaxen
dc.subject.translatedvisibilityen
dc.subject.translatedsensory archaeologyen
dc.subject.translatedsynaesthesiaen
dc.subject.translatedSwahilien
dc.subject.translatedWest African Sahelen
dc.titleSensory Synaesthesia: Combined Analyses Based on Space Syntax in African Urban Contextsen
dc.typečlánekcs
dc.typearticleen
dc.type.statusPeer-revieweden
dc.type.versionpublishedVersionen

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