Professor Kerstin Sailer🚨 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
#workplaceDesign #hybridWork #FutureOfWork #architecture #spaceSyntax
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
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Book Launch – Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join us online for the launch of Space Syntax: Selected Papers by Bill Hillier, a landmark volume celebrating 50 years of space syntax research. This long-awaited collection reflects Bill Hillier’s transformational way of thinking about buildings and cities that influenced generations of scholars, researchers and practitioners within the built environment disciplines and way beyond – in fields ranging from archaeology and biology to physics and zoology. Edited by Laura Vaughan, John Peponis, and Ruth Conroy Dalton, and published by UCL Press, the book offers unparalleled access to the origins and development of the discipline of space syntax, with influential works ranging from papers on architecture as a professional and research discipline, through to later articles that present a theory of the spatial structure of the city and its social functions. By bringing together writing from across Bill Hillier’s career span of half a century, with specially commissioned introductions by a wide range of international experts in the field, we can contextualise and show the evolution of his key ideas. All three editors will be present, offering insights into the editing process and the enduring impact of Hillier’s work. The event will also feature a panel discussion with Ricky Burdett, Michal Gath-Morad, Vinicius M. Netto, and Kerstin Sailer, moderated by Kimon Krenz. The discussion will reflect on Hillier’s legacy and explore future directions for the field of space syntax. The book will be available to download or purchase from 30.04.2025 via the following link: https://uclpress.co.uk/book/space-syntax/ The information provided is used to gather statistical insights (bit.ly/ucl_gdpr), and–if opted-in–to register you to our newsletter using the Brevo platform (bit.ly/brevo_gdpr).
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/
Space Syntax
Professor Bill Hillier spent most of his career at The Bartlett, University College London, where he founded and developed, with a team of colleagues, an original research programme that set the study of architecture on a firm scientific basis. His transformational way of thinking about buildings and cities influenced generations of scholars, researchers and practitioners […]
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"