Visual Spatial Enquiry

With an array of international contributions from across the arts, social sciences and humanities, this book explores textual and visual language to reappraise and reconsider research approaches, methods and processes in diverse fields such as architecture, design and planning.

1. Diagrams and Metaphors for Seeing, Doing and Making Space Section 1: Seeing Space 2.Time and Space in Words and Pictures: a Rear View of Suburban Change in Western Australia 3. Writing Visual Observations: Ways of watching and waiting 4. A Co-Inquiry Journey into Early Childhood Settings: a Rapid Appraisal Approach for the Joint Construction of Knowledge 5. Visualising Travel and Activity Geographies of Children's Wellbeing: Three Layers of Spatial Data Using Mixed Methods Section 2: Doing Space 6. Masking tape, Mats and Imagination 7. The House Game: a Visual Method for Eliciting Aboriginal Housing Parameters 8. Split Vision Urbanism LA: Extrapolating the Visual and the Textual in Design Research Section 3: Making Space 9. Weaving the Emergent 10. 'Negotiation-as-active-knowing' as a Form of Immersive Visual, Spatial and Experiential Enquiry: Case Study of Mongolia 11. The Gathering Method: a Social Setting for Developing Successful Exegetical Writing in Creative Fields 12. Where Are All the Architects and Spatial Thinkers?