1 Bill Hillier is Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology in the University of London, Chairman

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1 The space syntax field of research is grounded on the pioneering work of Bill Hillier 1, Julienne Hanson and colleagues, developed in the early 1970 s at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Space syntax is commonly seen as a set of methods to analyze urban and architectural spaces of all kinds and sizes, and to foresee their functional outcomes. However, it is also much more than that. It is an overarching theory and research framework, based on rigorous geometrical and mathematical descriptions and quantifications of human spatial systems and on insightful inferences about their social meaning and impact, which provide a coherent and robust form-function model of the human built environment. This embracing, but also always precise, character of space syntax, has made it a field of research that has become relevant to disciplines other than architecture or urban planning and design. Indeed, space syntax has found application in fields as diverse as sociology, psychology, archeology, criminology, transport planning, economics, risk management, information technology and computer science. Today, the space syntax research community is highly diverse, integrating members from all these fields, coming from all over the world. Besides its pure research applications, space syntax s capability of providing reliable forecasts of the functional outcomes of architectural and urban projects, has made it also an obviously useful practical tool, being today used world-wide by a growing number of consultancy and professional practices. The International Space Syntax Symposia were founded in London, in 1997, and since then have been held every two years in cities around world, as London, Brasilia, Atlanta, Delft, Istanbul, Stockholm, Santiago and Seoul. Space syntax symposia provide the forums where the space syntax research network comes together to present and discuss new work and to debate the future of their discipline. 1 Bill Hillier is Professor of Architectural and Urban Morphology in the University of London, Chairman of the Bartlett School of Graduate Studies and Director of the Space Syntax Laboratory in University College London. He holds a DSc (higher doctorate) in the University of London. As the original pioneer of the methods for the analysis of spatial patterns known as space syntax, he is the author of The Social Logic of Space (Cambridge University Press, 1984, 1990) which presents a general theory of how people relate to space in built environments, Space is the Machine (CUP 1996), which reports a substantial body of research built on that theory, and a large number of articles concerned with different aspects of space and how it works. He has also written extensively on other aspects of the theory of architecture.

2 PROGRAMA Dia 3 de Julho 09:00-16:30: WORKSHOPS 17:00-19:00: SESSÃO INAUGURAL SESSÕES PLENÁRIAS 09:00-11:00 dia 4 de julho: THE EMERGING SCIENCE OF CITIES Luís M. A. Bettencourt (University of Chicago, USA) Alan Penn (University College Londo, UKn) dia 5 de Julho PERCEPTION, BEHAVIOUR & SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS Michael Benedikt (University of Texas at Austin, USA) Ruth Conroy-Dalton (Northumbria University, UK) dia 6 de Julho REMAKING THE LINK BETWEEN ANALYTICAL RESEARCH AND NORMATIVE PRINCIPLES Stephen Marshall (University College London, UK) John Peponis (University College London) SESSÕES PARALELAS dias 4, 5 e 6 de Julho :00 14:00-15:45 16:00-17:45 GARDEN SESSIONS dias 4, 5 e 6 de Julho 18:00-19:00: VISITAS TÈCNICAS DIA 7 de Julho 09:00-14:00 COMISSÃO ORGANIZADORA Teresa V. Heitor (presidente) Miguel Serra João Pinelo Silva Maria Bacharel Luisa Cannas da Silva

3 4th July: Sessão Plenária THE EMERGING SCIENCE OF CITIES After decades of slow progress and latent scepticism, the endeavour of treating cities as objects of full scientific enquiry, liable of being described and explained by formal models, has been gaining momentum in recent years. Fostered by the development of the complexity sciences and by the ever increasing availability of empirical data, a new 'science of cities' is emerging. At its core lie the concepts of complex system, the network and the fluxes it conveys concepts that are also central to space syntax theory. In this session, guided by Professors Luis Bettencourt and Alan Penn, we will learn about the fundamentals and the latest advances of the new science of cities and how space syntax may contribute to its enterprise. LUIS BETTENCOURT (UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO) Luís M. A. Bettencourt is director of The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago and Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. He was trained as a theoretical physicist at Tecnico, (university of Lisbon) and obtained his PhD from Imperial College (University of London, UK) in 1996, for research in statistical and high-energy physics models of the early Universe. He has worked extensively on cities and urbanization. His research emphasizes the creation of new interdisciplinary synthesis to describe cities in quantitative and predictive ways, informed by the growing availability of empirical data worldwide. His research interests also include the modelling of innovation and sustainability in developing human societies, the dynamics of infectious diseases and aspects of general information processing in complex systems. ALAN PENN (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK) Alan Penn is the Dean of the Bartlett faculty of the Built Environment. His research focuses on understanding the way that the design of the built environment affects the patterns of social and economic behaviour of organisations and communities. These are known as space syntax methods. Current research includes the development of agent based simulations of human behaviour, the development of spatio-temporal representations of built environments, investigations of urban spatial networks and the application of these techniques in studies of urban sustainability in the broadest sense, covering social, economic, environmental and institutional dimensions.

4 5 th July: Sessão Plenária PERCEPTION, BEHAVIOUR & SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS How space is perceived and cognitively integrated by individuals and, in turn, how this is linked to the way space is built and used by them, are central questions in any attempt of putting together an empirically-based theory of the built environment. But underpinning any such attempt, a prior question arises: how to describe and represent space in a way that both encapsulates its structural contents and our spatial cognitive processes? In this session, Professors Michael Benedikt and Ruth Conroy-Dalton will address the theme of spatial representations and their links to human spatial cognition and behaviour, reviewing existing approaches and disclosing novel ones. MICHAEL BENEDIKT (UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, USA) Michael Benedikt holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and is the Director of The Center for American Architecture and Design at The University of Texas at Austin, where he has taught design studio and design theory since He is a graduate of The University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and of Yale University. He has practiced architecture both in medium-sized firms and on his own, with a number of buildings to his credit in Austin. RUTH CONROY-DALTON (NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY, UK) Ruth Dalton is Professor of Building Usability and Visualisation at Northumnbria University, Newcastle, UK, Department of Architecture and Built Environment. She is an alumna of University College London. She has taught at the Architectural Association, London, the Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA and the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Her research interests are centred around the relationship between the spatial layout of buildings and environments and their effect on how people understand and interact in those spaces. Professor Dalton is an expert in space syntax analysis and is passionately interested in the use of virtual environments as a method for researching human factors in the built environment.

5 6 th July: Sessão Plenária REMAKING THE LINK BETWEEN ANALYTICAL RESEARCH AND NORMATIVE PRINCIPLES. Planning and design are inherently normative: they propose future states of the world which are held to be, according to some system of values, better than the present states. This has often led to the uncritical acceptance of the inference that if design and planning are inherently normative, the same must apply to the theories of architecture and planning. However, theories of architecture and planning can best serve practice by offering descriptions, accounts and explanations of how things work, and what the principles are, that might help us predict how the implementation of new ideas might work in the future. This has been a formative assumption in the field of space syntax. This session addresses the link between design values, normative ideas and theory at present. JOHN PEPONIS (GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, USA) John Peponis is Associated Chair at the Advanced Studies and Research, Georgia Tech School of Architecture, Atlanta, USA. He studies the principles and constraints that govern the generation of built form and its social, cultural and cognitive functions. His work includes the development of methods, measures and software for the analysis of built space at the scale of buildings and urban areas. He is a member of the regional editorial board of The Journal of Architecture since 1997, of Cognitive Critique since 2009, of the Journal of Space Syntax since 2010, and of the steering and refereeing committees for the Space Syntax International Symposia since He has been a member of the editorial board of Environment and Planning (B): Planning and Design ( ) and a founding member of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture STEPHEN MARSHALL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, UK) Stephen Marshall is Professor in Urban Morphology and Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Dr Marshall has over twenty five years experience in the built environment fields, initially in consultancy and subsequently in academia. His principal research interests are in urban morphology and street layout, and their relationships with urban formative processes, including urban design, coding and planning. He has written or edited several books, including Streets and Patterns(2005), Land Use and Transport (with David Banister), Cities, Design and Evolution (2009) and Urban Coding and Planning (2011). He was Chair of the Editorial Board of Urban Design and Planning(Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers journal series) from its launch to 2012; and is now co-editor of Built Environment journal.

6 WORKSHOPS SPACE SYNTAX TOOLKIT FOR QGIS INTRODUCTION AND RECENT DEVELOPMENTS (Full-day workshop) Jorge Gil 1, Stephen Law 1, Ioanna Kolovou 2, Abhimanyu Acharya 2 1. University College London, United Kingdom. 2. Space Syntax Limited, London, United Kingdom. Over recent years GIS has become an essential platform to carry out all sorts of spatial data management, analysis and visualisation of the built environment, in particular at the urban and regional scales. The space syntax research community has also been demonstrative of this trend, with tools such as Axwoman, Confeego or Place Syntax being developed for commercial GIS platforms. The Space Syntax Toolkit (SST) is an open source QGIS plug-in for spatial network and statistical analysis. It provides a frontend for the depthmapx software within QGIS, offering seamless space syntax axial and segment analysis workflows in a GIS environment. The aim of this workshop is to give participants a first-hand experience of the SST and to learn about its new tools. If you re giving the first steps into GIS for space syntax research, then this workshop will ease you into the process by introducing you to this user-friendly tool. If you already use QGIS, then this is the opportunity to learn about the latest developments of the SST, discuss its possibilities beyond the typical workflows, and contribute to its future development. DEFINING THE SHORTEST ROUTE EMPIRICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS (Full-day workshop) Beatrix Emo 1, Martin Bielik 2, Victor Schinazi 1, Reinhard Koenig 2, Christoph Hoelscher 1 1. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2. Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany Multiple methods for defining the shortest path during navigation exist. Competing theories are based on individual factors, or a combination of factors, such as metric distance, angular displacement and topological changes. The aim of this workshop is to share current research from the field of spatial cognition and to introduce computational tools for its application to space syntax analysis. The workshop will be based on a hands-on, out-of-doors navigation exercise, whose results will inform a subsequent tutorial on how the different models can be accounted for in space syntax analysis. Innovations in analytic methods currently being developed will be demonstrated and tested. Beyond its empirical and analytical objectives, this workshop will also provide a forum to discuss open questions as, for example: whether the least angle theory, often adopted in space syntax analysis, is the best approach; the validity of other models; and how these could be applied to a space syntax study.

7 CONNECTING SPACE SYNTAX WITH POLICY MAKING (Half-day workshop) Tom Bolton 1, Nicholas Francis 2, Francesca Froy 1 1. University College London, United Kingdom. 2. Space Syntax Limited, London, United Kingdom. The purpose of this workshop is to present new research assessing the impact of space syntax, as a discipline, on policy making. The researchers have been conducting literature review and policy consultation activities in a UK context, to understand how and where space syntax research has been applied to policy decisions, and what the barriers are to wider policy impact. A short presentation will set up a round-table debate about how researchers can encourage and enable the use of the space syntax evidence base by policy makers. The purpose of the workshop is to engage with the international community of space syntax researchers and design practitioners; to communicate the lessons learned from engagement with policymakers in the UK; and to inform a more widespread, international discussion on how Space Syntax could become a more policy-focused tool, directing future development strategies. The researchers are keen to hear from anyone with experience of influencing policy audiences through space syntax research. Come to the workshop to discuss successes and challenges; to help shape a wider research programme; to identify gaps in the space syntax evidence base and to develop materials for policy makers in different international contexts. DATA ANALYSIS AND MACHINE LEARNING WITH GEO-SPATIAL DATA (Full-day workshop) Tasos Varoudis 1, Stephen Law 1 1. University College London, United Kingdom This workshop will focus on the standard sequence of steps that spatial analysts and data scientists take for the exploration and visualisation of complex problems. The workshop is intended for both researchers and practitioners who seek to learn or develop additional data analysis and visualization skills, machine learning and reproducible research methods. We will specifically cover topics in spatial data manipulation, basic statistics and visualisation, and data analysis from a machine learning point of view (including basic theory of computational learning and well established examples). Each step will be accompanied by practical hands-on examples and 1:1 help from the tutors. The final stage of the workshop will focus on fusing what we learned with practical ways to produce deliverables and reproducible research. The target is to work on a small project and produce visualisations and other geospatial outputs by the end of the day. For the final stage we encourage attendees to bring they very own data, if they happen to have a spatial dataset that they intent to explore.

8 DEPTHMAP X (Half-day workshop) Akkie van Nes 1 1. Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft, Netherlands; The University College Bergen, Norway. This workshop is the opportunity to learn how to use depthmapx, the most popular space syntax software. The workshop is open for newcomers as well as regular depthmapx users who want to update their skills. A wide range of the software s analytical possibilities will be demonstrated (e.g. axial, segment and all-lines analysis, visibility graph analysis, agent based analysis). Participants are invited to bring with them their laptops and a DXF file (with convex or axial maps) of the building or builtenvironment they wish to analyse. In the absence of concrete case studies, generic ones will be provided, so that everybody may participate and enjoy the demonstration. DEPTHSPACE3D A DIGITAL TOOL FOR 3D SPACE SYNTAX ANALYSIS (Full-day workshop) Franklim Morais 1, Catarina Ruivo 2 1. Escola Superior Artística do Porto, Portugal. 2. Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. The workshop will present, demonstrate and give proficiency in DepthSpace3D a new 3D Space Syntax analysis software, free for academic use. This new digital tool aims at increasing the range of possibilities concerning 3D analysis, which seems to have advantages over current 2D space syntax analysis, in cases such as, for example: rough altimetry of the ground in urban spaces; dynamic volumetric geometries (regarding size, configuration, elevation and interpenetration); and joint analysis of the interior of each building and the middle-scale urban environment, especially when there are high-rise buildings. 3D analysis may also be a powerful tool in formalizing the classical theoretical and aesthetical concepts of architecture. With the help of small case studies, the workshop will focus on: i) creation and edition of the 3D geometries of the spaces considered for analysis; ii) computation of space syntax measures in 3D space; ii) visualization and interpretation of the results, both in graphic and numerical formats. Participants should be practitioners or researchers with some familiarity with space syntax concepts, and preferably having previous practice of 2D space syntax software.