Exploring children's perceptions and experiences of outdoor spaces
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2015
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Space Syntax Laboratory, The Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
Özet
All people employ their senses in order to locate themselves in their environment; however the perception of space is not common to everyone and differs related to various factors. Considering these differences in perception and the factors affecting it, it should be stated that children's perceptions and experiences of spaces are different from adults'. Unless the places are created by them to play, children perceive and experience environments that are created by adults. Thus, spaces that children experience are generally based on adult's logic of design configuration. As children are the active participants of their home and school environments, the present study focuses on a pilot study which is conducted at a primary school with the 5th year students. Therefore, the aim is to discover children's landmark recognition and preferences of outdoor spaces in terms of their home-school routes, playing areas and reveal the underlying syntactic structures of the spaces as well. Considering the main structure of the research which is based on the comparison between children's responses to a questionnaire and syntactic properties of the significant places, the methodology is organised as two phases including the individual interviews with students and syntactic analyses of the spaces identified and preferred by children. The first phase of the methodology is based on the examination of children's perceptions and uses of outdoor spaces with the help of a questionnaire where students answer the questions and draw their route from home to school. In this phase, students are also asked to comment on the photographs taken from the predetermined city landmarks. For the second phase, spaces identified by children are analysed due to the syntactic properties based on various calculations. The results of the research emphasise that the edges of the city and especially the city walls seem to affect the spatial perceptions of children. Although children mostly prefer to stay in the close vicinity to their home-school environment, they can identify significant city landmarks. The outcomes of the research also indicate that there's a difference between the female and male students considering the preferences of playing areas.
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10th International Space Syntax Symposium, SSS 2015 -- 13 July 2015 through 17 July 2015 -- 117785
Anahtar Kelimeler
Children's spatial perception; Historic city; Outdoor space; Wayfinding
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SSS 2015 - 10th International Space Syntax Symposium
