Researching Effects of Architecture and Urbanism (REAU): Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods

建筑和城市规划以及公园和广场等公共空间的概念通常与要实现的社会、文化、政治和识别效果有关。然而，到目前为止，还没有关于实际影响领域的详细说明，也没有证明对此目的有效的研究方法和理论。《建筑与城市主义的影响研究(REAU)：跨学科的理论和方法》科学网络回应了对建筑环境影响概念的巨大需求，并将迄今专注于特定的、单一的影响领域的学科分散的知识捆绑在一起：个人的有意识和无意识的感知，个人或集体的行为和使用模式，以及建筑在经济、社会生活和文化等领域展开的影响。因此，网络将其工作兴趣集中在彻底研究的代理在体系结构的设计或规划阶段的意图上。该网络的目标是在三年内将对效果的不同理解汇聚成一个综合概念。其中，影响被理解为一个多标量的过程，在这个过程中，建筑配置的短期、中期和长期影响只能在特定的框架条件下展开。该网络将在六次会议上以不同规模和不同影响领域的矩阵讨论影响。为了使它们尽可能地相互联系和富有成效，影响领域被定义为感知、情感、实践和行为、图像和话语、经济和政治。一方面，在从室内空间到建筑再到城市空间的顺序指导下，在每次会议上研究有效建筑的具体理论和方法方面。另一方面，在每次会议上，该网络都会考虑一系列相关但尚未关联的学科方法来进行效果研究：演员网络理论和实践理论、环境神经科学和建筑心理学、建筑史和口述历史、影响研究和知觉心理学、定性和定量社会研究、氛围研究和现象学方法。该网络将以编辑后的卷形式介绍其联合工作的结果，这将提供作为建筑科学经验分支的效果研究的理论和方法基础。

The conception of architectural and urban planning as well as of public spaces such as parks and squares is usually associated with ideas regarding the social, cultural, political and identification effects to be achieved. However, so far there has been no specification of the actual fields of effect and research methods and theories that prove productive for this purpose. The scientific network "Researching Effects of Architecture and Urbanism (REAU): Interdisciplinary Theories and Methods" responds to this great need for defining the concept of effects of the built environment and bundles disciplinarily scattered knowledge that until now focused on specific, singular fields of effect: on conscious and unconscious perceptions by individuals, on individual or collective patterns of behavior and use, and on the effects that architecture unfolds in spheres such as the economy, social life and culture. Thus, the network focuses its working interest in distinction to the thoroughly researched agents’ intentions during the design or planning phase of architecture. The network aims to bring together the diverse understandings of effect in an integrated concept within three years. Therein, effect is understood as a multi-scalar process in which short-, medium- and long-term effects of a building configuration can only unfold in the context of specific framework conditions. In six meetings, the network will discuss effects in a matrix of different scales and fields of effects. In order to make these as connectable and productive as possible, the impact fields are defined as perceptions, emotions, practices and behaviors, images and discourses, economy and politics. On the one hand, specific theoretical and methodological aspects of the study of effective architectures in each meeting, guided by a scaled sequence from interior spaces, to buildings, to urban space. On the other hand, at each meeting the network considers a selection of related but not yet linked disciplinary approaches to effects research: actor-network theory and practice theory, environmental neuroscience and architectural psychology, architectural history and oral history, impact research and perceptual psychology, qualitative and quantitative social research, atmosphere research, and phenomenological approaches. The network will present the findings of its joint work in an edited volume that will provide the theoretical and methodological fundamentals of effects research as an empirical branch of architectural science.