Objective Public spaces in a city until now have been studied in the longer term by urban sociology; but it gives little information on their architectural forms and participation of the architecture in the behaviour of man. In architectural perspective, which our research fits into, we will study the introduction of the contents of urban life into the architecture of semantic forms. The research will try to capture public spaces of Ekaterinburg (Russia) and connect their architectural qualities with the behaviour of people in them. The basic goals of the study consist in defining interrelations between architectural qualities of public spaces in a modern city and the social behaviour of people, and developing methods, which would help improve social atmosphere in urban spaces and their image by architectural means. The research will be carried by four research groups led by A. Barabanov (Ekaterinburg, Russia), S. Postnikov (Ekaterinburg, Russia), S. Mityaguine (Saint Petersbourg, Russia), J.Muntañola Thornberg (Barcelona, Spain), A. Lagopoulos (Thessaloniki, Greece) P. Pellegrino (the co-ordinator, Geneve, Suisse).The programme of the project consists of the following steps:- Drawing up a database on public spaces in Ekaterinburg and selection of sites for the study,- Morphological analysis of composite qualities of architectural spaces;- Fixation of instances of urban life in spaces,- Semiotic analysis of the instances of urban life and behaviours of people,- Drawing up of an interim report- Processing of coded information with the cross-referencing of the morphology of space and the semiotics of behaviour;- Development of methods for harmonising social atmosphere by transforming the spatial qualities of the architecture of public spaces;- Drawing up of the final report.This project fits into in a new cycle of semiotic studies in architecture concerning city as a signifier, town-planning contents and its inclusion in the behaviour of individual actors or collectives. It is suggested that attention should be focused not on architectural form as a material subject but on town-planning structures of form, which organise a public space, and interrelations should be studied between their images and the behaviour of actors on an urban stage. Theoretical results of the research in the form of a picture of semiotic interactions between the material space of architecture and the virtual space of social communication, practical results in the form of a technique for improving architectural qualities of the environment of a modern post-industrial city. Programme(s) IC-INTAS - International Association for the promotion of cooperation with scientists from the independent states of the former Soviet Union (INTAS), 1993- Topic(s) 7 - Economics, Social and Human Sciences OPEN - OPEN Call Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme Data not available Coordinator Centre de Recherche en Architecture et Architecturologie CRAAL EU contribution No data Address Chavan-a-dzo 1865 Les Diablerets Switzerland See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece EU contribution No data Address 54006 Thessaloniki See on map Total cost No data Polytechnical University of Barcelona Spain EU contribution No data Address Bruch 65 08009 Barcelona See on map Total cost No data State Research and Design Institute of Urban Development Russia EU contribution No data Address Torzhkovskaya st. 5 197342 St. Petersburg See on map Total cost No data Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences Russia EU contribution No data Address R. Luxemburg str., 56 620026 Ekaterinburg See on map Total cost No data Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts Russia EU contribution No data Address K.Liebknecht str.,23 620075 Ekaterinburg See on map Total cost No data
