This paper explores the potential for a new analytical tool to inform better understanding of
the relationship between graphic objects and urban objects for the purpose of design. The
starting point is a review of the macro-micro issue leading to the development of new ways
to depict the intermediate, or meso, level that interweaves the two. New ways to explain this
relationship are developed using graphic theory in the form of diagrams and photographic
images as research-driven data. Examples are used to illustrate how the ‘mesographic’ level
offers potential for analysing the impact of graphic interventions to improve knowledge and
understanding about the built environment. These show how small scale interventions have
changed human behaviour, and more complex systems on an urban scale may challenge
perceptions about how the products of architecture, landscape architecture, planning and
engineering are understood. Possibilities for using mesographic analysis are offered for
future research that may be undertaken independently or as part of a transdisciplinary
research inquiry.
History
School
The Arts, English and Drama
Department
Arts
Citation
HARLAND, R.G., 2012. Mesographic analysis: determining graphic objects as urban objects. Presented at Designing Place - International Urban Design Conference, University of Nottingham, 2nd-3rd April 2012.
Publisher
University of Nottingham
Version
AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
2012
Notes
This conference paper is closed access, it was presented at Designing Place - International Urban Design Conference held at Nottingham University, 2nd-3rd April 2012.