Looking Ahead: Advances in the Study of Landscape and Architectural
Visibility


Institute of Archaeology, University College London
14th February 2001


Recent advances in the computer-based analysis of visibility include
GIS-based methods for studying the changing view along a path and a
graph theoretic approach to intervisibility.  These and many other
exciting techniques have received relatively little discussion outside
the disciplines in which they were developed.

The aim of this one day meeting is twofold: to promote an exchange of
ideas between those interested in landscape visibility and those
interested in architectural visibility, To promote dialogue between
those who take an intepretative approach to visibility and those who
create and use computer-based methods to study visibility.  The
meeting will appeal to archaeologists, cultural geographers,
architects and those who study the built environment.

It is hoped there will be an opportunity to experience a virtual model
of Avebury henge in UCL's new virtual reality immersive CAVE system.

The meeting is organised by Mark Lake and Marcos Llobera on behalf of
the Institute of Archaeology Computer Applications in Archaeology
Research Group.  See below for how to attend.

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WEB PAGES

http://rinyo.arch.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnmar/visibility/index.html

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TIMETABLE (order of speakers is provisional)

10:30 - 10:50am Coffee

10:50 - 11:00am Welcome

11:00 - 1:00pm Session 1

Patricia Woodman (Reading): Death Views or Life Views: Correlation and
Intention.

James Steele (Southampton): Costs of Movement and the Visual
Affordances of Paths Across a Landscape.

Marcos Llobera (UCL): Exploring Visualscapes.

Sue Hamilton (UCL): Landscape Visibility in Practice: Energizing the
View-Worlds of Bronze and Iron Age Communities in Southern Britain.

1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch

2:00 - 2:30pm Session 2

Carlo Ratti (Cambridge): City and Sky View Using Image Processing
Techniques.

Alan Penn (UCL): Visibility Graph Analysis in Architecture and Urban
Space.

David Clark (UCL): Isovist Analysis of Byzantine Churches (title to
be confirmed).

3:30 - 4:00pm Tea

4:00 - 4:30pm Session 3

Josh Pollard (Newport): Seeing Beneath the Skin: The Potentials and
Limitations of Visibility Studies of Constructed Space.

Dave Wheatley (Southampton) and Mark Gillings (Leicester): Virtual
reality model of Avebury (title to be confirmed).

5:00 - 6:00pm Demonstration of virtual reality model of Avebury in
UCL's CAVE


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HOW TO ATTEND

The meeting will be held in the Institute of Archaeology Lecture
Theatre (room G6) on Wednesday 14th February 2001.

There is a registration charge of 2.00 UKP to cover costs.  This may
be paid in advance by cheque, or on the door with cash.

Those who wish may book lunch (deep-fill sandwich platter, fresh
fruit, mineral water or fruit juice, and coffee) for an additional
5.00 UKP.  The cost of lunch must be paid IN ADVANCE by cheque.

Please complete and return (by post or email) the booking form by
Monday 5th February at the latest.  It is important that you send a
booking form even if you will be paying your registration fee at the
door, otherwise we cannot guarantee entrance.


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Looking Ahead  *  Inst. of Arch., UCL  *  14/2/01 * Booking form

F.A.O. Mark Lake

Copies at http://rinyo.arch.ucl.ac.uk/~tcrnmar/visibility/index.html

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