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Professor JONATHAN HALE's Outputs (20)

Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post (2024)
Journal Article
Hale, J., Hanks, L., & Simpson, C. (2024). Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 3(2), 139-160. https://doi.org/10.55755/DepArch.2024.31

Whether it’s through sharing picture postcards or visitor-produced photographs of museums on social media, these processes of image sharing, often dismissed as trivial, are acts which create and sustain relationships between the visitor, museum, and... Read More about Museum as Object: From Postcard to Post.

Architectural Porosity: Urban Heritage Wall as Common Ground for Shared Inhabitation (2024)
Journal Article
Saginatari, D., Hale, J., & Collett, T. (2024). Architectural Porosity: Urban Heritage Wall as Common Ground for Shared Inhabitation. Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research, 3(1), 1-23. https://doi.org/10.55755/deparch.2024.25


This paper explored the idea of architectural porosity, which consists of the relation between material and socio-spatial porosities in the context of urban heritage sites. It takes inspiration from Walter Benjamin and Asja Lacis' essay Napples (or... Read More about Architectural Porosity: Urban Heritage Wall as Common Ground for Shared Inhabitation.

The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium (2023)
Journal Article
Xiang, Y., Loo, Y. M., & Hale, J. (2024). The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium. Planning Perspectives, 39(2), 347-369. https://doi.org/10.1080/02665433.2023.2230553

With the launch of cultural tourism in Tianjin, the regeneration and heritage preservation of the Five Avenues, the former upscale residential area of the British Concession, has been accelerated. In 2012, the public monumental sports building of thi... Read More about The other Tianjin and its concession culture: local residents’ perception of the postcolonial identity of Minyuan Stadium.

Working at Home: Architects during the pandemic in China (2023)
Book Chapter
Xu, Y., Borsi, K., & Hale, J. (2023). Working at Home: Architects during the pandemic in China. In P. Sparke, E. Ioannidou, P. Kirkham, S. Knott, & J. Scholze (Eds.), Interiors in the Era of Covid-19: Interior Design between the Public and Private Realms (101-111). Bloomsbury Publishing

Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design (2022)
Journal Article
Jin, X., & Hale, J. (2022). Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design. Journal of Architecture, 27(7-8), 1012-1033. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2022.2153377

Architectural writing norms have been a subject of constant debate in recent decades. Architectural poststructuralists have often conceptualised writing as a form of virtual construction in the medium of words. Recent scholarship relating to innovati... Read More about Unbinding architectural imagination: Wang Shu’s textual bricolage in theoretical writing and design.

Disabled-by-design: effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices–a systematic review (2022)
Journal Article
Kapsalis, E., Jaeger, N., & Hale, J. (2024). Disabled-by-design: effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices–a systematic review. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 19(3), 604-622. https://doi.org/10.1080/17483107.2022.2111723

Purpose
Despite the increase of users of Mobility Assistive Devices (MobAD), there has been a lack of accessibility in urban environments in many parts of the world. We present a systematic review of how the inaccessible design of public spaces affe... Read More about Disabled-by-design: effects of inaccessible urban public spaces on users of mobility assistive devices–a systematic review.

The Concept of Type in Hellerau Garden City (2022)
Book Chapter
Ekici, D. (2022). The Concept of Type in Hellerau Garden City. In K. Borsi, D. Ekici, J. Hale, & N. Haynes (Eds.), Housing and the City. Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Esthetic Features of Buildings (2021)
Journal Article
Aydin, Y. C., Mirzaei, P. A., & Hale, J. (2021). Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Esthetic Features of Buildings. Journal of Architectural Engineering, 27(3), https://doi.org/10.1061/%28ASCE%29AE.1943-5568.0000477

Several substantial market barriers obstruct the widespread adoption of sustainable buildings. Esthetic features are amongst the main driving forces behind the marketability of buildings, thus improvement of sustainable buildings in terms of visual e... Read More about Using Machine Learning Techniques to Predict Esthetic Features of Buildings.

How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre (2021)
Journal Article
Yang, J., Hale, J., & Blackman, T. (2021). How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 25(1), 83-92. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135521000129

A 3D film by Wim Wenders of the Rolex Learning Centre provides a deeper phenomenological reading of SANAA’s distinctively minimalist architecture.

The Venice Architecture Biennale in 2010, curated by Japanese architect Kazuyo Sejima, co-founder o... Read More about How do buildings talk? Embodied experience in the Rolex Learning Centre.

WABI: Facilitating Synchrony Between Inhabitants of Adaptive Architecture (2019)
Book Chapter
Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., Hale, J., Kirk, D., & Glover, K. (2019). WABI: Facilitating Synchrony Between Inhabitants of Adaptive Architecture. In People, Personal Data and the Built Environment (41-75). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70875-1_3

We spend most of our lives in buildings where we interact with people that occupy the same space. A common and intuitive form of interaction with others is to synchronise our own behaviour with theirs, and such interpersonal synchrony can have variou... Read More about WABI: Facilitating Synchrony Between Inhabitants of Adaptive Architecture.

The museum and multivalences of place (2018)
Book Chapter
Hourston Hanks, L. (2018). The museum and multivalences of place. In S. MacLeod, T. Austin, J. Hale, & O. Ho Hing-Kay (Eds.), The Future of Museum and Gallery Design: Purpose, Process, Perception (86-99). Routledge

This chapter contends that an increasing exploration and privileging of place may well define one future direction in the making of museums and galleries and it aims to explore current practice of such enhanced situatedness through a range of contemp... Read More about The museum and multivalences of place.

From body to body: architecture, movement and meaning in the museum (2018)
Book Chapter
Hale, J., & Back, C. (2018). From body to body: architecture, movement and meaning in the museum. In S. MacLeod, T. Austin, J. Hale, & O. Ho Hing-Kay (Eds.), The Future of Museum and Gallery Design : Purpose, Process, Perception, (340-351). Routledge

A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England (2017)
Journal Article
Tatum, K., Porter, N., & Hale, J. (2017). A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England. Journal of Rural Studies, 56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.09.013

In England's national parks, the design of new dwellings represents a significant and contested part of landscape planning, inseparable from park conservation ideologies and policies. Within public discourse, new housing proposals can be praised for... Read More about A feeling for what's best: landscape aesthetics and notions of appropriate residential architecture in Dartmoor National Park, England.

Reciprocal Control in Adaptive Environments (2017)
Journal Article
Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., Hale, J., Kirk, D., & Glover, K. (2017). Reciprocal Control in Adaptive Environments. Interacting with Computers, 29(4), 512-529. https://doi.org/10.1093/iwc/iww037

© The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Computer Society. Computing has become an established part of the built environment augmenting it to become adaptive. We generally assume that we control the adaptive en... Read More about Reciprocal Control in Adaptive Environments.

Embodied interactions with adaptive architecture (2016)
Book Chapter
Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., & Hale, J. (2016). Embodied interactions with adaptive architecture. In Architecture and interaction: human computer interaction in space and place. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30028-3_9

We discuss increasingly behaviour-responsive adaptive architecture from an embodied point of view. Especially useful in this context is an understanding of embodied cognition called ‘the 4E approach,’ which includes embodied, extended, embedded, and... Read More about Embodied interactions with adaptive architecture.

Real-time Bodily Interactions with Adaptive Architecture (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Jaeger, N., & Hale, J. (2014, April). Real-time Bodily Interactions with Adaptive Architecture. Paper presented at CHI 2014, Toronto, ON

We introduce the concept of inter-bodily resonance to the field of Adaptive Architecture. This is a model of real-time bodily interaction we believe offers many opportunities for both designing and understanding user experience and interactions of ne... Read More about Real-time Bodily Interactions with Adaptive Architecture.