Spacelab is going to present a short paper / poster at the Space Syntax Symposium 06, to be held in Istanbul from 12th to 15th of June 2007. The paper covers research results from various case studies and shows how architectural research and design practitioners can be brought together.

Abstract | Architectural researchers and design practitioners mostly segregate in distinct communities with hardly any overlap, collaboration or exchange of ideas. This gap between research and practice leads to a wide-spread ignorance and inability to make practical use of evidence produced by research, resulting too often in poor designs and a self-absorbed research that cannot make

a difference to peoples’ everyday lives and spatial experience. In order to bridge the gap between architectural research and design practice, UCL and Spacelab have committed themselves to a Knowledge Transfer Partnership on Effective Workplaces. Ideas and concepts will be presented as well as the first analytical results from this newly started venture.