Architectural - Cognitive map of As Suwayda
Location: As-Suwayda, Syria
Type: Creative Workshop
Collaboration: IWlab - Faculty of Architectural Engineering, Damascus University.
General supervision: Iyas Shahin.
A proposal for an architectural artwork focused on interpreting urban areas using architectural cognitive mapping. It seeks to create a cognitive map of the city with several dimensions while observing its spaces and monitoring its mental picture. A cognitive map (also known as a mental map or a mental model) is a mental representation that allows a person to collect information about a place, code it, store it, and be aware of the characteristics of occurrences in its normal spatial context.
In this setting, the workshop came to gather information as a responsible procedure and a foundation for making and executing choices in proportion to the location where this information was acquired. Whereas this process includes the construction of a mental map of this location through sensory experience and cognitive awareness. This procedure also includes assessing difficult and complex information and transforming it into secondary sub-information so that challenges become obvious and manageable.
Cognitive Mapping of As-Suwayda is concerned with a unique spatial situation that contains issues connected to the forced urban intervention in the historic city of As-Suwayda, which forms an intriguing instance. The research is depicted in the primary street and its urban neighborhood.
