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The paper revolves around the urban environment and its particular way of analysis. It aims to provide for a proper understanding of space and its meaningful design. It represents a theoretical basis of a more extensive research design that focuses on the dynamics of transit places, namely railway stations. There are three key parts. In the first one, I explain and contextualize rhythmanalysis. In the second one, I position it into the urban environment and discuss issues of spaces and places. The third part envisions the future case studies as it concerns the particular case of a railway station and shows possible approaches of the method from this distinct perspective. These research phases are illustrated by several hands-on examples.
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Refering to the French philosopher and sociologist Bruno Latour and his concept.
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“Sonification is the use of sound to communicate information. It is particularly appropriate in situations where a constant monitoring of changing data is required but a visual data display may be distracting” (Palmer and Jones 2012).
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Smrčina, M. (2020). Approaching Urban Experience Through Rhythmanalysis. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Case Studies in Public and Personal Interactive Systems. HCII 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12202. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49757-6_10
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