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 Department of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts and Design 
Interior Architecture: Recreation and Cultural Spaces
Industrial Product Design: Modeling
Landscape Architecture: Space, Memory, Culture
Sociology of space
Textile design: Weaving techniques and methodology
Furniture design: Design methodology
Ceramic design
Introduction to scenography
Sociology of space
COURSE TITLE: Sociology of space
COURSE ID: Ν1-5040
COURSE CATEGORY: Mandatory
HOURS PER WEEK: 2 Theory
ECTS: 4
TYPICAL SEMESTER: 5th


Course objective
The course is focused on the subject of sociology of space  and the theoretical approach to the dialectic relationship between space and the social environment. It analyses the transition of the natural environment to built space, with the development of the social establishments. It deals with many types of interior spaces of primordial and rationalizated socialization.

Course outline
The course is focusing on the acquisition of knowledge about  the science of sociology of space, its relationship with other social sciences, as well as the objective of interior space design. The development of sociological approaches, which provide the connection between built spaces and human relationships and activities. The explanatory analysis of interior spaces as fields of social relations with quantitative and qualitative characteristics.

Bibliography
Σ. Νικολαϊδου, 1993, Η κοινωνική οργάνωση του αστικού χώρου, Αθήνα: Παπαζήσης.
M. Castells, Πόλη και κοινωνία, Ιδεολογία, κοινωνιολογική θεωρία και σχεδιασμός, Αθήνα: Ν. Σύνορα
Σ. Κονταράτος, 1983, Η εμπειρία του αρχιτεκτονημένου χώρου και το σωματικό σχήμα, Αθήνα: Καστανιώτης.
Ι. Καλβίνο, 1982, Αόρατες πόλεις, Αθήνα, Οδυσσέας
Γ. Τσαούσης, 1984, Εισαγωγή στην κοινωνιολογία, Η κοινωνία του ανθρώπου, Αθήνα: Gutenberg.
Δ. Φιλιππίδης, 1990, Για την Ελληνική πόλη, μεταπολεμική πορεία και μελλοντικές προοπτικές, Αθήνα: Θεμέλιο.
Giddens, 2002, Κοινωνιολογία, Αθήνα: Gutenberg.

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