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Cognitive-Cultural Looping Mechanism of Urban Space Conceptualization

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A crucial point for urban design is the acknowledgement that urban material structures are not only constituting a set of cognitive-cultural affordances that shapes people’s behavior and experiential world, but likewise that the design process itself is an expression of cultural conceptualizations possibly evoked by ongoing cultural practices and perceptions, thus forming a dynamic loop. In this paper, we outline a framework for the study of material, cultural and social mechanisms interacting with human cognition, behavior and emotions. We attempt a conceptual model that integrates dynamic interactions between cognitive-cultural affordances and our conceptualization of the environment and provides a few illustrative case examples. The model proposes a set of dynamic relations between cognitive and cultural processes at shorter time scales modifying conceptualizations and environmental affordances on longer timescales, while these – in turn – come to guide and constrain processes at the shorter timescales. The model has important implications for our understanding of the role of environmental design, especially urban design, as bridging between aspects of human situated experience, behavior, social and cultural norms and material culture.

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This article is an extraction from a PhD dissertation in Islamic Urbanism by the first author- Zahra Alinam (titled " Explaining Conceptual Environment of the City in Islamic Culture using Cognitive Science Tools”) under the supervision of the third and the fourth authors at the Tabriz Islamic Art University, Iran. It’s written on her sabbatical leave to Aarhus University, Denmark under the supervision of the second author.

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Conceptualization: Zahra Alinam, Kristian Tylén. Methodology: Zahra Alinam, Kristian Tylén. Investigation - evidence collection: Zahra Alinam, Kristian Tylén, Mohammad Taghi Pirbabaei. Writing - original draft preparation: Mohammad Taghi Pirbabaei, Minou Gharehbaglou. Writing - review and editing: Zahra Alinam, Kristian Tylén. Supervision: Kristian Tylén, Mohammad Taghi Pirbabaei, Minou Gharehbaglou. Final approval of the version to be published: Zahra Alinam, Kristian Tylén, Mohammad Taghi Pirbabaei, Minou Gharehbaglou.

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Alinam, Z., Tylén, K., Pirbabaei, M.T. et al. Cognitive-Cultural Looping Mechanism of Urban Space Conceptualization. Integr. psych. behav. 57, 1383–1401 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12124-021-09642-8

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