/ Spatial culture / Urban rhythm/ Simulation / Computer vision/ Critical game design
Griffintown, MontréalMohamed GharbiaConcordia University, 2026
A prototype for my PhD research-creation project. It asks whether Griffintown's spatial culture and urban rhythm can be mediated and archived through a game-like 3D experience, built one small system at a time from the city's open data and from observation.
Each system has one job. I test it and try it in the Lab, an interactive map of every system, before the next system may use it.
Space syntax, a way of measuring how a street network is arranged, is one of my measuring sticks, beside the city's own counts. The simulated people will never read it. I will compare where they go with what it predicts, street by street.
Integration measures how easy a street is to get to. Choice measures how often it lies on the way between other places.
One walking network for the whole island: the city's streets joined with the off-street paths people use.
47,197 lines
I removed highways and unbuilt streets and added 161 km of the city's own off-street paths.
Every system on one map, one at a time. Try each one and see the places I still need to check. Click anything for its details.
The Lab replays what each system wrote down. Its own tests check that it shows those results exactly.
The data and readings behind Situ, with its tools, each linked to where it is used.
