Descriptive retrieval as synchronisation (Space Syntax)
From Design Computation
Descriptive retrieval, arising from what happens in the real world independent of the cognition or actions of the agents of the process, exists at two levels: at the local level of putting parts into a whole, the abstraction retrieved is at the same scale as the events that make up the process; at the upper level of the whole gestalt, it is at a higher level than the individual events that make the form, and somehow co-ordinates all of these separate actions into a single scheme. It is this higher order co-ordination that we can think of as a kind of synchronisation, since over and above the consistency in the local rule which put the system together there is a clear ‘all at once’ quality to how we read the system overall.
