Stavroulaki, I., Markhede, H., Berghauser Pont, M., Gil, J. and Sun, K. (2020) Pedestrian Study at Chalmers: Pedestrian Movement and Co-Presence at Campus Johanneberg. Gothenburg: Spatial Morphology Group, Chalmers University of Technology.

The Chalmers campus study treats pedestrian movement as a simultaneously spatial and social phenomenon. Its iconic idea is co-presence: circulation matters not only because bodies move efficiently but because recurrent spatial proximity creates the conditions for recognition, informal encounter and institutional life. The report combines pedestrian surveys with spatial and visual analysis, demonstrating that movement intensity depends on centrality, legibility, building entrances and the capacity of streets to act as useful connectors across several scales. Methodologically, observation is not separated from morphology; measured movement patterns are read against the spatial structure that enables or constrains them. This makes the campus a living laboratory in which projected design changes can be evaluated through likely transformations of movement and encounter. The wider bridge is to Space Syntax, public-space research and environmental psychology: urban form becomes legible through the social possibilities it distributes, while co-presence becomes an evidential category linking spatial configuration to everyday institutional experience.