Architects interactions with users at early project stages provide a situation where formative reasoning about the design and the configuration of a ‘future’ building are considered. Interactionally in talk and gesture reference is made to design drawings and aspects of the building being designed in the sequential production of design moves on a moment-by-moment basis (authors 2009). Previous analyses of this video data set has revealed design moves made in three temporal spaces: past reference, current configuration as represented on drawings and in a future hypothetical ‘design space’ (authors under review). Ways in which imagination (a hypothetical configuration) features in architects interactions (Murphy 2004; 2005), together with objects and gesture (Mondada 2008) inform the theoretical basis. Some examples of how talk, gesture and design drawings feature in transitions between design spaces will be explicated and ways in which movement between temporal design spaces is interactionally accomplished in this setting.
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