IABSE-Symposium: Towards a Better Built Environment - Innovation, Sustainability, Information Technology

Bautechnik ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 79 (5) ◽  
pp. 344-344
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Built Environment

Systems Architecture: A New Model for Sustainability and the Built Environment using Nanotechnology, Biotechnology, Information Technology, and Cognitive Science with Living Technology

2010 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Smart Materials ◽  
Systems Science ◽  
Systems Architecture ◽  
New Model ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
University College London ◽  
New Generation

This report details a workshop held at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, to initiate interdisciplinary collaborations for the practice of systems architecture, which is a new model for the generation of sustainable architecture that combines the discipline of the study of the built environment with the scientific study of complexity, or systems science, and adopts the perspective of systems theory. Systems architecture offers new perspectives on the organization of the built environment that enable architects to consider architecture as a series of interconnected networks with embedded links into natural systems. The public workshop brought together architects and scientists working with the convergence of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, and cognitive science and with living technology to investigate the possibility of a new generation of smart materials that are implied by this approach.

scholarly journals Information Technology and the Built Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 (11) ◽  
pp. 02021001
Author(s):  
Yong Kwon Cho ◽  
Chao Wang
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Built Environment

scholarly journals Community-based Project Module: A service-learning module for the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology at the University of Pretoria

2014 ◽  
pp. 269-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martina Jordaan
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Service Learning ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Physical Sciences ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
Student Projects ◽  
The University

In 2005, the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT) at the University of Pretoria, implemented a compulsory module, the Community-based Project Module, for all its undergraduate students. The module is an eight-credit module (80 hours) that is offered on an open-ended and project-orientated basis. A large number of students are registered (±1 600 students per year) and work on more than 590 projects, with more than 400 community partners annually. The module requires students to work in the community for at least 40 hours, during which time they address a specific need in the community. They subsequently have to complete various assignments where they reflect on their experiences. Popular student projects include teaching Mathematics and Physical Sciences at secondary schools, doing renovation projects, repairing old computers for schools and non-profit organisations, and teaching basic computer skills to community members.

scholarly journals A Etnografia da Infraestrutura

2021 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Leigh Star
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Scale Up ◽  
Ecological Analysis ◽  
Invisible Work ◽  
De Se ◽  
Epistemological Status

Este artigo mobiliza algumas ferramentas e perspectivas da etnografia para tencionar questões metodológicas no estudo das infraestruturas. Sendo ao mesmo tempo relacionais e ecológicas, as infraestruturas tem significados diferentes para os diferentes grupos. Além disso, elas funcionam equalizando ações, ferramentas e ambiente construído, todos aspectos inseparáveis para sua compreensão. As infraestruturas são também ordinárias ao ponto de serem entediantes, envolvendo objetos como tomadas, normas e formulários burocráticos. Partindo das etnografias tradicionais, algumas das dificuldades de se estudar as infraestruturas envolvem o redimensionamento do campo de pesquisa, a gestão de grandes quantidades de dados, tais como aqueles produzidos pelos registros das transações, e a compreensão da interação entre os comportamentos online e off-line. Ao nos depararmos com esses desafios, alguns truques envolvidos são: o estudo da modelagem da infraestrutura, a compreensão dos paradoxos da infraestrutura enquanto simultaneamente transparente e opaca (incluindo as funcionalidades invisíveis na análise ecológica) e o detalhamento do estatuto epistemológico dos indicadores.The Ethnography of Infrastructure   Abstract: This article asks methodological questions about studying infrastructure with some of the tools and perspectives of ethnography. Infrastructure is both relational and ecological—it means different things to different groups and it is part of the balance of action, tools, and the built environment, inseparable from them. It also is frequently mundane to the point of boredom, involving things such as plugs, standards, and bureaucratic forms. Some of the difficulties of studying infrastructure are how to scale up from traditional ethnographic sites, how to manage large quantities of data such as those produced by transaction logs, and how to understand the interplay of online and offline behavior. Some of the tricks of the trade involved in meeting these challenges include studying the design of infrastructure, understanding the paradoxes of infrastructure as both transparent and opaque, including invisible work in the ecological analysis, and pinpointing the epistemological status of indictors.Keywords: Infrastructure, Ethnography, Information Technology, Networks.

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