scholarly journals The city as critical project – a poetics of collective life

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-194
Author(s):  
Lorens Holm ◽  
Cameron McEwan
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Research Unit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

If you want to know what society looks like, look at our cities, look at their distribution of spaces, their scales, their densities. Look at how cities curate events. This article sketches the basis for architectural thinking on individual/collective social formations as read through the texts of Vitruvius and Freud with support from Aristotle, Arendt, and Lacan, in parallel with city projects by the rooms+cities studio, a Master’s-level design research unit at the University of Dundee, which is itself a collective project that begins with the close reading of canonic city plans in search of the collective body of knowledge that comprises the discipline and practice of architecture. Teaching may not be the only way to change built environment thinking but it is one way. Vittorio Gregotti reckoned that the schools were best placed to challenge establishment practices with avantgarde thought. We use architecture to think the relation between the individual and the collective, and thereby to make a space for politics and public life. This article is thus comprised of two arguments, one predominantly textual, the other graphic, of complementary weight and importance, that run side by side and occasionally cross or mingle.

The First Reinforced Concrete Structures in Urban Renewal in an Italian Provincial City

2010 ◽  
Vol 133-134 ◽  
pp. 187-192
Author(s):  
Maria Paola Gatti ◽  
Giorgio Cacciaguerra
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Reinforced Concrete ◽  
Urban Renewal ◽  
Research Group ◽  
The Other ◽  
Reinforced Concrete Structures ◽  
Provincial City ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

For reinforced concrete, we may consider two histories: one focuses on the influence reinforced concrete has exerted on the process of renewal of the architecture of twentieth century; the other pertains to the manners in which the development of this material effectively came about in various geographic areas. The research group at the University of Trento analysed the complex of military constructions produced in the city, and, specifically, it undertook in-depth study of the manner in which the use of reinforced concrete spread to civilian architecture.

scholarly journals ‘Between life and death’: On land, silence and liberation in the capital city

2014 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Social Movement ◽  
Mission Statement ◽  
The Other ◽  
Capital City ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
University Of Pretoria ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

This article reflects on the unfinished task of liberation – as expressed in issues of land – and drawing from the work of Franz Fanon and the Durban-based social movement Abahlali baseMjondolo. It locates its reflections in four specific sites of struggle in the City of Tshwane, and against the backdrop of the mission statement of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria, as well as the Capital Cities Research Project based in the same university. Reflecting on the ‘living death’ of millions of landless people on the one hand, and the privatisation of liberation on the other, it argues that a liberating praxis of engagement remains a necessity in order to break the violent silences that perpetuate exclusion.

scholarly journals X.—The Aborigines of Tasmania. Part III. The Hair of the Head compared with that of other Ulotrichi and with Australians and Polynesians

1915 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-347 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Turner
Keyword(s):  
New Guinea ◽  
The Other ◽  
Malay Peninsula ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
University Of Edinburgh ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The University

A number of years ago I began to form and arrange in the Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh a collection of the hair of the head to illustrate the varieties in colour and character which exist in the Races of Men. In a classification of the races based on the colour and characters of the hair, anthropologists have usually adopted the suggestion made by Bory de St Vincent, and have divided them into two groups: Leiotrichi, with straight, smooth hair; and Ulotrichi, with woolly or frizzly hair. Each of these again is capable of subdivision.In this memoir I intend especially to examine the Ulotrichi, which comprise two well-marked subdivisions. In one the hair is very short, and is arranged in small spiral tufts, the individual hairs in which are twisted on each other, a mat-like arrangement of compact spiral locks closely set together being the result. In the other the hair is moderately long, the locks are slender, curled or spirally twisted in a part of their length and terminate at the free end in a frizzly bush-like arrangement. Ulotrichous hair is found in various African races, in the aborigines of Tasmania, New Guinea, the Melanesian Islands in the Pacific, in the Negritos of the Malay Peninsula and of some of the islands of the Asiatic Archipelago. The Leiotrichi are Australians, Polynesians, Mongols, Malays, Indians, Arabs, Esquimaux and Europeans.

scholarly journals Introduction

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Keyword(s):  
Financial Aid ◽  
The Other ◽  
International Astronomical Union ◽  
International Astronomical ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

The initiative in the organization of the conference was taken by the President of Commission 33 of the International Astronomical Union and financial aid was received from U.N.E.S.C.O. At the invitation of Dr P. J. van Rhijn, Director of the Kapteyn Astronomical Laboratory, Groningen, the meeting was held in the estate ‘Vosbergen’ near the city of Groningen and owned by the University of Groningen. The organizing committee consisted of J. H. Oort (Chairman), W. Baade, B. J. Bok, Ch. Fehrenbach, B. Lindblad, W. W. Morgan, P. P. Parenago, and A. Blaauw (Secretary), all of whom attended the conference. The other participants, who were invited either because they represented institutions which might take part in future galactic research, or because of the character of their research, were V. A. Ambartsumian, W. Becker, P. Couderc (representing the Commission for the Carte du Ciel), G. Haro, O. Heckmann, H. Spencer Jones, B. V. Kukarkin, J. J. Nassau, P. Th. Oosterhoff, L. Plaut (local Secretary), J. M. Ramberg, C. Schalen, J. Schilt, R. H. Stoy, B. Strömgren, P. J. van Rhijn. V. Kourganoff, P. G. Kulikovsky and O. A. Melnikov were present as interpreters.

Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-110
Author(s):  
Celeste Fraser Delgado
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
The Other ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Graduate Studies ◽  
Social Dance ◽  
Saturday Night ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

It appears to be a ritual among salsa dance scholars to open by sharing a personal salsa experience. I will follow their lead: My introduction to Los Angeles–style salsa came on a Saturday night in the spring of 1999, when I had the pleasure of taking a tour of the city's salsa scene with dance scholar Juliet McMains. Already an established professional ballroom dancer, McMains was just beginning her graduate studies at the University of California–Riverside where I was visiting faculty, having recently co-edited a collection on Latin/o American social dance. Lucky for me, McMains was among the many brilliant students who enrolled in my class on race and dance. The night of our tour, she invited a handsome friend and fellow ballroom dancer to partner first one of us, then the other, throughout the night. He drove us around the city as we stopped at a cramped restaurant-turned-nightclub in a strip mall, at a glamorous ballroom in Beverly Hills, then ended the night downtown at a massive disco in a former movie palace, the Mayan nightclub.

scholarly journals CONTEMPORARY CITY AS AN AREA FOR INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

2020 ◽  
pp. 142-148
Author(s):  
Оксана Юрьевна Верпатова
Keyword(s):  
Dual Role ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
City Space ◽  
Forms Of Life ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The City

Показано, что современное социокультурное пространство города испытывает принципиальные изменения, связанные с миграционными процессами. Отмечается, что современный город как пространство межкультурного диалога играет двойную роль: помогает индивиду осваивать новые формы жизни, характерные для городской идентичности, и, наоборот, усиливает/подавляет его индивидуальность. Сделан вывод о том, как важен межкультурный диалог для сбалансированного существования города в целом, а также для всех сообществ и каждого субъекта в частности. Межкультурный диалог в пространстве города осуществляется в противоречивом диапазоне: от вражды и отчужденности - через адаптацию и компромисс - к осознанию значимости «другого». The article is aimed at revealing that the contemporary socio-cultural space of the city is undergoing fundamental changes associated with migration processes. It is emphasized that the contemporary city as a space of intercultural dialogue plays a dual role: it helps the individual to master new forms of life that are characteristic of urban identity, and, on the contrary, strengthens/suppresses his individuality. It is concluded that intercultural dialogue is important for the balanced existence of the city as a whole, as well as for all communities and each subject in particular. Intercultural dialogue in the city space is carried out in a contradictory range: from hostility and alienation - through adaptation and compromise - to awareness of the significance of the «other».

scholarly journals The other interior: An ode to cigarettes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Karen-Lize Pike
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
The City

<p>Interiors are the space of human encounter. Their validity is entrenched in the social realm and the integrity and relevance of interior architecture depends upon the acknowledging human interaction. It should not be resigned to the confines of four walls within a singular piece of architecture. Interior architecture is a discipline that deals with the in-between. ‘Inside’ and ‘outside’ are wrongly defined as opposing states. For the inside and outside are not as distinct as we have come to believe. They are not opposites. They are intertwined, collapsing into each other. You can never be completely outside; to be outside something means to be inside something else. At once outside a building, you are still inside the confines of the city. We see this interior condition everyday in the city. It is hard to escape the affiliation of alleyways with the profane. The city is wilder than we think. Alleyways hold onto the secrets of the other side of the city through their reliquary of remnants of the activities taken place. The copious number of drained cigarette butts flaunts the defiance of the smoker. Similar to the dark romance a smoker shares with his cigarette, they flirt with the allure of darkness and the hideously seductive risk of tiptoeing on the edge of regulated space. The alleyways become the illicit interior, a meeting place, market place and connection space for society’s sub-cultures, where the currency is cigarettes. This thesis explores the intensification of this unbuilt landscape. Alleyways are interstitial sites for experimentation of the threshold between public and private, light and shadow, presence and absence, sacred and secular, legal and illegal. Interstitial spaces are often over-looked and unappreciated. This research endeavours to reveal the inherent interiority and sacral conditions of these cast-aside sites. The interstitial endures the grotesque scars of the city in its beautiful ugliness of decay. These interstitial sites are allowed to just exist when everything else is arbitrarily swept clean each day. Becoming uninhibited canvases of they city.  The research focuses on five particular fractures within Wellington City’s infrastructure. These five sites form the initial vehicle for the design research and generation. The approach to the research follows an unconventional methodology, embracing experimental freethinking drawing and modelling explorations. The five sites all have a connection to Wellingtons prominent Cuba Street and lead to the concluding site for Design, the interstice between Town Hall and The Michael Fowler Centre, in Civic Square. The aim is not to sterilise the interstitial but to ensure its idiosyncrasies are retained. The outcome is a smoker’s room.  In the wider scope this research sets out to contribute to the potential of Interior Architecture through the engagement of the smoker. Implementing interior architecture on two different scales; macro and micro. The macro where the city is the envelope housing the new interior and the micro scale where the design is re-contextualised as a product in the form of an ashtray. Liberating interiors from the traditional constraints. Reclaiming interstitial space as the interiors of the city, inverting Interior Architecture from the contained, to the container. People- human encounters and activities, like the walls in architecture, have the ability to define interior space.</p>

scholarly journals Prediksi Kebutuhan Data Mahasiswa Untuk Kuliah Daring Kondisi Covid-19 Di Jurusan Teknik Elektro Universitas Mataram

2022 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-208
Author(s):  
Made Sutha Yadnya ◽  
Ni Luh Sinar Ayu Ratna Dewi ◽  
Sudi Maryanto Al Sasongko ◽  
Rosmaliati Rosmaliati ◽  
Abdulah Zainuddin
Keyword(s):  
Sharp Increase ◽  
Electrical Engineering ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Use Of Data ◽  
The University ◽  
The City ◽  
Lombok Island

In the covid-19 condition, lectures at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Mataram University changed from a face-to-face process to via the Internet. T here will be a very sharp increase in demand. The use of data initially provided by the University of Mataram using a free hotspot network turned into a burden on lecturers and students. This research was conducted by sampling, general compulsory subjects, compulsory electrical courses, and compulsory expertise subjects. The distribution of variations of students domiciled in the City of Mataram and the other place coverage Lombok Island, within NTB and outside NTB. The results obtained are as follows: students who still survive in Mataram City are 17% (10.5 GB), Lombok Island 48% (8.1 GB), outside Lonbok Island 27% (4.8 GB), and outside NTB 8% (15 GB). Keyword : covid-19; lectures; online

scholarly journals lnvertebrate fauna on Norwegian spruce (Picea abies) branches in northern Finland

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 193-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Laine ◽  
Markku Orell ◽  
Juhani Itämies
Keyword(s):  
Picea Abies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Uneven Distribution ◽  
Invertebrate Fauna ◽  
Animal Groups ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Bothnian Bay ◽  
The City ◽  
Possible Cause

The invertebrate fauna living on old Norwegian spruce (Picea abies) branches was studied in the years 1986 and 1987 in four localities in northern Finland. Three of the study areas, Linnanmaa, Sanginjoki and Muhos, were located close to the coast of the Bothnian Bay. The fourth area, Taivalkoski, lays inland, in the most easterly location of the four. The numbers of invertebrates living on spruce branches varied seasonally, as well as between the individual branches of a sample. They were highest at Linnanmaa, near the city of Oulu, and lowest at Taivalkoski. The most abundant taxa were mites (Acarina), spiders (Araneae) and springtails (Collembola). As regards the total invertebrate index Linnanmaa differed significantly from the other areas. Most of the animal groups showed a similar trend as well. In addition to a geographical cline (from coast to inland), the level of pollution is considered a possible cause of the observed uneven distribution in invertebrate numbers.

scholarly journals The university, the city and the clown: A theological essay on solidarity, mutuality and prophecy

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan De Beer
Keyword(s):  
Public University ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Public ◽  
The One ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Liberation Theologian

This essay is informed by five different but interrelated conversations all focusing on the relationship between the city and the university. Suggesting the clown as metaphor, I explore the particular role of the activist scholar, and in particular the liberation theologian that is based at the public university, in his or her engagement with the city. Considering the shackles of the city of capital and its twin, the neoliberal university, on the one hand, and the city of vulnerability on the other, I then propose three clown-like postures of solidarity, mutuality and prophecy to resist the shackles of culture and to imagine and embody daring alternatives.

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