‘Vacant Geelong’ and its lingering industrial architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Mirjana Lozanovska ◽  
Akari Nakai Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Industrial Structures ◽  
Economic Forces ◽  
Guggenheim Museum ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
Industrial Architecture ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Cultural Economies ◽  
The Town

Once a prosperous manufacturing town, Geelong in Victoria, Australia is undergoing a process of deindustrialisation, and in turn, redefining its identity to better retain viability in a globalised world. For instance, the town bid to host a Guggenheim museum on its Eastern Beach shore at the turn of the millennium, and has recently become a UNESCO City of Design (2017). Like so many declining regional industrial towns, Geelong has been undercut by the new economic forces, and has sought a new identity in cultural economies. The ‘Vacant Geelong’ project, which began at Deakin University in 2015 and is ongoing, evolved as a response to vacant industrial architecture in Geelong. Major industries including Ford (vehicles), Alcoa (aluminium), timber sawmills, wool mills, Pilkington Glass, cement works, and the oil refinery once defined the town and its history as an industrial architectural landscape.1 Major industries transformed the architectural and cultural terrain. Despite these cycles of transformation and erasure, and counter to a progressive and chronological approach to change, the ‘Vacant Geelong’ project explored this vacancy of industrial operation, yet presence of industrial architecture. Through inscriptions – artworks, design projects, creative research, installations, texts – it addressed those material realities that did not leave, the industrial structures – silos, ducts, chimneys, warehouses – that give Geelong its continuing industrial architectural character.

UKMERGĖ: MIESTO STRUKTŪRA IR URBANISTINIAI PROCESAI

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-89
Author(s):  
Pranciškus Juškevičius ◽  
Kristina Gaučė ◽  
Arvydas Džiugas
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Master Plan ◽  
Street Network ◽  
Comprehensive Planning ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Planning Implementation ◽  
The Town

The aim of the paper is to describe the main principles of the methodology of preparing the first part of Ukmergė Master Plan, evaluating existing situation, and to encourage other planners to present and share this experience. The analysis of urban structure, balance of land use, occupation, street network and categories is given in the paper as well as its influence on possible economic and urban development of the town, estimation of need and possibilities to manage it. As a result of this analysis, specific Ukmergė urban development problems which could be solved by using new planning ideology – a long-term strategy, continuous recommendatory comprehensive planning, implementation (design) projects, evaluation methodology, education of society and politicians and new planning implementation law – are identified. Santrauka Šio straipsnio tikslas – supažindinti skaitytojus su Ukmergės miesto bendrojo plano rengimo pirmosios dalies – esamos būklės įvertinimo – svarbiausiais metodikos principais bei paskatinti ir kitus bendrųjų planų rengėjus pristatyti ir pasidalinti šia patirtimi. Straipsnyje pateikiama miesto struktūros, žemės naudojimo balanso, gyventojų demografinių tendencijų, apsirūpinimo būstu, užimtumo, gatvių tinklo ir kategorijų analizė bei visų šių veiksnių įtaka galimai miesto ekonominei ir urbanistinei plėtrai, poreikiui ir galimybėms ją valdyti. Remiantis analize identifikuojamos specifinės Ukmergės miesto urbanistinės plėtros problemos, kurias galėtų išspręsti kitokia negu dabartinė planavimo ideologija – ilgalaikė strategija, tęstinis rekomendacinis bendrasis planavimas, įgyvendinimo (suplanavimo) projektai, įvertinimo metodika, visuomenės ir politikų švietimas, naujas planavimų įgyvendinimo įstatymas.

scholarly journals A lightweight shelter for the survivors after 2016 earthquake in Accumoli

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Asma Gueroui ◽  
Miklos Halada ◽  
Ehsan Fatehifar
Keyword(s):  
Strong Earthquake ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Homeless People ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Town

AbstractOn August 24th, 2016, the town of Accumoli has suffered from a strong earthquake of 6.2 magnitudes, which caused a life loss, destroyed buildings, and huge numbers of homeless people. Now, four years after the earthquake, the village has not yet been reconstructed, no long-term housing has been provided for the inhabitants, and even the rubble of the destroyed houses has not been removed from the site. The significance of this paper is to provide some design scenarios for shelters using wood and membrane as construction materials, in order to provide housing in Accumoli for the existing population in a new site next to the destroyed one. These proposed design projects are part of the consortium of the “Scuola di Ricostruzione di Accumoli”.

scholarly journals Current radiological situation in Slavonski Brod, Croatia: is there a reason for concern?

2017 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Branko Petrinec ◽  
Isabela Tišma ◽  
Marko Šoštarić ◽  
Marina Poje Sovilj ◽  
Dinko Babić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Soil Samples ◽  
Oil Refinery ◽  
Gamma Ray Spectrometry ◽  
Radioactive Pollution ◽  
Sava River ◽  
Water And Soil Samples ◽  
The Town ◽  
Ambient Dose ◽  
The Sava River

Abstract For years, the town of Slavonski Brod in Croatia has been facing serious problems with air pollution, which is usually attributed to an oil refinery across the Sava River in Bosnia and Herzegovina. While the air quality is being monitored rigorously with regard to nonradioactive matter, no attention has been paid to the possibility of a coincidental radioactive pollution. This study is the first to have addressed this issue. We measured ambient dose rate equivalents at 150 sites and found that none exceeded 120 nSv h-1, while the average was 80 nSv h-1. Gamma-ray spectrometry of the collected river water and soil samples did not reveal any unusual radioactivity either. In other words, we have found no evidence of radioactive pollution that would endanger the health of the residents of Slavonski Brod.

CORROSION - Oil refinery problems at Aruba

1955 ◽  
Vol 47 (9) ◽  
pp. 75-77
Author(s):  
Mars Fontana
Keyword(s):  
Oil Refinery

Christian unity: the search for ways to achieve

2001 ◽  
pp. 91-100
Author(s):  
Yu. Ye. Reshetnikov
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Turn Of The Millennium ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Basic Principles ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
The Press ◽  
Christian Unity ◽  
Future Policy

Last year, the anniversary of all Christianity, witnessed a number of significant events caused by a new interest in understanding the problem of the unity of the Christian Church on the turn of the millennium. Due to the confidentiality of Ukraine, some of these events have or will have an immediate impact on Christianity in Ukraine and on the whole Ukrainian society as a whole. Undoubtedly, the main event, or more enlightened in the press, is a new impetus to the unification of the UOC-KP and the UAOC. But we would like to focus on two documents relating to the problem of Christian unity, the emergence of which was almost unnoticed by the wider public. But at the same time, these documents are too important as they outline the future policy of other Christian denominations by two influential Ukrainian christian churches - the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. These are the "Basic Principles of the attitude of the Russian Orthodox Church to the" I ", adopted by the Anniversary Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Concept of the Ecumenical Position of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, adopted by the Synod of the Bishops of the UGCC. It is clear that the theme of the second document is wider, but at the same time, ecumenism, unification is impossible without solving the problem of relations with others, which makes it possible to compare the approaches laid down in the mentioned documents to the building of relations with other Christian confessions.

Stanislaw Sreniowski, From a Book of Madness And Atrocity

2008 ◽  
pp. 312-316
Author(s):  
Jacek Leociak
Keyword(s):  
Common Fate ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Town

The title of this text, From the Book of Madness and Atrocity, published here for the first time, indicates its generic and stylistic specificity, its fragmentary, incomplete character. It suggests that this text is part of a greater whole, still incomplete, or one that cannot be grasped. In this sense Śreniowski refers to the topos of inexpressibility of the Holocaust experience. The text is reflective in character, full of metaphor, and its modernist style does not shun pathos. Thus we have here meditations emanating a poetic aura, not a report or an account of events. The author emphasises the desperate loneliness of the dying, their solitude, the incommensurability of the ghetto experience and that of the occupation, and the lack of a common fate of the Jews and the Poles (“A Deserted Town in a Living Capital”; “A Town within a Town”; “And the Capital? A Capital, in which the town of a death is dying . . . ? Well, the Capital is living a normal life. Under the occupation, indeed . . . .”).

Articulating a strategic approach to face complexity in design projects

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca SIMEONE ◽  
David DRABBLE ◽  
Giorgia IACOPINI ◽  
Kirsten VAN DAM ◽  
Nicola MORELLI ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complexity Theory ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Theory Of Change ◽  
Strategic Action ◽  
Community Initiatives ◽  
Uncertain Environment ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Design Projects

In today’s world of global wicked problems, constraints and imperatives imposed by an external and uncertain environment render strategic action a quite complex endeavour. Since the 1990s, within community initiatives and philanthropic projects, the construct of Theory of Change has been used to address such complexity. Theory of Change can be defined as the systematic and cumulative study of the links between the activities, outcomes, and context of an intervention. The area of focus for this paper is to explore whether Theory of Change can support more strategic approaches in design. In particular, the paper examines how Theory of Change was applied to DESIGNSCAPES - a project oriented, among other things, toward offering a supporting service for all those city actors interested in using design to develop urban innovation initiatives that tackle complex issues of broad concern.

Interactive acculturation of Turkish-Belgian parents and children in Flanders: A case study of Beringen

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-428
Author(s):  
Özgün Ünver ◽  
Ides Nicaise
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Domain Specificity ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

This article tackles the relationship between Turkish-Belgian families with the Flemish society, within the specific context of their experiences with early childhood education and care (ECEC) system in Flanders. Our findings are based on a focus group with mothers in the town of Beringen. The intercultural dimension of the relationships between these families and ECEC services is discussed using the Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM). The acculturation patterns are discussed under three main headlines: language acquisition, social interaction and maternal employment. Within the context of IAM, our findings point to some degree of separationism of Turkish-Belgian families, while they perceive the Flemish majority to have an assimilationist attitude. This combination suggests a conflictual type of interaction. However, both parties also display some traits of integrationism, which points to the domain-specificity of interactive acculturation.

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