Strengthening the affectivity of atmospheres in urban environments: the toolkit of multi-sensory experience

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisham Abusaada
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Perceptual Dimension ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Body Theory ◽  
Urban Atmospheres

PurposeThe affectivity is conceptualised in the literary work of phenomenological theories as a significant factor in urban environments studies that are related to change people's feelings. This article aims to present toolkits for creating affective urban atmospheres, which is based on communications between people and place.Design/methodology/approachTo better comprehend the links between the felt body theory and reconstructing affective urban atmospheres in urban environments, this article has performed bibliographic investigations on the sensible approaches and presented Toolkit related to the multi-sensory experience.FindingsThis article breaks new ground to discuss the concepts of the felt body, vital drive and daily multi-sensory experience as a contribution to urban studies applications.Research limitations/implicationsThis article clarified the possibility of creating affective urban atmospheres through the concepts of affectivity as a process at a pre-design stage.Originality/valueIn conclusion, it is argued that work on multi-sensory experience in urban environments needs to address the felt body and vital drive to become a set of urban studies tools of perceptual dimension.

Polish perceptions on changing the world with sustainable entrepreneurship

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 19-21
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Model Design ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Coffee Waste ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Information ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and places the articles in context. Findings This research paper highlights how circular economy business models focus on the regenerative value creation inherent in reusing resources and waste. Circular startup transformations see founders moving out of sustainability-focused mindsets and into taking specific action to construct innovative circular business models. The purpose-led founders combined environmental and economic goals to produce scalable engines capable of inspiring and educating customers and larger companies on the beauty of reusing waste. Solving universal problems at their business model design stage allowed the Polish startups – for example, EcoBean who make renewable energy coffee briquettes from coffee waste – to offer value to international customers. Originality/value The briefing saves busy executives, strategists and researchers hours of reading time by selecting only the very best, most pertinent information and presenting it in a condensed and easy-to-digest format.

scholarly journals Pungent parks: smell’s growing relevance in park tourism

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-138
Author(s):  
William L. Rice ◽  
Garrett C. Hamilton ◽  
Peter Newman
Keyword(s):  
Protected Areas ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Visitor Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Tourism Experience ◽  
The Future ◽  
Parks And Protected Areas

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present the growing relevance of natural smells – both pleasant and unpleasant – to park and protected area tourism and the need for more consideration of their role in the visitor experience. Design/methodology/approach This paper presents four observations – selected via an informal review of the tourism literature – relevant to the future of smellscapes research concerning tourism in parks and protected areas. Findings An emerging body of literature is indicating natural smells are central to the sensory experience of parks and protected areas. The iconic nature of park smellscapes underscores their role in the tourism experience. Originality/value This paper extracts the current trends in smellscapes research relevant to park and protected area tourism. It therefore provides value to both tourism practitioners and researchers, alike, through its attempt to compile significant trends.

Beyond green façades: active air-cooling vertical gardens

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Maks Davis ◽  
Andrea Lorena Vallejo Espinosa ◽  
Francisco Rene Ramirez
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Cooling Capacity ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Passive Cooling ◽  
Air Cooling ◽  
Climate Control ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Air Inlet ◽  
Water Saturated ◽  
Monteith Equation

Purpose Vertical gardens offer multiple benefits in urban environments, including passive cooling services. Previous research explored the use of “active vertical gardens” as potential evaporative air-cooling units by developing a mathematical model based on the FAO-56 Penman Monteith equation. Further research showed that active vertical gardens function best by creating an airflow in the cavity behind the garden such that air is cooled by flowing over the water-saturated garden substrate. The purpose of this paper is to improve the quantification of active vertical garden performance. Design/methodology/approach A building-incorporated vertical garden was built in Quito, Ecuador, with an air inlet at the top of the garden, an air cavity behind the garden and where air was expelled from the base. Measurements were made of air temperature, humidity and velocity at the air inlet and outlet. Findings The active vertical garden cooled the air by an average of 8.1 °C with an average cooling capacity of 682.8 W. Including the effects of pre-cooling at the garden inlet, the garden cooled the air by an average of 14.3 °C with an average cooling capacity of 1,203.2 W. Originality/value The results are promising and support the potential for active vertical gardens to be incorporated into building services and climate control.

scholarly journals The “ological-triad”: considerations for construction management research

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (03) ◽  
pp. 286-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary D. Holt ◽  
Jack S. Goulding
Keyword(s):  
Graphical Models ◽  
Construction Management ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
High Variability ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Management Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Literature Synthesis ◽  
Subject Specific

Purpose This paper aims to consider an “-ological” (ontological, epistemological and methodological) triad in the context of construction management (CM) research, and to explore the triad in terms of ontological/epistemological viewpoints, paradigmatic approaches to CM research and, ultimately, CM methodological decisions. Design/methodology/approach Derivation of critical narrative and graphical models using literature synthesis combined with experiential, methodological views of the authors. Findings Conceptions of ontology, epistemology and methodology (the “ological-triad”) demonstrate high variability – resultantly, their use in CM research is equally inconsistent, sometimes questionable and, in the extreme, sometimes overlooked. Accordingly, this study concludes that greater recognition of the “ological-triad” is called for in CM research, especially at the design stage. A framework for doing this is proffered. Originality/value Combined study of the “ologies” within CM research uniquely consolidates previous disparate knowledge into a single, cogent, subject-specific discourse that, inter-alia, both informs and illuminates CM research challenges. It also encourages critical debate on the issues highlighted.

The impact of urban façade quality on affective feelings

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Justin B. Hollander ◽  
Eric C. Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Emotional Reaction ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Individual Trait ◽  
Edge Conditions ◽  
Trait Difference ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

PurposeMuch of the current literature on streetscape design emphasizes a need for well-articulated edge conditions to enhance pedestrian-orientation and the reason appears to lie in evolutionary biology: humans have a psychological preference for wall-hugging due to a well-established trait in other species: thigmotaxis.Design/methodology/approachThis study seeks to explore the relationship between urban facades and affective feelings through an empirical study, which asks: how do people perceive edge conditions in urban environments? Through a study of affect relative to edge conditions, greater insight can be generated as to the human experience in the built environment. We conducted a laboratory experiment with 76 subjects who each viewed 40 images of urban facades and rated each based on their emotional reaction.FindingsEach subject also completed two validated individual trait difference measures. We found that those images depicting thigmotaxic facades were more highly rated than other facades.Originality/valueHigh quality edge environment resulted in people feeling more pleasant than low quality edges.

Tourism conversion and place branding: the case of the Olympic Park in Montreal

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romain Roult ◽  
Jean-Marc Adjizian ◽  
Denis Auger
Keyword(s):  
Urban Studies ◽  
Second Life ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Place Branding ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Major Overhaul ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Local Stakeholders ◽  
Local Actors

Purpose – Many Olympic cities are faced with the challenge of converting various remaining infrastructures after the Games have been held. These infrastructures, often imposing and highly specialized, require local actors to innovate and engage in an urban renewal process that can be very complex and expensive when trying to give them a second life as tourism sites. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – Based on an online survey administered to international travellers (n=5,553) and 36 semi-structured interviews with local stakeholders, this study shows that the Olympic Park, mainly through the stadium, has international recognition. Findings – However, the sustainability and development of these attractions will need a major overhaul with its welcoming amenities and the integration of the surrounding neighbourhoods in the regeneration plan. Originality/value – Among these facilities, we have the Montreal Olympic Stadium, which is often identified as the architectural jewel of the games and is used as an urban flagship in tourism development strategies. This situation raises several questions not only in the field of tourism, but also the fields of urban studies, leisure and sociology. This paper will examine the case of the Olympic Park in Montreal and its urban regeneration concepts and place branding that have been integrated into the tourism strategies since the early 2000s.

Three biomimetic flight control sensors

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Javaan Chahl
Keyword(s):  
Optical Flow ◽  
Control Systems ◽  
Flight Control ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Insect Vision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Heading Control ◽  
First Time ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Insects depend on the spatial, temporal and spectral distribution of light in the environment for navigation, collision avoidance and flight control. The principles of insect vision have been gradually revealed over the course of decades by biological scientists. The purpose of this paper is to report on bioinspired implementations and flight tests of these sensors and reflexes on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The devices are used for the stabilization of UAVs in attitude, heading and position. The implementations were developed to test the hypothesis that current understanding of insect optical flight control systems is feasible in real systems. Design/methodology/approach – Design was based on behavioral and anatomical studies of insects. The approach taken was to test the designs in flight on a UAV. Findings – The research showed that stabilization in attitude, heading and position is possible using the developed sensors. Practical implications – Partial alternatives to magnetic, inertial and GPS sensing have been demonstrated. Optical flow and polarization compassing are particularly relevant to flight in urban environments and in planetary exploration. Originality/value – For the first time the use of multispectral horizon sensing, polarization compassing and optical flow-based heading control have been demonstrated in flight.

Rethinking participation: lessons from a municipal market in Athens

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Vaiou
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Studies ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Spatial Process ◽  
Participatory Process ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
A Site

PurposeThe paper aims to propose (re)thinking participation, a much-debated issue in urban studies, planning and development, both in its grass-roots and its institutional versions.Design/methodology/approachThe paper draws from two phases of people’s participation concerning the re-use of a former municipal market in Athens, the Agora, in the neighborhood of Kypseli. The two phases represent two different approaches to “participation”: an initiative of local groups implementing participation as a site of radical possibility and an invited or induced process, in which the municipal authorities initiated the whole exercise.FindingsThe radically different starting points correspond to equally different perspectives with regard to the stakes and meanings of the respective participatory process, as well as the individuals and groups who are involved.Originality/valueThe paper approaches participation as a spatial process, producing interactions among people, creating emotional or material connections, exchanges and inevitably conflict, re-configuring (public) space and extending (urban) citizenship.

Applying ANP to analyse sensory experience in restaurants

2019 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 122-135
Author(s):  
Wei-Lun Chang
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Analytic Network Process ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Relative Importance ◽  
Critical Factors ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Expert Opinions ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Network Process ◽  
Taste And Smell

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relative importance of the five types of sensory experience in restaurants and the differences between experts and customers. Design/methodology/approach Analytic network process was used to select the critical factors for the five types of sensory experiences. Expert and consumer questionnaires were compared to examine the differences between expert opinions and customer awareness. Findings Restaurants consider taste and smell to be important senses, whereas hearing was considered to be the least important. Originality/value Experts paid more attention to criteria and sub-criteria that resonated with consumers’ memories and emotions. Consumers paid more attention to intuitively obtaining emotional experiences during each purchase.

scholarly journals Polyphonic narratives for built environment research

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashraf M. Salama ◽  
Yonca Hurol
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Critical Reflection ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Environment Research ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Selection Of

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct a series of narratives by assessing a selection of the key literature generated by Open House International (OHI) over a period of 15 years. The paper also presents a brief review of the latest developments of the journal while introducing concise observations on the articles published in this edition – Volume 45, Issues 1 and 2. Design/methodology/approach Through a classification procedure of selected special issues published by OHI since 2006, 10 issues were identified based on the currency of the issues they generated. Following the review of the editorials, the key content of more than 100 articles within these special issues, the content of this edition and relevant seminal literature, the analysis engages, through critical reflection, with various themes that echo the polyphonic nature of built environment research. Findings The analysis conveys the plurality and diversity in built environment research where generic types of narratives are established to include three categories, namely, leitmotif, contextual/conceptual and open-ended narratives. Each of which includes sub-narrative classifications. The leitmotif narrative includes design studio pedagogy, sustainable environments for tourism, responsive learning environments, affordable housing environments, diversity in urban environments and urbanism in globalised environments. The contextual/conceptual narrative encompasses architecture and urbanism in the global south and the tripartite urban performance and transformation. The open-ended narrative embraces thematic reflections on the contributions of this edition of OHI. Originality/value Constructing polyphonic narratives in built environment research based on contemporary knowledge is original in the sense of capturing the crux of the themes within these narratives and articulating this in a pithy form. The elocution of the narratives stimulates a sustained quest for re-thinking concepts, notions and issues of concerns while invigorating research prospects and setting the future direction of OHI.

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