Positioning Locative Media: A Critical Urban Intervention

Technologies of space, information and power are integral aspects of cartography that have serious implications for the legibility and accessibility of a city; thus the design of locative media is more than a technical problem. In this paper, i-metro, an interactive installation, is developed in four stages: first, a theoretical discussion of urban representation is linked to historical notions of the commons; second, research methodologies are described; third, the findings are summarized, exposing a critical information inequality; fourth, a public locative media intervention is proposed as a design response.

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Restorying the Earth

Ecopiety ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479810765.003.0002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 19-40

Author(s):

Sarah McFarland Taylor

Keyword(s):

Environmental Crisis ◽

Theoretical Discussion ◽

Popular Discourse ◽

The Earth ◽

Therapeutic Uses ◽

Environmental Virtue ◽

Moral Engagement ◽

Media Intervention ◽

Media Interventions

The first chapter introduces the reader to a number of theoretical tools and analytical lenses for understanding ecopiety and consumopiety, defining more closely the meaning and use of those terms in this book and their relationship to one another. This chapter also explains the concept of what the author calls “restorying the earth”―the ongoing processes of mediated moral engagement in recrafting or remaking storiesof earth and our place in it in an age of environmental crisis. The author presents theories of “media intervention,” considering how media interventions become “moral interventions” in popular narratives of ecopiety. The chapter’s theoretical discussion also plays upon therapeutic uses of the term “intervention” in popular discourse in order to think through associations between practices of environmental virtue and notions of “denial, addiction, and recovery.”

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Project Amoreiras (Mulberry Trees): Autonomy and Artificial Learning in an Urban Environment

Leonardo ◽

10.1162/leon_a_01557 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 51 (1) ◽

pp. 61-62 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Gilbertto Prado

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Sao Paulo ◽

Emergent Behavior ◽

São Paulo ◽

Interactive Installation ◽

Urban Intervention ◽

Artificial Learning

This artist’s writing discusses Project Amoreiras, developed by the Poéticas Digitais Group. The proposal is an urban intervention involving art, technology and environment, configured as an interactive installation of mulberry trees on the Paulista Avenue (São Paulo, Brazil). The article highlights its poetic and technological elements as critical positioning on pollution in the metropolitan environment, the processes of autonomy and artificial learning, the emergent behavior of the trees, the application of John Conway’s neighborhood principles to the project as well as the positive reception of the proposal by the pedestrians during the exhibition.

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What is taken for granted in autism research?

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x1800225x ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 42 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Michele Ilana Friedner

Keyword(s):

Research Methodologies ◽

Communicative Practices ◽

Autism Research ◽

Autistic People ◽

The Social ◽

New Research

Abstract This commentary focuses on three points: the need to consider semiotic ideologies of both researchers and autistic people, questions of commensurability, and problems with “the social” as an analytical concept. It ends with a call for new research methodologies that are not deficit-based and that consider a broad range of linguistic and non-linguistic communicative practices.

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Attachment of oral bacteria to titanium surfaces: An SEM study

Proceedings, annual meeting, Electron Microscopy Society of America ◽

10.1017/s0424820100170074 ◽

1994 ◽

Vol 52 ◽

pp. 468-469

Author(s):

J. E. Laffoon ◽

R. L. Anderson ◽

J. C. Keller ◽

C. D. Wu-Yuan

Keyword(s):

Technical Problem ◽

Titanium Implant ◽

Oral Bacteria ◽

Bacterial Cells ◽

Thin Sections ◽

Surface Ultrastructure ◽

Sem Study ◽

Key Factor ◽

Titanium Surfaces

Titanium (Ti) dental implants have been used widely for many years. Long term implant failures are related, in part, to the development of peri-implantitis frequently associated with bacteria. Bacterial adherence and colonization have been considered a key factor in the pathogenesis of many biomaterial based infections. Without the initial attachment of oral bacteria to Ti-implant surfaces, subsequent polymicrobial accumulation and colonization leading to peri-implant disease cannot occur. The overall goal of this study is to examine the implant-oral bacterial interfaces and gain a greater understanding of their attachment characteristics and mechanisms. Since the detailed cell surface ultrastructure involved in attachment is only discernible at the electron microscopy level, the study is complicated by the technical problem of obtaining titanium implant and attached bacterial cells in the same ultra-thin sections. In this study, a technique was developed to facilitate the study of Ti implant-bacteria interface.Discs of polymerized Spurr’s resin (12 mm x 5 mm) were formed to a thickness of approximately 3 mm using an EM block holder (Fig. 1). Titanium was then deposited by vacuum deposition to a film thickness of 300Å (Fig. 2).

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