Performing a walking holiday: Routing, immersing and co-dwelling

2021 ◽  
pp. 146879762199817
Author(s):  
Chiara Rabbiosi
Keyword(s):  
Place Making ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
Space Material ◽  
The Relationship

This article discusses the relationship between space, material practices, cognitive work and the emotions at work during a personal walking holiday as a way of contributing to a wider debate on walking tourism. In doing so, this article revises the concept of ‘dwelling-in-motion’ and employs a mobile perspective that combines both the phenomenological and post-phenomenological approaches to tourism and walking studies, focusing on pace and rhythm, mundane technology and affective atmospheres. These are aspects that become entangled in walking touristscapes as they are produced and challenged by routing, immersive and co-dwelling performances. The article concludes by suggesting that, not only can a ‘mobile ontology’ provide a more thorough account of walking tourism, it can also highlight the importance of understanding the place-making potential of walking tourism as a complex tourist mobility practice for which both precognitive and cognitive implications should be considered.

scholarly journals The labour of place: Memory and extended reality (XR) in migration museums

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 606-621
Author(s):  
Anna Reading ◽  
Jim Bjork ◽  
Jack Hanlon ◽  
Neil Jakeman
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Innovative Approach ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Place Memory ◽  
Museum Exhibitions ◽  
Global Mapping ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

How do we understand the relationship between memory and place in the context of Extended Reality (XR) migration museum exhibitions? The study combines a global mapping of XR within migration museums, a user analysis of Cologne’s virtual migration museum, and practice-led research with the UK Migration Museum to argue that XR places in Web 2.0 constitute a multiplication of memory’s significant localities. These include a migration memory’s place of beginning (the location of a migrant experience), the place of production (where the memory is transformed into representation) and the place of consumption (where the mediated memory is engaged with, looked at, heard). Mnemonic labour involving digital frictions at each of these sites constitutes a form of multiple place-making with complex feelings, meanings, and (dis)connections. This points to an innovative approach to understanding and curating XR experiences with museums that recognises the significance of the labour of place.

scholarly journals Making Home(s) in Displacement

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hilde Heynen
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Architectural Perspective ◽  
The Relationship

Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.

scholarly journals Commission 15: Physical Study of Comets, Minor Planets, and Meteorites (L’Etude Physique des Cometes, des Petites Planetes et des Meteorites)

2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Zappala ◽  
H. Uwe Keller ◽  
M. Bailey ◽  
R. P. Binzel ◽  
M. T. Capria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Present Report ◽  
Minor Planets ◽  
Single Section ◽  
Physical Study ◽  
Working Groups ◽  
Space Material ◽  
The Relationship

The present report of Commission 15 has been, as usual, prepared primarily by the chairpersons of the two working groups. E. Tedesco wrote the section about Asteroids and Meteorites, with the assistance of A. Cellino, G. Consolmagno and C.-I. Lagerkvist. W. F. Huebner prepared the section about Comets, with the assistance of J. Benkhoff, H. Boehnhardt, J. Brandt, M. T. Capria, A. Cochran, G. Cremonese, M. Duncan, W. Huntress, H. Levison, and G. P. Tozzi. Moreover, the whole document has been assembled by K. Muinonen, who did the final editing, to merge the two reports and fit the document into the allotted space. Material taken from both major areas regarding the relationship between comets and asteroids has been combined into a single section.

scholarly journals LGBTQ situated memory, place-making and the sexual politics of gentrification

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (5) ◽  
pp. 961-978
Author(s):  
Emma Spruce
Keyword(s):  
Urban Politics ◽  
Sexual Politics ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Past ◽  
Neighbourhood Change ◽  
The Relationship

This article draws on material from an ethnographic study in the gentrifying/gentrified London neighbourhood of Brixton to analyse the relationship between practices of LGBTQ territorialisation and the politics of neighbourhood change. It proceeds with two interrelated aims: to think critically about the ways in which LGBTQ claims to place-based belonging interact with racialised and classed ideologies of displacement and disciplining, and to explore memory’s significance in framing the relationship between LGBTQ people and place. ‘LGBTQ situated memory’ is thus introduced here as a concept that draws attention to the complex, contradictory and dynamic role that site-specific evocations of the past play in contemporary LGBTQ urban politics. By exploring three memory tropes that emerge in Brixton, I show that LGBTQ situated memory can be used to claim spatialised belonging, negotiate culpability for gentrification and disturb progress narratives. Ultimately this article both calls for, and works towards, an approach to sexual geography that foregrounds multiplicity: a multiplicity of LGBTQ situated histories and – as is reflected in the memories explored – a multiplicity of relationships between LGBTQ people and neighbourhood development.

Animating Places, A new festival phenomenon

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurice Maguire
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Change ◽  
Public Engagement ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Place Making ◽  
The Public ◽  
European Cities ◽  
Art Community ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
The Relationship

From lighting town centres to ephemeral one-off events, from nights of cultural activity to small festivals, from year-long programmes to biennials and triennials, artists are engaging in a wide variety of activities that support the idea of place- making. Emerging from the practices of interventionist art, community engage- ment and installation, through the processes and debates of public artists we are now experiencing new models of artistic intervention in the public realm. They are, quite literally, animating places. Alongside larger profile-building activities such as the European Cities/Capitals of Culture, the past 20 years has seen a significant growth in place-based festivals and events, one-off large scale events and city-specific commissions that aim, in one way or another, to animate public spaces and strive towards the idea of place-making. Artists are leading on initialising street festivals; intervening with politically motivated ‘guerrilla’ tactics to enliven places, in opposition to stasis in public engagement, and in promoting and building festival activities – some overt oth- ers more covert. For some the focus is on social and cultural change, for others the intentions are more community orientated and celebratory. All contribute to a sense of place and engagement. This chapter considers the emergent patterns of major events and festivals along- side the need to market places in competition with each other; the phenomena of culturally-focused and culturally-led events that bring places alive; the issues affecting both the artists as producers and the commissioning bodies; and the impacts and engagement of audiences. Within this exploration this chapter will address the question of whether there are principles that can be applied to the area of animation. Building on the idea that the relationship between people and place is given particular poignancy through festival and cultural engagements, a triad of place, people and purpose is emerging as a prism through which to see artists engaging in public spaces and, by doing so, contributing to place-making. The chapter will explore specific models of working that embrace three core ideas over and above this triad – the notion of making places, questions of identity, and ownership and celebration.

scholarly journals Maintaining Masculinities in Japan’s Transnational Surfscapes: Space, Place, and Gender

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (5) ◽  
pp. 386-406
Author(s):  
Adam Doering ◽  
Clifton Evers
Keyword(s):  
Specific Character ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Conditions Of Possibility ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Gendered Ideologies ◽  
Insight Into

This article examines the local practices, histories, and transnational circulation and exchange of gender ideologies within Japanese surfscapes. A focus on gender in relation to Japanese surf culture is critical as the ways surf spaces in Japan are governed and/or have changed in recent years has as much to do with transnational gender surf ideologies as with its domestic gender norms. More specifically, we examine how gendered ideologies in Japan are mobilized in particular ways depending on the conditions of possibility—the cultural, social, geographical, historical, and networked elements—that comprise any given surfscape. To draw attention to the complexities involved in the relationship between space, place, and gender in Japan, the enquiry is undertaken in a highly localized, territorial, and big-wave surf site in Wakayama Prefecture and surrounding Kansai region. This site has been chosen because of how it localizes a unique mode of trans-Pacific surf culture, thereby offering insight into the nuances, issues, and strategies of social change as surfing continues to evolve in the region. The aim of the analysis is twofold. The first is contextual, highlighting the importance of the culturally and site-specific character of how surf culture and gender relations are assembled in the Japanese context. The second is to offer insight into the specific histories and transnational relationships informing the gendered practices of surfing in Japan today. The intention is to highlight the diversity of surf cultures throughout East Asia and the different ways surfing lifestyles are localized in relation to socio-political-ecological place-making and gender.

scholarly journals The shopping mall as an emergent public space in Palermo

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 85
Author(s):  
Annalisa Giampino ◽  
Marco Picone ◽  
Filippo Schilleci
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Shopping Mall ◽  
Sensitive Material ◽  
The Public ◽  
Space Material ◽  
Material Space ◽  
The Relationship

<p>As Doreen Massey (2005) pointed out, space matters. Does public space still matter today? Since the early seventies, several studies have explored public space as an emerging, and in many ways innovative, universe of actors, spatiality and socio-territorial practices which invaded the public spheres of our cities (Habermas, 1979; Rossi, 2008). However, ‘public space’ may have a wide variety of interpretations which relate to a semantic overlapping between a sensitive material sphere -The Space- and an intangible metaphorical sphere -The Public- (Bianchini, 1990; Crosta, 2000; Hajer and Reijndorp, 2002; Harvey, 2006; Low and Smith, 2006; Rossi, 2008). As Crosta (2000) reveals, a new dichotomy stems from those inseparable elements of public space: material space, conceived as the product of the relationship between territory and its society, and public, conceived as the result of the relationship between a society and its country. This means that material space and public sphere become the cognitive domains and functions within which public space takes shape. From a disciplinary point of view, this duality, as Smith and Low (2006) emphasised, produced two different scientific literatures: first a series of studies, developed in the philosophical and political context, which investigates an a-spatial public sphere, while a second trend almost exclusively relates to the spatial dimension, including disciplines such as geography, urban planning and anthropology. Therefore, together with the constitutive uncertainty of the planning discipline, which has been thoroughly discussed in urban literature (Faludi, 1986; 1987), an additional uncertainty must be taken into account, proceeding from the polysemy of the term, and from the co-existence of different approaches.</p><p>From a critical reflection on the concept of public space as it is now used by urban scholars and city managers, this paper suggests that public space should not be considered a ‘product’ (defined through quantitative and objective parameters), but rather as a ‘construct’ (defined through its qualitative and relational dimension) and a ‘process’ (thus referring to the performative and deconstructional theories inspired by Jacques Derrida). Public space will therefore be related to governance effects, considering the social interactions between institutional and non-institutional actors and practices (Ferraro, 1990; Crosta, 2000). Much has been written on the role of public space in contemporary societies, and many scholars agree that today public space is a controversial and arguably critical concept. It may actually seem that even the basic idea of what is or should be ‘public’ is experiencing a deep and troublesome reconsideration, as new forms of privatisation slowly but firmly erode its fundaments. Within this conceptual framework, this paper aims to critically analyse the idea of public space which exists today, with particular attention to the idea of public space as a shopping mall. Characteristics of the Italian way of using shopping malls, and their social and spatial consequences, are investigated and analysed through a case study in Palermo.</p>

scholarly journals HUBUNGAN KOMPONEN USAHA MENTAL (UM) DAN MENERIMA MENGOLAH INFORMASI (MMI) PADA PROSES PEMBELAJARAN BIOLOGI

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-61
Author(s):  
Iffa Ichwani Putri
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Load ◽  
Work Memory ◽  
Mental Effort ◽  
School Class ◽  
High School Class ◽  
Cognitive Work ◽  
Biology Learning ◽  
Student Information ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Relationship

Mental effort is the ability of students to face the existing learning environment. Mental effort will affect Extranous Cognitive Load (ECL). ECL can affect the ability to receive and process student information (MMI). MMI will affect the cognitive work memory of students in storing and processing data. This study aims to determine the relationship between UM and MMI of students in biology learning. This research is a descriptive study, with a sample of high school class XI students in Pekanbaru City who took excretory system material learning. The results showed that the UM scores of students were in the very low category which showed that the ECL of students was in the low category. The MMI value obtained by students is in a fairly good category. The correlation between UM-MMI shows an inverse relationship. This shows that the low UM can increase the MMI value and can support a decrease in the cognitive load of students in the learning process.

scholarly journals Making Home(s) in Displacement

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Political ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Spatial Practice ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Scholarship ◽  
Architectural Perspective ◽  
The Relationship

Making Home(s) in Displacement critically rethinks the relationship between home and displacement from a spatial, material, and architectural perspective. Recent scholarship in the social sciences has investigated how migrants and refugees create and reproduce home under new conditions, thereby unpacking the seemingly contradictory positions of making a home and overcoming its loss. Yet, making home(s) in displacement is also a spatial practice, one which intrinsically relates to the fabrication of the built environment worldwide. Conceptually the book is divided along four spatial sites, referred to as camp, shelter, city, and house, which are approached with a multitude of perspectives ranging from urban planning and architecture to anthropology, geography, philosophy, gender studies, and urban history, all with a common focus on space and spatiality. By articulating everyday homemaking experiences of migrants and refugees as spatial practices in a variety of geopolitical and historical contexts, this edited volume adds a novel perspective to the existing interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of home and displacement. It equally intends to broaden the canon of architectural histories and theories by including migrants' and refugees' spatial agencies and place-making practices to its annals. By highlighting the political in the spatial, and vice versa, this volume sets out to decentralise and decolonise current definitions of home and displacement, striving for a more pluralistic outlook on the idea of home.

scholarly journals Place-making and performance: The impact of walkable built environments on business performance in Phoenix and Boston

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (2) ◽  
pp. 264-285 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kevin Credit ◽  
Elizabeth Mack
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Business Performance ◽  
Built Environments ◽  
Sales Volume ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This paper examines the importance of place-making in economic development by evaluating the relationship between specific urban design features – based on Jacobs’ “four generators of diversity” and Ewing and Cervero’s “Five-D’s” – and business sales volume. Despite the increased recognition of the importance of walkable urbanism in recent years, relatively little research has assessed the potential economic development benefits of walkable places. While a few authors have assessed the impact of urban design on property values, this paper fills a gap by examining links between components of walkable built environments and individual business characteristics. This paper uses a Hierarchical Linear Modeling framework to explicitly look at the relationship between neighborhood built environment features at the Census tract level and the sales volume per employee of individual businesses in 2010. The cities of Phoenix and Boston are used as contrasting study sites in order to inspect how larger regional characteristics influence the built environment–performance link. The results indicate that specific features of walkable built environments are positively associated with business performance. However, the relationship between walkable built environments and business performance varies considerably depending on the type of business and city-level context being studied, indicating that significant nuance must be used when considering place-based economic interventions. Although no causal statements can be made about the built environment and business performance, the results of this paper indicate that (in some contexts) design-based place-making initiatives could be used to generate sustainable local economic development.

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