Architectural Education Explores the Everyday Living Environment

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 133-143
Author(s):  
Mervi Eskelinen
Keyword(s):  
Living Environment ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Living

scholarly journals User-generated insight of Rio’s Rocinha favela tour: Authentic attraction or vulnerable living environment?

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (7) ◽  
pp. 680-698 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Wise ◽  
Maurício Polidoro ◽  
Gareth Hall ◽  
Ricardo Ricci Uvinha
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Service Industry ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
User Perceptions ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Living Environments ◽  
The City ◽  
Everyday Living

Urban transformations help shape new opportunities and create/re-create awareness in everyday living environments. It is not transformation in the infrastructural sense, but transformation in the form of a service industry producing socio-economic change that can result in inclusion and exclusion of people in the community, thus affecting the everyday living environment. Within this, we need to consider the tourist gaze and how users who visit/tour vulnerable living environments report perceptions of their experiences on forums such as TripAdvisor, which helps researchers frame understandings of commodification, opportunities/awareness and even authenticity (each addressed in this paper). This paper evaluates TripAdvisor posts of ‘Rio’s Rocinha Favela Tour’. In many respects, the notion of commodification, and even authenticity, runs through each theme, but the analysis and data posted to TripAdvisor challenges us to consider how a favela becomes a consumer product or a tourist attraction. The Rocinha Favela tour is widely publicised to prospective visitors as a chance to experience a living and working favela, the focus of the first theme presented in this paper. Given Rocinha has become a popular attraction in Rio, this leads to the second theme: opportunity or awareness. Opportunities do exist for people in the community to get involved in tourism, and turning the favela into a product helps shape and maintain awareness. The third theme builds on and relates to the previous two, but focuses more on the semblances of authenticity that emerges. To link the points highlighted in this paper, a discussion of soft power concerns relationships bonded through economic and cultural influence. Because favelas have become distinct attractions, it is cultural appeal and a different (residential) side of the city that persuades travellers to visit. Online and social media platforms for more than a decade now have played an important role today in projecting images and promoting authentic experiences based on user-perceptions, and this paper looks at how the users communicate their experiences.

Time: A Very Short Introduction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenann Ismael
Keyword(s):  
History Of Physics ◽  
Philosophical Thinking ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Experience Of Time ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
Everyday Living

Time: A Very Short Introduction explores questions about the nature of time that have been at the heart of philosophical thinking since its beginnings: questions like whether time has a beginning or end, whether and in what sense time passes, how time is different from space, whether time has a direction, and whether it is possible to travel in time. These questions passed into the hands of scientists with the work of Isaac Newton when the structure of space and time became connected to motion and included the subject matter of physics. This VSI charts the way that the history of physics, from Isaac Newton through Albert Einstein’s two revolutions, wrought changes to the conception of time. There are parts of physics that are in a state of confusion, but this strand of development is a story of philosophical illumination and conceptual beauty. The discussion here provides an opportunity to see what distinguishes the methods of physics from those of philosophy. It brings together physics, cognitive science, and phenomenology in the service of reconciling what modern theories tell us about the nature of time with the everyday living experience of time.

scholarly journals The experiences of Vietnamese students in New Zealand: A new country – a new home

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hau Ho
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Phenomenological Analysis ◽  
Postgraduate Students ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Harsh Reality ◽  
Everyday Living

This study explores the everyday living experiences of five Vietnamese postgraduate students in New Zealand, employing an interpretative phenomenological analysis approach. The analysis revealed one minor theme which captures the students’ preparations before coming to New Zealand, and one overarching theme which focuses on living arrangements and circumstances. The students were ill-prepared for their lives in New Zealand, which contributed to the difficulties encountered. They were shocked to find that their studies and lives were affected by accommodation arrangements, which forced them to learn to cope with unfamiliar issues. The overarching essence is that a variety of factors (e.g., familial, cultural, and gender factors) influenced the students’ experiences. However, drawing on traditional cultural values, the students could overcome these difficulties. The study has implications for host universities to assist students in coping with the harsh reality of everyday living issues, including having a roof over one’s head.

scholarly journals Rethinking home. Home space from the perspective of homeless people’s opinions and practices

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Marcjanna Nóżka
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Home Space ◽  
Residential Space ◽  
Everyday Living

Home as a space with its own material and non-material markers is defined, among other things, by social and culturally recognised standards for using and arranging space, which are usually reproduced, mediated and redefined in the everyday living practices of the homeless. Thus, although a flat is perceived as a rare good, a privilege, from which the homeless are excluded, by constituting an important element of human life, also in the situation of homelessness it is acquired through spatial location, the arrangement of adapted- originally not residential – space, or ways of practicing neighbourhood. The article discusses factors or circumstances which in the conditions of homelessness constitute “home – room”, “home – space of housing activity”, “home – space for relations and neighbouring”, and which have been determined by reference to the opinions and practices of the homeless.

scholarly journals The Everyday Power of Liturgy: On the Significance of the Transcendental for a Phenomenology of Liturgy

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Neal DeRoo
Keyword(s):  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Ritual Action ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The World ◽  
Everyday Living

The task of this article is to articulate the everyday power of liturgy by clarifying the transcendental significance of ritual action. The paper makes three major claims: first, that liturgical practices function transcendentally, and therefore alter how we experience the world; second, that liturgical practices therefore exercise an immense formative power in our everyday living, including the power to open up or close down the possibility of encountering the sacred in our everyday lives; third, that this power of liturgy can be articulated theoretically through a transcendental phenomenological approach, thereby suggesting that a rigorous phenomenology of liturgy must necessarily include a transcendental element.

The Gothic and the Everyday: Living Gothic

Folklore ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 127 (3) ◽  
pp. 373-375
Author(s):  
Nadia van der Westhuizen
Keyword(s):  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Living

Technology, Essence, and Everyday Living

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 319-340
Author(s):  
Charles E. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Political World ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Everyday Living

This paper engages “A Triadic Conversation” in Conversations on a Country Path. The context of this engagement is Heidegger’s account of τέχνη and φύσις in Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) as they are put to work in the conversation of a guide, a scholar, and a scientist. The leading questions are whether Heidegger’s thoughts of Seyn, Wesen, and Machination are helpful to understand and engage the pressing challenges to Western societies? Are those challenges primarily the devastations wrought by a culture of technology and its accompanying mind-set that, according to Heidegger, inevitably lead to war and massive types of destruction among all worldly lives? And is “A Triadic Conversation” an indication of a dangerous alienation from the everyday social and political world in which it was conceived? Stillness and silence play significant roles in the discussion of his accounts of the Wesen of humans and of nature as it brings to bear the everyday events that defined the time during which Heidegger wrote “A Triadic Conversation.” The paper concludes with a reflection on the importance of the differences between Heidegger’s approach and ones that begin by confronting the confusing, uncertain, but specific events that are taking place in the thinkers’ world.

scholarly journals Sculpture in Modern Environment: Educational Technology

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (10) ◽  
pp. 2704-2712
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Art Education ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
New Model ◽  
Cultural Paradigm ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Training Professional ◽  
Different Levels

The article looks at the issues connected with art education aimed at training professional sculptors and qualified spectators. It outlines the main problems of sculptural thinking in the Russian mentality. The current situation is described in terms of shifting paradigms related to filling the everyday environment of Russian cities with sculptural objects. The article provides results of the research into preferences of population groups most knowledgeable about art, such as experts in art education, teachers and professional sculptors. A stable tradition of visual thinking rather than using tactile imagery has been identified, as well as preferences for the realistic paradigm of art and academic traditions at all stages of sculptors’ training. At the same time, the article shows positive changes in the social demand towards small-scale sculpture that is actively present in the living environment of a modern person. The main problems of sculptor training at different levels of education are indicated. The author suggests a new model of teaching sculpture based on the actualization of mythological traditions in the cultural paradigm of postmodernism.

scholarly journals The Hidden Spaces of Everyday Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 136-151
Author(s):  
Claus Peder Pedersen ◽  
Naime Esra Akin
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Academic Institutions ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
The Everyday

The paper explores the notion of the ‘everyday’ in architectural education through the examination of six educational and research projects from the academic institutions of the authors in respectively Istanbul, Turkey and Aarhus, Denmark. The paper unpacks how the projects engage with topics of the everyday in various ways. A comparative analysis orders the projects according to how specifically they address particular everyday situations and to what extent they aim to transform the spaces and social interactions of the sites they engage. The analysis is contextualised through social and architectural theories of the everyday by among others Henri Lefebvre. The conclusion argues for the importance of continuous re-engagement with the everyday for architectural education.

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