scholarly journals The Museum of Me: Architecture and the Publicity of the Private

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Wagstaff
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
New Space ◽  
And Control

<p>Both architecture and privacy express ideals of personal, social, and cultural identity. From the development of virtual social environments has emerged new boundaries between the public and private. Consequently, this progression has shifted the historical normalities of privacy. While architecture appears to develop within its own conditions of creating material expressions, it has yet to show awareness of the reality and developments of our contemporary social environments. This thesis addresses the shifting boundary between public and private through an architectural enquiry.  It proposes that the traditional boundary between public and private be re-evaluated in conjunction with contemporary social norms, focusing on the contemporary notion of publicity and control. This thesis explores the design of a public museum as a manifestation of contemporary society. It establishes an appropriate relationship between public and private situating itself as a mediator. It builds upon the influence of the theoretical and conceptual means through an architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-configures the public and private boundary.  The outcome of this research reflects a new boundary between public and private; however it states that its spatial and organisational form needs to engage with contemporary society. It finds that online social environments offer new opportunities useful for the re-configuration of boundaries between public and private. This thesis concludes that the new mediation of virtual environments does not limit architecture, but rather presents a new space that mediates and reflects contemporary social interaction.</p>

scholarly journals The Museum of Me: Architecture and the Publicity of the Private

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Mitchell Wagstaff
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
New Space ◽  
And Control

<p>Both architecture and privacy express ideals of personal, social, and cultural identity. From the development of virtual social environments has emerged new boundaries between the public and private. Consequently, this progression has shifted the historical normalities of privacy. While architecture appears to develop within its own conditions of creating material expressions, it has yet to show awareness of the reality and developments of our contemporary social environments. This thesis addresses the shifting boundary between public and private through an architectural enquiry.  It proposes that the traditional boundary between public and private be re-evaluated in conjunction with contemporary social norms, focusing on the contemporary notion of publicity and control. This thesis explores the design of a public museum as a manifestation of contemporary society. It establishes an appropriate relationship between public and private situating itself as a mediator. It builds upon the influence of the theoretical and conceptual means through an architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-configures the public and private boundary.  The outcome of this research reflects a new boundary between public and private; however it states that its spatial and organisational form needs to engage with contemporary society. It finds that online social environments offer new opportunities useful for the re-configuration of boundaries between public and private. This thesis concludes that the new mediation of virtual environments does not limit architecture, but rather presents a new space that mediates and reflects contemporary social interaction.</p>

scholarly journals Further Reading: An Analysis of the Public Library and the Implications of Technological Innovation on Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jimmy Gray
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
The Way

<p>The past two decades has seen an explosion of electronic media that has changed the way society is structured, and the way in which people interact with one-another. This technological change is forcing the library to question its functional role in society. Books are currently the predominant form of information and entertainment media represented. If this continues the library will struggle to assert its relevance in the future. This thesis analyses the public library, establishing an appropriate distinction between the formalities of the traditional library space and that suitable for a library in the information age. It acknowledges historical influence, and the library user’s role in establishing a truly public enterprise. It builds upon these influences through architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-establishes the public library typology. The outcome of this research identifies a strong future for the public library, but states that its physical and organisational form needs to be re-established. It finds that technology and architecture offer new opportunities useful for reinterpreting the typology. The thesis concludes that the implications of digital representation do not limit the public library to virtual space, but rather it can become a space that mediates the new emerging boundaries between digital and analogue by acknowledging the interaction between people.</p>

scholarly journals Further Reading: An Analysis of the Public Library and the Implications of Technological Innovation on Architecture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Jimmy Gray
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Public Library ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
Public Enterprise ◽  
Design Solution ◽  
Entertainment Media ◽  
Architectural Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
Organisational Form ◽  
The Way

<p>The past two decades has seen an explosion of electronic media that has changed the way society is structured, and the way in which people interact with one-another. This technological change is forcing the library to question its functional role in society. Books are currently the predominant form of information and entertainment media represented. If this continues the library will struggle to assert its relevance in the future. This thesis analyses the public library, establishing an appropriate distinction between the formalities of the traditional library space and that suitable for a library in the information age. It acknowledges historical influence, and the library user’s role in establishing a truly public enterprise. It builds upon these influences through architectural analysis and experimentation to find one architectural design solution that re-establishes the public library typology. The outcome of this research identifies a strong future for the public library, but states that its physical and organisational form needs to be re-established. It finds that technology and architecture offer new opportunities useful for reinterpreting the typology. The thesis concludes that the implications of digital representation do not limit the public library to virtual space, but rather it can become a space that mediates the new emerging boundaries between digital and analogue by acknowledging the interaction between people.</p>

scholarly journals Architectural Coalescence : a Focus on Connectivity and Flow Within Socio-Spatial Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Chang
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Spatial Networks ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Collective Activity ◽  
Spatial Morphology ◽  
Urban Campus ◽  
Social Interactivity

This thesis stems from an analysis of spatial morphology of the urban campus. The organization of the urban campus provides pockets for social interactivity amid public, private, and interstitial realms. Availability of collective activity contributes to the positive student experiences by fostering social interactivity and communal growth. Encouraging forms of collective activity, as well as connecting user circulation, plays a significant role in making students feel they are part of a larger whole. The focus is placed on how architectural design can provide the potential to explore the in-between condition of the public and private. This interstitial condition may be used as a platform to connect the two realms. Testing methods of socio-spatial and circulatory reconfiguration of Ryerson’s Kerr Hall may improve the understanding of how the built form impacts the movement and experience of user flow within the condition of the urban campus.

scholarly journals Cost-Effectiveness of “Tele-Square Step Exercise” for Falls Prevention in Fibromyalgia Patients: A Study Protocol

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Carlos-Vivas ◽  
Jorge Pérez-Gómez ◽  
Serafín Delgado-Gil ◽  
José Carlos Campos-López ◽  
Manuel Granado-Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cost Effectiveness ◽  
Focus Group ◽  
Incremental Cost ◽  
Incremental Cost Effectiveness Ratio ◽  
Health Economy ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Cost Effectiveness Ratio ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
And Control

Background: Women with fibromyalgia (FM) have 2.5 falls per year compared to the 0.5 falls in people without FM. This fact poses a significant health expense. Square Stepping Exercise (SSE) is a balance training system that has been shown to be effective in preventing falls in the elderly. However, there are neither studies in people with FM nor studies that apply SSE through video-conferencing (Tele-SSE). The objectives of this project are 1) to investigate the applicability, safety, decrease in the number of falls, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratio of prevention of falls program through Tele-SSE in women with FM, and 2) to study the transfer of obtained results to the public and private socio-health economy of Extremadura. Methods/Design: A randomized controlled trial with experimental (Tele-SSE) and control (usual treatment) groups will be carried out. The application of Tele-SSE will be performed for 12 months (three times per week) and one additional follow-up month after the intervention. A focus group including agents to identify key points to transfer the findings to the public and private sectors in Extremadura. One-hundred and eighteen women with FM will be recruited and randomly distributed into the two groups: Experimental (Tele-SSE; n = 59) and control group (Usual care; n = 59). Primary outcome measures will be: 1) Applicability; 2) safety; 3) annual number of falls; and 4) incremental cost-effectiveness ratio. Secondary outcomes will be: 1) Balance; 2) fear of falling; 3) socio-demographic and clinical information; 4) body composition; 5) physical fitness; 6) physical activity and sedentary behavior; 7) quality of life-related to health, mental health, and positive health; 8) pain; 9) disability level; 10) cognitive aspects; and 11) depressive symptoms. Regarding the focus group, the acceptability of the Tele-SSE will be evaluated in social-sanitary agents and will include Tele-SSE in their services offer. A statistical analysis will be carried out by treatment intention and protocol. In addition, a cost-effectiveness analysis from the perspective of the health system will be performed. Discussion: This project aims to improve the efficiency and equity of physical therapy services based on tele-exercise in preventing falls in people with FM. Furthermore, orientations will be given in order to transfer the obtained findings into the social-sanitary system and market.

scholarly journals A code for care and control: The PIN as an operator of interoperability in the Nordic welfare state

2021 ◽  
pp. 095269512110177
Author(s):  
Marja Alastalo ◽  
Ilpo Helén
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Data Repositories ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Nordic Welfare State ◽  
Political Technology ◽  
And Control ◽  
Elementary Building

Many states make use of personal identity numbers (PINs) to govern people living in their territory and jurisdiction, but only a few rely on an all-purpose PIN used throughout the public and private sectors. This article examines the all-purpose PIN in Finland as a political technology that brings people to the sphere of public welfare services and subjects them to governance by public authorities and expert institutions. Drawing on documentary materials and interviews, it unpacks the history and uses of the PIN as an elementary building block of the Nordic welfare state, and its emerging uses in the post-welfare data economy. The article suggests that, although the PIN is capable of individualizing, identifying, and addressing individuals, its most important and widely embraced feature is the extent to which it enables interoperability among public authorities, private businesses, and their data repositories. Interoperability, together with advances in computing and information technology, has made the PIN a facilitator of public administration, state knowledge production, and everyday life. More recently, in the post-welfare data economy, interoperability has rendered the PIN a national asset in all the Nordic countries, providing a great advantage to biomedical research, innovation business, and healthcare.

scholarly journals Architectural Coalescence : a Focus on Connectivity and Flow Within Socio-Spatial Networks

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Chang
Keyword(s):  
Architectural Design ◽  
Student Experiences ◽  
Spatial Networks ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Built Form ◽  
Collective Activity ◽  
Spatial Morphology ◽  
Urban Campus ◽  
Social Interactivity

This thesis stems from an analysis of spatial morphology of the urban campus. The organization of the urban campus provides pockets for social interactivity amid public, private, and interstitial realms. Availability of collective activity contributes to the positive student experiences by fostering social interactivity and communal growth. Encouraging forms of collective activity, as well as connecting user circulation, plays a significant role in making students feel they are part of a larger whole. The focus is placed on how architectural design can provide the potential to explore the in-between condition of the public and private. This interstitial condition may be used as a platform to connect the two realms. Testing methods of socio-spatial and circulatory reconfiguration of Ryerson’s Kerr Hall may improve the understanding of how the built form impacts the movement and experience of user flow within the condition of the urban campus.

Cyber Threats to Critical Infrastructure Protection

2016 ◽  
pp. 287-304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Čaleta
Keyword(s):  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Risk Level ◽  
Strong Impact ◽  
Critical Infrastructure Protection ◽  
Social Environments ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Infrastructure Protection ◽  
The Public

The globalisation of the world, and thus indirectly of security, poses serious dilemmas for the modern society about how to continue basing its development on the fundamental requirements related to the free movement of goods, services and people, and, on the other hand, about how to keep threats at an acceptable risk level. The emergence of asymmetric forms of threat to national and international security is based on completely different assumptions and perceptions of the basic concepts of providing security. The changing social conditions and tensions caused by the rapid technological development found particular social environments totally unprepared for confronting the new global security situation and, above all, the newly-emerging complex security threats. The integration of critical infrastructure protection processes into a comprehensive system of national security provision at the national and consequently the international level will be a very demanding project in terms of coordination and awareness of the necessity or regulating that area. In addition, it will represent a very significant shift in the attitude and mentality of all the participants involved. This paper addresses in detail some important dilemmas and factors which have a strong impact on the level of awareness, cooperation and confidence of all partners in the public and private environment that share the need for the protection of critical infrastructure.

scholarly journals Piracy, Property and the Crisis of Democracy

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 134-150 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Fredriksson ◽  
James Arvanitakis
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
The Global Financial Crisis ◽  
And Control ◽  
Political Battle

A political battle is being waged over the use and control of culture and information. While media companies and copyright organisations argue for stricter intellectual property laws, a growing body of citizens challenge the contemporary IP-regime. This has seen a political mobilisation of piracy. Pirate parties see themselves as a digital civil rights movement, defending the public domain and the citizen’s right to privacy against copyright expansionism and increased surveillance. Since the first pirate party was formed in Sweden in 2006, similar parties have emerged across the world. This article draws on a study of the culture and ideology of copyright resistance, through interviews with pirate party representatives in Europe and North America. It focuses on challenges to democracy, and the distinction between public and private property and spaces, in the wake of the war on terror and the global financial crisis.

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