scholarly journals Push, Pull, Shrink, Grow: The co-share workplace interior that reflects changing spatial needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Wyborn
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Office ◽  
Interior Environments ◽  
Office Environments ◽  
Spatial Needs

<p>This thesis explores how co-working offices emerged as a solution to the shift in the social expectations of the workplace. It studies how the rise in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs has resulted in the materialisation of co-working offices. It examines how co-working offices offer flexibility in terms of membership plans, but how their interior environments do not yet reflect this. In short it aims to investigate how these workplace interiors can adapt to meet residents needs.  This research embraces the multi-functionality of the co-working office and the demands of residents who occupy these spaces. Three local case studies and international precedents are explored which give insight and offer opportunities on materiality, site context and multi-functional spaces. It explores how to engage residents by challenging how best to design co-working offices. This project considers the requirements of the co-working office and how co-working interiors are occupied throughout the day. The design proposes a kit of parts ‘space making’ solution, which enables co-working offices to meet resident’s needs.   This research contributes to the limited published discussion of understanding interior space in the context of co-working offices. This research explores through interior architecture, how co-working offices can be designed to reflect its resident’s individual ways of working and co-workings varying spatial needs. Although based around co-working spaces, the researcher recognises the implications for findings based around corporate office environments.</p>

scholarly journals Push, Pull, Shrink, Grow: The co-share workplace interior that reflects changing spatial needs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Rebecca Wyborn
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Social Expectations ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Local Case ◽  
The Social ◽  
Corporate Office ◽  
Interior Environments ◽  
Office Environments ◽  
Spatial Needs

<p>This thesis explores how co-working offices emerged as a solution to the shift in the social expectations of the workplace. It studies how the rise in the number of freelancers and entrepreneurs has resulted in the materialisation of co-working offices. It examines how co-working offices offer flexibility in terms of membership plans, but how their interior environments do not yet reflect this. In short it aims to investigate how these workplace interiors can adapt to meet residents needs.  This research embraces the multi-functionality of the co-working office and the demands of residents who occupy these spaces. Three local case studies and international precedents are explored which give insight and offer opportunities on materiality, site context and multi-functional spaces. It explores how to engage residents by challenging how best to design co-working offices. This project considers the requirements of the co-working office and how co-working interiors are occupied throughout the day. The design proposes a kit of parts ‘space making’ solution, which enables co-working offices to meet resident’s needs.   This research contributes to the limited published discussion of understanding interior space in the context of co-working offices. This research explores through interior architecture, how co-working offices can be designed to reflect its resident’s individual ways of working and co-workings varying spatial needs. Although based around co-working spaces, the researcher recognises the implications for findings based around corporate office environments.</p>

scholarly journals The other interior: An ode to cigarettes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Karen-Lize Pike
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
The City

<p>Interiors are the space of human encounter. Their validity is entrenched in the social realm and the integrity and relevance of interior architecture depends upon the acknowledging human interaction. It should not be resigned to the confines of four walls within a singular piece of architecture. Interior architecture is a discipline that deals with the in-between. ‘Inside’ and ‘outside’ are wrongly defined as opposing states. For the inside and outside are not as distinct as we have come to believe. They are not opposites. They are intertwined, collapsing into each other. You can never be completely outside; to be outside something means to be inside something else. At once outside a building, you are still inside the confines of the city. We see this interior condition everyday in the city. It is hard to escape the affiliation of alleyways with the profane. The city is wilder than we think. Alleyways hold onto the secrets of the other side of the city through their reliquary of remnants of the activities taken place. The copious number of drained cigarette butts flaunts the defiance of the smoker. Similar to the dark romance a smoker shares with his cigarette, they flirt with the allure of darkness and the hideously seductive risk of tiptoeing on the edge of regulated space. The alleyways become the illicit interior, a meeting place, market place and connection space for society’s sub-cultures, where the currency is cigarettes. This thesis explores the intensification of this unbuilt landscape. Alleyways are interstitial sites for experimentation of the threshold between public and private, light and shadow, presence and absence, sacred and secular, legal and illegal. Interstitial spaces are often over-looked and unappreciated. This research endeavours to reveal the inherent interiority and sacral conditions of these cast-aside sites. The interstitial endures the grotesque scars of the city in its beautiful ugliness of decay. These interstitial sites are allowed to just exist when everything else is arbitrarily swept clean each day. Becoming uninhibited canvases of they city.  The research focuses on five particular fractures within Wellington City’s infrastructure. These five sites form the initial vehicle for the design research and generation. The approach to the research follows an unconventional methodology, embracing experimental freethinking drawing and modelling explorations. The five sites all have a connection to Wellingtons prominent Cuba Street and lead to the concluding site for Design, the interstice between Town Hall and The Michael Fowler Centre, in Civic Square. The aim is not to sterilise the interstitial but to ensure its idiosyncrasies are retained. The outcome is a smoker’s room.  In the wider scope this research sets out to contribute to the potential of Interior Architecture through the engagement of the smoker. Implementing interior architecture on two different scales; macro and micro. The macro where the city is the envelope housing the new interior and the micro scale where the design is re-contextualised as a product in the form of an ashtray. Liberating interiors from the traditional constraints. Reclaiming interstitial space as the interiors of the city, inverting Interior Architecture from the contained, to the container. People- human encounters and activities, like the walls in architecture, have the ability to define interior space.</p>

scholarly journals The other interior: An ode to cigarettes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Karen-Lize Pike
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Market Place ◽  
Interior Space ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Light And Shadow ◽  
The City

<p>Interiors are the space of human encounter. Their validity is entrenched in the social realm and the integrity and relevance of interior architecture depends upon the acknowledging human interaction. It should not be resigned to the confines of four walls within a singular piece of architecture. Interior architecture is a discipline that deals with the in-between. ‘Inside’ and ‘outside’ are wrongly defined as opposing states. For the inside and outside are not as distinct as we have come to believe. They are not opposites. They are intertwined, collapsing into each other. You can never be completely outside; to be outside something means to be inside something else. At once outside a building, you are still inside the confines of the city. We see this interior condition everyday in the city. It is hard to escape the affiliation of alleyways with the profane. The city is wilder than we think. Alleyways hold onto the secrets of the other side of the city through their reliquary of remnants of the activities taken place. The copious number of drained cigarette butts flaunts the defiance of the smoker. Similar to the dark romance a smoker shares with his cigarette, they flirt with the allure of darkness and the hideously seductive risk of tiptoeing on the edge of regulated space. The alleyways become the illicit interior, a meeting place, market place and connection space for society’s sub-cultures, where the currency is cigarettes. This thesis explores the intensification of this unbuilt landscape. Alleyways are interstitial sites for experimentation of the threshold between public and private, light and shadow, presence and absence, sacred and secular, legal and illegal. Interstitial spaces are often over-looked and unappreciated. This research endeavours to reveal the inherent interiority and sacral conditions of these cast-aside sites. The interstitial endures the grotesque scars of the city in its beautiful ugliness of decay. These interstitial sites are allowed to just exist when everything else is arbitrarily swept clean each day. Becoming uninhibited canvases of they city.  The research focuses on five particular fractures within Wellington City’s infrastructure. These five sites form the initial vehicle for the design research and generation. The approach to the research follows an unconventional methodology, embracing experimental freethinking drawing and modelling explorations. The five sites all have a connection to Wellingtons prominent Cuba Street and lead to the concluding site for Design, the interstice between Town Hall and The Michael Fowler Centre, in Civic Square. The aim is not to sterilise the interstitial but to ensure its idiosyncrasies are retained. The outcome is a smoker’s room.  In the wider scope this research sets out to contribute to the potential of Interior Architecture through the engagement of the smoker. Implementing interior architecture on two different scales; macro and micro. The macro where the city is the envelope housing the new interior and the micro scale where the design is re-contextualised as a product in the form of an ashtray. Liberating interiors from the traditional constraints. Reclaiming interstitial space as the interiors of the city, inverting Interior Architecture from the contained, to the container. People- human encounters and activities, like the walls in architecture, have the ability to define interior space.</p>

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
James McElvenny
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of

This chapter sets the scene for the case studies that follow in the rest of the book by characterising the ‘age of modernism’ and identifying problems relating to language and meaning that arose in this context. Emphasis is laid on the social and political issues that dominated the era, in particular the rapid developments in technology, which inspired both hope and fear, and the international political tensions that led to the two World Wars. The chapter also sketches the approach to historiography taken in the book, interdisciplinary history of ideas.

“Tradition,” Vernacularism, and Learning to Be a Folk Musician With Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 442-466
Author(s):  
Simon Keegan-Phipps ◽  
Lucy Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Shaping

This chapter considers the role of social media (broadly conceived) in the learning experiences of folk musicians in the Anglophone West. The chapter draws on the findings of the Digital Folk project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and begins by summarizing and problematizing the nature of learning as a concept in the folk music context. It briefly explicates the instructive, appropriative, and locative impacts of digital media for folk music learning before exploring in detail two case studies of folk-oriented social media: (1) the phenomenon of abc notation as a transmissive media and (2) the Mudcat Café website as an example of the folk-oriented discussion forum. These case studies are shown to exemplify and illuminate the constructs of traditional transmission and vernacularism as significant influences on the social shaping and deployment of folk-related media technologies. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the need to understand the musical learning process as a culturally performative act and to recognize online learning mechanisms as sites for the (re)negotiation of musical, cultural, local, and personal identities.

scholarly journals Multilingualism in Vanuatu: Four case studies

2021 ◽  
pp. 136700692110231
Author(s):  
Mary Walworth ◽  
Amy Dewar ◽  
Thomas Ennever ◽  
Lana Takau ◽  
Iveth Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Language History ◽  
Speech Communities ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
The Social ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
B Mobility

Each of the 65 inhabited islands of Vanuatu hosts its own unique linguistic environment in which varying degrees of multilingualism are found. This paper defines various types of small-scale multilingual settings in Vanuatu and explores what sociohistorical factors have led to them. This paper is based on first-hand observations and primary data collected by the authors in four locations in the Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu since 2016: two neighboring villages of Emae Island (Makatu and Tongamea), North Malekula, and on Maewo Island. The assessments of multilingualism in these examples from Vanuatu were qualitative, based on observations of sociolinguistic practices in each of these areas, as well as data from language history and language use surveys carried out in each place. Through defining and comparing the types of multilingualism present in the four case studies, we identify patterns in the social and historical processes that lead to various kinds of multilingualism: (a) interaction of linguistic and sociocultural identities and (b) mobility of both individuals and entire speech communities. The examples described in this paper are used to highlight the diversity of multilingualism found in Vanuatu and to explore how their differing linguistic environments and histories have contributed to their varying degrees of multilingualism. This paper makes an original contribution to knowledge about the small-scale multilingual situations in Vanuatu, offering descriptions of previously undocumented and endangered multilingual environments. Through an examination of the sociocultural motivations for multilingualism, alongside historical migrations of speaker groups and marked sociolinguistic identities, this paper contributes to research on why and how small-scale multilingualism can develop. Furthermore, this paper provides the foundation for future, more rigorous investigations into the small-scale multilingual situations of this highly understudied region.

The Phantom of Upgrading in Agricultural Supply Chains

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
International Organizations ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Small Farmers ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Social Upgrading

This book addresses the controversies surrounding smallholders’ opportunities for economic and social upgrading by joining global agricultural value chains (AVC). While international organizations encourage small farmers to become part of AVC, critics point out its risks. Unlike previous single case studies, researchers from three continents compared the influence of the characteristics of the crop (coffee, mango, rice), the end markets, and the national political economic contexts on the social and economic conditions for smallholders and agricultural workers. Their findings highlight the importance of collective action by smallholders and of a supportive state for economic and social upgrading. With contributions by Angela Dziedzim Akorsu, Do Quynh Chi; Francis Enu Kwesi, Daniel James Hawkins, Jakir Hossain, Khiddir Iddris, Clesio Marcelino de Jesus, Manish Kumar, Michele Lindner, Mubashir Mehdi, Rosa Maria Vieira Medeiros, Antonio Cesar Ortega, Thales Augusto Medeiros Penha, Bruno Perosa, Sérgio Schneider and Santosh Verma.

Italian-Jewish Patrons of Modern Art in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Italy

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-29
Author(s):  
Luisa Levi D’Ancona Modena
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Social History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
European Countries ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Museums

With a focus on art donations, this article explores several case studies of Jewish Italian patrons such as Sforni, Uzielli, Sarfatti, Castelfranco, Vitali, and others who supported artists of movements that were considered modern at their time: the Macchiaioli (1850-1870), the Futurists (1910s), the Metaphysical painters (1920s), the Novecento group (1920-1930s), and several post WWII cases. It reflects on differences in art donations by Jews in Italy and other European countries, modes of reception, taste, meanings and strategy of donations, thus contributing to the social history of Italian and European Jewry and the history of collections and donations to public museums.

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