scholarly journals Wood: Embedded Responsiveness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Heterogeneous Material ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Material Behaviour ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Material Practice

Architecture provides the material context in which everyday life unfolds. As a material practice, architecture is constantly in flux, responding dynamically to changes in the surrounding environment. The emergence of New Materialism, stemming from Modernist ideas, marks a shift in architecture from a discourse of symbolism and metaphors, towards one of performance and material behaviour. This thesis studies material performance in the context of wood architecture. Wood is a heterogeneous material with unique performative capacities as a result of its biological makeup. This heterogeneity is often viewed as a disadvantage when compared to more uniform materials that behave more predictably. However, when reconsidered, the unique qualities of wood can be used to inform design. This thesis investigates these qualities with a focus on the material’s responsiveness to moisture. In doing so, it attempts to unravel the potential of wood in the advancement of a new wood architecture.

scholarly journals Wood: Embedded Responsiveness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Heterogeneous Material ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Material Behaviour ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Material Practice

Architecture provides the material context in which everyday life unfolds. As a material practice, architecture is constantly in flux, responding dynamically to changes in the surrounding environment. The emergence of New Materialism, stemming from Modernist ideas, marks a shift in architecture from a discourse of symbolism and metaphors, towards one of performance and material behaviour. This thesis studies material performance in the context of wood architecture. Wood is a heterogeneous material with unique performative capacities as a result of its biological makeup. This heterogeneity is often viewed as a disadvantage when compared to more uniform materials that behave more predictably. However, when reconsidered, the unique qualities of wood can be used to inform design. This thesis investigates these qualities with a focus on the material’s responsiveness to moisture. In doing so, it attempts to unravel the potential of wood in the advancement of a new wood architecture.

Sustainable Materialism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Schlosberg ◽  
Luke Craven
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Basic Needs ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Environmental Groups ◽  
Consumer Responses ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Social Motivations ◽  
Sustainable Fashion ◽  
Prefigurative Politics

A growing number of environmental groups focus on more sustainable practices in everyday life, from the development of new food systems, to community solar, to more sustainable fashion. No longer willing to take part in unsustainable practices and institutions, and not satisfied with either purely individualistic and consumer responses or standard political processes and movement tactics, many activists and groups are increasingly focusing on restructuring everyday practices of the circulation of the basic needs of everyday life. This work labels such action sustainable materialism, and examines the political and social motivations of activists and movement groups involved in this growing and expanding practice. The central argument is that these movements are motivated by four key factors: frustration with the lack of accomplishments on broader environmental policies; a desire for environmental and social justice; an active and material resistance to the power of traditional industries; and a form of sustainability that is attentive to the flow of materials through bodies, communities, economies, and environments. In addition to these motivations, these movements demonstrate such material action as political action, in contrast to existing critiques of new materialism as apolitical or post-political. Overall, sustainable materialism is explored as a set of movements with unique qualities, based in collective rather than individual action, a dedication to local and prefigurative politics, and a demand that sustainability be practiced in everyday life—starting with the materials and flows that provide food, power, clothing, and other basic needs.

scholarly journals CHARACTER BUILDING BASED ON LOCAL WISDOM IN THE FILM TITLED TANDA TANYA “?”

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Nur Alfi Farikhah ◽  
Ratna Handayani Pramukti ◽  
Vena Nur Litasari ◽  
Ratna Hidayah
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Educational Purpose ◽  
Global Era ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Cultural Communities ◽  
Character Building

<p><em>Character is very important in an effort to reflect cultural values that are applied through a culture of positive habits in everyday life such as honesty, trust, tolerance and caring for fellow human beings in the community. The value of local wisdom is not a barrier to progress in the global era, but still maintains cultural values that have been embedded in the surrounding community. Therefore, fostering the values of local wisdom is a strategic step in the effort to build the character of the nation. This article proposes to discuss the cultivation of cultural values through a tolerance attitude based on local wisdom in the surrounding environment as a community character reinforcement being appropriate to the cultural values which are inspired by the film titled Tanda Tanya “?”. The film describes the life that has been acculturated, then shows the assimilation and pluralism that exist in the lives of people in Indonesia. This film has educational purpose containing knowledge and learning that occur around the lives of diverse cultural communities.</em></p>

scholarly journals Wektor poetycki w biografiach artystów: Olga Boznańska, Wojciech Weiss, Jerzy Tchórzewski

2019 ◽  
pp. 217-236
Author(s):  
Aneta Grodecka
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Literary Practice ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Common

Starting from the contemporary trends in biography and referring to findings in the field of anthropology of writing and new materialism, the author analyzes poetic forms created in painting studios. She considers the works of O. Boznańska, W. Weiss and T. Tchórzewski as poetic manifestations of the literary practice of everyday life, a type of poeticised documents. The presence of poetry in artists’ lives is multi-faceted: loose pages preserved in a scrapbook, entries in a journal and autonomous works printed in the press, hence their role in creative biography is different. The common ground is a syncretic perception of creativity; the preserved texts co-create a kind of artistic site where the boundaries between the publication, the exhibition and the project performance blur, requiring special editing operations.

Placemaking

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tara Page
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
New Materialism ◽  
Practice Research ◽  
Local Practice ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
Childhood Home ◽  
Relations Of Power

‘Where are you from?’ This question often refers to someone’s birthplace, childhood home or a place that holds significance. The location that is offered in response to this question is more than a means of orientation; it is a lived place that has complex meanings that identify and are learned. The significance of place and belonging to our lives is often overlooked, yet it is key to understanding who we are, both individually and collectively. Through embodied and material practice research, underpinned with theories of new materialism, Tara Page enables us to learn and understand how our ways of knowing, making and learning place are entangled with embodied and materials pedagogies. This creative and multi-dimensional assemblage brings together the global with the local, practice with theory and demonstrates the complex pedagogy between bodies, places and everyday social relations of power revealing that placemaking is the very experiential fact of our existence but is also a necessary one.

scholarly journals Consciousness as claiming: Practice and habit in an enigmatic world

2018 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1120-1135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitch Rose
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
The Self ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Analytic Work ◽  
Material Practice ◽  
The Face ◽  
Jean Laplanche

There has been increasing interest in recent years on the non-cognitive nature of human existence. Self-conscious thought and reflective action are no longer seen to be the defining feature of the human condition nor an anchor for social life. On the contrary, material practice and habitual engagements are the abiding mechanisms by which everyday life is sutured. One of the consequences of this perspective is its abbreviated conception of human consciousness. In the literature on habit and practical engagement, consciousness is conceptualised primarily in terms of self-perception and awareness. The aim of this article is to put forth the thesis that human consciousness is not just an awareness of the self – it is also a ‘claim’. Drawing upon the psycho-analytic work of Jean Laplanche, the paper argues that consciousness emerges as subjects reckon with existential problems that are as imminent to everyday life as the concrete problems and practical tasks. In this framing, consciousness emerges as a desire to claim oneself as a self in the face of problems that exceed our practical capacities. Consciousness is a claim in the sense that it marks a desire to be a self-standing, self-possessed subject, within a precarious and enigmatic world.

scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Interpersonal Communication on Employees at Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar

Jurnal Office ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Nurul Sazwani ◽  
Jamaluddin Jamaluddin ◽  
Risma Niswaty
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Data Analysis ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Surrounding Environment ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive

As human social beings in everyday life always want to relate to other humans. He wants to know the surrounding environment, even wants to know what is happening in him. This curiosity forces humans to communicate. This study aims to determine the effectiveness of interpersonal communication among employees at Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar. Therefore, to achieve these objectives researchers used data collection techniques with observation, questionnaires, interviews, and documentation with a population of 24 people. And the data is processed using the quantitative descriptive analysis to determine the extent of the effectiveness of interpersonal communication among employees at the Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar. The results of this study indicate that the Effectiveness of Interpersonal Communication among Vocational High School YPLP PGRI 1 Makassar  staff with indicators namely: openness with a percentage reaching 90.83 percent, empathy with a percentage reaching 90.56 percent, supportiveness with a percentage of 83.13 percent, positiveness with a percentage reaching 89.44 percent and equality with a percentage reaching 92.08 percent of all the indicators are in the very good category. This is demonstrated through overall data analysis which shows the percentage reached 89.08 percent, the value is in line with related observations made by researchers in the field. 

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