scholarly journals Co-Design: Fundamental Issues and Guidelines for Designers: Beyond the Castle Case Study

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 48-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Cruickshank ◽  
Gemma Coupe ◽  
Dee Hennessy
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Good Design ◽  
Design Project ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

In this paper we describe a high profile project to reimagine a large green space in the heart of the city of Lancaster in the UK. This co-design project involved professional designers, but also 2500 people with 700 of these making an active co-design contribution. This project forms the basis of a discussion of how we used a series of events to help participants reach their full creative co-design potential.From this case study we go on to develop a framework of recommendations to help designers reflect on their normal practice and how they need to operate within a co-design project. These recommendations seek to maximise the benefits of this approach and produce good design outcomes. This framework has been evaluated in a series of international workshops in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands.

scholarly journals Applying a Model for Trip Assignment and Dynamic Routing of Automated Taxis with Congestion: System Performance in the City of Delft, The Netherlands

2018 ◽  
Vol 2672 (8) ◽  
pp. 588-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiao Liang ◽  
Gonçalo Homem de Almeida Correia ◽  
Bart van Arem
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Profit Maximization ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Size ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

This paper proposes a method of assigning trips to automated taxis (ATs) and designing the routes of those vehicles in an urban road network, and also considering the traffic congestion caused by this dynamic responsive service. The system is envisioned to provide a seamless door-to-door service within a city area for all passenger origins and destinations. An integer programming model is proposed to define the routing of the vehicles according to a profit maximization function, depending on the dynamic travel times, which varies with the ATs’ flow. This will be especially important when the number of automated vehicles (AVs) circulating on the roads is high enough that their routing will cause delays. This system should be able to serve not only the reserved travel requests, but also some real-time requests. A rolling horizon scheme is used to divide one day into several periods in which both the real-time and the booked demand will be considered together. The model was applied to the real size case study city of Delft, the Netherlands. The results allow assessing of the impact of the ATs movements on traffic congestion and the profitability of the system. From this case-study, it is possible to conclude that taking into account the effect of the vehicle flows on travel time leads to changes in the system profit, the satisfied percentage and the driving distance of the vehicles, which highlights the importance of this type of model in the assessment of the operational effects of ATs in the future.

scholarly journals Brownfield Redevelopment In Toronto, Ontario: An Examination Of Sustainability And The Toronto Portlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hayek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Brownfield Redevelopment ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
The City

Brownfields are "abandoned, vacant, derelict or underutilized commercial and industrial properties where past actions have resulted in actual or perceived contamination" (NRTEE, 2003, p.1). Brownfield redevelopment, because of its contributions to urban sustainability, intensification and environmental quality, has become a critical issue in urban development literature of late. Through case-study research this paper aims to evaluate the relative sustainability of four Port Lands brownfield redevelopments that involve converting brownfields into green space in the City of Toronto. This study has shown how brownfield redevelopment and more specifically, turning brownfields into green space represent an application of all three pillars of sustainability. However, the exact extent of how this type of redevelopment represents an application of sustainable development cannot be truly measured or quantified. It has also highlighted the need to develop a comprehensive set of sustainability indicators that can be specifically applied to projects that aim to convert brownfields into green space.

scholarly journals The Silent Researcher: A New Method for Obtaining a Critical Response to a Holographic Artwork

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pearl John
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Aesthetic Development ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

A critical context is an essential aspect of practice-based research; however, a lack of structure exists to obtain and evaluate criticism from peers. This paper presents a case study of how the ‘silent student’ critique method used in Higher Education settings in the UK (Elkins, 2014) was adapted for a holographic arts research study. A ‘silent researcher’ critique session with nine experts was held in Aveiro, Portugal, June 2018 to evaluate the author’s digital holographic artwork, on display at the City Museum. The experts asked the author critical questions about the artwork while the author remained silent. The session was filmed, transcribed and processed using a general inductive approach for analysing qualitative evaluation data (Thomas, 2006). This paper outlines the benefits and drawbacks of using this new critique method for research. The benefits included; participant’s careful response to the artwork avoiding engagement of egos of critic and researcher, the drawbacks included the difficulty of evaluating against a pre-determined research question when the discussion could not be steered. This paper evaluates the artwork critiqued describing how the work contributes to the aesthetic development of the medium of holography; which used the Z-axis of holographic space to depict a chronological narrative.

scholarly journals Representations of British Chinese Identities and British Television Drama: Mapping the Field

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-145
Author(s):  
Simone Knox
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Television Drama ◽  
Ethnic Minority Groups ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Close Textual Analysis ◽  
African Caribbean ◽  
The Uk

While important scholarship exists on the television representations of Asian American identities, research in the UK has been focused on African Caribbean and South Asian identities. Very little scholarly attention has been paid to televisual representations of British Chinese identities, despite the British Chinese constituting one of the larger and fastest growing ethnic minority groups within contemporary Britain. Informed by an understanding of the complexity of the term ‘British Chinese’, this article explores the representation of British Chinese identities in British television drama. Despite the long-standing absence and invisibility of such identities in British television, as perceived within the popular imagination in Britain and in British Chinese discourses, the article shows that a larger number of British Chinese actors have found notable employment in British television than is commonly acknowledged or remembered within the popular imagination. The article draws on a database that deploys a range of research, including archive research at the BFI Reuben Library, to map the presence of British Chinese actors in British television drama since 1945. Through this historiographic focus, the article identifies some of the most significant trends in representations of British Chinese identities in British television drama. It then illustrates and provides more specific texture to these broader patterns through the close textual analysis of a case study, the BBC1 flagship series Sherlock. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary period which has seen an influx of British Chinese actors into British television drama as well as high-profile diversity campaigning within Britain.

Entrepreneurship and Diversity

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deirdre Tedmanson ◽  
Caroline Essers
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Indigenous Entrepreneurs ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Minority Entrepreneurs

This chapter extends on existing critical entrepreneurship contributions to illustrate and analyse how diversity entrepreneurship stemming from diverse contexts can enhance understandings of entrepreneurship as a socially and culturally constructed phenomenon. The chapter first explores the perspectives of Indigenous entrepreneurs in Australia, and second the diverse experience of female Turkish entrepreneurial ‘others’ in both the UK and the Netherlands. Exploring the different roles played by different national contexts in shaping entrepreneurial agency and resistance, rich case study material is used to illustrate how diversity can assist minority entrepreneurs while at the same time also constraining opportunity. The chapter reveals how new takes on entrepreneurship in different locations and settings can reveal not only new forms of entrepreneurial diversity, but also the increasing diversity of how (and what) entrepreneuring can mean.

Case studies of interests at play

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Val Gillies ◽  
Rosalind Edwards ◽  
Nicola Horsley
Keyword(s):  
Early Intervention ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Intervention Programme ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Network Position ◽  
First Case ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Family Nurse Partnership

This chapter builds on the review of the interests at play in the early intervention field and examines them through case studies of three high-profile initiatives. The first case study focuses on the Wave Trust, a campaigning and policy advocate organisation that has been highly influential politically in promoting brain-based early intervention in the UK. It claims a ‘business centred’ approach to breaking damaging intergenerational family cycles of abuse and violence. The second case study subjects the origins, delivery, and evidence claims of the Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) early intervention programme to scrutiny. The third case study explores the nodal network position of Parent Infant Partnership UK, which advocates for an emphasis on attachment between primary caregivers and babies.

scholarly journals Brownfield Redevelopment In Toronto, Ontario: An Examination Of Sustainability And The Toronto Portlands

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Hayek
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Green Space ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Critical Issue ◽  
Brownfield Redevelopment ◽  
Development Literature ◽  
The City

Brownfields are "abandoned, vacant, derelict or underutilized commercial and industrial properties where past actions have resulted in actual or perceived contamination" (NRTEE, 2003, p.1). Brownfield redevelopment, because of its contributions to urban sustainability, intensification and environmental quality, has become a critical issue in urban development literature of late. Through case-study research this paper aims to evaluate the relative sustainability of four Port Lands brownfield redevelopments that involve converting brownfields into green space in the City of Toronto. This study has shown how brownfield redevelopment and more specifically, turning brownfields into green space represent an application of all three pillars of sustainability. However, the exact extent of how this type of redevelopment represents an application of sustainable development cannot be truly measured or quantified. It has also highlighted the need to develop a comprehensive set of sustainability indicators that can be specifically applied to projects that aim to convert brownfields into green space.

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