scholarly journals New developments opening up the future of fiber science New developments of functional fiber

1999 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. P7-P12
Author(s):  
Hirofusa Shirai ◽  
Mutsumi KIMURA ◽  
Etsuko ADACHI ◽  
Kenji HANAFUSA
Keyword(s):  
New Developments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Functional Fiber ◽  
Opening Up

Othering Time: Strategies of attunement to non-human temporalities

APRIA Journal ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-83
Author(s):  
Alice Smits
Keyword(s):  
Ethics Of Care ◽  
Life Forms ◽  
Ecological Crisis ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Deep Time ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
Time Zones ◽  
The Future ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Epistemological Framework

In her article 'Othering Time: Strategies of Attunement to Non-Human Temporalities,' art curator and researcher in the field of art and ecology Alice Smits delves into artistic practices that tune into deep time and non-human time zones. Starting from the viewpoint that our current ecological crisis is in need of developing an ethics of care towards generations far into the future and life forms extremely different to ours, she discusses art and aesthetic knowledge as particularly well suited for experimentation with new stories and sensibilities about our place in time. Making use of geologist Marcia Bjornerud's concept of 'timefulness,' the article focuses on several art projects by Rachel Sussman, Katie Paterson and Špela Petrič, whose works engage in developing a more time-literate sensibility that aims to understand how our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us. Underlining changing ways of understanding of time and space by opening up to what is referred to in the title as 'othering time,' art opens up as a discourse in its own right that can interrogate the sciences as a specific epistemological framework that is in need of revision. The author concludes with a few references to how these artistic practices change her own curatorial practice.

Open Source in the Cloud

2014 ◽  
pp. 179-191
Author(s):  
Egbert de Smet
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Power Supply ◽  
Distributed Storage ◽  
End Users ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cloud Providers ◽  
Open Standards ◽  
Living Environments ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
Opening Up

Whereas “Open Source” in software is still gaining momentum in many fields of applications, it is even more present in the “behind the curtains” scene of the Cloud. It is behind the scenes because Cloud tools are only operated by Cloud providers creating their infrastructure, not by end users. But as that infrastructure is going to be a crucial part of the IT environment of the future, like water and power supply have become for the wider living environments, it is good to note that this infrastructure is not limited to (commercial) proprietary technology and standards, but rather is subject to input from the major Open Source players. This chapter reviews the main technologies of this moment in Cloud software: CloudStack of Citrix and Apache, OpenStack of Suse and Openshift from RedHat. Also the CEPH-technology for distributed storage is added in this overview due to its obvious relevance for the Cloud. The brief review of these products confirms that FOSS indeed plays a major role in the Cloud, opening up that technology for open standards and “public” ownership of this soon-to-be an essential part of our IT environment.

User Involvement in Service Innovation Processes

2018 ◽  
pp. 42-61
Author(s):  
Hanne Westh Nicolajsen ◽  
Flemming Sorensen ◽  
Ada Scupola
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
User Involvement ◽  
Research Library ◽  
Future Workshop ◽  
The Future ◽  
Use Of Social Media ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Innovation Processes

This article presents the results of a study investigating user involvement in the idea generation phase of service innovation, and discusses advantages and limitations of such involvement. Specifically, the study compares the use of social media such as blogs and future workshops to generate idea for service innovations in the context of a research library. Our study shows that the blog is good in opening up for user contributions, while the future workshop involving users and employees is particularly good at qualifying and further developing ideas. The findings suggest therefore that methods for user involvement should be carefully selected and combined to achieve optimum benefits and avoid potential disadvantages.

Intermediality and the Future Anterior

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-143
Author(s):  
Julie Bates
Keyword(s):  
The Future ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Opening Up

Abstract This essay traces the ways in which the intermedial practices of the artist Brian O’Doherty and writer Brian Dillon cast into relief Samuel Beckett’s own intermediality, marking it as a still-relevant set of propositions for dissolving boundaries between media and posing questions about time. I propose that intermediality functions for O’Doherty as an optimistic means of opening up potential new forms and futures, but for Beckett and Dillon alike designates a negative aesthetic and political dynamic, anticipating failure even in the moment of experimentation. This time-annulling intermediality is evocative, I believe, of what Dillon describes as “a modernist future that never came to pass.”

A discussion on building technology in the 1980s - Defining new materials for the 1980s

1972 ◽  
Vol 272 (1229) ◽  
pp. 579-584
Keyword(s):  
Performance Criteria ◽  
Systematic Evaluation ◽  
New Materials ◽  
Building Science ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Building Research ◽  
Building Technology ◽  
The Future ◽  
Point Of Departure

The author’s point of departure is that building today is the early architecture of the age of science. It increasingly uses scientific methods and technologies of science. Consequently there are many pressures and necessities to innovate, but resistances exist in the form of inertia of the industry, the educational deficiencies of the professions and constructors, the demanding conditions for trouble-free design and construction, and the penalties now consequent upon trouble. In order to open the way for safe innovation there has been a shift towards regulation by performance criteria in place of the former definition by specific requirements; and in order to assess performance in advance of experience, a systematic evaluation is now available. The existence of these two developments has been made possible by the growth of building science, and they in turn define the monitoring and feed-back of experience as important functions of building research for the future. There is a need and capability developing to analyse building problems with increasing precision in several directions, and the process often defines new needs for materials and techniques. This is a centreto-periphery process, and the reverse also takes place, where product makers thrust into the market innovations which result from some matching of fresh ideas to apparent needs. In all cases the needs are defined consciously or unconsciously from the context of the subsystem within which the product or component will function. Buildings are always systems comprising many subsystems. Examples are then given of directions in which the author foresees needs for new developments being defined.

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