scholarly journals Writing the Square: Paul Carter's Nearamnew and the Art of Federation

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Rutherford
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Negotiation

Visiting Australia for "The Year Of the Built Environment City Talk" Beatriz Colomina said of Federation Square" It wears crazy-paving clothing all over it. What is it saying?" In this paper I focus on some of that "crazy paving", Paul Carter’s artwork Nearamnew, a work that marks the ground of Federation Square as a site of historical, social and political negotiation. Nearamnew, I argue, is a strangely joyous promise of a different kind of locality and a different way of thinking, writing and speaking into the impasses of Australian place.

scholarly journals In Memoriam Indoor Fountains: Promenade Concerts and the Built Environment

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hicks
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Open Spaces ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Potted Plants ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
History Of ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Negotiation

Discussions of promenade concerts, at least in the United Kingdom, tend to run along one of two lines: either the format is emblematic of attempts to popularize classical music or (in the famous case of the Last Night of the BBC Proms) it is symptomatic of a contested cultural nationalism. An alternative line of inquiry is to consider promenade concerts as part of the built environment. Until 2010 the fountain at the Royal Albert Hall was a mainstay of musical promenading; it had been so for over a century and a half. Such fountains, often accompanied by potted plants and Arcadian décor, were said to cool the concert hall and freshen the air, especially when their sprinkles were supplemented with blocks of imported ice. They occupied a prominent place in a concert architecture that encouraged mobility and informality, drawing on a long tradition of outdoor promenading that had gradually moved indoors. The history of concert hall suggests that the promenade phenomenon constituted not only a site of social and political negotiation (as it has typically been described), but also a staging post in the enclosure of hitherto open spaces and an example of the Victorian desire to control the climate of public assembly.

Global Justice at the Municipal Scale

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fonna Forman ◽  
Teddy Cruz
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Global Justice ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Global City ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
A Site ◽  
The City

Cities or municipalities are often the most immediate institutional facilitators of global justice. Thus, it is important for cosmopolitans and other theorists interested in global justice to consider the importance of the correspondence between global theories and local actions. In this chapter, the authors explore the role that municipalities can play in interpreting and executing principles of global justice. They offer a way of thinking about the cosmopolitan or global city not as a gentrified and commodified urban space, but as a site of local governance consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitan moral aims. They work to show some ways in which the city of Medellín, Colombia, has taken significant steps in that direction. The chapter focuses especially on how it did so and how it might serve as a model in some important ways for the transformation of other cities globally in a direction more consistent with egalitarian cosmopolitanism.

scholarly journals Collecting Built Environment Information Using UAVs: Time and Applicability in Building Inspection Activities

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 4731
Author(s):  
Rachele Grosso ◽  
Umberto Mecca ◽  
Giuseppe Moglia ◽  
Francesco Prizzon ◽  
Manuela Rebaudengo
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Aerial Vehicles ◽  
Ex Post ◽  
Ex Ante ◽  
Way Of Thinking

The Italian way of thinking about maintenance is too often one-sided. Indeed, it is considered not so much as a useful practice to prevent the occurrence of a fault (ex ante), but as an intervention to solve it (ex post). Analyzing the legislation relating to the construction sector, it can be seen that it does not clearly define the responsibilities, timescales and methods in which maintenance interventions must be planned and carried out. For this reason, this practice is still very weak compared, for example, to the industrial sector, where it is an established practice. Currently, the complexity of reading the maintenance plans drawn up by designers and the considerable costs associated with maintenance operations discourage owners and managers from even carrying out preliminary inspection operations. This research aims to stimulate these stakeholders to carry out inspection operations regularly, highlighting their costs and benefits. In particular, working on a case study in Piedmont, the costs of visual inspections carried out in the traditional way are compared with those that would be incurred if unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were used. Finally, the collateral benefits of inspections carried out with UAVs are highlighted.

Texts Don't have Ideologies

1995 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-34 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Fowl
Keyword(s):  
Social Practices ◽  
Ideological Criticism ◽  
Competing Interests ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Bible ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Accepted Practice ◽  
A Site

AbstractOver the past fifteen years "ideological criticism" of the Bible has grown to become an accepted practice within the academy. It has provided a site where feminists, Marxists, liberation theologians and other interested parties have been able to engage in discussion aimed largely at displaying the wide variety of competing interests operating in both the production and interpretation of the Bible. Unfortunately, it is common among ideological critics of the Bible to speak of biblical texts as having ideologies. The thrust of this article is to claim that this way of thinking confuses a wide range of issues concerning the relationships between texts and the social practices which both generated those texts and are sustained by interpretations of particular texts. This position is defended by an examination of the various ways in which the Abraham story was read from Genesis through Philo, Paul, and Justin Martyr.

James Hillman's approach to architecture and the built environment: some conceptual complications and an attempt to resolve them

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Lucy Huskinson
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
The World ◽  
Anima Mundi ◽  
A Site

This paper examines ambiguities and tensions within James Hillman's ideas about the psychological value of the architecture of the built environment in contrast to that of the natural world. In his published works Hillman often describes the built environment and the natural world as equivalent in value, but on other occasions he celebrates the latter to the detriment of former. These contrasting approaches have significant implications for his celebrated conception of anima mundi, where psyche is found in the ‘outside’ word as much as ‘within’ our individual minds. The decisive question therefore is whether the psyche for Hillman is found as readily within the built environment as it is the natural world. This paper argues that Hillman's overall position does not allow a split between city spaces and the natural world: that the built environment is no less a site for psyche than the natural world. After describing instances of Hillman's apparent denigration of the built environment within his published and unpublished archival material, I outline a resolution to the perceived split by utilising his notions of ‘pathologizing’ and aesthetics. The paper concludes that not all, but most, buildings and urban spaces fail to house psyche in the world. For Hillman, only a built environment that is able to engage our aesthetic sensibilities can succeed in doing so, but the vast majority of urban spaces remain anaesthetised by the ego's preoccupation with all things superficial, pleasurable, pretty, and functional.

scholarly journals Fragments: A Poetic Approach To Place-Making

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Lishak
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Critical Regionalism ◽  
A Site ◽  
Contemporary Architecture

The notion of regional particularity and sensitivity to place remains in constant struggle with the persistent autonomous approach evident in most contemporary architecture, which under the pressures of globalization has paved the path toward commodification and the creation of universal non-places. Meanwhile the decline of craftsmanship within architecture and the perpetual emphasis on visual images and iconic forms continues to undermine human connection to the built environment. The use of Fragments in architectural design involves a distinct understanding of perception of space that takes its theoretical basis in the communicative and situational character of Synthetic Cubism and Picturesque Landscape theory. Brought into an architectural context, these theories work in contrast to the rational approach based on proportion and perspectival imagery, bringing focus towards the experience of the body moving through space with emphasis on the poetics of construction, materiality, corporeal experience, and details that express craftsmanship, meaning, and emotion. Guided by Kenneth Frampton’s theory of Critical Regionalism with the aim of resisting placelessness, the nature of such tectonic articulation is informed by the context and specificity of a site.

The Baratillo and the Enlightened City

2018 ◽  
pp. 36-60
Author(s):  
Andrew Konove
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Apparent Contradiction ◽  
The Government ◽  
A Site

This chapter examines the Baratillo’s role in Enlightenment-era reforms to Mexico City’s public administration and built environment. While New Spain’s Bourbon rulers took a number of steps to transform the physical and social worlds of Mexico City’s poor, the government never targeted the Baratillo—a site that was synonymous with crime, license, and plebeian sociability. To understand this apparent contradiction, the chapter examines the politics of urban reform in eighteenth-century Mexico City, which saw royal, viceregal, and local authorities jostle for control over urban public spaces.

In the Threshold

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 449-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa A. Mazzei ◽  
Alecia Y. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
Deleuze And Guattari ◽  
Individual Subject ◽  
Collaborative Project ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Individual ◽  
A Site

In this paper, we describe our encounters in and passes through the figuration of the threshold as producing writing between-the-two: or, loss of the individual subject. We describe how in the threshold, we meet in that in-between space, a space of shared deterritorialization in which we constitute one another. Also, we describe writing between-the-two in the threshold as a site of embodiment, of affect. In thinking of how to articulate our way of thinking and writing together as between-the-two and as different than a collaborative project where two “I”s contribute pieces both with and independent of the other, we take our cue from Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt's (2009) Between the Two. In this book, they articulate a way of thinking and writing inspired by Deleuze and Guattari's collaborative work as that which is not a working together, but a working in the gap “between the two” (Deleuze & Parnet, 1987/2002, p. 13). This spark of creativity in the gap is both like and unlike what we will explain in this article. Like Gale and Wyatt, we lean on figurations and concepts in the writings of Deleuze and Guattari as a referent; however, our between-the-two is pursued more deliberately through a materialist knowing in being that produces our becoming with and in a digital threshold.

scholarly journals Painting as Critique: Oil Painting as a Site for Social and Political Negotiation in Syria

2016 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Bank
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
History Painting ◽  
Oil Painting ◽  
Political Messages ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Academic Genres ◽  
A Site ◽  
Political Negotiation

AbstractOil painting in the European manner was closely linked to questions of modernity in the Arab world and was often intimately connected with discussions pertaining to national independence and social progress. By reference to the work of the early Syrian painter Tawfiq Tarek, this article discusses oil painting in Syria as a site to negotiating questions of modernity and social and political change. As was the case with his peers from other Arab countries, Tarek, despite having received his training in Paris, was not interested in the avant-garde art movements that sought to disrupt artistic traditions, but preferred to remain within established, academic genres. For him, genres such as history painting and even Orientalism served to convey subversive political messages and declare his commitment to progressive and nationalist ideas, thus linking him and his work to notions of “committed” art.

Estimation of solids loadings to rainfall-runoff unit operations using a unit pollutograph concept for source area watersheds

2006 ◽  
Vol 54 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 363-369 ◽  
Author(s):  
Y. Sheng ◽  
J. Sansalone ◽  
F. Calomino
Keyword(s):  
Water Quality ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Source Area ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Rainfall Runoff ◽  
Unit Hydrograph ◽  
Water Quality Data ◽  
Unit Operations ◽  
A Site ◽  
Runoff Events

Source area watershed in the built environment deliver significant loads of solids and constituents such as metals, organics and phosphorus associated with solids. The ability to model the mass delivery process of solids in small urban watersheds is essential for advancement of rainfall-runoff quantity and quality control design in the built environment. In this study the hydrologic concepts of the unit hydrograph (UH) and instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) were used to support the concepts of a unit pollutograph (UP) and an instantaneous unit pollutograph (IUP). These latter two concepts were developed as analogous concepts for estimation of solids mass transport loading as a pollutograph from source area watersheds. Relationships between solids mass and hydrologic volume were based on relationships that expressed either a first-order or zero-order relationship between solids mass and volumetric transport. The resulting concepts were applied to historical rainfall-runoff events where the hydrologic and water quality measurements had been conducted. From this development a site mean IUH and IUP determined from the rainfall-runoff record and water quality data, the corresponding site mean UH and UP were developed for solids. The hydrographs and solid pollutographs generated by convolution of the UH and UP compared well with measurements, indicating the feasibility of the concept.

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