A Multicultural Project in a National Square: The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teresa Fiore
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
National Level ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Creative Project ◽  
Ethical Vision ◽  
Ethnic Neighborhood ◽  
Migration Experiences ◽  
Ethnic Neighborhoods

Part II (Houses) is a cultural mapping of the spaces where immigrants live/d, that is, residential buildings that have been or are intrinsically linked to the migration experiences from/to Italy as well as so-called ethnic neighborhoods. The Aperture that opens this part focuses on an area of Rome, Piazza Vittorio, which has come to represent the immigrant hub of the capital. It explores the square—a quintessential Italian space—both for its role in nation building and for its several layers of immigrant occupation. Through the analysis of Agostino Ferrente’s 2006 documusical The Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio, which recounts the creative project of forming a multi-ethnic orchestra in this piazza, the chapter highlights an interesting example of how preoccupations over the presence of immigrants can be substituted by new visions. In an area where the very meaning of “ethnic neighborhood” can be mapped at a trans-national level (multi-multi-ethnic) given the diversity of the immigrants’ origin, Ferrente’s documusical reflects a post-national scenario of cultural co-existence within an ethical vision that interestingly offers, especially in its final climax, a “success” story.

scholarly journals A large field study of relationship between indoor and outdoor climate in residential buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 2069 (1) ◽  
pp. 012247
Author(s):  
Ricardo F Rupp ◽  
Gianluca Trotta ◽  
Jørn Toftum ◽  
Rune K Andersen
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
National Level ◽  
Quality Data ◽  
Large Field ◽  
Indoor Environmental Quality ◽  
Indoor Climate ◽  
Outdoor Climate ◽  
Building Simulations ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

Abstract High-quality data on indoor climate and energy collected in buildings is required to deepen our understanding of building performance. The aim of this work was to investigate the relationship between the indoor and outdoor climate in Danish residential buildings. Field data was collected in 45 apartments from April 2019 to November 2020. Internet of things (IoT) devices were installed to record the temperature, relative humidity and CO2 concentration in the central corridor of each apartment. High CO2 concentration (above 1,000ppm) and overheating were observed in the apartments. The changeover between the heating mode and the free running mode occurred between 11.1 to 13.6°C of outdoor air temperature. The temperature setpoints of the heating systems were around 20.6-22.3°C, which could be useful values to feed building simulations in order to achieve more realistic predictions of indoor climate and energy. The results of this study improve our understanding of indoor environmental quality in residential buildings at a national level.

scholarly journals Application of a Thermal Performance-Based Model to Prediction Energy Consumption for Heating of Single-Family Residential Buildings

Energies ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 362
Author(s):  
Tomasz Szul
Keyword(s):  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Energy Demand ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Simple Procedure ◽  
National Level ◽  
Heat Consumption ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Model Quality

Energy consumption for heating of single-family residential buildings is a basic item in energy balance and significantly affects their operating costs. Accuracy of heat consumption assessment in existing buildings to a large extent determines the decision on taking actions aimed at heat consumption rationalization, both at the level of a single building and at regional or national level. In the case of energy calculations for the existing buildings, a problem often arises in the form of lack of complete architectural and construction documentation of the analyzed objects. Therefore, there is a need to search for methods that will be suitable for rapid energy analysis in existing buildings. These methods should give satisfactory results in predicting energy consumption when there is limited access to data characterizing the building. Therefore, the aim of this study was to check the usefulness of a model based on thermal characteristics for estimating energy consumption for heating in single-family residential buildings. The research was conducted on a group of 84 buildings, for which the energy characteristics were determined based on the actual energy consumption. In addition, information was collected on variables describing these buildings in terms of construction technology and building geometry, from which the following were extracted for further calculations: cubic capacity, heated area, and year of construction. This made it possible to build a prediction model, which enables the application of a fast, relatively simple procedure of estimating the final energy demand index for heating buildings. The resulting calculations were compared with actual values (calculated from energy bills) and then evaluated according to the standards for evaluating model quality proposed by the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating, and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE). In this way, it was possible to determine whether, in the absence of building documents, the indicative method gives good results when estimating the energy demand for heating single-family residential buildings.

Bundaberg North State High School ASSPA Committee: Experiencing Success at School and National Level

1999 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-27
Author(s):  
Judith Selby
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
National Level ◽  
School Level ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Indigenous Students ◽  
Secondary School Level

All of us are well aware of the problems faced by Indigenous students at the secondary school level. The intention of this article is to share a success story being experienced at Bundaberg North State High School in Queensland. How many of us can relate to the following anecdote?

scholarly journals Kyrgyz Genealogies and Lineages: Histories, Everyday Life and Patriarchal Institutions in Northwestern Kyrgyzstan

Genealogy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Light
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
National Level ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Social Worlds ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Elite Politics ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Military

Uruu patrilineages and genealogical narratives about them are important aspects of Kyrgyz social practice and reflect some tensions and contradictions in contemporary Kyrgyz self-understanding and identities. This article explores the complex relationship of patrilineal kinship to historical knowledge and lived social experience in northwestern Kyrgyzstan. The contrasting situations of men and women within patrilineages are analyzed to reveal the shifting relationships of gender, genealogy and patrilineal kinship. Local meanings and uses of genealogy and history are shown to differ from those developed at the national level as part of Kyrgyz nation-building: Narratives about local lineages and their heroes portray different sacred and social worlds than those about the hierarchical world of elite politics and the military feats of national heroes.

scholarly journals Ironies of Laboratory Work during Ghana's Second Age of Optimism

2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 363-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien Droney
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Medicine Research ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Formed Part ◽  
Medical Infrastructure

While Ghana is touted as an African success story, the young employees of a large herbal medicine research center in Ghana make sardonic and cynical remarks about the state of science in contemporary Africa. They decry the improvisation that characterizes doing science on the continent, point out what is lacking from their laboratories, and mock the ways in which their work appears embarrassingly peculiar. They claim that their labs are “not modern” and ironically refer to dissatisfying aspects of their work as “African science,” a second-rate version of science done elsewhere. This is what Achille Mbembe has called negative interpretation, where social life is understood primarily in the ways in which it differs from an assumed Western standard. These jokes reference an earlier period in Ghanaian history, when African science formed part of the project of postcolonial nation building. Scientists of the independence period constructed the scientific and medical infrastructure of Ghana to both provide for the needs of its people and to represent the status of modern Africa to the world. The apparently incongruous relationship between the cynicism of these jokes and the strain of Afro-optimism that has recently surrounded Ghana indicates a sustained shift in the identity politics of African professionals since independence. Their jokes signal their attempts at disentangling their identities from the project of African modernity, and at positioning themselves as scientists working in the context of Ghana.

scholarly journals Solutions for retrofitting existing, wooden houses in cold climates

2020 ◽  
Vol 172 ◽  
pp. 18010
Author(s):  
Bozena Dorota Hrynyszyn ◽  
Zhiyong Tian
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
National Level ◽  
Simulation Models ◽  
Energy Requirements ◽  
Cold Climates ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Indoor Climate ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Cooling Loads ◽  
Near Future

Upgrading existing one-family houses to higher energy standards can be a challenge for owners, among others, due to the unclear status of technical regulations in the case of retrofitting at the national level. Retrofitting projects face technical obstacles that can be difficult to exclude with sensible measures. As a result, retrofitting projects are more difficult to complete. How can we effectively increase the rate of retrofitting projects for private owned residential buildings? Challenges associated with a complete renovation were listed, analysed and illustrated based on one of the smallest Norwegian typical wooden houses from the 1960s. Optimal packages of solutions for the retrofitting, based on energy simulation models, were proposed. The analysis showed that existing buildings are vulnerable meeting today’s, much stronger, energy requirements equal for all buildings. More attention should be given to the development of separate regulations at the national level as well as to the development of retrofitting solutions, if the goal of increasing the number of renovations is to be achieved. The efficient use of solar energy becomes an important measure, especially in the context of expected climate change, and a key to achieve sustainable energy management and a better indoor climate. To avoid unnecessary cooling loads and ensure optimal thermal comfort for residents, overheating criteria should be included in energy requirements even in cold climates in the near future.

scholarly journals A spatiotemporal multi-hazard exposure assessment based on property data

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (9) ◽  
pp. 2127-2142 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fuchs ◽  
M. Keiler ◽  
A. Zischg
Keyword(s):  
Exposure Assessment ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
National Level ◽  
Snow Avalanches ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Data Set ◽  
River Flooding ◽  
Object Based

Abstract. The paper presents a nation-wide spatially explicit object-based assessment of buildings and citizens exposed to natural hazards in Austria, including river flooding, torrential flooding, and snow avalanches. The assessment was based on two different data sets, (a) hazard information providing input to the exposure of elements at risk, and (b) information on the building stock combined from different spatial data available on the national level. Hazard information was compiled from two different sources. For torrential flooding and snow avalanches available local-scale hazard maps were used, and for river flooding the results of the countrywide flood modelling eHORA were available. Information on the building stock contained information on the location and size of each building, as well as on the building category and the construction period. Additional information related to the individual floors, such as their height and net area, main purpose and configuration, was included for each property. Moreover, this data set has an interface to the population register and allowed, therefore, for retrieving the number of primary residents for each building. With the exception of sacral buildings, an economic module was used to compute the monetary value of buildings using (a) the information of the building register such as building type, number of storeys and utilisation, and (b) regionally averaged construction costs. It is shown that the repeatedly stated assumption of increasing exposure due to continued population growth and related increase in assets has to be carefully evaluated by the local development of building stock. While some regions have shown a clearly above-average increase in assets, other regions were characterised by a below-average development. This mirrors the topography of the country, but also the different economic activities. While hotels and hostels are extraordinarily prone to torrential flooding, commercial buildings as well as buildings used for recreational purposes are considerably exposed to river flooding. Residential buildings have shown an average exposure, compared to the number of buildings of this type in the overall building stock. In sum, around 5 % of all buildings are exposed to torrential flooding, and around 9 % to river flooding, with around 1 % of the buildings stock being multi-exposed. The temporal assessment of exposure has shown considerable differences in the dynamics of exposure to different hazard categories in comparison to the overall property stock. In conclusion, the presented object-based assessment is an important and suitable tool for nation-wide exposure assessment and may be used in operational risk management.

scholarly journals Carbon Monitor, a near-real-time daily dataset of global CO2 emission from fossil fuel and cement production

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhu Liu ◽  
Philippe Ciais ◽  
Zhu Deng ◽  
Steven J. Davis ◽  
Bo Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Fossil Fuel ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Electrical Power ◽  
National Level ◽  
Daily Basis ◽  
Maritime Transportation ◽  
Activity Data ◽  
Diverse Range ◽  
Cement Production

Abstract We constructed a near-real-time daily CO2 emission dataset, the Carbon Monitor, to monitor the variations in CO2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion and cement production since January 1, 2019, at the national level, with near-global coverage on a daily basis and the potential to be frequently updated. Daily CO2 emissions are estimated from a diverse range of activity data, including the hourly to daily electrical power generation data of 31 countries, monthly production data and production indices of industry processes of 62 countries/regions, and daily mobility data and mobility indices for the ground transportation of 416 cities worldwide. Individual flight location data and monthly data were utilized for aviation and maritime transportation sector estimates. In addition, monthly fuel consumption data corrected for the daily air temperature of 206 countries were used to estimate the emissions from commercial and residential buildings. This Carbon Monitor dataset manifests the dynamic nature of CO2 emissions through daily, weekly and seasonal variations as influenced by workdays and holidays, as well as by the unfolding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Carbon Monitor near-real-time CO2 emission dataset shows a 8.8% decline in CO2 emissions globally from January 1st to June 30th in 2020 when compared with the same period in 2019 and detects a regrowth of CO2 emissions by late April, which is mainly attributed to the recovery of economic activities in China and a partial easing of lockdowns in other countries. This daily updated CO2 emission dataset could offer a range of opportunities for related scientific research and policy making.

Republican Groups, Ideas, and Identities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Rossol
Keyword(s):  
Weimar Republic ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Political ◽  
Success Story ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Political Agents

By redirecting our attention away from the political extremes and to those who passionately supported and defended the republic, this chapter demonstrates that the republicans were an important factor within Germany’s political landscape. As energetic supporters for Weimar’s young state, they showed their commitment publicly at local and national level and actively mobilized support. The chapter examines the different republican groups and alliances, what they expected of the republic and how ambivalences and differences emerged within the republican camp. A focus on Weimar’s republicans as significant political agents does not rewrite the history of Weimar Republic as a success story, but it adds an important dimension to the history of Germany’s first republican democracy.

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