scholarly journals Emerging Urban Mobility Technologies through the Lens of Everyday Urban Aesthetics

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miloš N. Mladenović ◽  
Sanna Lehtinen ◽  
Emily Soh ◽  
Karel Martens ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Aesthetic Understanding ◽  
Urban Aesthetics ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Shed Light

The goal of this article is to deepen the concept of emerging urban mobility technology. Drawing on philosophical everyday and urban aesthetics, as well as the postphenomenological strand in the philosophy of technology, we explicate the relation between everyday aesthetic experience and urban mobility commoning. Thus, we shed light on the central role of aesthetics for providing depth to the important experiential and value-driven meaning of contemporary urban mobility. We use the example of self-driving vehicle (SDV), as potentially mundane, public, dynamic, and social urban robots, for expanding the range of perspectives relevant for our relations to urban mobility technology. We present the range of existing SDV conceptualizations and contrast them with experiential and aesthetic understanding of urban mobility. In conclusion, we reflect on the potential undesired consequences from the depolitization of technological development, and potential new pathways for speculative thinking concerning urban mobility futures in responsible innovation processes.

Urban Aesthetics and Technology

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanna Lehtinen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Urban Aesthetics ◽  
The City

Technology in one form or another has always been a part of urban life. Its development and uses have traditionally been dictated by the practical needs of the community. However, technologies also impact how a city looks and feels. Some technologies have a clear perceivable presence, whereas others are more invisibly embedded into the material structures of the city. This chapter is a study of how the aesthetic features of cities manifest through and in relation to technologies. The chapter bridges recent developments in philosophical urban aesthetics and contemporary approaches in the philosophy of technology. Central concepts include perception, aesthetic experience, aesthetic value, affordance, and attention. The chapter presents urban mobility as an example of how technology can be studied through the framework of urban aesthetics. The final part of the chapter highlights some implications of the aesthetics of technology for urban design.

scholarly journals Emotional strategizing in service innovation

2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catharina von Koskull ◽  
Tore Strandvik ◽  
Bård Tronvoll
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Strategy Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Innovation Processes ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to shed light on an aspect of service innovation processes that has remained fairly hidden so far, namely, the role of emotions. Design/methodology/approach – The authors use the strategizing approach from strategy research, which focusses on detailed processes, practices, and discourse, to understand the influence of emotions on service innovation processes. The empirical data stem from a longitudinal ethnographic study of a service innovation process. Findings – In the investigated case, the dominant emotion of anxiety is revealed. The authors focus on this emotion in order to explore how it affects the innovation process itself and the outcome. The authors identify five emotion-driven practices that form elements of what the authors label emotional strategizing. Practical implications – Emotion seems to give energy and direction to the service innovation process. This is both positive and challenging for top-level managers. Originality/value – The authors reveal a hidden aspect of service innovation processes – the effect of emotions. Furthermore, the authors show that emotions are important because they give energy and direction to the innovation work, and emerge in practices. Emotional strategizing, as a new term, gives visibility to this important issue.

scholarly journals Disruptive technologies transforming urban mobility? The role of the ecobee urban maglev system in the seoul traffic vision 2030, South Korea

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (3 suppl. 1) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
Martina Hekler ◽  
Johannes Klühspies
Keyword(s):  
Global Scale ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Systems ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Disruptive Technologies ◽  
Mobility Strategies ◽  
Adverse Impacts ◽  
Vision 2030 ◽  
Innovation Processes

The dynamics and extent of disruptive technologies have been very well developed in Asian cities by the beginning of the 21st century, and are becoming particularly future-oriented. It also appears that urban mobility strategies in Asia are hardly slowed by resistance such as seen in the European context, where holding on to existing systems is the norm. The effects of accelerated mobility strategies in Asia are already apparent compared to what may be expected in Europe. So one could ask, which innovation processes will allow mobility to further develop? How will urban transport systems likely change in the future to minimize adverse impacts of current forms of mobility? In looking forward, any implementation of innovative mobility strategies heavily depends on spatial structures, transport networks and technologies as well as a political planning and decision-making. In Asia, concepts of transport and innovative transportation concepts (such as Rotem’s Ecobee Urban Maglev) are developing with considerable promise, which, if successful, can turn into trendsetters with considerable future relevance on a global scale.

An Aesthetic Grounding for the Role of Concepts in Experience in Kant, Wittgenstein and Mcdowell

2007 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-245
Author(s):  
Tim Thornton
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Aesthetic Judgement ◽  
Shed Light

The paper begins by asking, in the context of McDowell's Mind and World, what guides empirical judgement. It then critically examines David Bell's account of the role of aesthetic judgement, or experience, in Kant and Wittgenstein, in shedding light on empirical judgement. Bell's suggestion that a Wittgensteinian account of aesthetic experience can guide the application of empirical concepts is criticised: neither the discussion of aesthetic judgement nor aesthetic experience helps underpin empirical judgement. But attention to the parallel between Wittgenstein's discussion of understanding rules and the question of how empirical concepts can be applied to particulars suggests how to dissolve the felt need for an answer. This in turn helps shed light on McDowell's conceptualist account of experience.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriko Saito
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Art Of Living ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Everyday Aesthetics ◽  
Shed Light

One mission of everyday aesthetics is to unearth hidden potentials behind the façade of ordinariness that makes up our daily lives. The art of living includes cultivating a capacity and sensibility to shed light on the all-too-familiar and to be able to derive a fresh aesthetic experience. Enriching individual lives in this way is one important role of everyday aesthetics....

scholarly journals Technology in the Age of Innovation: Responsible Innovation as a New Subdomain Within the Philosophy of Technology

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lucien von Schomberg ◽  
Vincent Blok
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Environmental Crisis ◽  
Responsible Innovation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Economic Paradigm ◽  
Phenomenological Perspective ◽  
The Right ◽  
Innovation Processes

AbstractPraised as a panacea for resolving all societal issues, and self-evidently presupposed as technological innovation, the concept of innovation has become the emblem of our age. This is especially reflected in the context of the European Union, where it is considered to play a central role in both strengthening the economy and confronting the current environmental crisis. The pressing question is how technological innovation can be steered into the right direction. To this end, recent frameworks of Responsible Innovation (RI) focus on how to enable outcomes of innovation processes to become societally desirable and ethically acceptable. However, questions with regard to the technological nature of these innovation processes are rarely raised. For this reason, this paper raises the following research question: To what extent is RI possible in the current age, where the concept of innovation is predominantly presupposed as technological innovation? On the one hand, we depart from a post-phenomenological perspective to evaluate the possibility of RI in relation to the particular technological innovations discussed in the RI literature. On the other hand, we emphasize the central role innovation plays in the current age, and suggest that the presupposed concept of innovation projects a techno-economic paradigm. In doing so, we ultimately argue that in the attempt to steer innovation, frameworks of RI are in fact steered by the techno-economic paradigm inherent in the presupposed concept of innovation. Finally, we account for what implications this has for the societal purpose of RI.

scholarly journals Veloziferisch (Velociferian)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Norton
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Natural Philosophy ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Thomas Carlyle ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Public ◽  
Erwin Schrödinger ◽  
Organic Growth ◽  
The Relationship

The lexeme veloziferisch (velociferian) was first coined by Goethe in an unsent letter from 1825 and entered the public stage four years later with the second edition of the novel second edition of the novel Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, oder die Entsagenden (1829; Wilhelm Meister’s Journeyman Years, or The Renunciants). As a portmanteau, the neologism, which is composed of the Italian velocità and the German luziferisch, combines two central elements of the Goethean imaginary: the accelerated velocity of modern life and the “luciferian” function of negation. Das Veloziferische marks a dangerous speed at which organic growth is outpaced by the rapid acceleration of technological development. At velociferian speeds, the otherwise figurative role of negation in Goethe’s philosophy of nature takes on a disfiguring function, highlighted most clearly by the techno-accelerationist allegory Faust. The invention of this term has prompted recent investigations into the relationship between technological development and social acceleration in modernity. Furthermore, an appreciation of Goethe’s critique of the velociferian enables a fuller understanding of his unique position in relation to broader trends in natural philosophy and the philosophy of biology (Spinoza, Schelling, and Erwin Schrödinger), in addition to the philosophy of technology (Thomas Carlyle and Bruno Latour).

Urban Mobility—Urban Discovery

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-58
Author(s):  
Jonathan Maskit ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Or Efficiency ◽  
Affective Characteristics ◽  
The Social ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Transportation Technologies

In this paper I investigate how different modes of urban transportation shape our experience of the urban environment. My goal is to argue that how we move through a space is not merely a question of convenience or efficiency. Rather, our transportation technologies can fundamentally shift how we experience where we are. I propose a framework for considering mobility from the standpoint of phenomenological everyday aesthetics considering the social, somatic, temporal-epistemic, and affective characteristics of experience. I then suggest a typology of different forms of urban mobility distinguishing between private and public forms of transportation as well as between faster and slower modes. I next suggest a trio of factors—speed, ability to survey one’s surroundings, and ease of interruption—that play into how we experience an urban environment while discovering it by means of mobility. By applying the framework of experience and the trio of factors to the typology of transportation modes I show how each of them can foster or hinder an aesthetic experience of the urban environment. I conclude by reflecting on some further issues for investigation including the role of power in urban space, questions concerning mobility and difference (class, race, dis/ability, etc.), the place of technological mediation in urban mobility, and the role of spatial planning.

The role of proto-institutions within the change of service ecosystems

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (5) ◽  
pp. 609-635 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Kleinaltenkamp ◽  
Daniela Corsaro ◽  
Roberta Sebastiani
Keyword(s):  
Design Methodology ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Urban Mobility ◽  
Specific Service ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Patterns ◽  
Institutional Settings ◽  
Service Ecosystems ◽  
Shed Light

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of proto-institutions that are new institutional subsystems that subsequently affect the current institutional arrangements in the evolution of service ecosystems. Design/methodology/approach To shed light on the mode of action of proto-institutions, the authors investigate the changes of three service ecosystems in Italy: the health care ecosystem, the food-supply ecosystem and the urban mobility ecosystem. Findings First, the paper elucidates how changes of service ecosystems are triggered by megatrends that are external to specific service ecosystems. Second, the study empirically shows how service ecosystems and their institutional settings change through the establishment of proto-institutions. Originality/value Responding to recent calls to investigate in more detail how actors challenge dominant social patterns and to conduct research to better understand how changes at the level of individual actors may lead to shifts within overall service ecosystems, this paper is one of the first to empirically study the relationships between phenomena that are external to service ecosystems, the emergence of proto-institutions and the resulting changes of institutional arrangements.

The Role of Zinc in Thyroid Hormones Metabolism

2019 ◽  
Vol 89 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 80-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juliana Soares Severo ◽  
Jennifer Beatriz Silva Morais ◽  
Taynáh Emannuelle Coelho de Freitas ◽  
Ana Letícia Pereira Andrade ◽  
Mayara Monte Feitosa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Thyroid Hormones ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Thyroid Stimulating Hormone ◽  
Zinc Transporters ◽  
Serum Concentrations ◽  
Metabolic Adaptations ◽  
Serum T3 ◽  
Regulatory Effects ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract. Thyroid hormones play an important role in body homeostasis by facilitating metabolism of lipids and glucose, regulating metabolic adaptations, responding to changes in energy intake, and controlling thermogenesis. Proper metabolism and action of these hormones requires the participation of various nutrients. Among them is zinc, whose interaction with thyroid hormones is complex. It is known to regulate both the synthesis and mechanism of action of these hormones. In the present review, we aim to shed light on the regulatory effects of zinc on thyroid hormones. Scientific evidence shows that zinc plays a key role in the metabolism of thyroid hormones, specifically by regulating deiodinases enzymes activity, thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) and thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) synthesis, as well as by modulating the structures of essential transcription factors involved in the synthesis of thyroid hormones. Serum concentrations of zinc also appear to influence the levels of serum T3, T4 and TSH. In addition, studies have shown that Zinc transporters (ZnTs) are present in the hypothalamus, pituitary and thyroid, but their functions remain unknown. Therefore, it is important to further investigate the roles of zinc in regulation of thyroid hormones metabolism, and their importance in the treatment of several diseases associated with thyroid gland dysfunction.

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