Leadership of place in virtual environments

Place and space concepts help to illuminate how the place an organization inhabits and related beliefs have a significant impact on leadership processes. While places often have a physical presence, a sense of place is socially constructed by those who interact in it. This article offers analysis of how virtual environments can be seen as socially constructed places and how that conceptualization impacts leadership, both in the environment acting as a leadership substitute and how people engage in virtual leadership. This conceptual analysis occurs by integrating existing literature on space, place, technology affordances, and virtual leadership, as well as analyzing current virtual work environments and virtual leaders. We illustrate how virtual places can offer affordances for leadership sensemaking of political leaders, virtual place-making by social media influencers, algorithmic leadership, and shared leadership in the gig economy. We close the article by discussing how current leaders can consider the affordances of virtual environments and needed future needed research.

Afforestation of Urban Brownfields as a Nature-Based Solution. Experiences from a Project in Leipzig (Germany)

In Leipzig, despite strong growth, reurbanization and re-densification, in the last decade it has still been possible for the city to green brownfields with a new type of green space: urban forests. The background to this was of course the city’s decades of shrinkage and the emergence of numerous brownfields. The city of Leipzig started urban redevelopment in 2001 and pursued the strategy “more green, less density” in its planning. This included the creation of traditional and new green spaces as well as temporary uses. New green space concepts were also experimented with, including pocket forests and urban forests on larger, inner-city brownfields. This pursued several objectives: the forest was meant to contribute to improving the urban climatic and air-hygienic situation, to enhance the value of adjacent areas, create new recreational opportunities and contribute to increasing biodiversity. Another aspect is also the financing, for instance, the afforestation of brownfields is the cheapest way to create greenery. As a result of almost ten years of interdisciplinary monitoring of the project, it can now be stated that urban forests fulfil the objectives and are accepted and used by the population. Urban forests do not constitute an independent or new type of nature-based solutions they create new ecosystems from existing abandoned, brownfields, or neglected area.

Translations in Time

This text is a modified excerpt from YEAR 1, a project in the reconfiguration of knowledge (as well as a book forthcoming from MIT Press in 2021). The focus is on the first century that starts the numerical countdown to the present. All of the schemata of modernity—time, space, concepts, and categories [as in Kant's First Critique]—are put to the test of comprehending this alleged beginning, and none survives unscathed. Walter Benjamin's understanding of the task of the translator, when applied to historical rather than linguistic translation, provides the methodological armature for the analysis. The excerpt printed here is the methodological introduction to Chapter 2: “Translations in Time.”

The Effect of Miniature Home, Pictures, and Spatial Intelligences on Students' Understanding of Geometric Space Concepts

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menentukan apakah ada efek interaktif dari media (miniatur rumah vs gambar) dan kecerdasan spasial pada kemampuan untuk memahami konsep ruang. Hipotesis yang diajukan adalah ada pengaruh penggunaan media (miniatur rumah vs gambar) dan kecerdasan spasial terhadap pemahaman konsep spasial siswa sekolah dasar kelas satu. Subjek penelitian adalah siswa dari sekolah dasar di Surabaya yang berjumlah 66 siswa yang ditugaskan. ke dalam kelas kontrol dan eksperimen. Penelitian ini menggunakan desain eksperimen kelompok kontrol posttest asigment acak. Data dikumpulkan dengan menggunakan tes kecerdasan spasial dan pemahaman konsep ruang. Data dianalisis menggunakan ANOVA setelah tes untuk homogenitas dan normalitas dilakukan, Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan bahwa (1) ada pengaruh yang signifikan menggunakan miniatur rumah, gambar, dan kecerdasan spasial pada pemahaman siswa tentang konsep spasial, (2) ada pengaruh yang signifikan dari tingkat kecerdasan spasial dalam memahami konsep ruang. Kelompok siswa yang memiliki kecerdasan spasial tinggi mendapatkan hasil belajar ruang geometrik lebih baik daripada kelompok siswa yang memiliki kecerdasan spasial rendah, dan (3) tidak ada pengaruh interaktif antara pembelajaran menggunakan rumah miniatur sebagai media dan gambar sebagai media dan kecerdasan spasial siswa pada subjek ruang geometris untuk siswa pertama sekolah dasar

Spaces in Spatial Science and Urban Applications—State of the Art Review

In spatial science and urban applications, “space" is presented by multiple disciplines as a notion referencing our living environment. Space is used as a general term to help understand particular characteristics of the environment. However, the definition and perception of space varies and these variations have to be harmonised. For example, space may have diverse definitions and classification, the same environment may be abstracted/modelled by contradicting notions of space, which can lead to inconsistencies and misunderstandings. In this paper, we seek to investigate and document the state-of-the-art in the research of “space” regarding its definition, classification, modelling and utilization (2D/3D) in spatial sciences and urban applications. We focus on positioning, navigation, building micro-climate and thermal comfort, landscape, urban planning and design, urban heat island, interior design and planning, transportation and intelligent space. We review 147 research papers, technical reports and on-line resources. We compare the presented space concepts with respect to five criteria—classification, boundary, modelling components, use of standards and granularity. The review inventory is intended for both scientists and professionals in the spatial industry, such as companies, national mapping agencies and governments, and aim to provide a reference to better understand and employ the “space” while working across disciplines.