Exploring Curation as a Path Towards Decolonizing Education

As part of my Doctor of Education program, I was asked to study Dr. Marie Battiste’s (2017) book Decolonizing Education: Nourishing the Learning Spirit. In response to that assignment, I built a WordPress site as a way to experiment with crossing boundaries of physical and digital places, between different Indigenous knowledges and notions of teaching and learning. While building the site, I looked for localized examples of Battiste’s concepts and ideas among the Inuvialuit, the Indigenous group with which I am the most familiar, in what became an exploration of the wonderful work being done in the Inuvialuit Settlement Region to preserve the culture and decolonize ways of thinking. I knew some of these resources existed, but was surprised by the depth and variety of materials available. In this paper, I present that website as an experimental example of digital curation that stitches together the book, a series of digital artefacts found via Internet searches and my own reflections on those artefacts. While building it, I did not seek out answers but instead explored the possibilities of curation as a path to decolonization education. The resulting site design is both personal and incomplete. Through this process, I hope to open generative cracks that provoke new ways of thinking about digital curation as a means of supporting active engagement in the complicated and necessary conversations regarding decolonization.

Information Component of Branding: Case of Public Catering Institutions

Given the widespread penetration of Internet technology in marketing practices, one of which is branding, accelerating the internetization of business processes due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the requirements of social distancing, continuous improvement and expansion of online branding tools, the task of defining and justifying of the role of branding informational component becomes actual. The proposed article is devoted to solving this issue on the example of cases of catering establishments. The application of a set of scientific methods, including review-analytical, system, case-method, induction method, and processing of publications in professional and specialised publications, media materials, social media content, made it possible to distinguish technological and content components in the information dimension of catering establishments’ branding. The content component includes: 1) development of the concept or “legend” of the brand – its positioning in a competitive environment, which determines the key messages aimed at ensuring brand recognition and identification; 2) visual and verbal expression of the agreed concept of the brand: – visual information – logo, room design, staff uniform, site design, representations in social networks; – verbal component – slogan, menu, style and content of messages. The technological component of the information dimension of branding includes those software and technology tools through which information is disseminated about the brand and communication with the customer environment: official websites of institutions, their representation in social networks, mobile applications, messengers, online advertising. It is proved that effective branding involves a harmonious combination of content and technological components. The emphasis on technology and failures in the content component create risks of reputational and financial losses of the enterprise.

Perencanaan Desain TapakObyekWisataAlam Di KPH Unit XII LadongiKabupaten Kolaka Timur

Perencanaan tapak yang baik sangat perlukan untuk menciptakan kawasan hutan dapat terus lestari. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu (1) menganalisis potensi obyek wisata alam di KPH Unit XII Ladongi; dan (2) membuat rencana desain tapak obyek wisata alam di KPH Unit XII Ladongi. Metode yang digunakan yaitu (1) kualitas biofisik kawasan, (2) analisis spasial yang mengacu pada Peraturan Menteri Lingkungan Hidup Dan Kehutanan Republik Indonesia Nomor P.31/MenLHK/Setjen/Kum.1/3/2016 dan Peraturan Direktur Jenderal Pengelolaan Hutan Produksi Lestari Nomor: P.4/PHPL/SET/4/2017.Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu (1) potensi obyek wisata alam diantaranya puncak Lalingato, sungai Simbune, sungai Loea, sungai Ladongi, sungai Andowengga dan air jatuh Taore. Kesesuaian biofisik kawasan masuk dalam kategori sesuai dan sangat sesuai untuk dijadikan sebagai obyek wisata alam, (2) Adanya pembagianruangpublik dan ruangusaha pada obyek dan dayatarikwisataalam wilayah KPH Ladongi. Kata Kunci : Desain Tapak, WisataAlam, LadongiGood site planning is very necessary to create sustainable forest areas. The aims of this research are (1) to analyze the potential of natural tourism objects in KPH Unit XII Ladongi; and (2) make a site design plan for natural tourism objects in KPH Unit XII Ladongi. The methods used are (1) the biophysical quality of the area, (2) spatial analysis which refers to the Regulation of the Minister of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia Number P.31/MenLHK/Setjen/Kum.1/3/2016 and the Regulation of the Director General of Production Forest Management. Lestari Number: P.4/PHPL/SET/4/2017.. The results of this study are (1) the potential for natural tourism objects including the Lalingato peak, Simbune river, Loea river, Ladongi river, Andowengga river and Taore waterfall. The biophysical suitability of the area is included in the appropriate category and is very suitable to be used as a natural tourism object, (2) There is a division of public space and business space on objects and natural tourist attractions in the Ladongi KPH area.Keywords: Site Design, Nature Tourism, Ladongi

Algorithmic Toolmaking: Parameter Thinking in Landscape Architecture

<p>This thesis interrogates the contentious integration of digital technologies into the field of landscape architecture. Identifying that an application of computational technique is largely unknown, the research delves into the scripting of geometry relationships with the use of the tool ‘Grasshopper’ in the context of landscape architecture. The discourse surrounding the appropriation of digital technology in assistance to landscape architecture is seemingly controversial with an apparent resistance in favour of traditional methodologies of site design. It is commonly stated that, digital software tends to be ‘too architectural’ and therefore less tailored to the open systems that landscape architects contend with. The tendency of contemporary software is to mimic the analogue process and while useful in representation and drawing production - these programs are scale-less and detached from reality. It is affirmed by academics such as Bradley Cantrell and Caroline Westort that landscape architecture needs more algorithmic attention. Stressing the construction of relationships between design-move and site condition. Parameter thinking infers a method of rule setting and dedication to the settling of boundaries in which the potentials of site intervention has room to shift. Geometries, points, curves and planes provide such palette. Abstraction is a primary conceptual driver of any drawing convention yet Grasshopper offers a more dynamic and animated process of conceptual development. The abstraction of site into such geometries grants a dynamic, shifting and generative paradigm to design and toolmaking. This thesis is to unfold the paradigm of operating within such a toolset adopting the use of Grasshopper almost exclusively as a way of engaging with conceptual development. Such an interface allows this thesis to note the performance of an algorithmic toolset and adopt an algorithmic mind set.</p>

Algorithmic Toolmaking: Parameter Thinking in Landscape Architecture

<p>This thesis interrogates the contentious integration of digital technologies into the field of landscape architecture. Identifying that an application of computational technique is largely unknown, the research delves into the scripting of geometry relationships with the use of the tool ‘Grasshopper’ in the context of landscape architecture. The discourse surrounding the appropriation of digital technology in assistance to landscape architecture is seemingly controversial with an apparent resistance in favour of traditional methodologies of site design. It is commonly stated that, digital software tends to be ‘too architectural’ and therefore less tailored to the open systems that landscape architects contend with. The tendency of contemporary software is to mimic the analogue process and while useful in representation and drawing production - these programs are scale-less and detached from reality. It is affirmed by academics such as Bradley Cantrell and Caroline Westort that landscape architecture needs more algorithmic attention. Stressing the construction of relationships between design-move and site condition. Parameter thinking infers a method of rule setting and dedication to the settling of boundaries in which the potentials of site intervention has room to shift. Geometries, points, curves and planes provide such palette. Abstraction is a primary conceptual driver of any drawing convention yet Grasshopper offers a more dynamic and animated process of conceptual development. The abstraction of site into such geometries grants a dynamic, shifting and generative paradigm to design and toolmaking. This thesis is to unfold the paradigm of operating within such a toolset adopting the use of Grasshopper almost exclusively as a way of engaging with conceptual development. Such an interface allows this thesis to note the performance of an algorithmic toolset and adopt an algorithmic mind set.</p>

Institutional and Educational Transformation of Pesantren in Social Capital Perspective: A Phenomenological Study at Pesantren of Miftahul Ulum, Suren, Jember

<p>This research focused on the development of <em>pesantren</em>, especially in the institutional and educational aspects using a social capital perspective. The <em>pesantren</em> used as a research site is <em>Pesantren </em>of Miftahul Ulum, Suren, Jember. To delve into the focus of this research, the researcher, thus, tried to understand and interpret the development of the <em>pesantren</em> from the perspective of social capital. To achieve these objectives, this research was conducted by using a qualitative approach with the type of phenomenology using a single site design. The data collection technique used was participant observation, so that researcher could participate in every Islamic boarding school's institutional and educational programs. This research finds that social capital is able to transform <em>pesantren </em>from institution with an isolative-traditionalist paradigmatic system to a modernist synthesis. Even the education system is from a dichotomous to a non-dichotomous system (a pattern of education that is oriented towards spiritualistic-humanist values); theocentric to theoanthropocentric pattern. This social capital is also a potential for <em>pesantren</em> as spiritual patrons and the vanguard of the source of values and morality of the surrounding community.</p>