Posthuman Contours_New Museum Infrastructures

Contemporary architectural discourse continues to use humanist definitions of the user leading to incompatible built interfaces. This thesis speculates on what potential modalities arise when we radically shift our understanding of the user from that of the Human to the Posthuman. The museum is utilized as a typology to explore the conceptual framework of a Posthuman user for the development of an architectural system. By approaching the museum as an infrastructural network rather than an insulated boundary condition we can begin to understand the emergent networks and autonomous processes that constitute contemporary built ecologies. Design systems that are developed through a Posthuman perspective begin to engender design ecologies that operate through autonomous states in collaboration with artifacts, actors, and interfaces.

Posthuman Contours_New Museum Infrastructures

Contemporary architectural discourse continues to use humanist definitions of the user leading to incompatible built interfaces. This thesis speculates on what potential modalities arise when we radically shift our understanding of the user from that of the Human to the Posthuman. The museum is utilized as a typology to explore the conceptual framework of a Posthuman user for the development of an architectural system. By approaching the museum as an infrastructural network rather than an insulated boundary condition we can begin to understand the emergent networks and autonomous processes that constitute contemporary built ecologies. Design systems that are developed through a Posthuman perspective begin to engender design ecologies that operate through autonomous states in collaboration with artifacts, actors, and interfaces.

Pandemic makers: Emergent networks of collective entrepreneurship in response to crisis

In response to COVID-19 and the shortage of personal protective equipment, the maker community activated local networks in a display of collective action. We conducted a multiple case study of emergent networks to understand how makers self-organized for collective entrepreneurial action while facing resource constraints and legitimacy deficits. Although the maker community has endeavored to break free from institutional constraints, they nonetheless formed relationships with institutions in need. They deployed learned resourcefulness and learned legitimation strategies with varying degrees of effectiveness. Our findings contribute to the literature on resourcefulness, legitimation, and collective action in entrepreneurship processes.

Pandemic makers: Emergent networks of collective entrepreneurship in response to crisis

In response to COVID-19 and the shortage of personal protective equipment, the maker community activated local networks in a display of collective action. We conducted a multiple case study of emergent networks to understand how makers self-organized for collective entrepreneurial action while facing resource constraints and legitimacy deficits. Although the maker community has endeavored to break free from institutional constraints, they nonetheless formed relationships with institutions in need. They deployed learned resourcefulness and learned legitimation strategies with varying degrees of effectiveness. Our findings contribute to the literature on resourcefulness, legitimation, and collective action in entrepreneurship processes.

Contextual dimensions for cache replacement schemes in information-centric networks: a systematic review

In recent years, information-centric networks (ICNs) have gained attention from the research and industry communities as an efficient and reliable content distribution network paradigm, especially to address content-centric and bandwidth-needed applications together with the heterogeneous requirements of emergent networks, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), Vehicular Ad-hoc NETwork (VANET) and Mobile Edge Computing (MEC). In-network caching is an essential part of ICN architecture design, and the performance of the overall network relies on caching policy efficiency. Therefore, a large number of cache replacement strategies have been proposed to suit the needs of different networks. The literature extensively presents studies on the performance of the replacement schemes in different contexts. The evaluations may present different variations of context characteristics leading to different impacts on the performance of the policies or different results of most suitable policies. Conversely, there is a lack of research efforts to understand how the context characteristics influence policy performance. In this direction, we conducted an extensive study of the ICN literature through a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) process to map reported evidence of different aspects of context regarding the cache replacement schemes. Our main findings contribute to the understanding of what is a context from the perspective of cache replacement policies and the context characteristics that influence cache behavior. We also provide a helpful classification of policies based on context dimensions used to determine the relevance of contents. Further, we contribute with a set of cache-enabled networks and their respective context characteristics that enhance the cache eviction process.

Reconsidering institutions

Although institutions are central to the study of public policy, the focus upon them has shifted over time. This chapter is concerned with the role of institutions in problem solving and the utility of an evolving institutional theory that has significantly fragmented. It argues that the rise of new institutionalism in particular is symptomatic of the growing complexity in problems and policy making. We review the complex landscape of institutional theory, we reconsider institutions in the context of emergent networks and systems in the governance era, and we reflect upon institutions and the notion of policy shaping in contemporary times. We find that network institutionalism, which draws upon policy network and community approaches, has a particular utility for depicting and explaining complex policy.