Architecture of excess: navigating beyond the superficial

Contemporary architecture has become increasingly superficial as it relies on capricious visual excitement for appeal in the 21st Century. Architectural semiotics have been appropriated to become massively branded images in the urban landscape that aim for instant gratification, lacking experiential depth and qualities beyond visual delight. The aim for iconic and instant appeal in any building typology limits our understanding of architecture’s relationship to use, users, and context. Working both within and beyond the same culture of consumption and excess in the experience economy, this thesis posits that characteristics and values of entertainment architecture provide engaging experiential qualities for architectural design beyond superficial appeal. Entertaining values of educational leisure, themed environments, and consumption can in fact generate a more integrated and authentic relationship between architecture, people, and place in our society of the spectacle.

Architecture of excess: navigating beyond the superficial

Contemporary architecture has become increasingly superficial as it relies on capricious visual excitement for appeal in the 21st Century. Architectural semiotics have been appropriated to become massively branded images in the urban landscape that aim for instant gratification, lacking experiential depth and qualities beyond visual delight. The aim for iconic and instant appeal in any building typology limits our understanding of architecture’s relationship to use, users, and context. Working both within and beyond the same culture of consumption and excess in the experience economy, this thesis posits that characteristics and values of entertainment architecture provide engaging experiential qualities for architectural design beyond superficial appeal. Entertaining values of educational leisure, themed environments, and consumption can in fact generate a more integrated and authentic relationship between architecture, people, and place in our society of the spectacle.

Rethinking the fundamentals and practices of intercultural education in era of insecurity

INTRODUCTION. In a globalized and multicultural world, one is increasingly challenged by encounters and relationships with the other. Intercultural pedagogy develops its reflections around these problems, while continuously updating its meanings and purposes. METHOD. Starting from a reinterpretation of the pedagogical foundations of the relationship between identity and otherness, this contribution proposes to outline the role and purpose of an intercultural pedagogy in relation to the framework of insecurity that characterizes multicultural society today. RESULTS. The interplay between the theoretical analysis of intercultural pedagogy and the various manifestations of risk, especially as regards the condition of vulnerability experienced by refugees and migrants, allows us to outline new educational goals for an authentic relationship with others. DISCUSSION. As a result of the above observations, the need for a continuous interpretation of intercultural education in relation to the constantly changing scenarios emerges. In addition, the training of educational and pedagogical professionals that make use of intercultural mediation to prevent conflict and upgrade living conditions and encourage a better education for the new wave of immigrants becomes crucial.

Tanggung jawab sosial PT.Chevron Pasifik Indonesia di Provinsi Riau untuk pembangunan berkelanjutan

Sustainable development is development that pays attention to the three main aspects; they are economy, social and environment aspects. Riau Province is one of the province that have great quantities of corporate, either foreign or local corporate. Sustainable corporate social responsibility in this province, is obligated by district regulation, no. 6, 2012. The development of companies in Riau Province increased in the oil and natural gas, plantation, forestry and mining sectors. The existence of the company give positive impact such as the raising of the economics matter and increasing the local income by the responsibility fell on the economic, social and environment condition where the company operate. The purpose of this research is: to study how is the responsibility of CPI Ltd. In Riau Province in the effort to support economy, social and sustainable development. The method used in this research is the use of descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative method is used for describing the authentic relationship between variables in the research problem empirically by the big amount of simultaneous influence sharpening together and toward value pattern be faced. CSR program done in Riau Province is the program in social, economics and environmental program. The CSR become the effort to support sustainable development because the advantages can be felt by the society for today and future

Epiphany and Otherness in the Vision of Father André Scrima

Father André Scrima emphasized in his works the unanimous and universal duty of discovering the necessity of otherness or alterity as the exigency of our own path to God. He often spoke of the encounter and “askesis of the dialogue” that consists of the effort to open completely and without reserve to the other. From this point of view, we could consider André Scrima the visionary who intermediates the unveiling and the Revelation that, regardless of confession and religion, every human being has the chance to develop an authentic relationship with the divinity. Also, he advocates an indispensable condition or the most basic ethical argument required to get closer to God, namely recognizing the universal quality of all humankind as equally capable to be vessels of God’s grace, and hence they should be appreciated as such.

Teaching and Mentoring Students in the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia Service Delivery Perspective

Purpose This review article examines potential approaches for teaching and mentoring students in the Life Participation Approach to Aphasia (LPAA). The authors review applications of a variety of evidence-based pedagogies, including both course-based and non–course-based teaching interventions. The intent is to create a cohesive and comprehensive resource for teaching and mentoring in the LPAA framework. Conclusion Multiple pedagogical strategies are available to support LPAA inside and outside of the classroom. A model for the LPAA teaching and learning framework is introduced, which identifies crucial elements of a comprehensive teaching and mentoring approach. Experiential learning, development of learner knowledge and service delivery perspectives, exposure to the lived experience, and authentic, relationship-based learning are emphasized. A multipronged approach is necessary to develop commitment to an LPAA framework.

The Walking School Bus: Critical Community-Engaged Learning in Action?

The U.S. K–12 public education system is fundamentally unequal. What efforts can facilitate students to become deeply immersed in the realities of the system and to embody the need for social change? This article investigates scaffolded, semester-long writing assignments to demonstrate patterns in the three tenets of critical community-engaged learning (authentic relationship development, reducing power differentials, social change orientation). The assignments come from three cohorts of a Sociology of Education course in which undergraduates spent early mornings walking with elementary school children. As efforts were made to deepen the community-engaged partnership, there is corresponding evidence in (1) the ways students humanized social problems through authentic relationship development, (2) the ways they detailed moments of youth-led activities in which power differentials were diminished, and (3) how students’ reflective thoughts more frequently focused upon social change.

Sustainable Leadership Enhance Innovation: A Systematic Review of Past Decade

The globalization has made it manadory for the industries to introduce novel ideas in the products and services that they offer, and that is due to the rapidly increasing competition. For this prevaling innovation, it is very important for the management to adopt the right type of leadership. A managerial perception having the aim of producing constant and better results and reducing turnover and absenteeism of employees and last but not the least hastening the inventions and new creations, is called sustainable leadership. The purpose of this review is to facilitate the researchers by providing an authentic relationship that exits between the sustainable leadership and innovation that is stated after studying 27 articles. This study comprises a review of literature encompassing past 9 years, this research involves and provides many pieces of guidance for researchers and leaders.

Buber, Martin (1878–1965)

Existential philosopher, essayist, translator and editor, Martin (Mordechai) Buber (מרטין בובר) was born in Austria and spent his earlier years studying in Vienna and Lemberg (now Lvov, Ukraine), eventually moving to Germany and Israel. Focusing on biblical hermeneutics and ethics, much of Buber’s writing is dedicated to the revival of religious Jewish consciousness through the idea of a transformed Zionist movement. Buber’s translation of the Hasidic tales, Die Geschichten des Rabbi Nachman (1906; The Tales of Rabbi Nachman), Die Legende des Baal Schem (1908; The Legend of the Baal Shem) and his original translation of the Hebrew Bible into German have remained valuable contributions to the study of spirituality, pacifism and human relations. Published in 1923, Buber’s most influential philosophical essay Ich und Du (I and Thou, 1937) is an articulation of the dialogic principle, or the duality of primal relations. In I and Thou Buber offers an ethical perspective by distinguishing between the I-Thou relations that stress the dialogical, mutual, holistic existence, and the monological I-It relations that objectify and dehumanize other beings. Buber allocates this dialogical relation to the very foundation of biblical faith and suggests that an authentic relationship to God is only possible through a dialogical life of existential responsibility.

“It was a sweet view – sweet to the eye and the mind.” Jane Austen og det pittoreske landskab

It is obvious in Jane Austen’s novels that she was interested in the ongoing debate of ’the picturesque garden’, and in all her novels the characters are discussing how to look at the landscape, how to ‘improve’ the estates according to certain rules, and how taste and moral are connected to each other. The picturesque garden is inspired by paintings from the 17th century by Claude Lorraine and Nicolas Poussin, and in that way a clear line can be drawn back to Theocritus and Virgil, who introduced topoi as ‘locus amoenus’ and the ‘pastoral’. This article is examining how the relation is between these topoi, which are ideal landscapes that only exist in literature and painting, and the discussions of the design of real physical landscapes of contemporary England. It is difficult to decide on which side Austen was in the discussions of the picturesque. The article concludes that Austen’s voice is to be heard in the narrative, the development of the characters, and that she ends up with an attempt to reach an authentic relationship with landscape and nature that foreshadows a romantic feeling of nature. An appendix shows the later reception of Austen’s relationship to landscape, by analyzing a scene from modern films based on Jane Austen’s novels.