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Listening to hospitals: Towards an assessment tool of audio data ethics for ICUs
No full textIn Intensive Care Units (ICUs), excessive non-human and human sounds cause behavioural and psychological problems in patients and reduce professionals’ job satisfaction and performance. Rather than relying solely on quantitative (psycho/acoustic) metrics, their combination with qualitative data (soundscape descriptors) provides the most reliable method to assess this context, as it considers the perceived environment. Moreover, sound event detection (SED) and classification techniques enhance the reliability of the assessment model. However, they also raise ethical concerns regarding vulnerable patients’ rights. Therefore, the development of audio data ethics is essential for designing research strategies that strike a balance between patients’ rights and research effectiveness. This study aims to define audio data ethics based on expert interviews and outline the basics of a tool to identify and assess risks for mitigation strategies. Results indicate that quantitative and qualitative data present minimal ethical risks, but audio recording for event identification poses significant ones. Managing these risks helps prevent patient re-identification, discrimination, and mistrust in research. The results will be validated in an ICU
Statistical models for urban growth forecasting: With application to the Baltimore–Washington area
No full textMonitoring and governing the development of cities are the major concerns of urban planners, since involve physical and social aspects, such as land use and population trends. Models for spatial growth have been developed both from the mathematical and empirical viewpoints, with the aim of forecasting and decision- making. Statistical models require regular space-time datasets that are provided by recent remote-sensing and geographic information systems (GIS). In this paper, we consider space-time autoregressive (STAR) models that can be applied to the timelapse video of land transformations available on Internet. The corresponding datasets are in the form of big 3D arrays and require fast algorithms of parameter estimation and forecasting. An extended application to a hybrid timelapse video over 200 years of urban growth of the Baltimore-Washington area is carried out. The video is built by combining remote sensing imagery, census data, historical cartography and data interpolation, and can be fitted and forecasted by adaptive STAR models, with robust and varying parameters
Nonindifferent To What? On Artavazd Peleshyan’s ‘Nature’
No full textThe intersection of media and the environment redefines both notions: media shape the worlds we inhabit, while nature itself emerges as a set of dynamic media. At this crossroads lies a fragile balance between mediation and catastrophe, when elemental forces exceed human control. Taking Artavazd Peleshyan’s Nature (2020) as its point of departure, the paper explores the idea of a nature nonindifferent to itself, reinterpreting Sergei Eisenstein’s aesthetics of composition and nonindifference
Creative Urban Atmospheres : Sensory interventions and tactical imaginaries
No full textCreative Urban Atmospheres explores the potential for urban planners, researchers, and artists to intervene in the atmosphere of spectacle dominating current neoliberal urbanism strategies through sensory and sound-based artistic interventions drawing from Tactical Urbanism and Research-Creation. This book equips readers with tools and insights needed to address the pressing challenges of urban livability and inclusiveness in the face of neoliberal urbanism.
Through engaging discussions and a case study conducted in Montreal’s Quartier des Spectacles, the book demonstrates how sound-based and sensory interventions can reshape urban atmospheres, fostering cohabitation and inclusiveness for diverse populations. Key features include an interdisciplinary emphasis on the intertwinements of academic research, artistic practice, and participatory community engagement, ensuring that readers gain both theoretical understanding and practical approaches. With its focus on innovative methods such as Research-Creation and socially engaged art, this book not only critiques existing urban strategies but also empowers planners, artists, and communities with tactics for collaboratively transforming underused urban spaces into vibrant, livable, and inclusive social environments.
This book is designed for a diverse audience deeply invested in the future of urban spaces. It will be of interest to urban planners seeking innovative approaches to address urban polarization and promote inclusiveness, as well as academic researchers in urban studies and geography exploring the intersections of Tactical Urbanism and sensory interventions. Artists, designers, and architects will find inspiration in its emphasis on creative, participatory approaches while policymakers and community advocates can draw practical insights for fostering livable, inclusive cities. It also speaks to anyone with a vested interest in the challenges facing contemporary cities, including gentrification, touristification, and neoliberal urban pressures on the most marginalized groups
Il diritto al divenire. Architettura, autonomia e pratiche di decolonizzazione. Conversazione con DAAR - Sandi Hilal e Alessandro Petti = The Right to Become. Architecture, Autonomy, and Decolonial Practices. Conversation with DAAR – Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti
No full textThis interview with DAAR – Decolonizing Architecture Art Research, founded by Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti – explores their critical engagement with the intersections of architecture, pedagogy, and decolonial practices. Since its inception in Palestine in 2007, DAAR has developed projects that propose forms of collective autonomy and spatial self-governance. Their work challenges the disciplinary role of architecture, moving beyond fixed categories such as public/private or formal/informal, and redefines space as a transformative process shaped through conflict, cohabitation, and imagination. The conversation, in particular, highlights DAAR’s understanding of refugee camps not as temporary exceptions but as epistemic and political horizons from which to rethink architecture and urbanism. Hilal and Petti reflect on the role of architecture as a relational and collective practice, capable of generating new vocabularies, pedagogies, and forms of autonomy. The discussion also turns to the project "Ente di Decolonizzazione – Borgo Rizza", where a fascist colonial settlement in Sicily is reactivated as a site of collective remediation and counter-memory. Rather than producing static representations, DAAR conceives architecture as an ongoing process that redistributes authorship and enables new forms of political and pedagogical agency. What emerges is a vision of architecture as a transformative practice: neither an object nor a monument, but a field of negotiation where spaces of autonomy and plural futures can be co-created
Torino Cronocaos, o sulla città degli inizi
No full textTorino è la capsula di Petri attraverso cui teorizzare un’idea di città-tutto-tempo e riconoscere nell’inizio – con la suaonni-compossibilità – il principio generale dell’urbanità tutta: città è dove alberga il possibile altro da noi. Non si tratta, in questo contesto, di dedurre un’idea di città dai piani di governo della stessa, quanto di distillare concetti, di scovare possibili, di rilevare direzioni, tempi e contempi a partire dalla spazializzazione attuale di quelle contraddizioni del reale che agitano l’anima della città
La forma dell’irrazionale. Negri lettore del classici
No full textThis paper explores the emergence of legal formalism in Kant's thought, focusing on its implications for legal philosophy and the interplay between the rational and irrational. Negri examines Kant's resolution of the rationalism-empiricism dualism, where "form" is essential for knowledge but excludes the irrational. The main theme addresses how law, as a "constant form" contrasts with mutable historical and material contents. Kant structures law as a system absorbing conflict into an abstract legal form, but Negri argues this process is less "formal" than a means to manage the irrational, which cannot be fully contained by reason. Negri’s analysis highlights law’s extrajuridical genesis, shaped by social and historical dynamics, such as revolution, revealing law’s connection to material conflicts. His study of Negri’s views on law and freedom, particularly through the lens of Carl Schmitt, shows the tension between formalism and insurgency, which, while irrational, can be understood through formalization.The text concludes by positioning Negri’s critique of legal positivism within the broader philosophical discourse, engaging with Marx, Spinoza, and Leopardi, to explore the relationship between material freedom and its institutional forms
La Operación Sitio y la construcción de la periferia popular de Santiago de Chile (1965-1970)
No full textOperación Sitio, implemented during the Christian Democratic government of Eduardo Frei Montalva (1965–1970), significantly transformed the periphery of Santiago de Chile. This housing program is analyzed as a field of political and technical dispute, combining a historical analysis of primary and secondary sources with a morphological examination of the housing complexes built in the capital. The results show that the program underwent significant changes, shaped by social pressures, governmental decisions, and technical rationalities. Three main phases were identified, distinguished by the types of housing solutions provided, execution times, and program scope. The morphological analysis revealed that approximately 80,000 lots were delivered in Santiago. At the metropolitan scale, the program’s urban objectives were only partially achieved, whereas at the neighborhood level, it succeeded in creating housing complexes organized on 9 m×18 m lots, inspired by the neighborhood unit and equipped with services. In dialogue with studies on peripheral urbanization in Latin America, this case provides insight into the role of the State in the production of working-class neighborhoods, highlighting the role of architects and urban planners, as well as entrepreneurs, political actors, and residents in shaping cities during the sixties