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Care, uncare, and the city
No full textThrough exploring the spatial conditions and materializations of caring practices and relations, this chapter aims at developing an urban(ized) understanding of care. It thereby seeks to interweave care debates into conceptual debates in urban studies and planning theory. The chapter discusses the tension between fields of care and ‘uncare’ as an analytical lens to situate care debates—and the ambivalences unfolding around them—within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban life. By taking a spatial perspective and by fostering an understanding of care geographies, three perspectives are developed: 1) How the scale of analysis and research in urban theory contributes to a wider understanding of the changing landscape of care; 2) how moments of presence and of encounters in public space allow both the acknowledgment and alteration of caring infrastructures; and 3) how care and crisis are fundamentally linked, and how care perspectives bear a potential to move analytical prisms beyond crisis-centered narratives
China green design products and green products
Get PDFA report on green design product and green product policy in China completed as part of the EC-China eco-design and standards cooperation project
Fogged Mirror
Get PDF‘Fogged Mirror’ is an 11-minute film with spoken performance which re-imagines the ‘miracle of the black leg’ in the myth of St Cosmas and St Damian from 13th century hagiography ‘The Golden Legend’. The saints were said to have replaced the cankerous leg of a white man with that of a black man. ‘Fogged Mirror’ considers the narrative from a black perspective, interweaving contemporary black voices in the form of personal stories of people of the 1st Windrush generation with narration from the perspective of the deceased black man in the myth.
The film was broadcast and performed with live spoken word over Zoom in the 2021 Estuary festival – originally planned as a live performance in the festival, Covid restrictions necessitated its transfer to a virtual platform.
This is the fourth collaboration between Hunt and Mavernie Cunningham, in a practice through which we aim to develop insights into relationships between contemporary black experience and historical representations of blackness
Care and the city: encounters with urban studies
No full textCare and the City is a cross-disciplinary collection of chapters examining urban social spaces, in which caring and uncaring practices intersect and shape people’s everyday lives. While asking how care and uncare are embedded in the urban condition, the book focuses on inequalities in caring relations and the ways they are acknowledged, reproduced, and overcome in various spaces, discourses, and practices.
This book provides a pathway for urban scholars to start engaging with approaches to conceptualize care in the city through a critical-reflexive analysis of processes of urbanization. It pursues a systematic integration of empirical, methodological, theoretical, and ethical approaches to care in urban studies, while overcoming a crisis-centered reading of care and the related ambivalences in care debates, practices, and spaces. These strands are elaborated via a conceptual framework of care and situated within broader theoretical debates on cities, urbanization, and urban development with detailed case studies from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
By establishing links to various fields of knowledge, this book seeks to systematically introduce debates on care to the interconnecting fields of urban studies, planning theory, and related disciplines for the first time
'A vague stretch of remoteness': Brian Graham's paintings of Egdon Heath
Get PDFAn essay based on a lecture given to the the 24th Thomas Hardy Society Festival and Conference, Dorchester, 13th July 2021 on the Egdon Heath Suite of new paintings by Brian Graham. The essay sets the paintings, referencing Hardy's Egdon Heath, into the context of 19th and 20th century painting of Dorset Heathland, bringing the narrative up to date by looking at the related contemporary work of painter Frances Hatch and poet Elisabeth Bletsoe. Graham's exhibition of the paintings was shown at Sladers Yard, West Bay, Dorset in 201
The productive inadequacy of image for contemporary painting: image based operations in the work of Beth Harland, Jacqueline Humphries and R H Quaytman
No full textThis article considers the productive inadequacy of image for contemporary painting. The mutability of image is tested against the material, spatial and durational conditions of painting, and the attentional attachments it might mobilize through an examination of the working methods of Beth Harland, Jacqueline Humphries and R.H.Quaytman. Painting is not positioned as image, but as a processor of image information, able to prompt an image response. A resistance to image is framed by the art historical and philosophical legacy of image expectations and preclusions that each artist feels compelled to work against, and the expanding opticality of our contemporary social, cultural and economic interactions
Passaporta
Get PDF16mm, 10 minutes, silent, colour and B&W, 2021. The film was shot entirely from a single, west-facing window over a period of 15 months. The camera frames a large number of overlapping views onto buildings, windows and sky. Over an extended period of time the space is continuously re-framed and reconfigured photographically, thereby directing the viewer to consider the apparatus in an expanded sense to include the open space that is the film's subject
Review: A cultural history of odours in early modern times: by Robert Muchembled translated by Susan Pickford Cambridge, Medford: Polity Press, 2020, 186 pages ISBN: 9-781509-536788
No full textA web-based campus navigation system with mobile augmented reality intervention
Get PDFIn this era of information technology, the introduction of new and greatly improved technologies is becoming vital especially with the progressive development of computing power to fulfill current technological needs. Augmented Reality (AR) is a part of the emerging technologies that are gaining great attention and interest with new and better innovations being developed. AR is an immersive technology where it complements real-world objects together with computer-generated objects to give more details and meaning to the objects in the real world. AR has been successfully growing nowadays in many industries, mainly in gaming and entertainment, education and navigation. However, AR has not been standardized and to be widely used in navigation systems even though there are many applications developed for this purpose. This paper proposed a web-based AR-UUM Campus Navigation System using ARToolKit, that is accessible via mobile devices that uses AR to overlay the information as images of the searched location on campus, especially for indoor navigations for lecture halls, tutorial rooms, laboratories, and offices which rarely are covered by the normal maps. Based on the respondents' evaluation, they managed to successfully interact with the AR-UUM Campus Navigation System, however, some improvements are required in terms of the functions expected from the system. Nevertheless, the use of AR in a navigation system shows promising results and has the potential to be widely used due to high interest in augmented reality
Negotiating motherhood in the Colombian audio-visual industry: a matter of capital
No full textAlthough men and women seem to have a fairly equal career outlook in the Colombian audiovisual industries, there are implicit considerations about gender, maternal responsibilities, and capital background that constrain mothers' careers prospects. In this context, the most disadvantaged women do not run their own business or do not count on an advantageous cultural, social, or economic capital (Bourdieu, 1986) that allows them to find a balance between their personal and professional lives. The higher the position in the audiovisual production chain, the more undemanding their motherhood negotiations with work will be. On the contrary, the lower their role in the production chain, the more complex their negotiations will be. However, these negotiations and their outcomes depend on each mother's approach to motherhood.
Furthermore, to keep up with the demands from the audiovisual sector, mothers negotiate not only the time they devote to either work or family but also the public display of their maternal status. This is how masculine patterns of work and employment mark the local production culture revealed by this study. Women and mothers observe male labour approaches and practices to be taken as valuable members of the sector
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