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How to Characterise a 1914 Architect using Big Data
Get PDF"Big data" analytics is a means that can be used for examining large and varied data sets to uncover hidden patterns, unknown correlations, market trends, customer preferences and other potentially useful information. The analysis of large data sets has become possible, and much more relevant, as such data has come increasingly accessible, and computing technology has advanced considerably. In the study reported here we have taken the first steps in using this technique to investigate whether big data can tell us more about the characteristics of New Zealand architects and their work. Part of the research for our book Raupo to Deco resulted in a large data set of newspaper tenders. Tender notices enabled us to identify architects, the time frames they worked, the types and numbers of buildings they designed, and the connections and relationships between individuals and practices. In addition, we used genealogy techniques to work out birth and death dates, to study obituaries and to track movement patterns. We have continued to build this data set, adding in architects from all over New Zealand and relevant data about them; currently we have around 20,000 individual building tenders for buildings across the country between 1840 and 1940.
This paper analyses our data to give a view of "an architect" in 1914, the year architects in New Zealand were first required to be registered. How many were there? How old were they and how long had they been practicing? And what else can we find out? We also discuss the advantages and pitfalls of dealing with a large data set, and explore how we can ensure the validity and accuracy of the results
A Code of Ethics for Self-Driving Vehicles
Get PDFAs self-driving technology advances, relevant ethical frameworks must be developed to guide the engineering profession. This paper provides a deeper understanding of the ethical issues associated with self-driving vehicles. It reviews the relevant literature which makes it clear that there are several key ethical issues which must inform the development of a code of ethics specific to this field. These can be grouped into the four key principles: responsibility, safety, transparency and sustainability. The proposed code of ethics is then applied to a specific case study to evaluate it. The case study introduced is that of self-driving cars as rental cars with specific reference to the New Zealand context. This case study provides a complex real-world situation for the proposed code to be evaluated with. Applying the code of ethics to this case study indicates that the proposed code of ethics offers a relevant ethical framework to guide the engineering profession in self-driving vehicles
Black Study and Communist Affect
Get PDFAll Incomplete is a continuation of Stefano Harney and Fred Moten’s dialogue in The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study. This earlier book has cult status in what is identifiably Aotearoa’s under-commons (or what Arcia Tecun calls in Te Moana Nui a Kiwa ‘the undercurrents’). With All Incomplete, Harney and Moten move beyond the university, creating a lexicon for fugitive thought—fugitive being the opposite of settling. Their propositions for thought and sociality are important to think with and through, especially in a settler-colonial context like Aotearoa New Zealand. I follow their notion of ‘black study’ as it develops through All Incomplete, arguing that black study constitutes a mode of what Jackie Wang calls ‘communist affect’—a mode of being-for-others that reveals a kind of ‘already-existing communism’ in the present. I then look to how some of the ideas introduced by The Undercommons have been taken up in Aotearoa and consider the contributions that All Incomplete could make to our own context
Let Us Possess One World: McCahon, Abstraction and Transversal Art History
Get PDFSince McCahon’s death in 1987, the art world has become more diverse, and so too has his circle of admirers. One reason for his work’s appeal to a diverse audience, I argue, is his impure approach to abstraction. This at once makes his paintings more accessible than they would be were they purely abstract, and allows viewers to find their own meanings in his art. To show how this is so, I consider the responses to McCahon’s work of five New Zealand abstract painters: Gretchen Albrecht, Stephen Bambury, Brent Harris, Ralph Hotere and Imogen Taylor
Orpheus in Pieces
Get PDFOn 7 February 1863, the Royal Navy corvette H.M.S. Orpheus, en route from Sydney to Auckland, was wrecked at the entrance of the Manukau Harbour, with the loss of 189 men. This essay offers a “new materialist” retelling of that story, one that seeks to identify the roles played by nonhuman agents of various kinds (such as sand, mud, trees, animals, tides, rain, wind) alongside the roles played by human protagonists (both individual and collective). To help convey the sense of this event as a production by an ensemble cast of actors, I have used the form of creative narrative nonfiction, while remaining within the documented facts
Revolutions Per Minute: A Symposium on the Sixties Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand
Get PDFRevolutions Per Minute: A Symposium on the Sixties Counterculture in Aotearoa New Zealand attracted a diverse group of academics, activists, historians, hippies and punters-without-portfolio. 29 May 2021
Settler Colonialism in Victorian Literature: Economics and Political Identity in the Networks of Empire
Get PDFAt the beginning of his 1873 Australasian travelogue, Anthony Trollope observed that the future prospects of Australia and New Zealand “involved the happiness of millions to come of English-speaking men and women” while noting that “it has been impossible to avoid speculations as to their future prospects”. Philip Steer’s carefully-argued study of colonial settler writing in and about the Antipodes considers the cultural exchange between the Australasian colonies and the mother country, noting the importance of colonial culture to English realist writing. Positioning his work as a “sustained reckoning with Edward Gibbon Wakefield”, for Steer “the evolving frenzy of exploitation and transformation in the settler colonies put pressure on metropolitan forms of the novel and political economy, and provided new conceptual vocabularies for understanding British society and subjectivity”. In order to examine some of this pressure, Steer considers a range of authors—Victorian celebrities like Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope, alongside lesser-known writers including Catherine Spence and Henry Crocker Marriott Watson. He also seeks to re-evaluate how settler colonialism sits within Victorian writing generally, making a very convincing case for reconsidering the sense of overseas settlements as simply convenient places to which problematic characters might be banished
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