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Gamma-range oscillations evoked by Optogenetic stimulation - an in silico study
Get PDFGamma-range oscillations are repetitive neuronal activation in various regions of the brain, displaying prominent energy distribution in the 30-90 Hz frequency band. It is shown that these oscillations emerge through excitatory-inhibitory neuronal interplay, but their mechanisms and functions remain unknown. Therefore, it is necessary to simplify the in vivo complexity. This has been accomplished by the host laboratory, which reproduced these rhythms in an in vitro model of cortical microcircuitry using Optogenetic tools and suggested a simple firing-rate mathematical model. Since Optogenetics influences synaptic efficacy, I propose an extension of this mathematical model by dynamical properties of synaptic transmission
Mental Health in the Consumer Society Looking beyond the Biological Dogma
Get PDFAs Mental Health Disorders are on the verge of becoming one of the leading factors of disability in the world, a new perspective of mental health disorders is necessary. In fact, mental health disorders are largely analyzed within the biomedical model, leaving out those social and power structures in which a disease might be embedded. In fact, due to a focus on growth, individualism and materialistic values, societies have grown ever more fragmented in the age of capitalism as is visible within diminishing relationships. Therefore, this thesis proposes an analysis of the structural forces behind mental health disorders that can be linked to a social logic of consumption
The Value of Housing
Get PDFThis issue of Footprint brings together housing-as-design with housing-as-policy and housing-as-market to discuss what is, today, the value of housing. It discusses how the architecture of housing plays a role in changing behavioural norms and models of subjectivation promoted by the neoliberal ideological agenda. The contributions included in this issue examine different ways of addressing the production of housing either as a social right or a commodity, or both combined. Reviewing cases from North America, Europe and Asia, they discuss the extent to which the social and economic agendas of the public sector and the market determine the architecture of housing. The background of the discussion is defined by a deadlock: the architectural discourse calls upon the state to re-provide housing and solve the crisis, while the neoliberal state is not interested in commissioning housing. Against this background, this issue examines how the architecture discipline can engage in new ways of responding to the neoliberal state of affairs, examining the entwined relation between ‘architecture’ as a cultural product and ‘housing’ as a socioeconomic need
Stakeholder salience and prioritization for port master planning, a case study of the multi-purpose Port of Isafjordur in Iceland
Get PDFThe dynamic and ever-increasing complex nature of a port system involves a variety of stakeholders with a broad spectrum of involvement and objectives. In the port master planning, to fulfill the objectives of the various stakeholders and manage conflicts and controversies, a stakeholder analysis is carried out. However, effective and timely engagement of the key stakeholders in the planning process is not an easy task. This paper presents a framework of stakeholder analysis for the case study of the Multi-Purpose Port of Isafjordur in Iceland to underpin the master planning process. The framework deals with a systematic procedure of identification, grouping and then static mapping of stakeholders by means of the power-interest matrix. Further, the fuzzy logic 3-dimensional decision surface was adopted for dynamic salience mapping of th
Real Estates in Cyprus: A Diary
Get PDFThis edited ethnographic diary, produced during a research and teaching stint in Cyprus, takes in the island landscape, politics and underlying economic forces dramatically shaping the environment in order to reveal a complex picture across a variety of scales and analytical registers. The aim of this diary is to understand the recent real-estate transactions launched by the Government of the Republic of Cyprus and selling EU-Citizenship in tandem with real estate, particularly as high-end luxury development along the coast. This understanding of land ownership and real estate evolves around the notion of territoriality, which defines territory as a cultural and social product and which includes the Lefebvrian dimension of lived space. The fragmented form of the diary entry will allow to cut across the different registers mentioned above; the work of the editing process will consist in framing the subjective position of the self as a political.
This text is introduced by a reading compiled by Hélène Fricho
Belgrade Baroque
Get PDFThis text, composed of two layers, brings together queer auto-fictions with the architectural histories of an elusive Serbian Baroque in the city of Belgrade. It explores the issues of heteronormativity, nationhood and religion. It is an autofiction that places special emphasis on the siting of memories in Belgrade, Serbia – Yugoslavia as it was – and focuses specifically on the Cathedral Church of Archangel Michael, one of the rare examples of what could be understood as second generation Baroque architecture in the orthodox Christian country. The desired aim of the broader project is to perform an act of queering of the Serbian ideological, national and religious frameworks, of Belgrade and its buildings, and of academic modes of relating architectural and urban histories. An aspect of this process was the approach to illustrations, which are textual: the footnoted fragments that run alongside the main narrative thrust of the text are simultaneously its illustrations and their own captions. Sometimes reflexive, at other times tangential, they hint at a second level of research that lies beneath the seemingly literary treatment of the piece.
The text is introduced by a reading compiled by Naomi Stea
Projectdocumentatie Huis Werk Stad
Get PDFThis edition of DASH documents ten projects that, on the scale of the urban block, explore the ways in which workhome combinations contribute to urban design, architecture and programming. Historical examples in Coventry, London, Kyoto, Paris and Amsterdam as well as more recent projects in Basel, again Paris, Maastricht, Rotterdam and (a brand new one in) Berlin, in both growing and planned cities, offer relevant leads. The drawing method used in the project analyses focuses on three design themes: the representation of the mixed programme, the collective domain and the accessibility from the public realm (the area between the street and the front door), and finally how living and working are interwoven on the scale of both the urban block and the dwelling.
The way the ten documented projects manifest in the urban fabric is unusual because of the added work programme. In this context, we primarily focus on the mixed programme’s representation and recognizability towards the city as well as – if the project is part of a larger urban block – on its representation within the created enclave (the collective domain). This representation is presented in a full-page isometric projection of the ensemble in its urban context. Projects that refer to the scale and façade composition of factories include Cash’s One Hundred Cottage Factory, where a continuous strip of windows represents a factory hall, WoonWerkPand Tetterode, a transformed former letter-foundry and Schiecentrale 4b, with its impressive, tight-gridded glass façade. Other projects take their representation from the logic of the workshop or atelier. The Pullens Estate is made up of small work-yards with small-scale workshops and IBeB: Integratives Bauprojekt am ehemaligen Blumengroßmarkt is interwoven with the ground level in cross section: double-high basement ateliers are accessed via footbridges and topped by north-facing atelier apartments with workspaces on the ground floor. Yet other projects make use of the neutral aesthetics of the office, such as Piazza Céramique. In this context the collage comprising Wohnhäuser St. Alban-Tal is exceptional because in it, the representation of living and working (the two are never linked) has an ambiguous character.Deze uitgave van DASH documenteert tien projecten waarin op de schaal van het bouwblok wordt gekeken wat woon-werkcombinaties stedenbouwkundig, architectonisch en programmatisch kunnen opleveren. Historische voorbeelden in Coventry, Londen, Kyoto, Parijs en Amsterdam, en projecten van recenter datum in Basel, opnieuw Parijs, Maastricht, Rotterdam en (gloednieuw) Berlijn, zowel in de gegroeide als de geplande stad, bieden relevante aanknopingspunten. De tekenwijze van de projectanalyses richt zich op drie ontwerpthema’s: de representatie van het gemengde programma, het collectieve domein en de toegankelijkheid vanuit het openbaar gebied (het gebied tussen straat en voordeur), en als laatste de vervlechting tussen wonen en werken op de schaal van zowel het stedelijk bouwblok als de woning.
De tien gedocumenteerde projecten manifesteren zich op bijzondere wijze in het stedelijk weefsel door het toegevoegde werkprogramma. Daarbij richten we onze aandacht allereerst op de representatie en herkenbaarheid van het gemengde programma naar de stad toe én – indien het project binnen een groter stedelijk bouwblok is opgenomen – ook op de representatie binnen de gecreëerde enclave (het collectieve domein). Deze representatie wordt getoond in een paginavullende isometrische projectie van het ensemble in zijn stedenbouwkundige context. Projecten die refereren aan de schaal en gevelcompositie van een fabriek zijn Cash’s One Hundred Cottage Factory, waar een doorlopende raamstrook een fabriekshal representeert, WoonWerkPand Tetterode, een getransformeerde voormalige letterfabriek en Schiecentrale 4b, waarbij het strakke grid van de glazen gevel imponeert. Andere projecten ontlenen hun representatie aan de logica van de werkplaats of het atelier. The Pullens Estate creëert werven met kleinschalige werkplaatsen en IBeB: Integratives Bauprojekt am ehemaligen Blumengroßmarkt is in doorsnede met het maaiveld vervlochten: de dubbelhoge souterrain-ateliers worden via loopbruggen ontsloten; daaroverheen geschoven bevinden zich atelierwoningen met werkruimte op de begane grond, georiënteerd op het noorden. Er zijn ook projecten die de neutrale esthetiek van het kantoor inzetten, zoals Piazza Céramique. De collage van Wohnhäuser St. Alban-Tal is in dit licht een uitzondering, omdat de representatie van wonen en werken (waarbij beiden nergens onderling gekoppeld zijn) hier een dubbelzinnig karakter heeft
A bridge with a view, a view with a bridge: Identifying design considerations for bridges to strengthen regional identity
Get PDFThis paper discusses design considerations for creating high quality civil works with an emphasis on bridges. The authors pursue a design study and analysis approach to highlight the specifics of infrastructure design for regional identity, based on their own work on a series of bridges in the Dutch Zaanstreek region. Subsequently two highlights of the authors work, the award winning Juliana Bridge and the wildlife crossing in Rijssen, are used to illustrate how to create good infrastructure design in sensitive contexts, without making use of a neo-vernacular vocabulary
Planning education with self‑organised initiatives: a case study of societal impact using online education
Get PDFMassive Open Online Courses (MOOC) are becoming a popular educational tool on different disciplines. Urban planning education is no exception and new MOOCs are being release every year. Nevertheless, it is still not clear how this new learning experience is being developed, delivered and impacting planning education. This article sheds some light on this issue using the case of the Rethink the City MOOC organised by the Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment of TU Delft. The course received the AESOP Excellence on Teaching award in 2017 and can serve as an example of how planning education is facing these changes. The article briefly introduces the course and develops on the challenges and results of it. Based on the course team experience on preparing and delivering the course, the article aims to contribute to the debate about online education and to support fellow academics involved on the creation of new MOOCs
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