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Alternate history as a tool to reduce bias in organizations
Get PDFThis article describes the potential use of alternate histories in business to promote diversity and equality in organizations. Gender bias and the different barriers that women experience in the workplace are included, as well as the way in which alternate histories can be created as an answer to the following questions: What if women led the world? And what if women occupied all leading positions in the company and had decision-making power? Alternate histories can be used to promote diversity and inclusion policies based on other minorities or marginalized groups beyond women to create plausible scenarios for more humane and integrative workplaces
Percepções de estudantes e coordenação escolar acerca da adolescência, protagonismo/participação juvenil e escola
Get PDFSince the 1990s, the idea of protagonism/participation allows us to glimpse the poor adolescent as a social agent. The objective is to understand the perceptions of students and school coordination about adolescence, youth protagonism/participation and the role of the school in the development of emancipatory citizenship. This is action research conducted in a Brazilian public school, with the school coordination (school principal, vice-director and specialist/pedagogue) and 15 adolescent students, from the 9th grade of elementary school to the 3rd year of middle school. Through discourse analysis, it was found that, in the view of adolescents, their issues are undervalued by adults, leaving those to deal with them. While some students see no meaning in school, others expect it to improve their lives, although it is seen only as a means of achieving economic power and individual happiness. Through the discourse of school coordination, it is perceived that teaching practices are content-based, meaningless and little favouring critical thinking. In the students’ view, school actions guided by welcoming, relaxation and reflection, such as gymkhanas and student union, stimulate their participation. Emancipatory proposals require perceptions about adolescence and education of the same nature, initiatives based on dialogicity and structural and structuring measures of society.A partir dos anos 1990, a ideia do/a protagonismo/participação permite vislumbrar o/a adolescente pobre como agente social. Objetiva-se compreender as percepções de estudantes e da coordenação escolar sobre adolescência, protagonismo/participação juvenil e o papel da escola no desenvolvimento da cidadania emancipatória. Trata-se de uma pesquisa-ação realizada em uma escola pública brasileira, com a participação da coordenação escolar (diretora, vice-diretora e especialista/pedagoga) e 15 estudantes, do 9.º ano do ensino fundamental ao 3.º ano do ensino médio. Na análise do discurso, constatou-se que, na visão dos/as adolescentes, suas questões são pouco valorizadas pelos/as adultos/as, restando àqueles/as lidar com elas. Enquanto alguns/mas estudantes não veem sentido na escola, outros/as esperam que ela melhore suas vidas, embora ela seja tida apenas como meio de alcançar poder econômico e felicidade individual. Percebe-se, pelo discurso da coordenação escolar, que as práticas de ensino são conteudistas, sem sentido e pouco favorecedoras do pensamento crítico. Na visão dos/as estudantes, ações escolares pautadas pelo acolhimento, descontração e reflexão, como gincanas e grêmio estudantil, estimulam a participação deles/as. Propostas emancipatórias demandam percepções sobre adolescência e educação de mesmo teor, iniciativas pautadas na dialogicidade e medidas estruturais e estruturantes da sociedade
Places
No full textIn this panel, focusing on place in terms of Landscapes of Care, Richard Wiliams, Sotiria Alexiadou with Vassilis Colonas, and Joao Gadelho Novais Tavares examine urban architectures through a shared aperture of film, thereby showing an engagement with the historical, spatial and ‘social production of space’.1 The temporal dimension of film opens up for analysis of the places of their individual studies in historical, real-time and fictitious dimensions, showing how visual images contribute to understandings of the care of places and peoples. Lars Rolfsted Mortensen’s photographs of dams in the Swiss Alps raise broader questions about place and our need for care of the landscape. The photographs present us with the ambivalence of sublime infrastructures that are both destructive and removable interventions in Alpine ecosystems but vital for green energy.
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Processes: The Act of Doing
No full textThere is a big gap between the abstraction of an idea and its concrete implementation. This gap is filled with processes that imply the taking of actions to help achieve a tangible result, and there is a myriad of ways these actions can follow through. Photographic and filmic methodologies shape work through the processes of doing informed by gestures in the photographic and filmic operations on site and in the later editing phase1 by which an understanding is changed into a story, an idea in a final visual and/or sequential form.
The need for good ideas due to the growing challenges presented by climate changes, imposes serious thinking around actual ways of doing relevant contributions to help ‘heal a broken world’. Photographic and filmic work processes can support that purpose embedding specific site experience methodologies open to the passage of time and the changes it encompasses associated with the landscape we have inherited. Exploring a place or a landscape and working with what is found through movement: walking, driving, flying, the editing of footage, the study of photographs, films, or selected material, reveal changes to specific landscapes and possible readings, interpretations, and understandings of those changes. Such actions and processes have a long tradition in artistic practices transecting land art, landscape architecture and environmental studies.2
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“Não é normal ter medo de andar sozinha na rua”. Uma resistência poética à violência de gênero através do GPS Drawing
Get PDFAs questões referentes à democratização da ocupação do espaço público urbano podem afetar identidades sociais de diferentes formas. Neste ensaio, procuro analisar a prática do GPS Drawing como ferramenta de expressão poética e política relacionada à prática do caminhar e do desenho/escrita. A partir da análise de um trabalho autoral intitulado “Não é Normal” (2017), questiono problemáticas na prática do caminhar como forma de expressão artística, uma vez que relações de poder sociais podem interferir na prática de artistas de diferentes identidades de gênero. Através de teorias sobre cibridismo de autores como Giselle Beiguelman, Peter Anders e Donna J. Haraway, pretendo discutir como o campo da política, do desenho, da performance e do caminhar podem se expandir através de uma prática artística de resistência poética
Temporal Dislocation
Get PDFThis body of work navigates the dialectical tension between the destruction and renewal of our relationship with landscapes, both contemporary and historical, and the intricacies of activities evident within constructed environments. These quasi-sculptural forms serve as poignant markers of power, class, and labor embedded in the English landscape.
The work probes the fragile equilibrium between stability and impermanence, highlighting the cyclicality of the natural world after human intervention. It seeks to illuminate how form naturally follows function, unveiling the innate aesthetics within ordinary "found" objects. These forms offer an enduring narrative of their utilitarian evolution, underscoring the beauty inherent in utilitarian simplicity.
At its core, this work is driven by phenomenological intent, bridging the gap between the photographer\u27s deliberate framing and the casual viewer\u27s passive encounter with these constructed landscapes. The photograph becomes a subtle language inviting viewers to reevaluate the ostensibly banal and ubiquitous. This body of work challenges the boundaries between fact and objectivity, employing angles that prompt a deeper understanding and reflective exploration of unacknowledged memories and logics. It references scientific approaches and surveys while drawing inspiration from brutalism theories and human responses to utilitarian environments throughout their evolution.
Cover image: Temporal Dislocation - Watchtower (2011
Urban Wilderness: A Journey through Lisbon Terrain Vague
Get PDFThe new urban condition has generated ambiguous spaces within it: Terrain Vague or Urban Voids are spaces within the city, nameless and without clear boundaries, difficult to define. They are unpaved and vegetated spaces that are neither public spaces, nor gardens, nor agricultural fields, lying in a state of abandonment, suspension, and invisibility. With no specific function and temporarily outside the logic of the market, these spaces are appropriated and used daily by people and nature.
Indeed, they eschew traditional cartographic representation, where they are often represented as mere white spaces, or spaces with future destinations. For this reason, walking as a common action becomes the fundamental tool for approaching, getting to know, and studying these spaces, while photography and other visual media become not only a means of representation, but also of studying and understanding the dynamic reality of these spaces and the different realities that inhabit them.
With this visual essay, I do not aim to provide an unambiguous representation or definition of these spaces, far from it. Going along with the fragmentary and uncertain nature of these places, I have used photography as a means of urban research to understand and describe these places, and as a personal travelogue within these spaces, as if to take notes. Having chosen Lisbon as the privileged terrain of my research, this visual essay has the sole purpose of trying to represent these spaces in a disorderly and fragmentary way, following their nature, and in doing so, trying to unveil a hidden beauty and reveal their enormous potential for the city.
Cover image: 38°44’16”N 9°06’38”W, 202
Stonehenge UFO
Get PDF"What embodies an artist\u27s imperceptible tentacles and psychic antennae? How does the intangible materialize, and how does one reveal their innate ability to sense and intuit? For photographer James Smith, the answer lies in the choice of angle. His distinctive images aren\u27t solely defined by the objects captured but by the angle\u27s transformative power. Placed on flat fields, lawns, or derelict terrains, they confront wintry weather, save for one—a Guggenheim-like structure. Smith\u27s angles imbue the images with both representation and orientation. They hint at secret locations on an eccentric map known to the artist alone. Time and space intertwine, blurring past and future. Smith\u27s photography is evidence of the impossible, an enigmatic testimony that retains art\u27s essence."
Cover image: Temporal Dislocation - Concrete Foundation (2011
SI3 for urban resilience: a human-nature driven paradigm shift
Get PDFIn a world increasingly marked by environmental challenges and climate uncertainties, the urgency for a paradigm shift in our relationship with the planet Earth has never been more evident. The increasing awareness of time running out underscores the immediacy of action necessary to alleviate the impact of human activities on the planet’s resources and to address the pervasive effects of environmental issues and climate change. Moreover, as these adjustments unfold, there arises a need to reconsider the foundations of a shared future that is socially, environmentally, and technologically viable, and, consequently, it is necessary to rethink our connections with one another and the broader built environment – encompassing individuals, communities, and societies. This paper contends that the ongoing and forthcoming transformations necessitate a continuous re-evaluation of our common ground to ensure a more sustainable and resilient future for all. Therefore, this research advocates for the implementation of the SI3 framework as a catalyst for this paradigm shift – a framework that integrates inclusive, innovative, and intelligent solutions to foster urban resilience in the face of an evolving world. The imperative need for a transformative change in the way we perceive and interact with our built environment is also addressed through the NBC (nature-based cities) and GIM (green information modeling) models. Likewise, the challenges of dealing with the existing built environment are explored within the SI3 scope, emphasizing the importance of collecting and analyzing data related to space appropriation, daily flows, public space usage, social-spatial dynamics of buildings, and building energy consumption. By synthesizing and understanding this sort of data, the paper argues that cities can be better equipped to adapt, evolve, and thrive in the face of ongoing and future challenges, contributing to a more resilient and sustainable urban future.
Cover image: Continuation of Leça Green Corridor construction, in Matosinhos, with the requalification and natural consolidation of the Leça River banks, and extension of the Ecovi
Let’s imagine:: Globalization, Gamification and socio-political control of citizens (a uchronic assy) in Hypothesis Historia Periodical
Get PDFThis paper aims to explore the idea that our societies are losing more and more fundamental rights, the most important policies are beginning to avoid going through national parliaments, and almost a complete profiling of all aspects of a citizen’s life has been achieved to manipulate and absolute control of them in the near future. Large technology companies with budgets greater than many states are beginning to make decisions or lobby with strong groups to obtain regulations appropriate to their interests, and the world is in a change of order in which the domination of China is already a reality in the technological field, and is very close to the US in the economic field. This article explores, through the use of alternative history as a research tool, the fatalities that certain events such as those indicated are currently occurring, in a regressive decline of the social and democratic State of law and of peace itself