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THE TYPOLOGY OF SURVIVAL
Get PDFClimate change is affecting the whole world and a need for housing is emerging for climate migrants. Taking into account the current geopolitical landscape there is an indication of a need for an architectural response that must be applied to a variety of evolving sociopolitical contexts throughout the world. This also means that there are several possible solutions. Research indicates that viable design solutions fall into the following categories: An immediate response that would answer the question of large slums due to inland migration. A long term response that would look at global migration from one country to another. Many initial migration patterns of climate migrants are within the country due to current political regulations that make international migration across borders incredibly difficult.
There is also the aspect of cultural and linguistic similarity, as well as social systems within the same country that are already familiar to these displaced peoples.
In contrast global climate migration is a trend that is only beginning to be seen in the world. Those that are currently migrating are doing so in relation to socio political standing in their home country. Many are refugees from political turmoil, religious persecution, or war.10 Global migration on the climatic scale is much more subtle, influencing each of these individual factors and magnifying them.
Because of the variability in time scales listed above, current research and considerations fall short of a completely holistic approach to resettlement. Cultural preservation, emotional needs and available resources are not being properly assessed to the extent of the needs of these climate refugees both internally and globally.
Using research including expert interviews, participative studies of affected communities, scientific climatic data, and existing examples of climate refuge housing an evaluation of a new typology is explored
2023-03-14_MichiganOverview_COVIDlongtermcare
Get PDFThe COVID Long Term Care Facilities page was obtained from Michigan\u27s COVID-19 data page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/stats/data-about-places/long-term-care-data.
This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from data self-reported by long-term care facilities into EMResource. Data for all reporting facilities is posted weekly each Monday.
The information below represents COVID-19 data reported directly to MDHHS by licensed and operating Skilled Nursing, Home for the Aged and Adult Foster Care facilities (licensed to serve 13 or more individuals) in Michigan from January 1, 2020. All long-term care facilities additionally have an obligation to report COVID-positive residents and/or staff to their Local Health Department. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting by those facilities subject to MDHHS reporting requirements is a priority for the State of Michigan. The data is leveraged to guide state efforts and ensure sufficient support is provided where it is needed most, as well as to allow transparency for residents and families. MDHHS employs ongoing data validation processes and works with the Institute for Health Policy at MSU to support additional validation exercises on the data. When a facility is flagged for a validation concern, the department may work with the Regional Health Care Coalition, conduct direct outreach, and provide technical assistance to the facility. Facilities are provided the opportunity to correct entry errors identified during the validation process. All data presented is considered provisional and may change as facilities correct or add data
2023-03-28_MichiganOverview_COVIDlongtermcare
Get PDFThe COVID Long Term Care Facilities page was obtained from Michigan\u27s COVID-19 data page: https://www.michigan.gov/coronavirus/stats/data-about-places/long-term-care-data.
This report is created by the Michigan Department of Health & Human Services from data self-reported by long-term care facilities into EMResource. Data for all reporting facilities is posted weekly each Monday.
The information below represents COVID-19 data reported directly to MDHHS by licensed and operating Skilled Nursing, Home for the Aged and Adult Foster Care facilities (licensed to serve 13 or more individuals) in Michigan from January 1, 2020. All long-term care facilities additionally have an obligation to report COVID-positive residents and/or staff to their Local Health Department. Ensuring accurate and timely reporting by those facilities subject to MDHHS reporting requirements is a priority for the State of Michigan. The data is leveraged to guide state efforts and ensure sufficient support is provided where it is needed most, as well as to allow transparency for residents and families. MDHHS employs ongoing data validation processes and works with the Institute for Health Policy at MSU to support additional validation exercises on the data. When a facility is flagged for a validation concern, the department may work with the Regional Health Care Coalition, conduct direct outreach, and provide technical assistance to the facility. Facilities are provided the opportunity to correct entry errors identified during the validation process. All data presented is considered provisional and may change as facilities correct or add data
Features of Optics and Mounts that Facilitate Participation in Birding for Power Wheelchair Users: An Exploratory Study
Get PDFBirding as a leisure task may facilitate increased quality of life and regulate the nervous system through nature-based experiences; however, there are no prior published studies that examine adaptive birding equipment, making this research a crucial addition to the field of occupational therapy. Existing birding equipment is built very heavily, making it difficult for users to apply and reposition during the act of birding. This capstone project focused on adaptive birding equipment use by power wheelchair users to determine the supportive features that best facilitated participation in birding from their mobility devices. Researchers purchased lighter weight mounts and various optics frequently used to bird. Birders were recruited to analyze the mount and optic features that best supported their ability to bird from their mobility device Participants all agreed that grippy materials on components of both mounts and optics, lightweight designs, and ability to reposition the equipment to their own personal preferences were key features that enhanced their experiences. This research advances occupational therapy practice into non-traditional, nature-based settings, and aims to facilitate self-reflection on professionals’ pre-existing knowledge of mounting systems and physical disabilities, to connect that knowledge to the occupation of birding
Holy Matter Making Holy Meaning: Fashioning Memory, Community and Dissimilar Similitude in Middle Dutch Sister-books and The Book of Margery Kempe
Get PDFThe Middle Dutch sister-books and The Book of Margery Kempe are fifteenth-century vernacular texts by women chronicling their female subjects’ conversion and arduous attempts at a holy life. They share an (auto)hagiographic enterprise and formal and thematic features, including a display of rags and riches by the vitae’s subjects and a desire for mnemonic engagement on the part of the readers with the text. This article is the first to present the Diepenveen and Deventer sister-books and the Book as conversation partners. I draw on two main conceptual tools: 1) medieval memoria and 2) the notion of “dissimilar similitude” (the idea that likeness can be evoked through difference), coined by early-medieval mystical theorist Pseudo-Dionysius. These allow us to examine the texts’ conspicuous parading of wealth and poverty and the associated interplay between interiority and exteriority as proxies for piety versus worldliness and other supposed oppositions. I argue that the sisters’ and Margery’s clothes serve as dissimilar similitudes of Christ during his Passion. As such, they fashion a communal memory of the texts’ idealized textual communities (earlier sisters for the sister-books and other holy women for the Book), in which the community functions as a dissimilar similitude of Christ as well. However, friction between materiality and significance also sets some women apart in the communal memory, bringing a risk of exclusion. Moreover, the sisters’ and Margery’s clothes diverge in their memorial affordances: in the sister-books, both ragged and rich dress supply dissimilar similitudes, while in the Book, only Margery\u27s sumptuous dress can serve as a dissimilar similitude; her rags fail to accomplish this signification. Unravelling these textiles of interiorization and exteriorization unveils how texts by medieval women negotiate gendered associations of somatic devotion and redraw the boundaries of their communities
Review of Beth Williamson, Reliquary Tabernacles in Fourteenth-Century Italy: Image, Relic and Material Culture
No full textDevelopment of a Community Living Coffee Shop
Get PDFProviding employment opportunities for individuals with a disability has multiple benefits for the employer and for the individual (Lindsay et al., 2018). In addition, occupational therapy within a community-based living setting could decrease the risks for social isolation and increase engagement in occupation for older adults (Domville, 2019). This capstone project focused on program development at Self-Help Alternative Living of Michigan (SHALOM). SHALOM is a community-based living program who was seeking to provide additional employment opportunity for their participants with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Limited research available made it difficult to develop a training manual for coaches, participants, and volunteers to work in a coffee shop; determining optimal modifications/adaptations; and an outcome measure assessment. SHALOM’s coffee shop demonstrated successful employment with the use of two training manuals, multiple modifications/adaptions implemented, and an outcome measure assessment. This capstone project could be used for other occupational therapists who are seeking to provide employment opportunities in a community-based living program
Cat Crotchett and a Quirky Studio in East Hall
Get PDFWMU Professor and Area Coordinator of Painting Cat Crotchett sits with Cassie Kotrch at this is a bookstore to discuss her time working out of a studio in East Hall