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Non-hegemonic or ‘other’ voices in the urban design process: Advocacy Planning and Civil Rights Movement in the United States in the late 1960s
Full text linkThe paper takes as its point of departure advocacy planning approaches' consideration that urban renewal is incompatible with equitable socially effective urban planning strategies. It focuses on analyzing the activities of the Architects' Renewal Committee in Harlem (ARCH), which was the first organization solely devoted to advocacy planning in the United States. In parallel, it explains how the critiques of urban renewal in the late 1960s in the NorthEastern American context is related to the emergence of groups that aimed to struggle for the civil rights of African Americans. It also investigates how ARCH provided technical and design advice to communities who could otherwise not afford it, on the one hand, and how it contributed democratization of urban planning, on the other. It pays special attention to ARCH's program entitled "Architecture in the Neighborhoods" (1970), which aimed to recruit local black youth to become architects, and compares the strategies of ARCH with those of other groups that also struggled over the rights of minorities and the democratization of urban planning, such as The Architects' Resistance (TAR), National Organization of Minority Architecture Students (NOMAS), Black Workshop, and City Planning Forum. TAR was a group formed in 1968 by architecture students from Columbia University's GSAPP, MIT's Department of Architecture, and Yale School of Architecture and was "concerned about the social responsibility of architects and the framework within which architecture is practiced." The objective of the paper is to present how the aforementioned groups emerged within the context of the struggles for civil rights and how they explored new concepts, roles and tools for participation and community design, reshaping urban planning models in order to respond to the call for a more democratic society
Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi, from the Mississippi State University Libraries
Full text linkA review of “Against All Odds: The First Black Legislators in Mississippi,” a 2022 library exhibit, for inclusion in ARLIS/NA’s Library Exhibitions Review Issue 1
Review: Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now
Full text linkReview of Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now edited by Doryun Chong and Mika Yoshitake. Thames & Hudson, February 2023. 400 p. ill. ISBN 978-0-500-02585-7 (h/c), $65.00. Reviewed March 2023 by Michelle Demeter, Head of Undergraduate and Instructional Services, New York University, [email protected]
Posthumanism for Sustainability: A Scoping Review
Full text linkThe purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of the VOSviewer. We identified five themes within the articles: post-humanism, post-anthropocentrism, post-dualism, post-Enlightenment, and post-technologism. Through our analysis, we found that posthumanism can offer insights into ecological issues and help promote alternative sustainable practices. We also identified three immediate concerns for post/humanities scholars: (1) fostering dialogue between critical humanist and posthumanist scholarship based on onto-epistemological plurality, (2) achieving conceptual clarity in the field, and (3) advocating for meaningful engagement with indigenous worldviews in a multidimensional and multitemporal manner. By exploring the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability, we hope to expand our knowledge of the urgent ecological issues we face and contribute to interdisciplinary efforts to address them
Towards a civic approach to urban data: The myths of digital universalism
Full text linkThe paper analyses the role of the urban scale digital twins in how we conceive and design urban spaces. The urban scale digital twins are virtual replicas of cities. Within the current context of data-driven societies, they are often used to test scenarios related to sustainable environmental design. An important reorientation for the role of the urban scale digital twins in urban planning is that from technical to the socio-technical perspectives. The debates on smart cities often focus on technical issues, neglecting the social aspects of urban planning. At the core of the paper is the idea that in order to combine environmental equity and social equity, it is pivotal to bring together the social and the technical viewpoints of urban planning. This can become possible through the adoption of socio-technical perspectives. Many cases of urban planning decision-making that include the use of urban scale digital twins are based on a rhetoric that promotes participatory design methods. However, the dependance of the urban scale digital twins on a limited set of variables and processes makes it difficult to take decisions in a way that takes into account social aspects and non-quantitative aspects concerning urban planning. Urban scale digital twins are based on the abstraction of sets of variables and processes. At the core of the paper is the exploration of how urban scale digital twins can promote sustainable development goals
Digital labour theory of value and architectural drawings as part of commodity fetishism
Full text linkToday, architectural drawings constitute an important part of major collections of institutions such as the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal, the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles and the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts in Rome among other institutes. The Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal and the National Museum of the 21st Century Arts have digitized a large part of the architectural drawings they conserve. However, the encounter with the original drawings still remains a significant point of reference for the researchers and the drawings are indispensable components of fundamental exhibitions that contribute to the capacity of the aforementioned institutions to energize current debates concerning the status of architectural knowledge. Within such a context, the Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Getty Research Institute provide an ensemble of visiting scholars’ programs to conduct research focusing on the original drawings in the framework of their politics of vitalizing current epistemological debates on architecture. The democratization that accompanies the digitization effect grants an increase of the fascination related to the mysteries of having access to the original. At the core of the paper is the idea that a Marxist communication theory adapted to the age of digital capitalism should try to shed light on the structure of distribution that is connected to the division of labour within the production process, on the one hand, and to reveal how these technological developments are underpinned by commodification and fetishization, on the other hand. The elaboration of what we could call digital labour theory of value, drawing upon Marx’s labour theory of value, would aim to unveil the exploitative social relations that lay behind the processes of dissemination of the architectural drawings that are digitized
Footprints: A New Approach to (Jewish) Book HIstory
No full textThis article describes and analyzes the methods of Footprints: Jewish Books Through Time and Place, a digital humanities contribution to book history. Footprints collects and aggregates information about the movement of copies of Hebrew books and books of Judaica in other languages printed in the early modern period (roughly corresponding to the hand-press era) and follows evidence of their movement into the twenty-first century. It stores this information in a relational database in which users can run specific queries and delivers the results in a number of visual representations for analysis and interpretation. Footprints undertakes two concurrent and more open-ended aims: (1) the on-going assemblage of a dataset about post-print mobility based on evidence other than the printed text (e.g. marginalia, catalog records, archival letters, other printed texts); and (2) the creation and iterative refining of a scholarly instrument to analyze the dataset through computational methods and modes of representation
COLOR SLIDES: TREATING UNPREDICTABLE POTABLE WATER SOURCE WITH GREEN TECHNOLOGIES OF ALUMINUM CHLOROHYDRATE (ACH), STREAMING CURRENT MONITOR (SCM) AND DISSOLVED AIR FLOTATION (DAF) 用绿科技新药 ACH, 新儀控 SCM, 及気浮水廠 DAF, 処理多变性 自来水源
Full text linkLawrence K Wang 王 抗 曝, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, 宋 慕 浩, Chandler CJ Bien卞 全 忠, Stephen Wu 胡 啟 焕, and Lim Eng Wah 林 永 华 (2023). Color Slides: Treating Unpredictable Potable Water Source With Green Technologies of Aluminum Chlorohydrate (ACH), Streaming Current Monitor SCM), And Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) . 用 绿 科 技 新 药 ACH, 新 儀 控 SCM, 及 気 浮 水 廠 DAF, 処 理 多 变 性 自 来 水 源. In: "Environmental Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM)", Lawrence K. Wang, Mu-Hao Sung Wang, and Yuriy I. Pankivskyi (Editors). 2023 (3B), March 2023; 37 pages. Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. https://doi.org/10.17613/cjsk-9c31 ..... ABSTRACTS: Aluminum chlorohydrate (ACH) is a green coagulant highly effective for water treatment especially when the influent water quality is unpredictable, and normally the raw water source is unusable. Stream current monitor (SCM) is a green automatic chemical dosage monitor and controller which is highly useful for treating a trouble water which constantly changes its quality. Dissolved air flotation (DAF) is a green water treatment technology which achieves high effluent quality but cuts detention time (DT), O&M costs all by about 25%. This technical paper (1) introduces the use of 3 green technologies of ACH, SCM and DAF for treating unpredictable water, in turn, for saving raw water resources, O&M costs and improving water quality; and (2) recommends further research & developments of these combined green technologies around the world. Researchers are encouraged to study further and share each other's research findings. 同时用新药ACH,新儀控SCM 及気浮水廠 (DAF) 可以処理原先無用的多变性水源, 减少25%处理时间(DT), 节省造价及化学药品, 並且大大提高自来水的品质. 所以ACH, SCM 及 DAF 是绿色科技. 本文為作者回憶錄之一, 用以介绍此三种绿色科技的原理及同時應用三者的高效果. 此外也 歡迎共同研究,或商業發展
The Merdeka Belajar Curriculum in Democratization: Meetings 3 and 4 (Lecture notes for the Curriculum course)
Full text linkThe Merdeka Belajar program promotes freedom and autonomy in education, which are necessary for developing critical and reflective thinking to participate actively in democratic processes. Moreover, independent learning programs can help close educational disparities and enable students to learn according to their needs and interests. This article examines the concept of an independent curriculum within the context of democratization and its associated benefits. Keywords: Independent curriculum, education, democratization, freedom, autonomy, critical thinking skills, educational gaps, active participation
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