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Atmospheres of affinity
No full textIn dialogue with the correspondence archives of De Appel in Amsterdam, this essay-in-airmail-folds draws on feminist practices of letter writing, mail art and listening/sound (Pooh Kaye, Alison Knowles, Pauline Oliveros) to consider the possibilities of feminist historical methods rooted in hearing, sensing, that is expanded atmospheres of affinity through writing
The path
No full textRe: I've made a discovery and you need to know about it right away. I feel like I’m in trouble and I don’t even know why. We’re thrilled you’ve decided to join us on this journey. Protocols are required to manage fatigue processes Please check your inputs and try again It seems like you're experiencing a system error or crash. We need to make sure we are all telling the same version of the truth. Check your preferences Accept your choices. Panic Order your detox program now and feel the difference. Verify it's you. I don't recognise this account . Please enter your password. Confirm humanity. Contains elements of: The Path By Ivor Cutler. Women Gathering Mushrooms: The Book of Music & Nature: An Anthology of Sounds, Words, Thoughts, David Rothenberg & Marta Ulvaeus. Music of the Babenzele people and sounds of their forest home. The Spectral Transmissions Research Unit is a collaboration between Ben Branagan Luke Pendrell dedicated to the theoretical and practical construction, dissemination, transmission, observation and analysis of spectral emanations. Comprising a diverse spectrum of entities of various degrees of stability and tangibility. In as much as linear time can be applied, members of the STRU could, have, and or will include(d): Ludd Püca, JohnFrum, Kay Jackson, T-J.Cut, Dr. Ray Power, Proff. Jock Moxter, EKA-Francium, Dr. Tinkerpaw, Kaspar Brøcken, and The Coincidence Sprite
Predicting neighborhood-level residential carbon emissions from Street View images using computer vision and machine learning
Get PDFPredicting urban-scale carbon emissions (CEs) is crucial in drawing implications for various urgent environmental issues, including global warming. However, prior studies have overlooked the impact of the micro-level street environment, which might lead to biased prediction. To fill this gap, we developed an effective machine learning (ML) framework to predict neighborhood-level residential CEs based on a single data source, street view images (SVIs), which are publicly available worldwide. Specifically, more than 30 streetscape elements were classified from SVIs using semantic segmentation to describe the micro-level street environment, whose visual features can indicate major socioeconomic activities that significantly affect residential CEs. A ten-fold cross-validation was deployed to train ML models to predict the residential CEs at the 1 km grid level. We found, first, that random forest (R2 = 0.8) outperforms many traditional models, confirming that visual features are non-negligible in explaining CEs. Second, more building, wall, and fence views indicate higher CEs. Third, the presence of trees and grass is inversely related to CEs. Our findings justify the feasibility of using SVIs as a single data source to effectively predict neighborhood-level residential CEs. The framework is applicable to large regions across diverse urban forms, informing urban planners of sustainable urban form strategies to achieve carbon-neutral goals, especially for the development of new towns
Nishijin weaving and pleating to create textile sensors
Get PDFThis paper presents preliminary results from a study on woven pleated electronic textiles (e-textiles) sensors, with a focus on prototyping, 3D structures, and measuring electrical resistance in woven sensors. The research is a starting point for a larger project exploring the interaction between sensors and the human body, investigating how these structures can be utilised in dynamic settings. To date, knitted materials have been most commonly employed in e-textiles, known for their use of a single yarn and high stretchability. This paper serves as an initial exploration into incorporating stretch into woven textiles for the purpose of recording electrical resistance. Initial pleated structures were identified using Nishijin weaving to construct pleated conductive materials. The results underscore that a critical factor in using woven pleats as input devices lies in the combination of yarns and the construction of the woven pleat
The influencing mechanism of the communities’ built environment on residents’ subjective well-being: A case study of Beijing
Get PDFThere is a consensus toward quantitative environmental design in the information age, but the content and specific practices of its quantification have yet to be systematically studied. To enhance residents’ subjective well-being through environmental design, this study includes 847 valid questionnaires across four types of communities and identifies different types of resident groups using correspondence analysis. Then, this study compares the differences in the built environment and subjective well-being using one-way ANOVA and analyzes their impact via regression analysis. The results indicate that residents in old communities have the highest subjective well-being (3.93/5) and built environment assessments, and residents in policy housing communities have the lowest subjective well-being (3.37/5) and built environment assessments. A resident’s subjective well-being is more influenced by two types of built environment factors: architecture and landscape and the human–land relationship. Age, education level, public place usage, and the community’s overall evaluation also significantly affect residents’ subjective well-being. In the information age, quantitative design is the inevitable direction of future design. Through quantitative research, targeted design strategies can be proposed to serve community residents better in their communities and provide references for communities in other developing countries
The welcome warning
No full textAn experimental bronze casting two part residency at Walnut Works Foundry in Suffolk . The residency is by invitation only, and was funded by Walnut Works and the RCA. The focus is on experimental bronze casting, and in this instance , on using paper and papier mache combined with wax as part of the burn out process. The bronze sculpture produced was exhibited in a solo exhibition 'Rocks Remember and Other Stories' at the Standpoint Gallery , London in November 2024. Thematically, the sculpture was part of an ongoing research project into meteorites as deities and symbols of prophecy and warning
Object learning: Developing a decolonial approach to active learning content
Get PDFIn this keynote, Atif will take us on a journey through his career from international Sociology doctoral student to Independent Film Producer, Immersive EdTech developer, Lecturer, and Educator. At the core of all his work has been the use of innovative storytelling approaches to inform social change. In the address, Atif will explore some insights in using immersive technologies as a mode of active learning in formal and informal learning settings. Through the example of Millennium Mills: Feeding Edwardian London, Atif will map his “Thinking with History” critical pedagogy in creating immersive content. In particular, Atif will reflect on the underlying principles that have shaped his thinking on the use of immersive technologies - like VR - to deliver East London public history content; and how he aspires to develop more effective active learning and decolonial modes of teaching and thinking
Curating digital experiences: Insights in extending the senses and embodying technology in arts and performance, a journey through time and space
Get PDFThe digital media landscape has changed radically since I took an interest in it in the late 1990s. One could say that we both grew up and diversified together during this time. This chapter delves into my curatorial, research and artistic practice, revealing various approaches to interactive arts and performance through extending the human body with wearable devices and other technologies expanding the senses, and blurring physical and virtual. The practices explored here feature a variety of approaches for making and presenting performance and interactive media, as well as enhancing the experience for the audience. The chapter takes a winding path, exploring the edges of conventional performance practices and perspectives within a technological context. It picks up in some ways from previous chapters on related practice areas in Chap. 13 on hyper/transhumanism and Chap. 14 on art performance and VR
Olfactory-enabled aesthetics of experience design for human-AI chatbot interaction: Enhancing user engagement
Get PDFThis doctoral research explores the lack of user engagement observed in human-AI chatbot interaction through the theoretical lens of service-dominant logic (SDL). A recent observation suggests that stand-alone voice assistants and chatbots enabled by artificial intelligence are experiencing a fast-growing market adoption, especially among the user group of the Millennials, but the data published by Accenture in 2017 reveals that their use is limited to very simple tasks, such as turning on music or checking weather forecast only, and a frustrating user experience with these devices has been causing an ongoing challenge of user engagement. Although there is a great number of previous studies that examined the phenomenon of lack of user engagement of wearable devices, the studies that inquired into the phenomenon of lack of user engagement of other smart service products (SSPs), such as voice assistants and chatbots, are still limited. Also, most current studies focused on user adoption and acceptance of SSPs (Bolen, 2020; Deghani et al, 2018); therefore, understanding of the post-adoption user behaviour remains limited. In order to address this knowledge gap, this doctoral research takes a research through design approach to inquire into the phenomenon of lack of user engagement in human-AI chatbot interaction. This research is an interdisciplinary study that is situated at the intersection of design and services marketing. Many recent contributions in the human-computer interaction (HCI) discipline that examined the challenge of user engagement generated new knowledge on how sensory stimuli can be leveraged to tackle the challenge of user engagement in a smart service system. However, the focus of these studies is significantly skewed towards visual, auditory, and most recently, haptic senses. Extant literature in sensory research and most recently HCI (e.g. Obrist et al, 2017; Spence et al, 2017) addressed the lack of studies that explore the HCI phenomenon through the olfactory sense, although the olfactory sense has the most intimate linkage with the areas of the human brains that directly control human emotions. Recent studies have started to respond to this knowledge gap, and the olfactory sense is gaining research traction, but most of these studies adopted a quantitative research approach that quantifies human experience as a measurable unit. Also, they do not offer deep insights as to how a designer can use the olfactory stimulus as a design material to design for an olfactory-enabled aesthetics of experience in the context of human-SSP interaction. In order to expand the current knowledge in the effect of the olfactory stimulus on human emotions and experience, specifically in the context of human-AI chatbot interaction, this doctoral research explores the research problem - the lack of user engagement that leads to user abandonment in human-AI chatbot interaction. Based on the review of extant literature, this research problem was further developed into research questions as follows: 1) How could service designers use the olfactory stimulus as a design material to design for the olfactory-enabled aesthetics of experience in human-AI chatbot interaction? 2) Could the olfactory-enabled aesthetics of experience emerged in human-AI chatbot interaction enable value co-creation between the user and AI chatbot that enhances user engagement? The contributions from this research are three-fold. First, this doctoral research is an interdisciplinary study that directly responds to the call for further research contributions from interdisciplinary studies by the service research community (Gustafsson and Bowen, 2017). Secondly, this research studied the olfactory stimulus as a design material that has been underexplored in the design and HCI disciplines. Finally, this research examined the lack of user engagement and user retention problem in a smart service system through the theoretical lens of SDL, whilst it adopted a research through design approach to explore rich details of human emotions and behaviour in the context of human-AI chatbot interaction. This study has examined the challenge of user experience qualitatively using a research through design approach, and this hybrid approach in combining the theoretical foundation from the services marketing discipline and a methodological approach from the design research discipline is original. As a result, it expands the discipline-specific boundary of a design experiment by positioning a design experiment as a legitimate research method for exploratory research to scholars from non-design disciplines. This approach also demonstrates how service design can be used as a mid-range theory to operationalise meta-level theory - SDL - and explores an empirical observation - the lack of user engagement in human-AI interaction that is observed at a microlevel of a smart service system
Seeking a new world: Modernism and alternative spirituality
Get PDFThis thesis traces the way in which established modes of belief lingered, and yet were transmogrified, in the work of some major modernist figures in the mid-twentieth century. The aim of the project is thus to analyse and reintegrate the cultural role of spirituality in Britain and I do so by combining archival research with literary and visual analysis of major and lesser-known works. My methodology is informed by recent critical work which has sought to show why spirituality was an integral component of British modernism; however, I develop a reading which stresses the complexity of this intellectual and emotional landscape. Rather than focus purely on occult and Christian traditions, whose importance within the cultural discourses of the period is now widely recognised, this thesis considers the significance of a more porous category of belief. The interwar years saw the vogue of the guru; typified by the notoriety attracted to figures such as G.I. Gurdjieff and P.D. Ouspensky who taught independent systems of spiritual development, composed of ideas drawn from varied traditions. The increasing turn to Eastern religion also manifested something of this syncretic tendency, with enthusiasm often directed at specific facets of their traditions, notably the techniques of yoga and meditation, rather than the system as a whole. There was also excitement in activities that bordered on the mystical such as astrology, as well as forms of alternative therapies, that while directed as physical well-being, often had a heavily spiritual component. I thus argue that the category of ‘alternative spirituality’ provides a useful way of characterising these heterogenous pursuits and functions as crucial lens to illuminate artistic tendencies within the modern movement. In contrast to the fragmented form of the self stressed in multiple traditions of criticism, I argue that spiritual ideas fostered a counter-veiling strand of confidence in a sacredly endowed notion of being which acted to unite and animate the work of a range of authors. Each chapter of the thesis focuses on a key figure, but sets them in their matrix of intellectual, aesthetic and social connections. The figures are: Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, John Middleton Murry, Naomi Mitchison and Ithell Colquhoun. They range from the canonical to the more marginalised, but I chart how each shared an immanentist sensibility that nurtured an optimistic tenor within their works; particularly the belief that the spiritual could lead to the transformation of the world-at-large. The chapters consider how this apprehension unites Murry’s mystically infused criticism and politics of the 1930s with Huxley’s spiritual-pacificist vision articulated in his novel Eyeless in Gaza (1936); as well as Mitchison’s yoking of ideas of cosmic consciousness with a socialist futurity in both her historical fiction and social realism. This impulse, I will argue, was also manifested in a rarefied appreciation of the art object; an idea that is central to both Colquhoun’s magical automatism from the 1940s and the emphasis placed on the artist’s epiphanic insight that is found in the writings of Murry and Woolf. By placing the work of these diverse practitioners alongside each other I emphasise the way which mid-twentieth century culture, even in the absence of institutional faith, was still deeply imbibed by an affirmative spiritual vision of life