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Transmundane Architecture: Architectural Control Relationships Through the Lens of More-than-Human Onto-Epistemologies, Degrowth Practices and Occulture
Get PDFArchitecture has traditionally focused on human-centred practices, emphasising control over construction processes and creating internal environments that separate humans from their external surroundings. The growing interest in posthuman theories introduces the concept of nonhuman agency into this predominantly human-centric field. This research seeks to explore the potential tensions between traditional design practices, such as architecture, and the impacts of nonhuman agency on associated design and construction processes.
Building on experimental design research at the intersection of art, design and architecture, this research seeks to contribute to posthuman design discourse by critically examining the implications of occultural and degrowth themes through the design of a specific building located in the woods of Småland. The building is a method to explore the emerging design program of the research: human-nonhuman control relationships. The construction of the building allows me to carefully attend to the frictions which arise through architectural production. Different forms of nonhuman agents and agencies are recognised: material-energetic weathering agents, such as rain and snow; embodied agents, such as wasps and snakes; and infrastructural agencies where humans and nonhumans co-create within extensive more-than-human networks.
Various design experiments are conducted to create a conglomerate of insights for analysis and reflection. Occultural themes, from theosophical, magical and Buddhist literature, help translate insights from the construction site into ficto-critical and speculative texts. The findings of the research emphasise that buildings and related architectural practices often function as tools for controlling nonhumans, reinforcing human-centric perspectives. To adopt posthuman ideas in architecture, it is essential to rethink traditional boundaries and employ dynamic, responsive design processes that engage with nonhuman agents. This shift fosters more inclusive and environmentally responsible practices. The research findings highlight the importance of identifying project-specific nonhuman agents involved in human-nonhuman control relationships within architecture, as well as recognising the types of agencies that are present. Furthermore, acknowledging the roles of the human subjects involved in more-than-human design networks is crucial. The research concludes with a redefined design program centred around the leitmotifs of control, care and adaptation, which can serve as a foundation for future architectural research exploring posthuman concepts in architecture
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Survey of participant experience in workshop for testing IGP software setup: supplemental dataset for SimAUD 2018
No full textThis is a supplemental dataset for a SimAUD 2018 paper. For the context of the dataset, plots, and description text given here, please refer to the paper:
Heinrich, M.K., Zahadat, P., Harding, J., et al. Using interactive evolution to design behaviors for non-deterministic self-organized construction. In Proc. of SimAUD (2018). In print.
These survey results (see attached file dataset_survey-responses), are regarding the experience of participants in a workshop testing the Integrated Growth Projection software setup, including an implementation of the Vascular Morphogenesis Controller, and the Interactive Evolution software Biomorpher.
The full-time one-week workshop was held as part of the normal coursework of the Master's degree program CITAstudio: Computation in Architecture, in the Institute of Architecture and Technology, at [KADK] The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark. It was part of the first semester of the 2017-2018 school year. Workshop participants were current Master's students in the CITAstudio program. The workshop teaching was led by Mary Katherine Heinrich and Phil Ayres, with guest teaching by Payam Zahadat and John Harding, overall program teaching supervision by Paul Nicholas, and teaching assistance by Sebastian Gatz.
Survey method:
The workshop participants gave survey responses anonymously.
Survey responses were collected via Google Forms (https://www.google.com/forms/about/). At the start of the survey, participants gave permissions for use and publication, and verified that they participated in the workshop and had not previously taken the survey. The platform discourages duplicate responses by requiring an email sign-in (which is not visible to the surveyor).
Although workshop participants gave permission for survey results to be published before taking the survey, the participants were unaware of the specific intended context and purpose of publishing, prior to taking the survey. Authors of the related paper who were workshop participants had no contact with the process of survey preparation, analysis of its results, or writing of related paper sections.
There were 26 workshop participants. Participants were architects or architectural designers.
Participants were asked about 1) their prior experience, 2) their understanding of topics before and after the workshop, 3) the helpfulness of specific software aspects for their understanding and their project work, and 4) their likelihood to use specific software aspects in the future.
In addition to looking at the full surveyed group, we compare experience sub-groups. Participants select relevant tasks that they have previously completed, from a provided list. They are placed in the Less Experience sub-group if they select one or no tasks, and in the More Experience sub-group if they select two or more.
Survey results:
Close to two-thirds of workshop participants submitted survey responses (16 of 26, or 61.5%), with at least two respondents per group. One respondent indicated workshop absence; their responses were removed. One respondent indicated that they did not understand two questions, so those two responses were removed. All responses were submitted within 18 days of workshop end.
Attached file: Plot_1, caption:
Plot 1: Participants' scoring of their understanding of the topics "self-organization" and "Interactive Evolution" respectively, comparing scores before and after the workshop.
Attached file: Plot_2, caption:
Plot 2: (Left) Participants' scoring of their likelihood to use certain aspects of the software setup again, if they were to design a non-deterministic self-organizing behavior, and (right) participants' indications of the helpfulness of those same software aspects.
Responses regarding understanding (see attached file, Plot_1) give evidence that the Integrated Growth Projection software setup helped participants of both experience levels improve their understanding of related topics. Those with less prior experience improved their understanding more than others, and understanding of "Interactive Evolution" improved slightly more than understanding of "self-organization."
Responses regarding the usefulness of certain software aspects (see attached file, Plot_2) give evidence that: 1) Interactive Evolution helped participants to understand and design a non-deterministic self-organizing behavior (see Plot_2, a); 2) visualization of the environment and simultaneous viewing of multiple results helped them to understand and design such behaviors (see Plot_2, b and c); and 3) the Integrated Growth Projection's features of environment visualization and simultaneous results inside the artificial selection preview windows of the IE setup helped them to evolve behaviors to solve their chosen tasks (see Plot_2, d and e).
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The research work involved here is part of EU project flora robotica.
http://www.florarobotica.eu/
Project flora robotica has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the FET grant agreement, no. 640959
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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