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This Africa : giving form to the informal
Get PDFMini Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2010.The thesis entitled “This is Africa giving form to the informal” arose from a concern with the growing levels of poverty and unemployment in South Africa and the recognition that small scale, self-generated economic activity provides an important means of survival for the very poor. It acknowledges the positive contributions that informal street trading makes to the urban environment. The dissertation draws upon a study of recently initiated projects that aimed to legitimise informal trading, by integrating it in the built environment. It is also driven by a study of the way in which traders organise, claim and define space in the urban environment. This process can be seen as the way in which traders themselves seek legitimacy. Collectively, case studies revealed a number of key elements necessary for the legitimisation of informal trade. Although the area of the proposed intervention is the Pretoria Station precinct, the study acknowledges that there are universal elements contained in informal trading. These elements establish a set of principles that define the minimal intervention necessary in order to allow opportunities for trade to as many people as possible whilst giving the traders themselves the maximum possible room to manoeuvre. In essence, the approach does not argue for the formalisation or ‘neatening’ of informal activity, but aims to give form to activities frequently regarded as illegal, and to provide street market spaces that can function as essential forms of urban infrastructure (Dewar 1990:xi).Architectureunrestricte
Transforming the norm: the future of workspaces. Designing for post-pandemic well-being
Get PDFMini-dissertation (MIntArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2021.The pandemic undoubtedly disrupted people’s lives worldwide, causing rapid shifts in work typologies and proving that humans are inherently social beings who require some degree of interaction.
The following project is aimed at investigating how interior architectural design can be implemented within workspaces to allow for user well-being and flourishing, particularly within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project entails transforming an underutilised commercial building, 1157 Francis Baard Street in Hatfield, into a community workspace that fosters connections amongst people of a diverse community. The project becomes an interconnected workspace with a permeable, publicly accessible ground floor offering a range of flexible and adaptable spaces that allow users to appropriate the space to best suit their needs.
The design is intended to make knowledge and opportunities more accessible to the diverse and multi-generational Hatfield community, thereby supporting continual learning, interaction, and development. Social connections and knowledge transfer are encouraged by bridging a workspace and community space, thereby facilitating positive interactions and ultimately human flourishing.
The project is intended to further contribute to the ongoing interior architectural discourse related to well-being and flourishing in design through translating theoretical guidelines into a conceptual physical manifestation. The resultant proposal is grounded in theory and addresses well-being across various scales, including personal, workplace, and community health and flourishing.ArchitectureMIntArch (Prof)Unrestricte
What we WEAR: Alteration to support a circular economy driven by post-consumer textile waste generated by fast fashion.
Get PDFMini Dissertation (MInt (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2020.The value consumers attach to their clothing creates a high demand and frequent consumption of fast fashion. This results in the increase of post-consumer textile waste that ends up on landfills, which has a negative impact on the environment. This raises the critical issue of disposal methods and necessary education to create awareness and equip users to contribute to a circular economy that aims to extend the lifecycle of each garment. This study aims to design for the facilitation of a circular economy driven by post-consumer textile waste that encourages sustainable consumption.
The short lifecycles of commercial interior due to the influence of societal taste results in the frequent alteration of these interiors, increasing building waste which has a negative environmental impact. This study explores how the lifecycle of an interior environment can be extended through the design principles derived from the design informants identified through the investigation of the theoretical framework, site, precedents, users and programme, and proposed brand. The result is the design of sustainable interior environments that encourages sustainable consumption.
The design for multi-use programme allows for users to learn and contribute on various platforms to empower the local community and close the loop for fast fashion to generate a new fashion culture at 012 Central. Through the alteration of the identified interior environments the design intervention aims to reinvigorate the underutilised buildings at 012 Central to support a circular economy driven by post-consumer textile waste.
The design intervention aims to provide an informative spatial experience that encourages interaction with space and object, empowering users to contribute to a circular economy driven by post-consumer textile waste. The technical resolution of the proposed design intervention is concerned with the design of sustainable interior environments and components that considers their environmental impact through a closed-loop design approach.ArchitectureMInt (Prof)Unrestricte
House VI
No full textModel (1:50) of House VI, Cornwall, Connecticut, designed by architect Peter Eisenman, 1975, built by architecture students, University of Pretoria as a 2nd year project, 2005
Standard Bank Centre
No full textModel [1:200] of Standard Bank Centre, Johannesburg, built by 3rd year B.Sc. (Arch) students, University of Pretoria, 2006
The Interior Design Industry in South Africa, a Brief Survey
No full textZakkiya Khan and Nonkululeko Grootboom look at the interior design profession in South Africa, exploring the practice and academic aspects of the industr
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
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
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