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What Can Heritage Professionals Learn from Open World Games?
No full textWhat can real-world cultural heritage sites learn from the video games industry about presenting a coherent story, while giving visitors freedom to explore and allowing them to become participants in the story-making? How do cultural heritage professionals have to change their storytelling practices to properly take advantage of new digital technologies? A review of the literature, including analysing the narrative of three “open world” style video games shows that cultural heritage sites manage to provide analogues of many ludic emotional triggers except one – story.The bulk of the work is auto-ethnographical: how might cultural heritage professionals, like me, translate linear interpretations such as histories, guidebooks, exhibition texts and other sources, into a network of narrative atoms (natoms) that an algorithm, rather than a human, might deliver to visitors? What should they consider along the way? The first prototype was a responsive heritage narrative, this was an on-screen text “adventure” rather than a real-world environment. Taking learning from that experiment to Chawton House Library, an on-line data-base of natoms was built, which included environmental effects such as lighting, sound and music. Visitors participated in an “Untour” simulating a responsive environment, triggered by their movement around the spaces of the house. The output of this research is an analysis of the recordings and observations made during the Untours, which proves that it is possible to author coherent narratives by tagging individual natoms. However consideration should be given to the transitions between natoms, and heritage professionals should be challenged to take more risks with fiction
Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats
No full textJones, Matthew F., Hasiotis, Stephen T. (2018): Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats. Acta Chiropterologica 20 (1): 229-250, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.018, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3161/15081109acc2018.20.1.01
Co-constructing community wellbeing: developing a framework to identify how student community collaborative public space projects impact on community wellbeing
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Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from, amongst other things, road traffic. Within this tripartite structure of health issues in the built environment, there are multiple individual issues affecting both the developed and the developing worlds and the global north and south.
Reflecting on a broad set of interrelated concerns about health and the design of the places we inhabit, this book seeks to better understand the interconnectedness and potential solutions to the problems associated with health and the built environment. Divided into three key themes: home, city, and society, each section presents a number of research chapters that explore global processes, transformative praxis and emergent trends in architecture, urban design and healthy city research. Drawing together practicing architects, academics, scholars, public health professional and activists from around the world to provide perspectives on design for health, this book includes emerging research on: healthy homes, walkable cities, design for ageing, dementia and the built environment, health equality and urban poverty, community health services, neighbourhood support and wellbeing, urban sanitation and communicable disease, the role of transport infrastructures and government policy, and the cost implications of ‘unhealthy’ cities etc. To that end, this book examines alternative and radical ways of practicing architecture and the re-imagining of the profession of architecture through a lens of human health
FIG. 11 in Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats
No full textFIG. 11. Carollia perspicillata arcuate manus tracks on Cast 1 and outlines of arcuate tracks produced by digit I of right and left manus. Scale bar 1 cmPublished as part of Jones, Matthew F. & Hasiotis, Stephen T., 2018, Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats, pp. 229-250 in Acta Chiropterologica 20 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.018, http://zenodo.org/record/782330
FIG. 12 in Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats
No full textFIG. 12. Carollia perspicillata searching behavior trace on Cast 1 showing outlines of clustered individual pedal tracks produced by a single foot. Scale bar 1 cmPublished as part of Jones, Matthew F. & Hasiotis, Stephen T., 2018, Terrestrial behavior and trackway morphology of Neotropical bats, pp. 229-250 in Acta Chiropterologica 20 (1) on page 240, DOI: 10.3161/15081109ACC2018.20.1.018, http://zenodo.org/record/782330
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