176 research outputs found
Education In an Era of Pervasive Automation
No full textThis article presents a conversation with Professor Mark Andrejevic and Neil Selwyn - focusing on Mark's book Automated Media (Andrejevic 2020).
Mark and Neil talk through some of the main arguments that are developed in Automated Media, and consider how these are beginning to play out through the forms of automation that are now beginning to emerge in schools, universities, and other education contexts.</p
’The design of a maximised transparent roof structure, to create the most optimal micro climate for the Khalifa International Stadium in Qatar
No full textThis report discusses the design analysis process of designing a maximum transparent roof for a stadium in order to create the most optimal semi indoor stadium climate. To conduct such research, the following main question had to be asked: How can a maximised transparent roof for the Khalifa International Stadium (KIS) in Qatar, with efficient use of energy, create an optimal semi indoor climate in extreme summer weather conditions? The research on creating a comfortable microclimate in stadia started in the early eighties, where at the time knowledge in this field was very little. During the nineties, more information came available on creating microclimates in large semi-indoor spaces. Thus academic experimenting began on the quality of air, lighting and acoustics in stadia. This resulted in new stadiums built with new techniques from these academic analyses. In the zeroes one discovered a lot of inconveniences in the findings of the nineties and started to improve the academic research on stadia. With the rise of computers, it was a lot easier to conduct more complex and feasible analyses. Which brings us till today, where climate adaptation with complex forms can be tested and actually be made with the use of new kinds of materials. Because of the help of computers, designs are becoming much easier to predict, which makes us challenge ourselves to design in the most extreme situations where efficient and sustainable engineering can be achieved. Designing a roof for a stadium or a whole stadium gives new insights in different use of materials, smart climate/ structural design and the quality of sustainable building. Designing a roof for the Khalifa International Stadium (KIS) gives a clear insight in the complexity of the structural demands of a stadium and the relevance of climate adaptive building. From a climate till a structural perspective the design has to balance between both disciplines, without exceeding one another’s preconditions. For such roof, a wide range of design and engineering analyses is required. By conducting wind, heat and lighting analyses certain design requirements are imposed. Resulting in an interesting primary structural roof design based on the wind and an interesting secondary structural roof design based on heat and lighting. A roof where climate design meets structural design and vice versa.Architecture and The Built EnvironmentBuilding TechnologyChair of Climate Design, Chair of Structural DesignAR4B02
South African nation branding and the World Cup: promoting nationalism, nation branding, and the miracle nation discourse
No full textOptimisation of complex geometry buildings based on wind load analysis
No full textOne result of climate change is the increasing strength and frequency of wind events. This creates a problem for the also increasing number of high-rise buildings many of which are of unconventional shape. However, current methods for calculating wind response either do not account for these geometries, such as the Eurocode or are prohibitively expensive and time-consuming, such as physical wind tunnel tests. This thesis aims to address this issue by developing a computational method by which one can analyse the structural effects of wind on a building and optimise the external geometry to reduce those effects in the early design phase. The method involves the combination of three main algorithms: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to simulate the wind and the pressure it exerts on a building, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) which calculates the structural effects such as deflection and stresses due to these forces, and an optimisation algorithm which can iteratively manipulate an input geometry to obtain better performance. For this thesis, a tool based on the method was developed in Grasshopper, the visual scripting plugin for Rhinoceros3D. Existing plugins were used for the main algorithms while custom scripting was used to combine them into a single tool that was made relatively easy to use and returned quick results.The methodology involved extensive research into the various aspects of the method. This was followed by the development of the method throughout which testing and validation were performed to determine its accuracy and timeliness. Case study buildings were tested with the goal of reducing structural material use. In all tests, the mass of structural material needed was reduced by allowing the optimisation algorithm to manipulate only the external geometry of the building. This produced a tool within Grasshopper and a set of guidelines for developing such a method.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Science
ninarina12/phononDoS_tutorial: Tutorial: Predicting phonon DoS with Euclidean neural networks
No full text<p>This tutorial is part of the 2021 MRS Fall Meeting tutorial series on symmetry-aware neural networks for the material sciences and includes supporting code for the paper by Zhantao Chen, Nina Andrejevic, Tess Smidt, et al., "Direct Prediction of Phonon Density of States With Euclidean Neural Networks." Advanced Science (2021): 2004214.</p>
From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent: A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature
No full textTijana Matijević lectures on post-Yugoslav literature, culture, and languages at two European universities, and this monograph reflects her expertise while consolidating her previous research. The book attempts to examine contemporary literature from the regions of former Yugoslavia through the lens of feminist analysis and also in the light of its theorized connections with the Yugoslav neo-avant-garde. It expands and redefines existing concepts (such as the idea of post-Yugoslavia as a liminal socio-political space defined, in Bhabha's phrasing, as 'the time never completely beyond' (p. 8)) while introducing new notions (such as framing and understanding the literary landscapes of today's Yugoslavia as a 'female continent'). As such, this book represents a nuanced integration of literary and feminist analysis applied to several key texts, including the Serbian author Slobodan Tišman's Bernardijeva Saba (Bernardi's Room, 2011) and the Croatian writer Olja Savićević Ivančević's Adio, Kauboju (Adios Cowboy, 2010). It is carefully researched and meticulously argued, if a little densely worded at times. Matijević engages ambitiously with various theoretical fields, which underpin her close textual and interdisciplinary analysis of the primary sources examined in Chapters 2-6. While Western scholars may not be familiar with all of the authors discussed here, as they are not widely known outside the Balkan region (with a few notable exceptions such as Dasa Drndić), Matijević's comparative approach makes her study relevant for non-specialists as well as regional experts
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Reality TV the work of being watched
No full textDrawing on cultural theory and interviews with fans, cast members and producers, this book places the reality TV trend within a broader social context, tracing its relationship to the development of a digitally enhanced, surveillance-based interactive economy and to a savvy mistrust of mediated reality in generalSurveying several successful reality TV formats, the book links the rehabilitation of Big Brother to the increasingly important economic role played by the work of being watched. The author enlists critical social theory to examine how the appeal of "the real" is deployed as a pervasive but false promise of democratisatio
Building Design Approaches and Performance Under Predicted Climate Conditions
No full textThe building environment has high energy consumption and carbon emission which contributes to the rapid climate change. The changing climate condition not only impacts the natural environment but also our habitation. To improve the building performance in both energy and indoor comfort, performance-based design is commonly applied in architectural design. In general, a building lifespan is around 80 years, which means the buildings are designed and constructed now would face different climate conditions than the weather we used to evaluate the performance. To prevent the influence caused by climate change, this research develops computational workflows to generate predicted future climate conditions and multi-objective optimization to study the relationship between design decisions, climate conditions, and building performance. The conclusion of this research is based on the comparison and discussion of the result of optimization from five different climate and design scenarios with a single case study building.Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Building Technolog
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