scholarly journals The impact of artistic circles on the way of using and arrangement apartments in multi-family residential buildings in Poland in the 1950s and 1960s

2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 073-092
Author(s):  
Marta Kruk
Keyword(s):  
Design Thinking ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Origin Life ◽  
Spatial Layouts ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This article (part I) presents the activities of artistic circles - architects - and their impact on the ways of using and arrangement of the living area. The way of using apartment is understood as:1) The way of arranging basic living functions by inhabitants (sleeping, resting, preparing and eating meals, receiving guests, studying, personal hygiene);2) The relationships between inhabitants and an apartment dependent on education, occupational structure, origin, life style, inherited cultural patterns, fashion as well as a group of physical characteristics and apartment attributes);3) The rights of family members to use the apartment space, including the right to intimacy and having own private space, as well as the representative needs.The aim of this article is to show the evolution of design thinking in the field of functional and spatial layouts of apartments and indicating the main trends of these changes. The selected functional layouts of apartments (including the remarks of the author of the design), representative of the given period of time, have been analyzed with respect to social and political conditions. In summary, the most important tendencies, which may be observed in respect of discussed changes, have been indicated. These include: expanding the living-room area of the apartment by designing a kitchen closer to the living-room or even combining a kitchen with a living -room; the differentiated approach to the issues of creating sleeping areas due to the understanding of children’s individual needs to have their own living space; the concern to upgrade the quality of hygiene in an apartment - by creating separate restrooms and designing bathrooms with a space for a washing machine.

The adaptation of design thinking in auditing

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda MEIJER-WASSENAAR ◽  
Diny VAN EST
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Public Organizations ◽  
Design Framework ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Way

How can a supreme audit institution (SAI) use design thinking in auditing? SAIs audit the way taxpayers’ money is collected and spent. Adding design thinking to their activities is not to be taken lightly. SAIs independently check whether public organizations have done the right things in the right way, but the organizations might not be willing to act upon a SAI’s recommendations. Can you imagine the role of design in audits? In this paper we share our experiences of some design approaches in the work of one SAI: the Netherlands Court of Audit (NCA). Design thinking needs to be adapted (Dorst, 2015a) before it can be used by SAIs such as the NCA in order to reflect their independent, autonomous status. To dive deeper into design thinking, Buchanan’s design framework (2015) and different ways of reasoning (Dorst, 2015b) are used to explore how design thinking can be adapted for audits.

The Birth of a Nationalist

2020 ◽  
pp. 119-126
Author(s):  
Yael Tamir
Keyword(s):  
Private Property ◽  
Moral Luck ◽  
State Of Mind ◽  
Lockean Proviso ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the differences between nationalists and globalists. The chapter asserts that being a nationalist or a globalist is not a constitutive state of mind; on the contrary, in light of changing circumstances, individuals locate themselves at different points along the global—national (G—N) continuum. The chapter sheds new light on the correlation among education, rationality, and the way individuals position themselves on the G—N continuum. It argues that individuals are better of if they structure their preferences in light of actual risks and opportunities. The chapter also recounts social and economic circumstances affecting a person's scheme of risks and opportunities. The chapter elaborates the discussion concerning moral luck. It also assesses the impact of Lockean proviso, in which individuals have the right to acquire as much private property as they can (mostly land in Locke's days), as long as what they leave behind for others is enough and “as good.”

scholarly journals Home in the format of «life-work-leisure» in modern pandemic conditions: a sociological dimension

2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 40-48
Author(s):  
Olesya Gudzenko
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Private Space ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Current Events ◽  
Home Space ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Life Work

Unexpected changes, risks and constraints that have arisen in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic have led to transformational changes in the social order of many societies. The effects of the pandemic can now be traced in all spheres of modern life. The usual order of everyday life, the criteria of relevance and interpretive schemes for explainig current events, necessary for life and interaction in society are subject to significant changes and form a "new reality". Sociological discourse immediately responded to ontological shifts with empirical research on the effects of the pandemic in teleworking and distance education, gender and domestic violence, health practices, hygiene, leisure, and new forms of sociality.The pandemic situation has brought to the attention of researchers the daily life of man, which has become more localized in the private space of the home. The new social conditions have forced us to reconsider the requirements for living space. Issues of comfortable planning and personal safety, the ability to work and exercise the right to education, development and entertainment have become even more relevant and defining values in the organization of everyday life of modern man.The combination of different functional areas in a single living space has led to the transformation of the perception of home as a private recreation area. This work is devoted to the study of the impact of existing socio-cultural conditions on the processes of changing the attitude of the citizens of Dnipro to the private space of the house in a new format that combines everyday life, work and leisure. An empirical study of in-depth interviews was conducted to capture changes in the perception of home space in today's pandemic environment. The obtained results testified to a significant transformation of ideas about the organization of everyday life and living space of modern man in the current conditions.

Electroencephalogram (EEG) responses to indoor sound sources in wooden residential buildings

2021 ◽  
Vol 263 (4) ◽  
pp. 1989-1998
Author(s):  
Alessia Frescura ◽  
Pyoung Jik Lee ◽  
Jeong-Ho Jeong ◽  
Yoshiharu Soeta
Keyword(s):  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Piano Music ◽  
Sound Insulation ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Noise Sources ◽  
Sound Sources ◽  
Listening Tests ◽  
Eeg Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Electroencephalogram Eeg

The present study aimed to explore relationships between physiological and subjective responses to indoor sounds. Specifically, The electroencephalograms (EEG) responses to neighbour sounds in wooden dwellings were investigated. Listening tests were performed to collect EEG data in distinct acoustics scenarios. Experimental work was carried out in a laboratory with a low background noise level. A series of impact and airborne sounds were presented through loudspeakers and subwoofer, while participants sat comfortably in the simulated living room wearing the EEG headset (B-alert X24 system). The impact sound sources were an adult walking and a child running recorded in a laboratory equipped with different floor configurations. Two airborne sounds (a live conversation and a piece of classical piano music) were digitally filtered to resemble good and poor sound insulation performances of vertical partitions. The experiment consisted of two sessions, namely, the evaluation of individual sounds and the evaluation of the combined noise sources. In the second session, pairs of an impact and an airborne sound were presented. During the listening test, electroencephalography alpha reactivity (α-EEG) and electroencephalography beta reactivity (β-EEG) were monitored. In addition, participants were asked to rate noise annoyance using an 11-point scale.

scholarly journals Developing Ways of Thinking in Society Using Online Video: A Case of Sexy Killers Video

Humaniora ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Ferric Limano
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Online Video ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

This research aimed to explain the online video, ‘Sexy Killers’, to build a way of thinking in society. The problem of this research limited to the role of online video in conveying messages that could build positivity in the community. It had a focus on how much the impact of online video could affect the way of thinking in society by using online video ‘Sexy Killers’ and looked at the responses of the audience’s comments after receiving the message contained in this video. The method used in the research was a qualitative method documentation that the researcher would document any opinion in column comments by giving the right impression that had obtained positive (build) and negative. The results of this research are the video “Sexy Killers” has succeeded in design online video recommendations that can build a way of thinking in a society that has a positive impact. 

scholarly journals Energy-efficient multi-loop heating systems for multi-apartment residential buildings

2019 ◽  
Vol 110 ◽  
pp. 01018
Author(s):  
Andrey Benuzh ◽  
Sergey Fedorov
Keyword(s):  
Heat Supply ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Thermal Characteristics ◽  
Field Tests ◽  
Hot Water ◽  
Heating Season ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Heating Systems ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

The paper analyzes the connection diagrams and operation of buildings heat supply systems, taking into account the impact of changing weather and climate influences during the heating season. High-quality central heat consumption control was carried out, at which the heating carrier flow rate was maintained at a constant level, and its temperature varied according to a predetermined schedule. Thermal characteristics or mode of operation of the building differed from the data set in the schedule, as a result, more heat was consumed in certain periods. Its overrun was also observed during the warm period of the heating season, when, due to the maintenance of the hot water temperature at the right level on the outlet from the water-heaters, the heating carrier from the source was supplied with a temperature exceeding the established norms. The results of field tests and the diagrams of heat supply for heating at the heat supply operation in central heating points are presented. The main accent is made on the study of multi-circuit heating systems with frontal control of heat supply.

scholarly journals Gothic Trouble: Cormac McCarthy’s The Road and the Globalized Order

Text Matters ◽  
2016 ◽  
pp. 144-158
Author(s):  
Marie Liénard-Yeterian
Keyword(s):  
Data Gathering ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Gothic Literature ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Road ◽  
American Author ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

The article explores the way American author Cormac McCarthy uses the Gothic genre in his novel The Road as a means to address what has been called “our globalized order,” in particular the way it has turned human beings into consuming or consumed entities. Some dimensions of this globalized order indeed involve the reintroduction of slavery through human trafficking, unprecedented greed and labor capitalism, surveillance and personal data gathering. Hannah Arendt notes in The Origin of Totalitarianism that the disasters of the twentieth century had proved that a globalized order might “produce barbarians from its own midst by forcing millions of people into conditions which, despite all appearances, are the conditions of savages.” The artist’s task is to find the right language and images to address the breaking of the world. French philosopher J. P. Dupuy, for example, has argued that the financial world is a way to contain (contenir) the violence of competition, placing it into acceptable (symbolic) forms away from primal physical competition. McCarthy’s graphic use of Gothic tropes—including cannibalism, the wild forest, the haunted house, the chase, the conflict between light and darkness, the blurring of boundaries between different categories—creates a shock. The article also addresses the larger question of the impact of globalization on Gothic literature, and the impact of Gothic literature on real world matters as it contributes to and reflects upon and challenges global regimes of economic, social and economic power. In other words, what is the cultural work that the Gothic does in the present?

scholarly journals Effect of Occupant Activity on Indoor Particle Concentrations in Korean Residential Buildings

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (21) ◽  
pp. 9201
Author(s):  
Hyungkeun Kim ◽  
Kyungmo Kang ◽  
Taeyeon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Air ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Particle Concentration ◽  
Fine Particles ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Living Room ◽  
Outdoor Air ◽  
Small Particles ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Indoor And Outdoor

Due to the recent industrial development and COVID-19 pandemic, people are spending more time indoors. Therefore, indoor air quality is becoming more important for the health of occupants. Indoor fine particles are increased by outdoor air pollution and indoor occupant activities. In particular, smoking, cooking, cleaning, and ventilation are occupant activities that have the largest impact on indoor particle concentrations. In this study, indoor and outdoor particle concentrations were measured in ten apartment houses in South Korea for 24 h. Indoor particle concentrations were measured in the kitchen and living room to evaluate the impact of cooking, one of the most important sources of indoor particles. An occupant survey was also conducted to analyze the influence of occupant activities. It was found that the impact of outdoor particles on indoor particle concentrations in winter was not significant. The largest particle source was cooking. In particular, a large amount of particles was generated by broiling and frying. In addition, cooking-generated particles are rapidly dispersed to the living room, and this was more obvious for small particles. It is expected that this result will be statistically generalized if the particle concentration of more houses is analyzed in the future.

Emotional Reactivity to Visual Content as Revealed by ERP Component Clustering

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 135-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miroslaw Wyczesany ◽  
Szczepan J. Grzybowski ◽  
Jan Kaiser
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Reactivity ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Affective State ◽  
Occipital Lobe ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Neural Basis ◽  
Temporoparietal Junction ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Impact

Abstract. In the study, the neural basis of emotional reactivity was investigated. Reactivity was operationalized as the impact of emotional pictures on the self-reported ongoing affective state. It was used to divide the subjects into high- and low-responders groups. Independent sources of brain activity were identified, localized with the DIPFIT method, and clustered across subjects to analyse the visual evoked potentials to affective pictures. Four of the identified clusters revealed effects of reactivity. The earliest two started about 120 ms from the stimulus onset and were located in the occipital lobe and the right temporoparietal junction. Another two with a latency of 200 ms were found in the orbitofrontal and the right dorsolateral cortices. Additionally, differences in pre-stimulus alpha level over the visual cortex were observed between the groups. The attentional modulation of perceptual processes is proposed as an early source of emotional reactivity, which forms an automatic mechanism of affective control. The role of top-down processes in affective appraisal and, finally, the experience of ongoing emotional states is also discussed.

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