scholarly journals Infected Interiors:

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graeme Brooker
Keyword(s):  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
The Past ◽  
Modification Process ◽  
Course Of Action ◽  
Continuous Approach ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
A Site ◽  
Complex Matter ◽  
Existing Structure

Remodelling existing buildings is the process of significantly changing a host building or structure to accommodate new use. It differs to practices such as preservation and conservation in that it is the process of substantially altering an existing building. Remodelling could be described as a process that encourages a continuous approach to the adaptation of an enclosure or a site. The transformation of an existing structure is a procedure that initially consists of reading the site: a course of action that ensures solid or concealed matter such as the structure or the narrative of the building can be exposed and then developed as potential generators for the modification process - a course of action that Rodolfo Machado describes as: ‘... a process of providing a balance between the past and the future’ (Machado, 1976, p. 27). This is a paper about the transformation of existing buildings where the history or narrative of the place that is to be reused is complicated by political, ideological, or an odious previous function. A site or building is described as contaminated when its past is dominated by a previous use that is disagreeable or objectionable. The edification or censorship of these infections is a complex matter for the designer to consider in the remodelling process. This paper examines three case studies where the designer has analysed and used the contamination of the building as a generator for remodelling. It suggests that there are three general approaches when using contamination as a starting point when significantly altering the interiors of infected existing buildings.

DIY Dying

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tina Askanius
Keyword(s):  
State Repression ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Bearing Witness ◽  
Video Sharing ◽  
The Past ◽  
Visual Evidence ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Moment ◽  
A Site

This article examines video activism in a context where ubiquitous camera technologies and online video sharing platforms are radically changing the media landscape in which demonstrations and political activism operates. The author discusses a number of YouTube videos documenting and narrating the recurring, anti-capitalist demonstrations in Europe in the past decade. With the death of Ian Tomlinson in London during the 2009 G20 protests as an empirical starting point, the author raises questions of how video documentation of this event links up with previous protest events by juxtaposing representations of ‘the moment of death’ (Zelizer, 2004, 2010) of protesters in the past. This article suggests that these videos work as (1) an archive of action and activist memory, (2) a site of commemoration in a online shrine for grieving, and (3) a space to provide and negotiate visual evidence of police violence and state repression. The author offers a re-articulation of the longstanding debate on visual evidence, action, and testimony in video activism. The results are suggestive of how vernacular commemorative genres of mourning and paying tribute to victims of police violence are fused with the online practices of bearing witness and producing visual evidence in new creative modes of using video for change.

scholarly journals CASE STUDY OF STRUCTURAL RELIABILITY OF EXISTING BUILDING

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peteris Drukis ◽  
Līga Gaile ◽  
Vadims Goremikins
Keyword(s):  
Structural Reliability ◽  
Steel Structures ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Safety Level ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Safety Requirements ◽  
Practical Procedure ◽  
Shopping Centre ◽  
Starting Point

– Structural reliability of buildings has become an important issue after the collapse of a shopping centre in Riga 21.11.2013, caused the death of 54 people. The reliability of a building is the practice of designing, constructing, operating, maintaining and removing buildings in ways that ensure maintained health, ward suffered injuries or death due to use of the building. Evaluation and improvement of existing buildings is becoming more and more important. For a large part of existing buildings, the design life has been reached or will be reached in the near future. The structures of these buildings need to be reassessed in order to find out whether the safety requirements are met. The safety requirements provided by the Eurocodes are a starting point for the assessment of safety. However, it would be uneconomical to require all existing buildings and structures to comply fully with these new codes and corresponding safety levels, therefore the assessment of existing buildings differs with each design situation. This case study describes the simple and practical procedure of determination of minimal reliability index β of existing steel structures designed by different codes than Eurocodes and allows to reassess the actual safety level of different structural elements of existing buildings under design load.

scholarly journals A study on the strengthening of buildings designed based on 3rd edition of 2800 codes by utilizing viscous dampers

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Himan mohammad eisa
Keyword(s):  
Stress Ratio ◽  
Relative Displacement ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Viscous Dampers ◽  
Allowable Limit ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Energy Absorbing ◽  
Existing Structure

One of the methods that have been considered in recent years for the reinforcement of structures is the use of energy-absorbing systems. A variety of energy-absorbing systems have been developed and introduced, including liquid, viscous dampers. The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of viscous dampers in absorbing forces caused by earthquakes and seismic improvement of structures, as well as the feasibility of increasing the floors of an existing structure by using these dampers. For this purpose, three different models with fixed plans and three different numbers of floors as five, nine, and thirteen have selected, and the possibility of increasing one floor to them by using viscous dampers has investigated. The results indicated that by adding a floor to the existing buildings, the stress ratio in some columns and also the relative displacement exceeds the allowable limit; however, viscous dampers can significantly decrease the stresses and displacements and can be used to expand the number of floors of an existing building.

scholarly journals Seismic performance evaluation of existing building using Seismic Index method

2019 ◽  
Vol 276 ◽  
pp. 01015
Author(s):  
Alex Kurniawandy ◽  
Shoji Nakazawa
Keyword(s):  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Seismic Evaluation ◽  
Index Method ◽  
Seismic Safety ◽  
Existing Building ◽  
Building Conditions ◽  
Seismic Performance Evaluation ◽  
The Past ◽  
Seismic Index ◽  
Strength And Ductility

Indonesia has frequently suffered major damaging earthquakes over the past 50 years. There are thousands of buildings in earthquakeprone regions that require seismic evaluation and rehabilitation. This paper describes a study about the seismic evaluation of existing buildings using seismic index method based on a Japanese standard. The basic seismic index is calculated based on the criteria of strength and ductility. Two existing buildings have been evaluated in this research. The first building consists of five stories and the second one has four. The seismic index of the structure has a different value for each story. The minimum seismic index occurs on the ground floor, and the index increases as the number of stories increase. The top floor has the maximum seismic index of all stories. The structure’s seismic safety shall be judged if the seismic index (Is) is greater than the seismic demand index (Iso). As a result of the evaluation, buildings A, and B are in an unsatisfactory condition. Especially for the three lower floors of both of buildings. It is also confirmed by drift angle that they exceed the required limit. To sum up, evaluation by using Japanese standards can be applied to building conditions in Indonesia.

scholarly journals The Steaming Earth

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-157
Author(s):  
Annette Kristina Arlander
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Performance Practices ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
A Site

The text presents the method developed by the author, called performing landscape, and discusses it in the context of the expanded field in performing arts. If we consider ourselves as earthlings, citizens of the planet earth, the question of meaningful performance practices can be approached inclusively. As citizens we are in relation to a city or society, as a site, too; as earthlings we are related to all beings living here, and to the earth. The essay takes as a starting point Elisabeth Grosz’s study Chaos, Territory, Art (2008), in which she develops new ways of addressing and thinking about the arts and the forces they enact and transform. She suggests that arts frame or compose chaos so that sensation can proliferate; they transform materials of the past into resources of the future. 

Holism, Chinese Medicine and Systems Ideologies: Rewriting the Past to Imagine the Future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Volker Scheid
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Us ◽  
Shared Objective ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter explores the articulations that have emerged over the last half century between various types of holism, Chinese medicine and systems biology. Given the discipline’s historical attachments to a definition of ‘medicine’ that rather narrowly refers to biomedicine as developed in Europe and the US from the eighteenth century onwards, the medical humanities are not the most obvious starting point for such an inquiry. At the same time, they do offer one advantage over neighbouring disciplines like medical history, anthropology or science and technology studies for someone like myself, a clinician as well as a historian and anthropologist: their strong commitment to the objective of facilitating better medical practice. This promise furthermore links to the wider project of critique, which, in Max Horkheimer’s definition of the term, aims at change and emancipation in order ‘to liberate human beings from the circumstances that enslave them’. If we take the critical medical humanities as explicitly affirming this shared objective and responsibility, extending the discipline’s traditional gaze is not a burden but becomes, in fact, an obligation.

Cyber Peacekeeping: Critical Evaluation of Digital Blue Helmets Program

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Fahad Nabeel
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
Threat Detection ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
The Past ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Un Peacekeeping ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Future Potential

In 2016, the United Nations (UN) launched the Digital Blue Helmets (DBH) program under its Office of Information and Communications Technologies (OICT). The launching of DBH was a continuation of a series of steps that the UN and its related agencies and departments have undertaken over the past decade to incorporate cyberspace within their working methodologies. At the time of inception, DBH was envisioned as a team capacitated to act as a replica of a physical peacekeeping force but for the sole purpose of overseeing cyberspace(s). Several research studies have been published in the past few years, which have conceptualized cyber peacekeeping in various ways. Some scholars have mentioned DBH as a starting point of cyber peacekeeping while some have proposed models for integration of cyber peacekeeping within the current UN peacekeeping architecture. However, no significant study has attempted to look at how DBH has evolved since its inception. This research article aims to examine the progress of DBH since its formation. It argues that despite four years since its formation, DBH is still far away from materializing its declared objectives. The article also discusses the future potential roles of DBH, including its collaboration with UN Global Pulse for cyber threat detection and prevention, and embedding the team along with physical peacekeepers.

‘I AM’: Indigenous consciousness for authenticity and leadership

Leadership ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 174271502199959
Author(s):  
Chellie Spiller
Keyword(s):  
True Self ◽  
The Past ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future

This article encourages a move away from the excessively inward gaze of ‘to thine own self be true’ and explores ‘I AM’ consciousness as a starting point. An I AM approach encourages a move from the measurable self to the immeasurable expansiveness and mystery of our own becoming. It is to step beyond the lines drawn around the ‘true self’ or the lines that others would have us draw. I AM consciousness reflects an ancient Indigenous thread that echoes through millennia and reminds humans that we are a movement through time, and each person is a present link to the past and the future, woven into a fabric of belonging.

MONARCHS, TRAVELLERS AND EMPIRE IN THE PACIFIC'S AGE OF REVOLUTIONS

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Sujit Sivasundaram
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Islanders ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Global History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Cultural Terms ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Uk ◽  
A Site

AbstractThe Pacific has often been invisible in global histories written in the UK. Yet it has consistently been a site for contemplating the past and the future, even among Britons cast on its shores. In this lecture, I reconsider a critical moment of globalisation and empire, the ‘age of revolutions’ at the end of the eighteenth century and the start of the nineteenth century, by journeying with European voyagers to the Pacific Ocean. The lecture will point to what this age meant for Pacific islanders, in social, political and cultural terms. It works with a definition of the Pacific's age of revolutions as a surge of indigeneity met by a counter-revolutionary imperialism. What was involved in undertaking a European voyage changed in this era, even as one important expedition was interrupted by news from revolutionary Europe. Yet more fundamentally vocabularies and practices of monarchy were consolidated by islanders across the Pacific. This was followed by the outworkings of counter-revolutionary imperialism through agreements of alliance and alleged cessation. Such an argument allows me, for instance, to place the 1806 wreck of the Port-au-Prince within the Pacific's age of revolutions. This was an English ship used to raid French and Spanish targets in the Pacific, but which was stripped of its guns, iron, gunpowder and carronades by Tongans. To chart the trajectory from revolution and islander agency on to violence and empire is to appreciate the unsettled paths that gave rise to our modern world. This view foregrounds people who inhabited and travelled through the earth's oceanic frontiers. It is a global history from a specific place in the oceanic south, on the opposite side of the planet to Europe.

Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings & Buildings Built with Industrialized Technology: The Case of Hungary

2016 ◽  
Vol 824 ◽  
pp. 469-476
Author(s):  
Attila Talamon ◽  
Viktória Sugár ◽  
Ferenc Pusztai
Keyword(s):  
Economic Structure ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Existing Buildings ◽  
Ghg Emission ◽  
Zero Energy ◽  
Building Stock ◽  
Central European ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Zero Energy Buildings

There is an urgent need nowadays to reduce current levels of GHGs emissions. On the other hand the EU countries are largely dependent on energy imports and are vulnerable to disruption in energy supply which may in turn threaten the functioning of their current economic structure. The EU imported 54% of its energy sources in 2006 and this value was projected to increase even further by 2030. Reducing its import dependency is one of the EU’s main goals of the 20-20 by 2020 target – this legislative package is believed to reduce the expected imports of energy by 26% compared to the development before the 20-20 initiative.One of the most important environmental problems is the energy consumption of the buildings. Current paper shows that buildings built with industrialized technology can deliver large energy and GHG emission reductions at low costs.Only 1-2% part of the building stock is exchanged every year, so it is very important to increase the energy efficiency of the existing buildings, too.Present paper focuses on the buildings built with industrialized technology only, and their potential in nearly zero-energy buildings sector. Up till now the Central European support schemes concentrated most financial resources on buildings built with prefabricated technology. Present paper explains the past and present of the “panel” problem in Hungary with a short outlook to some other countries.

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