PERSPECTIVE TRENDS OF INFRASTRUCTURE OF LIVING ENVIRONMENT ERGODESIGN FORMATION

The article provides definitions of the concepts of "residential infrastructure" and "ergodesign of living environment". It was determined that residential infrastructure is a set of residential units designed for household activities with a system of appropriate services. The article describes the features of architectural and design formation of the modern living environment. Perspective tendencies of ergodesign infrastructure of living environment creation for the purpose of methodological bases of its formation development are revealed. It is established that the infrastructure of the living environment in the future will be improved taking into account the peculiarities of the determining factors, but the architectural environment of local residential units will be more developed. The directions of the architectural environment development of local residential formations are connected. It was determined that they are connected with application of innovative technologies and new building materials, functional intensification of living environment infrastructure, creation of multifunctional residential complexes, development of scale characteristics of buildings and emergence of vertical megastructures. Concepts and directions of architectural designing objects of residential environment infrastructure with use of means of ergodesign are revealed. The methods of forming the ergodesign residential infrastructure formations, which are aimed at creating a humane psychologically and aesthetically comfortable environment of human life, are determined. It is revealed that the main perspective methods of local residential formation include creation of multifunctional residential buildings and structures, maximum usage the natural (water, relief, vegetation) and artificial elements in the structure of residential formations to achieve stylistic unity, creation of universal spaces with the possibility of changing them in time, creation living environment as a single energy system, the usage of advanced technologies, architectural and artistic and engineering achievements to create its unique artistic image, the introduction of automatic "intelligent" systems in the infrastructure of living environment, etc.

Suicide as Testimony

Chapter two examines suicide letters as a mode of testimony that bears witness to extreme suffering in the contemporary workplace. In an economic order that conceals the labour relationships that bring services and products to us, suicides push human suffering to the surface and force it out into the open. Drawing on testimony studies, I situate suicide letters at a juncture between the everyday and the extreme that unsettles the boundaries between the two and forces us to confront extremity in the everyday. Whilst these letters give expression to exceptional trauma, they are located within the quotidian, routine and functional spaces of work. Some recent critics have depicted the contemporary workplace as a site of extremity, drawing on the historical metaphor of the Holocaust to describe forms of managerial brutality and violence. Contrary to these representations, I suggest that the workplace is best understood in terms of its everydayness. This is a space governed by order, discipline and routine, where working life is subject to endless repetition and reiteration. Yet, this everydayness has a unique quality: work suicides make visible extreme suffering, not as an exceptional phenomenon, but one that is embedded within the universal spaces of social life.

On the bounded approximation property on subspaces of ℓp when 0 < p < 1 and related issues

This paper studies the bounded approximation property (BAP) in quasi-Banach spaces. In the first part of the paper, we show that the kernel of any surjective operator {\ell_{p}\to X} has the BAP when X has it and {0<p\leq 1}, which is an analogue of the corresponding result of Lusky for Banach spaces. We then obtain and study nonlocally convex versions of the Kadec–Pełczyński–Wojtaszczyk complementably universal spaces for Banach spaces with the BAP.