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Rethinking Architecture: A Reader in Cultural Theory
30 Nov 2014-
TL;DR: In this article, modernism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism are examined in the context of modernism and post-modernism in a post-structuralist setting.
Abstract: Part 1: Modernism Part 2: Phenomenology Part 3: Structuralism Part 4: Postmodernism Part 5: Poststructuralism
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TL;DR: This article revisited Rittel and Weber's essay on the 'wicked problem' and related it to more recent theories about rationality and professionalism. But they posit the controversial conclusion that "wickedness" is not aberrant, it is formulations of professionalism which pay homage to the idea of formal rules, goal setting, and calculation as representing the norm of rationality, that present as deviations.
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TL;DR: This work critiques the 'disappearance' mentioned by Weiser as a goal for ubicomp, and Dourish's 'embodied interaction' approach to HCI, suggesting that these design ideals may be unachievable or incomplete because they underemphasise the interdependence of 'invisible' non-rationalising interaction and focused rationalising interaction within ongoing activity.
Abstract: Design experience and theoretical discussion suggest that a narrow design focus on one tool or medium as primary may clash with the way that everyday activity involves the interweaving and combination of many heterogeneous media. Interaction may become seamless and unproblematic, even if the differences, boundaries and 'seams' in media are objectively perceivable. People accommodate and take advantage of seams and heterogeneity, in and through the process of interaction. We use an experiment with a mixed reality system to ground and detail our discussion of seamful design, which takes account of this process, and theory that reflects and informs such design. We critique the 'disappearance' mentioned by Weiser as a goal for ubicomp, and Dourish's 'embodied interaction' approach to HCI, suggesting that these design ideals may be unachievable or incomplete because they underemphasise the interdependence of 'invisible' non-rationalising interaction and focused rationalising interaction within ongoing activity.
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TL;DR: In the words of as discussed by the authors, the city may be seen as configured by "enclaves" (fixed annealing) (e.g., a group of people in a city).
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...With a reference to Guattari, Deleuze argued that ‘what counts is not the barrier but the computer that tracks each person’s position …’ (Deleuze, 1992, p. 312)....
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...However, as Deleuze argued, we may now describe the contemporary social formation as ‘societies of control’ (Deleuze, 1992)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined how Muslim youth negotiate their identities in these challenging times and found that the multiple cultures within which they live were suddenly and alarmingly in conflict, and that their interior lives were a dialectic labor of psychological reconciliation.
Abstract: In the wake of the events of September 11, Muslim-American youth found that the multiple cultures within which they live were suddenly and alarmingly in conflict. The developmental consequences of living in a world fractured by religious and ethnic terror have yet to be determined for Muslim youth in the United States. This exploratory, mixed-method study begins to examine how Muslim youth negotiate their identities in these challenging times. Documented in the surveys, narrated in the interviews, and drawn into their identity maps, Muslim-American youth (n = 70) ages 12 to 18, vividly portrayed their interior lives as a dialectic labor of psychological reconciliation – piecing together what we call hyphenated selves. The results show that Muslim youth experience discrimination, sometimes to an extreme degree. We observed diversity in how youth deal with the challenges of growing up Muslim in post 9/11 US, ranging from “telling nobody” to policing each other within the Muslim community. In addition we fou...
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...Foucault (1997) also writes on the panopticon as a dynamic of profound, pervasive and penetrating institutional surveillance, a social prison, where all are witnessed, judged and watched, and soon all learn to watch themselves and watch others....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present findings from a research project that investigate the influence of experience on the design of the built environment on the quality of the experience of a user in a building.
Abstract: Experience is conceptualised in both academic and policy circles as a more-or-less direct effect of the design of the built environment. Drawing on findings from a research project that investigate...
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...…at the start of the 20th century, writers such as Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin were already emphasising the importance of a sensory approach for understanding the novel experience of life in the rapidly changing environment of the modern city (Simmel, 1903/1971, 1970/ 1997; Benjamin, 1997)....
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