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Off the Grid
Off the Grid explores the messy relationship between public and private perceptions of our urban spaces, especially the tensions created when lived experience runs up against the physical and conceptual networks of cities: street grids, construction tape, and property lines. Incorporating different modes of spatial representation, from cartographic diagrams to isometric illustrations and Renaissance perspectives, this exhibition examines the role drawing plays in how we conceptualize the divisions and definitions of everyday space. The drawings engage the often overlooked detritus of city life, from layers of old graffiti to overgrown dirt piles and unmoored electrical wiring, that complicate our understanding of how urban space is actually used. Drawn from the spaces surrounding the artist’s daily routine, Off the Grid investigates the potential of a subjective cartography to tell a more complete story about the places we inhabit
Visualizing Europe's demographic scars with coplots and contour plots
We present two enhancements to existing methods for visualizing vital statistics data. Data from the Human Mortality Database were used and vital statistics from England and Wales are used for illustration. The simpler of these methods involves coplotting mean age of death with its variance, and the more complex of these methods is to present data as a contour plot. The coplot method shows the effect of the 20th century’s epidemiological transitions. The contour plot method allows more complex and subtle age, period and cohort effects to be seen.<p></p>
The contour plot shows the effects of broad improvements in public health over the 20th century, including vast reductions in rates of childhood mortality, reduced baseline mortality risks during adulthood and the postponement of higher mortality risks to older ages. They also show the effects of the two world wars and the 1918 influenza pandemic on men of fighting age, women and children. The contour plots also show a cohort effect for people born around 1918, suggesting a possible epigenetic effect of parental exposure to the pandemic which shortened the cohort’s lifespan and which has so far received little attention.<p></p>
Although this article focuses on data from England and Wales, the associated online appendices contain equivalent visualizations for almost 50 series of data available on the Human Mortality Database. We expect that further analyses of these visualizations will reveal further insights into global public health.<p></p>
Homeless lives in New Zealand: The case of central Auckland
Homelessness is a pressing and increasingly visible concern in New Zealand. Many people sleeping rough are male and of Maori or Pacific descent. This research focuses on understanding the nature of resilience through the lived experiences of homeless people. To gain insights into cultures of homelessness, a qualitative case study research design was used to engage six homeless people who took part in a series of interviews and photoproduction exercises. Participants are of Maori, Pacific Island, and Pakeha ethnic backgrounds. It therefore may become important to document how homeless people see themselves in relation to their communities of origin and the wider public
Recovering Lost Local History: The Daily Record Project
This practitioner perspective describes a collaboration between students and teachers at three middle schools, along with community partners, to recover and digitize news stories from The Daily Record, an African American owned newspaper that was attacked and burned in the 1898 Wilmington coup d’état
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Critiquing the Center: The Role of Tutor Evaluations in an Open Admissions Writing Center
Though created to give its inhabitants the feeling of comfort, structure, and control, suburbia has been co-opted by postmodernists seeking to crack its modernist façade to reveal the hybridity, fragmentation, and hegemony at its commodified heart (Silverstone). The in-between-ness of suburbia, that liminal zone between the country and the city, has its academic counterpart in the writing center, a complex site of social, material, and discursive relations that construct experiences on all levels of academic life. Like the suburb, a writing center can be seen as an example of Edward Soja’s “third space,” a part of institutional geography, yet located at a crossroads of many different, overlapping, and conflicting rhetorical and ideological ecosystems. Long Island, New York is the birthplace of the suburb and so its promises of luxury, centrality, and ease inform the lives of Long Islanders, young and old. The Suffolk County Community College Writing Center services the biggest community college on Long Island, with 25,000 students enrolled; the Writing Center sees about 2,000 of these students every semester.University Writing Cente
La desurbanización y el derecho a la ciudad desurbanizada
Cities are historically created as a collaborative work of different generations
and derive from the possibilities created
bylocal and climatic conditions, social
relations and culture. Today, urbanization may appear as a way of organizing
everyday hierarchical, exclusive, discriminatory and exploitative life through
industrialized mass production of temporary, privatized, homogenized, fragmented, and power-oriented spaces.
This mind-set and application generates
several social and ecological problems.
This article discusses the right to the city
concept, and links it to the deurbanization approach as a social and ecological
answer to the problems associated with
current urban development. The methodology is supported by a review of the
literature and an analysis of examples of
works created in the De-Urban Design
Studio. Results indicate that the deurbanization approach envisions creating resilient, equitable, non-hierarchical
cities composed of communities that
replace consumption via harmony with
nature, that replace individualism and
competition viacollaboration and solidarity, and that replace hegemonic relations
via an equitable distribution of powerLas ciudades se crean históricamente
como un trabajo colaborativo de diferentes generaciones y derivan de las posibilidades de las condiciones locales y
climáticas, las relaciones sociales y la
cultura. Hoy en día, la urbanización puede aparecer como una forma de organizar la vida cotidiana jerárquica, exclusiva,
discriminativa y explotadora a través de
la producción en masa industrializada de
espacios temporales, privatizados, homogeneizados, fragmentados y orientados
hacia el poder. Esta mentalidad y aplicación genera varios problemas sociales y
ecológicos. Este artículo pretende discutir
el concepto de derecho a la ciudad y vincularlo con el enfoque de desurbanización
como una respuesta social y ecológica a
los problemas de la urbanización actual.
La metodología se apoya en la revisión de
la literatura y el análisis de ejemplos de los
trabajos creados en De-UrbanDesign Studio.Los resultados indican que el enfoque
de desurbanización prevé crear ciudades
resilientes, equitativas y no jerárquicas,
compuestas por comunidades que reemplazan el consumo por la creación en armonía con la naturaleza; que reemplazan
el individualismo y la competencia por la
colaboración y la solidaridad y que reemplazan las relaciones hegemónicas por la
distribución equitativa del poder
Newspaper journalism and the changing publics of multimedia cities
This document is a rendition of the poster that was presented at the ESF conference ‘Cities and Media: Cultural Perspectives on Urban Identities in a Mediatized World’, held 25-29 October 2006 in Vadstena, Sweden. It comprises a brief survey of one major theme of Scott Rodger' doctoral work: the future orientations of editors and managers – the attempts made to project the political (and economic) standing of the Toronto Star into the present and near future ‘multimedia city’
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