Doing Little Justices: Speculative propositions for an immanent environmental ethics

This paper develops a series of speculative propositions for an immanent environmental ethics that is responsive to the challenges of the Anthropocene epoch. The paper is framed within a new materialist approach to environmental education, and specifically works to re-imagine the notion of justice in terms of performative gestures, multiplicities, processes, and speculative thought experiments. Drawing on Whitehead’s speculative philosophy in conjunction with recent new materialist thought, the paper proposes the concept of “doing little justices” as a way of enacting micropolitical interventions into everyday patterns of environmental thought, learning, sociality, and behaviour. The concept of “little justices” is further elaborated through the analysis of vignettes that problematise issues of climate change, human exceptionalism, ecological sovereignty, and environmental justice with university students in the fields of education and the philosophy of law. The paper concludes that an immanent ethics cannot be reduced to a set of predetermined values or prescriptions for environmental education, but should proceed through a speculative process of creative experimentation and negotiation in the pursuit of unforeseen openings and potentials for co-existence

Influence of point cloud density on the results of automated Object-Based building extraction from ALS data

Ponencias, comunicaciones y pósters presentados en el 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science "Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place", celebrado en la Universitat Jaume I del 3 al 6 de junio de 2014.Nowadays there is a plethora of approaches dealing with object extraction from remote sensing data. Airborne Laser scanning (ALS) has become a new method for timely and accurate collection of spatial data in the form of point clouds which can vary in density from less than one point per square meter (ppsm) up to in excess of 200 ppsm. Many algorithms have been developed which provide solutions to object extraction from 3D data sources as ALS point clouds. This paper evaluates the influence of the spatial point density within the point cloud on the obtained results from a pre-developed Object-Based rule set which incorporates formalized knowledge for extraction of 2D building outlines. Analysis is performed with regards to the accuracy and completeness of the resultant extraction dataset. A pre-existing building footprint dataset representing Lake Tahoe (USA) was used for ground truthing. Point cloud datasets with varying densities (18, 16, 9, 7, 5, 2, 1 and 0.5ppsm) where used in the analysis process. Results indicate that using higher density point clouds increases the level of classification accuracy in terms of both completeness and correctness. As the density of points is lowered the accuracy of the results also decreases, although little difference is seen in the interval of 5-16ppsm

An Evaluation of Clean the World, Las Vegas Volunteer Program

Background Student evaluation team, AVID Advising, conducted an evaluation of a not for profit organization, Clean the World, Las Vegas Volunteer Program from February 2015 through August 2015. The pre-­‐ valuation consisted of an analysis of the organization’s growth since opening its Las Vegas doors in 2012, staff responsibilities, and their volunteer program. As a result of the pre-­‐ valuation, AVID Advising and Clean the World Las Vegas Manager, Kevin Williams determined an evaluation on the existing volunteer program would be most beneficial to the organization. Purpose The primary purpose of this evaluation is to provide Clean the World, Las Vegas with both short and long term recommendations based on the identified needs of their current volunteer program. Methodology To obtain qualitative and quantitative information about the volunteer program, information was collected via interviews with Clean the World, Las Vegas staff members, found in benchmarks studies, and through surveys ADIV Advising developed and distributed to current volunteers. Findings The volunteer survey respondents were able to provide important critical feedback regarding the volunteer program; survey data and commen

Lures for Feeling: Selected works from the States and Territories project (2014-2016)

This exhibition brings together a series of photographic and video works that have been selected from material produced over the course of the States and Territories project. Over the last three years, the States and Territories project has collectively re-imagined the learning environments of a regional university campus through a series of environmental art installations, locative media interfaces, and participatory fieldwork involving students and academics working in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The exhibition draws on Whitehead’s (1978) theory of prehension to work with visual research data as ‘lures for feeling’. In thinking data as a series of propositional lures, analysis shifts from a linear representation of time and causality towards the ‘event-time’ of play, performativity, and ethico-aesthetic experimentation (Massumi, 2011). This enables the research data to effect a time slip, such that objects and images begin to resonate with the virtual elements of memory (pastness) and potential (futurity). Videos and photographs produced over a period of several years thread vectors of previous spaces and times into an incipient unfolding of the present. Rather than being passive or inert, each image is actively happening with every moment as a living archive of its own experience: ‘a renewal, a novelty, a fresh creation’ (Shaviro 2009, p. 18). We could say that the image prehends its surrounding environment through the data that accretes on its manifold surfaces. The image therefore contributes its own aesthetic force to the making of the research event through prehension, such that the protagonist of the encounter is neither the image, the researcher, the artist, the participants, the audience, nor the data, but the subjective character of the occasion as a vector of feeling (how the data is relationally felt). This is one of the surprising implications of the ‘vectorcharacter’ of prehension: it means that data which are relatively distant in space and time (such as the moon outside your window, or a childhood moment captured in a photograph) can be felt here, in this very moment, simply by prehending them. This opens up the immanent potentiality of the image by feeling the data as the lure for a novel form of togetherness, regardless of spatial or temporal proximity

Technical Guidelines to Extract and Analyze VGI from Different Platforms

An increasing number of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and social media platforms have been continuously growing in size, which have provided massive georeferenced data in many forms including textual information, photographs, and geoinformation. These georeferenced data have either been actively contributed (e.g., adding data to OpenStreetMap (OSM) or Mapillary) or collected in a more passive fashion by enabling geolocation whilst using an online platform (e.g., Twitter, Instagram, or Flickr). The benefit of scraping and streaming these data in stand-alone applications is evident, however, it is difficult for many users to script and scrape the diverse types of these data. On 14 June 2016, a pre-conference workshop at the AGILE 2016 conference in Helsinki, Finland was held. The workshop was called “LINK-VGI: LINKing and analyzing VGI across different platforms”. The workshop provided an opportunity for interested researchers to share ideas and findings on cross-platform data contributions. One portion of the workshop was dedicated to a hands-on session. In this session, the basics of spatial data access through selected Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and the extraction of summary statistics of the results were illustrated. This paper presents the content of the hands-on session including the scripts and guidelines for extracting VGI data. Researchers, planners, and interested end-users can benefit from this paper for developing their own application for any region of the world

The Role of Contextual Info‐Marks in Navigating a Virtual Rural Environment

Navigation is a task performed in both large and small scale environments. Landmarks within an environment are of great benefit to these navigational tasks, but in large rural environments such landmarks may be sparse. It has been shown that landmarks need not be purely visual and that a change in context for a feature can make it become a landmark against its surroundings (such as being provided with significant meaning). Such meaning could be added through personal experience or by informing the observer via some form of communication. To investigate the effects of providing such contextual information on navigational performance, experiments were conducted in a large rural virtual environment where the delivery method of the information was varied between onscreen and PDA display. Users were instructed to perform a route tracing navigation task. In some instances users were presented with textual information about specific locations within the environment which appeared when they were in the vicinity of the location. Both quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed, with results indicating that although the actual performance in the task was not significantly improved, users felt that their performance was better and the task easier when they were presented with the contextual information

A poetics of opacity : Towards a new ethics of participation in gallery-based art projects with young people

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Adaptación y propiedades psicométricas de la escala “Clance IP Scale”, para medir conductas del síndrome del impostor en una muestra de trabajadores de una organización de Juliaca - 2019

La presente investigación tiene por objetivo adaptar y analizar las propiedades psicométricas de la escala “Clance IP Scale” (CIPS), en una muestra de colaboradores voluntarios de una organización de la ciudad de Juliaca. El estudio comprende un diseño no experimental de tipo estudio psicométrico, corte transversal y de enfoque cuantitativo, la población y muestra, está conformada por 140 sujetos que participaron voluntariamente del estudio a partir de una aplicación ambulatoria. Los resultados demuestran que “Clance IP Scale”, en su versión traducida, posee un índice de validez (V= .985) a partir de la evaluación de cuatro criterios de evaluación (Claridad, Contexto, Congruencia y Dominio del constructo) en 5 jueces. Respecto a la validez de contenido, se obtuvo mediante pruebas de KMO y esfericidad de Bartlett cuyos valores (KMO= .840; P< .05) indicarían que el instrumento es apropiado para un análisis factorial confirmatorio (AFC), lo cual sugiere que el instrumento debe poseer un contenido distribuido en 3 factores que explican el 41.6% de la varianza acumulada. Respecto a la confiabilidad de instrumento este alcanzó un (.835) lo que indicaría una alta confiabilidad del instrumento. Con la información anterior se concluye que la escala “Clance IP Scale” puede ser utilizada en colaboradores en el contexto Juliaqueño, respetando estándares que se exigen en la construcción de pruebas psicométricas.Trabajo de investigaciónJULIACAEscuela Profesional de PsicologíaPsicología organizaciona

Ecological Aesthetics: new spaces, directions, and potentials

In this final section of the Handbook, we turn to ecological aesthetics in response to radical changes in both the nature of childhood and the nature of nature in the contemporary world. Artistic and aesthetic approaches have become increasingly relevant as children encounter a world typified by the acceleration of social, technological, and environmental change, and the mutually reinforcing conditions of planetary instability, inequality, and precarity. Anthropogenic climate change, the mass extinction of plant and animal life, and the chemical contamination of air, food, soil, and water resources are transforming not only what we might think of as “the environment”, but also the aesthetic qualities and environmental sensibilities that constitute the experience of being alive. For many scholars these changing conditions of Earthly life have taken on the name of ‘Anthropocene’, an epoch defined by the total imbrication of human life with more than human planetary systems and technologies. The authors in this section take up ecological aesthetics as a relational, experimental, and theoretically adventurous field which aims to grasp the experiential qualities of life under these changing conditions, and to imagine alternatives. With chapters focusing on the role of movement, nature-study, poetry, pattern, sense-awareness, and the creation of experimental works of art, this section highlights interdisciplinary research and pedagogy which attends to richly textured compositions of childhoodnature experience through a diverse range of material, social and conceptual practices. In drawing together a range of Indigenous, speculative, sensory, cultural, empirical, and artistic approaches, the range of chapters collected in this section attests to the diversity and emergent shaping of ecological aesthetics as a field that is still very much in the making

A Reassessment of the Role of Animals at the Etton Causewayed Enclosure

In recent years, causewayed enclosures have come to be regarded as being ceremonial or ritual sites. This classification is derived from a perceived lack of evidence pertaining to domestic settlement, in the form of houses and ‘typical’ domestic animal bone assemblages, and a perceived abundance of ‘atypical’ material and methods of deposition. This thesis explores the animal bone from the Etton causewayed enclosure in order to ascertain whether these perceptions have an empirical basis. Etton was excavated in the 1980s, and the published literature relating to the site appeared to conform to the stereotypes established for causewayed enclosure sites, however during preliminary analysis, it became clear that the animal bone data was not complete and that many of the inferences regarding the role of animals at Etton were the result of presumption or data being taken out of context. Specifically, this thesis looks at the nature of the fractures on the animal bones from Etton, and also from a similar causewayed enclosure at Staines in order to establish a clear taphonomic history for the faunal remains on the site, from which aspects of the role of animals can be deduced. In archaeological literature the absence of ‘fresh’, or helical fractures (which tend to result from the conscious decision to break a bone for marrow) is said to support the hypothesis that sites of this type were not domestic in nature. This assertion has been made despite the fact that no detailed studies into bone fracture at Neolithic sites have ever been undertaken. This thesis demonstrates that at both Etton and Staines, fresh fractures were abundant and considers the potential implications of this for these sites. In so doing it highlights the dangers of presuming evidence exists or does not exist, and of cherry-picking data to fit a preordained ideal rather than allowing the data to speak for itself. At Etton and Staines, the animal bone speaks not necessarily of a categorically ceremonial or ritual economy, divorced from the domestic economy of the time, but of a more mundane economy, with occasional ‘atypical’ activity, that was standard for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures, whether at this type of site or elsewhere.University of Exete