Proyecto de remodelación de la Calle Serrano y construcción de tres aparcamientos. Metodología de trabajos topográficos.

El 8 de Agosto de 2008 el Ayuntamiento de Madrid adjudicó a un consorcio formado por Cintra Infraestructuras e Iridium Concesiones el proyecto de Remodelación de la calle Serrano y la redacción del proyecto, construcción y explotación de tres aparcamientos con un total de 3.297 plazas repartidas entre parte pública y de residentes. El proyecto supuso una transformación total de la calle más exclusiva de Madrid invitando al paseo y el disfrute de su parte comercial con un aumento de hasta el 64% de superficie de aceras mientras se potencio la calidad ambiental de todo el entorno plantando 813 nuevos árboles y creando más de 2,1 Km de carril bici, a la vez que se doto a la calle del más moderno mobiliario urbano facilitando puntos de encuentro y descanso. La reordenación urbana se completó con la creación de dos carriles destinados a vehículos públicos, uno para autobuses y otro para taxis y motos, mientras se reservan tres carriles para vehículos privados. Todas las entradas y salidas a los aparcamientos se han realizado desde las calles transversales a Serrano, que también se transformaron en esta actuación. La actuación en superficie abarcó el tramo de la calle Serrano que discurre desde la calle María de Molina hasta la Plaza de la Independencia. Incluyó la reurbanización del cruce de maría de Molina- Serrano, de las calles aledañas a Serrano, así como la reordenación como glorieta convencional de la Plaza de la Independencia. Para hacerse una idea de la magnitud del proyecto basta citar algunos de los consumos durante la fase de obra: • Más de 9.000 toneladas de acero. • Más de 125.000 m3 de hormigón in situ. • Más de 65.000 m2 de forjados prefabricados. • Más de 87.800 ml de pilote y pantallas desde 450 a 850mm de diámetro. • Más de 65.000 m2 de granito. • Más de 11.000 ml de bordillo. • Más de 56.000 m2 de aglomerado. En los trabajos, más de 350 operarios trabajaron simultáneamente con más de 80n técnicos y personal de administración dedicados directamente al proyecto. En esta presentación vamos a ver una visión general de este proyecto y de los trabajosde índole topográfica que se tuvieron que llevar a cabo, tanto en la definición del proyecto como en su replanteo y control

Dancing the Pluriverse: Indigenous Performance as Ontological Praxis

This article discusses ways that Indigenous dance is an ontological praxis that is embodied and telluric, meaning “of the earth.” It looks at how dancing bodies perform in relationship to ecosystems and entities within them, producing ontological distinctions and hierarchies that are often imbued with power. This makes dance a site of ontological struggle that potentially challenges the delusional ontological universality undergirding imperialism, genocide, and ecocide. The author explores these theoretical propositions through her participation in Oxlaval Q'anil, an emerging Ixil Maya dance project in Guatemala, and Dancing Earth, an itinerant and inter-tribal U.S.-based company founded by Rulan Tangen eleven years ago

Can You Hear us Now? Voices from the Margin: Using Indigenous Methodologies in Geographic Research

Indigenous methodologies are an alternative way of thinking about research processes. Although these methodologies vary according to the ways in which different Indigenous communities express their own unique knowledge systems, they do have common traits. This article argues that research on Indigenous issues should be carried out in a manner which is respectful and ethically sound from an Indigenous perspective. This naturally challenges Western research paradigms, yet it also affords opportunities to contribute to the body of knowledge about Indigenous peoples. It is further argued that providing a mechanism for Indigenous peoples to participate in and direct these research agendas ensures that their communal needs are met, and that geographers then learn how to build ethical research relationships with them. Indigenous methodologies do not privilege Indigenous researchers because of their Indigeneity, since there are many ‘insider’ views, and these are thus suitable for both Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers. However, there is a difference between research done within an Indigenous context using Western methodologies and research done using Indig- enous methodologies which integrates Indigenous voices. This paper will discuss those differences while presenting a historical context of research on Indigenous peoples, providing further insights into what Indigenous methodologies entail, and proposing ways in which the academy can create space for this discourse

Perspectives on Enabling Education for Indigenous Students at Three Comprehensive Universities in Regional Australia

Daniels, CR ORCiD: 0000-0002-0672-0450Indigenous students, particularly those from regional and remote areas, are under-represented in both higher education and vocational education in Australia. Enabling programs seek to address this under-representation. They offer pathways to higher education, are important in lifting participation rates and potentially encourage mobility between the sectors. However, strategic development of enabling programs is based on little evidence about student or staff experiences. This chapter presents a qualitative research project underpinned by the strengths-based approach of conscientisation, exploring how Indigenous learning journeys via enabling programs can respect and grow cultural identity, while simultaneously developing study skills. The research considered interpretations of ‘success’ from the perspectives of students and teachers participating in enabling courses. The research found that enabling programs were an ‘important’ and ‘exciting journey’ for students that brought about transformation of the inner self through the building of ‘resilience’, ‘strength’, ‘confidence’, ‘self-esteem’, ‘self-worth’, ‘cultural understanding’ and ‘identity’. Success was experienced across multiple dimensions of students’ lived experience including ‘cultural identity’, ‘voice’, self-realisation, self-acceptance and ‘pride’. Staff suggested that enabling programs imparted an ‘underlying layer’ of skills. Recognition of Indigenous people as ‘yarners’ and ‘story tellers’, along with ways of incorporating ‘both-ways’ methodologies, need to be considered when developing the curriculum. This chapter reports on research which will be used to inform the development of a best-practice framework for Indigenous education enabling programs in Australia, particularly in regional and comprehensive education settings

Is a posthumanist bildung possible? Reclaiming the promise of bildung for contemporary higher education

My central argument in this article is that the notion of Bildung may offer conceptual sustenance to those who wish to develop educative practices to supplement or contest the prevalence and privileging of market and economic imperatives in higher education, which configure teaching and learning as an object available to measurement. I pursue this argument by making the case for an ethical posthuman Bildung which recognises the inseparability of knowing and being, the materiality of educative relations, and the need to install an ecology of ethical relations at the centre of educational practice in higher education. Such a re-conceptualisation situates Bildung not purely as an individual goal but as a process of ecologies and relationships. The article explores Bildung as a flexible concept, via three theoretical lenses, and notes that it has always been subject to continuing revision in response to changing social and educational contexts. In proposing the possibility of, and need for, a posthuman Bildung, the articles offers a critical review of the promise of Bildung and outlines some of the radical ways that a posthuman Bildung might reinvigorate conceptualisations of contemporary higher education. Keywords : Bildung; posthumanism; higher education; ethics; ecology

Exploring Aboriginal People\u27s connection to country to strengthen human-nature theoretical perspectives

Purpose Aboriginal people across Australia have diverse practices, beliefs and knowledges based on thousands of generations of managing and protecting their lands (Country). The intimate relationship Aboriginal people have with their Country is explored in this chapter because such knowledge is important for building insight into the relationship between social and ecological systems. Often in research Aboriginal views have been marginalised from discussions focused on their lands to the detriment of ecosystems and human health. This chapter aims to understand if such marginalisation is evident in Western human–nature relationship discourses.Approach This chapter provides a critical literature review which examines whether Aboriginal people’s diverse understanding of their ecosystems have been incorporated into human–nature theories using the biophilia hypothesis as a starting point. Other concepts explored include solastalgia, topophilia and place.Findings Critiques of these terminologies in the context of Aboriginal people’s connection to Country are limited but such incorporation is viewed in the chapter as a possible mechanism for better understanding human’s connection to nature. The review identified that Aboriginal people’s relationship to Country seems to be underrepresented in the human–nature theory literature.Value This chapter emphasises that the integration of Aboriginal perspectives into research, ecological management and policy can provide better insight into the interrelationships between social and ecological systems