Making moments to signify

Part of human existence is that meaning and signification are continuously generated in personal lives and in social structures that emerge through time. Emphasizing specific moments of transformation, of passage of time, highlights the process of time. It helps people to deal with time. Human societies have invented rituals and celebrations for specific moments in time through which meaning emerges for those involved. Through orchestrating moments to signify, shared experience emerges and offers participants a perspective on their individual position in context of the biological, ecological, technological or social whole. In these moments human’s inner time interacts deeply with rhythms around and culture is shaped.

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Loose network during relief phase

Dinesh argues that it is very hard to say that a system can be used during the relief; maybe…
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Tsunami 2004: Who’s doing What and Where

When the Tsunami hit on the 26th of December 2004, Dinesh was taking some relaxed time close to one…
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Judging and witnessing

As one witnesses another human being, one also judges the other human being. And this is again even…
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Quality of rhythm in logic

Very logic things can relate to very complex and layered things. On a visual level people…
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Perceiving logic

Space is communication anyway, argues Jansma. It is communication from the designer of the space to…
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Visual logic

Discussing the relation between functional rhythm and aesthetic rhythm in the design, Jansma…
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Zero footprint of carbon energy

For Jansma the most important requirement of today’s technology is very simple: there should be…
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Fluent architecture

Technology deeply influences the architecture that can be made; because of the speed of calculation…
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Points of difference

Transport infrastructure is very optimized in our part of the world, but, this brings a danger that…
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Tuned to assess risk

Jansma argues that we live in a society in which risk is reduced all the time: by the government
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Body and breathing are key

When designing buildings and infrastructure the human body is always key to the design. Vision
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Experience of space

Space is defined fundamentally by how one interacts with a space, Jansma argues. As a child he…
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Rationality at work versus personal religious domain

Another contradiction that workers have to deal with, according to Ilavarasan, is the gap between…
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Selfreflection is a balancing act

Part of cross-cultural communication is perception of how I perceive another person. A certain…
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Sustainable design needs temporal engagement

When designing in a local/global context time becomes very crucial. When having to design a very…
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Vanishing in a third point

When looking at systems, engagement brings the act of witnessing to another level, Hazra continues.