Environmental Interaction
When human beings work with material, shape material, the material shapes them at the same time. The potter centres the clay and the clay centrs the potter. While operating technology, technology affcets human beings as well. The mobile phone for example changed human decision behaviour. Interacting with material, including interaction with technology, shapes human beings and influences their spatiotemporal trajectories up to the point that others recognize them. In communities of practice the recognizing of spatiotemporal trajectries is a requirement for developing shared concepts out of which language emerges.
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Outsourcing industry
Dr. Carol Upadhya and colleagues have conducted a considerable number of interviews in India’s IT…
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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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All that matters to a specific place
Dinesh and his team decided that because of these developments it did not make sense anymore to…
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Politics of presence in rehabilitation phase
Even in times of crisis reputation building is very important, more important than collaborating in…
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Being acknowledged for rescue effort
There was a lot of potential for somebody to make an impression. And, very important, a lot of…
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Utility is window to the world
The effect of this flow between different realities became very clear for Bawa when the state of…
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Real and virtual flows
In another project Bawa was involved in, the government wanted to offer civic services through an…
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Emotions change sense of space
Social relations, architecture and the environment around shape an individual when growing up.
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Land is not only material
In her PhD research Zainab Bawa takes the standpoint that ‘land’ is a very physical and material…
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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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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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Sharing sensual reality
Zwarts & Jansma have made a lot of sports buildings but actually, according to Jansma, a soccer…