Tuning
When two people meet a careful tuning of their bodies, breath and movement, takes place. This tuning is fundamental for any interaction that may happen after. In these first instances of tuning human beings decide how they trust the other being and orchestrate their performance of presence as result.
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Adaptation processes
Because people use technology devices, they also adapt to them. In the last hundred years have…
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Relation between performer and listener
Technology deeply influences how people can witness each other and experience each other’s presence.
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Dynamical hierarchy in an engineered ‘free’ space
Upadhya’s observation is that every project faces a crisis at some point. And often it is a problem…
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Need to meet: Presence and Absence
As a sociologist going into all these companies, it is interesting for Upadhya to think about…
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Informal knowledge sharing in a strong competitive environment
In Upadhya’s research many people commented about the fact that there is a lot of reaching out in…
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Seemingly flat and open structures
When inquiring about the nature of the work, very few people are self-conscious and can articulate…
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Cross cultural communication gaps
In the IT industry people talk about ‘becoming global’, referring to a meaning of the word ‘global’…
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Monitoring of workflow
Only after a considerable amount of work in which trust is built through a rigorous monitoring and…
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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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Real and virtual flows
In another project Bawa was involved in, the government wanted to offer civic services through an…
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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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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…
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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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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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Automation versus human touch
At first, when coming out of college where the processes are not automated at all, the automated…