Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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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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Reputation towards funders
A few months later, when the rebuild phase was getting into consolidation mode, the large Non…
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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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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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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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Online response
When transposing the issue of witnessed presence to the online world Bawa talks about her…
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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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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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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…