Spaces Spatiality And Technology

Author : Phil Turner,Elisabeth Davenport
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1402032722

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Spaces, Spatiality and Technology by Phil Turner,Elisabeth Davenport Pdf

separated by the exigencies of the design life cycle into another compartment, that makes invisible the (prior) technical work of engineers that is not directly pertinent to the application work of practitioners. More recently (and notably after the work of Greisemer and Star) the black box has been opened and infrastructure has been discussed in terms of the social relations of an extended group of actors that includes developers. Ethical and political issues are involved (cf f accountable computing). Writing broadly within this context, Day (chapter 11) proposes that the concept of 'surface' can assist us to explore space as the product of 'power and the affective and expressive role for materials', rather than the background to this. Surfaces are the 'variously textured...sites for mixtures between bodies', and are thus the 'sites for events'. The notions of 'folding' and 'foldability' and 'unfolding' are discussed at length, as metaphors that account for the interactions of bodies in space across time. Some of the contributors to this volume focus on ways in which we may experience multiple infrastructures. Dix and his colleagues, for example, in chapter 12 explore a complex of models - of spatial context, of 'mixed reality boundaries' and of human spatial understanding across a number of field projects that make up the Equator project to explain the ways in which co-existing multiple spaces are experienced.

Author : John Macgregor Wise
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997-09-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780761904229

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Exploring Technology and Social Space by John Macgregor Wise Pdf

Examining the fundamental assumptions that we hold about the role of technology in our lives, Technology and Social Space describes the possibilities and limitations of human agency within the new wired world. In a patient and thoughtful style, author J. Macgregor Wise elaborates a critical, philosophical, and epistemological framework from which to better understand our relations to technology and social space. The book argues that most treatments of technology and society arise from a modernist episteme (or set of assumptions) that radically separates humans from technologies, focusing on questions of determination and identity. In an attempt to provide a clearer view of technology and social space, the book explores alternative perspectives centered on notions of agency. Working from within these alternative epistemes, the book turns its attention to the burgeoning technological assemblage of communication and information characterized by the Internet and cyberspace. Technology and Social Space draws on the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and the actor-network sociology of Bruno Latour, and brings together diverse examples from cyborg films, television, museums, cyberspace, and debates over a New World Information and Communication Order. Ultimately, the book describes the possibilities and limitation of human agency within the new wired world. This groundbreaking volume will be of interest to professionals and academics in popular culture, media studies, mass communication, and sociology.

Author : Turner, Phil,Turner, Susan,Davenport, Elisabeth
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781605660219

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Exploration of Space, Technology, and Spatiality: Interdisciplinary Perspectives by Turner, Phil,Turner, Susan,Davenport, Elisabeth Pdf

"For researchers and scholars working at the intersection of physical, social, and technological space, this book provides critical research from leading experts in the space technology domain"--Provided by the publisher.

Author : Carlos Smaniotto Costa,Ina Šuklje Erjavec,Therese Kenna,Michiel de Lange,Konstantinos Ioannidis,Gabriela Maksymiuk,Martijn de Waal
Publisher : Springer
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030134174

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CyberParks – The Interface Between People, Places and Technology by Carlos Smaniotto Costa,Ina Šuklje Erjavec,Therese Kenna,Michiel de Lange,Konstantinos Ioannidis,Gabriela Maksymiuk,Martijn de Waal Pdf

This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship. It is about different approaches, methods, empirical studies, and concerns about a phenomenon that is increasingly being in the centre of sciences and strategies – the penetration of digital technologies in the urban space. As the main outcome of the CyberParks Project, this book aims at fostering the understanding about the current and future interactions of the nexus people, public spaces and technology. It addresses a wide range of challenges and multidisciplinary perspectives on emerging phenomena related to the penetration of technology in people’s lifestyles - affecting therefore the whole society, and with this, the production and use of public spaces. Cyberparks coined the term cyberpark to describe the mediated public space, that emerging type of urban spaces where nature and cybertechnologies blend together to generate hybrid experiences and enhance quality of life.

Author : Saswat Samay Das,Ananya Roy Pratihar
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 3030888088

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Technology, Urban Space and the Networked Community by Saswat Samay Das,Ananya Roy Pratihar Pdf

This collection stages a dynamic scholarly debate about the ambivalent workings of technocapitalism and humanism in urban spaces. Such workings are intended to provide multiple forms of autonomy and empowerment but instead create intolerable contradictions that are experienced in the form of a slavish adherence to machines. Representing the novelty of a post-anthropocentric grammar, this book points towards a new ethical and political praxis. It challenges the anthropocentrism of bio-politics and neoliberalism in order to express the constitutive potential of an eco-sensible ‘new earth’.

Author : Zena Moeller
Publisher : Nova Snova
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Science
ISBN : 153614147X

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The Future of Space Exploration by Zena Moeller Pdf

This book details current international collaborations in space exploration and outlines a path for inclusion of private sector space missions.

Author : Steve Harrison
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848824836

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Media Space 20+ Years of Mediated Life by Steve Harrison Pdf

Media Space: 20+ Years of Mediated Life is loosely divided into three different, but interconnected, approaches to media space research. Each part opens with an introduction that lays out how readers can best approach the book, and provides a basic guide to the theory and research literature, technological developments and other notable events to help contextualize the book. The ‘social ‘ approach uses the rhetoric and methods familiar to a CSCW audience, but moves into actual situations that involve close working bonds, broken trust, shared joy, community building, interpersonal tension, anxiety etc. The section on ‘spatial’ approaches guides the reader through an intellectual landscape of spatiality, the ‘communications’ part is a field guide to sense-making in the as-lived mediated condition, demonstrating that media space sense-making combines an understanding of in-the-moment alongside sense made of existence in the world and reflecting upon it.

Author : Nicholas S. Dalton,Holger Schnädelbach,Mikael Wiberg,Tasos Varoudis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-09
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319300283

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Architecture and Interaction by Nicholas S. Dalton,Holger Schnädelbach,Mikael Wiberg,Tasos Varoudis Pdf

Ubiquitous computing has a vision of information and interaction being embedded in the world around us; this forms the basis of this book. Built environments are subjects of design and architects have seen digital elements incorporated into the fabric of buildings as a way of creating environments that meet the dynamic challenges of future habitation. Methods for prototyping interactive buildings are discussed and the theoretical overlaps between both domains are explored. Topics like the role of space and technology within the workplace as well as the role of embodiment in understanding how buildings and technology can influence action are discussed, as well as investigating the creation of place with new methodologies to investigate the occupation of buildings and how they can be used to understand spatial technologies. Architecture and Interaction is aimed at researchers and practitioners in the field of computing who want to gain a greater insight into the challenges of creating technologies in the built environment and those from the architectural and urban design disciplines who wish to incorporate digital information technologies in future buildings.

Author : Harrison Owen
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781442966390

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Open Space Technology (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) by Harrison Owen Pdf

Author : Joseph Pitt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138848972

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Technology by Joseph Pitt Pdf

A volume of essays concerned with mapping out future domains in philosophy of technology, it will serve as an excellent text in a variety of courses. Since the future belongs to the young, in addition to established scholars there are many fresh voices featured. The scope of the essays range from data discrimination to space junk and beyond. This volume offers a glimpse into the future of philosophy of technology, laying out the land in contemporary philosophy technology. The organization maps out the spaces of activity in the field and anticipates the big issues that we will soon face. Exciting new work on social networking, virtual environments, privacy, intellectual property, and discrimination with data constitute crucial avenues of thought for understanding and framing our experiences with and through technology today. Of enduring interest, articles on outer space, engineering design, and technology assessment help anchor this volume in more traditional topics, while work on the relationship between art and technology suggest that some themes that have been less emphasized in recent work will receive new life.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264264014

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Space and Innovation by OECD Pdf

After decades of innovation, satellites now play a discrete but pivotal role in the efficient functioning of modern societies and their economic development. This publication provides the findings from a OECD Space Forum project on the state of innovation in the space sector.

Author : P. Droege
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1997-03-20
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0080534848

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Intelligent Environments by P. Droege Pdf

The environment, as modified and created by people, is largely about the use of information, its generation and exchange. How do recent innovations in the technologies of information management and communication affect our use of space and place, and the way we perceive and think about our surroundings? This volume provides an international, exploratory forum for the complex phenomenon of new information and communication technology as it permeates and transforms our physical world, and our relation to it: the architectural definition of our surrounding, geographical space, urban form and immediate habitats. This book is a reader, an attempt at registering disciplinary changes in context, at tracing subtexts for which most mainstream disciplines have no established language. The project is to give voice to an emerging meta-discipline that has its logic across the specializations. A wide range of professionals and academics report findings, views and ideas. Together, they describe the architecture of a postmodern paradigm: how swiftly mutating the proliferating technology applications have begun to interact with the construction and reading of physical space in architecture, economics, geography, history, planning, social sciences, transport, visual art - but also in the newer domains that have joined this spectrum through the very nature of their impacts: information technology and telecommunications. The space navigated in this volume is vast, both in physical terms and in its virtual and analogous form. It ranges from the space that immediately encompasses, or is simulated to encompass, the human body - as in buildings and virtual tectonics - to that of towns and regions. We stay clear of molecular-scale space, and of dimensions that are larger than earth.

Author : Fabio Duarte
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317085690

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Space, Place and Territory by Fabio Duarte Pdf

Space, place and territory are concepts that lie at the core of geography and urban planning, environmental studies and sociology. Although space, place and territory are indeed polysemic and polemic, they have particular characteristics that distinguish them from each other. They are interdependent but not interchangeable, and the differences between them explain how we simultaneously perceive, conceive and design multiple spatialities. After drawing the conceptual framework of space, place and territory, the book initially explores how we sense space in the most visceral ways, and how the overlay of meanings attached to the sensorial characteristics of space change the way we perceive it – smell, spatial experiences using electroence phalography, and the changing meaning of darkness are discussed. The book continues exploring cartographic mapping not as a final outcome, but rather as an epistemological tool, an instrument of inquiry. It follows on how particular ideas of space, place and territory are embedded in specific urban proposals, from Brasília to the Berlin Wall, airports and infiltration of digital technologies in our daily life. The book concludes by focusing on spatial practices that challenge the status quo of how we perceive and understand urban spaces, from famous artists to anonymous interventions by traceurs and hackers of urban technologies. Combining space, place and territory as distinctive but interdependent concepts into an epistemological matrix may help us to understand contemporary phenomena and live them critically.

Author : Nathalie Mitev,Francois-Xavier de Vaujany
Publisher : Springer
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137304094

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Materiality and Space by Nathalie Mitev,Francois-Xavier de Vaujany Pdf

Materiality and Space focuses on how organizations and managing are bound with the material forms and spaces through which humans act and interact at work. It concentrates on organizational practices and pulls together three separate domains that are rarely looked at together: sociomateriality, sociology of space, and social studies of technology. The contributions draw on and combine several of these domains, and propose analyses of spaces and materiality in a range of organizational practices such as collaborative workspaces, media work, urban management, e-learning environments, managerial control, mobile lives, institutional routines and professional identity. Theoretical insights are also developed by Pickering on the material world, Lyytinen on affordance, Lorino on architexture and Introna on sociomaterial assemblages in order to delve further into conceptualizing materiality in organizations.

Author : Jody Berland
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822388661

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North of Empire by Jody Berland Pdf

For nearly two decades, Jody Berland has been a leading voice in cultural studies and the field of communications. In North of Empire, she brings together and reflects on ten of her pioneering essays. Demonstrating the importance of space to understanding culture, Berland investigates how media technologies have shaped locality, territory, landscape, boundary, nature, music, and time. Her analysis begins with the media landscape of Canada, a country that offers a unique perspective for apprehending the power of media technologies to shape subjectivities and everyday lives, and to render territorial borders both more and less meaningful. Canada is a settler nation and world power often dwarfed by the U.S. cultural juggernaut. It possesses a voluminous archive of inquiry on culture, politics, and the technologies of space. Berland revisits this tradition in the context of a rich interdisciplinary study of contemporary media culture. Berland explores how understandings of space and time, empire and margin, embodiment and technology, and nature and culture are shaped by broadly conceived communications technologies including pianos, radio, television, the Web, and satellite imaging. Along the way, she provides a useful overview of the assumptions driving communications research on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, and she highlights the distinctive contributions of the Canadian communication theorists Harold Innis and Marshall McLuhan. Berland argues that electronic mediation is central to the construction of social space and therefore to anti-imperialist critique. She illuminates crucial links between how space is traversed, how it is narrated, and how it is used. Making an important contribution to scholarship on globalization, Berland calls for more sophisticated accounts of media and cultural technologies and their complex “geographies of influence.”