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In 2018, the VII Foundation asked more than a dozen renowned
reporters and photojournalists to revisit countries with which they
had become achingly familiar during times of brutal conflict. The
task was to see peace through the prism of their journalistic
experience; to survey familiar towns and villages; to reconnect
with women, men, soldiers, civilians, statesmen, and students who
had survived the conflict or grown up in the postwar society; to
discover what the lived experience of “peace” feels like. To
augment this reportage, the VII Foundation sought input from
academics and peacemakers. And they invited citizens of those
countries to give their very personal narratives, in their own
voices. Hard edges were not softened nor unpalatable impressions
deleted. They wanted to show the truth as seen and experienced by
those that lived and those that reported on seemingly intractable
civil wars in Bosnia and Herzegovina Cambodia, Colombia, Lebanon,
Northern Ireland, and Rwanda. The result is Imagine: Reflections on
Peace - a curation of searing images and trenchant essays that show
both micro and macro views of peace, with its uneven degrees of
economic success, political stability, and social harmony. In this
stunning collection, worldrenown journalists and authors take us
into societies that have suffered searing conflict - and survived.
Photographic essays make the stakes during war and peace grippingly
palpable. Compelling backstories about negotiations, tales of
survival, and accounts of the search for inner peace make the big
picture personal. Imagine offers a rare glimpse into the
unvarnished story of peace, a window into what it takes for
societies and individuals to move forward after unspeakable
brutality.
Nurses work across the health care system in a great variety of
roles. From patient care to administration, nurses see where the
pressures are, and how well we are managing to look after some of
the most vulnerable people in our society. Clinical Challenges
explores contemporary issues central to nurses' work. Part I
explores clinical concerns such as pain and wound management, the
role of the nurse practitioner, and the effects of extending life.
For many years the health sector has been coping with cutbacks in
government funding, and Part II examines how this impacts on the
way we handle social illnesses such as suicide and drug dependence,
as well as the needs of our growing ageing population. Part III
looks at management issues affecting nurses including the growing
use of business strategies and rhetoric in the health care system,
and the introduction of information systems and of more flexible
ways of working.Written by nurses working in a variety of
professional roles in the system and critiqued by experts in the
field, Clinical Challenges offers valuable insights for nurses at
every level, including students.
In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development
has gained increasing recognition from national and regional
governments. Governments have been investing in initiatives and
urban development plans that aim to create or support localized
creative industries. Our understanding of creative clusters is
expanded with this insightful volume, which looks at issues of
governance, place-making and entrepreneurship. In addition to its
theoretical contributions, the book also presents a rich range of
international case studies, including, among others, an analysis of
coworking spaces in Toronto, business park development in
MediaCityUK and mediapark.brussels and public-private partnerships
in Warsaw. Creative Cluster Development will be valuable reading
for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in urban
planning, regional studies, economic geography, innovation studies
and the creative and cultural industries.
Nurses work across the health care system in a great variety of
roles. From patient care to administration, nurses see where the
pressures are, and how well we are managing to look after some of
the most vulnerable people in our society. Clinical Challenges
explores contemporary issues central to nurses' work. Part I
explores clinical concerns such as pain and wound management, the
role of the nurse practitioner, and the effects of extending life.
For many years the health sector has been coping with cutbacks in
government funding, and Part II examines how this impacts on the
way we handle social illnesses such as suicide and drug dependence,
as well as the needs of our growing ageing population. Part III
looks at management issues affecting nurses including the growing
use of business strategies and rhetoric in the health care system,
and the introduction of information systems and of more flexible
ways of working. Written by nurses working in a variety of
professional roles in the system and critiqued by experts in the
field, Clinical Challenges offers valuable insights for nurses at
every level, including students.
En face bilingual edition of only extant Latin American slave narrative written during slavery era. Original Spanish punctuation, spelling, and syntax corrected and modernized by Schulman; translation is of this new version of text. Introduction, notes, chronology give extensive background. Excellent for undergraduate classroom use. Scholars may prefer original text"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Le Theatre du Soleil traces the company's history from a group of
young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling
to match their political commitment to a creative strategy, to
their grappling with the concerns of migration, separation and
exile in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Beatrice
Picon-Vallin recounts how, in the 55 years since its founding, the
Theatre du Soleil has established itself as one of the foremost
names in modern theatre. Ariane Mnouchkine and her collaborators
have developed a unique and ever-evolving style that combines a
piercing richness of shape, color, and texture with precision
choreography, innovative musical accompaniment, and multi-layered,
metaphorical dreamscapes. This rich, storied history is illustrated
by a wealth of spectacular rehearsal and production photos from the
company's own archive and interviews with dozens of past and
present members, including Mnouchkine herself. Judith G. Miller's
timely translation of the first comprehensive history and analysis
of a remarkable, award-winning company is a compelling read for
both students and teachers of Drama and Theatre Studies.
Le Theatre du Soleil traces the company's history from a group of
young, barely trained actors, directors, and designers struggling
to match their political commitment to a creative strategy, to
their grappling with the concerns of migration, separation and
exile in the early decades of the twenty-first century. Beatrice
Picon-Vallin recounts how, in the 55 years since its founding, the
Theatre du Soleil has established itself as one of the foremost
names in modern theatre. Ariane Mnouchkine and her collaborators
have developed a unique and ever-evolving style that combines a
piercing richness of shape, color, and texture with precision
choreography, innovative musical accompaniment, and multi-layered,
metaphorical dreamscapes. This rich, storied history is illustrated
by a wealth of spectacular rehearsal and production photos from the
company's own archive and interviews with dozens of past and
present members, including Mnouchkine herself. Judith G. Miller's
timely translation of the first comprehensive history and analysis
of a remarkable, award-winning company is a compelling read for
both students and teachers of Drama and Theatre Studies.
As cities compete globally, the Smart City has been touted as the
important new strategic driver for regeneration and growth. Smart
Cities are employing information and communication technologies in
the quest for sustainable economic development and the fostering of
new forms of collective life. This has made the Smart City an
essential focus for engineers, architects, urban designers, urban
planners, and politicians, as well as businesses such as CISCO, IBM
and Siemens. Despite its broad appeal, few comprehensive books have
been devoted to the subject so far, and even fewer have tried to
relate it to cultural issues and to assume a truly critical stance
by trying to decipher its consequences on urban space and
experience. This cultural and critical lens is all the more
important as the Smart City is as much an ideal permeated by
Utopian beliefs as a concrete process of urban transformation. This
ideal possesses a strong self-fulfilling character: our cities will
become 'Smart' because we want them to. This book opens with an
examination of the technological reality on which Smart Cities are
built, from the chips and sensors that enable us to monitor what
happens within the infrastructure to the smartphones that connect
individuals. Through these technologies, the urban space appears as
activated, almost sentient. This activation generates two
contrasting visions: on the one hand, a neo-cybernetic ambition to
steer the city in the most efficient way; and on the other, a more
bottom-up, participative approach in which empowered individuals
invent new modes of cooperation. A thorough analysis of these two
trends reveals them to be complementary. The Smart City of the near
future will result from their mutual adjustment. In this process,
urban space plays a decisive role. Smart Cities are contemporary
with a 'spatial turn' of the digital. Based on key technological
developments like geo-localisation and augmented reality, the
rising importance of space explains the strategic role of mapping
in the evolution of the urban experience. Throughout this
exploration of some of the key dimensions of the Smart City, this
book constantly moves from the technological to the spatial as well
as from a critical assessment of existing experiments to
speculations on the rise of a new form of collective intelligence.
In the future, cities will become smarter in a much more literal
way than what is often currently assumed.
In recent decades, the importance of creative cluster development
has gained increasing recognition from national and regional
governments. Governments have been investing in initiatives and
urban development plans that aim to create or support localized
creative industries. Our understanding of creative clusters is
expanded with this insightful volume, which looks at issues of
governance, place-making and entrepreneurship. In addition to its
theoretical contributions, the book also presents a rich range of
international case studies, including, among others, an analysis of
coworking spaces in Toronto, business park development in
MediaCityUK and mediapark.brussels and public-private partnerships
in Warsaw. Creative Cluster Development will be valuable reading
for advanced students, researchers and policymakers in urban
planning, regional studies, economic geography, innovation studies
and the creative and cultural industries.
Even more than authorship, ownership is challenged by the rise of
digital and computational methods of design and production. These
challenges are simultaneously legal, ethical and economic. How are
new methods of fabrication and manufacture going to irreversibly
change not only ways of working, but also designers ethics and
their stance on ownership? In his 2013 second-term State of the
Union address, President Obama stated that 3D printing has the
potential to revolutionize the way we make almost everything .
Nowhere will the impact of 3D printing be felt greater than in the
architectural and design communities. When anyone can print out an
object or structure from a digital file, will designers still exert
the same creative rights or will they need to develop new practice
and payment models? As architecture becomes more collaborative with
open-source processes, will the emphasis on signature as the basis
of ownership remain relevant? How will wider teams working globally
be accredited and compensated? This issue of AD explores this
subject; it features the work of designers who are developing
wholly new approaches to practice by exploring means of
commercialising process-based products rather than objects.
Contributors: Phil Bernstein, Mark Garcia, Antoine Picon, Carlo
Ratti and David Ruy Featured architects: Francis Bitonti, Marjan
Colletti, Wendy W Fok, Panagiotis Michalatos, Jose Sanchez,
Thibault Schwartz, Aaron Sprecher, Feng Xu and Philip Yuan
The professions of architect and engineer, which had maintained
very close links since the time of the Renaissance, became
increasingly isolated from one another in France during the course
of the eighteenth century, the 'Age of the Enlightenment'. This
book analyses the meaning of this gradual mutual isolation, the
consequences of which can still be felt at a variety of different
levels, and offers a unique insight in English to the teaching and
practice of architects such as Jacques-Francois Blondel and Pierre
Patte, and engineers such as Jean-Rodolphe Perronet and
Gaspard-Riche de Prony. The text of the book is clear and easily
comprehensible, and presents a fully accessible account of this key
period in the development of architectural achievement and debate.
Authorship critically examines emergent themes in contemporary
architecture by revisiting the seemingly defunct notion of design
authorship. As we revel in the death of the master architect, how
do we come to terms with the shifting role of creativity in
architecture's cultural production? In Authorship, a
cross-disciplinary group of designers and scholars explores this
topic through a myriad of lenses. Subjects include the impact of
digital tools and computational scripts on the conception of
buildings in the age of robotics, the current climate of
appropriation and sampling as a counter-form of authorship, and the
rise of reauthored materials in a postdigital age. These questions
are cast against alternative ideas of authorship that, in turn,
reposition the history of architecture. Featured essays investigate
the separation between the personal and the authored while other
contributions expose meaning, symbolism, and iconography as the
subjects of authority-not authorship. Ultimately, this book
dismantles, realigns, and reassembles disparate architectural
conditions to form new ways of thinking. Discourse is a biannual
publication series that presents timely themes on and around
architecture. A selective compilation of essays, interviews,
roundtable discussions, featured exhibitions, photo-essays, and
collateral materials-such as architectural models, sketches, and
built works-highlight architectural culture, practice, and theory.
Once condemned by Modernism and compared to a 'crime' by Adolf
Loos, ornament has made a spectacular return in contemporary
architecture. This is typified by the works of well-known
architects such as Herzog & de Meuron, Sauerbruch Hutton,
Farshid Moussavi Architecture and OMA. There is no doubt that these
new ornamental tendencies are inseparable from innovations in
computer technology. The proliferation of developments in design
software has enabled architects to experiment afresh with texture,
colour, pattern and topology.Though inextricably linked with
digital tools and culture, Antoine Picon argues that some
significant traits in ornament persist from earlier Western
architectural traditions. These he defines as the 'subjective' -
the human interaction that ornament requires in both its production
and its reception - and the political. Contrary to the message
conveyed by the founding fathers of modern architecture,
traditional ornament was not meant only for pleasure. It conveyed
vital information about the designation of buildings as well as
about the rank of their owners. As such, it participated in the
expression of social values, hierarchies and order. By bringing
previous traditions in ornament under scrutiny, Picon makes us
question the political issues at stake in today's ornamental
revival. What does it tell us about present-day culture? Why are we
presently so fearful of meaning in architecture? Could it be that
by steering so vehemently away from symbolism, contemporary
architecture is evading any explicit contribution to collective
values?
"The truth is, decorative art is equipment, beautiful equipment,"
Le Corbusier, L'Art decoratif d'aujourd'hui This book traces the
history of an encounter between a remarkable invention,
half-industrial half-design object, and one of the most famous
architects of the 20th century. Created in 1921, the Gras lamp
holds a unique place in the history of lighting. A revolutionary
design of marvelous simplicity, its original purpose was to meet
the needs of the booming manufacturing and retail sectors. The
young Le Corbusier, passionate about the challenges of interior
lighting, adopted it as his own from the early 1920s on. Thanks to
its remarkable functionality, this lamp also perfectly corresponded
to his desire to break with decoration and ornament, and the
architect went on to utilize it in his studio in the rue de Sevres
in Paris as well as his home. He also placed it in many of the
interiors of the houses he designed: the Villa Le Lac
(Switzerland), the Villa La Roche (Paris), the Guiette House
(Antwerp), the Villa Savoye (Poissy), and the villa belonging to
his friend Eileen Gray in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin. Relying on rich
photographic documentation from the period, the book goes through
the history of the Gras lamp, its patents and various models, but
it also enables the reader to rediscover Le Corbusier's interior
designs through the prism of this icon of design, as he was one of
this lamp's main promoters in modern times. Text in English and
French. Contents: Preface, Antoine Picon; Le Corbusier and "the law
of light" Arthur Ruegg; The Lamp and the Architect; Le Corbusier:
For daily use; The Studio in the rue de Sevres; Private homes; A
Restoration story; Le Corbusier's Designs; Introduction; Villa Le
Lac, "little house," Corseaux near Vevey (Switzerland), 1923; La
Roche-Jeanneret house, Paris, 1925; Guiette House, Antwerp, 1926;
Villa Savoye, "Clear Hours," Poissy, 1929-1931; Swiss Pavilion,
Cite Universitaire, Paris, 1931-1933; Visiting Eileen Gray;
Bibliography; Chronology."
A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging
technologies Digital tools have launched architecture into a
dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other
traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this
ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly,
the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries
and how technology may-or may not-be changing how we think about
them. Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about
matter and that the silence and inscrutability-the otherness-of raw
materials work against humanity's need to live in a meaningful
world. He describes how people define who they are, in part,
through their specific physical experience of architectural
materials and spaces. Indeed, Picon asserts, the entire paradox of
the architectural discipline consists in its desire to render
matter expressive to human beings. Through a retrospective review
of canonical moments in Western European architecture, Picon offers
an original perspective on the ways materiality has varied
throughout centuries, demonstrating how experiences of the physical
world have changed in relation to the evolution of human
subjectivity. Ultimately, Picon concludes that computer-based
design methods are not an abrupt departure from previous
architectural traditions but rather a new way for architects to
control material resources. The result reinforces the fundamentally
humanistic nature of architectural endeavor with an increasing
sense of design freedom and a release from material constraint in
the digital era.
In the tradition of the best-selling "Book of Positive Quotations",
this superb little volume presents readers with 365 life-affirming
quotes to guide you through the year.With its easy to read
page-a-day layout, and practical advice for applying the wisdom of
each maxim to your daily life, "The Daily Book of Positive
Quotations" is the perfect volume to add a little inspiration and
happiness to every day - whether you use it for a settling thought
last-thing at night or a motivational reference in the
office.Presents uplifting words of wisdom of topics such as:
greeting in the morning; daily acts of kindness; making the most of
each and every day; and, much more!
A fascinating exploration of how the growth of digital mapping,
spurred by sensing technologies, is affecting cities and daily
lives  What have smart technologies taught us about cities?
What lessons can we learn from today’s urbanites to make better
places to live? Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti argue that the
answers are in the maps we make. For centuries, we have relied on
maps to navigate the enormity of the city. Now, as the physical
world combines with the digital world, we need a new generation of
maps to navigate the city of tomorrow. Pervasive sensors allow
anyone to visualize cities in entirely new ways—ebbs and flows of
pollution, traffic, and internet connectivity. Â This book
explores how the growth of digital mapping, spurred by sensing
technologies, is affecting cities and daily lives. It examines how
new cartographic possibilities aid urban planners, technicians,
politicians, and administrators; how digitally mapped cities could
reveal ways to make cities smarter and more efficient; how
monitoring urbanites has political and social repercussions; and
how the proliferation of open-source maps and collaborative
platforms can aid activists and vulnerable populations. With its
beautiful, accessible presentation of cutting-edge research, this
book makes it easy for readers to understand the stakes of the new
information age—and appreciate the timeless power of the city.
A new paradigm combining architectural tradition with emerging
technologies Digital tools have launched architecture into a
dizzying new era, one in which wood, stone, metal, glass, and other
traditional materials are augmented by pixels and code. In this
ambitious exploration, an eminent thinker examines what, exactly,
the building blocks of architecture have meant over the centuries
and how technology may-or may not-be changing how we think about
them. Antoine Picon argues that materiality is not only about
matter and that the silence and inscrutability-the otherness-of raw
materials work against humanity's need to live in a meaningful
world. He describes how people define who they are, in part,
through their specific physical experience of architectural
materials and spaces. Indeed, Picon asserts, the entire paradox of
the architectural discipline consists in its desire to render
matter expressive to human beings. Through a retrospective review
of canonical moments in Western European architecture, Picon offers
an original perspective on the ways materiality has varied
throughout centuries, demonstrating how experiences of the physical
world have changed in relation to the evolution of human
subjectivity. Ultimately, Picon concludes that computer-based
design methods are not an abrupt departure from previous
architectural traditions but rather a new way for architects to
control material resources. The result reinforces the fundamentally
humanistic nature of architectural endeavor with an increasing
sense of design freedom and a release from material constraint in
the digital era.
In 1996, Francois Jolliet, Antoine Hahne et Guy Nicollier founded
their office Pont12. In 2013, Christiane von Roten, Cyril Michod
and Norbert Seara, associate partners, joined the management. A
large proportion of their contracts are the result of competition
successes. Their architecture is inspired by the needs of the users
and is characterised by a careful choice of materials and
sophisticated details. Text in English, German and French.
This book explores the issues of transformation phenomena of the
urban dimension (regionalization processes) that traditional
scientific literature fails to describe appropriately. So far,
scholars have adopted a widespread dominant perspective that proved
unable to grasp the essence of post-modern complexities that urban
spaces imply. The book provides a taxonomy, in order to describe
the rules of these new and peculiar cities, by using the living
dimension as a device for the epistemological breaking down of
traditional socio-spatial analyses. After a thorough theoretical
introduction, it describes two Sicilian case studies that prove
particularly relevant to the construction of a new, alternative
urban regionalization theory. These two areas, Palermo and
South-Eastern Sicily, are described through several aspects, such
as the role of migrants and migrations in defining urban
regionalization, the power of fiction and the new urban forms that
are slowly emerging in Sicily. Overall, this book provides a
refreshing view of what Sicily has been and is becoming, by
deconstructing most of its cliches and suggesting theoretical
perspectives grounded in both quantitative and qualitative
analyses.
This book provides an interdisciplinary look at emerging trends in
signal processing and biomedicine found at the intersection of
healthcare, engineering, and computer science. It examines the
vital role signal processing plays in enabling a new generation of
technology based on big data, and looks at applications ranging
from medical electronics to data mining of electronic medical
records. Topics covered include analysis of medical images, machine
learning, biomedical nanosensors, wireless technologies, and
instrumentation and electrical stimulation. Biomedical Signal
Processing: Innovation and Applications presents tutorials and
examples of successful applications, and will appeal to a wide
range of professionals, researchers, and students interested in
applications of signal processing, medicine, and biology.
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