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The Tales Of Ittybittyville (Hardcover): Dianne Smith Bryars The Tales Of Ittybittyville (Hardcover)
Dianne Smith Bryars; Illustrated by Bart Bryars
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Battered But Not Broken - It's The Possibilities That Kept Her Going Not The Grantees (Hardcover): Dianne Smith Battered But Not Broken - It's The Possibilities That Kept Her Going Not The Grantees (Hardcover)
Dianne Smith
R729 Discovery Miles 7 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture - Life from the Inside (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2014): Dianne Smith,... Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture - Life from the Inside (Hardcover, 2nd ed. 2014)
Dianne Smith, Marina Lommerse, Priya Metcalfe
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on three pivotal themes - community engagement, social justice and cultural heritage. Each section has chapters that put forward the principles of these themes, leading into a variety of fascinating case studies that illustrate how socially sustainable design is implemented in diverse communities across the world. The second section includes four concise case studies of community housing issues, including remote-area indigenous housing and housing for the homeless. The third section offers two extensively researched essays on design and cultural heritage - a case study of the development of a redundant industrial site and a historical study of gendered domestic interiors.

The book appeals to a wider audience than the design community alone and challenges mainstream interior design/interior architecture practitioners nationally and internationally to take a leading role in the field of socially responsible design. The issues raised by the authors are relevant for individuals, communities, government and non-government organisations, professionals and students.

""In the twenty-first century we seem to have entered into a new world of knowledge discovery, where many of the most exciting insights come not from the authority of a traditional discipline, but from the dialogue that happens at the hubs and intersections of thought - the arenas where different disciplines and approaches, different schools and habits of thinking, come together to collaborate and contend. This collection is a good example of this, and I hope the book will be widely read and its lessons learned and applied.""Tim Costello, Officer of the Order of Australia, Chief Executive, World Vision Australia.

Urban Ecology (Hardcover, New Ed): Dianne Smith Urban Ecology (Hardcover, New Ed)
Dianne Smith
R6,711 Discovery Miles 67 110 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent disturbance, trampling, nutrient or water scarcity, etc. In Urban Ecology Dianne Smith uses such features as footpaths, walls, gravestones, gardens, compost heaps and derelict land to investigate the effects of these pressures and to demonstrate other ecological properties of oftern isolated habitats. This book was first published in 1984.

M(2) Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement (Hardcover, 2014 ed.): Reena Tiwari, Marina Lommerse, Dianne Smith M(2) Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)
Reena Tiwari, Marina Lommerse, Dianne Smith
R3,666 Discovery Miles 36 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

How can we engage communities? What is empowerment? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How is an outsider-insider relationship handled? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How are organizational and contextual influences handled in a project? What leadership demands do such projects place on researchers? What is capacity building? What are creative leaders and creative communities? How does the researcher journey from their studio to the situation? M(2) Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement discusses key theoretical constructs - community engagement, capacity building, and community empowerment - in order to demonstrate how theory and practice are relevant to the development of forms of community involvement. The book maps the attributes of community based projects by moving beyond simply bringing people together from a variety of disciplines, and taking an approach which is transdisciplinary and applicable across cultures and genres. Here, all people - including the community - are ongoing contributors, and can freely move between their own and others' discipline-specific arenas. M(2) differs from and extends on other works in this field of practice and research, in that its transdisciplinary, collaborative approach positions the community as a particular kind of discipline to create real change in diverse locations and fields of experience. The book is in itself a model of community engagement, as the researchers have formed a community of research and practice for change, and have developed a transformative model for community engagement that is greater than the sum of its parts - hence M(2). M(2) offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy developers and volunteers from the fields of architecture, interior architecture, health, planning, anthropology, education, home economics, communication, political studies and development studies.

Urban Ecology (Paperback): Dianne Smith Urban Ecology (Paperback)
Dianne Smith
R1,467 Discovery Miles 14 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

There are many micro-habitats in built up areas, often subject to strong environmental pressures such as atmospheric and water pollution, frequent disturbance, trampling, nutrient or water scarcity, etc. In Urban Ecology Dianne Smith uses such features as footpaths, walls, gravestones, gardens, compost heaps and derelict land to investigate the effects of these pressures and to demonstrate other ecological properties of oftern isolated habitats. This book was first published in 1984.

The Contradictions of the Legacy of Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka (1954) - A Special Issue of Educational Studies... The Contradictions of the Legacy of Brown V. Board of Education, Topeka (1954) - A Special Issue of Educational Studies (Paperback)
Dianne Smith, Sandra Winn Tutwiler
R1,023 R937 Discovery Miles 9 370 Save R86 (8%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution - constructed space conceptualized (Paperback): Lynn Churchill, Dianne Smith Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution - constructed space conceptualized (Paperback)
Lynn Churchill, Dianne Smith
R1,613 Discovery Miles 16 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate, re-imagine and re-define lived space, thereby asserting occupation as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior architecture, dance dramaturgy, art history, design and visual arts, cultural studies and media studies provide a unique, holistic view of occupation, examining topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation. They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift boundaries--psychological, social and physical--affect identity and demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and topical at a time of radical flux, generated by the proliferation of hypermedia, and also by the dramatically shifting environmental, political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real, virtual, remembered, re-invented) that we appear or disappear as the individual or collective self, because the spaces we construct assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in accord with.

M² Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014): Reena... M² Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Reena Tiwari, Marina Lommerse, Dianne Smith
R3,706 Discovery Miles 37 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

How can we engage communities? What is empowerment? To what extent should the project process be participatory? How is an outsider-insider relationship handled? How do researchers negotiate with the hegemony of western cultural interpretations? How are organizational and contextual influences handled in a project? What leadership demands do such projects place on researchers? What is capacity building? What are creative leaders and creative communities? How does the researcher journey from their studio to the situation? M² Models and Methodologies for Community Engagement discusses key theoretical constructs — community engagement, capacity building, and community empowerment — in order to demonstrate how theory and practice are relevant to the development of forms of community involvement. The book maps the attributes of community based projects by moving beyond simply bringing people together from a variety of disciplines, and taking an approach which is transdisciplinary and applicable across cultures and genres. Here, all people — including the community — are ongoing contributors, and can freely move between their own and others’ discipline-specific arenas. M² differs from and extends on other works in this field of practice and research, in that its transdisciplinary, collaborative approach positions the community as a particular kind of discipline to create real change in diverse locations and fields of experience. The book is in itself a model of community engagement, as the researchers have formed a community of research and practice for change, and have developed a transformative model for community engagement that is greater than the sum of its parts – hence M². M² offers a valuable resource for students, researchers, academics, practitioners, policy developers and volunteers from the fields of architecture, interior architecture, health, planning, anthropology, education, home economics, communication, political studies and development studies.

Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture - Life from the Inside (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Perspectives on Social Sustainability and Interior Architecture - Life from the Inside (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2014)
Dianne Smith, Marina Lommerse, Priya Metcalfe
R1,952 Discovery Miles 19 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that interior architects have a responsibility to practice their profession in collaborative ways that address the needs of communities and of to be the agents of social justice and cultural heritage. The book is divided into three sections, based on three pivotal themes - community engagement, social justice and cultural heritage. Each section has chapters that put forward the principles of these themes, leading into a variety of fascinating case studies that illustrate how socially sustainable design is implemented in diverse communities across the world. The second section includes four concise case studies of community housing issues, including remote-area indigenous housing and housing for the homeless. The third section offers two extensively researched essays on design and cultural heritage - a case study of the development of a redundant industrial site and a historical study of gendered domestic interiors. The book appeals to a wider audience than the design community alone and challenges mainstream interior design/interior architecture practitioners nationally and internationally to take a leading role in the field of socially responsible design. The issues raised by the authors are relevant for individuals, communities, government and non-government organisations, professionals and students. "In the twenty-first century we seem to have entered into a new world of knowledge discovery, where many of the most exciting insights come not from the authority of a traditional discipline, but from the dialogue that happens at the hubs and intersections of thought - the arenas where different disciplines and approaches, different schools and habits of thinking, come together to collaborate and contend. This collection is a good example of this, and I hope the book will be widely read and its lessons learned and applied." Tim Costello, Officer of the Order of Australia, Chief Executive, World Vision Australia.

Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution - constructed space conceptualized (Hardcover, New Ed): Lynn Churchill, Dianne Smith Occupation: ruin, repudiation, revolution - constructed space conceptualized (Hardcover, New Ed)
Lynn Churchill, Dianne Smith
R4,477 Discovery Miles 44 770 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bringing together an international range of contributors from the fields of practice, theory and history, this book takes a fresh look at occupation. It argues that occupation is a prospect that begins with ruin--a residue from the past, an implied or even a resounding presence of something previous that holds the potential for transformation. This prospect invites us to repudiate, re-imagine and re-define lived space, thereby asserting occupation as an act of revolution. Authors drawn from the fields of architecture, urbanism, interior architecture, dance dramaturgy, art history, design and visual arts, cultural studies and media studies provide a unique, holistic view of occupation, examining topics such as: the authority of architecture; architecture as an act of revolution; women in hypersexual space; occupation as a serialized act of ruin; and the definition of space as repudiation. They discuss how acts that re-invent territory and/or shift boundaries--psychological, social and physical--affect identity and demonstrate possession. This theme of occupation is significant and topical at a time of radical flux, generated by the proliferation of hypermedia, and also by the dramatically shifting environmental, political and economic context of this era. The book concludes by asserting that it is through occupation (private and public: real, virtual, remembered, re-invented) that we appear or disappear as the individual or collective self, because the spaces we construct assert particular agendas which we may either contest or live in accord with.

Our Boy Jack (Paperback): Dianne Smith Our Boy Jack (Paperback)
Dianne Smith; Designed by Vivienne Ainslie; Illustrated by Carl Jackson
R377 Discovery Miles 3 770 Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Battered But Not Broken - It's The Possibilities That Kept Her Going Not The Grantees (Paperback): Dianne Smith Battered But Not Broken - It's The Possibilities That Kept Her Going Not The Grantees (Paperback)
Dianne Smith
R538 Discovery Miles 5 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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