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Journal articles on the topic "Socio-Spatial concepts and practices"
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Morrow, Ruth, Peter Mutschler, and Timothy Waddell. "Spaces of rehearsal: theorising socio-spatial practices in a postconflict context." Architectural Research Quarterly 24, no. 2 (2020): 183–203. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1359135520000251.
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This paper sets out the socio-spatial practices of PS2 and Street Society in territorialised, post conflict Northern Ireland – whose work combines pedagogical and improvisation theory to prototype distinctive social models. These practices were formed by a continual process of practical involvement and reflection (through writing) and evaluation (funding permitting), alongside the author-practitioners' search for theoretical concepts that would bring clarity and an alternative perspective to the processes and outcomes. Concepts and approaches taken from pedagogical theory and, uniquely in the case of architecture, improvisational theory, will be used to explore critical aspects of the specific practices, and more generally assert that such socio-spatial ‘street pedagogy’ offers a space of rehearsal and ultimately, a site for the development of socially-just aesthetics. The paper thus proposes a theoretical scaffolding for practices which increase diversity and diminish resource consumption in the contexts of climate emergency and a politics of precarity.
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Rocha, Altemar Amaral, Helaine de Souza Araujo, and Ana Emilia de Quadros Ferraz. "Production of Space and Sociospatial Practices in Urban Spaces: Categories and Concepts on the Move." Revista de Gestão Social e Ambiental 18, no. 12 (2024): e010608. https://doi.org/10.24857/rgsa.v18n12-213.
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Objective: To analyze the socio-spatial practices carried out by society in public spaces such as squares, gardens, parks and avenues with high urban traffic, seeking to confront the process of privatization of these public spaces that is taking place in the current context of contemporary society. Theoretical Framework: This article correlates the categories and concepts used in the analysis of urban socio-spatial practices mediated by geographic praxis in public spaces in cities. Its objective is to reflect on the concepts and categories of geography that affect socio-spatial practices, with emphasis on the praxis of urban public spaces, contextualized in the theory of the production of space outlined by Lefebvre. Method: It comprises a theoretical reflection on the production of space and spatial practice based on Lefebvre. Data collection was carried out through interviews, questionnaires, and observations of spatial practice. Results and Discussion: The results obtained revealed that spatial practice is the result of an action, and this action is always accompanied by other practices that appropriate the collective space of common uses, highlighting the implications and relationships identified. Research Implications: The practical and theoretical implications of this research are discussed, providing insights on how the results can be applied or influence practices in the field of uses of public spaces. These implications may cover environmental, socio-spatial issues and domains of nature. Originality/Value: This study contributes to the literature by analyzing the appropriation of public spaces through multiple uses. The relevance and value of this research are evidenced by a relevant theoretical discussion to solve urban issues of the daily life of Brazilian cities in contemporary times.
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Rajendran, Lakshmi, Fariba Molki, Sara Mahdizadeh, and Asma Mehan. "(RE)FRAMING SPATIALITY AS A SOCIO-CULTURAL PARADIGM: EXAMINING THE IRANIAN HOUSING CULTURE AND PROCESSES." JOURNAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM 45, no. 1 (2021): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/jau.2021.14032.
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With rapid changes in urban living today, peoples’ behavioural patterns and spatial practices undergo a constant process of adaptation and negotiation. Using “house” as a laboratory and everyday life and spatial relations of residents as a framework of analysis, the paper examines the spatial planning concepts in traditional and contemporary Iranian architecture and the associated socio-cultural practices. Discussions are drawn upon from a pilot study conducted in the city of Kerman, to investigate ways in which contemporary housing solutions can better cater to the continually changing socio-cultural lifestyles of residents. Data collection for the study involved a series of participatory workshops and employed creative visual research methods, participant observation and semi structured interviews to examine the interlacing of everyday socio-spatial relations and changing perception of identity, belonging, socio-cultural and religious values and conflict. The inferences from the study showcases the emerging social and cultural needs and practices of people manifested through the complex relationship between residents, the places in which they live, and its spatial planning and organisation. For a better understanding of this complex relationship, the paper argues the need for resituating spatiality as a socio-cultural paradigm.
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Camila, Vianna de Souza, and Claudia Ramos Sacramento Ana. "Place and Landscape: Socio-spatial practices in the Curriculum of the city of Duque de Caxias- Brazil." International Journal of Arts and Social Science 3, no. 4 (2023): 272–83. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7722804.
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The comprehension about the socio-spatial practices of students permits to dialogue with the point of view that provides to work through constantly experiences with them. Thus, this research analysis how the study of city/urban contributes to former the concepts and school geographic contents using for this the analysis of socio-spatial practices of students of Education for Young and Adults in the municipality of Duque of Caxias in the city of Rio de Janeiro. It is important that themes related to the conception of city/urban be addressed in the curriculum to encourage the developing of socio-spatial awareness of citizen of Duque de Caxias. Methodologically, this works uses a methodology that explores the socio-spatial practices of students, because it is something known and experienced by them. Thus, the educator may uses the reality of students in order to explore their everyday. The teaching of Geography permits that discussions like these in this work be possible, because understand your own city, the social production, the urban issues and your right as citizen are relevant themes to the discipline of school Geography, all these question permits that students recognize themselves within the spatiality of their city. The results of this works shows that the most of students has many difficulties related to interpretation, concepts and geographic contents, as well as the lack of knowledge of their rights as citizens and residents of the city
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Tallavajjula, Naga Sneha. "Towards Socio-Spatial Equity in Public Space." Journal of Public Space 8, no. 1 (2023): 103–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.32891/jps.v8i1.1652.
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Street vending has historically driven and dominated the informal economy in the Indian city of Hyderabad. The inception of urban migration saw a range of marginalized groups move into the city, creating stark rural-urban differences and causing residents and the city to struggle to adapt. They eventually established themselves along the river to meet daily needs and adopted street vending as a means of occupation toward sustenance. While urban design in the city actively excludes these vendors from urban belonging, they retaliate through subversive practices and tactical urbanism to impose belonging, in a quest to find their right to the city. Neoliberal policies continue to distance these disengaged communities from the city considering them undesirable through dominant concepts of unattractiveness. While the government disapproves of informal vending in the public realm in Hyderabad – especially along the Musi River – branded designer “pop-up stores” and gourmet food stalls are encouraged, advertised and publicised. Inequitable law enforcement has created turmoil in the access and right to public space in the city. This study highlights the need for strategic placemaking to build healthy relationships and equity in the city. Various perceptions of public space among street vendors are analysed to help integrate these disengaged residents in the city. The paper concludes with empirical findings for designers and planners to examine, in delivering a customized design plans articulated to prevent further distress to micro-urbanism patterns existing in the city and its urban fabric.
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Kessler, Oliver, and Marc Lenglet. "Between concepts and thought: digital technologies and temporal relationality." International Relations 34, no. 3 (2020): 413–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047117820948199.
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This article advances the argument that the acceleration of practices introduced by digital technologies also impact key concepts of social theory. Digital technologies not only give rise to new concepts, but they also reconfigure our entire socio-political conceptual vocabulary. In particular, this acceleration reorganises the relationship between the spatial and temporal dimensions of political concepts. As a consequence, our spatially defined understanding of authority, hierarchy or relation underestimates the repercussions of shifting temporalities. This article pursues this shift from space to time and outlines how temporal relationality is gradually impacting the representations and images we live by.
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Wijaatmaja, Arya Bagus Mahadwijati, I. Dewa Gede Agung Diasana Putra, Ngakan Ketut Acwin Dwijendra, and Ni Made Yudantini. "The Production of Space and Resilience Strategies in Sanur Traditional Village: A Case Study in Denpasar's Tourism Context." ASTONJADRO 14, no. 1 (2025): 321–28. https://doi.org/10.32832/astonjadro.v14i1.17233.
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This study examines the resilience and adaptation of the production of space in Sanur Traditional Village, Denpasar, amidst the pressures of tourism development. As tourism has become a key economic sector in Bali, traditional villages like Sanur face significant challenges in maintaining their socio-cultural identity while adapting to rapid changes. Using Henri Lefebvre's theory of the production of space as a conceptual framework, this research explores how Sanur negotiates between preserving traditional spatial practices and accommodating tourism demands. The study employs a qualitative case study approach, utilizing interviews, observations, and document analysis to investigate the dynamics of the production of space in Sanur. The research questions focus on: 1) How tourism development has influenced the production of space in Sanur; 2) Challenges To Traditional Spatial Planning; and 3) What resilience and adaptation strategies have been employed. The novelty of this research lies in its multidimensional approach to understanding spatial resilience in the context of a traditional Balinese village, integrating concepts of the production of space, cultural resilience, and tourism development. Preliminary findings suggest a complex interplay between traditional spatial concepts (e.g., Tri Hita Karana philosophy) and modern tourism-driven spatial transformations. The village demonstrates resilience through innovative spatial practices that balance cultural preservation with economic opportunities. This research contributes to the broader understanding of spatial resilience in traditional communities facing modernization pressures and offers insights for sustainable tourism development policies.
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Shariyeh Hosseininasab, Shazia Hanif, Usman Sami, and Fahimeh Arman. "Shaping Space: The Impact of Socio-cultural Practices on the Spatial Organization of Kharanaq Fort, Yazd, Iran." Journal for Social Science Archives 2, no. 2 (2024): 159–71. https://doi.org/10.59075/jssa.v2i2.51.
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Kharanaq Fort, a historic castle in Yazd, Iran, stands as a testament to the adaptive evolution of spatial organization shaped by centuries of socio-cultural transformation. This study aims to identify the impact of socio-cultural configuration of the community on the formation of the physical structure and the spatial organization of the fortress of Kharanaq village. From this perspective, the study questions whether social construct, cultural patterns and financial conditions have been effective in shaping the physical character of the fort or not, and if so, to what extent it has influenced the architectural characteristic of the fort; A fort that, in addition to its long history, it is also considered as one of the few completely inhabited forts (without a governing system) in Yazd and even Iran. The aim of this research is to introduce a unique example of vernacular architecture in Iran and delve into its deeper socio-cultural context, while addressing the mutual influence of the residents' socio-cultural behaviours and beliefs on the spatial organisation and the architectural characteristics of the fort. The data presented in this study is the result of extensive field works and visits of the village and the fort as well as, historical recourses available about the fort. Drawing on insights from archaeological excavations, field research, historical studies, and critical analysis of available texts, this article concludes that the fort's physical structure—shaped historically through a coherent design centred around a core nucleus—was essentially influenced by underlying social, cultural, and religious principles. Therefore, fully understanding its architecture requires a deep awareness of these guiding concepts, as the physical and conceptual elements are inseparably intertwined.
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Lozynskyi, Roman. "Suburb as a socio-spatial phenomenon and post-socialist city." Human Geography Journal, no. 32 (June 8, 2022): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.26565/2076-1333-2022-32-03.
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The article analyzes the history of the emergence of the socio-spatial phenomenon of the suburbs in the Western world and in Ukraine. A comparison of suburbs in the Soviet Union (with regard to suburban villages, dachas and microraiony) and suburbs in the United States and Canada is presented. An understanding of the suburbs and its architectural / urban planning environment from the perspective of social theory is presented. It was found that the suburbs and their architectural environment were used in the propaganda of the United States and the Soviet Union to produce certain cultural meanings with economic and political consequences. The subtleties of using the concept of the suburbs in the post-socialist context were considered. Based on the main socio-geographical characteristics of suburban areas of Ukrainian cities, it was found that the use of the concept of suburbs requires theoretical analysis in the post-socialist context and its distinction with the concepts of suburbia (direct imitation, written in Ukrainian as “субурбія”) and suburban space (“prymiskyi prostir”). It is argued that the spatial criterion and the criterion of connection with the city (suitable for the allocation of suburban space and suburban area) are insufficient to define the suburbs and do not reflect the complexity of this phenomenon. Important criteria for the allocation of suburbs are also the social status of residents, their daily practices, place and type of employment and leisure activities, which can be summarized as the identity of residents, as well as the type of residential architecture and character of everyday landscapes. It was found that because Ukrainian suburban spaces are eclectic with a mixture of different social classes and housing, retain their rural face with the presence of farming, the concept of peri-urban or rural-urban fringe is a better term to describe the suburban area of post-socialist cities than the suburbs. Only certain parts of the suburban spaces tend to become American style suburbs with a predominance of single-family houses, one social class and car use. The theoretical features of understanding the phenomenon of the suburbs and more successful concepts for its definition in post-socialist conditions are important for the creation of more socially thought-out urban planning documentation and strategy for their development taking into account local characteristics.
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Skogland, Mari Anna Chatarina, and Geir Karsten Hansen. "Change your space, change your culture: exploring spatial change management strategies." Journal of Corporate Real Estate 19, no. 2 (2017): 95–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcre-07-2016-0024.
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Purpose The purpose of the paper is to explore the use of, and challenges associated with, spatial change management strategies. This is done through a discussion on how spatial environments may be utilised to effect organisational change. The intention is to provoke new thinking on physical change initiatives and to challenge the often highly deterministic view on the effects of contemporary workspace concepts. Design/methodology/approach The paper is structured as a case study-based literature review, drawing on literature from the fields of environmental psychology, organisational branding, corporate real estate and facility management, as well as organisational change management. Findings The study indicates that space management strategies may fail because of the lack of understanding of how organisational events and other contextually specific aspects correlate with the physical change initiative. Succeeding with the spatial strategy requires a strong focus on socio-material relationships and the employee meaning-making process during the spatial change process. Originality/value Contrary to the traditional and rational focus on functional space management strategies, the paper takes a socio-material approach suggesting that there is a need for more empirically based research into the employee meaning-making process and the role of human and organisational practices in the development of new workplace concepts. Focusing on how organisational members understand and “make use of” spatial environments may substantially improve organisations and building consultants’ abilities to strategically manage the physical change initiative and achieve the intended ends.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Socio-Spatial concepts and practices"
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Moalosi, Richie. "The impact of socio-cultural factors upon human-centred design in Botswana." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2007. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/16353/1/Richie_Moalosi_Thesis.pdf.
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This thesis explores the relationship between culture and human-centred design in Botswana, a topic on which there is little previous research. The pinnacle of good product innovation is when it is grounded on sensitive cultural analysis of users' culture; however, it has been observed that designers have not yet been able to encode cultural phenomena to the same extent as cognitive and physical human factors. The study develops a theoretical framework of cultural analysis, comparing traditional with contemporary socio-cultural factors that can be applied to designing products. The content analysis method was used to extract and synthesise traditional and contemporary socio-cultural factors from Botswana's cultural sources. An experimental study was undertaken in Botswana to investigate how socio-cultural factors can be integrated in product design, and the participants' challenge was to transfer and apply these into product features that reflect Botswana's culture. This data was analysed using the qualitative method of textual and visual content analysis.
A culture-orientated design model has been proposed to assist designers to consciously integrate culture in their design practice. The framework demonstrates how to specify, analyse and integrate socio-cultural factors in the early stages of the design process by advancing local thought, content and solutions. It advances a new approach to design education, theory, research and practice. It emerged that culture can be used as a resource of information and a source of inspiration for product innovation that connects with users' traditions. The research findings show that culture-orientated products have meaningful content that reflects users' lifestyles as well as providing them with symbolic personal, social and cultural values, and that these aspects facilitate product acceptance.
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Moalosi, Richie. "The impact of socio-cultural factors upon human-centred design in Botswana." Queensland University of Technology, 2007. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/16353/.
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This thesis explores the relationship between culture and human-centred design in Botswana, a topic on which there is little previous research. The pinnacle of good product innovation is when it is grounded on sensitive cultural analysis of users' culture; however, it has been observed that designers have not yet been able to encode cultural phenomena to the same extent as cognitive and physical human factors. The study develops a theoretical framework of cultural analysis, comparing traditional with contemporary socio-cultural factors that can be applied to designing products. The content analysis method was used to extract and synthesise traditional and contemporary socio-cultural factors from Botswana's cultural sources. An experimental study was undertaken in Botswana to investigate how socio-cultural factors can be integrated in product design, and the participants' challenge was to transfer and apply these into product features that reflect Botswana's culture. This data was analysed using the qualitative method of textual and visual content analysis. A culture-orientated design model has been proposed to assist designers to consciously integrate culture in their design practice. The framework demonstrates how to specify, analyse and integrate socio-cultural factors in the early stages of the design process by advancing local thought, content and solutions. It advances a new approach to design education, theory, research and practice. It emerged that culture can be used as a resource of information and a source of inspiration for product innovation that connects with users' traditions. The research findings show that culture-orientated products have meaningful content that reflects users' lifestyles as well as providing them with symbolic personal, social and cultural values, and that these aspects facilitate product acceptance.
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Guéguen, Perrin Anaïs. "BUEN VIVIR ET VIVRE-ENSEMBLE : possitopies d'habitats alter-hégémoniques dans l'Anthropocène : Regards croisés entre des communautés guarani au Brésil et des habitats participatifs en France." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Université Grenoble Alpes, 2024. http://www.theses.fr/2024GRALH009.
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Cette recherche prend source dans le contexte de l'Anthropocène, aujourd'hui fortement marqué par l'héritage d'un système colonial d'exploitation des territoires, et du constat de l'impact des modes de vie modernes sur le système Terre, mettant en risque son habitabilité pour l'ensemble des populations, humaines et autres qu'humaines. Le problème est abordé par l'habitat au sens large, qui, au-delà de l'habitation, inclut partie de l'espace territorial et des espèces qui le composent, permettant à une population spécifique de subvenir à ses besoins matériels et immatériels. Dans ce travail, nous explorons les possibilités de transformer nos modes de vie et d’habiter pour mettre en œuvre les nécessaires transitions sociales et écologiques et pour s'adapter aux changements climatiques, notamment en limitant les impacts de certains modes de vie sur le système Terre.Cette recherche se focalise sur les habitats alter-hégémoniques, qui se positionnent comme d'autres possibles face aux modes d'habiter induits par un système moderne capitaliste tendant à invisibiliser les aspects endogènes de cultures et cultures constructives locales. Pour cela, nous avons donc étudié deux types d'habitats alter-hégémoniques qui présentent des contextes socio-économiques et historiques différents, appartenant aux deux extrémités du système colonial, et induisant des questionnements quant aux revendications actuelles de décolonisation (culturelle, politique, économiques, épistémologiques) : l'habitat des indigènes Guarani au Brésil et les habitats participatifs en France.Plus spécifiquement, cette recherche vise à explorer comment la matérialisation du Buen Vivir et des propositions alternatives dans la production de l'habitat indiquent des pratiques inspiratrices pour s'adapter à l'évolution actuelle et future des écosystèmes qui puissent minimiser l'impact des modes de vie au niveau local et global et contribuer ainsi à l'habitabilité du système Terre.Nous nous appuyons sur la compréhension du Buen Vivir, philosophie de peuples indigènes des Andes, puis sur celle du Nhanderekó, le Buen Vivir des Guarani du Brésil. Dans les habitats guarani, les matérialisation socio-spatiales du Nhanderekó sont identifiées, que ce soit dans l'architecture, l'occupation des territoires ou les systèmes de gouvernance déclinés à différentes échelles. Dans les habitats participatifs en France, nous nous basons sur l'identification de leurs valeurs et modes de gouvernance, pour comprendre comment leurs organisations spatiales contribuent à ces dynamiques qui cherchent également à tisser du lien avec leurs territoires.Nous cherchons à montrer comment, d'un point de vue élargi, ces deux habitats alter hégémoniques présentent des convergences et complémentarités constituant des pistes de réflexion pour penser des habitats propices à des modes de vie en adéquation avec le système Terre. Nous relevons notamment les aspects de collectif et de mutualisation en interne, l'activation des réseaux en externe, l'intergénérationnel et l'éducation, la résilience constructive et alimentaire, la mise en commun des savoir et savoir-faire, entre autres. La prise en compte de ces aspects représente une diversité de pistes à suivre pour envisager de mettre en place de manière effective de nouvelles pratiques endogènes de conception, de production, d'usage de l'habitat vers un mieux vivre ensemble, viabilisé par des gouvernances dynamiques, voire des cosmopolitiques spécifiques à chaque contexte<br>This research is taking place in the context of the Anthropocene, which is today strongly marked by the legacy of a colonial system of territorial exploitation, and by the impact of modern lifestyles on the Earth system, putting its habitability at risk for all populations, both human and non-human. The problem is tackled through habitat in the broadest sense, which, beyond habitation, includes part of the territorial space and the species that make it up, enabling a specific population to meet its material and immaterial needs. In this work, we are exploring the possibilities of transforming our ways of living and inhabiting in order to implement the necessary social and ecological transitions and to adapt to climate change, in particular by limiting the impact of certain lifestyles on the Earth system.This research focuses on alter-hegemonic habitats, which are positioned as possible alternatives to the ways of living induced by a modern capitalist system that tends to invisibilise the endogenous aspects of local cultures and building cultures. To this end, we have studied two types of alter-hegemonic habitat with different socio-economic and historical contexts, belonging to both ends of the colonial system, and raising questions about current demands for decolonisation (cultural, political, economic and epistemological): the habitat of the Guarani indigenous people in Brazil and participatory habitats in France.More specifically, this research aims to explore how the materialisation of Buen Vivir and alternative proposals in habitat production point to inspirational practices for adapting to the current and future evolution of ecosystems that can minimise the impact of lifestyles at local and global level and thus contribute to the habitability of the Earth system.Our approach is based on an understanding of Buen Vivir, the philosophy of the indigenous peoples of the Andes, and Nhanderekó, the Buen Vivir of the Guarani people of Brazil. In the Guarani habitats, the socio-spatial materialisations of the Nhanderekó are identified, whether in the architecture, the occupation of territories or the systems of governance at different scales. In the case of participatory housing in France, we are basing ourselves on the identification of their values and modes of governance, in order to understand how their spatial organisations contribute to these dynamics, which also seek to forge links with their territories.Our aim is to show how, from a broader perspective, these two alter-hegemonic habitats have convergences and complementarities that provide food for thought for designing habitats conducive to lifestyles in tune with the Earth system. In particular, we note the aspects of collective and mutualisation internally, the activation of networks externally, intergenerational and educational aspects, constructive and food resilience, and the pooling of knowledge and know-how, among others. Taking these aspects into account represents a diversity of avenues to follow if we are to envisage effectively implementing new endogenous practices in the design, production and use of housing, with a view to better living together, supported by dynamic governance and even cosmopolitics specific to each context
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Polson, Debra M. "The SCOOT experience : games in place : collaborative interventions in socio-spatial practices." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2013. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/61242/1/Debra_Polson_Thesis.pdf.
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The principal focus of this thesis is the representation of a significant creative practice in relation to the design and installation of the Location-Based Game, SCOOT. This project demonstrates new understandings relating to the contingencies and potentials for transferring positive aspects of digital gameplay to everyday physical environments in an effort to reveal hidden histories and revitalise peoples’ interactions with their local urban spaces.
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Serafimovski, Nikola. "Extension and practical evaluation of the spatial modulation concept." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/7597.
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The spatial modulation (SM) concept combines, in a novel fashion, digital modulation and multiple antenna transmission for low complexity and spectrally efficient data transmission. The idea considers the transmit antenna array as a spatial constellation diagram with the transmit antennas as the constellation points. To this extent, SM maps a sequence of bits onto a signal constellation point and onto a spatial constellation point. The information is conveyed by detecting the transmitting antenna (the spatial constellation point) in addition to the signal constellation point. In this manner, inter-channel interference is avoided entirely since transmission is restricted to a single antenna at any transmission instance. However, encoding binary information in the spatial domain means that the number of transmit antennas must be a power of two. To address this constraint, fractional bit encoded spatial modulation (FBE—SM) is proposed. FBE–SMuses the theory of modulus conversion to facilitate fractional bit rates over time. In particular, it allows each transmitter to use an arbitrary number of transmit antennas. Furthermore, the application of SM in a multi-user, interference limited scenario has never been considered. To this extent, the average bit error rate (ABER) of SM is characterised in the interference limited scenario. The ABER performance is first analysed for the interference-unaware detector. An interference-aware detector is then proposed and compared with the cost and complexity equivalent detector for a single–input multiple–output (SIMO) system. The application of SM with an interference-aware detector results in coding gains for the system. Another area of interest involves using SM for relaying systems. The aptitude of SM to replace or supplement traditional relaying networks is analysed and its performance is compared with present solutions. The application of SM to a fixed relaying system, termed dual-hop spatial modulation (Dh-SM), is shown to have an advantage in terms of the source to destination ABER when compared to the classical decode and forward (DF) relaying scheme. In addition, the application of SM to a relaying system employing distributed relaying nodes is considered and its performance relative to Dh-SM is presented. While significant theoretical work has been done in analysing the performance of SM, the implementation of SM in a practical system has never been shown. In this thesis, the performance evaluation of SM in a practical testbed scenario is presented for the first time. To this extent, the empirical results validate the theoretical work presented in the literature.
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Procter, Lisa. "Children, schooling and emotion : the role of emotion in children's socio-spatial practices at school." Thesis, University of Sheffield, 2014. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/6224/.
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This doctoral thesis documents a collaborative ethnographic study in a junior school setting applying the Social and Emotional Aspects of Learning (SEAL) curriculum - ‘an explicit, structured, whole-curriculum framework and resource for teaching social, emotional and behavioural skills to all pupils’ (DfES 2005, pg. 5). Children’s emotional skills in particular are positioned as a remedy for the mental health problems perceived to be facing contemporary society (Seligman 2005). However, Gillies (2011) has shown how such understandings of emotion in education categorise particular emotions as right or wrong. This, she suggests, works to pathologise the emotional lives of children (Gillies 2011). In response, Kenway and Youdall (2011) call for a move towards a ‘socio-cultural-spatial analysis of emotion ... [that] ... allows us to engage with emotion in new ways’ (pg. 132). Like Kenway and Youdell (2011) I have found that few educational studies make links between space. place and emotionality, and particularly from children’s perspectives. The thesis develops a socio-spatial lens in order to foreground a definition of emotion as the meanings that people make of affective experiences and productions in relation to particular contexts. In this thesis I am interested in children’s meaning-making and how this is influenced by the school setting. The thesis is divided in two intersecting volumes. Volume A documents how I have developed a methodology for researching emotion from children’s perspectives and Volume B presents a series of vignettes that capture children’s meaning-making. The methodological approach was foregrounded by a concept of emplacement (Pink 2009), which considers place (which is considered to be emotionally textured) as dynamic and socially produced. This perspective attends to the ways that children are both shaped by and shape the emotional landscapes of schooling. In line with this theoretical lens I co-developed arts-orientated methodologies with a group of nine children (aged 9 and 10) to examine the social and spatial dimensions of emotion, such as den-building, film-making and scrapbooks. To reflect the way that the research design shapes research findings, the thesis is designed in a way that supports the reader to make choices about how they move between these two volumes. In doing so I also intend for the reader to construct their own understandings as they navigate the thesis, in order to reflect the subjective and unfolding nature of the research process. The design of the thesis also reflects the complexities of capturing the intersectional nature of the material and immaterial in children’s constructions of emotion, it shows how different moments in children’s school lives are intertwined in the social production of emotional landscapes. In essence this doctoral study aims to show how a socio-spatial analysis of emotion enables alternative (by this I mean moving away from a ‘skills’ orientated perspective) and productive ways of thinking about emotion to enter into educational settings and educational research.
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Abou, El Fadl Bassma. "A performative space: socio-spatial practices in Tahrir Square during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011." Thesis, IMT Alti Studi Lucca, 2014. http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/152/1/Aboudelfadl_phdthesis.pdf.
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The occupation of public squares during the Arab Spring in 2011 across the Middle East and North Africa have revealed new layers of complex practices of liberation used to counter the strategies of the regime’s security apparatus. There emerged a need to critically detect and analyse the spatial practices of the liberated spaces as forms of sustained resistance that facilitated political gains. During the 18 days of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, public space, long neglected, again became a political domain that witnessed unusual spatial practices and a contested terrain for society, in sum, a space for protest and resistance for the entire population of Cairo. This research shall focus on Tahrir Square in Cairo as ‘space of politics’ during the eighteen days long Egyptian Revolution, i.e., from Jan 25 till Feb 11 2011. The aim of the research is to investigate how socio-spatial practices transformed public space from being a congested traffic hub into an active and animated space for resistance that was equally accessible to different factions, social strata, media outlets, and urban social groupings, as determined by popular cultures and social responsibilities. It advances our knowledge on the way social movements manipulate, manage and occupy vast urban spaces with great flexibility and autonomous spatial tactics. Tahrir Square was reproduced, in a process of “space adaptation,”1 to accommodate forms of social organization and administration. This adaptation of space embedded spatial patterns of activities and practices from the earliest days, all of which shall be described and classified by the research through a frame structure.
This research investigates the physical appearance of democratic performance in public space through acts of resistance over a delineated space from three-years of socio-spatial fieldwork and spatio-political research. The thesis employs an inter-disciplinary case study methodology comprising of two phases – descriptive explanatory and exploratory – to investigate the change in socio-spatial practices and dynamics of urban space. In this research, an interactive representation of narratives will be presented in order to address the complexity of the problem, i.e., the integration of architectural, social, political, historical, and spatial materials to construct a multi-layered analysis and significant account. Diverse research methods are utilized, such as: the collection of historical background data of space, contemporary reports, unstructured interviews with 50 involved actors, documented narratives, and direct observations. Through undertaking analytical surveys and decoding of information of the events, a systematic classification of socio-spatial patterns and distribution of activities of daily intervals through the five main themes was generated. This research presents a matrix of analytical maps tracing the five main themes: hospitalization and emergency support, living and life needs supplies, media and news display, prayers and ritual practices, and art and freedom of expression. This matrix is a tool with which to display conflict over space, and explicitly, how Tahrir Square was re-conceptualized. In doing so, this thesis deploys innovative ways to highlight social practices that spatially occupied a significant part of downtown Cairo and how changes occurred over the time. Studying the evidence of each theme separately, the dynamics and changing location of activities and rational processes of management can be systematically analyzed and the complexity of the performative space understood. The physical space, hence, became a socio-spatial sphere that is adjustable, flexible domain of human praxis rather than a rigid physical container of human actors.
Thus, this approach proposes a new perspective for looking at the recent uprisings and revolts in public squares through tracing their dynamics and socio-spatial practices. This can be useful in understanding similar cases of uprisings and suggests the value of further research into the process of re-conceptualization of public space. The research presented here, and it is supporting methodology, developed as a way to capture the values and capacities that are in play during such particular ‘spatial of revolt’. The thesis is a valuable addition to literature on the understanding of qualities of, human interaction with urban spaces, and their political role in the contemporary city. It has potential application for activists, public space occupiers, planners, architects, anthropologists, theorists and dictators or governments seeking to control urban unrest.
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Sé, Marília Reis. "Práticas socioespaciais no espaço urbano: reflexões cruzadas entre o Baixo Augusta-São Paulo/Brasil e a Alameda de Hércules-Sevilha/Espanha." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/102/102132/tde-03092018-100300/.
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O presente trabalho propõe a reflexão sobre as práticas socioespaciais enquanto manifestações espaciais e sociais de praticantes, considerando a interação entre os mesmos e entre eles e o espaço urbano. Por meio da observação de dois objetos empíricos distintos o Baixo Augusta - São Paulo/Brasil e a Alameda de Hércules Sevilha/Espanha, enquanto espaços urbanos em transformação e manchas de ócio e lazer , são feitas, inicialmente, reflexões cruzadas teóricas e análises da conformação urbana e histórica de cada um. Em seguida, analisam-se suas atuais configurações a partir das práticas socioespaciais observadas. Para tanto, emprega-se uma abordagem entre escalas e um método experimental, a fim de construir um olhar que busque tornar visíveis aspectos e processos que não se refiram somente a contextos urbanos particulares, mas que também permitam a abordagem de aspectos da cidade contemporânea de modo amplo. Como resultado destas análises, foram elaboradas cartografias socioespaciais capazes de revelar as urbanidades de cada um deles, permitindo-se leituras individuais e conjuntas.<br>The present work proposes the reflection on socio-spatial practices as spatial and social manifestations of practitioners, considering the interaction between them and between them and the urban space. By observing two distinct empirical objects - the Baixo Augusta - São Paulo / Brazil and the Alameda de Hércules - Seville / Spain, as urban spaces in transformation and spots of leisure and leisure - are initially made , theoretical cross-reflections and analysis of the urban and historical conformation of each one. Then, their current configurations are analyzed based on the observed socio-spatial practices. In order to do so, an approach between scales and an experimental method is employed in order to construct a look that seeks to make visible aspects and processes that do not refer only to particular urban contexts, but that also allow the approach of aspects of the contemporary city of mode. As a result of these analyzes, socio-spatial cartographies capable of revealing the urbanities of each of them were developed, allowing individual and joint readings.
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McEwan, Shonagh. ""You don't have to see it to tee it" : an exploration of socio-spatial practices in blind golf." Thesis, University of Edinburgh, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1842/24940.
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Examining emerging themes from the data, the thesis discusses personal and organisational journeys into blind golf. The impact of less tangible barriers, particularly disabling attitudes, on the player’s experiences of access to, and sense of inclusion in, golf are explored. I argue that barriers are embedded in the ‘everyday’ encounters in the golfing landscape between blind and sighted people. Although the golfers have accessed their chosen sport, this participation remains an unequal and disabling experience. The thesis moves from considerations of the golfers’ relationships with (sighted) others predominantly out with blind golf, to the inter-personal relationships between players (blind golfer) and their guide (sighted person). The need for a guide raises key issues connected to disability and feminist debates surrounding the social relations of help. I focus on the way in which help is given and experienced from the perspectives of the player. The thesis then considers the processes through which identities as ‘blind golfers’ take shape within the spaces of blind golf. It demonstrates how the golfers actively mediate their own identities and relationships in blind golf. Identifying, or being identified, as a ‘blind golfer’ is not intrinsically negative yet can be fraught with contradictions. I therefore argue for a more nuanced understanding of blind identities. In conclusion, the thesis suggests that examining subjective experiences of disability allows perspectives on disability to shift from socio-spatial structures to socio-spatial practices. This approach greatly enriches discussion of processes of inclusion and exclusion in relation to disability.
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Baldwin, Tammy Katherine. "Spatial Ability Development in the Geosciences." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/249233.
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We designed an experiment to evaluate change in students' spatial skills as a result of specific interventions. Our test subjects included high school students in earth science classes, college level non-science majors enrolled in large enrollment introductory geoscience courses and introductory level geoscience students. All students completed spatial tests to measure their ability to mentally rotate three-dimensional objects and to construct a three-dimensional object from a two-dimensional representation. Results show a steady improvement in spatial skills for all groups. They also indicate that students choosing science majors typically have much higher spatial skills as they enter college. Specific interventions to improve spatial skills included having a subgroup of the non-science majors and high school students complete a suite of Geographic Information System (GIS) activities. The intervention at the high school level was more extensive and resulted in significant improvements in both categories of spatial ability. At the college level, the non-science majors that received the intervention showed no significant difference from those that did not, probably because the time spent on the intervention was too short. The geoscience majors had nearly three times the improvement of non-science majors in both categories of spatial ability attributed to hands-on weekly laboratory experiences. These results reveal a wide range of abilities among all groups of students, and suggest that we evaluate teaching strategies in all courses to ensure that students can interpret and understand the visual imagery used in lectures.
Books on the topic "Socio-Spatial concepts and practices"
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IGU Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces, ed. Local food systems in old industrial regions: Concepts, spatial context and local practices. Ashgate, 2012.
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Haan, Henk de. Landscape, leisure and tourism: Socio-spatial studies in experiences, practices and policies. Edited by Duim René van der. Eburon, 2008.
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Mareis, Claudia, Moritz Greiner-Petter, and Michael Renner, eds. Critical by Design? transcript Verlag, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839461044.
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In its constructive and speculative nature, design has the critical potential to reshape prevalent socio-material realities. At the same time, design is inevitably normative, if not often violent, as it stabilises the past, normalises the present, and precludes just and sustainable futures. The contributions rethink concepts of critique that influence the field of design, question inherent blind spots of the discipline, and expand understandings of what critical design practices could be. With contributions from design theory, practice and education, art theory, philosophy, and informatics, »Critical by Design?« aims to question and unpack the ambivalent tensions between design and critique.
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Monika, Böck, and Rao Aparna, eds. Culture, creation, and procreation: Concepts of kinship in South Asian practice. Berghahn Books, 2000.
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Tunström, Moa. Socioekologisk stadsutveckling: Begrepp och lokal praktik = Socio-ecological urban development : concepts and local practice. Arkitektur Förlag, 2015.
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ZhURAVLEV, ANATOLIY, VYaChESLAV SOSNIN, DZhUL'ETTA KITOVA, YuLIYa KOVALEVA, ALEKSANDR SMIRNOV, and VLADISLAV YuREVICh. Psychology of geopolitical relations: concepts, factors, technologies. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2025. https://doi.org/10.12737/2137944.
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The textbook is devoted to the study of the psychological aspects of geopolitical relations in the modern world. The main focus is on the transformation of subjects of geopolitical relations, in particular large social groups. The aim of the work was to conduct a comprehensive analysis of current socio-psychological problems within the framework of the formation of geopolitical psychology as a new scientific field and to determine its place in the structure of global psychology. A brief methodological and conceptual-terminological analysis of geopolitics as a scientific discipline and political practice in their connection with the problems of social psychology is presented, the possibilities of psychological science in the study of geopolitical processes and their management are revealed. The psychological determinants of the formation of large social groups, information-psychological, socio-economic and socio-demographic factors of geopolitical interaction are considered. It is recommended for students of psychology faculties of all specialties in the field of higher education 37.00.00 "Psychological Sciences", specialists in related fields of science, as well as a wide range of readers who are interested in the problems of political psychology, political science and global studies.
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Nevskiy, Sergey, Aleksandr Hudokormov, Mihail Pokidchenko, et al. The history of the concept of social market economy in Germany. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1703180.
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The monograph traces the history of the development of German neoliberal economic thought from the origins of the Freiburg School in the 1930s to the first results of the practical implementation of the concept of a social market economy in West Germany in the late 1940s-early 1960s. The author demonstrates the broad historical context of the development of German ideas about the theory and practice of the policy of order (Ordnungstheorie und Ordnungspolitik), shows the features of the formation and spread of the scientific and intellectual economic tradition in Germany, as well as beyond its borders, starting with the birth of the German historical school and the perception of its heritage by Russian socio-economic thought in the second half of the XIX — early XX century and ending with the practical implementation of the concept of order of the Freiburg school and the correlation of its ideological and spiritual and moral foundations with the social teaching of Catholicism and liberalism of Friedrich von Hayek. Special attention is paid to some controversial issues of the formation of the theory of ordoliberalism during the period of national socialism and the problems of the social market economy in modern Germany.
 The book is intended to fill the shortage of specialized scientific literature on relevant issues and to acquaint the Russian reader, primarily students, teachers and researchers, with the variety of ideological and scientific-theoretical foundations of the socio-economic system of the post-war Germany.
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Sachuk, Tat'yana. Territorial marketing: theory and practice. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. https://doi.org/10.12737/2062425.
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The textbook presents the modern concept of territorial administration. The main issues of territorial marketing are considered: the marketing environment of the territory, the subjects and the complex of means of implementing territorial marketing, consumer behavior, macro- and micro-segmentation, differentiation and competitiveness of the territory, positioning and branding of the territory, etc. The textbook reflects such categories as public benefit, local community, cultural, social and symbolic capitals of the territory, tourist destination, institutions of territorial development, etc. The process of client-oriented strategic planning of socio-economic development of the territory based on territorial marketing is presented. The process of organizing and managing territorial marketing is shown. Specific examples of territorial marketing of a country, region, municipality, or locality are given. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. Designed for bachelors studying in the field of "State and municipal management", it will be useful for masters and postgraduates of the field of training "Management in state and municipal management", as well as marketers, entrepreneurs, communication managers, urbanists, specialists in the field of strategic management — anyone who solves issues of complex socio-economic development of the territory of various scale.
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Dibazar, Pedram, and Judith Naeff, eds. Visualizing the Street. Amsterdam University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462984356.
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From user-generated images of streets to professional architectural renderings, and from digital maps and drone footages to representations of invisible digital ecologies, this collection of essays analyses the emergent practices of visualizing the street. Today, advancements in digital technologies of the image have given rise to the production and dissemination of imagery of streets and urban realities in multiple forms. The ubiquitous presence of digital visualizations has in turn created new forms of urban practice and modes of spatial encounter. Everyone who carries a smartphone not only plays an increasingly significant role in the production, editing and circulation of images of the street, but also relies on those images to experience urban worlds and to navigate in them. Such entangled forms of image-making and image-sharing have constructed new imaginaries of the street and have had a significant impact on the ways in which contemporary and future streets are understood, imagined, documented, navigated, mediated and visualized. Visualizing the Street investigates the social and cultural significance of these new developments at the intersection of visual culture and urban space. The interdisciplinary essays provide new concepts, theories and research methods that combine close analyses of street images and imaginaries with the study of the practices of their production and circulation. The book covers a wide range of visible and invisible geographies — From Hong Kong’s streets to Rio’s favelas, from Sydney’s suburbs to London’s street markets, and from Damascus’ war-torn streets to Istanbul’s sidewalks — and engages with multiple ways in which visualizations of the street function to document street protests and urban change, to build imaginaries of urban communities and alternate worlds, and to help navigate streetscapes.
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Gorohov, Pavel. Social and philosophical theories in German Idealism. INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2024. https://doi.org/10.12737/2049713.
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The textbook not only introduces the reader to the socio-philosophical theories in German idealism, but also gives an overall picture of the ideological, spiritual and ideological connections of the classics of German philosophy with the German culture of that great epoch and its representatives. It is shown how the ideas and concepts of the great Germans were transformed in our complex and contradictory era not only in the philosophical and political-legal concepts of modernity, but also found expression in everyday political practice. The main task of the manual is to show the inextricable genetic connection between the ideas of German idealism and the spiritual life of modern humanity. The problems covered include topical issues of the socio-philosophical heritage of not only I. Kant, I.G. Fichte, F.W.J. Schelling, G.V.F. Hegel, but also other, less well-known, but by no means minor philosophers who worked in the same time period as the classics of German philosophical thought. The textbook is provided with educational and methodological materials. Meets the requirements of the latest generation of federal state standards of higher education. For students studying in the field of Philosophy.
Book chapters on the topic "Socio-Spatial concepts and practices"
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Richmond, Matthew, and Moisés Kopper. "Walling the peripheries: porous condominiums at Brazil’s urban margins." In Embodying Peripheries. Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-661-2.04.
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This chapter discusses a widespread but underexplored phenomenon in Brazilian cities: the growing presence of walls and other security infrastructures in low-income, peripheral neighborhoods. This practice can often take the form of bounded and internally regulated regimes of residential organization at a hyper-local scale, associated with the emic term condomínio (condominium). The authors propose the concept of “walling” to theorize the practices of socio-material assembly through which peripheral condominiums emerge, driven by the efforts of urban subjects to reconstruct a sense of well-being within environments experienced as precarious and insecure. While walling can significantly reshape socio-spatial relationships and everyday flows of bodies, the authors argue that broader social conditions and relationships in peripheries tend to promote forms of spatial and temporal porosity that weaken or even undermine these regimes of self-segregation. The chapter explores varying dynamics of peripheral condominiums through the presentation of contrasting case studies from three different Brazilian cities: a recently completed Minha Casa Minha Vida (My House My Life) public housing project in Porto Alegre; a partially walled and symbolically partitioned favela in Rio de Janeiro; and an occupied and subsequently formalized public housing project in São Paulo.
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Amaturo, Enrica, and Ciro Clemente De Falco. "Traces and Algorithms as Socio-digital Objects." In Frontiers in Sociology and Social Research. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11756-5_18.
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AbstractThe growing masses of digital traces generated by the datafication process make the algorithms that manage them increasingly central to contemporary society.There is widespread agreement in considering traces and algorithms as complex objects that intertwine social and material practices with their own cultural, historical, and institutional nature (Halford et al., 2010).Accordingly, given this strong intertwining between the social world and the digital world that is formed by material and technological objects, it becomes possible to consider the algorithms and traces as socio-digital objects. For this reason, this article aims to identify the features that allow us to frame them as socio-digital objects starting from concepts borrowed from the actor-network theory (Latour and Woolgar 1879). In particular, we will first discuss opacity, authority and autonomy concepts and then see how those features emerge in digital geographical traces.
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Pham, Long H., Huong T. Bui, Huong H. Do, and Thomas E. Jones. "Ecotourism in forests and protected areas." In Vietnam tourism: policies and practices. CABI, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789242782.0006.
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Abstract This chapter offers an overview of ecotourism in forest-protected areas in Vietnam from theoretical concepts and historical evolution of forest conservation to the current structure of governance and management of forest resources and the economic and socio-cultural perspectives of forest resources ecotourism and ecotourists. Differentiated from conventional approaches using cases or empirical research focus on particular sites, the current study systematically analyses national policies and practices of ecotourism in national parks and protected areas (PAs). The review synthesizes existing studies published on various channels in and outside the country and numerous government reports and research conducted by NGOs on ecotourism, PAs and forest conservation. The analysis pertinent in this chapter, however, excludes marine-based ecotourism, which is covered in a separate chapter.
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Kolb, Gila, Juuso Tervo, and Kevin Tavin. "Introduction: It’s All Over! Post-digital, Post-internet Art and Education." In Post-Digital, Post-Internet Art and Education. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73770-2_1.
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AbstractThis chapter introduces the concepts of post-digital and post-internet by discussing the practices of the different technologies connected with the internet that are constantly changing, and the individuals, groups, and objects that practice with them. Post-digital and post-internet art and education is explored as a process that intervenes deeply in the world and self-relations, by changing subject configurations, identities, memory practices, social networks, ways and means of communication, as well as critical references to culture. This chapter also investigates art and education as a way of taking the present and future seriously, starting from the radically changed socio-technological conditions and its consequences.
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Igbadun, H. E., O. A. Ojeleye, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, and O. Cofie. "Sustainable Intensification of Mixed Farming System in West Africa: Concepts, Practices, and Challenges." In Enhancing Water and Food Security Through Improved Agricultural Water Productivity. Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-1848-4_7.
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Abstract Sustainable intensification (SI) is a system of production that increases output without causing significant environmental damage. It focusses on enhancing agricultural land production while managing its environmental impact. Evaluation frameworks have evolved to include non-environmental aspects, such as social concerns, economics, and the human condition. Agricultural sustainability assessment now uses indicator frameworks, which are structured into five domains: productivity, economic, environment, the human condition, and social domains. Mixed farming systems (MFS) is an approach to sustainable agriculture where farmers produce crops and animals in the same location under the same ownership. MFS provides enough food for consumers and income for farmers while ensuring soil fertility, biodiversity, and pest control. Several characterizations and typologies of MFS in West Africa have been identified, but the level of development varies due to farmers’ preferences. Despite the benefits of MFS, socio-economic factors, such as skills and competencies, the role of the agricultural knowledge and innovation system, the economy, and the policy environment, pose major challenges and obstacles to its growth in West Africa.
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Schmidt, Hannah. "Theorizing Socio-Spatial Practices." In Weaving the Camp. Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-41650-8_2.
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Bettinger, Patrick. "Digital Materiality and Subjectivation: Methodological Aspects of Hybrid Entanglements in Processes of Bildung." In Palgrave Studies in Educational Media. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84343-4_6.
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AbstractThis chapter explores possible connections among discourse analysis, materiality and biographical research in the context of subjectivation. The extant methodological/epistemological concepts linking the Foucauldian idea of discourse with biographical research do not provide clear openings for the incorporation of materiality, specifically those in digital form. This chapter proposes an adapted, modified approach to the analysis of material-discursive practices to the end of investigating the materiality and mediality of relationally understood processes of Bildung. In so doing, it identifies a need for a post-anthropocentric understanding of the biographical that focuses on the variety of socio-medial relational reconfigurations.
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Han, Jiawen. "Can Public Space System Functions Succeed Across Boundaries? A Comparative Study of the Urban Planning Practices in Suzhou Industrial Park and Singapore." In Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering. Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-4749-1_24.
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Abstract Since the 1960s, Singapore’s Housing and Development Board (HDB) has gradually established a comprehensive, hierarchical planning system for housing and public space in high-density residential areas. In the late 1990s, Suzhou Industrial Park (SIP) began to draw on Singapore’s planning experience, absorbed certain planning concepts, and attempted to build up its urban model in China. The spatial practice and conceptual translation from Singapore to the SIP warrants reflection on the differences and issues in the two planning and urban management contexts. This article first investigates the issues in that translation when the planning concepts in Singapore (e.g. neighbourhood and precinct) were translated into Chinese planning contexts, in which some translations were made based on literal meanings without intricate mapping from one context to the other. Through fieldwork and policy mapping between the two places, the research further highlights the precincts and gated communities that have been neglected in comparing the two systems as an essential urban unit in making the spatial ductility and urban connectivity of public spaces in the hierarchy of Singapore difficult to achieve in the SIP. The investigation into the neighbourhood centres and void deck spaces in the SIP as transferable concepts from Singapore also found that more large-scale, multifunctional, centralised small shopping malls have been increasingly planned in recent years, such that everyday public spaces close to ordinary life are in danger of shrinkage. This article points out the trend for constructing centralised neighbourhood centres should be revisited, and the priority should be made to create a fluid urban system with public spaces connecting to each other.
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De Meulder, Bruno, Julie Marin, and Kelly Shannon. "Evolving Relations of Landscape, Infrastructure and Urbanization Toward Circularity: Flanders and Vietnam." In Regenerative Territories. Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78536-9_6.
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AbstractA great deal of the contemporary discourse around circularity revolves around waste—the elimination of waste (and wastelands) through recycling, renewing and reuse (3Rs). In line with industrial ecological thinking, the discourse often focuses on resource efficiency and the shift toward renewables. The reconstitution of numerous previous ecologies is at most a byproduct of the deliberate design of today’s cyclic systems. Individual projects are often heralded for their innovative aspects (both high- and low-tech) and the concept has become popularly embraced in much of the Western world. Nevertheless, contemporary spatial circularity practices appear often to be detached from their particular socio-cultural and landscape ecologies. There is an emphasis on performative aspects and far too often a series of normative tools create cookie-cutter solutions that disregard locational assets—spatial as well as socio-cultural. The re-prefix is evident for developed economies and geographies, but not as obvious in the context of rapidly transforming and newly urbanizing territories. At the same time, the notion of circularity has been deeply embedded in indigenous, pre-modern and non-Western worldviews and strongly mirrored in historic constellations of urban, rural and territorial development. This contribution focuses on two contexts, Flanders in Belgium and the rural highlands, the Mekong Delta and Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, which reveal that in spite of the near-universal prevalence of the Western development paradigm, there are fundamentally different notions of circularity in history and regarding present-day urbanization. Historically, in both contexts, the city and its larger territory formed a social, economic and ecological unity. There was a focus is on the interdependent development of notions of circularity in the ever-evolving relations of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization. In the development of contemporary circularity, there are clear insights that can be drawn from the deep understandings of historic interdependencies and the particular mechanisms and typologies utilized. The research questions addressed are in line with territorial ecology’s call to incorporate socio-cultural and spatial dimensions when trying to understand how territorial metabolisms function (Barles, Revue D’économie Régionale and Urbaine:819–836, 2017). They are as follows: how can case studies from two seemingly disparate regions in the world inform the present-day wave of homogenized research on circularity? How can specific socio-cultural contexts, through their historical trajectories, nuance the discourse and even give insights with regard to broadened and contextualized understandings of circularity? The case studies firstly focus on past site-specific cyclic interplays between landscape, infrastructure and urbanization and their gradual dissolution into linearity. Secondly, the case studies explicitly focus on multi-year design research projects by OSA (Research Urbanism and Architecture, KU Leuven), which underscore new relations of landscape, infrastructure and urbanization and emphasize the resourcefulness of the territory itself. The design research has been elaborated in collaboration with relevant stakeholders and experts and at the request of governmental agencies.
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Mise, Svjetlana, and Carmelina Bevilacqua. "Planning for Sustainability: A New Unit of Spatial Planning for Driving Transition." In Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems. Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34211-0_7.
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AbstractThe health and climate crisis are calling for an urgent re-evaluation of concepts such as resilience and sustainability and how we measure and implement them, sifting the debate towards the role urban design and planning play in driving urban transitions. Recent studies have been introduced to investigate the dynamics of the pandemic in urban areas and the ample literature on tools and methods for measuring vulnerabilities. The paper calls for a need to re-scale urban planning down to a human level by bridging space syntax attributes with measures of resilience. It introduces a data and evidence-based approach framework for driving urban transitions utilizing risk assessment (National Risk Index) and a vulnerability measuring index (City Resilience Index) to quantify spatial attributes which foster sustainable practices. A scenario testing method is proposed to make urban design more consistent with the strategic mission of urban planning driving resilience and transition.
Conference papers on the topic "Socio-Spatial concepts and practices"
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Tiutiunnyk, Hanna. "Semantic Analysis of the Concept of “Aquafood System”." In 8th International Congress "Environment Protection. Energy Saving. Sustainable Environmental Management". Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2025. https://doi.org/10.4028/p-esc1gn.
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This article explores the evolving concept of the "aquafood system", a term that encompasses the production, distribution, and consumption of aquatic products while prioritizing sustainability and food security. The paper provides a comprehensive semantic analysis to clarify the role of this term in both Ukrainian and global contexts, emphasizing its relevance amid rising aquaculture activities and the pressing need for food security. Recognizing the diversity and complexity of aquafood systems, the author employs latent semantic analysis (LSA) to dissect its underlying dimensions – ecological, economic, technological, and socio-political. Through extensive literature review and empirical data, the study identifies key thematic components such as resilience, economic efficiency, and inclusivity.This research reveals significant connections between aquafood systems and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly in fostering climate resilience and promoting socio-economic equity. Methodologically, the study integrates conceptual, comparative, and discourse analysis to highlight how the term "aquafood system" shapes management strategies across scientific, political, and social realms. The findings underscore the importance of inclusive policies and technological innovation to support small-scale producers, strengthen resilience, and reduce inequalities.Concluding with a call for more precise definitions and interdisciplinary approaches, the article contributes to advancing the theoretical and practical understanding of aquafood systems, supporting policymakers and stakeholders in developing resilient and sustainable food systems. Future research is recommended to further refine the concept and explore actionable frameworks for managing aquafood systems in alignment with international standards and SDGs.
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Voronkova, Valentyna, Roman Oleksenko, Vitalina Nikitenko, Vladyslav Pyurko, and Olga Pyurko. "DEVELOPMENT OF AGROECOLOGY IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBAL RISKS AND OPPORTUNITIES." In 24th SGEM International Multidisciplinary Scientific GeoConference 2024. STEF92 Technology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5593/sgem2024/5.1/s20.11.
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The purpose of the article is to develop a concept of agroecology development in the context of global risks and opportunities. Research methodology. Using the methods of system analysis, impact modelling and economic assessment of the environment, the ways of implementing agroecological methods, in particular, environmental, economic and socio-cultural impact, are considered. Research results. 1. An analysis of agroecology as an interaction between agricultural production and the natural environment with the aim of creating sustainable and efficient agroecosystems is presented. 2. The concept of agroecology as a resource base for agricultural production and reduction of the ecological footprint in the context of global risks and opportunities is formed. The scientific novelty of the study is that it analyses the functions of agroecology as an interaction between agricultural production and the natural environment, identifies advantages and disadvantages, opportunities for sustainable development and minimisation of negative environmental impact; considers elements of the social content of the concept of agroecology. These concepts, scientists and trends are combined to create an integrated approach to agriculture that not only ensures the production of products, but also preserves the natural environment, promotes social justice and ensures the sustainability of agroecosystems. The practical significance of the study is that it aims to identify key challenges and opportunities for the further development of agroecology in the context of global environmental security and sustainable agricultural production. The implementation of these concepts can help to address the challenges associated with the destruction of biodiversity, soil degradation and water pollution in modern agriculture.
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O'Connor, Kate, and Michelle Pannone. "Using Socio Spatial Practices to Create the Citizen Architect." In 2023 ACSA/EAAE Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2023.35.
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The community of Idlewild, located in Yates Township, Michigan, United States, possesses a significant history as the largest historic African American resort community created during the Jim Crow Era. Established in 1912, it thrived for more than fifty years but declined in 1964, with the passing of the Civil Rights Act. Listed in the Green Book, the historical impor¬tance of Idlewild was recognized at the time as a safe space for African Americans to vacation during the segregation era. At a time when African Americans were systematically pushed to the margins of society, Idlewild was viewed as a place where the luminaries of the black community could safely gather and discuss issues of vital collective interest. With a history of vacillation, today, Idlewild is experiencing a measured resur¬gence in its re-population. and has begun to revitalize, with a new influx of full-time residents. These citizens are moving to Idlewild looking for work-life balance in a rural context as a result of societal factors such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matters Movement and most importantly, seeking residency in a historically safe African American community. Notably, this incoming population resides within infrastruc¬ture that was originally designated for seasonal residents, resulting in a new set of needs for community sustainment. The community’s current needs are twofold: first, significant changes to the system that support full-time residents and second, progress that will respect and revive the historical origins of Idlewild. As an African American community discrim¬inatory infrastructure impedes the ability of the community to thrive, and prevents the support required for a robust quality of life. Local systemic change is required, beginning primarily at the township level. Significant concerns include rural tourism, worker retention, cooperative economics, and local living, among other considerations. Recognizing the need to rectify these burgeoning issues, the Yates Township Board approved the pursuit of development of a Strategic Plan. Overarching Outcomes of the approved Strategic Plan were twofold: first, the township grows strate¬gically with prosperity impacting the township’s year-round residents and tourism, and second, the township celebrates and promotes Idlewild as a nationally historic African American cultural community. This paper will focus on the process and introduce the projects of the Ferris State University fourth-year Small Town Studio as they worked with stakeholders in the Idlewild community and aligned their designs with the needs of the client and the newly Overarching Outcomes implemented in the Strategic Plan. This studio is designed to address challenges that archi¬tects face in the field in its social and environmental context. Students research and analyze existing conditions and client needs, define project requirements, and develop macro-level schematic solutions based on input and feedback of a client community. Emphasis is placed on the analysis, process, and synthesis of architectural problems and their solutions.
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Welihinda, R. H., S. Gunatilake, D. Weerasooriya, and I. W. M. A. D. Ilangakoon. "Circular economy as a solution for construction demolition waste management in Sri Lanka." In Spatial Dynamics: Envisioning tomorrow’s Design through Advanced Practices. Faculty of Architecture Research Unit, 2024. https://doi.org/10.31705/faru.2024.51.
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Construction industry Demolition Waste (DW) has become a worldwide problem. Unsuitable DW disposal methods, leads to various issues such as scarcity of land resources and pollution, ecological damages, and land depletion. Even though various waste management approaches are applied, the construction industry DW has been increasing day by day. Hence this paper focuses on investigating the currently used DW management concepts and the conditions that need to be present to implement CE concepts for DW management in Sri Lanka. This research aim was addressed using a literature review followed by in-depth semi-structured interviews with 13 experts using the qualitative research approach. Collected data were analysed using code-based content analysis. Findings revealed that disposing of DW is the main concept used in the construction industry in Sri Lanka for most of the materials. Moreover, it was found that three conditions should be satisfied to implement CE concept for DW management in the local context. These are having proper facilities for material separation, good quality of materials, and proper coordination between industries. Construction industry stakeholders can use the research findings in developing suggestions for satisfying the conditions to apply the CE approach and minimize the DW in Sri Lanka.
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de Munnik, Marloes, and Osama Al-Mahdi. "DIGITALLY CHANGING TEACHING PRACTICE ENVIRONMENTS: AN EXPLORATION OF CONCEPTS AND IMPLICATIONS." In International Conference on Education and New Developments. inScience Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36315/2021end050.
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This paper proposes using different concepts for guiding institutional practices in times of digitally changing professional teaching work environments. This paper draws upon our previous research and offers a first step of a framework, to understand and explore the new digital changes for professional teaching and learning practice, while engaging in online and virtual work and learning environments. Thereby focusing on the notion of a professional and the social implications of digital work technologies that are used for teaching and learning. The theoretical paper is structured around concepts we identified in our previous work and its potential of adopting them in the context of digital communities of professional practices. Addressing these objectives can hopefully help us to understand, what the effects of digital professional teaching work environments on teaching practice and for teacher’s professional responsibility are, their social effects in everyday teacher work and their practice related knowledge? What capabilities, features or skills are enabling teachers to do so and what guidelines can help them to cope with the current changes? And ultimately, how workplaces, schools and universities can benefit from these ideas? We focus on both human social factors and digital material factors as being inherent to professional teaching and learning practice. We hereby build upon concepts derived from socio-cultural and socio-material theories which are currently not commonly used in the same context, such as: communities of practice which is popular in socio-cultural learning theories whereby the understanding of human development relies on the social world; and extending the community of practice with materiality whereby human development also involves the material world. We contribute with this paper by suggesting that our framework, drawing on concepts of two different but related learning theories is useful for further research, such as on the institutional and individual response to digital change in teaching and learning practice. We believe that our theoretical informed conceptual approach enables to inform an increased professionality of teaching professionals in times of digital work change, activates thinking about different concepts, a change of mindset or at least provide the guidelines for an improved understanding among those involved in teaching practice.
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Lawanga, P. W. A. H., Y. G. Sandanayake, and K. A. T. O. Ranadewa. "Can business models minimise lean implementation barriers in construction industry? : a systematic literature review." In Spatial Dynamics: Envisioning tomorrow’s Design through Advanced Practices. Faculty of Architecture Research Unit, 2024. https://doi.org/10.31705/faru.2024.38.
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Lean construction (LC) is a strategic concept for eliminating non-value-added activities and striving to increase value delivery in the construction industry. However, various barriers hinder its widespread adoption. To overcome these obstacles, Business Models (BMs) could offer a potential solution to facilitate and enhance the integration of lean principles in the sector. However, there are lack of a study examining how the integration of BMs can minimise the barriers to lean implementation. Therefore, this paper reviews whether can lean construction implementation barriers be minimised through business models in the construction industry. This aim was achieved through a systematic literature review (SLR). An SLR was conducted to identify key themes, trends, and gaps in the existing research. The findings reveal a growing interest in LC and BMs, with a significant increase in publications since the early 2000. The analysis identifies leading countries, research areas, and key keywords in the field. BM publications are concentrated in the United States, China, and Europe, while LC research is more globally distributed. The keyword "barrier" is most prominent, followed by “lean mplementation” and “performance” in “lean construction” research. The central theme of the “business model” connects to concepts like “lean start-up” and “lean management”, highlighting the integration of lean principles focused on efficiency and waste reduction. Overall, the research provides valuable insights into the interplay between LC and BMs, offering guidance for researchers and practitioners striving to increase value delivery in the construction industry
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Grabelnykh, T. I. "Modern threats and challenges as a subject of basic and applied research: a change in concepts and formation of new methodological constatns." In International scientific-practical conference "Threats as a Social Phenomenon in the 21st Century: Methodology, Modern Technologies and Practices for Managing Socio-Economic, Socio-Political and Socio-Demographic Processes in Russia and the World". Publishing House of Irkutsk State University, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.26516/978-5-9624-2034-9.2022.24.
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Hofer, Nina. "Spatial Paradigms in the Travel Park: Sowing the Programmatic Field." In 1995 ACSA International Conference. ACSA Press, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.intl.1995.10.
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This paper attempts to provide a model for meaning by reading the overlay as potential in a banal – if not bizarre – contemporary project: a Chinese theme park in Orlando Florida. Proposed to prospective visitors as “Authentic” it is in fact an extraordinary collision of temporally and culturally distant spatial concepts and building practices. This paper uses an experimental ‘witnessing7 of the park to lay out a series of spacio-conceptual models for travel as power. These range from looking at the theme park as a Chinese propaganda tool, through Bachelard’s concepts of miniaturization and collection, empirical (Chinese) versus theoretical (American) standards for life safety, spatial strategies of 1 lth century Dream Journey Scrolls, and Feng Shui (the art of Placement) The changing nature of architectural practice instigates a movement from building representations of singular architectural ideas to the constructions of more complex ‘programmatic fields.’ We need neither despise nor formally caricature the polyglot programmatic shifts and collisions of our time. This paper takes a hopeful stance, maintaining that the overlay of resonant paradigms provides an opportunity not realized, perhaps, in the existing construction.
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Костакова, И. В. "HARMONIOUS SELF-REALIZATION OF PERSONALITY OF YOUTH STUDENTS DURING THE PERIOD OF STUDYING AT A UNIVERSITY: FROM THEORETICAL BASIS TO SELF-DEVELOPMENT PRACTICES." In Актуальные вопросы развития личности профессионала: идентичность в контексте межкультурной коммуникации: сборник материалов Международного психологического форума. Crossref, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.55000/ipsf.2024.78.50.009.
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В статье уточнены понятия «духовно-нравственные свойства личности», «гармоничная самореализация личности студентов юношеского возраста», определено содержание направлений и практик психологического сопровождения саморазвития гармоничной самореализации при обучении в высшем учебном заведении студентов юношеского возраста. Рассматривается понятие «практика» в контексте развития гармоничной самореализации личности, в качестве ведущих методов определены активные методы социально-психологического обучения и технология «Мастерская самореализации личности студентов юношеского возраста», определены адаптированные формы практик саморазвития как технологии деятельности лабораторий: лаборатории самопознания, лаборатории саморегуляции, дискуссионной лаборатории и лаборатории психологического и (или) социально-психологического театра. Определены психологические закономерности содержания практик становления гармоничной самореализации в развитии субъектности как мотивационно-смысловой сущности действий. Установлены методические положения научно-практического подхода в организации практик гармоничной самореализации личности у студентов юношеского возраста. The article clarifies the concepts of “spiritual and moral properties of the individual”, “harmonious self-realization of the personality of adolescent students”, and defines the content of the directions and practices of psychological support for self-development of harmonious self-realization when studying at a higher educational institution for adolescent students. The concept of “practice” is considered in the context of the development of harmonious self-realization of the individual, active methods of socio-psychological training and the technology “Workshop for self-realization of the personality of adolescent students” are identified as the leading methods, adapted forms of self-development practices are identified as technologies for the activities of laboratories: laboratories of Self-Knowledge, laboratories of Self-Regulation, Discussion laboratory and laboratory of Psychological and (or) Social and Psychological Theater. The psychological regularities of the content of practices for the formation of harmonious self-realization in the development of subjectivity as the motivational and semantic essence of actions are determined. The methodological provisions of the scientific-practical approach in organizing practices of harmonious self-realization of the individual among adolescent students have been established.
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Ćirić, Dragana. "Spatial forensics: Speech of spatial facts, digital investigative methods, proving, and expert argumentation." In Urbana bezbednost i urbani razvoj, Zbornik radova sa trece naucne konferencije, Beograd, 01.07.2024. Univerzitet u Beogradu - Fakultet bezbednosti, Beograd
Univerzitet u Beogradu - Arhitektonski fakultet, Beograd, 2024. https://doi.org/10.5937/ubur24199c.
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The research subject of the study is the forensic research method observed within the integrative field of spatial, architectural and urban design studies and security studies. Initially considered an art of argumentation in public deliverance of proof, forensics in the defined context possesses specificity of speech of the proofs inherent to spatial entities and practices regarding all spatial scales. Thus, in concepts of spatial, urban, and architectural forensics one finds argumentation of spatial entities within the proving procedures for legal and security frameworks. Inside the three-part configuration that Weizman (2017) postulates as a basis of forensic architecture methodology, containing the following: 1) the investigated matter or object, which is made to speak, 2) the interpreter or analyst that translates the language of objects to people, and 3) translation, or the form, content, and way the results are presented to the public or an assembly where claims are made and contested, one recognises 1) the role of space and spatial artefacts as material proofs themselves, as well as objects preserving proofs or their inscriptions, 2) the profession of spatial, architectural, and urban designers and analysts that are able to read and translate the speech of space and spatial artefacts, relying on expert skills to identify relevant facts, and 3) argumentation form - the expertise, professional assessment, or report that will be communicated, corresponding to the dissemination requirements and environment. The stability and disruptions of constitutive elements of the forensic proof triangle will be observed with the aim to theoretically investigate and apply the proposed method, supported by the proving procedure analysis and practice of issuance of an expert opinion. The paper will consider contemporary spatial (architectural and urban) designs and analyses that have contested security aspects, with the support of digital technologies and instruments as means of spatial data acquisition, analysis, processing, and proving.
Reports on the topic "Socio-Spatial concepts and practices"
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Yaremchuk, Olesya. TRAVEL ANTHROPOLOGY IN JOURNALISM: HISTORY AND PRACTICAL METHODS. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11069.
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Our study’s main object is travel anthropology, the branch of science that studies the history and nature of man, socio-cultural space, social relations, and structures by gathering information during short and long journeys. The publication aims to research the theoretical foundations and genesis of travel anthropology, outline its fundamental principles, and highlight interaction with related sciences. The article’s defining objectives are the analysis of the synthesis of fundamental research approaches in travel anthropology and their implementation in journalism. When we analyze what methods are used by modern authors, also called «cultural observers», we can return to the localization strategy, namely the centering of the culture around a particular place, village, or another spatial object. It is about the participants-observers and how the workplace is limited in space and time and the broader concept of fieldwork. Some disciplinary practices are confused with today’s complex, interactive cultural conjunctures, leading us to think of a laboratory of controlled observations. Indeed, disciplinary approaches have changed since Malinowski’s time. Based on the experience of fieldwork of Svitlana Aleksievich, Katarzyna Kwiatkowska-Moskalewicz, or Malgorzata Reimer, we can conclude that in modern journalism, where the tools of travel anthropology are used, the practical methods of complexity, reflexivity, principles of openness, and semiotics are decisive. Their authors implement both for stable localization and for a prevailing transition.
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Davillas, Apostolos. Socio-Economic Inequality in Health. Instats Inc., 2025. https://doi.org/10.61700/mu3tgimcjkxij1425.
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This 2-day online seminar explores the theoretical and practical aspects of measuring socio-economic disparities in health, emphasizing the distinction between inequity and inequality as well as the concept of inequality of opportunity. Through engaging lectures and hands-on sessions in Stata, participants will learn to compute and interpret various health inequality measures—including concentration indices—and assess the impact of measurement errors in both self-reported and objectively measured health data.
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Zeba, Mattia, Roberta Medda-Windischer, Andrea Carlà, and Alexandra Cosima Budabin. Civic Education as Preventive Measure and Inclusionary Practice. Glasgow Caledonian University, 2025. https://doi.org/10.59019/ddzh5n65.
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In the framework of the D.Rad project, WP10 – entitled Civic education as preventive measure and inclusionary practice – seeks to prevent youth radicalisation through civic education and to identify new pedagogical methods and interactive, participatory tools for building pro-social resilience to radical ideologies. We consider as ‘civic education programs’ all those initiatives of instruction that aim at affecting “people’s beliefs, commitments, capabilities, and actions as members or prospective members of communities”1, as well as foster critical thinking and promoting “civic engagement and support democratic and participatory governance”2. Such programs have been found “to help shape personal efficacy (i.e., an individual’s belief in their ability to effect change, political participation, and tolerance”3. Furthermore, “educational tools as such have proven to foster individuals' desistance from terrorist groups and ideologies by broadening the scope of their political values, ideals, and concepts (e.g., justice, honor, freedom) and by introducing alternative perspectives and worldviews”4. In D.rad’s WP10, the focus is on civic education programs that adopt a participatory approach. This means involving all participants in expressing their ideas and bringing about change. Specifically, these methods empower marginalized voices, promoting civic engagement, problem-solving, and networking. Using techniques like role-plays and interactive tools, these programs foster critical thinking, empathy, democratic literacy, active citizenship, resilience, and socio-emotional learning. Critical thinking involves making reliable judgments based on sound information. It includes steps like asking questions, gathering relevant data, and considering various perspectives. Research shows a positive link between critical thinking and personal efficacy. Empathy is vital in civic and peace education. It means understanding and resonating with others' emotions. Pedagogical approaches like group work and cooperative tasks nurture empathy, as well as exposure to diverse choices and scenarios. Democratic literacy involves recognizing, valuing, and respecting all individuals as legitimate members of society. Non-formal education, like theatre, is a powerful way to engage communities in raising awareness and fostering democratic literacy. Active citizenship means actively participating in one's local community with values like respect, inclusion, and assistance. Educational programs equip participants with skills and knowledge for resilient societies built on trust. Resilience is the ability to bounce back from challenges, a crucial skill in personal development against extremist ideologies. Research links resilience to pro-social behaviour and life satisfaction. Civic education fosters pro-social behaviour through empathy and voluntary actions that benefit others. Socio-emotional learning (SEL) includes five key components: self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision making, social awareness, and relationship skills. Through SEL, individuals understand and regulate emotions, set positive goals, show empathy, build healthy relationships, and make responsible choices. Effective SEL training leads to improved academic performance and positive attitudes. It reduces disruptive behaviours and disciplinary issues. Educators prioritize SEL through activities that encourage communication, cooperation, emotional regulation, empathy, and self-control. Against this background, the final goal of WP10 was to foster social cohesion, democratic literacy, active citizenship and a shared sense of belonging to counteract tendencies of grievance, alienation and polarisation through the development of a participatory role-play targeting community organizations, youth centres, social/educational workers and interested citizens. WP10 was carried out in three parallel and complementary phases:- project partners involved in the WP (EURAC – Bolzano/Bozen, AUP – Paris, FUB – Berlin, BILGI – Istanbul and PRONI – Brcko) analysed civic education programs implemented in their countries to combat radicalisation and violent extremism in order to highlight approaches, practices and challenges that needed to be taken into account in the development of WP10’s toolkit; EURAC complemented such analysis with an overall recognition of existing programmes at EU level and beyond; - WP partners also contacted experts (academics, practitioners, NGO-leaders, public officers at the Ministry of Justice, social workers) in the field of de-radicalisation, civic-education, cultural mediation and theatrical methods to provide both feedback on challenges faced in past projects and opinions on the role-play developed in the framework of WP10; - EURAC, assisted by project partners and external experts developed a role-play as a preventive tool for youth radicalisation; WP partners then tested the role-play in their respective countries to collect feedback on its implementation and effectiveness. The role-play thus developed, called “In Search of the Lost Past”, is a civic education game encourages participants to reflect on available choices, avoiding adverse and/or violent outcomes. It aims to enhance critical thinking skills in problem-solving and understanding diverse perspectives. Accordingly, it fosters open-mindedness and respect for diversities and alternative worldviews while expanding participants' understanding of values, ideals, and concepts like justice, honour, and freedom. Participants collectively reconstruct stories through backwards journeys, starting from possible endings and envisioning earlier events from assigned character viewpoints. Through embodying diverse profiles and exploring various choice pathways, this reverse storytelling method prompts contemplation on decisions and their nuanced repercussions. Although all stories share a common finale, participants shape unique, parallel narratives based on distinct character perspectives. This imaginative process elucidates how personal experiences shape worldviews and life trajectories. This imaginative process serves to illuminate how personal experiences contribute to the formation of worldviews and life trajectories. Post-activity discussions centre around the decisions made and their far-reaching implications, emphasizing alternative approaches to challenging issues. Stepping into different mindsets not only cultivates empathy but also fortifies critical analysis skills among participants. "In Search of the Lost Past" serves as a dynamic platform for exploring and understanding the complex interplay of choices, perspectives, and outcomes. Reconstructing the past helps us be open to new and diverse futures.
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Stermieri, Lidia, Tom Kober, Russell McKenna, Thomas J. Schmidt, and Evangelos Panos. Socio-economic energy model for digitalization (SEED) overview design concept and details (ODD) protocol. Paul Scherrer Institute, PSI, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.55402/psi:56617.
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The Socio-Economic Energy Model for Digitalization (SEED) quantifies digitalization's impacts on technology investment choices, energy consumption, and emissions in different energy sectors. It belongs to the class of Agent Based Models and simulates the decision processes of various heterogenous actors of the energy system: households, services sectors and industry sectors. These decision processes relate to the adoption of digital services and practices, as well as the investment in end-use energy technologies to support them. The model represents a large set of complex interactions between its actors, such as peereffects, producer-consumer relationships and employee-employer relationships. It can also be linked to the Swiss TIMES energy system model (STEM) to evaluate broader implications to the energy supply and infrastructure arising from the decisions of the SEED actors. The current article formally describes the SEED model based on the Overview Design Concept and Details (ODD) protocol. It also lists its main features, assumptions and data sources.
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Chornodon, Myroslava. FEAUTURES OF GENDER IN MODERN MASS MEDIA. Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.30970/vjo.2021.49.11064.
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The article clarifies of gender identity stereotypes in modern media. The main gender stereotypes covered in modern mass media are analyzed and refuted. The model of gender relations in the media is reflected mainly in the stereotypical images of men and woman. The features of the use of gender concepts in modern periodicals for women and men were determined. The most frequently used derivatives of these macroconcepts were identified and analyzed in detail. It has been found that publications for women and men are full of various gender concepts that are used in different contexts. Ingeneral, theanalysisofthe concept-maximums and concept-minimum gender and their characteristics is carried out in the context of gender stereotypes that have been forme dand function in the society, system atizing the a ctual presentations. The study of the gender concept is relevant because it reveals new trends and features of modern gender images. Taking into account the special features of gender-labeled periodicals in general and the practical absence of comprehensive scientific studies of the gender concept in particular, there is a need to supplement Ukrainian science with this topic. Gender psychology, which is served by methods of various sciences, primarily sociological, pedagogical, linguistic, psychological, socio-psychological. Let us pay attention to linguistic and psycholinguistic methods in gender studies. Linguistic methods complement intelligence research tasks, associated with speech, word and text. Psycholinguistic methods used in gender psychology (semantic differential, semantic integral, semantic analysis of words and texts), aimed at studying speech messages, specific mechanisms of origin and perception, functions of speech activity in society, studying the relationship between speech messages and gender properties participants in the communication, to analyze the linguistic development in connection with the general development of the individual. Nowhere in gender practice there is the whole arsenal of psychological methods that allow you to explore psychological peculiarities of a person like observation, experiments, questionnaires, interviews, testing, modeling, etc. The methods of psychological self-diagnostics include: the gender aspect of the own socio-psychological portrait, a gender biography as a variant of the biographical method, aimed at the reconstruction of individual social experience. In the process of writing a gender autobiography, a person can understand the characteristics of his gender identity, as well as ways and means of their formation. Socio-psychological methods of studying gender include the study of socially constructed women’s and men’s roles, relationships and identities, sexual characteristics, psychological characteristics, etc. The use of gender indicators and gender approaches as a means of socio-psychological and sociological analysis broadens the subject boundaries of these disciplines and makes them the subject of study within these disciplines. And also, in the article a combination of concrete-historical, structural-typological, system-functional methods is implemented. Descriptive and comparative methods, method of typology, modeling are used. Also used is a method of content analysis for the study of gender content of modern gender-stamped journals. It was he who allowed quantitatively to identify and explore the features of the gender concept in the pages of periodicals for women and men. A combination of historical, structural-typological, system-functional methods is also implemented in the article. Descriptive and comparative methods, method of typology, modeling are used. A method of content analysis for the study of gender content of modern gender-labeled journals is also used. It allowed to identify and explore the features of the gender concept quantitatively in the periodicals for women and men. The conceptual perception and interpretation of the gender concept «woman», which is highlighted in the modern gender-labeled press in Ukraine, requires the elaboration of the polyfunctionality of gender interpretations, the comprehension of the metaphorical perception of this image and its role and purpose in society. A gendered approach to researching the gender content of contemporary periodicals for women and men. Conceptual analysis of contemporary gender-stamped publications within the gender conceptual sphere allows to identify and correlate the meta-gender and gender concepts that appear in society.
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Холошин, Ігор Віталійович, Ірина Миколаївна Варфоломєєва, Олена Вікторівна Ганчук, Ольга Володимирівна Бондаренко, and Андрій Валерійович Пікільняк. Pedagogical techniques of Earth remote sensing data application into modern school practice. CEUR-WS.org, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3257.
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Abstract. The article dwells upon the Earth remote sensing data as one of the basic directions of Geo-Information Science, a unique source of information on processes and phenomena occurring in almost all spheres of the Earth geographic shell (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, etc.). The authors argue that the use of aerospace images by means of the information and communication technologies involvement in the learning process allows not only to increase the information context value of learning, but also contributes to the formation of students’ cognitive interest in such disciplines as geography, biology, history, physics, computer science, etc. It has been grounded that remote sensing data form students’ spatial, temporal and qualitative concepts, sensory support for the perception, knowledge and explanation of the specifics of objects and phenomena of geographical reality, which, in its turn, provides an increase in the level of educational achievements. The techniques of aerospace images application into the modern school practice have been analyzed and illustrated in the examples: from using them as visual aids, to realization of practical and research orientation of training on the basis of remote sensing data. Particular attention is paid to the practical component of the Earth remote sensing implementation into the modern school practice with the help of information and communication technologies.
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Kholoshyn, Ihor V., Iryna M. Varfolomyeyeva, Olena V. Hanchuk, Olga V. Bondarenko, and Andrey V. Pikilnyak. Pedagogical techniques of Earth remote sensing data application into modern school practice. [б. в.], 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/3262.
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The article dwells upon the Earth remote sensing data as one of the basic directions of Geo-Information Science, a unique source of information on processes and phenomena occurring in almost all spheres of the Earth geographic shell (atmosphere, hydrosphere, lithosphere, etc.). The authors argue that the use of aerospace images by means of the information and communication technologies involvement in the learning process allows not only to increase the information context value of learning, but also contributes to the formation of students’ cognitive interest in such disciplines as geography, biology, history, physics, computer science, etc. It has been grounded that remote sensing data form students’ spatial, temporal and qualitative concepts, sensory support for the perception, knowledge and explanation of the specifics of objects and phenomena of geographical reality, which, in its turn, provides an increase in the level of educational achievements. The techniques of aerospace images application into the modern school practice have been analyzed and illustrated in the examples: from using them as visual aids, to realization of practical and research orientation of training on the basis of remote sensing data. Particular attention is paid to the practical component of the Earth remote sensing implementation into the modern school practice with the help of information and communication technologies.
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Kranefeld, Robert. Beyond the grid : post-network energy provision in Rwanda. Goethe-Universität, Institut für Humangeographie, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.21248/gups.53186.
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In many parts of the world, the centralized grid provides energy to the population only to a limited extent. The electrification for sub-Saharan Africa countries is the lowest in the world, representing half of the world's population withoutelectricity. However, during the last years there has been an increased attention to rural areas in the Global South beyond the centralised grid, especially with respect to improved possibilities of solar power systems. The transition from one dominant form of energy provision to various alternatives includes different dimensions and depends on specific socio-spatial contexts. Energy systems are framed within systems of spatial practices, performed by a variety of involved actors, like consumers, local suppliers, international for-profit companies, international development donors as well as national and regional authorities. As such power systems arealways cause and effect of socio-technical change This study takes the example of Rwanda to analyse the marketization of decentralised energy systems. Based on empirical field work with energy entrepreneurs it combines Post-Colonial Theory with Science and Technology-Studies to theorise the role of energy to the social production of space beyond the grid.
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Mayas, Magda. Creating with timbre. Norges Musikkhøgskole, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.22501/nmh-ar.686088.
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Unfolding processes of timbre and memory in improvisational piano performance This exposition is an introduction to my research and practice as a pianist, in which I unfold processes of timbre and memory in improvised music from a performer’s perspective. Timbre is often understood as a purely sonic perceptual phenomenon. However, this is not in accordance with a site-specific improvisational practice with changing spatial circumstances impacting the listening experience, nor does it take into account the agency of the instrument and objects used or the performer’s movements and gestures. In my practice, I have found a concept as part of the creating process in improvised music which has compelling potential: Timbre orchestration. My research takes the many and complex aspects of a performance environment into account and offers an extended understanding of timbre, which embraces spatial, material and bodily aspects of sound in improvised music performance. The investigative projects described in this exposition offer a methodology to explore timbral improvisational processes integrated into my practice, which is further extended through collaborations with sound engineers, an instrument builder and a choreographer: -experiments in amplification and recording, resulting in Memory piece, a series of works for amplified piano and multichannel playback - Piano mapping, a performance approach, with a custom-built device for live spatialization as means to expand and deepen spatio-timbral relationships; - Accretion, a project with choreographer Toby Kassell for three grand pianos and a pianist, where gestural approaches are used to activate and compose timbre in space. Together, the projects explore memory as a structural, reflective and performative tool and the creation of performing and listening modes as integrated parts of timbre orchestration. Orchestration and choreography of timbre turn into an open and hybrid compositional approach, which can be applied to various contexts, engaging with dynamic relationships and re-configuring them.
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Theel, Heather, Molly Reif, Jo Ellen Hinck, et al. Restoration monitoring metric framework: integrating innovative remote-sensing technologies : comparisons between field and remotely sensed vegetation surveys of restored forested and grassland sites in Ohio. Engineer Research and Development Center (U.S.), 2024. https://doi.org/10.21079/11681/49490.
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Restoration monitoring is generally perceived as costly and time-consuming, yet the concept of universal restoration monitoring metrics is trending for evaluation of restoration performance across spatial scales, project boundaries, and jurisdictions. Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration (NRDAR) practitioners seek to restore natural resources injured by oil spills or hazardous substance releases into the environment. Therefore, a multiagency team [US Army Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC), US Department of the Interior (DOI), and US Department of Energy (DOE)] developed and field-tested a multitiered monitoring framework, illustrating a range of field and remote-sensing techniques and methodologies. The restoration monitoring framework and field demonstration offer a unique methodology to acquire and evaluate simultaneously collected, multiscale/multiplatform data. The result of this research provides new insights to (1) assist planning, implementing, and monitoring restoration progress and effectiveness; and (2) apply common monitoring methods, endpoints, and metrics to other types of ecosystem restoration initiatives. Although the aim was to inform monitoring and management of areas that had been injured, these methods could also be used to inform restoration monitoring practices in a broader context, benefiting environmental stewardship missions of all project partners.