The Educational Experience of the Participants of the "Boiling Points": A Narrative Analysis

The paper is dedicated to the problem of creating a network of public spaces in the downtown area of a major city as an effective means of its humanization. The goal of the work is to justify and develop a graphical model of the network of public spaces in the structure of the downtown area of a major city on example of Kharkiv. Analysis of the scientific works of foreign and domestic authors has shown that the issues relating to the formation of a spatially integrated network of public spaces have not been subjected to special scientific scrutiny. The use of the law of isomorphism of structures of urban planning systems suggested that a network of public spaces could have a linear-nodal spatial organization. It is shown that open public spaces are located along the streets and should be seen as part of the city’s communication framework. The placement of a significant variety of small public service elements on the first floors of the city center neighborhood development contributes to the formation of public spaces along the streets. These pedestrian spaces providing connections to subway stations are “linear” components of the network. The presence of open, undeveloped spaces in areas close to the entrances to subway stations creates attractive conditions for the formation of new types of public spaces. On the basis of analysis of placement of 8 subway stations in the structure of the downtown area of Kharkiv there was justified the assumption that it is their areas that are considered to be “nodal” elements of the networks of public spaces. In this way, a spatially integrated network of public spaces is created and presents an effective means of humanizing the urban environment as a whole. The study of the architectural and urban construction of the network of public spaces in the city structure led to the conclusion of the effectiveness of such a measure in social, economic and aesthetic aspects.

Museums are cultural and educational institutions that collect, preserve, display and study their collections, and whose purpose is to represent nature and human beings, and provide knowledge and education to the public. Based on the participation and education of museums, this paper demonstrates how to enhance museum participatory and educational experience for visitors by means of gamified participatory experience. It systematically explains the concept of museum participatory experience for visitors. By trying to apply the new concept and method, we designed the “SPORTSWEAR EXHIBITION - Dress to Win” at Design Exchange Museum, Toronto, Canada. We studied the impact of gamified participatory experience and analyzed the effectiveness of using new technologies. Finally, we understand the importance of participatory experience in future museums.

One of the problems in Lithuania is the shortage of heads of educational institutions; many schools are looking for teachers, and there is a constant shortage of teaching staff. In addition, the issue of quality education is often debated. The article analyses the concept of a quality educational institution: the attributes and personal qualities of a manager-leader. The research was conducted in two schools in Lithuania (a large city and a district centre), which are characterised as high-quality educational institutions. These schools in Lithuania are highly rated in terms of pupil achievement, external audit data, and statements made by school communities in public space and social networks. The aim of the study is to investigate the attributes of a leader of a quality educational institution and its leader. The study used a qualitative methodology: semi-structured interviews with school leaders, teachers, and parents of students belonging to the school council. Qualitative research was chosen because it would be difficult to reveal the meaning of the problem using a quantitative method, as each respondent has his or her own individual opinion, which depends on his or her experiences. The data were analysed according to coding categories. According to the study, it can be stated that for a leader of a quality educational institution, it is very important to follow such principles as respect for others, knowledge of others, democratic values, belief in colleagues and their abilities, and lifelong learning should be part of the daily life of the educational community.

Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among women, with survivors often experiencing long-term symptoms such as cancer-related fatigue, which significantly impacts quality of life. Yoga has demonstrated potential in alleviating cancer-related fatigue and enhancing overall health and quality of life. Digital interventions are increasingly recognized as a feasible approach to cancer rehabilitation. However, digitally distributed home-based yoga interventions in breast cancer rehabilitation remain underexplored. More research in this area is essential to achieve a deeper understanding of participants' experiences. This study aims to explore women's experiences of participating in a digitally distributed, home-based yoga intervention in breast cancer rehabilitation. This qualitative study used an inductive content analysis approach. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 20 women who had undergone breast cancer surgery and participated in a 12-week digitally distributed, home-based yoga intervention as part of the randomized controlled multicenter trial Digital Yoga Intervention in Cancer Rehabilitation (DigiYoga CaRe). The intervention consisted of 2 home-based yoga sessions each week: 1 live-streamed group class led by an experienced yoga instructor and 1 prerecorded self-paced practice video. Interviews were conducted within 1 month of completing the intervention, using a semistructured guide with 12 open-ended questions covering physical and mental experiences, daily life impacts, and reflections on the digital format (live-streamed and prerecorded video). The interview transcripts were analyzed using conventional content analysis to identify subcategories and categories, providing insights into participants' experiences. The interviewees reported that the home-based yoga intervention helped them to actively manage their illness and treatment-related side effects, promoting mental recovery and relaxation, physical function and activity, and self-care practice and routines. They commented that it fostered resilience and empowerment through increased body awareness and by regaining trust in their bodies, self-confidence, and hope for recovery. It was described as a shift in focus toward progress and well-being, equipping them with new coping strategies for their daily lives. They perceived the telerehabilitation format as a safe and user-friendly rehabilitation option, providing support through manageable digital tools, and with minor technical issues that were subsequently resolved. They described feeling safe and supported in the digital environment, fostering a sense of community and individual focus. The accessibility of home-based participation facilitated adherence, making the intervention a valuable and inclusive rehabilitation option for breast cancer survivors, particularly for those experiencing fatigue, time constraints, or challenges related to traveling. The digitally distributed home-based yoga intervention was experienced as an effective and accessible tool for breast cancer rehabilitation, promoting overall well-being. For these participants, it fostered resilience, empowerment, and a sense of community; this highlights its potential as a user-friendly rehabilitation option that could be integrated into cancer care to support recovery and address various patient needs. ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04812652; https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04812652. RR2-10.1136/bmjopen-2022-065939.

The internet and social media expand public space has been much associated with public space and digital networks in many studies, where Habermas's public space theory and the theory of the Castells network society have been much debated about its relevance to the techno-social development. Both Habermas and Castells tend to see the public space of the Internet as a contestation space where corporate and state forces work in various ways to control and dominate it. This study emphasizes more on the creativity of citizens forming community networks through the use of the Internet and social media and conducting autonomous conversations in the public space. Netnographic studies of the dynamics of the discourse of public space in the social movement networked Indonesia Berkebun show that the Internet and social media become creative means for citizens to package global discourse locally to voice their demands. This study concludes that the concepts and theories of public space, network society are relevant as tools for analyzing public space and Internet networks and social media. The potential of the Internet network and social media as autonomous communication spaces depends on the design and purpose and the utilization of available features. Conversations - conversations that are restricted to the agenda of the 3E program help communities focus on discourse and shape the character of a rational Indonesian gardening space. This community from the beginning realized the potential of the Internet and social media to form networks and public spaces. But like gardening, public space requires commitment, such as caring for the garden from pest attacks, weeds, giving it fertilizer so the plants grow as expected.

Community service aims to assist the implementation of educational evaluation in pesantren as an effort to improve the quality of integrated learning programs. Pesantren as educational institutions that organize academic, religious, and character building learning require a reflective and sustainable evaluation system. Service activities are carried out with a Participatory Action Research (PAR) approach that places pesantren managers and educators as active participants in all stages of assistance. The service process is carried out in stages through identification of program conditions, implementation of educational evaluation, joint reflection, and formulation of recommendations for improvement. The results of the assistance show that the foreign language program, tahfidz Al-Qur'an, academics, and character building through halaqoh tarbawiyah already have positive and sustainable learning practices. Evaluative assistance helps strengthen these practices through collaborative alignment of program objectives, processes and evaluation. Educational evaluation is understood not as an instrument of control, but as a means of institutional learning and strengthening a culture of quality. This service contributes to the development of humanist, participatory, and contextualized educational evaluation practices in supporting the sustainable improvement of pesantren education quality.

INTRODUCTION What, or where, was the triumphal route in Rome? Did triumphs follow a set path, or did their route vary from procession to procession? These questions have been hotly debated in recent years, and it is necessary to address them head on before discussing the route's monumental appearance in the following chapters. This chapter reviews the history of scholarly reconstructions of the triumphal route, paying special attention to heated controversies and recent efforts to deconstruct the route as it has traditionally been envisioned. Taking into account material and textual evidence as well as the spectacular nature of triumphal processions, I ultimately argue in favor of a model of the triumphal route that is not a continuous, linear path through the city but rather a network of public spaces and buildings that could best accommodate crowds of spectators. This chapter demonstrates the status of certain areas in Rome as regular, continual sites of triumphal processions, where monuments and memories of triumphs could reciprocally impact one another. The triumphal route was hardly a fossilized, unchanging path through Rome, but triumphs did tend to pass through certain key urban spaces and sites. The permanent monuments that accumulated at these sites gave the illusion that triumphs followed the same route as historical performances of the ritual. One could feel as though one was passing before the same monuments as triumphs past, and this could foster a sense that the triumphal ritual was the same as it had always been, even as it underwent transformations. It was this perceived constancy of the triumphal route – even if the constancy was ostensible rather than actual – that enabled the triumph to maintain the semblance of continuity that its ritual nature demanded. RECONSTRUCTIONS AND DECONSTRUCTIONS The historiography of the triumphal route is lengthy and complex, but I present debates about the route as concisely as possible. Such brevity reflects my conviction that the precise location of the Porta Triumphalis, for example, has proportionally little impact on the ways in which monuments affected the experience and memory of triumphal processions.

<p>For me, urban design at its heart is a positive activity that has a primary objective to contribute a public benefit. This is principally achieved by designing a network of public spaces – the public realm – that form the setting for individuals and communities to live their lives efficiently, safely, purposefully, meaningfully and memorably. The public realm consists of typical urban elements of streets, lanes, plazas, parks and environmental areas of different scales and purposes. These elements of public space are combined to create distinctive and unique places that invite use and activity. Underscoring this is the view that the primary user of public space is the pedestrian and the primary transport mode walking, cycling, and public transport. The car remains important but less so than the other modes.<br />With this approach, an essential requirement of the private realm of buildings is to form the public realm by positively defining public space, for it can’t exist without the physical form of the buildings, and landscapes. The mix and location of land-uses in close proximity activate the public realm, so people can readily access the uses needed for daily life, and are invited to do so due to the quality of the urban setting.</p>

Cities face several challenges regarding public space and urban regeneration. Some of them are the depersonalization and lack of interest of citizens in their own city, privatization, gentrification, technologization and gender-insecurity. Public spaces lose their character as articulator and generator of human relations, while neighborhoods lose their role as the basic unity of community and urban identity. Nowadays, many bottom-up strategies have arisen as expressions of neighborhood’s inhabitant’s will, producing cultural diversity and civic engagement, with a placemaking effect. Urban art is one of them. Social and economic products of urban art have been studied, but the spatial manifestation and impact have been largely absent from the discourse of urban morphology. Spatial conditions are representational of social practices like art, by structuring patterns of movement, encounter and separation in the city (Cartiere & Zebracki, 2016). This study aims to discover the spatial relation between urban art displays and the network of public spaces, and whether this pattern has a role in neighborhood regeneration. To identify these relations in Shoreditch, London, Space Syntax analysis and spatial clustering were used, combined with a survey of geographically located public urban art (extracted from social networks data). Also, the spatial patterns of land prices and land uses from 1995 to 2016 were examined. Research showed that various types of artwork have a strong relation with certain spatial network characteristics and visibility of locations from each other. Economic and use outcomes were also related to the development of the art pattern through the years.

Production of urban space is assumed to be a rent seeking activity, carried out by many developers who are constantly trying to get the best possible assessment of market and spatial features in order to better produce profit. Developers act locally, that is, they can choose their locations from all over the city, although they do not have a perfect foresight. Different urban locations prompt different types of development, e. g. several housing, commercial, industrial types, although each location can support more than one type development. The more structured the city is, the narrower is the type choice; on the contrary, in areas scarcely occupied the degree of freedom and unpredictability is larger. Developers compete to each other for locations where the land price is lower; in fact land is considered the single most important component of the development, in the sense that it is the only one whose price can vary and hence affect the price of the final good. Developers "invent" new locations constantly, by buying cheap land, investing on it and selling the resulting built space at higher prices. As soon as a developer discover a new location, others follow, making the land price to rise and the advantage to disappear. The resulting urban development is uneven and generally unpredictable; however, urban areas can be assessed from the point of view of its stability, or its resistance to change. A model has been tried out, as follows.Urban space is disaggregated in units of public space, each one presenting a certain level of urbanisation (infrastructure and built form), what affords a measure of spatial differentiation. Built form is also distinguished by their typological affiliation, so that the stocks are classified according to categories, precisely the ones taken on by developers. Moreover, stocks are also characterised by vintages, so that their actual market value can be updated after each iteration. The urban system is constituted by a network of public spaces, each one affording development of a certain number of types. This affordance is more restrict in the inner parts of the city and more open in the parts of scarce development or in sharp decay. The model tries to simulate the action of developers, either by giving them a profit goal or by fixing a urban growth preview. Decision making process is very simple; it involves choosing among different location alternatives the one which allies lowest costs (land and stocks to be devaluated) with highest values (more profitable building types). As developers compete and developments change the spatial affordances, dynamics of space production results unstable and shifting.

Открытые пространства составляют «каркас» города, являясь важными местами коммуникации и идентификации городского общества. В эпоху роста приватизации и коммерциализации городских пространств, проектирование общественных мест остается в числе основных обязанностей муниципалитета. В статье обсуждаются возможности улучшения общественных пространств в городе Иркутске. В качестве подхода к устойчивому развитию города предлагаются три концепции: сеть общественных пространств, интеграция различных интересов, поддержание индивидуальных особенностей и своеобразия общественных пространств. Приводятся примеры лучших международных практик (Дрездена, Кливленда и Оулу).

Objective: This study proposes a process of revitalization and regeneration of the old medina of Bejaad, as well as a methodology for the technical analysis of its urban fabric and traditional structures, while respecting the inherent values of its constructions. Through data related to the location of each building and a more in-depth investigation, a global relationship with its environment and history is established. Theoretical Framework: The old medina of Bejaad, through its ancient fabric and its potential social and economic wealth, should be leveraged for the development of this spiritual city. This built heritage is characterized by buildings that, for the most part, have preserved an uncommon restraint, maintaining the art of past construction and the secrets of local housing. Its housing is composed of two types of built fabric: traditional and more recent structures. These two types of buildings are connected by a network of public spaces that bring the inhabitants together. Method: Creation of specific Building Information Modelling (BIM) object libraries, derived from three-dimensional models created by 3D scanning using Lidar technology. Results and Discussion: The results of this investigation highlight the need to identify new methodologies for studying the built environment, which no longer focus solely on individual building types, but encompass the broader scale of the fabric, within which it is possible to assess the constructive relationships between the elements composing the block. This is achieved through a process of adopting measures for the protection, rehabilitation, and appropriation of their living environment. Originality/Value: The study proposes a practical evaluation approach by providing precise data to improve the preservation of the built heritage of the old medina of Bejaad, with the aim of establishing an architectural, urban, and landscape charter for the city and its components.

Located on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in Ghana, West Africa, the city of Winneba boasts one of the important ecological wetlands inscribed on the list of Ramsar Sites. However, Winneba faces daunting environmental, economic and social challenges—e.g. water sanitation crisis, infrastructure deficiency, environmental degradation, gender inequality, and social conflicts—interacting with each other to create a vicious cycle. Based on a collaborative workshop, a “crowd-sourcing” decisionmaking process, on-site fieldworks, and an Interactive Web Map, the project team develops in-depth study of the social context and traditional customs of Winneba. A water sanitation system, also as a network of public spaces that facilitates ecological and social improvement, is proposed. It includes drainage systems, rain gardens, water kiosks, orchards, public biogas toilets, and organic waste collection stations. Combining a three-phase implementation, i.e. establish the concept of public space, create a site through collaborative work, and connect communities, the project team introduces a bottom-up incentive system that encourages local community residents to collaborate and participate in constructing and maintaining the public space system for their communities, so as to improve the wellbeing of the communities and the city. Not just proving a design strategy for a kind of public space or a plan for a network of urban green space system, this project sets an exemplar to long-term sustainable management of water sanitation system through self-government of residents and communities in developing countries.

This study examines the possibility of designating and implementing a citywide public space network, constituted of randomly dispersed and not interrelated public spaces and greenways across the city of Muğla. Although Muğla is a major coastal province, with worldwide tourism districts, the city centre falls behind other settlements in terms of quality of social life, physical layout, economic investment and tourism revenue. In 2001, the local government commissioned the Department of Landscape Architecture of Ege University to prepare a comprehensive master plan towards achieving a corporate public space network, as well as development strategies to ameliorate the previous failures. The master plan developed a blueprint for the citywide network and addressed each existing or potential public space and greenway as integrated components of the network. The process involved short-, medium- and long-term action from the local government to achieve the physical layout and efficiently implement phases of the network. As a guide for other small or medium urban settlements in Turkey, a model proposal was derived from the study to address formulation, implementation, and management of the network in order to create a sustainable urban development.

BackgroundThere is great need for development of feasible rehabilitation for older people with dementia. Increased understanding of this population’s experiences of rehabilitation participation is therefore important. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of community-dwelling older people with dementia participating in a person-centred multidimensional interdisciplinary rehabilitation program.MethodsSixteen older people with dementia were interviewed about their experiences of participation in a person-centred multidimensional interdisciplinary rehabilitation program. The program comprised assessments by a comprehensive team of rehabilitation professionals followed by a rehabilitation period of 16 weeks, including interventions based on individualized rehabilitation goals conducted with the support of the rehabilitation team. The rehabilitation was performed in the participants’ homes, in the community and at an outpatient clinic, including exercise with social interaction in small groups offered twice a week to all participants. The interviews were conducted at the end of the rehabilitation period and analysed with qualitative content analysis.ResultsThe analysis resulted in one overarching theme: Empowered through participation and togetherness and four sub-themes: Being strengthened through challenges; Gaining insights, motives, and raising concerns about the future; Being seen makes participation worthwhile; and Feelings of togetherness in prosperity and adversity. The participants increased their self-esteem by daring and coping in the rehabilitation. The insights about themselves and their condition motivated them to continue with their prioritized activities, but also raised concerns about how the future would play out. Collaboration in the group and being seen and acknowledged by staff strengthened their own motivation and self-efficacy.ConclusionAccording to community-dwelling older people with dementia, a person-centred multidimensional interdisciplinary rehabilitation program was experienced as viable and beneficial. The participants seemed empowered through the rehabilitation and expressed mostly positive experiences and perceived improvements. Providers of interdisciplinary rehabilitation programs for this group should consider aspects raised by the participants e.g. the positive experience of being challenged in both exercise and daily activities; the importance of being seen and feeling secure; the benefits and challenges of collaboration with others in the same situation; and the generation of new perspectives of current and future situation.