Berlin Project Research Articles

A Constitution without Constitutionalism: A Gambian Paradox

Constitutionalism and democratization are the current governance trends in Africa, and these are complemented with new constitutions. The Gambia is not an exception as it transcends from dictatorship. However, the country faces a paradoxical menace of a constitution without constitutionalism as it faces deficit of constitutionalism in praxis despite its theoretical deliberation in the State’s 1997 Constitution. This research uses doctrinal or normative legal research with focus on provisions of laws, books, journal articles and other secondary materials that speak to the facts in issue. This Africa’s smallest mainland country is a victim of the 1884 – 1885 Berlin Conference as it still tries to give much premium to foreign legal systems over customary practices of the people before this Berlin project. While constitutionalism seeks to limit the power of the government, its most critical constituent as regards the concept of constitution without constitutionalism is the rule of law. The rule of law premises on the ground that all state’s constituents must be subject to the law. Therefore, the metaphor of a saviour, savage, and victim as the 1997 Constitution, the State and freedom of expression respectively suggests the totality of the complexity of a constitution without constitutionalism.

Consideraciones generales sobre la génesis de la ocurrencia de uranio y vanadio en las rocas sedimentarias Cretácicas del Sinclinal de Berlín Cordillera Central (Andes Colombianos)

The mineralization at the Berlin project in Colombia presents a huge interest based on its relatively high uranium and vanadium concentrations (0.11% U3O8) and (0.45% V2O5), with a suite of other economically interesting elements, all of them necessary to achieve the energy transition, including Y, Re, Ag, and P. The present research suggests a hypothesis for the U and V mineralization: an epigenetic origin. The results indicate that the source for U, V, and the other economic elements associated, were released from the black shales of the Abejorral Formation that is overlying a carbonate succession of Cretaceous wackestone. Those elements were transported in diagenetic fluids under specific physical and geochemical conditions. Efficient strata-bound trap occurred when the carbonate succession triggered a redox front that interacted not only with mineralized fluids, but organic matter and H2S.

Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting by Florian Hoof (review).

Reviewed by: Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting by Florian Hoof Nuria Puig (bio) Angels of Efficiency: A Media History of Consulting By Florian Hoof. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 392. Angels of Efficiency deals with one of the most intriguing questions of the knowledge economy: the worldwide rise and growing influence of corporate consulting. A professor of Media Studies at the University of Lüneburg in Germany, author Florian Hoof traces the parallel development of visual media and corporate consulting between 1880 and 1930, showing how a new form of visual knowledge became integrated [End Page 264] into management optimization practices. Visual management, exemplified by the 7-S Framework that McKinsey developed, would learn from, compete against, and complement Scientific Management, the theory pioneered by American engineer Frederick Taylor. The core of Hoof's research examines the consulting firm founded by Frank Gilbreth and his wife Lillian in the early twentieth century. Their family life alongside some of their most successful contributions, such as the Wheel of Motion and the One Best Way, became popular through the book and movie Cheaper by the Dozen (1948 and 1950). Drawing on extensive archival sources, the book explains how Frank's practical experience and innate marketing skills combined with Lillian's academic background in industrial psychology to challenge the consulting industry with strikingly lasting effects. Particularly insightful is Gilbreth's failed consulting activity for the Berlin firm Auergesellshaft (Osram's forerunner) during World War I. This is not an easy book. First, it preserves the form and content of the doctoral dissertation published in German in 2015 from which it comes. And second, Hoof's truly interdisciplinary research will challenge those readers primarily interested in either the history of media or the history of consulting. Those who do not give up reading will be rewarded with a splendid concluding chapter, plus the certainty of having gone through an outstanding intellectual piece of work. This consists of five chapters, the first two focused on the rise of graphic media and visual consulting and the remaining three devoted to the Gilbreth's contribution and long-term effects. Consulting knowledge, states Hoof, is a fragile commodity that needs to be scientifically grounded but also easily communicated (p. 245). The self-made consultant Gilbreth seemed to understand this from the beginning, hence his efforts to develop a scientific method to study and improve industrial efficiency and to differentiate it from Taylorism. Unlike Taylor, with whom he kept a conflicting relationship, and other efficiency engineers who worked primarily at manufacturing plants, Gilbreth moved his research from the workshop to the laboratory and insisted on keeping the managers as far as possible from the workers, anticipating future trends in the consulting industry. Moreover, Gilbreth sought to apply the latest film innovations to his own motion studies, which served to create his own method and brand. This method owed much to his wife's scientific training and research in industrial psychology, and Gilbreth promoted his brand relentlessly, for example in his Berlin project. But the most admirable thing about Gilbreth was his search for legitimacy. Hiring an external consultant met with resistance among managers, at a time when corporate control was in a state of crisis. The consulting industry has received considerable attention from business history and organizational studies over the past three decades or so. Hoof's study does not only provide new empirical evidence but makes a strong conceptual contribution. He argues that visual management constituted [End Page 265] a new form of knowledge and management legitimization, a fact Gilbreth was aware of. Over time—through the dramatically different contexts of Keynesianism and monetarism—media-based rationality has provided the basis for new management strategies that have proved surprisingly effective and resilient. The fascinating process examined in Angels of Efficiency explains why consultants, at least those working for the top firms, are currently regarded as quasi-religious authorities. As external experts, they were capable of shifting, not solving, the capital-labor conflicts between 1880 and 1930 that threatened to undermine the social order. Against all odds, Hoof observes, the 2008 crisis has not eroded the power of consultants, but rather strengthened it. The political...

Living (in) cities of the past: time travel in Second Life

ABSTRACTThe virtual world Second Life invites residents to plan, build and maintain their own social geographies. In this article, I draw on data gathered during a multi-year ethnographic study to explore the intersection between memory, nostalgia, place and belonging in Second Life. The article focuses on two packages of land, or ‘sims’, owned and designed by a single Second Life resident who is one of the most dedicated heritage creators. The 1920s Berlin Project and Time Portal are both popular sims in which physical, historical, locations are recreated and opened to the public to visit, rent commercial or domestic property and engage in the 1920s role play. These sims demand different types of historical engagement. Together, they offer a complex and nuanced portrait of the way Second Life recreates cities of the past.

Analysis of the E-Bus Berlin project

The E-Bus project was launched in August 2015 in Berlin should contribute to reduction of harmful emissions, noise reduction and development of the electric bus market in the area of Berlin and Brandenburg. This article discusses the first electric bus line in the capital of Germany, which was based on the use of various technical solutions. Two basic groups of such solutions were taken into account – the use of the Solaris Urbino 12 electric bus and the Bombardier Primove inductive charging system. The advantages of using electric vehicles in public transport in Berlin were also discussed. The presented issues were based on the environmental balance of the E-Bus Berlin project.

Berlin in Motion: Interprofessional teaching and learning for students in the fields of medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and nursing (INTER-M-E-P-P).

Aim: The Berlin project "Interprofessional teaching and learning in medicine, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and nursing" (INTER-M-E-P-P) pursues the goal of developing and testing interprofessional courses in an exemplary manner, and then implement these into their regular study programs. Method: Under the direction of a steering committee of the participating institutions, professions and status groups, interprofessional courses were designed, carried out and evaluated. Specific to this project are the participation of students in the steering committee, and the accompanying of external supervision. The evaluation integrates the perspectives of all project participants, and combines quantitative and qualitative methods.Results: INTER-M-E-P-P established cooperative structures between the participating universities and programs. Three courses were designed, taught and evaluated in an interprofessional manner. The various curricula, organizational patterns and locations of the study paths led to a great need for resources in regard to planning and implementation. This process can be made difficult by any stereotypes or preconceptions inherent to those doing the planning; however, under external supervision, the individual professional viewpoints can still be broadened and enriched.Conclusion: A sustainable implementation of interprofessional education into the curricula of health science study programs is currently complicated by barriers such as different geographical locations and differing university regulations concerning study and testing. Implementation will require long-term support at the university as well as at political levels.

“Just dreaming of them”: The Berlin Project for Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse by Juveniles (PPJ)

The Berlin Project for Primary Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse by Juveniles (PPJ) offers diagnostic and therapeutic help to 12-to-18-year-old juveniles with a sexual preference for the prepubescent and/or early pubescent body of children and who apply for treatment on a voluntary basis. The project goal is to prevent primary or recurrent child sexual abuse as well as primary or recurrent use of child abuse images. Treatment aims to enable affected juveniles to obtain control over their conflictual sexual behaviors. In the present article, the origin of the PPJ; its main approach, including the conception of a media campaign; as well as results from the first year of a three-year study are presented. Further, initial characterizations of juveniles taking part in the project for the first 12 months are provided. The results confirmed that the group of 12-to-18-year-old juveniles with a sexual preference for prepubescent and/or early pubescent minors exists as a target group for primary preventive measures and that they can be assessed for their sexual preferences.

Candilis, Josic, Woods: dos universidades

The team of “variable geometry”, formed by Candilis, Josic and Woods, played an important role in the European architecture of the sixties. Along with large residential projects, much of the production of the team were projects of universities. The team was the winner in the competition for the Free University of Berlin, they also built the Faculty of Arts at Toulouse le Mirail. The Berlin project is an extensible system embedded in the district of Dahlem, formed by an orthogonal network of footpaths, with four main corridors that define three stripes, crossed transversely by secondary corridors. A three-dimensional frame is defined by the interweaving of the main and secondary corridors, the interior spaces and the courtyards. The flexible and extensible project condition, was translated to the construction field, where it was instrumental the collaboration with Jean Prouvé who proposed the building construction through a triple system of prefabrication. As in Berlin, the plant of the University of Toulouse is defined as a rectangle organized by a strict structural grid, with a greater width and six main corridors. The four cross corridors become more important connecting the building with the car parks provided to the east and the existing park in the west. The project for the University of Toulouse had less impact than the one of Berlin, whose accuracy and consistency between the general approach and building systems are missing in Toulouse, where more conventional and economical methods were used and where, as in Berlin, the original project was never completed.

The Non-Cartesian Way

Based on the seamless learning approach (Wong, 2012), this paper illustrates how media competence can be developed, what didactic design is necessary, and what features this design possesses for teaching media competence at university. The ‘Natural History Museum Berlin project' is considered as an example of this. In this project, during the 2009 summer term, students at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg (Germany) in cooperation with the Natural History Museum Berlin (Germany) developed and produced media products (magazine articles, audio and video podcasts) in which they explored and reflected on the topic of knowledge transfer in terms of constructivism in an authentic context. The closeness to research activities at the university, especially in the Department of Continuing Education, is one of the essential aspects.

English

Abstract This article provides an overview on different types of managing interdisciplinary knowledge integration in environmental urban research projects: 1. synthesis-then, 2. synthesis-online, 3. synthesis-first, 4. synthesis-as contracted. We present two projects in the context of urban ecology, in order to discuss two types of integration management in more detail. In the synthesis-first type of project management, interdisciplinary knowledge integration is organized through syntheses groups that represent the relevant perspectives on a case. We introduce synthesis-first using the Zurich North case study as an example. In the synthesis-online type of project management, interdisciplinary knowledge integration is wanted but occurs only occasionally. As an example, we present the interdisciplinary Berlin project on urban ecology. This article argues that knowledge integration in general requires sufficient management and an audience for the products of knowledge integration (scientific or not). We emphasize the importance of boundary objects for interdisciplinary knowledge integration in general and for urban ecology in particular.