Articulation Of Space Research Articles

Archaeological Ethnography of Indigenous Heritage Rights: Emergent Realities around the Petroglyph of the ‘Chiqui’ in Amaicha del Valle (NW Argentina)

Abstract This article aims to contribute to an ethical and post-disciplinary reflection in indigenous and postcolonial archaeologies. Adopting the relational perspective of political ontology unravels the complexities behind the seemingly superficial conflicts over the interpretation of a piece of rock art and the failed implementation of the solar energy project in the Indigenous Community Amaicha del Valle. The juxtaposition of state-authorised and place-based narratives and political actions brings to the fore conflicting perspectives of heritage, rights and indigeneity. Through ethnohistorical and early archaeological accounts from the Calchaquí Valleys, the research reveals the epistemic disavowal of Indigenous histories and lifeworlds as the Argentine state established its national sovereignty and development models between the late nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. The case study also draws on archaeological ethnography to highlight generative spaces of knowledge and articulation across divergence and materiality, and that conflicting heritage ontologies can generate new cultural-political forms that diverge from the established consensus.

Pursuing Uniqueness: Unpacking the Social Identity of Young Urban Migrants through Coffee Culture

This study explores the leisure activities of young urban migrants in cafés, examining coffee as both a commodity and a modern mode of consumption within the framework of the culture industry. The choice of coffee and cafés is an inherent part of the identity of young people who want articulation space for cultural tastes and preferences. Thus, coffee culture and youth identity become crucial to elaborate the utilization of time conceptualized as determined by the capitalist production system. This research uses critical phenomenology to study urban migrant youth in Surabaya. It purposively determined eight informants consisting of university students from regencies in East Java, baristas, and café owners. Using mass culture analysis from the Frankfurt school, this research found that there is a standardization of space, either claimed as new or authentic, to emphasize the difference with existing cafés. Consequently, the subjectivities of young urban migrants in coffee culture settings are constructed in pursuit of novelty, popularised as ‘FoMO’. The study argues that the differentiation of cafés between urban and non-urban areas does not provide a clear distinction. Then, consumers and those who formulate the existence of cafés are faced with the need to create uniqueness or innovate to multiply profits. Instead of enjoying leisure, young urban migrants are absorbed and actively reproduce the existence of socially and virtually organized social systems.

Melampaui Binaritas: Studi Filandtropi Islam di Indonesia

The study of Indonesian Islamic philanthropy has so far been carried out by scholars with organizations and managerial governance as the locus. The existing studies do not provide enough articulation space for the dynamics of traditional philanthropy. This draws the author's attention to discursively look at the portrait of Islamic philanthropy in Indonesia by placing traditional and modern models more proportionally. The results are, first, Islamic philanthropy is based on religious doctrine. Second, modern and traditional philanthropy have different articulations. Modern philanthropy inevitably tries to adopt neoliberal values by referring to managerialistic, formalized governance for the humanitarian agenda. Meanwhile, traditional philanthropy is limited, interpersonal, based on the ethics of immediacy, and adheres to the justification of Godliness as the main thing, as in the case of Muludan. Third, the traditional and modern models have shown their respective achievements and challenges. Indonesian Islamic philanthropy tells the story of a philanthropic movement that is not singular, reflecting the contestation between Islamic teachings and neoliberal values.

The Home and the Robot: an Onto-topological Attempt

The article “The Home and the Robot: An Onto-topological Attempt” views the idea of proliferation of hybrids within contemporary domestic spaces due to technological innovations such as Alexa, Siri, home robots etc. It focuses on Musk’s symptomatic project called “Optimus” which is a home robot developed for helping with boring and tiresome everyday chores around the house and thus a key example for exploring the paradoxes within the ideas of homeliness and atmosphere considered as kernels in creating a private and intimate space, i.e., a home. Drawing on Luce Irigaray’s critique of Heideggerian ontology, Sloterdijk’s onto-topological project and Latour’s hybrids, the article sees the proliferation of hybrids as a way for tackling these paradoxes and how they influence contemporary subjectivity and one of its key spaces of articulation – the home. The basic problem which the article tries to elucidate is the forgetting of atmosphere in the creation and care for contemporary dwellings. А forgetting expressed precisely by the “becoming smart” of contemporary homes through apps and robots. However, the article’s problem does not come from technological paranoia, but from a need to articulate certain limits of technology and to mark conceptual trajectories that must be accounted for when innovating the spaces of subjectivity.

Camps archipelago: an ethnography of migrant agricultural laborers in the potato harvesting in rural Sicily

The presence of migrant workers in the agricultural system of Southern Italy is cur-rently an essential element of this economic area. This increasing presence is deep-ly linked with the transformations occurred to agricultural markets and hence on the mode of production and distribution, not only in Italy or in Europe but at a global level. Moving from this context, the article focuses on the articulation of spaces and time of production and reproduction of the seasonal agricultural work proposing an analytical distinction according to camps, their functions, characteris-tics and interconnections. The research methodology highlights the threads and circulations of migrant subjectivities, in their different activities – labor, leisure, so-cial relations – along these camps through a multi-sited ethnography which con-siders as a case study the seasonal potato harvest in the Siracusa area. These camps can be subdivided into four different types, based on the functions they fulfill: the "scattered camp", the "sanctuary", the "plantation", the "institutional camp". The porosity among these different camp typologies represents a crucial element. We define archipelago of camps the flourishing of formal and informal encampments and sanctuaries, densely intertwined and reciprocally influencing one another, emerging from the contentious or fruitful encounters of the actors in the field.

Group Effect Aspects in Digitalisation Production Contexts

Across the years, production systems have recurrently turned to new digital technologies in the search for enhanced productivity and competitiveness. More recently, a prelude to a Fourth Industrial Revolution has been heard, announcing Industry 4.0 as the future of production and manufacture. It has been claimed that cyber-physical production systems would bring drastic changes in the way that people go about engaging in work. It is therefore sensible to think that the way that cooperation is accomplished within production contexts will be also affected. Based on an in-depth interview study featuring 21 participants from different companies, we go on to discuss which challenges have been emerging from recent digitalisation of production work in regard to the way that workers cooperate in accomplishing their productive activities. Our results suggest that there are associated group effects - e.g., group polarisation, hidden profiles, and exclusion - that pose relevant challenges for cooperation within these settings. In this contribution, we go on to present and discuss these results and to propose articulation spaces, which conceptually bring together aspects of coordination mechanisms and common information spaces, as a potential solution for some of those challenges.

Revealing the Place: Sacred Architecture along the Portuguese Coastline

Revealing the place addresses the referential role of sacred architecture elements that dot the Portuguese Atlantic coastline in contemporary architectural pedagogy and in the practice of architecture. The long Portuguese coastline, the case study of the research, is dotted with sacred architectural elements—sanctuaries, churches, chapels and crosses—oriented according to both compositional and canonical cosmological principles. The character of the space of articulation between the land and the sea is made evident by the tension between the sacred elements and the landscape. This paper addresses this relation, resorting to decomposition interpretative drawings and arguments that uncover the formal relationships between sacred architecture and the landscape, proposing an interpretative reading of the built elements that combines type and place. Furthermore, it discusses the transposition of composition principles from sacred to secular architecture, building an analogy for the typological transfer process, considering the transference of existing qualities in sacred architecture for contemporary architectural projects. The hypothesis discussed is that the decoding of the architectural composition of sacred elements in the landscape remains useful both in the pedagogy and practice of architecture. Finally, it is evidenced that this exercise allows us to transfer formal relations established between sacred buildings and the landscape for contemporary architectural practice, revealing type and topos.

Unpacking the discursive assemblages of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism: Articulations of space, place and time in the documentary film Gállok

This article analyses, through a case study approach, the environmental documentary film Gállok, which narrates the struggles over the proposal to operate an iron ore mine in Gállok (Sámi) or Kallak (Swedish), in Northern Sweden. The analysis is transdisciplinary, anchored in the environmental studies work on anthropocentrism and ecocentrism, combined with discourse theory, geography and the scholarly work on space, place and time. These different disciplines and fields are activated to examine how space, place and time become articulated in the discursive assemblages of anthropocentrism and ecocentrism that feed the discursive – material struggles around the operation of the Gállok mine. As the analysis shows, the anthropocentric view favours an instrumentalist and geo-reductionist approach to space and the use of land that promotes presentism, space–place and space–time dualism. Ecocentrism, on the other hand, articulates holism and geo-pluralism, supporting ideas of deep time, space–place and space–time.

Sustainability of Vernacular Houses in North-Eastern Part of Madhya Pradesh

Homes made up of Mud with with sloping roofs covered with ‘khapra’( country made tiles ) is the characteristic of houses in rural area of Madhya Pradesh .These traditional rural houses are the best examples of environmental design response to regional climatic conditions. This study emphases the evolution of basic simple structural form achieved by using locally available material, articulation of spaces and sustainability. These beautiful houses are gradually being replaced by costly modern building materials.

Disentangling the Vernacular in Bolivia and Decolonising the Law

Abstract This piece critically engages with the spaces of encounter between indigenous peoples and the (Bolivian) State by exploring indigenous subordination and inequalities in a socio-legal sense. It explores ‘epistemological oppression’ and ‘epistemological hesitance’ as it arises and is being responded to in i) the vernacular, in empirical realities, ii) in constitutional law and its principles, iii) and in international legal orders including indigenous peoples’ rights regimes. In a first step, indigenous knowledge is conceptualised and contextualised, understanding said encounters in the light of Bolivian constitutionalism and recent regressive indigenous politics under the intermittent right-wing government. Empirical, grassroots perspectives provide further insights into power dynamics and internalised asymmetries which become relevant to understand the knowledge-law nexus. In turn, we disentangle the constitutive elements of neo-colonial subordination, drawing on concepts of sovereignty, self-determination, citizenship and collective rights, and political recognition. Finally, hope is placed in the decolonising function of the law, international law in particular in the way it may reposition indigenous peoples vis-à-vis the State. A dedicated focus is placed on indigenous knowledge and its consideration in current jurisprudential developments. Constitutional law – Andean developments in particular – too is taken as a legal starting point for contextualising indigenous-State encounters, seen with decolonising lenses. In that sense, contemporary State architectures serve as unavoidable spaces of articulation that may reinforce neo-colonial tendencies through classical Western constitutionalism or create ambitious venues for indigenous rights to be recognised in a plural legal landscape.

Compensation in Time and Space: Prominence Marking in Aging and Disease

This study aims to explore the effects of healthy aging and Parkinson’s disease on speech motor performance. One area of speech production which requires fine speech motor control is prominence marking. Therefore, strategies of prominence marking of three speaker groups with four speakers each were investigated: younger speakers, older speakers, and speakers with Parkinson’s disease (PD). Acoustic and articulatory data were collected. Speech data were analyzed focusing on prominence-related adjustments of vowel production and tongue body movements in the temporal and spatial domain. Longer durations, varying initiation of the tongue movements and smaller vowel sizes in older speakers and in speakers with PD were found compared to younger speakers. The data indicate further that all speaker groups mark prominence by changing relevant parameters in the vowel articulation; however, strategies seem to differ between the groups: (i) in the temporal domain, articulatory movement durations increase with age and are further prolonged in speakers with PD; (ii) in the spatial domain, the articulation space is resized by the older speakers in a non-symmetrical way, while no systematic vocalic modulations were found for speakers with PD. To conclude, the speech system seems to be affected by age and disease, but speakers develop compensatory strategies to counteract influences in the spatial domain.

Morphological Identification of Articulation Spaces in Dual Cities. The Example of La Brèche in Constantine,the Urban Square, Signs without Place

Morphological Identification of Articulation Spaces in Dual Cities. The Example of La Brèche in Constantine,the Urban Square, Signs without Place

Imagined inclusions into a ‘green modernisation’: local politics and global visions of Morocco’s renewable energy transition

Energy transitions in the Global South are typically said to sit somewhere between autocratic mega-projects with considerable fallout for local communities on the one hand, and promissory projects to foster a better, sustainable and more inclusive future on the other. Morocco’s ambitious energy strategy entails the construction of 20 concentrated solar power (CSP) plants across the country and aims to provide energy security and position Morocco as an exporter of green energy. While energy transitions usually reflect existing power hierarchies, this article focuses on the dynamics Morocco’s energy transition plan has set in motion at the local level in affected communities. Based on fieldwork in the province of Tata, where two CSP plants are planned, the article argues that the promising yet elusive vision of solar energy has created a space for political articulation and agency at the grassroots level. Morocco’s energy transition is conceptualised in terms of an imaginary of ‘green modernisation’ that operates in two diverging dimensions: as an ideological glue legitimising and reproducing the regime’s existing power by ‘greening’ its political-economic system; and as a site for novel forms of activism to problematise power structures and articulate demands for political participation, inclusion and public infrastructural investments.

Regional inter-managers commission: local space for agreement and inter-federative articulation?

The Regional Intermanagers Commission (CIR) configures the space for agreement, articulation, cooperation and strengthening of the health region. The aim of this study was to reflect on the normative provisions that underlie the construction of the commission as a place of consolidation of regional management attenuating interfederative conflicts. Having as a guide question: how do the Regional Inter-Management Commissions provide local spaces of agreement and interfederative articulation? Qualitative study, based on documentary research, based on the analysis of the resolutions of the Regional Inter-Management Commissions of Alagoas, corresponding to the period from 2017 to 2019, using Decree 7.508/11 as a reference standard. The results were organized into four categories: Regional Health Planning; organization of health care actions and services: health region; Federalism, CIR and the financing of health services; governance and CIR: channel of negotiation and decision between municipal managers and the State within the Health Region. The Regional Inter-Management Commissions develop significant work in the discussions of regional policies, being a fundamental tool for strengthening governance in the territories, by negotiating the allocation and distribution of resources, essential for planning, interfederative pacts, and health financing, playing a key role for the regional health system of Alagoas, democratic, political and cooperative space.

Shifting articulations of space and security: boundary work in European space policy making

ABSTRACT European space policy is currently at a watershed. In 2021, there will be two institutions responsible for European space activities: The EU Space Agency (EU SPA) and the civilian European Space Agency (ESA) founded in 1975. This article investigates how new objectives and governance scheme(s) of European space activities reflect the increasing securitisation of space in Europe. Linking work in critical security studies to the concept of boundary work from science and technology studies (STS) I outline three phases of boundary work – expansion, expulsion and protection of autonomy – that all show how the dividing lines between peaceful and militarised space activities have become increasingly blurred. The conclusion argues that we currently witness a shift in the visions of European integration in space, with ESA remaining outside the EU framework and open to non-EU members while the EU SPA is accessible to EU members only and explicitly dedicated to the use of space for security. As the strategic potential of outer space is likely to grow, the paper offers a critical empirical investigation of the ongoing transformation in European space policy that has significant consequences for how we envision a “united Europe in space”.

Faces and Surfaces in the Landscape of Pasolini’s ‘Palestina’

Hardly known that Pier Paolo Pasolini has created a landscape trilogy through the location-hunting documentaries in his oeuvre. The first of these works is also the one that comprises the spine of this essay, Sopraluoghi in Palestina (Locations in Palestine, 1963), the second one is Appunti per un film sull'India (Notes for a Film on India, 1968), and finally, in Per un'orestiade africana (Notes for an African Oresteia, 1969/70). The use of historically and culturally layered landscapes from varying perspectives makes his documentaries a ”territorial assemblage” in which any number of things or pieces of things has gathered. Following the footprints of Pier Paolo Pasolini, this study aims to explore the film, namely Sopraluoghi in Palestina (Locations in Palestine, 1963) and to present different articulation of space, landscape, territory and place. Particularly, the narrative information, pure observation and his self-experience of landscape are spliced together in mythical as well as historical shots which have been incandescently defined by his poetic realism. Film, indeed, not only does enable to mediate some Deleuzoguattarian concepts penetrating from philosophy to cinema, but also does open new paths for ”thinking differently” on the complexity of space. This article, by delving into the real-time shots of the film will problematize the spatial-temporal dimensions are involved in the cartography formed by heterogeneous forces or/and multiplicities defined by ”zones of indiscernibility” in the landscape. In this way, I target to reveal its diagrammatic formation which provide the viewer thinking through words and images, nature and culture, faces and surfaces.

Morfología urbana, infraestructuras ferroviarias y crecimiento económico en las ciudades cántabras

En el territorio de la actual Comunidad Autónoma de Cantabria tuvo lugar desde mediados del siglo XVIII un intenso proceso de articulación territorial que culminó con la construcción del Ferrocarril de Isabel II y de la red ferroviaria de vía estrecha. Las nuevas infraestructuras viarias favorecieron el crecimiento de algunos núcleos urbanos entre los que se encuentran Castro Urdiales, Torrelavega y, sobre todo, la capital regional, Santander. Aunque con distinta intensidad, tiempos y ritmos, representan tres notables ejemplos del proceso de transición urbana y urbanística en España.El núcleo central de la investigación en que se apoya este artículo es el impacto urbanístico diferencial de las infraestructuras ferroviarias en la remodelación de la morfología urbana y en el nacimiento de nuevos paisajes urbanos.En Santander influyeron en la potenciación del centro urbano y de la “ciudad balnearia” de El Sardinero, así como en la configuración de áreas suburbanas y periurbanas industriales, que constituyeron unidades paisajísticas bien diferenciadas. En Torrelavega las dos estaciones existentes funcionaron de manera muy distinta en la articulación del espacio y el paisaje urbano. Los ferrocarriles mineros de Castro Urdiales constituyeron un verdadero “cinturón de hierro” mientras que, por el contrario, la localización periférica de la estación tuvo escaso impacto.

Bi-Stream Pose-Guided Region Ensemble Network for Fingertip Localization From Stereo Images.

In human-computer interaction, it is important to accurately estimate the hand pose, especially fingertips. However, traditional approaches to fingertip localization mainly rely on depth images and thus suffer considerably from noise and missing values. Instead of depth images, stereo images can also provide 3-D information of hands. There are nevertheless limitations on the dataset size, global viewpoints, hand articulations, and hand shapes in publicly available stereo-based hand pose datasets. To mitigate these limitations and promote further research on hand pose estimation from stereo images, we build a new large-scale binocular hand pose dataset called THU-Bi-Hand, offering a new perspective for fingertip localization. In the THU-Bi-Hand dataset, there are 447k pairs of stereo images of different hand shapes from ten subjects with accurate 3-D location annotations of the wrist and five fingertips. Captured with minimal restriction on the range of hand motion, the dataset covers a large global viewpoint space and hand articulation space. To better present the performance of fingertip localization on THU-Bi-Hand, we propose a novel scheme termed bi-stream pose-guided region ensemble network (Bi-Pose-REN). It extracts more representative feature regions around joints in the feature maps under the guidance of the previously estimated pose. The feature regions are integrated hierarchically according to the topology of hand joints to regress a refined hand pose. Bi-Pose-REN and several existing methods are evaluated on THU-Bi-Hand so that benchmarks are provided for further research. Experimental results show that our Bi-Pose-REN has achieved the best performance on THU-Bi-Hand.

Proyecto TID: Transferencia - Innovación - Diseño para la Diversificación Productiva Exportadora de la Región del Biobío, Chile

Biobío es una de las regiones más importantes de Chile a nivel productivo. Fuente de recursos forestales, agropecuarios y pesqueros, polo de desarrollo industrial, de formación de capital humano e investigación, es una de las zonas con mayor proyección de crecimiento y descentralización. En este contexto, el Comité de Desarrollo Productivo Regional tiene como objetivo incrementar la capacidad innovadora y la competitividad del tejido empresarial, en especial de sus pequeñas y medianas empresas. Es aquí donde el diseño posee un espacio que no se ha formalizado como tal. La Facultad de Diseño de la Universidad del Desarrollo ha tenido como misión, desde sus comienzos, impulsar la realización de proyectos académicos que posibiliten a sus estudiantes estar en contacto directo con el emprendimiento y los procesos de desarrollo económico. Gracias a la adjudicación del Fondo de Innovación para la Competitividad Gobierno Regional del Biobío, al apoyo del Instituto de Innovación Interdisciplinaria iCubo UDD y ProChile Regional, a partir de 2014, nace el proyecto TID, el cual permitió fortalecer dicho vínculo y profundizar el trabajo colaborativo entre la universidad y el sector productivo. TID se planteó en su inicio como una experiencia piloto para fomentar la transferencia tecnológica entre academia y empresa local, a través de la disciplina del diseño. Su propósito fue contribuir a la visibilización de oportunidades para instalar el diseño como pieza clave en el engranaje de generación de innovación a nivel regional, aportando al cambio de malla curricular; a la formación de capital humano de diseñadores entrenados en innovación; a la implementación de infraestructura y tecnologías; a la ejecución de un programa piloto de transferencia de diseño a 12 empresas regionales; y a la implementación de diversas acciones de difusión del diseño a nivel regional y nacional como un catalizador de competitividad tanto en economías desarrolladas como emergentes. La participación de representantes regionales de instituciones académicas, gobierno, asociaciones gremiales y empresarios, y la transferencia de diseño a empresas, nos entregaron la oportunidad de contrastar visiones para un mejor entendimiento de la realidad de esta disciplina. Pero no solo eso, también nos dieron la posibilidad de obtener valiosos aprendizajes, que son la base para la propuesta de desafíos y responsabilidades a coordinar entre la triada Estado-Academia -Empresa (también denominada triple hélice), para incorporar al diseño en la Estrategia Regional de Innovación.

Surgimento e consolidação da Semana Internacional de Arqueologia Discentes MAE/USP: uma reflexão

Este artigo discute e reflete sobre a criação e consolidação da Semana Internacional de Arqueologia Discentes MAE/USP (SIA), que surgiu em 2007 e passou a ocorrer com frequência bianual. Organizada de forma aberta e colaborativa por discentes do Museu, a SIA se tornou um espaço de articulação, troca de conhecimentos e experiências, que desempenha um papel fundamental na formação de futuros profissionais engajados com a ciência e a gestão do patrimônio arqueológico no cenário nacional da Arqueologia. Ao longo das várias edições, o evento se profissionalizou e ganhou a marca internacional, com a criação de um protocolo dinâmico e democrático para que estudantes possam exercer trabalhos conjuntos e de maior inserção institucional. Uma organização feita por discentes e voltada para pessoas interessadas em geral, a SIA potencializou seu espírito aberto e o diálogo crescente com os diferentes coletivos humanos que vem demandando novas práticas e posturas do fazer arqueológico. Por meio de entrevistas, questionários, análises da documentação e nossa experiência pessoal, trazemos aqui um olhar sobre a história da SIA e seu papel na trajetória acadêmica de discentes e no Museu como um todo. Esperamos que essa reflexão possa contribuir com o estímulo para a continuidade e surgimento de outros eventos semelhantes pelo país.