Temporary Forms Research Articles

Beyond Permanent Residences: Measuring Place Attachment in Tempo-Local Housing Arrangements

Current societal shifts, including increased mobility, advances in information technologies, and diverse lifestyles, are driving postmodern housing arrangements that prioritize mobility and flexibility. The traditional view of housing as fixed and stable is evolving to encompass temporary forms, including multi-locality, which are often underestimated due to measurement challenges. Recognizing and integrating the potential of transient populations into urban societies is crucial to enhancing community cohesion and reducing social fragmentation. Therefore, the development of rootedness, emotional connection, and spatial identity should be analyzed in the context of temporary housing practices. Data collected through a representative survey in two major German urban regions in 2023 enable the validation of a four-dimensional place attachment scale, which includes the dimensions of place identity, place dependence, ambient bonding, and social bonding. Each dimension includes distinct elements of place-making constructions. The classification of four tempo-local housing types serves as the foundation for measuring how the temporal and spatial structure of housing arrangements influences emotional attachment to one’s place of residence. Interestingly, spatial mobility, when paired with temporal stability in each location, can cultivate deep connections, revealing an often-overlooked potential within this group. The results emphasize the significance of incorporating spatio-temporal dimensions of housing to foster inclusive, comprehensive, and diverse urban development.

The use of mnemonics techniques in teaching german grammar

The article deals with the specifics of teaching grammatical structure of the German language. Particular attention is paid to the use of mnemonic techniques designed to facilitate the processes of perception and memorization of new information, as well as to facilitate the usage of already studied grammar rules. Mnemonic techniques used when working with the category of gender of nouns, temporary forms, the morphological structure of lexical units of the German language are described separately.

Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Takotsubo Syndrome: Evolving Diagnostic and Prognostic Perspectives.

Takotsubo syndrome (TS) is a temporary form of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction characterized by a distinct pattern of LV impairment, often triggered by a physical or emotional stressful event. Historically, TS was considered a benign condition due to its prompt restoration of myocardial function and generally excellent outcomes. However, recent studies have shown that complications similar to those seen after myocardial infarction can occur, necessitating careful monitoring of these patients. Among noninvasive imaging techniques, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) is becoming increasingly important in evaluating patients with TS. CMR offers a unique ability to noninvasively assess myocardial tissue characteristics, allowing for detecting the typical features of TS, such as specific wall motion abnormalities and myocardial edema. Beyond its well-established diagnostic utility in the clinical management of TS, CMR has also proven valuable in prognosis and risk stratification for these patients. Advances in CMR, including myocardial strain and parametric mapping have expanded its role in the diagnosis, prognosis, and follow-up of these patients. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the potential applications of CMR in the diagnostic and prognostic evaluation of TS patients. It explores the emerging use of novel CMR imaging biomarkers that may enhance diagnosis, improve prognostic accuracy, and contribute to the overall management of these patients.

Accelerating social initiatives: an exploratory study on scaling in the social sector

ABSTRACT This exploratory study aims to provide an initial understanding of the role of accelerators in the public sector. Our findings on potential accelerators in the Dutch social sector show that they differ from those in the private sector. They also take temporary organizational forms, rarely select social initiatives through open calls, and support experts rather than initiators. Their contribution is difficult to measure. Their potential role in the ecosystem of social initiatives includes coordinating the scaling and focusing on effectiveness, but their role needs further development. Our findings indicate that scaling beyond should be considered as separate dimension of scaling.

Management decisions in emergency situations

The article considers management decisions made by officials in conditions preceding emergency situations, as well as when they have already occurred and to eliminate the consequences of which require the creation of temporary forms of management and the use of special forces and means. On the basis of the analysis of examples it is concluded that the effectiveness of management decisions taken in emergency situation conditions depends on the quality of their preparation. Such management decisions should be prepared in advance and formalized as much as possible, which will avoid negative consequences. It has been proved that in extreme cases in conditions of time and resource shortage, lack of necessary legal norms, in order to save people it is possible to go out of the legal field and make management decisions that violate the law. Immediately after the liquidation of the consequences of an emergency situation, it is necessary to analyze the causes and conditions of such decisions and to adopt appropriate legal acts as soon as possible.

Fabrication of Shape Memory Polymer Endovascular Thrombectomy Device for Treating Ischemic Stroke.

Stroke is the second result for death and ischemic stroke constitutes most of all stroke cases. Ischemic stroke takes place when blood clot or embolus blocks cerebral vessel and interrupts blood flow, which often leads to brain damage, permanent disability, or death. There is a 4.5-h (golden hour) treatment window to restore blood flow prior to permanent neurological impairment results. Current stroke treatments consist mechanical system or thrombolytic drug therapy to disrupt or dissolve thrombus. Promising method for stroke treatment is mechanical retrieving of thrombi employing device deployed endovascularly. Advent of smart materials has led to research fabrication of several minimally invasive endovascular devices that take advantage of new materials capabilities. One of these capabilities is shape memory, is capability of material to store temporary form, then activate to primary shape as subjected to stimuli. Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are employed as good materials for thrombectomy device fabrication. Therefore, current review presents thrombectomy device development and fabrication with SMPs. Design, performance, limitations, and in vitro or in vivo clinical results of SMP-based thrombectomy devices are identified. Review also sheds light on SMP's future outlook and recommendations for thrombectomy device application, opening a new era for advanced materials in materials science.

Temporary placement of a child in the family of an actual caregiver as a from of children`s placement

Ensuring the rights and well-being of the child is one of the main priorities of modern society. As Ukrainian and foreign legislation states that every child has the right to a family. However, due to different life circumstances, unfortunately, not every child has the opportunity to live in a family with their parents. That is why the question arises, how to ensure the realization of all the rights of a child who has lost his parents, or whose parents have given up their child. In this way, the institution of placement of a child was born. To date, Ukrainian legislation distinguishes such forms of placement of children as foster family, guardianship and care, adoption, family-type orphanage, placement in the family of relatives, acquaintances. All of these forms of placement have a clear procedure for placing a child in a family and a legal mechanism for regulating the rights and responsibilities of the person who took the child into their family, as well as the rights and responsibilities of the child. Each case of placement of children is unique and requires a specialized approach taking into account specific situations, circumstances and needs of the child. However, one form of placement should be singled out, such as placement of a child in the family of an actual caregiver. It is this form that has shown itself to be the most unexplored and at the same time convenient, first of all for a child. However, the problem of legislative implementation of temporary placement of a child by the actual guardian remains unsolved, since the existing legislation quite briefly describes the mechanism of such placement. This form of placement requires clear regulation from the side of the legislation, because the legal mechanism of placement of a child in the family of an actual tutor, the rights and obligations of the actual tutor and the pupil himself need to be researched. The article examines the advantages and disadvantages of such a temporary form of placement of a child as placement in the family of an actual tutor.

Inclusion or Exclusion? The Spatial Habitus of Rural Gentrifiers

Several rural areas all over the world have experienced the inflow of the urban better‐off. This rural gentrification takes various temporary and permanent forms, i.e., lifestyle migration, second‐home ownership, or short‐term visitors. Scholarly interest in rural gentrification is evidenced by the growing body of literature. Based on 105 semi‐structured in‐depth interviews conducted in two rural areas in Hungary, this article aims to explore the perceptions, motivations, preferences, and lived experiences of rural newcomers, their position within the community, as well as processes of inclusion and exclusion. We rely on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus and argue that it includes distinct spatial dispositions forming a “spatial habitus.” The interviews show that the middle‐class rural gentrifiers’ (spatial) habitus is entangled with their cultural capital and represents a mixture of urban and “ruralising” dispositions. Their spatial practices are interpreted as the result of middle‐class (spatial) habitus and middle‐class symbolic distinction. At the same time, middle‐class rural gentrifiers are active local agents who defy common notions of newcomers having to integrate into their communities of choice.

Temporary forms of performative space: Impact of temporary architecture on audience diversification

Abstract The term temporary forms of performative space was coined out of the need to define the group of objects under study that use temporality and the architectural input into a non-theatrical space, and serve as boundaries for performative content. One such space was designed and built in the previous part of the research. By analysing the space during its functioning, supported by examples from abroad, we offer an example of one of the possible solutions to the problem of theatre attendance. In the conducted study, we aim to support by a practical experiment the premise that temporary architectural forms intended for performance art can diversify and broaden the audience, thus making the theatre more inclusive. The method at hand involves the analysis of two performances. In the Jera show, we analyse the impact of an object located in a public space on the composition of the audience. The object adopts characteristics taken from examples from abroad. The Elektra performance serves as a reference example, where the object is present but not necessary for the relevance of the data obtained. The gathering of information – monitoring the influence of the architectural form on the composition of the audience – takes the form of questionnaires distributed before the performance. The individual questionnaires were processed into a spreadsheet from which research questions with follow-up responses were abstracted. Due to the insufficient number of comparable performances delivered, we can currently confirm the premise of the functioning of the temporary architecture as an attractor of the wider theatre audience only on the basis of the number of spectators who learned about the performance from the QR code, posted in a public space a week before the performance together with the installation of the object itself. This group of visitors surpassed 17%, which we consider a positive result that encourages us to create more testing events in various environments.

Современные инструменты развития общественных пространств и их роль в развитии туризма

Currently, public spaces are just beginning to be considered as an object of research in the field of regional economics. Public spaces increasingly determine the image of the urban environment, the comfort of living and the attractiveness of the territory for one-time visits. It is possible to increase the tourist attractiveness of the region by forming an attractive appearance of public spaces of the urban conglomeration. Little attention to the design of public spaces has led to the fact that many newly erected construction projects in Russian cities have a “faceless”, industrial image, unattractive in terms of both permanent residence and visits for tourist pur-poses. This approach is strategically not justified and does not meet modern requirements. The article studies modern approaches to the development of public spaces that correspond to the state of the external environment. The work revealed the place of public spaces in the develop-ment of the tourism industry in the Russian Federation. In the course of the study, it was proved that the design of public spaces can become a tool for the development of tourism and increasing the competitiveness of the territory in the tourism industry. The formation of public spaces makes it possible to solve the tasks set in the Strategy for the Development of Tourism of Russia: in-crease the competitiveness of a tourist product, develop cultural and educational space, business tourism, use an integrated approach to the development of tourism, etc. Such tools for the for-mation of public spaces have already been tested and successfully used: temporary architectural forms, geoplastics; gastro quarters; participatory design, digital means of sup-porting the ecosys-tem of public spaces.

Empowerment through Waiting Modalities The Transformation of Syrian Female Refugees' Activities and Productivity in Lebanese Informal Tented Settlements

This paper examines gender role reversal within Syrian refugee households through waiting modalities and rhythmic practices amongst Syrian female refugees living in informal tented se lements (ITSs) along the Lebanese–Syrian borderscape. The dominant traditional male role that was observed during the pre-Syrian war appears to rescind due to a new socio-economic status that female refugees gained in their waiting to return home. The ethnographic study revealed that female refugees performed new labour tasks and assumed new roles both inside and outside the ITSs whether working with host community members or assisting multisectoral agencies. In being productive, they transformed their passive waiting into an active waiting through cultural habits and daily practices. Their shrouded skills became unlocked. Gender empowerment is therefore constantly negotiated and renegotiated due to temporary coping mechanisms and forms of resiliency. This paper uses a multi-fold framework and deconstructs empowerment from a cultural and contextual perspective. The investigation of self-determination, sense of agency, and independence is performed through a Lefebvrian 'rhythmanalysis' lens (2013) present in the women's daily and seasonal activities.

Active market labour policies towards people with disabilities

This article examines the active employment policy for persons with disabilities of working age, ensuring the transition from social security to employment in welfare states. In the first part of the study, based on international research and EU statistics, the reasons for such a transition, the goals, and the principles of active employment policy in welfare states with social democratic, conservative-corporatist, and neoliberal models are revealed. Criteria and methods for assessing employability are presented to distinguish between persons with disabilities and the unemployed, followed by their allocation to programmes with temporary or permanent forms of support. The pathways for entering the labour market are shown, oriented towards insiders (individuals with preserved or temporarily impaired employability) and outsiders (persons with disabilities with low employment prospects). The socio-demographic characteristics of persons with disabilities affecting their productivity and employability, and determining their needs for selective support measures, are reflected. The principles of “offensive” and “defensive” active employment policies in relation to such individuals, increasing the likelihood of employment and retention in the labour market, are studied and revealed. This includes the obligations of the state, employers and persons with disabilities, aswell as incentive and punitive measures. The volume of public funds allocated to employment policy, the main directions in the expenditure classification system: services, active and passive measures are presented. The structure of expenditures and the purpose of each type of active employment measures for persons with disabilities are revealed, including job creation, start-ups, sheltered and supported employment, rehabilitation, employment incentives, and training. The priorities of active measures for persons with disabilities and employers, which contribute to their employment and retention in the labour market in welfare states with different models, are identified. The trends in the development of active employment policies over the past decade, strategies to increase its effectiveness, priorities for passive and active measures during periods of economic downturn are analysed. The results of the impact of active policies on the employment of persons with moderate and severe disabilities, as well as the consequences of changes in the accessibility of social security for disability and unemployment during the transition from social security to employment, are shown.

Event-based entrepreneurship

Many entrepreneurial opportunities are associated with events, including sports competitions, races and tournaments, concerts and music festivals, and conferences and exhibitions, yet this variant of entrepreneurship has not been specifically accounted for in the literature. We integrate insights from entrepreneurship research with research on temporary organizational forms, stakeholder theory, and platform strategy to define Event-Based Entrepreneurship (EBE) and propose factors that account for the founding and scaling of event-based ventures. In so doing, we lay the conceptual foundations and offer theoretical and practical directions for an expanded research agenda on EBE.

Solidarity on the move: Imaginaries and infrastructures within the People's March for Jobs (1981)

AbstractThis paper revisits the 1981 People's March for Jobs as a moment of unemployed activism and solidarity in the UK. The paper argues that the march revealed a spatial politics of solidarity as characterised through mobility, presence, imaginaries and dialogue. It considers how the march emerged through trade union organising and forged political alliances in articulating opposition against rising unemployment, challenging the associated stigma around labour market inactivity. Contributing to geographical scholarship on ‘working‐class presence’ and concepts of ‘imagined solidarity’, the paper explores the ‘solidarity infrastructures’ that enabled unemployed resistance. It considers material resources alongside a more generative and imaginary understanding of solidarity as fostered through the march. These more transitory and temporary forms of solidarity are meaningful in their immediacy, but also hold longer lasting impacts on both those involved and the places visited. In this regard, the combination of ‘imagined solidarities’ and ‘solidarity infrastructures’ provides geographers with an insight into the spatial dynamics of marching as resistance, as well as reflecting a wider resonance with trade union sensibilities.

Are younger adults becoming less residentially mobile? A decomposition analysis of British trends, 1997–2019

AbstractExisting evidence suggests that rates of population mobility are falling in many Global North countries. However, the magnitude, selectivity and the drivers of U.K. relocation trends remain poorly understood. Using survey data and regression decompositions, this study examines how relocation propensity during the traditionally highly mobile phase of young adulthood changed in the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2019. The results show that rates of long‐term address changing in young adulthood fell over this period due to changes in behaviour. Relocation has also become harder to predict as rates of address changing have fallen most sharply among those groups who were formerly the most mobile. The paper concludes by reflecting on the possible causes of these trends and the ways that more temporary forms of mobility may be substituting for long‐term relocations as transitions to adulthood become more protracted and precarious.

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation

ABSTRACT This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2022 with asylum seeking individuals in Glasgow. While moves to temporary accommodation were framed by state authorities and private firms as providing a “safe environment” from COVID-19, we show how these relocations amounted to a racialised process which constructed our participants as “undeserving” and “unworthy” of protection and care during a period of crisis. Our analysis highlights how this racialisation took place not only on a policy level but also in practice through everyday encounters with private provider staff. Advancing the literature on asylum housing and dispersal through new theoretical and empirical contributions, we argue that the rise of temporary forms of asylum accommodation can be understood as constitutive of racial modes of belonging within a regime of differential humanity.

Dynamic Durationality: Art As Infrastructure In The Age Of Climate Politics

Discussions of site orientation in public art have often been framed by contrasting the temporal notions of permanence and temporariness. This article leans on cross-disciplinary theorization of infrastructure—and its attention to climate change—to suggest that we see a new type of artistic interest in reengaging with permanence in the form of infrastructure development and maintenance. Specifically, the article analyzes the case of Super Reef, an artistic project that aspires to construct at least fifty-five km2 of reef along the coastline of Denmark. The article unpacks the material, social, political, and aesthetic dimensions of Super Reef as performing a dynamic durationality of interspecies infrastructure. This dynamic durationality implies a recognition of the always-already-provisional and precarious quality of any infrastructure project, while still invoking aspirations for long-term commitment to reconcile, repair, and maintain multispecies environments. If site orientations in the 1990s and early 2000s favored temporary, mobile, and social forms of artistic interventions, contemporary site orientations are suggestively more concerned with reimagining new forms of durationality.

How projects co-create value with stakeholders: The role of ideology and inquiry in spanning the temporary-permanent boundary

Projects transform organisational processes as they deliver physical artefacts and spaces. Yet in the existing literature, there is relatively little attention to how project delivery professionals engage members of an organisation to co-create value. Building on research on stakeholders and organisational boundaries, an empirical study of the renewal of a large Finnish hospital is used to develop new insight into value co-creation between temporary and permanent forms of organisation. In this hospital case study, we find a framing ideology that supports value co-creation is provided by the project practitioners’ commitment to ‘service design’, and an enquiry that enrols organisational stakeholders’ participation and reveals temporal tensions at the temporary-permanent boundary. As the emergent temporal tensions are managed, ideas flow across the boundary and new artefacts and spaces are designed by the project team concurrently with, and are informed by, the implementation of new organisational processes. This study's contribution is to explain how project delivery professionals use ideology and enquiry to engage and co-create value with organisational participants.

The nature of working in the hospitality industry: Evidence from 3S tourism in Turkiye

The main purpose of the study is to reveal the nature of working in the field of hospitality by examining employment forms and working conditions. For this purpose, the phenomenology approach was used and interviews were conducted with 32 hotel employees. According to the findings, it has been seen that temporary and precarious forms of employment are common in tourism. It is seen that the employees are kept under strict control for efficiency and productivity and the managerial hegemony is at a significant level. In addition, it has been determined that due to standardization and simplification in hotel businesses with an all-inclusive system, employees are deprived of their qualifications and become unqualified.

The procedure for exercising the right to participate in public works in the social insurance system in case of unemployment

The article is devoted to the study of the procedure for exercising the right to participate in public works by persons in the social insurance system in case of unemployment. The analysis of normative acts of Ukraine, which regulate legal relations regarding the involvement of persons in public works on a voluntary basis, was carried out.
 As a result of the study of the relevant legal framework, it is substantiated that public works in general are a temporary form of employment for citizens who are looking for work only on the referral of the territorial employment body in the order of mandatory conclusion of a fixed-term employment contract, which expresses the free will of both the employee and the employer in the event of employment relations.
 An integral element of the selection of public works is the written consent of the person. Analyzing the procedure of giving consent by a person to participate in public works in the relevant legislative acts, it is possible to follow at least several stages of giving such consent in written form. The initial stage of approval for public works is related to the issuance of a personal card. Further, the consent is recorded in the individual service provision plan (for persons who are in a state of partial unemployment) and the individual employment plan (for the registered unemployed). The final stage of approval is characterized by the absence of a refusal to conclude an employment contract in the referral for employment.
 On the basis of the studied provisions of the legislation of Ukraine, it has been proven that the Vacancy Information is a source of information about the proposed temporary jobs at the relevant employer under the terms of a fixed-term employment contract, which is provided by the employment center under the conditions and in the order provided for drawing up individual plans for the provision of services and employment. At the same time, it is mandatory to enter information about the vacancy with the serial number of the document that certifies the completeness and authenticity of the information provided by the employment center.
 In the process of clarifying the procedure for the selection of public works, it is proposed to provide that a person must within 10 working days agree to employment or refuse to participate in public works based on the vacancies offered to him. What is noted in the individual plans for the provision of services and employment with an entry in the personal card after the decision of the employment center to issue a referral for employment. The basis for issuing an order to hire an employee, if none of the parties has refused to conclude an employment contract, is a referral for employment.