Unplanned Encounters Research Articles

Socio-spatial perspectives on open-plan versus cellular offices

PurposeThis research provides a new perspective on the long-standing debate of open-plan versus cellular offices. It analyzes the effects of workplace layouts on organizational outputs such as innovation, efficiency and privacy by considering the physical space of an organization alongside its organizational structure. This socio-spatial approach draws on correspondence theory originating from space syntax to understand the potential for unplanned encounters between diverse groups of people.Design/methodology/approachThree different organizations are studied, two open-plan and one cellular office. Floor and seating plans are analyzed to calculate the degree of correspondence between the spatial and conceptual closeness of people. Demands for each organization are derived from semi-structured interviews and publicly available information.FindingsThe three studied organizations present very different degrees of openness toward others in ways that challenge conventional views of cellular and open-plan offices. In each case, the degree of correspondence matches the demands placed on the organization, and hence, providing a relatively good fit between the organization and interior environment.Research limitations/implicationsA larger sample of open-plan and cellular offices would be useful to consider in further research.Practical implicationsManagers can use the concept of correspondence to generate the appropriate degree of unplanned encounters between the right sets of people in order to achieve the best organization-environment fit.Originality/valueThe main innovation of this paper lies in its socio-spatial approach, considering physical space alongside managerial, organizational choices.

How Can You Know the Bible and Not Believe in Our Lord? Guiding Pilgrims across the Jewish–Christian Divide

Drawing on auto-ethnographic descriptions from four decades of my own work as a Jewish guide for Christian Holy Land pilgrims, I examine how overlapping faiths are expressed in guide–group exchanges at Biblical sites on Evangelical pilgrimages. I outline several faith interactions: Between reading the Bible as an affirmation of Christian faith or as a legitimation of Israeli heritage, between commitments to missionary Evangelical Christianity and to Judaism, between Evangelical practice and those of other Christian groups at holy sites, and between faith-based certainties and scientific skepticism. These encounters are both limited and enabled by the frames of the pilgrimage: The environmental bubble of the guided tour, the Christian orientations and activities in the itinerary, and the power relations of hosts and guests. Yet, unplanned encounters with religious others in the charged Biblical landscape offer new opportunities for reflection on previously held truths and commitments. I conclude by suggesting that Holy Land guided pilgrimages may broaden religious horizons by offering an interreligious model of faith experience based on encounters with the other.

Efecto Ítaca (La importancia del camino)

Este ensayo desea hacer reflexionar que por la premura y velocidad de nuestra época, e influidos por la voluntad de conseguir aceleradamente nuestras metas, uno se pierde de impagables joyas, grandes regalos de la vida; que desdichadamente por la aceleración en la que nos encontramos, las ignoramos o simplemente no las vemos, desestimando así las carreteras secundarias, los otros caminos, los alternativos con sus regalos inesperados y siendo este el espíritu de nuestra época; por ello pretendo bajo el nombre de efecto Ítaca dar una alternativa y bajo la soberbia influencia de la poética y con la epifanía del poema homónimo Ítaca de Konstantinos Kavafis, reflexionar sobre el valor del camino en el devenir de nuestras vidas, y que al final serían las que enriquecerían nuestras interioridades, es decir nuestras ciudades interiores o contenidos y sobre todo aprendiendo a no dar una exagerada importancia a las metas, en favor de los caminos alternos y sus agradables sorpresas, que por fortuna de las serendipias (encuentros afortunados no planificados) nos pueden hacer mejores personas, por supuesto si estamos dispuestos a recorrer estos otros caminos, los mejores, los que magnifican nuestras metas.

Impact of an extended International Normalized Ratio follow-up interval on healthcare use among veteran patients on stable warfarin doses.

To analyze the impact of a 12-week extended International Normalized Ratio (INR) follow-up interval on healthcare use. A prospective cohort study of the use of an extended INR follow-up interval of up to 12 weeks was conducted over 2 years in a pharmacist-managed anticoagulation clinic. A detailed protocol was used to extend the INR follow-up interval to 5-6 weeks and then 7-8 weeks and 11-12 weeks. The number of planned and unplanned anticoagulation encounters, procedures requiring warfarin interruption, telephone triage phone calls, emergency department visits, and hospitalizations were collected. A post hoc subanalysis was also completed on participants who were scheduled for 4 consecutive 12-week intervals. Compared to baseline, at 12 months there was a mean decrease in planned anticoagulation encounters of 2.24 visits (p < 0.001) among 44 participants. From 12 to 24 months compared to baseline, there was a mean decrease in planned anticoagulation encounters of 3.13 visits (p < 0.001) and an increase of 0.54 unplanned anticoagulation encounters (p = 0.04) among 39 participants. The remainder of healthcare use variables were not statistically significantly different from baseline at any time point. Of the 15 participants scheduled for 4 consecutive 12-week intervals, there was a decrease from baseline of approximately 5 visits over the course of a year (p < 0.001). An extended INR follow-up interval appears to decrease anticoagulation healthcare use without an increase in acute healthcare use. While this intervention could be cost-effective, institutions need to consider safety, efficacy, and feasibility prior to implementation.

Encounters—Ongoing

Abstract The series of drawings, Encounters – ongoing stems from chance meetings on leisurely road trips around the mountains of Lebanon. The drawings act as markers of my conversations with landowners, farmers, and people directly working in the fields. The formal particularities of drawing, and specifically the use of ink washes, allows for an approach that is both intuitive and intentional. This approach reproduces the spontaneity of these accidental or brief exchanges with people who have a vested interest in Lebanese land. Each conversation is represented by a simple tree branch, or a fragment of a (flowering) plant, belonging to the site and moment the encounter took place. This fragment indexes an encounter in which the farmer's story, experience, or relationship to the land and its borders was shared. Excerpts from our exchanges are also hand-written in Arabic on the picture plane. In the directness of the creative process, and the abstraction of the conversations, this project alludes to, and yet blurs, the sectarian divisions upon which the ownership of land is based, as well as a present geopolitical context. What I share is the marking of unplanned encounters through the representations of fragmented personal accounts along specific terrains and borders.

MP23-16 RISK FACTORS FOR UNPLANNED ENCOUNTERS AFTER URETEROSCOPY: DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, IBS, FIBROMYALGIA, IC

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES:Ureteroscopy (URS) is generally accepted as an outpatient procedure in most cases, however many patients have unplanned encounters following surgery. We sought to examin...

Risk of Unplanned Hospital Encounters in Patients Treated With Radiotherapy for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

ContextRadiotherapy is highly effective for treating squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck but is often associated with significant toxicities and severe morbidity. Unplanned emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations are common during treatment and come with a substantial financial and health burden as well as the potential for impaired long-term outcomes due to treatment disruption. ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to identify patient, disease, and treatment characteristics that were associated with ED encounters and admissions. MethodsA cohort of 462 patients with cancer of the head and neck treated with radiotherapy at UT Southwestern between 2010 and 2015 was retrospectively analyzed. The risks of ED visits, admissions, multiple admissions, and extended admissions were determined. Risk factors for an unplanned hospital encounter were analyzed using univariate and multivariate logistic regression. ResultsOverall, 36% of patients had an unplanned hospital encounter during the treatment window. Patients with advanced disease, those with high comorbidity score, and those treated with concurrent chemotherapy were more likely to have unplanned admissions/ED visits. Social factors such as marital status, smoking status, and registration in the public hospital system were also strongly associated with admissions and multiple encounters. ConclusionThe high rate of admissions and ED visits emphasizes the importance of anticipating and managing toxicities during treatment. Social factors have a strong association with unplanned encounters and may present opportunities for targeted interventions to reduce admissions for patients at highest risk.

Unplanned 30-Day Encounters After Ureterorenoscopy for Urolithiasis.

To identify avoidable predictors of postureteroscopy (URS) unplanned encounters and to minimize 30-day encounters. We performed retrospective chart review and telephone surveys on patients who underwent URS for urolithiasis between January and June 2016. Univariate and multivariable analyses evaluated for potential predictors of unplanned encounters. Of 157 patients, there were 44 (28.0%) unplanned patient-initiated clinical phone calls, 23 (14.6%) emergency department (ED) visits, and 8 (5.1%) readmissions, with pain being the most common complaint during the encounters. Factors associated with a higher rate of phone calls include first-time stone procedure (36.6% vs 20.9%, p = 0.029), outpatient status (30.3% vs 0%, p = 0.021), intraoperative stent placement (31.2% vs 0%, p = 0.006), and stent removal at home (58.8% vs 28.8%, p = 0.014). Factors associated with increased rate of ED visits were first-time stone procedure (22.5% vs 8.1%, p = 0.011) and ureteral access sheath (UAS) usage (29.6% vs 11.8%, p = 0.018). Factors associated with a higher rate of readmissions were lower body mass index (23.9 vs 29.7, p = 0.013), bilateral procedure (20.0% vs 2.9%, p = 0.010), and UAS usage (14.8% vs 3.1%, p = 0.032). Stone burden, operative time, Charlson comorbidity index, and preoperative urinary tract infection were not significantly associated with postoperative encounters. Pain, first-time stone treatment, presence of a ureteral stent, outpatient status, bilateral procedures, and UAS usage were common reasons for postoperative encounters after URS. Appropriate perioperative patient education and counseling and adequate pain management may minimize these encounters and improve treatment quality and patient satisfaction.

Rethinking melas as subaltern spaces: Pardhan blacksmiths and some aspects of ‘caste-passing’ in fairs, 1872–1931

Nineteenth-century melas (fairs) were evanescent public spaces that facilitated anonymity and unplanned encounters between castes, classes, men and women. By recognizing caste-passing in various mela clusters, historians gain insights into a range of subaltern debates about caste. Caste-passing involved lower caste adoption of the accouterments of upper castes and threatened social hierarchy. Opaque to police, associational life within fairs signified a society undergoing transformation. The figure of the Pardhan blacksmith embodied the unknowable fair-going crowd. Hailing from an adivasi (indigenous) community in the Central Provinces of India, these blacksmiths attracted police notice. Pardhan blacksmiths deployed their skills towards manufacturing imitation gold; at the fair they passed off as members of upper castes. For the police, Pardhan caste-passing within fairs threatened to unravel taxonomies of tribe and caste, region and religion. It was at the fair that hounded and persecuted Pardhan blacksmiths found some respite from the theft of their lands and labour. Through an analysis of caste-passing, a social history emerges of nineteenth-century fairs in colonial India that foregrounds experiences of those fairgoers who were members of ‘criminal tribes’ persecuted by colonial police, and the plebeian multitude that mingled in melas and participated in anti-caste debates.

The Role of Unplanned Encounters and Complexity of Influences in Foreign Graduates' First Full-Time Job Search in Singapore

Singapore is host to an increasing number of foreign tertiary students, who also intend to work there upon graduating to serve a bond and/or for better career prospects. According to Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC), an individual’s career decision making and choices are not systematic, but are subject to change. Using twenty-six interviews with foreign graduates, this paper aimed to understand the role of unplanned events and complexity of influences accounted for in CTC in their first full-time job search in Singapore – an area that has hitherto lacked research attention. Findings indicated their job search decision-making and choices are not methodical, but are subject to change depending on how they perceive and respond to unplanned encounters and influences.

The Role of Unplanned Encounters and Complexity of Influences in Foreign Graduates' First Full-Time Job Search in Singapore

Singapore is host to an increasing number of foreign tertiary students, who also intend to work there upon graduating to serve a bond and/or for better career prospects. According to Chaos Theory of Careers (CTC), an individual’s career decision making and choices are not systematic, but are subject to change. Using twenty-six interviews with foreign graduates, this paper aimed to understand the role of unplanned events and complexity of influences accounted for in CTC in their first full-time job search in Singapore – an area that has hitherto lacked research attention. Findings indicated their job search decision-making and choices are not methodical, but are subject to change depending on how they perceive and respond to unplanned encounters and influences.

Maritime Confidence-building Measures for Navigation in the South China Sea

This article considers the development and efficacy of maritime confidence-building measures (cbms) to ensure safe and secure navigation in the region, and to reduce tension and prevent conflict. The 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (losc) and the 1972 International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (colreg) are multilateral agreements that set forth legally binding obligations of all states. The 2014 Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (cues) provides greater fidelity for duties of safe interaction at sea, but it is nonbinding. The two major powers signed in 2014 and 2015 a legally nonbinding Memorandum of Understanding (mou) on the Rules of Behaviour for Safety of Air and Maritime Encounters. This article concludes that the nonbinding instruments are unlikely to enhance navigational safety or security, and in some respects, may even undermine it.

The Arbitral Award in the Matter of the South China Sea between the Philippines and China

This article considers the implications of the Award for freedom of navigation and the use of force in the South China Sea, identifying the conclusions that can be drawn from the Award and the questions that remain. The Award also indirectly raised the question of the use of force to defend navigational rights. This article therefore revisits the Corfu Channel Case for the light it may shed on the use of force and freedom of navigation in the South China Sea. This leads to questions of the danger of miscalculation and the potential importance of the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (cues) in reducing the potential for miscalculation to occur. This article argues that the de-escalatory approach of cues may be the way in which States can assert competing rights without such action leading to loss of life.

Code for unplanned encounters at sea and its practical limitations in the East and South China Seas

ABSTRACTThe Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea [CUES 2014 Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (Western Pacific Naval Symposium, 22 April 2014] was finally adopted by the Western Pacific Naval Symposium in 2014. It is an important step toward improving confidence between navies. However, as a non-legally binding document with unclear geographical scope which only applies to naval vessels and aircraft, CUES 2014 is not comprehensive or potent enough, especially in the East and South China Seas where maritime disputes are unresolved and most maritime incidents involve civilian law enforcement vessels and aircraft. This article provides a geostrategic picture of the East and South China Seas, the background of the code, and analyses the practical limitations of CUES 2014 in the context of the East and South China Seas.

Conceptualizing Medieval Book Collections

This article argues for a conceptual distinction between the practices and ideologies of institutional learning on the one hand (whose natural vehicle was Latin, the language of formal education) and those of a vernacular written culture that both challenges and models itself on the former. The garden, used as a figure for the ideal library by Richard de Fournival in the thirteenth century, creates order through the institutionalization of knowledge and the exclusion of undesirable elements. By contrast, the forest is deployed by medieval and modern thinkers to embody a wild, unsorted chaos apparently inimical to learning. And yet the forest in medieval literature functions as a margin always in contact with civilization, whose illicit danger is matched by its attractiveness as a space for unplanned encounters and reconfigurations of hierarchy and authority. As I demonstrate, an analogous concern with the potential for book collections to lead readers to unexpected discoveries is a recurrent theme of vernacular authors from Benoit de Sainte-Maure to Chaucer. This conceptual approach to the function and cultural value of medieval libraries offers a supplementary perspective to more traditional ‘book archaeology’, one which may be especially fruitful for making sense of the often fragmentary and vague records of private ownership.

The ADMM-Plus: Regionalism That Works?

The decision by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus (ADMM-Plus) in Malaysia in November 2015 to scrap a planned joint statement on the South China Sea issue was a stark reminder of the persistent differences among some of its member states. The ADMM-Plus is made up of the ten ASEAN countries and Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, Russia, South Korea, and the United States. The failure to agree on a statement fostered the impression that the ADMM-Plus could go the way of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), an older and more established regional experiment in security cooperation that many today feel has grown moribund.1 Moreover, despite the decision by the ADMM-Plus to conduct its ministerial gatherings on a biennial rather than triennial basis, some pundits warn of the risk that the ADMM-Plus will end up as a talk shop that achieves little real progress.2But for the officials and military practitioners who make the ADMM-Plus tick, nothing could be further from the truth. Since the inaugural ADMM-Plus in Vietnam in 2010, joint military exercises involving the grouping's eighteen member countries have grown in frequency and complexity. Working groups set up in areas such as counterterrorism, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief (HADR), maritime security, military medicine, peacekeeping, and de-mining have started to bear fruit, albeit in certain areas more than in others. That said, despite its impressive accomplishments in practical collaboration-indeed, the ADMM-Plus has gone further than any existing regional cooperative framework-there are questions concerning how effective the ADMM-Plus can truly be as a mechanism for mitigating tensions and alleviating the trust deficits that have come to define interstate relations today in hotspots like the South China Sea.ASEAN Defense Cooperation before the ADMM-PlusSince the 1970s, if not earlier, the ASEAN countries have had no qualms about exploiting the space between collective and nonsecurity-oriented regionalism through bilateral security cooperation with one another, such as via border security agreements and intelligence exchanges. During the 1980s, Singapore's prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew, proposed the idea of a trilateral or even quadrilateral arrangement, which was roundly rejected by his ASEAN counterparts. Subsequent calls were rendered by the Indonesian and Malaysia foreign ministers, Mochtar Kusumaatmadja and Abu Hassan Omar, for an ASEAN military arrangement and community, respectively.3 By 1989, bilateral military exercises between the so-called core ASEAN states-Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore-had become sufficiently thick as to merit being described by Indonesian vice president Try Sutrisno as a defense spider web. 4At its summit in Singapore in 1992, ASEAN formally included security issues in its agenda. By the mid-1990s, trilateral cooperation involving Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore had become relatively commonplace. The establishment of the ARF in 1994 paved the way for regular consultation among Asia-Pacific officials and practitioners through mechanisms such as the ARF Defence Officials' Dialogue and the ARF Security Policy Conference. Beyond the formal auspices of ASEAN, various military-to-military interactions and activities that have been regularized include the ASEAN Chiefs of Defence Forces Informal Meeting, the ASEAN Chiefs of Army Multilateral Meeting, the ASEAN Navy Interaction, the ASEAN Air Force Chiefs Conference, the ASEAN Military Intelligence Meeting, and the ASEAN Armies Rifles Meet. The Western Pacific Naval Symposium, formed in 1988, also deserves mention. In 2014 in Qingdao, the fourteenth symposium endorsed the establishment of a Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES), a nonbinding pact for avoiding incidents at sea between countries and preventing those that do occur from escalating. …

Supporting Serendipitous Social Interaction Using Human Mobility Prediction

Leveraging the regularities of people's trajectories, mobility prediction can help forecast social interaction opportunities. In this paper, in order to facilitate real-world social interaction, we aim to predict “serendipitous” social interactions, which are defined as unplanned encounters and interaction opportunities and regarded as emerging social interactions. We collected GPS trajectory data from people’ daily life on campus and use it as empirical mobility traces to generate decision trees and model trees to predict next venues, arrival times, and user encounter. Mobility regularities are mainly considered in these prediction models, and mobility contexts (e.g., time, location, and speed) act as decision nodes in the classification trees. Experimental results using collected GPS data showed that our system achieves 90% accuracy for predicting a user's next venue using a decision tree algorithm, with minute-level (around 5 min) prediction error for arrival time using the model tree algorithm. Two prototype applications were developed to support serendipitous social interaction on campus, and the feedback from a user study with 25 users demonstrated the usability of these two applications.

MP75-15 THE CONSEQUENCES OF DELAYING STONE TREATMENT

You have accessJournal of UrologyStone Disease: Evaluation I1 Apr 2015MP75-15 THE CONSEQUENCES OF DELAYING STONE TREATMENT Justin Friedlander, Nicholas Kavoussi, Shuvro De, Asim Ozayar, Nabeel Shakir, Jodi Antonelli, and Margaret Pearle Justin FriedlanderJustin Friedlander More articles by this author , Nicholas KavoussiNicholas Kavoussi More articles by this author , Shuvro DeShuvro De More articles by this author , Asim OzayarAsim Ozayar More articles by this author , Nabeel ShakirNabeel Shakir More articles by this author , Jodi AntonelliJodi Antonelli More articles by this author , and Margaret PearleMargaret Pearle More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.juro.2015.02.2712AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookTwitterLinked InEmail INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES As the prevalence of nephrolithiasis has increased, so has the need for surgery to treat stones. This is particularly relevant at publically-funded hospitals with limited resources, including operative time, leading to potential delays in care for patients with stones. Consequently, drainage procedures to stabilize the patient and protect renal function may be necessary until definitive treatment can be offered. We sought to evaluate the impact of time to stone treatment on patient morbidity and healthcare resource utilization. METHODS Using billing records, we identified consecutive patients undergoing surgical stone procedures (shock wave lithotripsy, ureteroscopy, percutaneous nephrolithotomy) performed at our county hospital between January 2011 and December 2013 and reviewed their charts from the time of initial presentation with their stone to the time of definitive surgical intervention. We recorded clinical outcomes, including need for temporizing drainage procedures and unplanned hospital encounters, from diagnosis to treatment. RESULTS During the study period, a total of 795 patients underwent definitive surgical treatment for stones. The median time from diagnosis to surgery was 79 days (range 0-1147 days). A total of 199 patients underwent temporizing drainage with a stent (n=125) or a nephrostomy tube (n=74) and 52 of these patients required at least one or more tube changes before treatment. A total of 714 unplanned encounters (emergency department (ED) or clinic visits) were required for 432 patients (54.3%), including 89 patients (11.2%) who required hospital admission. Multivariate adjusted analysis revealed that patients treated > 45 days after diagnosis were 15.2 times (95% CI 8.4-30.6, p<0.0001) more likely to have an unplanned clinic visit; 3.6 times (95% CI 2.6-5.2, p<0.0001) more likely to have an unplanned ED visit; 5.7 times (95% CI 3.9-8.4, p<0.0001) more likely to have additional imaging studies performed and 5.4 times (95% CI 3.2-9.4, p<0.0001) more likely to have a positive urine culture requiring antibiotics than patients treated within 45 days of initial diagnosis. CONCLUSIONS Longer time interval between diagnosis and treatment of stones is associated with increased patient morbidity and more frequent use of imaging studies and antibiotics. The use of temporizing drainage procedures may provide the false impression that treatment can be safely deferred. © 2015 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.FiguresReferencesRelatedDetailsCited byLee W, Chen A, Kalil R, Cohen T, Berg W, Waltzer W, Kim J and Adler H (2017) Medicaid Patients Experience Longer Wait Times at Academic Urology Clinics Compared to Patients with MedicareUrology Practice, VOL. 5, NO. 5, (360-366), Online publication date: 1-Sep-2018. Volume 193Issue 4SApril 2015Page: e953 Advertisement Copyright & Permissions© 2015 by American Urological Association Education and Research, Inc.MetricsAuthor Information Justin Friedlander More articles by this author Nicholas Kavoussi More articles by this author Shuvro De More articles by this author Asim Ozayar More articles by this author Nabeel Shakir More articles by this author Jodi Antonelli More articles by this author Margaret Pearle More articles by this author Expand All Advertisement Advertisement PDF downloadLoading ...

Worn clothes and textiles as archives of memory

Abstract The subject of this article is memory, specifically, the capacity of textiles to retain and communicate memory, both privately and publicly. I argue that cloth can be regarded as a form of archival information and as a carrier of knowledge. My questions centre on the value of textiles in our lives and on the role of textiles in the process of recollection, as well as the extent to which textiles can stimulate remembering, not through the strategic mnemonics of national monuments and events, or the mnemonic device of the souvenir, but rather through unplanned encounters with textiles in their various guises and in different contexts. Each attempt at recollection may reveal historical, cultural, and personal data. The themes of ‘archiving’ memory and ‘materializing’ memory are explored through an analysis of works of artists who use textile media in their visual practice and writers who include their memories of textiles in their works. I use ‘Miniature’ and ‘Gigantic’ as a critical tool to distinguish between two areas of analysis: the private and public within an interdisciplinary approach, combining the study of memory with philosophy, literature, history, material culture and visual studies.

Flexible topographies: Muslim spaces in a German cityscape

This paper examines transient and semi-permanent Muslim spaces, their social construction, use, and relevance for diverse pious Muslims in Stuttgart, Germany. I describe the location, creation, negotiation, and maintenance of such spaces and analyze their position and contribution to a larger urban Muslim social geography. Based on several years of ethnographic fieldwork in Stuttgart, Germany, I illustrate how individuals mark or inhabit spaces momentarily or more permanently as Muslim spaces. I illustrate how at least for the length of a particular encounter, spaces are used in manners that reflect Islamic sensitivities and normativities. These spaces are ever more inseparably and irreversibly woven into the urban fabric. Over time they become and indeed some already have become integral parts of the cityscape. Some spaces in the process of recurrent islamically inspired uses become semi-permanent or even permanent Muslim spatialities, especially in contexts with considerable Muslim interaction or movement. The density of transient encounters and spaces over time contributes to the consolidation of an increasingly well-known and shared urban Muslim social geography. Within this spatiality, pious Muslims know that planned or unplanned encounters will be framed by Muslim beliefs and practices. Paying attention to the ‘elusive evidence of the ordinary’ [Chauncey, G. (1994). Gay New York. New York: Basic Books, p. 10], I demonstrate how increasingly visible Muslim spaces and practices slowly become part of the urban fabric and every day culture.