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Spatial Experience in Architectural Environment Through Dance, Time, and Urban Choreography
Space and time are two inseparable parts of architecture. The human body experiences space through movement in different ways than dancing. A dancer carves the space through dancing. Sensorial experiences have an impact ... -
Applying Design Criteria for Autism Spectrum Disorder to the Design of Public Sports Facilities
In the last twenty years the prevalence of autism spectrum disorders has increased from 1 in 166 children diagnosed in 2004 to 1 in 59 children being in 2018 in the United States. Despite these growing numbers, the ... -
Planting Urban Buildings: Cooling and Connection in the Built Environment
Urban architectural design and construction is advancing toward greater symbiosis with the natural environment. A complex and promising trend situates plants on the building exterior, encouraging absorptive surfaces and ... -
Entangled Stewardship: Examining Contaminated Landscapes at the American Periphery
Beyond many American City cores exist a series of land uses characterized by waste, former infrastructures, homogeneous development, and ecologically entangled spaces of the American economy and productivity. This is ... -
Sanctuary for the gadget freaks: re-conceptualization of urban spaces in the age of IoT
The increasing number of gadget ownership and people’s dependence on the Internet of things (IoT) in everyday life, encourages us to reassess the concepts of ‘Placemaking’ of the digital era. If historically considered, ... -
Can We Make a Building From Waste: Reinventing Materials
One of the biggest challenges facing today’s architecture is the waste that comes from building materials. It is estimated that the construction process currently results in as much as 40% of wasted materials. This ... -
Designing Fire Stations for the Health & Wellness of Firefighters & Their Communities
Fire departments are making procedural and cultural changes due to the results of research regarding the health effects of carcinogens and firefighters' behavioral health but, where is the change in fire station design? ... -
How Vernacular Architecture Affects the Global: Lessons from Bangladesh
Vernacular architecture is a very adaptable and reasonable way to address human needs, which seems to be largely forgotten in contemporary architecture.1 For thousands of years, vernacular architecture has been ... -
Building Memories
Buildings matter because they are the symbols and the repositions of memory. Our lives are entangled with memories. Memory is the brain’s ability to store, retain or recall experiences during years. Remembering is the ... -
Rethinking the Retail Experience - From Technology to Social Engagement
The expression “going shopping” suggests an activity that supports people's need to be social. Participating in the retail experience allows for that need to be fulfilled. Shopping provides movement in a community and ... -
Addressing Homelessness as a means of Preserving the Urban Fabric
In 1772, Clarksburg, West Virginia, was a well known Appalachian city. Before the Great Depression, Clarksburg had a booming economy from coal and glass production. By the 21st Century, Clarksburg was a forgotten memory ... -
Psychological and Physiological Rehabilitation: Restoration by Natural Environment
The environment presents the nonprofit sky’s gifts: sun, air, rain, view, even Terrain. It is an environment’s instrument that could be a gift or a design problem, so the genuineness is how to use this element right to ... -
Data archive for "Substituent effects on transient, carbodiimide-induced geometry changes in diphenic acids"
Nucleotide-induced conformational changes in motor proteins are key to many important cell functions. Inspired by this biological behavior, we report a simple chemically fueled system that exhibits carbodiimide-induced ... -
HPWS data
The research focus was to examine the relationship between high-performance work system (HPWS), firm financial performance (FFP), firm innovation and improvement (FII), and firm capacity for learning and transforming ... -
Roll for Initiative: cultivating and empowering student leaders through library game nights
Since implementing a monthly board game night in 2017, we have shifted from an experimental event series designed to bring foot traffic into the libraries to one that actively partners with students as leaders. This has ... -
Wild Game Tracking System
The objective of this project was to design a mechanical carrier that attaches to the end of an arrow which was outfitted with a radio frequency transmitter placed inside of a potted housing. Once the arrow was fired, the ... -
Rhetoric and the purposes of public education: building discourse for shared responsibility
In this study, we employ discourse analysis of US gubernatorial political advertisements to analyze the discursive struggles over the purposes of public schools. The advertisements are analyzed to demonstrate how rhetoric ... -
#NeverAgainMSD Student Activism: Lessons for agonist political education in an age of democratic crisis
In this essay, Kathleen Knight Abowitz and Dan Mamlok consider the arguments for agonist political education in light of a case study based in the events of the 2018 mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, ... -
132 Words: A Critical Examination of Digital Technology, Education, and Citizenship.
This article explores the potential of digital technology to advance democratic citizenship. Drawing on critical theory and following a critical, comparative qualitative study which examined the relationships among digital ...