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ItemNo Preview AvailableCool Roof Study( 2012-07-25)The aim of this proposal is to present the methodology and costs to complete a cool roof field performance study. The study will include: 1. Model the impact on energy consumption from applying Cool Roof to the flat roof of the Hazeldean Nursing Home in Williamstown, Victoria, using the IES Architectural software. 2. Provide a report outlining the modelling system (IES), method, major variables and expected outcome from painting the roof over a 12 month cycle (compare before and after). 3. Provide input into a review of the predicted outcomes and the actual energy savings obtained.
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ItemKnowledge management system in a construction company: A case study(Taylor & Francis Group, 2012)In an increasingly global world, with great mobility, construction companies must be in permanent alert finding new solutions in order to be more competitive and innovative, reducing costs and response times. The construction company can be seen as an entity where the confidence is a key factor in the decision. Often the more decisive choice is the one that can get the most positive evaluations of previous clients, good price and service. The system ConstruKnowledge was created to be used by construction companies for their knowledge management process. One of the innovations of this system is the fact that, in a simplified form and without great effort, the users can start using the system without be necessary to change their usual procedures. The system has been mapped in tree different sites: the My Site where are the information about the worker, the Site Room where the information of each project are and a third part called Knowledge Base Site where all the information are included regarding all the collaborator. That allow to the company to have access also to external knowledge avoiding sharing only inside, without external and refreshing ideas. The results of the system ConstruKnowledge have demonstrated that knowledge management is important for an enduring relationship between a construction company and a customer, providing the whole process documentation and construction phases that the client may require in the future.
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ItemeRubric: absolutely relative or relatively absolute?… striking a balance in the assessment of student design work.(Chulalongkorn University Printing House, 2012)As design educators, most would aim to provide clear, helpful, equitable feedback to students as they develop and refine their skills. Assessing the level of achievement in a design submission is somewhat tricky however. It is an inherently qualitative and comparative undertaking, relying on a set of relative values, and drawing on both the assessor’s response as well as the particularities of the work itself. By contrast, many academic institutions require absolute measures of students’ success, expressing this using an agreed range of values or grades. This translation can become area of some confusion, if not dissention, for students (Otswald and Williams, 2008). The eRubric is a prototype interactive assessment tool, developed to investigate and to bridge the gap between an informed intuitive response and an absolute measure. The tool was initially conceived and designed by the author when working with groups of tutors from various disciplinary backgrounds to deliver a large cohort interdisciplinary design subject. The inherent values within the undertaking were soon apparent! (Tregloan and Missingham 2010). During 2011, the eRubric was used by more than 40 design tutors to assess over 5000 student submissions. Tutors’ experiences and responses were collected via survey and interview, and inform the further development of the tool. Initial findings are presented here. The eRubric continues to be developed with the support of the Faculty of Art Design & Architecture at Monash University, as well as the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne. This paper will present the operation of the eRubric tool, and findings to date. It will also discuss the development of effective rubric terms for design education, and opportunities offered by new interface formats to support clear and informed intuitive evaluation of design work.
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ItemHomefullness Roundtable(https://fargfabriken.se/sv/program/kalendarium/item/836, 2012)We held an informal roundtable event where participants take the opportunity to investigate and compare perceptions of housing and homelessness in the urban contexts of Australia and Sweden. As such we extend the Homefullness project, broadening the discussion into an international context. Through this we will develop a dialogue between housing policy, creative interventions, participatory design and social activism in order to generate new ways of engaging with our goal of full housing or what we call ‘homefullness’ (See http://homefullness.net).
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ItemDharavi: Informal Settlement and Slum Upgrading(Melbourne University Publishing, 2012)
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ItemPlacing Graffiti: Creating and Contesting Character in Inner-city Melbourne(Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2012-02-01)Debates over definitions of urban graffiti as either 'street art' or 'vandalism' tend to focus on either contributions to the field of artistic practice or violations of a legal code. This paper explores the place of graffiti as an urban spatial practice-why is graffiti where it is and what is its role in the constructions and experiences of place? Through interviews and mapping in inner-city Melbourne, the paper explores the ways that potential for different types of graffiti is mediated by the micro-morphology of the city and becomes embodied into the urban habitus and field of symbolic capital. From a framework of Deleuzian assemblage theory graffiti negotiates ambiguous territories between public/private, visible/invisible, street/laneway and art/advertising. Graffiti is produced from intersecting and often conflicting desires to create or protect urban character and place identity. It is concluded that desires to write and to erase graffiti are productive urban forces, while desires to promote or protect it are problematic. © 2012 Copyright Taylor and Francis Group, LLC.
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ItemInformal urbanism and complex adaptive assemblage(LIVERPOOL UNIV PRESS, 2012-01-01)Informal urbanism, from informal settlements to economies and street markets, is integral to cities of the global South - economically, socially, environmentally and aesthetically. This paper seeks to unfold and re-think this informal/formal conception using two interconnected theoretical frameworks. First is assemblage theory derived from the work of Deleuze and Guattari, in which a series of twofold concepts such as rhizomic/tree and smooth/striated resonate with the informal/formal construct. Second is theory on complex adaptive systems, in which dynamic and unpredictable patterns of self-organisation emerge with certain levels of resilience or vulnerability. These approaches are drawn together into the concept of a complex adaptive assemblage, illustrated with brief snapshots of urban informality drawn from Southeast Asian cities. The challenge is to develop multi-disciplinary, multi-scalar methodologies to explore the ways in which informality is linked to squatting, corruption and poverty on the one hand, and to growth, productivity and creativity on the other.
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ItemInformal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2012)This paper explores the aesthetics and politics of slum tourism – what are the attractions and what are the dangers of aestheticizing poverty? We first present eleven images of slums and informal urbanism in south and Southeast Asia and suggest a complex mix of attractions for Western tourists. On the one hand informal urbanism can be picturesque with elements of nostalgia and a quest for authenticity; on the other is the shock of the real, the spectacle of intensive labyrinthine urbanity and an uneasy voyeurism. We suggest the attraction is more the anxious and awe-filled pleasure of the sublime than any formal beauty. The paper then changes scale to connect such imagery to the political economy and geography of the city where the visibility of slums and urban informality is linked to state and market ideologies. Informal settlements generally have negative symbolic and political capital; the developing state paradoxically needs tourists yet seeks to control the urban image for purposes of branding and to signify law and order. The slum is often hidden from the public gaze in a manner that is complicit with the reproduction of poverty. While the voyeuristic gaze of the Western tourist produces an aestheticization of poverty this does not depoliticize so much as it opens up new connections and potential transformations.
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ItemThe Big O(Architectural Association School of Architecture, 2012)Every weekday for a number of decades from the 1930s onwards workers in the Piedmontese town of Ivrea would walk along an expansive glass facade bordering the main street and file into their place of employment, the Olivetti typewriter factory. The facade cut through the industrial community, but was not a static entity. As the company’s success grew, so it did too, over a period of 23 years, until it was 600m long.