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- Hellström, Björn, 1959, et al.
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Modelling the shopping soundscape
- 2011
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In: Journal of Sonic Studies. - Leiden : Leiden University Press. - 2212-6252. ; 1
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article’s pivotal theme is: “How to compose a site-specific sound-art installation for a commercial space in order to improve conditions, while taking perceptual, social, aesthetical, temporal and spatial criteria into account” The interdisciplinary, art-based research approach is derived from the concept of acousmatics, i.e. the process of apprehending any sound, the source of which is invisible. Acousmatic perception concerns the everyday identification process; when lacking visual contact with the sound source, we automatically seek references, such as social (what produces the sound and what is my relation to it?), aesthetical, spatial and temporal (e.g. orientation and demarcation). The acousmatic concept identifies phenomena based on individually, culturally and spatially conditioned experiences. Today, a shopping culture dominates urban space. Indoor malls expose us to all types of acousmatically perceived sounds: jingles, signals, music and muzak from public loudspeakers, mobile devices, etc. In this respect, one could claim that the soundscape of the shopping culture embodies an acousmatic environment. In 2009, the research and sound-art group Urban Sound Institute (USIT) created a permanent sound installation in a shopping mall (Gallerian) located in downtown Stockholm. This installation serves as a case study for the present paper. The artistic assignment involved the creation of a meeting place without material devices as well as the enhancement of the overall atmosphere. The research objective was to elucidate different qualities of the sound installation in regard to the acousmatics of the shopping mall, promoting discussions on the articulation of sound-space configurations in relation to time and site-specific context, issues on musical-architectural qualities as well as objective, subjective and inter-subjective interrelationships between the experience of the sound-art installation and the experience of the shopping mall soundscape. Other applied, interrelated concepts are metabolic environment and masking- and cutting effects.
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- Femenias, Paula, 1966, et al.
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Earthy textiles. Experiences from a joint teaching encounter between textile design and architecture
- 2017
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In: Cumulus REDO Conference Proceedings Design School Kolding 30 May - 2 June 2017. - 9788793416154 ; , s. 236-251
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper presents experiences from a two-day teaching workshop where first year students in architecture meet with first year students in textile design for an assignment on building structures with textile, soil and plants designing for indoor gardening with the aim of inspiring for more sustainable lifestyles. The background is a research project on textile architecture with the objective of exploring this new field and to establish a platform for long-term collaboration between the disciplines of architecture and textile design. The paper addresses pedagogical challenges in the meeting between first-years students of different disciplines and traditions, but also in the meeting between research and undergraduate teaching. The students produced creative results but had difficulties in exploring the full complexity of the task. An evaluative discussion is based on observations, photo documentation, notes during group discussions, follow-up questionnaires among the students and reflections among involved researchers.
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- Hagbert, Pernilla, 1986-, et al.
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Exploring the Potential for Just Urban Transformations in Light of Eco-Modernist Imaginaries of Sustainability
- 2020
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In: Urban Planning. - Lissabon : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 5:4
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This article approaches urban ethics through critically examining the production and reproduction of an eco-modern socio-technical imaginary of sustainable urban development in Sweden, and the conditions and obstacles this poses for a just transformation. We see that notions of ecological modernization re-present problems of urban sustainability in ways that do not challenge the predominant regime, but rather uphold unjust power relations. More particularly, through an approach inspired by critical discourse analysis, we uncover what these problem representations entail, deconstructing what we find as three cornerstones of an eco-modern imaginary that obstruct the emergence of a more ethically-engaged understanding of urban sustainability. The first concerns which scales and system boundaries are constructed as relevant, and how this results in some modes and places of production and consumption being constructed as more efficient—and sustainable—than others. The second cornerstone has to do with what resources and ways of using them (including mediating technologies) are foregrounded and constructed as more important in relation to sustainability than others. The third cornerstone concerns the construction of subjectivities, through which some types of people and practices are put forth as more efficient—and sustainable—than others. Utilizing a critical speculative design approach, we explore a selection of alternative problem representations, and finally discuss these in relation to the possibility of affording a more ethical urban design and planning practice.
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- Wangel, Josefin, et al.
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Vitiden : Transforming a policy-orienting scenario to a practice-oriented energy fiction
- 2019
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In: Futures. - : Elsevier BV. - 0016-3287 .- 1873-6378. ; 112
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- There is a lack of futures studies addressing consumption and lifestyles at the level of everyday life. This article reports on the transformation of the policy-orienting scenario "Legato", developed by the Swedish Energy Agency in 2016, to a practice-oriented design speculation. The article describes the process of transformation and the resulting energy fiction “Vitiden”. The transformation involved three acts of translation. First, the scope of the transition was explored in-depth, both quantitatively and qualitatively, providing a more detailed understanding of the gap between the 'sustainable' 2050 and today. Second, the scenario Legato was analysed for practices and elements of practices that could be elaborated to descriptions of how everyday life could play out in this future. The third step involved re-presenting the practice-oriented scenario as a design speculation. The design speculation was given the form of a book named “Vitiden - an energy fiction” in which the reformulated version of Legato is presented through text and images, combining a forwardlooking manifesto and a backward-looking future archaeology. Besides the written content and the pictures and illustrations of Vitiden, the design of the book is also part of the speculation as it embodies an exploration of how publications, including form, graphic design and choice of materials, could look like in a future such as Legato.
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- Ceder, Simon, Dr, et al.
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Som en hand på axeln : Beröring som posthumanistiskt feministiskt fenomen
- 2017
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In: Studier i Pædagogisk Filosofi. - Köpenhamn : Det Kgl. Bibliotek/Royal Danish Library. - 2244-9140. ; 6:1, s. 5-24
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- [A Hand on the Shoulder: Touch as a Posthuman Feminist Phenomenon] With a posthuman feminist perspective, we explore touch as a phenomenon in the philosophy of education. Our argument is that touch is one of the prominent phenomena in educational contexts and therefore it requires closer theoretical investigation. In this article, we seek to challenge a ‘subject centric’ and ‘anthropocentric’ perspective, proposing a posthuman approach where touch is relationally intra-active and constantly present with multiple directions. Inspired by the methodological approach ‘concept as method’, we explore the phenomenon of touch through tracing-and-cartographing how it is used in educational texts. Two central aspects – body and ‘natureculture’– appeared in the intersection of touch, education and posthuman feminism. Touch as an educational phenomenon is seen as active in highlighting everyday activities in educational practices, and pushing them to be questioned and disrupted. To conclude, we raise a few questions and discuss some challenges that emerged while working with touch as a posthuman feminist phenomenon.
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- Göthlund, Anette, 1965-
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Makt och blickar i Sisleys modebilder
- 2003
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In: Konsthistorisk Tidskrift. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0023-3609 .- 1651-2294. ; 72:3, s. 206-216
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)
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- Hellström, Björn, 1959-, et al.
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Room acoustic design in open-plan offices
- 2009
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In: Proceedings of the Institute of Acoustics Volume 31 Pt.3. - St. Albans, United Kingdom : Institute of Acoustics. - 9781615676804 ; , s. 2954-2959
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In a Nordic cooperation project the acoustical conditions in open-plan offices was investigated. Measurements have been carried out in five open plan offices accompanied with an inquiry gathering the subjective judgments by the staff. A program for the acoustical measurements was designed specifying how to perform the measurements and which type of parameters to measure. The acoustical parameters included in the measurements are Reverberation time T20, Early Decay Time (EDT), Clarity (C50), Speech transmission index (STI), Speech intelligibility index (SII), Privacy Index (PI), Rate of spatial decay of sound pressure levels per distance doubling (DL2 ), Excess of sound pressure level with respect to a reference curve (DLf), background noise levels in occupied and unoccupied offices. In two of the offices are furbishment program was carried out. Measurements as well as questionnaire were accomplished after refurbishment. The effect on room acoustic parameters DL2 and DLf and on subjective judgments by the staff will be presented in this paper.
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- Rosenqvist, Johanna, 1971-
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När design görs (o)görs kön : Om görandebilder, genus och genre
- 2017
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In: Performativitet. - Stockholm : Stockholm University Press. - 9789176350478 - 9789176350447 - 9789176350454 - 9789176350461 ; , s. 17-43
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Utifrån föreställningen om Butlers genus som en "stiliserad upprepning av handlingar" som kommer till uttryck i gester, rörelser och stilar och Iris Marion Youngs studie av vad det innebär att "kasta tjejkast", undersöks performativa aspekter av att göra design. Utifrån tre bilder ur FORM diskuteras hur föreställningar om kön får effekter i designpraktiken så som den porträtteras i tidskriften.
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- Zethson, Michell, 1976-
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Destabiliserande mjölkflöden
- 2019
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In: Tidskrift för Genusvetenskap. - Uppsala : Tidskrift för genusvetenskap. - 1654-5443 .- 2001-1377. ; 40:1, s. 29-48
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This essay focuses on processes wherein human bodyfluids are materialized as foody and potentially edible. Influenced by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, I follow a milky rhizome (2015). This brings me to, among other things, breastmilk rings in China, breastmilk ice cream and to cows whose genes have been manipulated to produce breast milk. Scholars within critical animal studies pinpoint that animals are made absent when their bodies are transformed into edible matter. Carol J. Adams terms this the structure of the absent referent (2004, 2013). In this article however, I show that, in a similar way, the foodiness of human bodies is continuously made absent. Situations when humans appear as foody tend to generate feelings of disgust and repulsion. At the same time, I also argue that processes such as these can be interpreted in widely different ways depending on the (body and) context, and that the milky flows are considered most threatening when they are connected with – or emanate from – the bodies of Others.
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