bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Empirical results of an experimental study on the role of password strength and cognitive load on employee productivity
Authors: Mujeye Stephen , Levy Yair , Mattord Herbert , Li Wei
Published: December 2019

The demand for information system authentication has significantly increased over the last decade. Research has shown that the majority of user authentications remain to be password based, however, it is well documented that passwords have significant limitations. To address this issue, companies have been placing increased requirements on the user to ensure their passwords are more complex and consequently stronger with little consideration on the impact on employee productivity. Thus, this study was set to determine the effects of changing the password strength (cognitive load) over time and its impact on employee productivity. An experiment with two experimental groups and one control group was conducted. Data was collected on the number of failed operating system logon attempts, users’ logon times, task completion times, and number of reset requests. The data collected from 72 participants was analyzed for group differences and when controlling for computer experience, age, and gender. Our results showed significant differences on all measures between the three groups. However, no significant differences were observed when controlling for computer experience, age, and gender. Furthermore, the results indicated a significant difference between the user’s perceptions about passwords before and after the experiment. Our results may help organizations to realize the point at which increasing authentication places a higher cognitive load on the users, which in turn affects their productivity.
Physicians' attitudes toward the use of IoT medical devices as part of their practice
Authors: Biran Achituv Dafni , Haiman Lior
Published: December 2019

The increasing number of patients using medical devices that are based on Internet of Things (IoT) technology presents physicians with a variety of challenges. The purpose of this exploratory research is to provide first insights into the way physicians perceive FDA approved IoT medical devices (IoT-MDs). A questionnaire was developed and improved after a pilot survey with the participation of 23 physicians. Data was collected from 126 physicians in 2014 and from another 50 in 2015, who answered the questionnaire, as well as from four physicians, who were interviewed. The combined results were analyzed, and a comparison between the two surveys was made. Results show that there is still not enough awareness and readiness for the use of IoT-MDs, and that there was no significant change in physicians' attitudes in 2015 compared to 2014. However, results show some differences between physicians who had previously been exposed to IoT technology and those who had not. The authors believe that IoTMDs generate data that is too raw for practical use, thereby limiting potential effectiveness. Applications that extract and highlight measured irregularities and that provide high-level, integrated information will increase physicians' openness to IoT-MDs, and will enable medical practice to be more efficient.
Sadimo digitalno - projekt digitalne eko škole
Authors: Dumančić Mario , Levar Tihana , Maljković Mirena
Published: December 2019

U akcijskom istraživanju provedenom kroz projekt Sadimo digitalno - projekt digitalne eko škole promatrali smo kako uvođenje novih tehnologija utječe na učenje i podučavanje. Projekt je realiziran kroz spoj suvremenih tehnologija i standardnih sadržaja iz aktualnog Nastavnog plana i programa. U projektu je ostvarena vertikalna suradnja između učenika drugog, četvrtog i šestog razreda i učiteljica informatike, prirode, geografije i razredne nastave. Kroz različite je aktivnosti realizirana i horizontalna suradnja između više nastavnih predmeta. Cilj je projekta usporediti rast i razvoj biljke graha koji se
zalijevao ručno s onim zalijevanim uz pomoć Micro:bita, senzora vlažnosti tla i pumpe za zalijevanje te prezentirati zaključke, analize i
rezultate dodatnih istraživanja. Kroz sve faze projekta učenici su uz pomoć učitelja osmišljavali aktivnosti vezane uz projekt, surađivali, istraživali i rješavali nastale poteškoće. Tijekom rada učenici su usmjeravani na pravilnu uporabu informacijsko-komunikacijskih tehnologija. Za potrebe projekta kreirane su i web stranice na kojima su
objavljeni učenički radovi, prezentacije i dojmovi učenika o aktivnostima i zapažanjima koje su uočili
Preferencije učenika kao polazište za organizaciju i strukturiranje nastave općeg tehničkog odgoja i obrazovanja
Authors: Suman Darko , Purković Damir
Published: December 2019

Preferencije učenika prema nastavnom predmetu važno su polazište za planiranje, pripremanje i strukturiranje nastave. Zbog dinamike tehničko-tehnološkog razvoja, preferencije učenika postaju neizostavni čimbenik za operacionalizaciju nastave općeg tehničkog obrazovanja. U tom je smislu provedeno istraživanje kako bi se odredila struktura preferencija učenika prema tehničkim sadržajima i aktivnostima te razlike u preferencijama s obzirom na karakteristična obilježja skupine.
Istraživanje je provedena na uzorku učenika osnovne škole (N = 699) u dobi od 11 do 15 godina. U svrhu istraživanja, korišten je redizajnirani
PATT upitnik, iz kojeg su izdvojeni interesi učenika prema tehničkim sadržajima i vrstama aktivnosti. Kao karakteristična obilježja skupine izdvojeni su dob i spol učenika. Rezultati istraživanja ukazuju na težnje učenika za intenziviranjem praktičnog rada, vježbi, ali i teorijskih sadržaja u nastavi. Utvrđeno je da se zanimanje učenika za sadržaje znatno mijenja tijekom sazrijevanja, od tehničkog crtanja u 5. razredu do robotske tehnologije u 8. razredu. Interesi se razlikuju i s obzirom na spol učenika, pri čemu su djevojčice sklonije tehničkom crtanju, dok dječaci preferiraju robotiku, te obradu drva i metala. Poželjna struktura naglašava potrebu prilagodbe nastave tehničkog područja spolu i dobi učenika, te je indikativna svijest učenika o važnosti praktičnih aktivnosti za vlastiti razvoj
Model autonomne kuće kao doprinos održivom razvitku Istre
Authors: Aleksić Bojan , Runko Luttenberger Lidija
Published: December 2019

U radu se obrađuju razlozi i koncept gradnje autonomnih kuća u Istri, te
način korištenja energije i materijalnih resursa. Pojašnjava se princip
samostalne izrade fotonaponskih sustava i solarnih kolektora na krovištu kuće, sakupljanje vode i njezino skladištenje uz opis primjer vlastite izrade calabash sustava kao cisterne za vodu, sustav kućne odvodnje i kompostiranje biorazgradivog otpada. Analizira se industrijska konoplja kao moguć građevinski materijal, pojašnjava se armiranje, izrada kompozita i izolacije od iste. Kod razrade kuća od bala sijena obrazlažu se njihove prednosti i jednostavnost izgradnje. Opisuju se klimatske vrijednosti Istre koje pogoduju izradu autonomnih kuća, te predlaže integriranje sadržaja o gradnji autonomne kuće u nastavu tehničke kulture
Sustav za planiranje i implementaciju projektnih zadataka u nastavi informatike
Authors: Vrsaljko Sara , Pivac Jozo , Pleština Vladimir
Published: December 2019

Nastava i oblik poučavanja orijentiran na projekte i rješavanje projektnih zadataka predstavlja odmak od klasične nastave i samim time učenicima je drugačija i zanimljivija. U ovom radu je iznesen prijedlog jednostavnog sustava za planiranje nastave informatike orijentirane rješavanju projektnih zadataka, kao prijedlog učiteljima i nastavnicima za pripremanje učenika za složeniju, projektno zasnovanu nastavu. Takav sustav predviđa planiranje, definiranje cilja, ishoda, uvodno testiranje, realizaciju, provjerljivost ishoda te analizu zadovoljstva. Cilj je ovakvog pristupa da se učenicima kroz zanimljivu temu (miniprojekt) približi problematika iz nastavnog kurikuluma te da se, na temelju povratne informacije od učenika, ustanovi njihova motiviranost za složenije strategije učenja i poučavanja, kao što je projektna nastava.
Magnetically responsive
materials for solid phase extraction
Authors: Safarik Ivo , Prochazkova Jitka , Baldikova Eva , Pospiskova Kristyna
Published: December 2019

Magnetically responsive materials have found many important applications in analytical chemistry. In this short review the basic information about Magnetic solid phase extraction and Magnetic textile solid phase extraction is given. These analytical techniques enable to preconcentrate target biologically active compounds or pollutants from water samples. Both procedures enable to lower the limit of detection using conventional analytical procedures.
Low-cost capillary electrophoresis instrumentation for assessment of rain water ionic composition
Authors: Sandak Jakub , Gorbatsova Jelena , Saar-Reismaa Piret , Kaljurand Mihkel
Published: December 2019

The objective of this Short Term Scientific Mission was to test the suitability of capillary electrophoresis for determination of rain water chemical composition. The fully functional, open-hardware, low-cost instrument was assembled and tested. An original protocol for determination of the chemical content of rain water was established and validated in the pilot test. Capillary electrophoresis proofed its highest suitability for the detection and quantification of ions in different samples, indicating substantial differences between clean and dirty snow waters. The hydrostatic sample injection method has been found very efficient and straightforward in manual and laboratory routines. An important deliverable of the Short Term Scientific Mission was a set of multimedia materials for the promotion of CE technique and especially low-cost CE instrumentation.
Monitoring of waters status on the area of the waste landfill – case study Piškornica
Authors: Nemčić-Jurec Jasna
Published: December 2019

The remediation of the municipal waste landfill reduces the harmful effects of inadequately disposed waste in the environment and reduce the risks on human health. The aim of this paper is to evaluate the efficiency of the remediation (2005 to 2012) of waste landfill of Piškornica. Groundwater from piezometers (P2, P3, P4 and P5) at Piškornica and surface water from the Gliboki stream (upstream and downstream) were analyzed, before and after the remediation. The results of the analyzed parameters (KPK, BPK5, electroconductivity, iron) showed significant decrease in values (p <0.05) and up to 82% (BPK5 in P5) after remediation. The most significant decrease in the value of the indicators was determined in the P5, which is nearest and downstream from the landfill body. Significant difference (p <0.05) was not found at the upstream and downstream locations of the Gliboki stream basin before and after remediation. The numerical model of the groundwater flow shows that groundwater pollution will not occur even in the worst scenario (the largest possible pumping of 420 l/s) of the current capacity of the Ivanščak source. The results contributed to decisions on water management and further monitoring of water plans on landfill area.
50 años de la gesta huantina por la gratuidad de la educación
Authors: Gutiérrez Gómez Edgar
Published: December 2019

La gesta huantina de hace 50 años por la restructuración de la gratuidad de la enseñanza, en razón al Decreto Supremo 006 de 1969, durante el gobierno militar de Juan Velasco Alvarado, fue un hecho luctuoso su derogatoria, en este desenlace participaron activamente los estudiantes de secundaria, campesinos y población en su conjunto. Huanta fue un escenario especial para su derogatoria, hasta la actualidad existen sobrevivientes de esa lucha por la educación. La historia oficial dejó de lado la actuación del poblador huantino de hace 50 años por reivindicar la educación pública en el Perú, la Reforma Agraria y Día del Campesino decretado por el gobierno militar, socavó las luchas por la educación. Este 2019 se conmemora los 50 años de la gesta huantina por la gratuidad de la educación.
La enseñanza de la filosofía de la ciencia en el Perú en la actualidad
Authors: Paz y Miño Conde Manuel Abraham
Published: December 2019

En este artículo mencionaremos: a) los cursos de Epistemología, Filosofía de la Ciencia (y de la Tecnología), Teoría de la Ciencia e Introducción a la Ciencia que se enseñan en diversas universidades peruanas tanto públicas como privadas a nivel del pre y post grado; b) los libros publicados, en el país, sobre la materia por docentes universitarios; c) diversos eventos académicos sobre la materia, organizados en las universidades; y d) algunos números de revistas dedicadas a la filosofía de la ciencia.
Rosa Luxemburg: la revolución el único camino
Authors: Bruno Ochoa Susana
Published: December 2019

Rosa Luxemburg, gran líder, mujer de ideales firmes que consideraba que no había otro camino hacia la libertad que la revolución, fue cofundadora del Partido Comunista de Alemania y defendió sus ideales hasta el día de su brutal muerte en 1919. En 1917 desde la cárcel de Breslau, escribía una carta a su joven amiga Sophie Liebknecht , en dicha carta, hacía patente la esperanza, de que, los proletarios alemanes despertaran a la revolución, para incitar a su joven amiga a mantener “la frente en alto” y conservar la fortaleza, la autora escribió las siguientes líneas: “... ¡Todo cambiará y va a mejorar!, ¡No hay que esperar siempre lo peor! (Schütrumpf 2007, 58)
How Small is too small? Bangkok (frugal) Living
Authors: Karnchanaporn Nuttinee
Published: December 2019

Is it too small? ‘It’ is a one-bedroom private apartment with a floor area of 20 square metres, an ideal for the new way of living in the Bangkok metropolis. As advertised, developers invite their buyers to look into the advantages of low-cost, convenient locations, domestic conveniences and less domestic labours. Bangkok city dwellers become convinced of the shifts toward more convenient domesticity and dream of their (frugal) apartments. The paper examines the interior economy of the family living in such a small apartment and the ways in which it alters the family relationships and homelife of the urban residents. With the increasing numbers of urban residents who buy small living units in high-rise condominiums, how are we to understand the effect of this phenomenon?
Reinvention of a Lost Interior World
Authors: Lee Sara
Published: December 2019

This visual essay explores interiority through drawing into a grandmother’s world in the 1950s, Taiwan. My grandmother’s house had never been documented prior to its demolition in1980. This paper is intended to re-invent and re-imagine the potentially changeable, layered and multi-functional interior settings of that house through the act of drawing. Drawing was undertaken through collaging the lost domestic world and became an act of complicity with my distant heritage and a sign of recognition of a shared condition.
The house was an economic unit; she shared the house with animals, sewing machines and bentos. Bento is the term used for ‘lunchbox’ and usually ‘layered’ in content. Bento became an object and metaphor for this project that formed a link between the object, the house and the drawing process. Plans and sections are constructed to induce analysis and architectural readings between domestic events: farming, sewing, education, dressmaking and accommodation.
The interior resisted the stable and singular condition of the domestic setting and challenged the ‘everyday-ness’ of the house to propose a potentially more adaptable and variable living unit. The interiors of the house were negotiated and fluctuated between changing desires of the inhabitants, re-inventing forms and patterns throughout the day. Five drawings were generated for this project representing the interiority of the house. The first collaged interior (Figure.1) initiated a connection to the process of pattern-making and became a drawing that compressed together time and was followed by four watercolour drawings that described the house in its particular moments of time.
TEN MODEsT sUGGEsTIONs FOr A NEW AThENs ChArTEr
Authors: Branzi Andrea
Published: December 2019

1 - The city as a high-tech favela. 2 - The city as a personal computer every 20sm. 3 - The city as a place for a cosmic hospitality. 4 - The city as an air-conditioned full-space. 5 - The city as a genetic laboratory. 6 - The city as a living plancton. 7 - research models of weak urbanization. 8 - realize faded and crossable borders. 9 - realize reversible and light infrastructures. 10 - realize great transformations through micro-projects.
The Social Production of Interiority:
Authors: Popov Lubomir Savov
Published: December 2019

Postmodern transformations in philosophy, the humanities and the social sciences have led to new ways of interpreting the social production of space and the spatialisation of social and cultural phenomena. Emergent discussions about interiors and interiority typically emphasise the social nature of space, while related research examines the complexities of socio-spatial phenomena. This paper contributes to this growing body of literature by introducing an alternative view of interiority. More specifically, the phenomenon of interiority is viewed as a by-product of the processes of the social production of space and the appropriation of space through instrumental activities and symbolic interaction. Interiority is seen as first emerging with considerations for comfort and convenience; later branching out to embrace concerns related to experience, productivity, and efficiency. More concretely, interiority can be viewed as providing the necessary conditions for social agents to undertake their activities, as well as protecting them from undesirable influences. Activity is perceived as the major mechanism for the appropriation of space and also for endowing it with the quality of interiority. By interpreting interiority this way, it becomes possible to dematerialise it and liberate it from the constraints of structures, building shells, and technical systems, as well as the problems associated with them. This alternative approach will facilitate the incorporation of knowledge and methodologies developed in the social sciences and cultural studies for the purpose of producing knowledge in the areas of design research, programming/briefing, and space planning.
Remote Senses, Intimate Ecologies:
Authors: Randerson Janine
Published: December 2019

before we knew how to circle the earth, how to circumscribe the sphere of human habitation in days and hours, we had brought the globe into our living room to be touched by our hands and swirled before our eyes.1.
‘Homes for Life’:
Authors: Franz Jill
Published: December 2019

In this paper, an ‘ecological’ lens is applied to an independent living project aiming to provide ‘homes for life’ for adult children with disabilities. The qualities of the project as ecological praxis are highlighted along with the implications for an open-ended enquiry into ecologies for and of the interior. In terms of the ecological concern for intimate modes of being, interior design is shown to be well placed through its association with environments in which people spend most of their life and through powerful concepts such as ‘interiority’ and ‘home’ which link to fundamental existential notions of ‘self’ and ‘identity’. However, despite the interior being a significant generative force, this has not happened to the exclusion of other disciplines. Ignoring territorial urges to claim areas and concepts as one’s own, the paper describes how the project has actively encouraged design disciplines to trespass in each other’s territories. Ecologies for and of the interior, while recognising the need for discipline emphasis, also demand an integrated and collective approach through what is in effect transdisciplinary practice.
Unbecoming
Authors: Hollis Ed
Published: December 2019

This is a collection of stories about rooms, and people.
Reflexive Dwelling:
Authors: Volz Kirsty
Published: December 2019

In a play-within-a-play, the Mechanicals’ production within William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the character Snout announces his transformation to play the character of Wall. Snout’s portrayal of Wall is both comical and menacing as he represents the forces that separate the lovers Pyramus and Thisbe. Wall becomes a subject in a manner no different from the lovers that he separates; his influence on their situation is brought to life. The unbecoming nature of walls to demarcate, separate, intimidate, influence and control is a relationship most can relate to in their experiences with architecture. It is in these moments that architecture leaps from the sphere of object into the realm of subject; where we might be involved in some intense struggle with the placement of a wall, the wall that might separate us from a lover, justice, freedom, power or privacy.This study investigates how this struggle is portrayed through the human body as representation of walls in performance.
“Nothing will come of nothing, speak again.”
Authors: Bomans Sara , Roes Remco
Published: December 2019

This visual essay is a representation of a two month residency and the resulting exhibition in the Gasthuis chapel in Borgloon (Belgium). The project was a collaboration between Belgian artist Sara Bomans and Remco Roes within the context of Roes’ practice-based PhD in architecture entitled: The scenography of sublime space. This research attempts to translate the philosophical notion of the sublime into a spatial form. The large and uncanny sublime is approached through the notion of immanence – ‘the sublime is now’. By focussing on the ungraspable ‘now’, the given (physical) context of any moment becomes the material fuel for exploring the possibilities of constructing a spatial sublime. This journey continually balances between acceptance of the status quo and acting upon it. Through this alternative reading of ‘the sublime’ the concept becomes useful within Roes’ spatial practice that emphasises the fragmentary, incomplete and the everyday as opposed to the grandeur most typically associated with it.

The title of the exhibition – “Nothing will come of nothing, speak again” – reflects the attempt at a continual seeking of meaning from the ‘nothingness’ of the current moment and the given situation on site. In the case of Borgloon this local context consisted of the empty chapel and over a dozen churches in the direct vicinity, suffering from shrinking congregations and facing re-use scenarios over the coming years. We decided to visit these churches and cross-reference our experiences and impressions with the spatiality of the Gasthuis chapel.
An ‘Unbecoming’ Cohabitation? Reconsidering the narrative of the Cathedral-Mosque of Co?rdoba
Authors: D'Arcy Sing
Published: December 2019

The Cathedral-Mosque of Co?rdoba is one of the most well-known and visited sacred sites in Western Europe. It is also regarded as possessing one of the most ‘unbecoming’ cohabitations of interior architectural space. This paper investigates how this unique coupling of spatial types came to earn its infamy, revealing the myth and prejudices involved in its elaboration. Through a review of current research into the space it will be shown that interiors traditionally ‘seen’ as unbecoming can be reconceived, reread or reheard, allowing for new, alternate and open interpretations.
Redefining Waste for the Twenty-first Century: A new role for interior designers
Authors: Choudhuri Agnishikha
Published: December 2019

The notions about waste developed over centuries have had a significant impact on the way we relate to it.The transfer of responsibility for waste disposal from the individual to the public, the notion of disposability arising out of the need for sanitation and the rise of environmental awareness have contributed to the creation of waste as a ‘problem’. Resignation and guilt, the impulse to treat our waste as invisible or with disgust, the inability to acknowledge the normalcy of waste, these are some of the outcomes with which we live.
Rather than implementing further problem-solving actions, which have up till now returned limited results, a transformation of individual relationships to waste is required, leading to new ways of viewing and handling what we must discard.The practice of design has expanded its scope from being governed by market forces to impacting social change. Interior designers can contribute to this paradigm shift, borrowing from the principles of persuasive design to include designed spaces for waste management in urban homes in order to empower individual responsibility while diverting significant quantities of waste from the waste stream. Eventually, waste management can gain a permanent space within urban homes, thereby legitimising the existence of waste, acknowledging individual connections to its substance and embracing ownership of management.
Liminal Publics, Marginal Resistance
Authors: Agha Menna , De Vos Els
Published: December 2019

In 1964, indigenous Nubians were displaced from their original land – the land between what is now Egypt and that of Sudan – to modernised settlements built by the Egyptian state. The Nubians dissatisfaction with the novel built environment translated into transgressive public spaces. One of the most common transgressions was the addition of an external bench called Mastaba. Since power relations between men and women have changed, the built environment now acts as a catalyst in the exclusion of women from formal public spaces such as conventional coffee shops and squares. Mastabas function as liminal spaces, spaces which blur the boundaries between public and private spheres. As these spaces do not suit the formal understanding of public spaces, we investigate these liminal spaces in order to reveal the spatial tactics of the marginal. We argue that the existence of these spaces raises issues of spatial justice and spatial resistance.
 
 The behaviour of liminal public spaces varies; they have the ability to transform adjacent spaces. This research investigates the role of the Mastaba in opening up the public space for women, thereby giving them the ability to contribute to the writing of their social contract. We base our analysis on extensive fieldwork, consisting of auto-ethnographic observations and participation, informed by a feminist epistemology. We use tools of spatial analysis to explore an alternative public space offered by liminality. To question the binary notions of private and public space, we ask ourselves: where does that space start? As spatial professionals, we also wonder: can we contest the hegemonic definition of public space and contribute to spatial resistance? Drawing lessons from the case of the Mastaba, we propose contingencies for designing the liminal that serve the marginal.
Finding a space for the practice of interior design
Authors: Cys Joanne
Published: December 2019

Despite recent intensity in discourse surrounding the definition and territory of interior design as a practice and a field of study in professional and academic forums around the world, little consideration has been given to the process and outcomes of contemporary interior design practice, and how analysis of it may (or may not) contribute to interior design’s persistent discussions of contested definition of identity and territory. This paper seeks to find a position within the current literature that allows justifiable discussion of contemporary interior design practice methodologies and projects. Using examples of awarded projects from Australia’s annual peer judged interior design awards program, analysis of contemporary interior design practice is positioned within the context of the main themes of this continuing debate.
Bodies+Spaces
Authors: Waghorn Kathy , Smith Ross T
Published: December 2019

The underlying principle of the ‘bodies+spaces’ studio for first year architecture students is that the primary concern of architecture and other design disciplines is the relation of bodies and spaces. The studio sought to bring this to the surface and to allow the students, through a sequence of projects, to explore this relation. This paper outlines the studio, describes some practices and artifacts that transpired and discusses the positions on bodies and spaces that emerged.
Lurking in a Liminal Land:
Authors: Downton Peter
Published: December 2019

For several decades I have taken photos from the windows of places where I have lived, worked or stayed. This is a performative practice portrayed here in terms of interiority and territory discussed from a point of view predominantly concerned with producing knowing. The themes of interest are interwoven with a description and some evaluation of the project. Ordering and tidiness are enmeshed with establishing territories, because territory as a concept requires a definition, and this involves deciding, sorting, and controlling to establish the forming of a territory and its boundaries. An analytical account of existing territory has the same requirements. My project is seen as revealing, exemplifying, and offering metaphors for understandings of the nature of interior territories. The central view espoused here, is that my several hundred images are best understood as an ecology, where, in this case, the constructed relations to be found between the images provide the privileged means of understanding the whole, rather than any enumeration of content or photographic character ordered according to the application of a ‘top-down’ system. To arrive at this view, a number of metaphoric connections with issues in the epistemology of interior territories are explored.
‘rO:Om’
Authors: Preston Julieanna
Published: December 2019

Architecture’s relation to landscape is often only recognised in its response to topography, views, access, orientation and apprehension of the built work’s own exterior. As an object placed in an environment architecture is an artefact externally enhanced by vegetation as well as a container adorned by an interior. Such architecture relies on the subservience of its surrounding physical landscape and its internal hollows to define what is ‘in’ and what is ‘out’, ‘here’ and ‘there’. Negotiation of these realms is determined by elements other than the dwelling body as a living, experiencing, cultural organism capable of navigating across formal spatial boundaries.
This paper explores the architectural envelope as a porous medium informed by spatial and material transmissions between body and environment. This aqueous notion of inhabitation and material repositions architecture as the concurrence of interior and landscape whereby their localities are distinguishable within a continuum of particularised densities of matter accumulating and disintegrating over time. This theoretical and physical site is explored via the construction of a room.
From Bus Driver Dreaming to Tjukurpa
Authors: Walliss Jillian
Published: December 2019

Separated from the surrounding landscape by walls, wiltjas and fences, with strategically framed views back to the rock, the Uluru-Kata Tjuta Cultural Centre offers opportunities for tourists to learn about Anangu understandings of place. Historically, this information has been conveyed through interpretations located in situ within the landscape of the national park or through the narrative of the organised tour. What then is the role of a museum space in a national park? Why go inside to understand what is outside?
To investigate these questions, this paper looks outside the discourses of museology and architecture, the orthodox methods for analysing the ‘typology’ of the cultural centre, and instead traces the development of the Centre within the spatial history of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park. This analysis offers an alternative reading, revealing the Centre as a place of mediation and control, strategically located between landscape and tourist and Ananguand tourist. Further while the Centre fulfills a role in promoting Aboriginal culture, Anangu voices remain filtered through the display techniques of the museum. It is only through the introduction of Anangu tours that the museological driven interior is linked with the Tjurkapa of the exterior.
The SICO Color Naming Project
Authors: Poldma Tiiu , Samuelson Hans
Published: December 2019

How can interior design educators develop closer ties to industry? How do we develop mutually beneficial relationships, which respect the integrity of academic intellectual freedom and contribute to the development of disciplinary knowledge while providing useful services to industries competing in a market-driven economy?
The SICO Color Naming Project was a successful university-industry collaboration that used design knowledge and methods as the basis for an innovative, result-driven process. It explains how an industry need led to the development of a new way to name colours, and how colour affectivity played a key role in the project, providing a catalyst for the naming process. During this process, a multidisciplinary team worked together to develop a novel framework for designing coherent, structured, and emotionally resonant links between colours and names.
This paper describes the phenomenologically grounded strategy used to manage the design process and guide the team through the naming of 2400 colours in two languages.
Dark Rooms
Authors: Volz Kirsty , Faulkner Heather
Published: December 2019

In the 2015 exhibition, Cloud Land, for the Museum of Brisbane, Robyn Stacey transformed hotel rooms into dark rooms that captured a unique series of portraits of Brisbane in Australia. These portraits enfold conditions of interiority and exteriority as well as spaces that resemble the past and the present. The collapsing of time and space found in Stacey’s work is central to the analysis presented in this paper. Anthony Vidler’s reading of Deleuze’s concept of ‘the fold’ informs the analytical framework of Stacey’s work. Vidler uses the camera obscura to describe the theories presented in The Fold and he also presents a critical view on how designers have previously read and applied Deleuze’s theories to ‘architectural space.’ This paper also draws from Vidler’s concept of ‘dark space,’ described as the unconscious way we are forced to engage with the often confusing spatial experiences of contemporary built environments. This confusion leads to our experiences of the city being largely unseen.
The works presented by Stacey in Cloud Land are, for the most part, informed by her experiences of living in Brisbane during Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s authoritarian government (1968-1987). This recent history of the city is hardly present today, but Stacey finds the visible traces of the oppression experienced by many during this period through the camera obscura. Stacey’s work proffers a way to consciously engage with the city and the unseen histories that are embedded into its fabric. Additionally, through Stacey’s work we consider the placeless and benign spatial quality of contemporary hotel rooms and spaces—an example of Vidler’s ‘dark space.’
Di-vision/double vision
Authors: Attiwill Suzie
Published: December 2019

The conference theme ‘Between excess and austerity’ indicates a division which has shaped the discipline of interior design during the twentieth century. This paper is the outcome of a desire to open up this binary relation which continually dogs the practiceof interior design. The writings of Gilles Deleuze, in particular his attempt to ‘overturn Platonism’, are used as a tool to lever and open up possibilities for thinking differently. The immediate effect is that in between excess and austerity one encounters an ‘and’ – excess and austerity – hence the title of the paper ‘di-vision/ double vision’. Rather than between or either/or, it is both. This produces a blurring of vision which problematises the distinction made between interior design and interior decoration based on questions of excess and austerity as one equated with ornamentation versus the essentialism of a minimal aesthetic. This paper considers three familiar modernist surfaces from the twentieth century. Looking through glasses provided by the writings of Deleuze, the Platonic nature of the surfaces is apparent but so too are other ways of viewing these surfaces – division becomes di-vision or double vision and the possibilities for other ways of thinking and doing proliferate. The question of excess and austerity shifts from one of ‘to decorate or not?’ to one where the binary is blurred and the between becomes ‘and’ rather than a between of moderation. This involves an epistemological shift from a search for essences and ideals to an encounter with surfaces where meaning and events happen in which the proliferating intensity of life can be both austere and excessive.
Design, the Decoration of Culture?
Authors: Loveday Tom
Published: December 2019

Interior designers have tended, like architects, to determine three-dimensional space using geometry by manipulating representations of material substances or building work. Geometry without substance is of thought only and only has one quantity; number. As such design becomes the manipulation of representations with the traditions of geometry. One of those traditions is the understanding of geometry as pure static Cartesian abstraction impurely expressed in substance. Design has tended to do this for a number of reasons, one of which is to engage more fully with the design of built form and another is to distance itself from decoration. This paper explores the issue and asks three questions:
Is the repetition of Enlightenment geometry a necessary condition for architecture and design?
If it is, does material substance become merely an excessive characteristic of pure concepts conceived as pure abstract geometry?
Is culture becoming so dependent on geometry that to make geometry a pure abstraction is to understand material substance as excessive?
These questions are reformulated through the investigative process of the paper and are asked in a different form as a conclusion.
Shifting between Economy and Cladding
Authors: Preston Julieanna
Published: December 2019

This paper probes interior lining, specifically column cladding, in light of expansive definitions of economy. A student design project foregrounds the discussion in order to reveal prevailing design attitudes on ornament and structure. Those attitudes are reconsideredby the introduction of new fabrication technology. As these works supersede dichotomous relations between excess and austere, their formation suggests new working parameters for interior design in relation to ornament, craft and technology.
The Way of the Detail in Japanese Design
Authors: Varghese George
Published: December 2019

When considering the growing interest in the ideas of internationalisation and globalisation, the phrase ‘Japanese Design’ has always captured the inspirational pulse of designers. This paradoxical world of Japan provides the impetus for vast and varied design outcomes. These outcomes range from the traditional design of tearooms, to the youth fashion phenomena in Harajuku. Design in Japan demonstrates a controlled approach to the subtle nuances that express the design spectrum between excess and austerity. This paper explores the idea of the intricacy of Japanese design as not only being a clear expression of their masterful handling of material and form, but also a demonstration of the amalgamation of cultural paradigms displayed in these various design outcomes. This is no more clearly expressed than in the examination of details used within Japanese design, in particular, the details in traditional Japanese architecture.
The methodology involved with this research is mainly focussed on literature reviews of text and journal articles, as well as, review of appropriate exhibitions. But the original journey began years ago with my own education and exposure to the ideas of Japanese design and architecture. Numerous travel tours and design tours to Japan helped to reinforce the connection and unfold their paradoxical world.
Basket cases
Authors: Lawrence Jane , Hurst Rachel
Published: December 2019

The studio described here comprises the second semester of the first year interior design and architectural course at the University of South Australia. It builds upon the first semester pedagogy based on memory and off-campus teaching. The studio consists of three projects employing an alliance between typology and gastronomy as a means to design and initiates cross cultural teaching methodologies. This submission will focus on the second and pivotal project titled basket case.
Densifying Lilong:
Authors: Dong Chunfang , Xiao Jing
Published: December 2019

This paper examines theories of urbanisation and redevelopment in contemporary China. Reviewing the historical transformation of urban Shanghai, it argues that routine urban policies are insufficient for redeveloping the colonial urban context of traditional shikumen lilong housing. The paper identifies that a more humanistic, micro-scale design strategy – ‘S.O.F.T.’ guideline – from the perspective of architectural and interior design may help modernise and densify the interior residential efficiency in protected districts without interfering with external urban patterns. It is concerned with aspects of supplementary function, spatial optimisation and structural technique and secures the financing basis from stakeholders by transforming the design activity into cultural products of consumption. In this way, it encourages a grassroots manner of interior redevelopment especially for the districts where preservation ordinances often limit the potential gentrification of external urban fabrics and life patterns.
Agency In Appropriation:
Authors: Kwok Evelyn
Published: December 2019

Every Sunday, groups of Foreign Domestic Helpers (FDHs) collectively create informal territories within the urban fabric of Hong Kong’s Central Business District (CBD). FDHs are migrant workers living in Hong Kong who are legally bound to live in their employers’ homes.They work six days a week, and their duties and lifestyles are dictated by their employers, making them one of the most marginalised occupational groups in the city. Every Sunday – their day off – FDHs gather in public en masse to exercise freedom outside of their contractual confinement. In Hong Kong’s CBD these weekly assemblies of Filipino workers disrupt the city’s hegemonic spaces of financial capital. Various urban interior and exterior spaces – shop fronts, footpaths, elevated walkways and atriums – are appropriated and transformed with makeshift cardboard constructions. Hong Kong’s public-private zones are augmented into temporary domesticised places where the migrant workers socialise, rest, eat, groom, send packages, protest, dance and preach. At first glance, the FHDs’ occupation of public space may appear chaotically disordered, or an ‘ethnic spectacle’. Closer analysis reveals that this ritualised inhabitation has a unique ecology; it is a temporary but repeated socio-spatial system that produces a collective culture of solidarity, resistance and resourcefulness. Drawing upon ethnographic observations, interviews, photographs and spatial analysis, this paper explores the socio-political and cultural implications of this informal occupation. It demonstrates how FDHs are much more than docile subjects of domestic labour, rather, they are actors with agency, operating in an intermediate and mutable spatial zone, somewhere between the private and public sphere.
Repurposing the past
Authors: Vaikla Tüüne-Kristin
Published: December 2019

A target positioned in the space formerly occupied by the altar gave soldiers the opportunity to establish a shooting range in Paluku?la Church, while the church’s thick limestone walls created a secure depository for a gas company’s storage rooms (or was it the other way around?). After the Second World War, the pragmatic reuse of church buildings in Estonia, such as this one, brought these kinds of surprising change in function.The spatial environment of the church’s surroundings itself bears information concerning various different strata of the location’s history.
This visual essay presents a site-specific exhibition project that addressed this metamorphosis of space through the housing of new functions and an aim to find new methods for designers/architects in the repurposing process.The abandoned Paluku?la Church on the small island of Hiiumaa in Estonia, used by military forces during the Soviet regime, became a laboratory – a test site – to experiment with a repurposing of the past through heightening spatial emotions to invoke different values.
The project, titled Housewarming, took place from July to August in 2013 and created the momentary impression that there was life once again in the church. The exhibition was a chance for local community and others to experience, perceive and confront the transformation of the church while thinking about issues to do with repurposing buildings as a process that inevitably increases or decreases cultural values.
Peace & Quiet
Authors: Wheeler Sandra
Published: December 2019

Peace & Quiet, a temporary dialogue station installed in Times Square, New York City provided a tranquil place where veterans and civilians – two wide- ranging groups whose paths increasingly do not cross – could openly engage each other in meaningful conversation. Conceived, designed, and built by the Brooklyn-based firm, Matter Architecture Practice, this project review traces the development and collaborative process by which the station was realised and inhabited.
Die Zukunft der Katastrophe : Julius von Voß’ Roman ,,Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert“ (1810)
Authors: LIEB CLAUDIA
Published: December 2019

Abstract Julius von Voß’ Utopie Ini. Ein Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (1810) entwirft für Europa eine fortschritts- und technikoptimistische Zukunft, in der für Katastrophen eigentlich kein Platz ist: Sicherheit triumphiert über
Gefahr, und Katastrophenprävention hat höchste Priorität. Dass der Text dennoch vom Krieg, von Naturkatastrophen und Verkehrsunfällen erzählt, scheint dem Unterhaltungswert der Katastrophe geschuldet zu sein.Julius von Voß’s utopian novel Ini: Ein
Roman aus dem ein und zwanzigsten Jahrhundert (1810) depicts a future European state that is marked by immense technical progress. In this state, national and individual security are highly important and every effort is made to prevent catastrophic events. However, in order to entertain
his readers, Voß uses his novel to explore great catastrophes such as the horrors of war, natural desaster, and traffic accidents.
Synthesis and acetone sensing properties of ZnFe2O4/rGO gas sensors
Authors: Wu Kaidi , Luo Yifan , Li Ying , Zhang Chao
Published: December 2019

Hollow spheres of pure ZnFe2O4 and of composites of ZnFe2O4 and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) with different rGO content were prepared via a simple solvothermal method followed by a high-temperature annealing process in an inert atmosphere. The X-ray diffraction analysis confirmed that the introduction of rGO had no effect on the spinel structure of ZnFe2O4. In addition, the results of field-emission scanning electron microscopy and (high-resolution) transmission electron microscopy indicated that the synthesized samples had the structure of hollow spheres distributed uniformly onto rGO nanosheets. The diameters of the spheres were determined as about 600–1000 nm. The gas sensing test revealed that the introduction of rGO improved the performance of the sensing of acetone to low concentration, and the ZnFe2O4/rGO composite gas sensor containing 0.5 wt % of rGO exhibited a high sensitivity in sensing test using 0.8–100 ppm acetone at 200 °C. The response of the 0.5 wt % ZnFe2O4/rGO sensor to 0.8 ppm acetone was 1.50, and its response to 10 ppm acetone was 8.18, which is around 2.6 times more pronounced than the response of pure ZnFe2O4 (10 ppm, 3.20). Moreover, the sensor showed a wide linear range and good selectivity.