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The Functions of Urban Space in Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps Projects
Creators: name: Chan, Ralph
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: Urban space plays an important role in Erasmus+ or European Solidarity Corps projects, be it youth exchanges, cooperation partnerships, or volunteer work. Urban spaces can be viewed as places of encounter and exchange, but also places of interaction between those involved. One of the characteristics of Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps projects in the youth sector is the use of non-formal methods in an informal learning environment. For example, methods of dialogue to foster reflection are used in various project activities so that project participants can learn skills that are not taught in formal settings such as schools. Hence, urban space plays a central role, be it in the choice of location or in the use of public space for the project implementation itself. This article examines the functions and uses of urban space in selected Erasmus+ Youth and European Solidarity Corps projects that took place in Austria in 2021-2023. In this context, seven completed projects by Austrian organisations from the current Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps programme period serve as case studies.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches
The Production of Performative Drawings for Studying Spaces of Everyday Life
Creators: name: Zheng, Xian
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: This article is part of the author’s doctoral thesis on ‘performative drawing’ in artistic research. It focuses on researching the spaces of everyday life using the ‘multi-perspective + live performance’ drawing method. First, this article briefly describes the theoretical development from the term ‘performative utterance’ to ‘performative urbanism’, ‘performative research’, and finally to ‘performative drawing’. Then, based on several examples of ‘performative drawings’ conducted by the author in villages in Austria and China, the specific production steps of the ‘performative drawing’ process are demonstrated in detail. Finally, the text describes means of observing, analysing, and recording the spaces of everyday life through the drawing process and offers information on creating an artistic research text based on graphic language.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches
Narrating Urban DATA
Creators: name: Balzar, Mark
name: Balzar, Zeynep Aksöz
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: Vibrant Fields is an artistic research project that seeks to explore the impact of climate change through an artistic lens. The project’s central hypothesis posits that urban nature is a dynamic amalgamation of biological and human-made technological elements, interconnected in a symbiotic life cycle within the urban environment. By meticulously observing and deciphering these intricate relationships, we aim to construct a comprehensive portrayal that sheds light on the influence of climate change. Our research focuses on understanding how atmospheric effects influence both living and non-living entities in the urban realm, and conversely, how these diverse particulate matters affect the climate. The project’s objective is to present a holistic depiction of climate change and its impact on urban nature by elucidating the intricate relationships among the diverse interacting entities. The Vibrant Fields team consisting of Zeynep Aksöz Balzar, Mark Balzar, Galo Moncayo Asan, and Bernhard Sommer is based in the Energy Design Department at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and endeavours to transform human perceptions of their immediate urban environment by creating digitally mediated narratives, offering an accessible and tangible perspective on climate change through the lens of energy flows. To achieve this, we employ high-resolution surveys of urban environments under extreme climatic conditions, utilising custom-developed multi-spectral sensing machines. By mapping the dynamic exchanges occurring within urban environments, we investigate the interplay between natural and artificial elements within the urban realm, focusing specifically on energy flows. Integrating these instruments into immersive experiences, the Vibrant Fields team provides an alternative viewpoint that transcends the human sensory spectrum, generating an interactive environment that enables visitors to engage with and influence energetic exchanges, perceiving the built environment and its inhabitants as vibrant matter (Bennett, 2010). Through their mere presence in the same space as the sensors, participants can actively shape the environment by interacting with sensory tools. This transformative space becomes a site for interacting with environmental information beyond our conventional senses, offering novel embodied experiences. 
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches
Performative Research – Research as Performance
Creators: name: Schnell, Philipp Wilhelm Antonius
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: As performative approaches to urban studies and urban transformation have continuously gained influence in recent years, this journal issue aims at charting new ways towards methodological pluralism and multidisciplinary research from a perspective of performativity. In this context, research is understood as a performative act creating outcomes and performing knowledge in multiple research media. The performative as a conceptual term also reunites arts-based, artistic, and traditional research approaches, closing the gaps created by an orthodox understanding of scientific methodology solely based on quantitative and qualitative methods. Performative research or research as performance, therefore, holds the potential to provide a comprehensive, transdisciplinary understanding of knowledge creation which can reunite a plethora of methods and disciplines under the concept of performativity as the expression and creation of knowledge as a collective, transformative endeavour. The performative and its power to change existing urban realities and collective worldviews ultimately offers a conceptual tool for bringing researchers form different disciplines together and co-developing solutions for current problems together with affected populations. In the context of urban studies, performativity may guide the way towards a participatory understanding of contemporary urbanity and societal co-evolution based on a collective ownership of urban spaces. The contributions to this issue present a methodological toolbox, indicating what performativity may imply in the field of urban studies and which benefits it entails for researchers, engaged citizens, and urbanites.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches
Urban Screens as a Tool for Placemaking
Creators: name: Helmy, Mona Essam
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: Urban screens, as part of the lightscape of places, can play a fundamental role in placemaking. They have the flexibility to be positioned in various locations in spaces with various sizes, shapes, moods, and effects for functional or aesthetical reasons. They can be temporary or permanent, active, or interactive instruments for creating a dynamic, stimulating, and unique public realm atmosphere that engages people and encourages social interaction.


This research aims to create a theoretical framework for urban screen typologies as tools for placemaking. It investigates, explores, analyzes, and discusses different approaches where urban screens are used as a main tool for placemaking. Various international case studies, such as Al Wasl Dom in Dubai, UAE, Sony Centre in Berlin, Germany, Times Square in New York, USA, and light festivals around the world are comprehensive examples of placemaking through different applications of urban screens.


To reach its aim, the research uses a mixed methods approach and several tools, such as archrivals and literature review as main sources for the theoretical knowledge base, while critical analysis of practical examples is used to support the pragmatism of the proposed placemaking framework.   
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
title: Anthropology, Ethics, and the U.S. Military: A History and Possibility for Constructive Engagement
Creators: name: Moss, Kathryn
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: U.S. military
subject: Ethics
subject: Code of ethics
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis describes the history of the engagement between the discipline of anthropology, its ethical principles, and the U.S. military. This history reveals how the lack of a constructive engagement between anthropology as a whole and the military has been shaped by the discipline’s evolving engagement with the U.S. military, from direct support to reimagined or exaggerated ethical crises. With the disciplines tradition of reflexivity, whereby anthropologists analyze their own relationship to their research object, anthropology has begun to open the aperture on a potential subdiscipline of military anthropology and accepting the work and narratives of the anthropologists duly involved. In the process of researching and writing this thesis, the author conducted a literature review and interviews with anthropologists and members of the U.S. military. This thesis is intended to be part of the conversation for anthropologists in all subdisciplines who have concerns about anthropological ethics and working with the U.S. military, as well as members of the U.S. military who are interested in continued engagement with the discipline of anthropology.
Modular architecture and exhibition space
Creators: name: Margula, Itai
name: Kraus, Theresa
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: The authors examine the role of modular museum furniture for creating an adaptable exhibition space, fostering a dialogue between the architectural matrix of the museum, the artworks on display, and exhibition design. Based on German pedagogue Friedrich Froebel’s conception of educational play materials or ‘Spielgaben’, Margula Architects devised adaptable design solutions that include museum furnishing, exhibition architecture, and modular systems for the presentation of artworks. These solutions rescale basic geometric forms into architectural elements for customizing exhibition and event space, rendering museum furniture reusable according to the needs of the museum’s program, the collection, exhibition narratives, exhibitors, and visitors. By upscaling Froebel’s concept of playing gifts for young children into an architectural concept, Margula Architects create a spatial language of adaptable forms, which can be moved, combined, stacked, and merged, providing a sustainable, yet multifaceted interior design solution for museums, which can be integrated seamlessly with surrounding architecture and the artworks on display. They combine their approach with the idea of spatial collage, which understands the spaces of the museum as an assemblage of multiple time-spaces mediated by exhibition architecture, devising a multilayered spatial concept, working with space as an active matter of presentation, spatial transformation, and interpersonal communication. The conference presentation aims to detail Margula Architects’ approach to exhibition architecture and their modular system of adaptable museum furnishing, based on Froebel’s geometrical conception of ‘gifts and occupations’, while expanding on the concept of spatial collage as a method for museum design. Also, an introduction to the principles, processes, and outcomes of modular museum design and their implications will be given. Finally, an architectural language for envisioning exhibition space as malleable matter will be presented, in the light of a new conception for exhibition architecture that approaches the museum as a lived space of human interaction and personal inspiration.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 1 (2023): Decoding the DNA of urban spaces with artistic practices and creative research approaches
Trial/Error. The way to abstraction in Srger
Creators: name: Navarro, Pablo
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2023

description: The purpose of the present article is to carry out an evolutionary analysis of Srger’s (Seville, 1983) work in the public space, which has mutated over the years from classical typography within graffiti towards an abstraction that combines its contexts with the artist's own evolution within the studio. All this has given rise to an interesting symbiosis in the form of a dialogue between both work spaces, blurring the between one and the other and enhancing creations that are presented to us as a vestige of an intense creative process.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 5 No 2 (2023): Designing Urban Experiences: From Trial/Error Abstraction to Instagram Graffiti Networks
Participatory Photography as a Tool to Spark Youth Participation, Empowerment and Active Citizenship
Creators: name: Penz, Vera
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: From October 18-26, 2022, Vienna-based civil society organisation Cercle Libre - Association for Social Aesthetics implemented ‘Participatory Photography for Youth’, a non-formal learning mobility project funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ program. Under the guidance of a professional photographer, a group of 20 young people from capitals or larger cities in Austria, Armenia, Belarus, Jordan, Ukraine and Turkey gathered in Austria for a week to explore and co-create visual content inspired by the 11 European Youth Goals. The project was designed according to the principles of non-formal education such as learner-centeredness, emphasis on peer-to-peer learning, and critical thinking. It simultaneously served as a case study accompanied by ethnographic research, documenting the creative process of doing participatory photography. The aim of this paper is to put the project in a larger context of urban creativity, participation and active citizenship in order to examine how photography can be used as a tool for young urban global citizens to define and co-create spaces of participation, citizenship and empowerment. Research shows that young people participating in the project have a high motivation to shape their lives and lifeworlds and to strive to increase their level of participation in society. Participatory Photography is a useful medium of empowerment and social learning to raise young people’s awareness on their unique vantage points in order  to highlight potentials for social critique and active citizenship.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 2 (2022): The Role of Urban Imaginaries
The Potential of Creativity in a Local Agenda 21 Process
Creators: name: Kroismayr, Sigrid
name: Novy, Andreas
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: In scientific debates and international documents on sustainable development, creativity, art, and culture hardly play any role. Consequently, in the Local Agenda 21 framework on strengthening civil society initiatives creative forms of expression are not mentioned. In this article, we explore the process of the Agenda group ‘Favoriten for Girls, Girls for Favoriten’, which successfully increased the visibility of girls in public space. For the success of this initiative, creativity was important in two ways: First, different forms of artistic expression were used, such as music, painting, dance, theatre, e.g., in a creative competition or in different festivities. Second, the exchange between members of the Agenda group, other persons involved in the process as well as people outside the Agenda process enabled forms of co-creation – such as the renaming of a Favoriten square or the decision to build a Girls’ Stage. We conclude that more attention should be paid to the potential of creativity to achieve a sustainable future and that creativity, arts, and culture should be included in future versions of the Agenda 2030 framework.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 2 (2022): The Role of Urban Imaginaries
Spatial Collage and the Viewers’ Gaze – An (Un)Pleasant Journey
Creators: name: Margula, Itai
name: Schnell, Philipp Wilhelm Antonius
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: The exhibition ‘An (Un)Pleasant Journey. The Life of Stefan Edlis after HIM’ brought Maurizio Cattelan’s sculpture HIM to the Jewish Museum Vienna and referred to an indelible part of collective European history from the perspective of the eponymous collector’s life story. In this context, Margula Architects realized an innovative exhibition concept for the sculpture, without ‘putting it on a pedestal’, integrating a very specific museum space, references to different times and places in the life of Stefan Edlis and a notorious piece of contemporary art in a unique design solution. Their spatial installation guides the viewer’s gaze through space on an imaginary journey through the collector’s life from his emigration to the US in 1941, to successful plastics manufacturer, and finally to famous art collector. The exhibition and the narration of Edlis’ life story revolved around ‘HIM’, one of Cattelan’s wax-sculptures, as an example of the collector’s approach to contemporary art, also mirrored in the documentary ‘The Price of Everything’ directed by Nathaniel Kahn. By adopting the concept of spatial collage Margula Architects combined multiple references to different time-spaces, mediated via fragments of design history. A rich spatial narrative was interwoven with the museum’s venue, drawing visitors in, guiding them through space and referring to Stefan Edlis’ eventful life. Together with the museum’s curatorial team, Margula Architects realized a unique exhibition setting for a controversial piece of contemporary art, conceptually challenging traditional notions of exhibition design, while striving for new horizons for communicating meaning, emotions, and history in space.
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Future Playgrounds. How to Digitally Expand the City
Creators: name: Messini, Valerie
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: Distractions and disruptions of attention, induced by mass and social media, have become an omnipresent part of our everyday lives. Constantly online and with a device at hand, remote and digital technologies seem to shape people's behaviour more than surrounding architecture does. Even our urban tissue has become a tagged metaverse driven by chronic hyper-efficiency, simultaneity and equanimity—an accumulation of lonely humans staring into their phones. Do we still have the possibility of a collective virtual and material urban space, a shared experience, settled in built and unbuilt space alike, both beneficially interwoven into each other? In this article I will present selected works from my artistic and academic practice using Augmented Reality (AR) as a medium in an urban context. On this basis I want to discuss how our cities expand into the virtual realm through digital media and, on the other hand, I would like to demonstrate how urban space could be enhanced through playful virtuality. Conventional digital interactivity, historically rooted in video-games, is driven by protocols and efficiency. Conversely, it seems that the absence of a protocol is what conceptually differentiates playing from gaming: playing implies invention and learning, while gaming is about performing preconceived rules. Playfulness is, therefore, understood as a form of interaction capable of constituting and shaping identity and thus proves a valid method to liberate chronic hyper-efficiency-driven urban fabrics.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 2 (2022): The Role of Urban Imaginaries
What Is an Urban Imaginary?
Creators: name: Schnell, Philipp Wilhelm Antonius
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: From medieval city views to contemporary urban imaginaries, imagination has always played a major role for outlining human understandings of urban life. Just recently, urban studies, urban planning, and artistic research have re-discovered imaginary approaches to urban lifeworlds as viable stimuli for urban transformation and social critique. In order to find pathways for sustainable development, creative strategies and imaginations of collective utopia have become a vital source of inspiration for urban planning and architecture. Interdisciplinary, inclusive approaches to create urban utopia have become central to thinking and writing about the urban as a shared imaginary matrix for collective sensemaking. This article provides a selective overview of the role of urban imaginaries from the Middle Ages, to the 20th century, and on to contemporary perspectives on urban spaces. In this brief tour d’horizon the potentials of images, imaginations, and utopian perspectives on urban life are sketched out for exploring and ultimately designing places of urban cohabitation. As an introduction to this journal issue on the role of urban imaginaries for creating liminal spaces for social change and critique, this article also aims to describe the use of creative strategies and urban imaginaries for urban studies, urban transformation projects, and artistic interventions in urban spaces. The articles in this issue demonstrate the multifaceted nature of urban imaginaries in contexts as diverse as exhibition design, visual anthropology, urban studies, and virtual/augmented reality. Adopting different imaginary perspectives ultimately paves the way for understanding urbanization as a utopian project, a collective struggle, and a manifestation of collective will, which continuously produces tangible and intangible outcomes. Processes of planetary urbanization, therefore, also inspire us to reflect on social, economic, and cultural co-evolution and participation on a global scale. This way, urban imaginaries become blueprints for social change, critique, and societal innovation.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 2 (2022): The Role of Urban Imaginaries
title: Pyoluteorin-deficient Pseudomonas protegens improves cooperation with Bacillus velezensis, biofilm formation, co-colonizing, and reshapes rhizosphere microbiome
Creators: name: Zhao, Qian
name: Wang, Ruoyi
name: Song, Yan
name: Lu, Juan
name: Zhou, Bingjie
name: Song, Fang
name: Zhang, Lijuan
name: Huang, Qianqian
name: Gong, Jing
name: Lei, Jingjing
name: Dong, Suomeng
name: Gu, Qin
name: Borriss, Rainer
name: Gao, Xuewen
name: Wu, Huijun
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Antimicrobials
subject: Applied microbiology
subject: Biofilms
subject: Microbiome
subject: Soil microbiology
subject: 570 Biologie

description: Plant-beneficial Pseudomonas and Bacillus have been extensively studied and applied in biocontrol of plant diseases. However, there is less known about their interaction within two-strain synthetic communities (SynCom). Our study revealed that Pseudomonas protegens Pf-5 inhibits the growth of several Bacillus species, including Bacillus velezensis . We established a two-strain combination of Pf-5 and DMW1 to elucidate the interaction. In this combination, pyoluteorin conferred the competitive advantage of Pf-5. Noteworthy, pyoluteorin-deficient Pf-5 cooperated with DMW1 in biofilm formation, production of metabolites, root colonization, tomato bacterial wilt disease control, as well as in cooperation with beneficial bacteria in tomato rhizosphere, such as Bacillus spp. RNA-seq analysis and RT-qPCR also proved the pyoluteorin-deficient Pf-5 mutant improved cell motility and metabolite production. This study suggests that the cooperative effect of Bacillus – Pseudomonas consortia depends on the balance of pyoluteorin. Our finding needs to be considered in developing efficient SynCom in sustainable agriculture.
Considerations between UX Heuristics and Physical Space
Creators: name: Neves, Pedro Soares
name: Yablonski, Jon
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: Laws of UX book description: “An understanding of psychology—specifically the psychology behind how users behave and interact with digital interfaces is perhaps the single most valuable nondesign skill a designer can have. The most elegant design can fail if it forces users to conform to the design rather than working within the “blueprint” of how humans perceive and process the world around them. This practical guide explains how you can apply key principles in psychology to build products and experiences that are more intuitive and human-centered.”


Laws of UX, have as subtitle “using psychology to design better products & services”. Psychology is transversal to every human, thus can be applied not only on digital experiences, but to any design. It is on this mind set that the Considerations between UX Heuristics and Physical Space are made.

“A heuristic technique, or a heuristic, is any approach to problem solving or self-discovery that employs a practical method that is not guaranteed to be optimal, perfect, or rational, but is nevertheless sufficient for reaching an immediate, short-term goal or approximation.” (from Wikipedia). Thus also heuristics as a technique is agnostic in terms of digital or non digital usage.

Nevertheless the generic applicable ideas, there are some specific heuristics that, maybe, can be good for doing the example of the transition between digital and analog worlds, in terms of UX heuristics.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 2 (2022): The Role of Urban Imaginaries
Creative Activism and Tactical Urbanism
Creators: name: Bordin, Giovanna
name: Toso, Elisabetta
name: Carvalho, António
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: In the Western societies of the late 19th and early 20th Centuries, European cities were largely designed and planned by civil engineers, architects, and public health experts –fields dominated by wealthy men. Consequently, cities were, and still are, delineated along the lines of gender, as well as race and class (European Union, 2007). For several years, the neutral user of the city was based on an ideal type of inhabitant: adult, male, healthy, rich, educated and self-provided. This led male planners and designers - whether intentionally or unintentionally - to create urban spaces catered to their needs while reflecting and perpetuating the patriarchal norms of their society (The World Bank Group, 2020). This archetype, however, is as dominant as poorly representative: urban environments around the world became both products and drivers of inequities, not only towards women, but excluding many of the real communities living in the cities as well (Hanson, 2004).
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Art, Urban Commons and Social Change
title: Models for preterm cortical development using non invasive clinical EEG
Creators: name: De Camp, Nora Vanessa
name: Hense, Florian
name: Lecher, Bernd
name: Scheu, Helmut
name: Bergeler, Jürgen
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: coherence
subject: cortical development
subject: full band EEG
subject: mouse model
subject: phase amplitude coupling
subject: telemetry
subject: somatosensory cortex
subject: piglet
subject: preterm
subject: 570 Biologie

description: The objective of this study was to evaluate the piglet and the mouse as model systems for preterm cortical development. According to the clinical context, we used non invasive EEG recordings. As a prerequisite, we developed miniaturized Ag/AgCl electrodes for full band EEG recordings in mice and verified that Urethane had no effect on EEG band power. Since mice are born with a “preterm” brain, we evaluated three age groups: P0/P1, P3/P4 and P13/P14. Our aim was to identify EEG patterns in the somatosensory cortex which are distinguishable between developmental stages and represent a physiologic brain development. In mice, we were able to find clear differences between age groups with a simple power analysis of EEG bands and also for phase locking and power spectral density. Interhemispheric coherence between corresponding regions can only be seen in two week old mice. The canolty maps for piglets as well as for mice show a clear PAC (phase amplitude coupling) pattern during development. From our data it can be concluded that analytic tools relying on network activity, as for example PAC (phase amplitude coupling) are best suited to extract basic EEG patterns of cortical development across species.
title: VALUE ADDED MODEL OF TEACHER EVALUATION: AN EXAMINATION OF ADMINISTRATORS’ LEADERSHIP
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2018

description: Abstract VALUE ADDED MODEL OF TEACHER EVALUATION: AN EXAMINATION OF ADMINISTRATORS’ LEADERSHIP David Landeryou II, Ph.D. George Mason University, 2018 Dissertation Director: Dr. Robert Smith This mixed methods study explores how principals are managing and leading their school sites in ways that retain effective teachers, in the context of the value-added approach to teacher evaluation. There is a great deal of research that identifies reasons for teachers leaving the profession. However, there is little research that reviews strategies administrators are utilizing to resolve the problem, especially in the context of the nascent value-added approach. This study looks at the unique situation that is created by the somewhat controversial adoption of the value-added approach to teacher evaluation. School sites were identified through an analysis of retention data and overall test score data to select sites that represent high performance with high and low retention rates and low performance with high and low retention rates. Some of the themes that emerged through semi-structured interviews conducted with principals and teachers were: the importance of a supportive principal in addressing issues relating to retention, the unintended consequences associated with implementation and the impact on school climate. The interview responses provided evidence supporting a finding of the importance of the role of the principal in supporting teachers in the climate of the value-added (VA) evaluations and the overall importance of administrator leadership in retaining teachers in the context of this approach to evaluation. Additionally, the principals’ role in mitigating negative aspects of VA on the overall school climate emerged. These findings have implications for school districts in terms of training for principals and for policymakers in the development and implementation of policies that support the retention efforts.
Political Struggle for the Aesthetics of the Urban Commons in Turkey
Creators: name: Tunali, Tijen
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: The common features of the protests sweeping the world since 1994 are their anti-austerity stance, the denunciation of corruption, the critique of mainstream institutions and the media, and increasing social inequality in deeply segregated urban landscapes. Across the world, people of different nations, operating in highly diverse cultural, social and historical contexts, have discovered who they are as citizens and what constituent power they have in relation to their governments. Many accounts have argued that in these recent urban social movements, the protestors have had diverse identities, interests and critical capacities, and yet they have collectively engaged in an aesthetic and sensory experience and discovered it to be a valid political instrument to undermine dominant political styles, challenge authoritarian rigidity and subvert the aesthetico-political language of officialdom (Bruff 2012, Della Porta and Mattoni 2014). The creation of political spaces of experience where imagination, creativity and pleasure are embraced and celebrated as integral to political engagement in order to “permit actors to live according to their own principles, to knit different social relations and to express their subjectivity (Pleyers 2010, p. 39).” The question this paper asks is, how this relates to empowering civil society?
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War on the Walls
Creators: name: Moskovljevic, Milos
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: In the last few decades, political scientists, historians, psychologists, and sociologists’ interest in “collective memory” increased significantly (Assman & Czaplicka, 1995; Olick & Robins, 1998; Mistzal, 2003; Hałas, 2008; Maier, 2009). There are ongoing discussions about the coverage and the exact meaning of terms such as “social memory,” “social remembrance,” “collective memory’’, ‘’public’’ and ‘national’’ memory (Wood, 1999; Kansteiner, 2002). It seems that between all the bearers of these discussions, there is a consensus around one thing - a collective and often debatable representation of the past, which demarcates the boundaries between social groups, and at the same time, represents the fabrics from which social (thus, political) identity is woven, deserves to be the subject of a more detailed scientific inquiry.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Art, Urban Commons and Social Change
CHO'PON OBRAZI GENEZISI
Creators: name: Mamadiyorova, Iroda
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ushbu maqolada cho‘pon obrazi genezisi, uning turli madaniyat va adabiyotlarda qanday shakllangani o‘rganiladi. Cho‘pon obrazi xalq og‘zaki ijodida, mifologiyada va adabiy asarlarda qanday talqin etilgani tahlil qilinadi. Ushbu  obraz o‘zbek adabiyoti va madaniyatida alohida o‘rin egallab, ozodlik, donishmandlik va tabiat bilan uyg‘unlik timsoli sifatida namoyon bo‘ladi. Adabiy asarlarda cho‘pon ko‘pincha xalq donishmandligi, mehnatsevarlik va fidoyilik timsoli sifatida tasvirlanadi.  Tadqiqotda tarixiy, badiiy va falsafiy jihatlar yoritilib, cho‘pon timsolining genezisi o‘rganiladi. Ayniqsa, Sharq va G‘arb adabiyotlaridagi cho‘pon obrazi qiyosiy tahlil qilinib, ularning o‘ziga xos xususiyatlari ko‘rsatib beriladi. Cho‘pon faqatgina qo‘y boquvchi emas, balki inson va tabiat o‘rtasidagi bog‘liqlik, axloqiy ideallar va ijtimoiy munosabatlarning ramziy ifodasi ekanligi qayd etiladi.
Mapping the impact of public art in the creation of convivial culture
Creators: name: Mustafa, Mehreen
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: “The indifferent A (4)rt” was a participatory public art exhibition that was held for 02 days in 2018. The exhibition was held in two different parks of a low-income housing society i.e., Sher Shah Colony, in Lahore. Sher Shah Colony is a designed housing facility located the in the southwest of Lahore. It is compressed between the highly commercialized locality of Raiwind and a chunk of agrarian land. (Figure 1)  Although the investigation of the development pattern of Sher Shah Colony is not the focus of this research however it is important to note that the colony has recently examined a dramatic shift in terms of population growth and has observed an astonishing pace of urbanization in its vicinities. The recent introduction of educational institutions, industrial faculty, and housing societies for the urban elite and middle class, connected through a network of fine roads, has contributed to shaping and altering the socio-built environment of the colony.  Planned on a perfect iron grid pattern, with an approximate area of 4600000 sqft, the colony is divided into 4 blocks namely A, B, C, and D. A park has been designed at the center of each block and two big parks have been allocated at the center of the colony.

 
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Editorial
Creators: name: Tunali, Tijen
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: The discussions of urban commons involve us in breaking up the totalizing notion of those dominated by power as passive consumers and reconsidering how urban life is made as creative production, constantly appropriating and reappropriating the products, messages, and spaces for expression. The common acts of engagement and reorganization are based on re-appropriations and redeployments of the dominant image economy and hierarchical distribution of space experienced in the city.  Hence, they are also a part of the struggle for the reclamation of public space wherein wrongly privatized space is returned to its rightful owners.  The special issue “Art, Urban Commons and Social Change” discusses how art in the urban space creates unmediated spaces and instances of emancipated subjects.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Art, Urban Commons and Social Change
title: Toward a Broader Theory of Affective Political Polarization and How It Impacts Electoral Regimes
Creators: name: Addison, Douglas Michael
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Polarization
subject: Electoral violence
subject: Autocratization
subject: Democratization
subject: Election violence
subject: Capacity

description: Across the world, a growing number of incumbent political parties are unwilling to ensure inclusive and fair contests for power. This thesis provides insight into how affective political polarization might play a role in this unfortunate contemporary history. The analysis offers a more detailed picture than what is available in the literature of how affective political polarization interacts with various combinations of incumbent-led electoral violence, autocratization, and democratization. At an abstract level, evidence is provided that affective political polarization is correlated with global trends of increasing electoral violence and autocratization at the expense of democratization. More practically, the thesis establishes the beginnings of a broad framework that might explain several common within-country transitions from one combination to another, from one election to the next. Analysts and practitioners may find the framework useful for further thinking about political conflict in electoral regimes.
Making Urban Commons
Creators: name: Yang, Yimeng
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: The urban commons is a public resource that citizens collectively manage and enjoy, but it is also a collective political experience beyond the state and the market (Huron, 2017). Thus, the urban commons is not just a thing, but a particular social relation and the struggle towards the urban commons is also an ongoing social practice that makes alternative relations (Harvey, 2012; Caffentzis and Federici, 2013; Tan, 2018). It is worth noting that the digital commons are emerging with the development of Internet technologies (Stalder, 2010). People in the digital world can access data, information, and knowledge at a lower cost and are more likely to produce based on the motivation of communication and sharing rather than on profit and exchange (Benkler, 2008).
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Art, Urban Commons and Social Change
The Pagoda in Flux
Creators: name: Wang, Zheng (Moham)
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2022

description: In San Francisco – A Cultural and Literary History, author Mick Sinclair (2004) claimed that San Francisco is “a rare part of the U.S. where eccentricity is more prized than conformity" (Sinclair, 2004, X). The pagodas, a late arrival to this culture of non-conformity, conform surprisingly well to the city as a dynamic whole. The American pagodas started in Chinatown, and the American Chinatown began in San Francisco. The flying eaves of a phone booth, the green restaurant tiles, the bell tower over an AT&T store, and the red overpaint of a new-year theme—all the disparate details extend beyond the pagoda as a format and point back to it as a form. Ubiquitous, volatile, and commercially available, the pagoda has acted as a constituent of an international city constantly shaped by Sino-Western contacts. The pagoda became the media of the city for community building for the Chinese diaspora.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 4 No 1 (2022): Art, Urban Commons and Social Change
KRAKEN. The Newest Technology in The Wrong Hands
Creators: name: Almeida, Beatriz
name: Freitas, Inês
name: Dias, Leonor
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2021

description: Political manipulation in democracy in current times appears as a critical threat to public life, being essentially related to the growing consumption of the mass media. Since this consumption is increasingly digital, big data analysis, algorithms and artificial intelligence start to challenge truth and trust - the pillars of our democratic society.

The Kraken’s software reports a probability of a near future in which, through the digitalization of the brain - pairing and transferring the mind, as a process where their reliable reproductions are kept - it will be possible to develop a database with the mind of every individual in society. It takes on a negative perspective of these technological advances since the mind is subject to different interpretations regarding the same matter, being fallible. It then portrays the opportunity to use this database of mind data to create false memories as a means of political manipulation in the future.

The project's main objective is to alert to possible consequences of the digitalization of the mind and, in general, of transhumanism, which can eventually be malicious and lead to the destruction of (our) humanity as we know it. In the speculative world in which the project is inserted, it is intended to denounce the possible disadvantages of digitizing the mind, raising questions around identity and consciousness.

 

technology, politics, manipulation, false memories, mind uploading, interaction design
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 3 No 1 (2021): Research through Interaction Design (RtD + IxD = RtIxD)
V3/N1 Editorial
Creators: name: Rafael, Sonia
name: Neves, Marco
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2021

description: The Special Issue ‘Research through Interaction Design (RtD + IxD = RtIxD)’ emerged from our desire, as interaction design teachers, to value design as a creative, practice-led project activity, based on holistic methodology that contemplates various sides of interactive experiences. Also, as researchers, to position design methods as a noteworthy way to achieve more knowledge in an area still defining itself.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 3 No 1 (2021): Research through Interaction Design (RtD + IxD = RtIxD)
title: ELUSIVE EMPOWERMENT: ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF CONFLICT ON GENDERED RELATIONS, IDENTITIES AND OPPORTUNITIES IN ACHOLILAND
Creators: name: (:Unkn) Unknown
Publisher: name: George Mason University
Year: 2020

description: A brutal 30-year conflict between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Government of Uganda in Acholiland (Northern Uganda) left hundreds of thousands of people dead, and millions of Acholi individuals and communities displaced from their homes. The conflict led to a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions, which was met with much international attention and intervention in its later years. This study involved 15-months of qualitative fieldwork with four communities in Acholiland and identifies and examines a complex web of impacts and changes experienced by Acholi in the midst of conflict and displacement. The research considers changing gender norms and dynamics arising from conflict and takes a critical look at “external” frameworks and benchmarks used to assess complex issues of gender and empowerment in this context. The project stresses the need to look at gendered impacts within a wider socio-cultural context and suggests that externally imagined benchmarks and frameworks will never be sufficient without a deeper understanding of how people view their own experiences, opportunities, and realities. As such the research prioritizes Acholi perspectives and experiences. One of its key findings (and contributions) relates to the identification of Acholi cultural concepts of power, and the recognition that cultural concepts and systems still dictate, define, and constrain individual options and opportunities, particularly those of women, despite significant changes observed in relation to socio-cultural and gender norms. Observations regarding the failure of many external actors to identify and integrate culturally relevant concepts and experiences into their interventions, particularly those related to gender empowerment, also help to highlight common shortcomings in these approaches and point to reasons for the frequent dissonance between well-intentioned project goals and people’s lived experiences, needs, and realties.
Editorial
Creators: name: Erdi, Gulçin
Publisher: name: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity
Year: 2021

description: This special issue grew out of a two day conference entitled Whose space is it? Interstices and urban commons: the city from an interdisciplinary perspective, which was held at the University of Tours in December 2020. Despite of difficult conditions et impredictibality of situation due to Covid-19 pandemic, the conference was a real success and brought together researchers from various disciplines of social science and more than ten countries. This conference provided an excellent venue within which to begin the discussions on the signification, the use and the ways of appropriation of what is called urban interstices covered in this issue. Urban interstices were one of the two main research themes of this conference whose scientific purpose has been collectively prepared by myself, Bénédicte Florin and Ulrike Krampl, all of us from University of Tours. The interesting point was to see how our different scientific disciplines, respectively sociology, geography and history provided a large scope to understand the interstices and their perception.
description: UXUC - User Experience and Urban Creativity, Vol 3 No 2 (2021): Urban Interstices