Building a Culture of Open Pedagogy from the Platform Up

New York City College of Technology (City Tech) is one of 24 colleges comprising the City University of New York (CUNY), the United States' largest urban public higher education institution legislatively mandated as the "vehicle for the upward mobility of the disadvantaged in the City of New York."1 Fulfilling this mission is vital to the...

A Culture of Innovation: A model for Qualitative Analysis at Universities and the Case Study of Civil Engineering Students at the Addis Ababa Institute of Technology

Innovation offers opportunities for modernization and development. In recent years it has become a buzzword in the world of NGO’s, IGO’s and governments in developing countries and is featured in the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals. Different types of innovation are increasingly recognized, complicating the classic notion of innovation...

A critical overview of Architectural Competitons in Turkey: Two contradicted competition stories in Istanbul: IMC blocks / Zorlu Center projects

This paper’s aim is to make a comparative analysis of the two contradicted multi-leg mixused projects and their architectural and urban design process / the competition process; the communist, nationalist, designer-related, revolutionary, innovative, transparent, extroverted, humble, urban related IMC Blocks include the Linen and Drapers Offices...

LADM as a Basis for the Hellenic Archaeological Cadastre

Greece consists of a complex-structured environment, with horizontal, vertical and mixed properties in which is exercised a variety of property rights. The Hellenic Cadastre (HC) applies to a two-dimensional registration system, with the property being the core of the system and quest of the legal information (Tsiliakou and Dimopoulou, 2011)....

Performing the Past and the Present for the Knowledge of the Future

The aim of this paper is to discuss the role three-dimensional models play in addressing performance issues in virtual reconstructions of the heritage buildings. Heritage visualisation is considered here as a process of representing knowledge about space, time, behaviour, light, and other elements that constitute cultural environments. The...

Whispering Walls: Cultural augmentation with augmented reality at a range of scales

A design project that explores how augmented reality may be incorporated within architecture to embed hybrid ‘info-tectonic’ detail, across a range of scales is documented. The context in which the project is undertaken is the legacy of South Indian temple design. This opens up a complimentary field of research within a cultural context, to...

Building information modelling and the culture of construction project teams: A case study

The collaborative use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Building Information Modelling (BIM) across a temporary project organisation (TPO) may represent the future of construction project delivery through greater design coordination, reduced conflict, efficiency savings, and a valuable information stream for use throughout...

Diversity interventions for a socially sustainable construction industry

Major construction sites in Australia have an above average presence of ethnic minorities. These groups and the interfaces between them require effective management in order to meet the social imperatives of sustainable design and construction. A survey of 1155 workers and 204 managers on Sydney construction sites respectively, found a...

Cultural heritage in urban redevelopment projects: A framework to analyse collaborative strategies

Due to technological, economic and spatial developments, various inner-city industrial areas have lost their former use and their original economic value. Many of these areas have elements of cultural-historical value. Preserving this cultural heritage means managing it for the benefit of current and future generations, and –by doing so -...

Supply chain sustainability - a relationship management approach moderated by culture and commitment

This research explores the nature of relationship management on construction projects in Australia and examines the effects of culture, by means of Schwarz’s value survey, on relationships under different contract strategies. The research was based on the view that the development of a sustainable supply chain depends on the transfer of...

Exploring the influence of design culture on ICT healthcare product and service design for rural China

Design culture is usually considered as one of the important aspects that influence designers’ decisions and actions, especially in Design for Base of the Pyramid projects including ICT Healthcare Product Design in Rural China (IHDRC). There are two research questions in this issue: what are the cultural factors and how these factors influence...

Shaping future green cities: LED's technology adoption as an option for India

The sustainable development in developing and newly industrialising countries (China, India, South Africa, and Brazil) is central issue for policy makers, decision makers, academic, and planners. The attainment of sustainability has become a challenge for rapidly urbanising India. The paper focuses on the challenges for building less energy...

Cultures of sustainability

In our research, we have been expanding our conceptual and methodological frames of reference as designers, in order to explore the complexity of factors involved in environmental sustainability and the consequent challenges posed for design research. In this paper, we discuss some of these issues in user-centered and sustainable design, drawing...

Towards sustainability: The urban housing market, policy and management in Hanoi reviewed through the international economic downturn and the national integration process

The global economic crisis has left a negative impact on Vietnam’s economy since mid 2008. Consequently, the building industry – particularly the urban housing market as an integral part of it – has been strongly affected. However, it is also a “rare” occasion to reinvestigate the housing policy as well as the housing mechanism in a wider...

Social differentiation within and outside the gated community of Tierra Grande, Lawaan, Talisay City, Cebu

Workshop 1. Session 1.2: Segregation and strategies of gating and withdrawal

Bad taste in architecture. Discussion of the popular in residential architecture in southern Ecuador.

Workshop 4. Session 4.1: Design and modernity

Housing environment in the process of cultural change and transformation; study in Istanbul/Armutlu squatter settlement

Workshop 4. Session 4.1: Design and modernity

The inverse culture of poverty

Workshop 1. Session 1.1: Poverty and Identity. Abstract: Low-income groups develop a ‘culture of poverty’ because of their marginalized position. Neighborhood effect studies use this notion as a point of departure. The culture of poverty provides necessary contacts for the informal economy, socializes diverging norms, and reproduces inequality...