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Journal articles on the topic "Improvised and temporary venues"
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Nimmo, Alison, Simon Wright, and David Coulson. "Delivering London 2012: temporary venues." Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Civil Engineering 164, no. 6 (November 2011): 59–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1680/cien.2011.164.6.59.
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King, Thomas W. "An Improvised Eye-Pointing Communication System for Temporary Use." Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools 21, no. 2 (April 1990): 116–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/0161-1461.2102.116.
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The construction and use of an improvised eye-pointing communication device is described. It is suggested for temporary, ad hoc use to establish and enhance initial communication with an appropriate client in situations where no other augmentative communication system or assistive technology is yet available. The device is made of materials that are commonly available in most settings, and allows use of single-item or encoded selection techniques.
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Leal, Jorge N. "Mapping Ephemeral Music Forums in Latina/o Los Angeles." California History 97, no. 2 (May 1, 2020): 124–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2020.97.2.124.
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This essay examines how maps created by Latina/o youth created “ephemeral forums,” improvised ad hoc spaces that served as music venues in 1990s South Los Angeles. The maps included on “Rock en Español” event flyers demonstrate how Latinx youth envisioned Los Angeles and proclaimed their sense of place in the metropolis at a moment of social and demographic transformation. These maps help us understand how they and other Californians of color create and claim belonging,both past and present.
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Andres, Lauren, John R. Bryson, and Paul Moawad. "Temporary Urbanisms as Policy Alternatives to Enhance Health and Well-Being in the Post-Pandemic City." Current Environmental Health Reports 8, no. 2 (April 20, 2021): 167–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40572-021-00314-8.
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Abstract Purpose of Review While there has been extensive discussion on the various forms of temporary uses in urban settings, little is known on the ways in which temporary and health urbanisms connect. Now, a turning point has been reached regarding the interactions between health and the built environment and the contributions made by urban planning and other built environment disciplines. In the context of the post-pandemic city, there is a need to develop a health-led temporary urbanism agenda than can be implemented in various settings both in the Global South and North. Recent Findings Health-led temporary urbanism requires a reinterrogation of current models of urban development including designing multifunctional spaces in urban environments that provide sites for temporary urbanism-related activities. A healthy city is an adaptable city and one that provides opportunities for citizen-led interventions intended to enhance well-being by blending the temporary with the permanent and the planned with the improvised. Summary Health-led temporary urbanism contributes to the call for more trans- and inter-disciplinary discussions allowing to more thoroughly link urban planning and development with health.
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kirsch, francine. "Eat Me at the Fair: America's Love Affair with Food Installations." Gastronomica 11, no. 3 (2011): 77–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2011.11.3.77.
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Today's temporary installations are the domain of artists and intellectuals. But, a century ago, temporary food installations represented America's emergence as the world's breadbasket while exhibiting the patriotic pride of a young, agriculturally expanding nation. At local harvest festivals, temporary installations would take the form of majestic grain palaces. At world's fairs—particularly in 1876 Philadelphia, 1893 Chicago, and 1904 St. Louis—individual states contributed novelty food displays that underscored a prime product, be it Minnesota butter, California oranges, or wheat from Ohio. And, at a time when vast tracts of fertile land lay undeveloped, temporary installations at all these venues were meant to attract new population, whether from among the visitors at crowded urban exhibitions or from the settlers stopping at land grant offices on their way West, by demonstrating what a bounty could be obtained by farming in one particular area.
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KIRCHNER, MARGARET, REBECCA M. GOULTER, BENJAMIN J. CHAPMAN, JAMES CLAYTON, and LEE-ANN JAYKUS. "Cross-Contamination on Atypical Surfaces and Venues in Food Service Environments." Journal of Food Protection 84, no. 7 (February 5, 2021): 1239–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/jfp-20-314.
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ABSTRACT Cross-contamination of raw food to other surfaces, hands, and foods is a serious issue in food service. With individuals eating more meals away from home, contracting a foodborne illness from a food service establishment is an increasing concern. However, most studies have concentrated on hands or food contact surfaces and neglected atypical and unusual surfaces (surfaces that are not typically identified as a source of cross-contamination) and venues. This review was conducted to identify atypically cross-contaminated surfaces and atypical venues where cross-contamination could occur that have not been examined thoroughly in the literature. Most surfaces that could be at risk for cross-contamination are frequently touched, are rarely cleaned and sanitized, and can support the persistence and/or growth of foodborne pathogens. These surfaces include menus, spice and condiment containers, aprons and coveralls, mobile devices and tablets, and money. Venues that are explored, such as temporary events, mobile vendors, and markets, are usually limited in space or infrastructure, have low compliance with proper hand washing, and provide the opportunity for raw and ready-to-eat foods to come into contact with one another. These factors create an environment in which cross-contamination can occur and potentially impact food safety. A more comprehensive cleaning and sanitizing regime encompassing these surfaces and venues could help mitigate cross-contamination. This review highlights key surfaces and venues that have the potential to be cross-contaminated and have been underestimated or not fully investigated. These knowledge gaps indicate where further work is needed to fully understand the role of these surfaces and venues in cross-contamination and how it can be prevented. HIGHLIGHTS
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Kappenberg, Claudia, and Fiontán Moran. "Reflecting on grounded: A lens on COVID through Screendance." Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) 9, no. 2 (September 1, 2020): 188–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/miraj_00040_1.
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Like much of the United Kingdom, arts communities in the South East were largely paralysed during the lockdown in spring 2020 through the temporary closure of venues in Brighton, the Towner Eastbourne, the De La Warr Pavilion Bexhill, Hastings Contemporary and Hastings Museum, and numerous smaller arts, music and theatre venues along the coast. Many gallery staff were on furlough and online content tended to be provided by larger institutions elsewhere, apart from grassroots activities such as Hasting’s Isolation Station broadcast on Facebook. The closure of arts institutions all along the East Sussex Coast and the absence of their habitual signalling felt like an inverse phenomenon and uneasy foreboding. grounded was devised in response to this regional silence and the curators, Claudia Kappenberg and Fiontán Moran reflected on the project for MIRAJ.
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Qian, Junxi. "Performing the Public Man: Cultures and Identities in China's Grassroots Leisure Class." City & Community 13, no. 1 (March 2014): 26–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cico.12049.
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This article examines cultural practices and social life in urban public spaces of postreform China, focusing on the everyday leisure, entertainment, and cultural activities spontaneously organized by grassroots residents or groups. It examines performativity in constituting cultural meanings, reproducing everyday identities, and building up mutual engagements, and unravels the ways in which ordinary people devote resources, labor, and energy to keep alive individual or collective identities. Performances of cultural identities in public spaces entail improvised and temporary social relations which emerge from the immediate contexts of mundane spatial practices. Empirical analyses of public performativity in Guangzhou identify three scenarios, namely, the performativity of public teaching, public shows and performances, and the performative displays of cultural difference between carnivalesque dancing and “high–end culture” in public leisure.
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Shabhay, Ahmed, Zarina Shabhay, Kondo Chilonga, David Msuya, Theresia Mwakyembe, and Samwel Chugulu. "Standard Urine Collection Bag as an Improvised Bogotá Bag as a Temporary Abdominal Closure Method in an Open Abdomen in Preventing Abdominal Compartment Syndrome." Case Reports in Surgery 2021 (January 29, 2021): 1–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2021/6689000.
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Primary abdominal wall closure post laparotomy is not always possible. Certain surgical pathologies such as degloving anterior abdominal wall trauma injuries and peritoneal visceral volume and cavity disproportion render it nearly impossible for the attending surgeon to close the abdomen in the first initial laparotomy. In such surgical clinical scenarios leaving the abdomen open might be lifesaving. Forceful closure might lead to abdominal compartment syndrome and impair respiratory status of the patient. Open abdomen closure techniques have evolved over time from protection of abdominal viscera to complex fascia retraction prevention techniques. Silo bags, i.e., (Bogotá Bags), are relatively cheap, available materials used as a temporary abdominal closure method in limited resources settings. Despite its limitations of not preventing fascia retraction and draining of peritoneal fluid, it protects the abdominal viscera. We report a case of a 29-year-old male who developed incisional anterior abdominal wall wound dehiscence. He was scheduled for emergency explorative laparotomy. Intraoperatively, multiple attempts to reduce grossly dilated edematous bowels into the peritoneal cavity and fascia approximation into the midline were not possible. A urinary collection bag was sutured on the skin edges as a temporary abdominal closure method in prevention of abdominal compartment syndrome. He fared well postoperatively and eventually underwent abdominal incisional wound closure. In emergency abdominal surgeries done in limited surgical material resource settings were primary abdominal closure is not possible at initial laparotomy, sterile urine collection bags as alternatives to the standard Bogota bags as temporary abdominal closure materials can be safely used. These are relatively easily available and can be safely used until definite surgical intervention is achieved with relatively fewer complications.
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Pitts L, Donna. "Sound levels in movie theaters: is there a potential for hearing loss?" Journal of Otolaryngology-ENT Research 11, no. 2 (2019): 119–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.15406/joentr.2019.11.00420.
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Purpose: The goal of this study was to determine the frequency of attendance at movie theaters, the most popular genres of movies, the sound levels inside movie theaters, and if, based on frequency of attendance, a relationship could be established between temporary threshold shift and noise levels inside movie theaters. Method: A survey was first distributed to moviegoers at several different venues. Movies were selected based on the most popular genres. A noise logging dosimeter was utilized during the viewing of 16 movies in two different multiplex theaters to determine if sound levels exceed those deemed hazardous by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Results: Results indicated that most surveyants go to the movie theater about once a week. The noise levels obtained for 16 movies did not exceed those established by OSHA as hazardous in nature. Conclusion: Given that the maximum dose recorded by any movie viewed was 7.6% (out of 100%), it is highly unlikely that the average person would sustain a temporary threshold shift from movie viewing alone. Even if a person attended the movie theater on a daily basis, there is no evidence to suggest that movie viewing alone could cause a temporary shift in hearing.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Improvised and temporary venues"
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Louro, Diogo Filipe dos Reis Silva. "A utilização de sistemas vídeo em recintos temporários e improvisados." Master's thesis, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/36877.
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A sociedade civil está exposta a riscos securitários de diversos níveis. Todavia,
não se exime de realizar o seu dia-a-dia com normalidade, incluindo a
participação em grandes eventos realizados em recintos improvisados e
temporários, de iniciativa privada. Sendo estes eventos um agregador de
milhares de pessoas num espaço relativamente pequeno, é necessário
compreender e analisar de que forma é garantida a segurança do público nestes
eventos e recintos, tanto ao nível legislativo como junto dos diversos
intervenientes. Ao mesmo tempo, importa proceder a uma observação junto
destes grandes eventos e recintos para recolha e análise da realidade dos
eventos em Portugal.
Toda esta pesquisa é importante para compreender o sentimento securitário de
todos os intervenientes, de forma a apreender a realidade da utilização de
sistemas de vídeo em recintos temporários e improvisadosCivil society is exposed to security risks at various levels, however, it does not hesitate to carry out its day-to-day activities with normality, including participation in large events held in improvised and temporary premises, of private initiative. Since these events are an aggregator of thousands of people in temporary and improvised venues, in a relatively small space, it is necessary to understand and analyze how the public's safety in these events and spaces is guaranteed, at the legislative level but also among the different stakeholders. At the same time, it is necessary to observe these major events and venues to collect and analyze the reality of the events in Portugal. All this research is necessary to understand the security feeling of all stakeholders, in order to understand the reality of the use of video systems in temporary and improvised venues.
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Lai, Ying-Tzu, and 賴瑩芷. "The Research of Spatial Creativity and Experience Strategy at Temporary Venues from the Perspective of Culture and Creativity : Denmark Pavilion at 2010 Shanghai World Expo." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07994477624543801973.
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Temporary venues, or ad-hoc venues, are common delivery media in modern society as the messages of organizers are delivered via two aspects: main venue and theme presentation. An ad-hoc venue provides visitors information including the purpose of the exhibition, its background, features and cultural implications, feeding visitors knowledge. In recent years, visitor demand has been beyond browsing over displays. Rather, allowing experience and interaction can give visitors a stronger impression and a fuller understanding of exhibition. Temporary venues, with story-like and entertaining packages, create a specific experience and journey at a given time, offer visitors a series of memorable moments, and deliver the messages of organizer through complete performances. The theme of 2010 Shanghai World Expo was “Better City, Better Life”, for which participating countries contributed their respective ideas and visions for urban life. Unlike most other countries that chose to dedicate different design strategies to main architecture and indoor presentation, the Denmark pavilion incorporated both, comprehensively. This research works on the presentation of creativity and experience strategy for exploration in outdoors and indoor areas of a venue. The Denmark pavilion at 2010 Shanghai World Expo successfully deconstructed the urban elements of Copenhagen, and impressed visitors profoundly with features of the city. Unlimited imagination and infinite understanding were unleashed given limited space, limited time and limited resources. This is a critical element that most temporary venues lack at the present. This research focuses on analyzing presentation of creativity and experience strategy in Denmark pavilion, and renders an overall comparison with other pavilions. By identifying how Denmark pavilion incorporated the creativity and urban element of its cities into the temporary venue, the research reveals how impression and recognition are built. The findings and conclusions are expected to be future reference.
Books on the topic "Improvised and temporary venues"
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Greenland, Thomas H. Providing a Place and Time. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040115.003.0006.
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This chapter examines the role of jazz presenters in connecting artists and audiences in the here and now of improvised performances. It first provides an overview of the business of live jazz performances that take place in concert halls and clubs and in less formal performance spaces, along with the challenges faced by presenters running their venues as for-profit businesses. It then analyzes the attitudes and activities of venue operators and concert producers in the context of their professional endeavors and particularly in their interactions with musicians and fans. It also considers the presenters' relationship with jazz musicians and audiences and shows that they are part of the unseen scene whose role in providing a place and time is vital to collective expressions of music.
Book chapters on the topic "Improvised and temporary venues"
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Chowdhury, Fariah. "Permanently Temporary." In Discourse Analysis as a Tool for Understanding Gender Identity, Representation, and Equality, 175–203. IGI Global, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0225-8.ch009.
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Canada's immigration policy radically shifted under Stephen Harper's federal Conservative Party government, which ruled from 2006 to 2015. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is one key example of how migrants are increasingly entering Canada through a racially structured hierarchy of citizenship that privileges whiteness, while increasing the precarity of racialized migrants as they live, work, and contribute to the Canadian economy. This chapter offers a detailed policy analysis of Canada's TFWP, focusing on how the program marginalizes migrant workers as “un-Canadian” by placing them in racial, gender, and class hierarchies of belonging. This paper will discuss and outline recent changes and developments in Canada's TFWP, specifically those related to migrants classified as ‘lower-skilled' workers. While some labour needs in Canada can be read as truly temporary (for example, where workers were required to construct venues for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games or other short-term construction projects), the lack of accountability within the TFWP in Canada has led to some occupations being misleadingly framed as ‘temporary', thereby creating a class of migrant workers who are “permanently temporary.” I will argue that the labeling of racialized migrants as “temporary workers” offers employers a structural incentive to keep wages systematically low and maintain poor working conditions, all couched under a guise of “competitiveness.” In this light, “temporary” work becomes synonymous with low-wage exploitation, and continues to strengthen a historic racist nation-state project in Canada. Further, this paper will argue that giving temporary status to migrant workers, rather than permanent residency, serves to limit access to social rights and services, only deepening their levels of exploitation. Finally, I argue that recent increases in TFWs is a symptom of a global trend towards the neoliberalization of citizenship, which has seen the unethical individualization of rights and the privatization of services across many fields.
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Chowdhury, Fariah. "Permanently Temporary." In Immigration and the Current Social, Political, and Economic Climate, 142–63. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-6918-3.ch008.
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Canada's immigration policy radically shifted under Stephen Harper's federal Conservative Party government, which ruled from 2006 to 2015. The Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) is one key example of how migrants are increasingly entering Canada through a racially structured hierarchy of citizenship that privileges whiteness, while increasing the precarity of racialized migrants as they live, work, and contribute to the Canadian economy. This chapter offers a detailed policy analysis of Canada's TFWP, focusing on how the program marginalizes migrant workers as “un-Canadian” by placing them in racial, gender, and class hierarchies of belonging. This paper will discuss and outline recent changes and developments in Canada's TFWP, specifically those related to migrants classified as ‘lower-skilled' workers. While some labour needs in Canada can be read as truly temporary (for example, where workers were required to construct venues for the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympic Games or other short-term construction projects), the lack of accountability within the TFWP in Canada has led to some occupations being misleadingly framed as ‘temporary', thereby creating a class of migrant workers who are “permanently temporary.” I will argue that the labeling of racialized migrants as “temporary workers” offers employers a structural incentive to keep wages systematically low and maintain poor working conditions, all couched under a guise of “competitiveness.” In this light, “temporary” work becomes synonymous with low-wage exploitation, and continues to strengthen a historic racist nation-state project in Canada. Further, this paper will argue that giving temporary status to migrant workers, rather than permanent residency, serves to limit access to social rights and services, only deepening their levels of exploitation. Finally, I argue that recent increases in TFWs is a symptom of a global trend towards the neoliberalization of citizenship, which has seen the unethical individualization of rights and the privatization of services across many fields.
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MacDonald, Raymond A. R., and Graeme B. Wilson. "Improvisation and new frontiers in creative practice." In The Art of Becoming, 1–24. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840914.003.0001.
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This chapter draws together recent advances across musical fields to frame improvising as an innovative and vibrant way of doing creative practice at a professional level and in everyday life. It presents examples of cross-disciplinary improvised work and festivals at the cutting edge of the performing arts. Improvised music is discussed in relation to broader social and cultural change and transformations within the media and music industry. The possibilities of new digital technologies for expanding improvising are reviewed and help set the context for the proceeding chapters. It shows how group improvisation involves the spontaneous generation of novel music, dance, or art by two or more people. It describes the groundswell of interest across the arts in improvisation with artists, festivals, and venues dedicated to pushing this creative approach beyond genre boundaries.
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"Research on architecture and structure integrated design of temporary venues aimed at low carbon construction." In Sustainable Buildings and Structures, 225–30. CRC Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/b19239-38.
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Brown, Douglas. "The 21st Century Venue." In Key Issues in the Arts and Entertainment Industry. Goodfellow Publishers, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.23912/978-1-906884-20-8-1446.
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A fundamental ingredient of presenting quality arts and entertainment experiences to contemporary audiences is the imaginative design, management and use of the places in which they happen: the venues. This chapter will continue to explore the changing relationship between audiences, producers and presenters of live arts and entertainment by looking at the design and use of physical spaces. Whether we are talking about a large arena,a formal theatre space, a temporary performing space or a mobile cinema, many of the issues facing producers and managers are similar. This chapter will explore a number of issues affecting the design and use of spaces — large and small, formal and informal — and the current trends in venue design and management for presenting entertainment and hearts. In the course of the chapter, we will consider topics such as the history of venue design and the justifications for different venues and building processes, as well as design issues including inclusivity, sustainability,flexibility and the use of technology. Trends including the move towards intimacy and transparency will be looked at in the context of how these issues relate to key values, such as equality, community, innovation and empowerment of the individual.
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Cutting, James E. "Popular Movies and Technology." In Movies on Our Minds, 20–46. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197567777.003.0002.
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People’s aesthetic appreciation for any art is bound to the craft of its artists, and that craft is deeply affected by the technology available. Movies have evolved through a long series of venues and technological advances—theaters to shrinking personal devices; roll film with sprockets added; increased frame rates; the standardizations with added sound; experiments with color, aspect ratios, and contrast; and the move to a digital format. This chapter traces these and the consequent psychological improvements in viewer engagement that they fostered—for example, the creation of motion also created aversive flicker, but flicker was then diminished by increasing frame rates and was eliminated by digital delivery. Sound had profound effects, among other things creating a temporary deglobalization of cinema. Color increased discriminability and punctuated the change of scenes. And increased aspect ratios more firmly stimulated people’s systems of balance and the feeling of presence.
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Saraceno, Chiara, David Benassi, and Enrica Morlicchio. "Afterword The impact of the COVID-19 epidemic." In Poverty in Italy, 146–50. Policy Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781447352211.003.0009.
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At the time we were revising the proofs of this book, Italy suddenly became one of the countries most hit by Coronavirus (COVID-19). On 9 March 2020, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte signed a decree implementing a complete lockdown aimed at ‘avoiding any movement of individuals’. Only a small number of ‘essential activities’ remained open: health services, of course, and food stores, as well as the industrial, agricultural and logistic activities linked to these two sectors. Where possible, working at a social distance was implemented. Where this was not possible, workers were covered by the WGF, which was also extended to people working in small firms and sectors that previously not had such protection. But, given the large amount of very small firms and of self-employed people in Italy, as well as the large numbers of seasonal or temporary workers in tourism and cultural activities, many had neither work nor income protection. Many small enterprises risk not being able to re-open their shops, for example, and those formerly employed in them are facing difficulties in finding work as the lockdown is gradually being lifted – non-food shops, restaurants, cafes, cultural venues, tourism, sports, together with schools and childcare and education services will be the last to be reopened. Tourism in particular, which accounts for 13.2 per cent of GNP in Italy and 14.9 per cent of total employment, will likely continue to suffer the effects of COVID-19 throughout the whole of 2020 and possibly into 2021....
Conference papers on the topic "Improvised and temporary venues"
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Cox, Simon B., Erik H. Middelkoop, and Rob Torsing. "Shaded Dome: a hybrid air-supported – tensile membrane structure." In IABSE Congress, New York, New York 2019: The Evolving Metropolis. Zurich, Switzerland: International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering (IABSE), 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2749/newyork.2019.2773.
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<p>The Shaded Dome<span>patented</span> is a semi-permanent facility, comprised of an air-supported dome covered by a tensile membrane shade. The two layers are separated by a grid of spacers, through which forces are transferred. In the space between the two layers a constant natural air flow is present, which enables a pleasant internal microclimate. This passive design element provides protection from extreme climatological conditions like solar radiation, wind, high air temperature, humidity and precipitation. The concept provides a design challenge concerning the force balance between the air-supported dome, as the primary stability structure, and the tensile membrane shade which must remain in shape. The Shaded dome provides a solution for example for temporary events, such as World Cups or the Olympics, to replace the large and expensive venues, which often are abandoned once the event is over.</p><p>Shaded Dome Technologies explored the basic principles of an air-supported dome covered by a shade through rigorous experimenting. Parallel to empirical testing in scaled handmade models, a design model was scripted and its behaviour simulated. These two “methods” were not sequential but informed each other. The concept is cast in a computational design model. This computational model is used to simulate the inflation of the air-supported dome, generate the tensile membrane shade on top, study and vary each aspect of the design and optimise and prepare the geometry for manufacturing. The results produced within this computational framework were further explored and validated using finite element method software. This all lead to the construction of a successful prototype.</p>