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SILVA, MARCOS CESAR DA. "A SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE FOR FLEXIBLE WEB SERVICE MEDIATION." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2008. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=12314@1.
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A adoção da Arquitetura Orientada a Serviços (SOA) tem
possibilitado a formação de redes de negócios nas quais
cada parceiro obtém automaticamente as informações de que
precisa para atingir o máximo de eficiência.
Quando em uma rede de negócios há mais de um parceiro
provendo um mesmo serviço, surge o desafio de determinar
qual deles é o mais indicado para atender a uma solicitação.
Esta dissertação apresenta uma arquitetura de software e a
implementação de um protótipo que permite a definição de
critérios complexos para a mediação de serviços baseada
tanto em dados técnicos (disponibilidade e tempo de
resposta) como funcionais (preço, reputação, localização
geográfica, etc.). Nosso objetivo é explorar os aspectos
práticos desta mediação, as tecnologias utilizadas e a
flexibilidade da solução.The Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) adoption has been enabling the raise of business networks in which each partner gets automatically the information needed to achieve maximum efficiency. When there is more than one partner providing the same service on a business network, comes the challenge of determining which one is best suited to receive a given request. This dissertation presents a software architecture and a prototype implementation that allows the definition of complex criteria to service mediation, based on both technical (availability, response time) and functional data (price, reputation, geographical location, etc.). Our goal is to explore the practical aspects of this mediation, the technologies used and the solution flexibility.
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Patterson, Caleb L. "Pastoral Machines: Architecture and the Mediation of Nature." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277141931.
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SUNDERHAUS, NATHAN ALLEN. "URBAN MEDIATION: NEW MEDIA ART AND THE CITY." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1148071505.
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Margalith, Dana. "Louis I. Kahn - Architectural history as mediation." Thesis, McGill University, 2014. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=121259.
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Louis I. Kahn - Architectural History as Mediation investigates the work of one of the most active architects of the 20th century who has been acknowledged by scholars as a modern thinker and architect, but is also known for his interest in history, and the clear references to historical precedents in his work. In studying Kahn's architectural training, writings, readings, travel experience, personal contacts, the context in which he practiced, and through investigating his personal drawings and two of his design projects, Kahn's layered approach to architectural history is unveiled.In describing the architectural context of Kahn's education and work, this thesis deals with important aspects of architectural thought and making, which Kahn was exposed to, and sheds light on the motivation behind Kahn's unique philosophical quest. When investigating Kahn's drawings done during his travelling experiences, the manner in which he embodied historical sites becomes apparent. Studying archival material it tracks Kahn's studies of architectural references, and analyzing his architectural drawings and designs for the Dominican Motherhouse of St. Catherine de Ricci, Media, Pennsylvania (1965-1969, un-built) and the Hurva Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem (1967-1974, un-built) it exemplifies the poetic references made by his projects to historical precedents - all while concentrating on hermeneutic and phenomenological concepts relating to perception, memory and understanding of the past.Thus, through Kahn, this dissertation addresses the contextual debate regarding the use of historical references in modern architecture from the 18th century up until the postmodern era, and deals with the importance of continuity of references in the age of fragmentation. Louis I. Kahn - Architectural History as Mediation reveals the possible intricate potential lying in the consideration of tradition and history in modern architecture, and sheds light on suitable endeavors in architectural thought and making which at once integrate historical references and promote originality and progress - both fundamental for innovative poetic architectural expressions.Dans Louis I. Kahn – L'histoire de l'architecture comme médiation, on explore le travail de l'un des architectes le plus actifs du 20e siècle. Il a été reconnu par les intellectuels pour son rôle d'architecte et de penseur moderne, ainsi que pour ses recherches en histoire et ses références aux œuvres historiques importantes. En étudiant Kahn et son éducation, sa formation en architecture, ses écrits, lectures, voyages, contacts personnels, le contexte dans lequel il travaillait, en plus d'examiner ses dessins personnels et deux de ses projets de design, on comprend son approche de l'architecture sous plusieurs angles. En décrivant le contexte dans lequel Kahn a été éduqué et dans lequel il a pratiqué son métier, la thèse traite d'importants aspects de la pensée et pratique architecturale auxquels Kahn a été exposé, dévoilant ainsi les motivations derrière sa quête philosophique unique. En examinant les dessins de Kahn, la manière dont il incarne les sites historiques qu'il a vus durant ses voyages devient apparent. À travers l'étude du matériel d'archives, la trace des références architecturales que Kahn a étudiées devient visible. Ainsi, dans ses dessins et la conception architecturale pour le Dominican Motherhouse de St. Catherine de Ricci, Media, Pennsylvanie (1965-1969, jamais construit) et le Hurva Synagogue dans la vieille ville de Jérusalem (1967-1974, jamais construit), les références poétiques aux œuvres historiques que sont ses projets sont clairement illustrées, tout en soulignant des concepts herméneutiques et phénoménologiques en relation avec la perception, la mémoire et la compréhension du passé. Par conséquent, à travers Kahn, cette thèse examinera le débat contextuel concernant l'usage de références historiques dans l'architecture moderne du 18ième siècle jusqu'au postmodernisme, et abordera l'importance de la continuité des références dans l'âge de fragmentation. Louis I. Kahn – L'histoire de l'architecture comme moyen de médiation dévoilera le complexe potentiel dans l'étude de la tradition et l'histoire de l'architecture moderne. Elle éclairera les efforts acceptables dans la pensée et la pratique de l'architecture qui intègrent des références historiques et promeuvent l'authenticité et le progrès – deux éléments fondamentaux de l'expression architecturale poétique et innovatrice.
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Sauer, Jordan R. "Architectural Mediation: Man and the Lick Run Elements." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1617109515909797.
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Boone, Véronique. "Le Corbusier et le cinéma : la communication d'une oeuvre." Thesis, Lille 3, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017LIL30011.
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La présente étude s’intéresse à la production cinématographique et télévisée de et sur Le Corbusier lors de son vivant. Longtemps ignorée comme instrument de communication de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, l’œuvre filmique (comme complément de la photographie et de l’édition) reste peu connue et reconnue. La thèse se construit en deux parties : une partie de catalogage de l’œuvre filmique, formant le corpus de l’étude, et une partie réflexive, qui s’interroge sur divers aspects de création et de diffusion de cette production. Un premier défi de la thèse consiste à étudier la masse d’archives relatives aux différents projets de films afin de combler le vide propre à cet aspect de la production de Le Corbusier, pour l’inclure à part entière dans sa production artistique. Le catalogue est le résultat d’une recherche transdisciplinaire qui demande une investigation dans deux, voire trois domaines de recherche : l’architecture, le cinéma et la télévision, en tenant compte des spécificités de chaque discipline. Chaque projet ou réalisation de documentaire est décrit depuis sa phase d’intention à sa réception jusqu'à sa valorisation, incluant les données techniques et les références contemporaines aux films. Ce corpus permet de mesurer l’importance de la quantité de documents cinématographiques et télévisés que Le Corbusier a pu entreprendre durant sa vie ou pour lesquels il a été sollicité. Aucun autre architecte ne semble avoir été si fréquemment sollicité, ni s’être impliqué de manière si récurrente dans de tels projets. Un deuxième travail, réflexif, traverse les modalités de la communication et de la représentation de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme de Le Corbusier par le biais du cinéma et de la télévision. De l’investigation dans les théories transdisciplinaires - de réception, de diffusion, socio-économiques, sémiotiques et rhétoriques - et leur application sur l’œuvre cinématographique et télévisée de Le Corbusier, résultent trois hypothèses : transmission, transposition et transcription.L’étude questionne dans un premier temps les mécanismes de la transmission. Par celle-ci est entendu tout mécanisme de médiation de Le Corbusier par le biais des documentaires – et par extension les interviews télévisées. En croisant les résultats du corpus avec les théories de réception, de diffusion et de marketing, des intuitions se confirment quant à l’efficacité ou l’inefficacité de certains documentaires comme outils de communication, voire de promotion. Dans un deuxième temps sont approfondis les savoirs sur le processus de création de Le Corbusier, autant sur le plan de la représentation de l’architecture, que sur le plan de la construction du discours dans les documentaires cinématographiques. Le principe de la transposition part du constat que les documents cinématographiques entretiennent des liens de proximité avec leurs contemporains photographiques. La recherche utilise les théories sémiotiques pour analyser la manière avec laquelle Le Corbusier compose avec l’imaginaire et les techniques de la photographie pour concevoir ses projets de films. La transcription concerne essentiellement l’argumentation cinématographique de Le Corbusier. Ici, l’analyse part du constat que les écrits de Le Corbusier sur le cinéma, et la pensée qui en émane, ne collent pas avec la réalité cinématographique et les nécessités d’un cinéma de communication. Sa rhétorique au cinéma est analysée en reprenant les techniques décrites par les principaux théoriciens de la rhétorique et comparée aux exemples venant des conférences et publicationsThe present study focuses on the cinematographic and television production of and on Le Corbusier, realized during his lifetime. Long ignored – as opposed to photography and publishing – as an instrument of communication for architecture and urban planning, this filmic work remains little known and recognized. The thesis consists of two parts: a catalogue volume of the filmic work, forming the corpus of the study, and a reflective volume, which questions various aspects of creation and diffusion of this production.The first challenge of the thesis was to study the mass of archives relating to the various film projects in order to fill the gap of this aspect of Le Corbusier's production and to fully include it in his artistic production. The catalogue is the result of a transdisciplinary research, which required an investigation into three research domains: architecture, cinema and television, taking into account the specificities of each discipline. Each project or production of a documentary is described from the initial intention to its public reception until its valorisation today, including technical data and contemporary references to films. This volume makes it possible to measure the importance of the quantity of cinematographic and televised documents that Le Corbusier undertook during his life or for which he was solicited. No other architect has been so frequently involved in documentary projects.The second – reflective – part of the research analyses the modalities of communication and representation of Le Corbusier’s architecture and urbanism through cinema and television. By crossing transdisciplinary theories – reception, diffusion, socio-economic, semiotic and rhetorical – with Le Corbusier's cinematographic and televised work, three hypotheses result: transmission, transposition and transcription.The study begins by questioning the mechanisms of transmission. By this is understood any mechanism of mediation of Le Corbusier through the documentaries - and by extension the television interviews. Crossing the results of the corpus with the theories of reception, diffusion and marketing, builds insights into the effectiveness or inefficiency of certain documentaries as tools for communication and even promotion.In a second stage, the knowledge about Le Corbusier's creation process, both in terms of architectural representation and in terms of the construction of discourse in cinematographic documentaries, is deepened. The principle of transposition begins with the observation that cinematographic documents maintain close links with their photographic contemporaries. The research uses established semiotic theories to analyse how Le Corbusier composes with the imaginary and techniques of photography to design his film projects.The third principle, transcription, focuses on Le Corbusier's cinematographic argument. Here the analysis starts from the observation that Le Corbusier's writings on cinema and the thoughts he emanated do not stick with the cinematographic reality and the necessities of a cinema of communication. His rhetoric in the cinema is analysed by taking the techniques described by the main theorists of rhetoric and compared to the examples from conferences and publications
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Barker, Brian. "Ecological Mediation: Dialectics of Inside and Outside." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275667998.
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LÓSCIO, Bernadette Farias. "Managing the Evolution of XML-based Mediation Queries." Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, 2003. https://repositorio.ufpe.br/handle/123456789/1838.
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Previous issue date: 2003Diversos sistemas de integração de dados têm sido propostos na literatura com o objetivo de prover acesso integrado a diferentes fontes de dados, que podem ser autônomas e heterogêneas. O problema de integração de dados consiste em oferecer uma visão uniforme das fontes de dados (chamada esquema de mediação ou esquema global) e definir um conjunto de consultas (chamadas consultas de mediação) as quais determinam como obter cada elemento do esquema de mediação em função dos dados armazenados nas fontes locais. Sistemas de integração de dados podem ser classificados de acordo com a abordagem adotada para definição dos mapeamentos entre as fontes de dados e o esquema de mediação. Duas abordagens principais são apresentadas na literatura: Visão Global e Visão Local. Na abordagem Visão Global cada elemento do esquema de mediação é representado como uma visão sobre as fontes de dados. Na abordagem Visão Local cada elemento em uma dada fonte de dados é definido como uma visão sobre o esquema de mediação. Uma das contribuições deste trabalho é a proposta de um sistema de integração de dados que adota a abordagem Visão Global. Um importante diferencial deste sistema é que além de prover acesso integrado a dados distribuídos e heterogêneos, o sistema também oferece soluções para os problemas relacionados à geração e à manutenção das consultas de mediação. Além disso, o sistema proposto usa XML como modelo de dados comum para troca e representação de dados. Para representar os esquemas das fontes de dados locais é adotada a linguagem XML Schema, proposta pelo W3C como linguagem padrão para definição de esquemas para classes de documentos XML. Para prover uma representação de mais alto nível para as informações descritas nos esquemas XML é proposto um modelo conceitual, chamado X-Entity. Além do modelo conceitual, também é apresentado o processo de conversão de um esquema XML (definido na linguagem XML Schema) para um esquema definido no modelo X-Entity. O principal problema com o uso da abordagem Visão Global diz respeito à manutenção das consultas de mediação em conseqüência das atualizações nos esquemas das fontes de dados locais. Em ambientes dinâmicos, as consultas de mediação devem ser flexíveis a fim de permitir modificações nos esquemas locais, adição e remoção de fontes de dados e alterações nos requisitos de usuários. Para gerenciar a evolução do nível de mediação (esquema e consultas de mediação) foram desenvolvidos: i) um conjunto de operações que descrevem os diferentes tipos de evolução nas fontes locais e nos requisitos dos usuários, ii) um conjunto de primitivas de propagação que descrevem as modificações a serem realizadas no esquema e nas consultas de mediação e iii) um conjunto de regras de propagação. Este trabalho também propõe um processo de propagação que define como difundir os diferentes tipos de atualizações. Este trabalho propõe uma abordagem incremental para o desenvolvimento do nível de mediação baseado na evolução dos esquemas das fontes locais e evolução dos requisitos dos usuários. Mais precisamente, a adição de uma nova fonte de dados ao sistema não implica que as consultas de mediação sejam completamente refeitas. Ao invés disso, é possível adicionar a nova fonte de dados às consultas existentes. Quando uma fonte de dados é removida, as consultas de mediação afetadas por esta remoção devem ser reescritas ou removidas. Da mesma forma, mudanças nos requisitos dos usuários também podem ser refletidas no nível de mediação. Esta solução permite a evolução incremental do nível de mediação aumentando tanto a flexibilidade quanto a escalabilidade do sistema de integração proposto
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Tanzarella, Beatrice. "Architecture & the commute : a railway station in Mamelodi." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/31459.
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This dissertation investigates architecture's potential role in improving the experience of the daily commute into and out of the city. It is proposed that an architectural intervention that takes into account the 'embodied' experience of the commuter as key informant could assist in such an improvement. Various structural and infrastructural upgrades are being planned for the east-west Metrorail link between Pretoria Station and Mamelodi by the Tshwane Municipal Government and the Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA). This link is selected to act as setting for the enquiry, with Mamelodi Gardens Metrorail Station as site for architectural intervention. A conflict is identified between requirements of the public transport system to function optimally and efficiently and the experiential and everyday needs of the commuter who encounters it. The dissertation aims to relieve this apparent opposition through a design process of mediation. Due partially to its functionally driven nature, public transport planning often leads to an environment of extremes which places the commuting experience under tension. Architecture's potential role in alleviating these extremes through impact or through the mediation of other environmental impacts is explored. Phenomenological philosophy, as a study based in the ontological enquiry of conscious experience, is the theoretical stimulus to the experiential component of the study. This theoretical base is partnered with investigative and interpretive study in order to ascertain the various ways in which architecture could potentially impact on the embodied experience of the commuter.Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012.
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Bello, Bradford August. "How Architecture can influence private contemplation and public negotiation." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/31617.
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How can Architecture influence private contemplation and public negotiation? This thesis attempts to investigate the effect of our
built environment on how individuals work together. To explore this question, a conflict resolution center becomes the vehicle to study the physical, social, and intellectual impact on thinking and decision-making.Master of Architecture
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Koutsoulias, Michael. "Suburban Rites of Passage: Building, Landscape, and the Mediation of Adolescent Aggression." Thesis, University of Waterloo, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/889.
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This thesis questions contemporary society?s understanding and ability to deal with the universal instinct known as aggression. The investigation identifies the driving forces behind adolescent aggression and the myth based rituals and cultural devices used to mediate it. The primary case in this study is a suburban community called Malvern, known for its high rate of teen violence and aggressive acts. Malvern is evaluated based on its current rites of passage rituals and institutions used for the socialisation and individuation of the young members of its community. This is followed by a proposed intervention introducing the use of building and landscape as devices to mediate adolescent aggression through the emergence of redefined myth based rituals and rites of passage within Malvern?s unique context.
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Reiner-Roth, Shane. "Tropical Islands; or, how the architectural interior became the primary site of aesthetic mediation." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/118573.
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Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2018.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
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For three days and two nights, I was a guest at the Tropical Islands Resort, the world's largest indoor water park. While inside, I ate the special at every one of its restaurants, drank every signature cocktail advertised, explored its perimeter in a hot-air balloon, went on all the water slides (twice), lounged in front of and within every water feature, slept in a canvas tent the first night and a junior suite the second. During my stay, the Houston metropolitan area was suffering the worst of Hurricane Harvey, the first tropical cyclone of the abnormally active 2017 Atlantic hurricane season. The floods led to the widespread loss of electricity, the death of over 106 residents, and the incurment of over $125 billion in damage. During its peak, Hurricane Harvey was the top story of several American news outlets. But I had only learned about Hurricane Harvey after leaving the Tropical Islands Resort, stopped at a red light and scrolling through my news feed for the first time in days. For three days and two nights, I was in a bubble. This thesis considers The Tropical Islands Resort as a site of aesthetic mediation, equally as mediating as any other form of popular media. The parallel histories of its precedents including greenhouses, world's fairs, theme parks, bunkers and experiments in social ecology reveal a crucial link between architectural interiority and the public response to some of the greatest challenges facing contemporary society. The Tropical Islands Resort is a testament to human ingenuity and denial thousands of years in the making, and it is absolutely a sign of things to come.
by Shane Reiner-Roth.
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Walker, Madelyn Grace. "Architectural Mediation: A Community Anxiety Center in Alexandria, VA." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/90291.
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Anxiety Disorders are the most common mental illness in the United States. While nearly 18% of Americans will experience an anxiety disorder within any given year, only one-third of those will receive treatment. Current mental health treatment facilities must navigate opposing needs for both awareness and access as well as privacy and respite.
This thesis explores the ability of architecture to influence emotion and mediate between opposites through the design of a community anxiety treatment center in the heart of Old Town Alexandria, VA. The building combines community services, outpatient treatment, and in-patient treatment under one roof. Rather than a treatment facility that is removed from the city, the center is placed within an urban community, creating increased awareness and access to treatment as well as an expanded care journey through community connectivity.
The building itself mediates between urban and therapeutic space, sequentially removing patients from urban stimuli as they move through increasing levels of treatment. As patients recover and begin to return to the city itself, the building gradually reintroduces them to the urban environment. Post-treatment, the location in Alexandria, VA allows patients to continue recovery through community support groups and activities.Master of Architecture
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Schonhardt, Donald A. "Mediating Between Icon and Experience." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1179324459.
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Pheobus, Evan D. "Systems of Conflict: Translation as a means of exploring mediation." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1277135408.
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Chamoun, Chaton Smedra. "Set in Stone: Power Mediation through French Colonial Architecture in Lebanon’s Majlis an-Nuwwab." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-22903.
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This thesis will provide an analysis of the current Parliament building in Beirut, which is called Majlis an-Nuwwab, and was built by the French colonial state that ruled over Lebanon. It will examine to what extent it has theoretically contributed to the mediation of the French colonial power over Lebanon, through the analytical framework provided by Njoh and Bigon, along with a theoretical framework offered by Kim Dovey. The data was obtained first-hand during a ten-day visit to the city of Beirut, employing primary observation and is in the form of personally obtained photographs of the object of analysis, namely Lebanon’s Parliament building. Further, this research has been conducted due to the lack of academic discussion and literature regarding the relationship between colonial power structures and colonial architecture in the Middle East.In accordance to the analytical and theoretical framework, this study demonstrates that Lebanon’s Parliament building, along with its urban context, can theoretically be understood as operating as the mediator for military, cultural and socio-psychological power as the most prominent ones. Additionally, traits of economic and politico-administrative power were also found to be theoretically mediated through the designs of the Parliament building, although not to the same extent as the previously mentioned powers.
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Situ, Qihua Gina. "TaMeX, a task-structure based mediation architecture for integration of Web applications using XML." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/MQ60498.pdf.
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Lu, Fangqing. "Medium, mediation and meaning : museum architecture as spatial storytelling : a case study of the Ionic frieze in two Parthenon galleries." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2012. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/12757/.
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In order to convey the meanings contained within artefacts, museums commonly communicate with the general public primarily through the mediation of an audiovisual interpretative framework. In addition to audiovisual mediation, this thesis demonstrates the idea that museum architecture itself can make a significant contribution to various meanings communicated by artefacts. Drawn from a comparative case-study of the detailed interpretive frameworks of two museums, the thesis investigates the extent to which museum architecture itself should be considered as a medium of spatial-storytelling, providing a rich sensory context for the process of mediation and interpretation. This idea contributes towards a more meaningful embodied experience to the general public in order to support the process of ‘self-learning’, as well as passing on intangible culture through both tangible and intangible media. Through an initial survey and conceptual mapping of 130 museums around the world, two examples were selected effectively that offered a unique opportunity for comparative study as they are effectively exhibiting the ‘same’ material in different ways - the Ionic Frieze at the Parthenon Galleries in the British Museum and the recently opened New Acropolis Museum in Athens. Besides this survey of museums, other research methods included a literature review, interviews architectural analysis and observation of visitor behaviour, as the key data collection tools employed in this research, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of museum architecture as a medium. The thesis concludes that museum architecture offers an engaging environment for communicating meanings through ‘self-learning’, not only in terms of audiovisual techniques, but also through a careful organised embodied experience of an entire space. Moreover, museum architecture provides the artefacts a meaningful physical context in which they can ‘speak’. Culture, as an intangible medium, is recorded in the tangible media of artefacts, and buildings, while also being carried forward into an unknown future.
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Digman, Edward. ""The Seat of an Alien Tyranny": Intentionality, the Mediation of Colonial Power, and Dublin's Custom House." Thesis, Malmö universitet, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-23949.
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This historical case study applies the theoretical and methodological framework of Kim Dovey, Ambe Njoh, and Liora Bigon to examine the ways in which a colonial administrative building, the Dublin Custom House, served as a mediator of colonial power over Ireland, and how this process was understood by the creators of the building. This investigation is a response to the inconsistent way that intentionality is discussed in existing academic literature on the relationships between built environments and societal power structures. The study found that that the creators of the Custom House had a clear and nuanced understanding of the ways the building could be used to extend cultural and political power over Ireland, within the existing political framework in the country. In contrast to the theoretical framework used, the study found that in this case, the mediation of economic and political power was understood as functioning within the existing political-economic structures of the country, rather than creating new structures. The clarity of the findings suggest that further investigations into intentionality is likely to yield informative results, and that it would be beneficial to apply the methodological and theoretical framework used in this study to other cases in the future.
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Garcia, Pedro Miguel Alexandre. "A mediatização do vinho." Master's thesis, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitetura, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/18316.
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Dissertação de Mestrado Integrado em Arquitetura, com a especialização em Arquitetura apresentada na Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa para obtenção do grau de Mestre.Nos dias que correm, o vinho adquiriu um estatuto de bebida prestigiada, à qual se associa uma cultura própria, assente em técnicas e tradições milenares, sendo que as novas adegas que têm vindo a ser construídas por todo o mundo desempenham um importante papel na mediatização deste produto. Em A ‘Mediatização do Vinho’, pretende-se aliar o universo vitivinícola à esfera do património arquitectónico, muito dele esquecido e à mercê do tempo, sem uma função que o sustente. No presente estudo procura-se articular a temática do Vinho com a Fortaleza de Mourão, localizada na Vila e Concelho de Mourão, Alentejo, de forma a revitalizar a Vila e o seu Castelo. Percorrendo a história do património e do vinho, desde as suas remotas origens, até à contemporaneidade, unindo estes conceitos e percebendo como se podem, à luz deste estudo, completar mutuamente, estabelece-se desta forma um suporte teórico que fornece a base necessária à elaboração de um projecto arquitectónico que devolva ao património em questão um uso que o revitalize. Propõe-se assim um projecto de arquitectura de um conjunto cultural constituído por Adega e Museu, analisando de que forma uma arquitectura pode mediatizar determinado produto e (ou) região, através da viticultura e da musealização, de forma a vincular o Património e o Vinho, contribuindo para que este não seja esquecido e reduzido a ruína.
ABSTRACT: On these days, wine has acquired a prestigious drink statuos, which is associated with its own culture, based on millennial techniques and traditions, where the new architectural wineries that have been built throughout the world play an important role in the mediation of this product. In The Mediatiion of Wine, the aim is to combine the wine with the architectural heritage, much forgotten and at the mercy of time, without a function that can sustain it. In the present study, we intend to articulate the Wine theme with the fortress of Mourão, located in the village and county of Mourão, in Alentejo, in order to revitalize the village and its Castle. Going through the history of wine and architectural heritage, from its remote origins to contemporaneity, uniting these concepts and realizing how, at the light of this study, they can complement one another, a theoretical basis is established which provides the necessary support for the design of an architectural project which gives back to the patrimony a use that revitalizes it. Therefore, it is proposed an architectural project of a cultural equipment, constituted by a Winery and a Museum, analyzing how an Architecture object can mediate and advertise a given product and (or) region, through viticulture and musealisation, to link Wine with Heritage, in order that this arquitectural patrimony may not be forgotten and reduced to ruin.
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IYER, SHARANYA. "HYBRID SPACE FOR ENGAGING WITH THE LIVING PAST: COMMUNITY CENTER FOR TOURISTS AND LOCALS AT HYDERABAD INDIA." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1193884424.
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Bué, Pascal. "Architecture et réalité augmentée. Une manière d’écrire l’espace : la pensée visuelle instrumentée." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021SORUL001.
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Cette thèse interroge et compare deux dispositifs de réalité augmentée, l’un, UrbaSee, destiné à la médiation de l’espace urbain au cours d’un projet de Zone d’Aménagement Concerté, l’autre, HistoPad, destiné à la médiation de la reconstitution d’un espace historique. Une recherche empirique mêle conjointement analyses de dispositifs et enquête ethnographique à travers quatre parties de trois chapitres chacune. La première partie, réservée à notre posture épistémologique, notre méthodologie d’enquête et à la définition des terrains et corpus, considère le rapprochement entre une sémiotique de l’écriture et anthropologie de la figuration. La seconde partie interroge les dispositifs comme technologie poïétique du voir. Une analyse technosémiotique et une approche phénoménotechnique situent l’image de réalité augmentée entre image d’art et image scientifique, dans laquelle on observe une énonciation éditoriale hypertrophiée. La troisième partie envisage les dispositifs comme des technologies performatives de l’imagination, oscillant entre un imaginaire stimulé et une technologie fantasmée que nous analysons au prisme de la variation médiatique. Notre quatrième partie montre que ces stratégies d’écriture masquent un processus de propriétarisation. L’analyse des régimes de croyance que ces dispositifs suscitent, des médiations créatives et des rapports de savoir-pouvoir entre commanditaires et créateurs des dispositifs de réalité augmentée, révèle la prise de pouvoir symbolique et économique de l’industrie logicielle sur les projets d’autrui. Ce dont rend compte notre thèse est peut-être l’amorce d’un changement dans l’environnement technique, économique et symbolique des pratiques des corps de métiers de l’espace urbain et muséalThis thesis questions and compares two augmented reality devices, one, UrbaSee, intended for the mediation of urban space during a Concerted Development Zone project, the other, HistoPad, intended for the mediation of urban space. the reconstruction of a historic space. An empirical research jointly combines devices analyzes and ethnographic inquiry through four parts comprised of three chapters each. The first part, establishing our epistemological posture, our methodology of investigation and the definition of fields and cases under study, considers the connection between a semiotics of writing and the anthropology of figuration. The second part questions devices as a poietic technology of seeing. A technosemiotic analysis and a phenomenotechnical approach situate the image of augmented reality between an art image and a scientific image, in which we observe a disproportionate editorial utterance. The third part considers the devices as performative technologies of the imagination, oscillating between a stimulated imagination and a fantasized technology that we analyze through the prism of media variation. Our fourth part shows that these writing strategies mask a process of ownership. The analysis of the belief regimes that these devices give rise to, the creative mediations and the knowledge-power relations between partners and creators of augmented reality devices, reveals the symbolic and economic takeover of the software industry over the projects of others. What our thesis reflects is perhaps the start of a change in the technical, economic and symbolic environment of the practices of the trades in urban and museum spaces
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Darrieus, Margaux. "Architecture et communication : construire les valeurs, des auteurs et de leurs œuvres, au XXIe siècle." Thesis, Paris Est, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PESC1007.
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Pourquoi ce projet plaît-il plus qu’un autre ? Pourquoi est-il plus diffusé dans les revues spécialisées en architecture que l’immeuble d’à côté ? Et, finalement, pourquoi son architecte est plus connu que son confrère ? Si la clef du succès réside dans la valeur de celui qui en est le récipiendaire, identifier les traits qui distinguent une architecture et son architecte de la masse des projets livrés quotidiennement en France permettrait de comprendre les raisons de leur consécration. Fruit d'une expérience d'objectivitation participante au long court au sein d'une rédaction de revue spécialisée, cette recherche vise à décortiquer la fabrique des valeurs au sein du champ de l'architecture au XXIe siècle.Dans notre société postmoderne, mondialisée et dématérialisée, la concurrence est rude pour les architectes et l’injonction, toujours plus pressante : il faut séduire pour construire et avoir construit pour séduire. Si, en tant que média de communication, l’architecture est au service de la reconnaissance de son maître d’ouvrage, les architectes contemporains ne sont pas en reste. Conscients du potentiel de transmission de leurs réalisations, ils les mobilisent au service de la construction de leur propre image de marque. De même qu'ils investissent le temps de leur conception, la médiation qui les fait advenir, pour y bâtir les images, les représentations et les discours qui serviront leur propre reconnaissance, en tant qu'auteur. Émerge alors, en réponse aux exigences de notre société et sa « culture hégémonique du temps réel* », une architecture icône, à la fois œuvre d’art et objet de culte. Dans cette course à la signature, l’architecture est mobilisée pour façonner la figure d’auteur de son concepteur. Au fond, n’est-elle pas que la pétrification d’un moment de communication ? Basée sur l’hypothèse que c’est avant tout les images qu’ils convoquent, les représentations et les discours qu’ils stimulent, qui légitiment une œuvre – de la conception à la mise en service du bâtiment – et son auteur, à condition de savoir les transmettre, cette recherche propose de dresser un état des lieux fourni des règles du jeu qui influencent aujourd’hui la conception du projet d’architecture. Dans la continuité des études sociologiques menées sur le champ de l’architecture, notamment sur les stratégies d’accès à la commande et les modes de co-conception de l'espace, il s’agit d’esquisser l’idéal-type du jeune architecte contemporain à partir de l’étude du parcours et de la production intellectuelle et bâtie d’architectes distingués au sein de cet univers, notamment les lauréats des Albums des jeunes architectes et paysagistes. Ces réflexions sur les jeunes professionnels s’accompagnent de l’exploration des pratiques d'acteurs qui les accompagnent dans la construction de leur réputation, les rédacteurs des revues d'architecture et ceux, jusque-là peu étudiés car relativement émergents dans le monde de l’architecture : les professionnels de la communication, qui facilitent l’accès à la commande des architectes, à l’influence peu visible mais incontestable et dont il s’agit de dresser le portrait et d’objectiver les comportements.* BAUDRILLARD Jean, NOUVEL Jean, Les objets singuliers, Paris : Arléa, 2013 [1e éd. 2000], p.105What makes one project more appealing than another ? What accounts for the fact that this building, rather than the one next door, appears in the pages of specialized architecture journals ? And why is its architect better known than another ? If the key to success resides in the value of the person who is the object of such esteem, identifying the features that make an architectural work and its architect stand out from the mass of projects delivered daily in France would allow us to understand the reasons for their reputation. The aim of this research – the result of a long-term participant objectivation experience in a specialized journal – is to examine the making of values in the field of architecture in the 21st century.In our globalized and dematerialized postmodern society, competition between architects is fierce and the following reality has become increasingly crucial : to build you have to win over and to win over you have to have built. Architects are perfectly aware that their architecture serves as a medium of communication. Conscious of the message transmission potential of their accomplishments, they mobilize them in the service of building their own brand image. Likewise they devote the time of their conception, the mediation that brings them about, to building the images, representations, and discourses that will serve their own recognition as authors. What emerges then, in response to the demands of our society and its “hegemonic culture of real time*”, is iconic architecture, at once artwork and object of adoration. In this race for signature architecture, the work is mobilized to forge the figure of designer as author.This research is based on the assumption that what legitimates a work (from conception to commissioning) and its author are the images it elicits and the representations and discourses that it stimulates, provided one knows how to transmit them. We therefore propose to draw up a detailed description of the game rules that influence the design of architectural projects today. Expanding on sociological studies conducted in the field of architecture, in particular with regard to strategies of access to commissions and modes of co-designing space, we will describe the ideal model of the young contemporary architect, based on a study of the careers and intellectual and built output of award-winning architects, notably the winners of AJAP/Albums des Jeunes Architectes et Paysagistes. We will also look at the practices of those who accompany these young professionals in building their reputation – architecture journal editors but also communication specialists who facilitate access to commissions and who have not been the subject of much study because their role in the world of architecture is relatively new and their influence, though incontestable, has not been very visible. The goal here is to sketch their portrait and objectify their behavior.* BAUDRILLARD Jean, NOUVEL Jean, Les objets singuliers, Paris : Arléa, 2013 [1e éd. 2000], p.105
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Bak, Eléonore. "Habiter l'in-vu : formes de visualisations sonores." Thesis, Université Grenoble Alpes (ComUE), 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016GREAH014/document.
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Le paysage sonore relève de la discrétion. L’écoute est une expérience solitaire dont le raffinement potentiel reste difficile à cerner par le langage, contaminé par l’image.Il existerait pourtant des formes de visualisations sonores dans l’art, qui nous permettraient paradoxalement d’aller au plus près des nuances de l’écoute et de révéler des aspects in-vus du paysage. Oubliés, inconscients, peu ou non encore repérées, mais non muets pour cela, ils participeraient à notre habiter. L’expérimentation constructive, c’est-à-dire l’écouter renforcé par un modus operandi spécifique, « la plongée », sorte de technique de chute, progressivement réelle, virtuelle autorisant des ajustements posturaux très fin, et le représenter quasi aveuglément, nous aiderait à les retrouver. La visualisation sonore opèrerait d’abord comme un outil de médiation. Parce qu’elle jongle délibérément avec la multi-sensorialité, elle permettrait de distinguer entre ce qui est donné à voir (figure) et ce qui est donné à vivre (fond).Elle fonctionnerait ensuite comme un support d’analyse, qui nous permettrait d’examiner l’action in situ in vivo d’un corps qui non se représente, mais qui trace pour mieux s’inscrire dans le mouvement. Doté d’une haute réceptivité et créativité, il serait capable d’assimiler le jeu d’une playing aura toujours plus actuelle par la convolution des gestes corporels (postures d'écoute, gestes plastiques) et ambiants (le « déjà là » sans qu’on en ait forcément conscience : les effets de la forme construite, les effets climatiques, culturels et sémantiques). Le mouvoir ensemble des corps et corporéités se densifierait momentanément sous forme de nœuds. L’organisation discrète, néanmoins concrète de ces figures de synthèse des transitions, de ces sommes, esthétiques, sensibles et intensives, que nous appellerons aussi des « motifs » de l’écoute, serait typique. Nos modes exploratoires et de restitution nous appendraient à les lire. Cela nous permettrait non seulement de nous comprendre en tant qu’êtres parmi des créatures tempérées, mais de découvrir un paysage simultanément guide et conséquence, dont l’habiter/construire se déclarerait dans et par son architecturation élastique, poreuse et à pouvoir intime. Nous serions alors en mesure d’opérer un bougé d’apparence du paysage. Nous examinerons l’ensemble de ces expériences à l’aide de notre corpus premier (d’origine artistique), tout en les raisonnant à l’aide de critères d’évaluation mixtes (Art, Architecture). Nous vérifierons nos modes d’exploration et de restitution à l’aide d’examens cognitifs. Nous les réfléchirons encore à travers des arguments phénoménologiques et philosophiques. Nous-nous intéresserons ensuite aux environnements artificiels. Nous pensons en effet qu’ils interviennent dans la texture de nos expériences. Comme elles instaurent des gestuelles normées qui assistent de plus en plus nos actes contemporains d’habiter/construire, elles méritent d’être évaluées. Tout en nous appuyant ici sur notre corpus second, qui se compose d’enquêtes auprès d’autres sujets percevants, nous analyserons les conséquences d’une telle incarcération technologique des gestes et plus précisément le comment elle interfère avec nos perceptions et nos représentations. Nous examinerons également des interfaces sensoriellement et gestuellement enrichies. Nous y étudierons les étiquettes, les décalages et les handicaps culturels. Nous réfléchirons enfin sur l’incorporation de nos mesures à l’intérieur des outils et maquettages existants. Nos modes d’exploration et de restitution s’illustreraient comme des auxiliaires de l’écoute sensible, qui deviendrait communément partageable. Instruments-mêmes d’une linguistique de l’in-vu, dont le spontané sophistiqué nous aiderait de nous mettre à la place de l’autre, ils permettraient de créer des connexions, de partager et de croiser nos idées, de faire évoluer nos interconnaissances et de concevoir des constructions collaborativesSoundscape noticed to discretion. Hearing is a solitary experience whose potential refinement remains difficult to surround by language because its visual contamination.There exist yet kinds of sound visualisations in art, which would paradoxically permit us to approach very close nuances of hearing and to wander to un-viewed aspects of landscape. Forgotten, unconscious, but not mute at all, they are a part in our living and constructing activities. The constructive experimentation, which means the action of hearing reinforced by a specific modus operandi, a kind of falling, called « the plunge » and the quasi blind representing, could help us to discover them again. This technique, gradually real, virtual would complete the experience by finely postural adjustments.The sound visualisation operates here first as a tool for mediation. Wilful juggling with multi-sensory generated meaning it permits us not only to distinguish both which is given to see (figure) and to live (fond, substance), but also to discover the action of a body which is not representing it-self but tracing in the aim of better inscription into the movement. By virtue of high receptivity and creativity this body would be able to assimilate a playing aura which means the main present, conscious and unconscious, always topical because of the convolution of bodily gestures (listening poses, plastic expressions) and ambient gestures (the yet there, not automatically conscious: the acoustic, climatic, cultural and semantic effects). The moving together of bodies and body like beings would momentarily become denser and shaping knots. The discreet nevertheless concrete organisation of these synthetic figures of transitions, of this aesthetic, sensory and intensive summary, which we call even listening patterns, in the sense of motif, is typical. Our exploration and reproduction modes would help us to learn to interpret them.From then, we would not only understand us as beings among other tempered creatures, but also discover a landscape simultaneously guide and consequence, whose elastic, porous and intimate proceedings and values of living/constructing would make us able to carry out a fade of landscape appearance.We will study all these experiences through our principal corpus (artistic one). We will argue them by mixed evaluations (artistic, architectural ones). We will verify our exploration and restitution modes by cognitive exams. We will think about them by phenomenological and philosophical reasoning.After this we wont become interested by artificial environments. We think in fact that they intervene in the texture of our experience. As they institute normed gestures, which assist more and more frequently our contemporary living/constructing acts they need to be gauged. Leaning on our secondary corpus, which is composed by investigations with other perceiving subjects, we will analyse the consequences of this kind of technological imprisonment of the gestures and precisely the how they interfere with our perceptions and representations. We will also examine gestural and sensory enriched interfaces. The sound visualisation would help us to make etiquettes, shifts and handicaps clear, to think about incorporation of our measurements into the existing tools and models.Our exploration and restitution modes would make us more attentive for sensible aspects of listening, which would become a common divisible. Linguistic instruments of the un-viewen whose sophisticate spontaneous would help us to set to the place of our next neighbour they would permit us to create connexions, to divide up and to cross our ideas, to mature our mutual knowledge and to conceive collaborative constructions
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Georgescu, Paquin Alexandra. "L'actualisation du patrimoine par la médiation de l'architecture contemporaine." Thèse, Avignon, 2013. http://www.archipel.uqam.ca/5986/1/D2484.pdf.
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Dans la rencontre entre l'architecture contemporaine et le patrimoine bâti, la thèse propose de s'affranchir de la polarité conservation-création en analysant l'actualisation patrimoniale en tant que phénomène culturel à l'œuvre. La cohabitation entre le nouveau et l'ancien en architecture, si elle se pratique depuis plus de deux mille ans, est devenue un enjeu au XXe siècle. L'explosion des formes en architecture contemporaine, parallèlement à la montée d'une prédominance de la signature de l'architecte, semble difficilement réconciliable avec l'extension de la notion de patrimoine, extension autant sémantique que géographique et spatiale. Or, que ce soit pour des raisons économiques et environnementales, fonctionnelles ou patrimoniales, les insertions d'éléments d'architecture contemporaine sur des bâtiments patrimoniaux transforment désormais le patrimoine d'objet-relique en un projet dynamique, constituant un genre architectural particulier et indépendant. L'actualisation est une façon de réinterpréter le patrimoine en lui donnant un sens actuel grâce à une action (en l'occurrence, un ajout architectural dans un style contemporain), ce qui modifie les représentations du lieu tout en lui ajoutant une couche de significations. Ce processus communicationnel se pose ainsi comme une réponse à l'obsolescence patrimoniale ; en transformant les représentations d'un lieu par un langage contemporain et en s'immisçant dans son processus de patrimonialisation. L'hybridité architecturale qui en résulte favorise un espace de médiation à la fois physique (par les formes) et symbolique (par le patrimoine et les représentations). À travers trois cas espagnols récents, l'actualisation est observée dans trois types de manifestations : la « ponctuation » à l'œuvre dans l'accès au CaixaForum de Barcelone (Arata Isozaki), la « prolongation » du musée national Centre d'art Reina Sofía à Madrid (Jean Nouvel) et, finalement, la « révélation » du musée du Théâtre romain de Carthagène (Rafael Moneo).
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MOTS-CLÉS DE L’AUTEUR : actualisation, patrimoine, patrimonialisation, architecture contemporaine, médiation, Espagne
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Claghorn, Joseph [Verfasser]. "Algorithmic landscapes : computational methods for the mediation of form, information, and performance in landscape architecture : Algorithmische Landschaften : Rechenmethoden zur Vermittlung zwischen Form, Information und Performance in der Landschaftsarchitektur / Joseph Claghorn." Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2018. http://d-nb.info/1172414467/34.
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Si, Amer Aziza Nesrine. "Architecture des ksour de la Vallée de Mzab : Essai d'histoire, de sémiotique et de médiation." Thesis, Tours, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017TOUR2006.
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Ce travail porte sur l’histoire médiévale, l’architecture et le patrimoine de la vallée du Mzab, sa sémiotique et sa médiation culturelle. Il s’agit d’un essai d’analyse, de compréhension et d’interprétation de la vallée du Mzab, visant à sa restitution et à sa valorisation culturelle, envisagée à travers le mouvement de réforme religieuse, architecturale et sociale qu'a connu cette minorité algérienne. Ce travail a pour but de comprendre comment par cette réforme historiographique la minorité berbérophone et confessionnelle mozabite a trouvé les réponses aux changements suscités par son intégration progressive à la nation algérienne, à la société et à l'espace architectural et urbainThis work focuses on medieval history, architecture and heritage of the Mzab Valley, its semiotics and its cultural mediations. It is an attempt to analyze, understand and interpret the Mzab valley, aiming at its restitution and its cultural valorization. Considering, this through, the movement of religious and social reforms experienced by this Algerian minority. The purpose of this work is to understand how, through this historiographic reform, the Mozabite Berber-speaking and denominational minority found the answers to the changes triggered by its progressive integration with the Algerian nation, society and space
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Edwards, Lindsay Keyes. "Architecture as Mediator." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/32701.
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Having grown up abroad, the topic of architectural mediation has often made me pause. The world abounds with differences, and with todayâ s globalization, many of us are being faced with cultural, social, and a multitude of physical differences/conditions. This thesis seeks to explore the role of architecture as a mediator and seeks designs that transition successfully between differing entities.
The project is an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. The program is comprised of young orphans and the project explores how the structure that they occupy can effectively accommodate their specific needs. Challenges which need to be mediated include consideration of two scales, one for the child under the age of 6, and the other for the caretaker who has adult proportions. The building also will need to reconcile cultural stigmatization and attitudes towards orphans while also providing a safe environment. And lastly, the specific social needs of the orphan need to be tended to. The design and experience within the spaces will need to convey feelings of security, affections, and hope.Master of Architecture
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Bickel, Nichole. "Architecture as mediator." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2006. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Wang, Kenneth W. S. "Interface adaptation for conversational services." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2008. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/18465/1/Kenneth_Wang_Thesis.pdf.
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The proliferation of services on the web is leading to the formation of service ecosystems wherein services interact with one another in ways not foreseen during their development or deployment. This means that over its lifetime, a service is likely to be reused across multiple interactions, such that in each of them a different interface is required from it. Implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining adapters to deal with this multiplicity of required interfaces can be costly and error-prone. The problem is compounded in the case of services that do not follow simple request-response interactions, but instead engage in conversations comprising arbitrary patterns of message exchanges. A key challenge in this setting is service mediation: the act of retrofitting existing services by intercepting, storing, transforming, and (re-)routing messages going into and out of these services so they can interact in ways not originally foreseen. This thesis addresses one aspect of service mediation, namely service interface adaptation. This problem arises when the interface that a service provides does not match the interface that it is expected to provide in a given interaction. Specifically, the thesis focuses on the reconciliation of mismatches between behavioural interfaces, that is, interfaces that capture ordering constraints between message exchanges. We develop three complementary proposals. Firstly, we propose a visual language for specifying adapters for conversational services. The language is based on a an algebra of operators that are composed to define links between provided-required interfaces. These expressions are fed into an execution engine that intercepts, buffers, transforms and forwards messages to enact the adapter specification. Secondly, we endow such adapter specifications with a formal semantics defined in terms of Petri nets. The formal semantics is used to statically check the correctness of adapter specifications. Finally, we propose an alternative approach to service interface adaptation that does not require hard-wired links between provided and required interfaces. This alternative approach is based on the definition of mapping rules between message types, and is embodied in an adaptation machine. The adaptation machine sits between pairs of services and manipulates the exchanged messages according to a repository of mapping rules. The adaptation machine is also able to detect deadlocks and information loss at runtime.
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Wang, Kenneth W. S. "Interface adaptation for conversational services." Queensland University of Technology, 2008. http://eprints.qut.edu.au/18465/.
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The proliferation of services on the web is leading to the formation of service ecosystems wherein services interact with one another in ways not foreseen during their development or deployment. This means that over its lifetime, a service is likely to be reused across multiple interactions, such that in each of them a different interface is required from it. Implementing, testing, deploying, and maintaining adapters to deal with this multiplicity of required interfaces can be costly and error-prone. The problem is compounded in the case of services that do not follow simple request-response interactions, but instead engage in conversations comprising arbitrary patterns of message exchanges. A key challenge in this setting is service mediation: the act of retrofitting existing services by intercepting, storing, transforming, and (re-)routing messages going into and out of these services so they can interact in ways not originally foreseen. This thesis addresses one aspect of service mediation, namely service interface adaptation. This problem arises when the interface that a service provides does not match the interface that it is expected to provide in a given interaction. Specifically, the thesis focuses on the reconciliation of mismatches between behavioural interfaces, that is, interfaces that capture ordering constraints between message exchanges. We develop three complementary proposals. Firstly, we propose a visual language for specifying adapters for conversational services. The language is based on a an algebra of operators that are composed to define links between provided-required interfaces. These expressions are fed into an execution engine that intercepts, buffers, transforms and forwards messages to enact the adapter specification. Secondly, we endow such adapter specifications with a formal semantics defined in terms of Petri nets. The formal semantics is used to statically check the correctness of adapter specifications. Finally, we propose an alternative approach to service interface adaptation that does not require hard-wired links between provided and required interfaces. This alternative approach is based on the definition of mapping rules between message types, and is embodied in an adaptation machine. The adaptation machine sits between pairs of services and manipulates the exchanged messages according to a repository of mapping rules. The adaptation machine is also able to detect deadlocks and information loss at runtime.
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Azami, Ikram El. "Ingéniérie des Systèmes d'Information Coopératifs, Application aux Systèmes d'Information Hospitaliers." Thesis, Valenciennes, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012VALE0013.
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Dans cette thèse, nous traitons les systèmes d’information hospitaliers (SIH), nous analysons leurs problématiques de conception, d’interopérabilité et de communication, dans l’objectif de contribuer à la conception d’un SIH canonique, coopératif, et communicant, ainsi de modéliser les échanges entre ses composants et également avec les autres systèmes impliqués dans la prise en charge du patient dans un réseau de soin. Nous proposons une structure et un modèle de conception d’un SIH canonique en se basant sur trois concepts principaux responsables de la production de l’information médicale, à savoir, le cas pathologique, le Poste de Production de l’Information Médicale (PPIM) et l’activité médicale elle même. Cette dernière, étant modélisée sur la notion d’arbre, permettra une meilleure structuration du processus de soin.Autant, dans l’optique d'assurer la continuité de soins, nous fournissons un modèle d’échange de données médicales à base du standard XML. Ce modèle consiste en un ensemble de données pertinentes organisées autours de cinq catégories : les données du patient, les données sur les antécédents du patient, les données de l’activité médicale, les données des prescriptions médicales et les données sur les documents médicaux (images, compte rendu…).Enfin, nous décrivons une solution d’intégration des systèmes d’information hospitaliers. La solution est inspirée de l’ingénierie des systèmes d’information coopératifs et consiste en une architecture de médiation structurée en trois niveaux : le niveau système d’information, le niveau médiation, et le niveau utilisateur. L’architecture propose une organisation modulaire des systèmes d'information hospitaliers et contribue à satisfaire l’intégration des données, des fonctions et du workflow de l’information médicaleIn this thesis, we deal with hospital information systems (HIS), we analyze their design issues, interoperability and communication, with the aim of contributing to the design of a canonical, cooperative, and communicative HIS, and model the exchanges between its components and also with other systems involved in the management of patient in a healthcare network.We propose a structure and a conceptual model of a canonical HIS based on three main concepts involved in the production of healthcare data, namely, the pathological case, the Production Post of Healthcare Data (PPHD) and medical activity itself. The latter, being modeled as a tree, will allow better structuring of the care process.However, in view of ensuring continuity of care, we provide an XML-based model for exchanging medical data. This model consists of a set of relevant data organized around five categories: patient data, data on patient history, data of medical activity, data of medical prescriptions and medical records data (images, reporting ...).Finally, we describe a solution for integrating hospital information systems. The solution is inspired by the engineering of cooperatives information systems and consists of mediation-based architecture, structured into three levels: the level of information systems, the level of mediation, and the user level. The architecture offers a modular organization of hospital information systems and helps to insure data, function and workflow integration
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Sans, Virginie. "Maintenance de vues XML matérialisées à partir de sources web non coopérantes." Cergy-Pontoise, 2008. http://biblioweb.u-cergy.fr/theses/08CERG0383.pdf.
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Proposer des services en intégrant des informations à partir de sources hétérogènes est l'un des objectifs d'une architecture de médiation. Dans le cas de sources Web, celles-ci peuvent être non-coopérantes et parfois indisponibles. Des vues sont alors matérialisées pour garantir un accès aux données. Lorsqu'une mise à jour est faite sur les sources, la vue doit être maintenue consistante. Nous proposons une approche afin d'assurer la maintenance des vues XML dans ce contexte. La première étape consiste à détecter et identifier des mises à jour faites sur les sources, la seconde est le processus de maintenance lui-même. Nos travaux se fondent sur une extension de la XAlgèbre permettant une annotation par identifiant des données, ainsi que sur un procédé de reconstitution partielle des sourcesProviding services by integrating information available in heterogeneous data sources is one of the targets of a mediation architecture. In the Web context, sources may be non cooperative and be sometimes not available. Then, views are materialized in order to allow data access. When an update occurs on underlying data sources, the view must be maintained. Accordingly, we propose an approach for maintaining XML views in this context. The first step of our approach consists in detecting and identifying source updates, and the second step consists in the maintenance process itself. Our work is based upon an extension of the XAlgebra which annotates data with identifiers and upon a process of partial recovery of underlying sources
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Tarel, Tracie. "The In-between: Architectural Mediation Between Commerce and Residence." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/35183.
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Architecture develops from both the art and science of construction. Therefore, structure influences the pursuit of architectural ideas. Devoid of ornamentation, common objects can be enhanced through improving function and articulating their structure. Quality of construction and material durability have an immediate impact on how a thing is perceived. A thing is built once, but observed, studied, and used for its entire existence. It is important to investigate today's building necessities, such as a door, a path, or a wall, to discover inherent opportunities in order to transcend these everyday things and create extraordinary architectural moments. Separating a thing from its general context draws attention to it or to some aspect of it being enhanced. Otherwise, an ordinary thing such as a door can be quite uneventful. But, a door encased in a vertical plane of wood offset from the remaining enclosure draws attention to the quality, texture, and color of the wood.
In this thesis, the design of a multi-use, commercial and residential building, bridges between corresponding zoning districts. The project is used as a vehicle to explore the complexities and nuances involved in developing extraordinary architectural form using initially common conditions, local zoning laws, and standard construction techniques.Master of Architecture
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Picotte, Nathan. "Containers of Memory: Mediating the Past Through Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1275667811.
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Gericke, Ludwig. "Mindful mediations at Three Anchor Bay." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13096.
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.This project is a synthesis of, on the one hand, the interventionist architect curiously and deliberately plotting form and visualising construction and, on the other hand, the human being often wilfully retreated and joyfully observing the uninterrupted and the conflicting. It is this dialectic - rather than immovable theoretical principles - that has informed not only my process, but also my design. In this sense this project represents what I believe to be the most important feature of my architectural education: the inexplicable joy in the constant re-evaluation of the imprecise nexus between the deliberately mediated and the uninterrupted. This impulse is also what (perhaps unknowingly at the time) attracted me to Three Anchor Bay - a site of untameable swells, impenetrable rhythms, ebb and flow. It is a site that necessitates decisiveness in a counterintuitive form; boundaries. Any frontier, however versatile and accommodating, requires commitment (few are capable of confidently kayaking beyond an otherwise parameter-defining promenade). Drawing a line is not only the problem of the architect, but the human being. Although this paper is largely a personal essay instead of a coherent treatise (I reserve the right to remain sceptical of every decision), it is important to make a few general observations. The first is supremely personal: I am decidedly fallible. Although harsh introspection is generally more valuable and courageous than the resolute defence of personal conviction, I often found myself passionately defending lines I have drawn (especially ones that I have spent a lot of time re- drawing and erasing). Redrawing can be a counterintuitive struggle and it has often been difficult to regard it as a necessary and unpredictable process rather than as emblematic of some sort of failure. Although common sense urges us to "learn from our mistakes", it is never quite that simple. This project has, in short, caused me to constantly mediate between conviction and perpetual self-criticism. Secondly, these ideas are by no means new and have been repeated (and often ignored) in various contexts. Karl Popper, for instance, believed that "any idea of Utopia is necessarily closed owing to the fact that it chokes on its own refutations. The simple notion of a good model for society that cannot be left open for falsification is totalitarian” (Taleb, 2004, p.128-129). The same is true of architecture - particularly those projects that are resolutely planted in a pre-determined style, ideology or “balance”.
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Hattingh, Johannes Joost. "Cut\fill : architecture as mitigating mediator in dissonance." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/60180.
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Recent social and political movements
beginning with #RhodesMustFall and
the following numerous #MustFall
campaigns have shone the light on deeplying
sentiments. It is believed that these
sentiments have been covered by the
multi-coloured paint of the rainbow-nation
discourse and yet old tensions seem to
flare up. The tensions range from historic
privilege to disinheritance from current
discourse, to racial discrimination and a
perceived threat to identity.
So it is clear that the reconciliation and
the nation-building process that started
in 1994 is far from finished and thus a
renewed look at our approach to heritage
is warranted.
The vehicle of this study will be the Pretoria
Magistrate's Court, which was constructed
in 1941 and in 2010 suffered heavy
damage during a fire. This dissertation
investigation is specifically focused on
the inherent dissonance in the heritage of
the court, which is identified firstly in the
classical nature of the building, but also
the creation and functioning of judicial
spaces. These heritage elements are
identified and engaged with according to
dissonant heritage principles (Tunbridge &
Ashworth 1997).
Furthermore, this study investigated
current heritage engagement strategies and
how those engagements can be redefined.
This was not only done in order to mitigate
the negative effects of dissonant heritage elements, but also to instil contemporary
significance.
Finally, this study applies the heritage and
adaptive reuse principles identified and
formulated, to engage the existing building
in removing built fabric, redefining spaces
and adding new spaces. This will be done
in order to re-establish the existing function
of a civil magistrate's court. Through this
engagement, dissonant heritage elements
are extracted or mitigated, while new
contemporary value and meaning is
instilled in order to re-establish significance
for future generations.Onlangse sosiale en politiese bewegings, wat begin het met #RhodesMustFall, en die opvolgende verskeie #MustFall veldtogte, het onderliggende gevoelens na tevore gebring. Dit was geglo dat hierdie onderliggende sentimente suksesvol gedek is met die veelkleurige verf van die re?nboognasie en tog bly ou spanning opvlam. Die spanning strek van historiese bevoorregting en onterfenis van die huidige diskoers tot rassediskriminasie en die gevoel van bedreiging van identiteite. Dit is duidelik dat versoening en die nasiebouproses wat in 1994 begin is, v?r van klaar is, en dus hersiening op ons erfenisbenaderinge vereis. Die middel vir hierdie studie is die Pretoria Landroshof wat gebou is en 1941 en sleg beskadig is deur 'n brand in 2010. Die ondersoek van hierdie verhandeling fokus op die inherente dissonante in die erfenis van die hof, wat eerstens ge?dentifiseer is in die klassieke aard van die gebou, maar ook in die skepping en werking van regsruimtes. Hierdie erfeniselemente word ge?dentifiseer en benader volgens die Dissonante Erfenis beginsels (Tunbridge & Ashworth 1997). Verder ondersoek hierdie studie die huidige erfenisbenaderingsstrategie? en hoe daardie benaderinge herdefinieer kan word. Dit word nie net gedoen om dissonansie in erfenis te versag nie, maar ook om eietydse betekenis by te voeg. Laastens pas hierdie studie erfenis en aanpassende hergebruik beginsels, wat ge?dentifiseer en geformuleer is, toe om boumateriaal van die bestaande gebou te verwyder, ruimtes te herdefinieer en nuwe ruimtes by te voeg. Dit word gedoen met die doel om die bestaande funksie van die siviele landdroshof weer te vestig. Met hierdie benadering word dissonante erfeniselemente ontgin of versag, terwyl nuwe eietydse waardes en betekenis bygevoeg word. Sodoende word nuwe waardes vir toekomstige generasies geskep.
Mini Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Laberge, Marie Elizabeth. "Médiation de l'architecture par l'exposition et sa réception par des visiteurs experts et non experts." Phd thesis, Université d'Avignon, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00879654.
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Cette thèse s'intéresse à la médiation de l'architecture au musée et aux divers moyens employés pour communiquer le projet architectural en exposition. L'objectif est de mieux connaître la réception que font les visiteurs architectes et non-architectes des outils utilisés pour exposer les aspects variés du projet architectural. On s'entend pour dire que la communication du projet architectural par l'exposition n'est pas tâche facile. Des représentations diverses (dessins, maquettes, photographies, vidéos, etc.) sont utilisées pour exposer le bâti absent. Plusieurs des objets présentés sont complexes à interpréter, surtout pour un néophyte, notamment en raison des codes qu'ils contiennent. Une méthode souvent employée par les commissaires est la " mise en série " de divers types de représentations, chaque outil permettant d'accéder à des informations spécifiques sur le projet. Comme les objets présentés sont souvent difficiles d'accès et que leur présentation sous forme de série peut ajouter à la complexité, il apparaît important d'investiguer la manière dont les visiteurs font sens de ce type de dispositif. Cette recherche vise principalement à jeter les bases d'une connaissance empirique de la réception d'expositions d'architecture par les visiteurs. Six questions ont été retenues pour analyse : (1) Quels objets sont mobilisés par le visiteur? (2) Quels types d'opérations mentales sont faites en lien avec ces objets? (3) Quels sont les obstacles rencontrés, et que fait le visiteur suite à la rencontre d'un obstacle? (4) Quels aspects du projet architectural (matérialité, concept, contexte, etc.) retiennent l'attention du visiteur? (5) Comment le visiteur fait-il des liens entre les différents objets exposés sous forme de série? (6) Le profil professionnel des visiteurs (architectes vs non-architectes) a-t-il une influence sur la construction de sens? Le recueil de données auprès d'une trentaine de visiteurs s'est déroulé au Centre canadien d'architecture (CCA) de Montréal dans l'exposition " Perspectives de vie à Londres et à Tokyo imaginées par Stephen Taylor et Ryue Nishizawa ". Chaque participant visite l'exposition en compagnie de la chercheure avec qui il partage, au fur et à mesure de sa visite, ses pensées et émotions, selon la méthode des protocoles verbaux concomitants (aussi connue sous le nom de thinking aloud ou protocol analysis). L'ensemble des propos est enregistré pour permettre une retranscription exacte avant analyse. Plusieurs des résultats obtenus confirment des idées déjà avancées par les chercheurs telles la popularité des photographies, le peu d'intérêt de la part des non-architectes pour les plans, les aspects variés du projet mentionnés face aux objets exposés, ou encore l'établissement de liens entre les objets comme moyen d'identifier la série. D'autres résultats mettent plutôt en doute des affirmations retrouvées dans les écrits, mais encore jamais appuyées par des données empiriques. Par exemple, plusieurs commissaires considèrent que la maquette est un excellent outil pour communiquer l'architecture et qu'elle est appréciée de tous. Or, dans le cadre de la présente étude, la maquette est peu utilisée par les visiteurs. Le type de maquette et la manière dont elle est disposée dans l'espace peuvent ainsi rendre cet outil peu utile dans la construction de sens du visiteur. Plusieurs auteurs appréhendent des difficultés et des obstacles pour les visiteurs non-architectes. Les présents résultats confirment certaines difficultés des visiteurs néophytes, mais ils démontrent également que les architectes rencontrent eux aussi des obstacles variés
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PRABHAKAR, SUSHMITA. "Mediating contested spaces in tourist towns." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1203491454.
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Krupitzer, Craig. "Body mind spirit mediating the (meta)physical tradition /." This title; PDF viewer required. Home page for entire collection, 2004. http://archives.udmercy.edu:8080/dspace/handle/10429/9.
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Murphy, Evan. "Characterising signalling components mediating root architecture in Arabidopsis thaliana." Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2016. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31976/.
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Our planet is growing rapidly in population and with that comes a demand for resources. To address issues in food security, scientists are looking to the underground parts of plants for novel mechanisms that will eventually lead to enhanced crop traits. Scientists are examining the underlying genetic frameworks to identify which genes play key roles in specific developmental processes. In this study we examined the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana as the roots are easily visualised, the genome has been sequenced, and there are many tools broadly available to work with. This thesis has used a multidisciplinary approach to uncover the signalling cascades revolving around the small signalling peptide RALF34, which is significantly involved in primary and lateral root growth. We have demonstrated, in the following chapters that RALF peptides are inherent to normative lateral root initiation, potentially regulated through shoot derived auxin. Furthermore, RALF4 and 34 peptides play a strong role in restricting primary root growth, and that together these peptides have an additive effect on cell elongation. Lastly, we identify several leucine-rich repeat receptor-like proteins, kinase proteins, and cell wall remodelling enzymes, which putatively play unique and diverse roles during primary and lateral root development. Taken together, this thesis provides novel and unique insights into new signalling pathways during root growth, which may in future aid in agronomic enterprises.
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DEVILUARD, VALERIE. "Architecture et communication : les mediations architecturales dans les annees quatre-vingts." Paris 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999PA020020.
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Depuis le debut des annees quatre-vingts, l'architecture francaise connait un regain d'interet dans les medias grands publics ; les premices de cette mediatisation sont intervenues dans le milieu professionnel, les architectes, qui jusqu'alors, traversait une crise identitaire face a un public traumatise par la periode de la reconstruction, et par le modernisme de l'urbanisme fonctionnel des annees soixante, symbolise par les tours et barres des peripheries ou des villes nouvelles. Depuis 1981, les + grands projets ; parisiens (de l'institut du monde arabe et de la pyramide du louvre jusqu'a la bibliotheque de france) ont donne une impulsion nouvelle a l'architecture publique francaise ; attachee a la figure presidentielle de francois mitterrand, elle se hisse alors au rang de patrimoine culturel et artistique de demain. Depuis 1983, les lois de decentralisation donnent aux collectivites locales des prerogatives nouvelles en matiere d'urbanisme et d'architecture. L'architecture publique est depuis lors un enjeu electoral majeur pour les villes ; + nouvel embleme ; du local, elle devient vecteur d'une communication territoriale a la recherche de nouvelles marques identitaires, dans un contexte concurrentiel de recomposition des territoires, en particulier regionaux et municipaux. Cette transformation de l'architecture en evenement mediatique, en instrument et moyen d'une politique de communication gouvernementale, presidentielle ou encore locale, a-t-elle modifiee l'image de l'architecte ou encore a-t-elle affecte les modes specifiques de diffusion de la production architecturale ? telle est la premiere question qui a forme le fil conducteur de notre recherche, a partir de laquelle s'est construite notre problematique, enrichie par l'apport de la + theorie de la mediation ; d'antoine hennion ; elle inspire largement notre analyse en termes de mediation de la production architecturale francaise des annees quatrevingts, que nous n'envisageons que sous la forme la plus spectaculaire et la plus mediatisee, soit celle publique des grands projets parisiens et des metropoles regionales, concus par l'elite de la profession architecturaleValerie devillard's doctorate brings forward the numerous evolutions that occurred in the field of architecture during the eighties. Since the doctorate deals with the policy led by francois mitterrand as far as the grands travaux are concerned (great architectural projects that were built during his mandate), the research has been led according to the theory of mediatization. The long chain of material, human and institutional go-betweens throughout the architectural output is being brought to light. In part i of the doctorate, the policy of the grand travaux is being described. Valerie devillard shows how architecture has become the subject of speeches, actions, and political rituals, relayed by the press and resulting in numerous debates and polemics. The doctorate the moves on to another essential issue, i. E. The increasing vision of the architectural output as cultural heritage. The monumental aspect, the + worship ; newly devoted to buildings, the historical value now attached to them, refer to an intellectual process that started back in the nineteenth century. More recently, a real patrimonial policy arose. Architecture is now linked with a whole lot of memorial practices. The recreation of historical centres in the towns reflects this strategy of communication. Part ii shows the link between the public (state) commission and the ways of legitimization through means of distribution and consecration, especially the professionnal media. This part deals simultaneously with the political issue, the strategies of communication and the way things work out in the architectural milieu
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Chasme, Ghislain. "L'architecture de l'information, un paradigme pour les dispositifs de formation à distance : le cas du dispositif M@gistère." Thesis, Normandie, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020NORMR090.
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Cette thèse s'inscrit dans le champ des Sciences de l'information et de la communication et nous amène à poser la question de l'architecture de l'information en tant que paradigme pour les dispositifs de formation à distance. Un cadre théorique et conceptuel articulé autour de la notion de dispositif (échelle micro, méso et macro) et ancré dans l'étude des usages (sociologie des usages et sociologie de l'innovation) permet de positionner l'architecture de l'information comme principe intermédiaire de la relation concepteur-utilisateur et fait émerger la question de recherche suivante : comment s'opère la médiation dans les dispositifs de formation à distance ? L'hypothèse posée est que dans de tels dispositifs, la perspective fonctionnelle prend le pas sur la perspective normative de la communication. Cette hypothèse est éprouvée au travers d'une démarche qualitative qui s'appuie d'une part sur une observation d'interfaces de formation à distance et d'autre part sur des entretiens semi-directifs menés auprès des équipes de conception. Le terrain investi est le dispositif M@gistère, dédié à la formation continue des enseignants. Il ressort du traitement des données et de l'analyse de contenu qu'en fait, dans le dispositif M@gistère, c'est la perspective normative qui l'emporte sur la perspective fonctionnelle de la communication, même si dans ce dispositif le contexte semble primer sur les contenus et les utilisateurs. Il ressort également de l’étude que l'architecture de l'information est au service de la médiation dans un dispositif, une médiation qui constitue un principe de facilitation des usages et de l’appropriation. Au final, cette thèse propose un modèle pour observer l'interface d'un dispositif de formation à distance et en analyser l'organisation de l'information et contribue à la notion d'architecture de l'information en la corrélant, dans le cadre d'une première topique, aux premiers systèmes d'écriture et aux outils de repérage de l'information. Une deuxième topique, dédiée au design de l'information, permet alors de considérer l'architecture de l'information comme une aide à la médiation et donc comme facilitatrice de l'acte de communication dans un dispositif de formation à distanceThis PhD Thesis is part of the field of Information and Communication Sciences and deals with the question of information architecture as a paradigm for distance learning devices. A theoretical and conceptual framework located in the notion of device (micro, meso and macro scales) and anchored in the study of uses (“Sociologie des usages” and “Sociologie de l’innovation”) makes it possible to position information architecture as an intermediate principle between the designer-user relationship and raises the following research question: how is mediation operated in distance learning devices? The hypothesis is that in such devices, the functional perspective takes precedence over the normative perspective of communication. This hypothesis is tested through a qualitative approach which is based on the one hand on an observation of distance learning interfaces and on the other hand on semi-structured interviews conducted with the design teams. The case study is about M@gistère, a device dedicated to the training of teachers. It emerges from the content analysis that in fact, in M@gistère it is the normative perspective that prevails over the functional perspective of communication, even if in this device the context seems to take precedence over the content and over the users. The study also shows that information architecture is at the service of mediation in a device. Mediation is a facilitator of uses and appropriation. Finally, the study contributes to information architecture through a model to observe the interface of a distance training device and analyze the organization of information
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Huang, Jinhui M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Interstitial DenCity : an architectural apparatus of political mediations in Chinese urban villages." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103428.
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Thesis: M. Arch., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Architecture, 2016.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-117).
Since the 1979 Economic Reform, the Chinese government's authoritarian interference with land use development to serve developers and its own interests has led to incongruent development between industrialization and urbanization. This process of land commodification has resulted in the demolition of existing productive urban fabric such as urban villages. And yet paradoxically suffering from both high vacancy rates and exorbitant property prices, developed cities such as Guangzhou exemplify the impending crisis wrought by this flawed mode of urbanization. Furthermore, the urbanization does not take into account the massive urban migration that fulfills the low-wage labor force necessary to sustain a metropolis. The native villagers, who collectively own rural residential land, have elected to house the urban migrants within their own buildings. With high density, occupancy, and adaptability, the urban villages represent a resilient form of urbanism. The Xiancun village in Guangzhou is encircled by the Tianhe CBD area and epitomizes the utmost contradiction of an agricultural land enclave encircled development. The CBD is the nexus of real estate development and also houses over 20,000 urban migrants who are excluded from public amenity access. The villages have exhausted the capacity to grow as their expansion cannot encroach upon the boundary between urban and agricultural land. The rural-urban land ownership system also prevents the urban village from receiving governmental support to develop formal amenities. At the same time, the government cannot regulate the village with its current urbanization tools or its urban policy framework. The distribution of governance remains unresolved between the city government, the village committee, and individual villagers. This thesis argues for the further densification of Xiancun and proposes an architectural framework to create a new social contract between the city government, the villagers, and the urban migrants. A series of anchoring structures with centralized infrastructure and amenities re-territorialize the distribution of resources and a strategy of architectural infill achieves higher densification.
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Brewin, Ross, and ross brewin@rmit edu au. "Mediating Pressure, Facilitating Exchange: 3 Architectural Projects in Pressured Urban Environments." RMIT University. Architecture and Design, 2007. http://adt.lib.rmit.edu.au/adt/public/adt-VIT20080215.154127.
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The aim of the research is to demonstrate architectural design strategies and outcomes that provide alternative ways of considering the futures of areas under high developmental pressure. These areas are where the potential detrimental effects of unmediated, rapid change and development are at their most immediate and in need of consideration. Urban environments are complex physical manifestations of economic, environmental, social, cultural and political pressures represented by the often competing desires of public and private interest groups. Given the enormity of scale and complexity of these pressures, it is problematic to think of architecture as something that can design everything (perhaps as seen in traditional master planning) and in doing so, solve the problem. What may be more constructive is the consideration of architecture having the potential to be involved strategically in these issues, over a number of scales to work towards positive outcomes for the public domain. In recent years, both Victorian and Queensland state governments have released policy guiding the future growth of key regions within their borders. Each attempts to address accommodating large population increases over relatively short time periods by proposing consolidation in and around existing urban centres. This consolidation is seen as part of a strategy to limit urban sprawl and curtail its associated negative social, environmental and potential economic impacts. These targeted 'Activity Centres' become places of immanent transformation, points of pressure within the disaggregated field of the contemporary Australian city. Left un-mediated, developmental pressure in locations such as these is likely to create the same detrimental physical and social effects evident in the general prevailing homogeneity, commercialisation and piecemeal nature of current urban development. Through several architectural design projects, the research aims to explore the role of architecture as an urban mediator within these pressured locations. Through bridging scales from the broad metropolitan, to the finer grained specific, this mediation may begin to strategically 'set things up' for the public domain, towards facilitating valuable social exchange.
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Osborn, Caitlin. "Fostering Connectivity: Mediating the Urban and Human Scale through Architecture." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1280779696.
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Sinagub, Jonathan. "Mediating spaces : a jazz village for Paterson, New Jersey." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/77337.
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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1989.Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126).
The object of my thesis is to make a place for Jazz in the Great Falls Historic District in Paterson, New Jersey. This project is a continuation of larger interests in the idea of "urban villages" and the nature and role of neighborhoods and communities in the larger urban context. I think of Paterson as a very physical city: the powerful waterfalls, the rugged palisades, the austere mill architecture and the intense urban life. The object, forged from these fragments by taking advantage of the opportunity that lies amongst these diverse elements. The object is actually a vehicle to explore and further define the idea of "mediating spaces". An idea that is drawn from my own urban experience and is directly associated to "street life" within a city. Inherent in this idea are themes of "journey" and "place". Themes which are defined architecturally by movement and connections, edges and adjacencies. The work contains two parallel or concurrent ideas: "Mediating Space" and "Progressive Discovery". This work begins to answer the question: What is the relationship of "mediating spaces" to "progressive discovery" ? First of all, the two ideas are connected by "movement": experiencing space as a series of relationships. Both are concerned with edges and adjacencies: the places where connections are made. "Mediating Spaces" pertain to the formal aspects of making connections, of building movement through space. "Progressive Discovery" pertains to the experience of places and spaces as a total "Gestalt". Progressive Discovery is an old idea brought from a previous theoretical construct, the present task now is to set it to an architectural score. The thesis is predominately concern with how to make mediating spaces on the urban scale. On this level mediating spaces serve to connect layers of a community: the institutional and the commonplace, the event and the everyday activity.
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Piek, Rinus. "Mediating the urban boundaries of Marabastad: towards sustainability through architectural regionalism." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/78597.
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How can the architecture of an urban living room, in the form of a regenerative performed arts and market intervention, stimulate the sustainable development of urban communities in Pretoria?
This dissertation investigates the practice of regional architectural to express and develop a sustainable architectural identity within the dilapidated city landscapes of Pretoria. Revitalisation of the urban environment is enabled by creating opportunities for social and economic interaction within the public realm and supporting it with architectural design solutions aimed at mediating oppressive and restrictive boundaries .Mini-Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2021.
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Johnson, Katherine A. "Gradients of Meaning: Spatial Mediations within Liminal Conditions at the World Trade Center." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1397477242.
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Steenkamp, Nina. "Occupying the in between : a typology of architecture as the mediator." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/29874.
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The paradoxical nature of society leads to great dualities in the study of motion and space, creating conflicting relationships. The role of the architectural design is to facilitate these motions to become a stage for the spectacle in its immediate context. The dissertation presents an architectural proposal that addresses the notion of duality. By identifying the possibilities within a liminal context, an architectural narrative creates scenarios as a possible response. The author investigates the manifestation of multiple programmes, a leather workshop, bakery and bar within the South African urban context of Pretoria West. The architectural exploration aims to enrich public life in a liminal space on the periphery of the city. Challenges associated with the typology of duality are addressed through the integration with the immediate context to ensure its sustainability. The aim is to celebrate the edge condition and the spaces commonly overlooked.Dissertation MArch(Prof)-University of Pretoria, 2012.
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