Swift and radical technological change necessitates a re-appraisal of the phenomenology of the house. Canonical phenomenology often has been technologically averse and the phenomenological appraisal of the house, as offered by philosopher Gaston Bachelard (1958) and architect Juhani Pallasmaa (1994), has notably omitted its technological components. This thesis asserts that neither the technologization of the flesh nor the field can be ignored. Upon asserting the importance of both technology and the house to our Being, the thesis proposes some basic principles for understanding technological change. A re-appraisal of the phenomenology of the house is then initiated, starting with a selected series of behavioural and symbolic foci: the hearth, the toilet, the table, the bed and the window. These are discussed with regard to their historical importance in the house and speculated upon as they become increasingly changed by advanced technology. This thesis takes the form of a book. It is a synthetic and removed work, navigating the overlapping zones of a number of disparate discourses. Its perspective is situated in the midst of many complex and interconnected metaphors. It is part historical description, poetical observation, philosophical conjecture, curation, and design.

In previous research, attention is given to the travel and translation of ideas in order to capture how ideas flow and by whom. External actors, so called carriers, promote certain ideas and discard others, further playing a significant part in the institutionalization of ideas. The multitude of different carriers, their different promotion techniques and interconnectedness call for the need to study them in relation and differentiation to one another. Through a qualitative content analysis of documents, interviews and videos, we present a case study on carriers promoting the current idea of a circular fashion system. The investigated carriers are consultants, media, academia, NGO/NPOs and gurus. Alongside the previously identified sequential and parallel modes of translation, we find carriers promoting the travel of an idea jointly. Among the carriers studied, the findings reveal evidence of (1) linkages through cross-referencing, and (2) collaboration through funding, assignment and co-writing. Coupling the notion of blurred boundaries between carriers with ecologies of translation, the study finds carriers situating in different contexts and constellations, forming hybrids and hierarchies. Providing such evidence of a more complex scenery, we argue that the landscape in which carriers promote an idea is best understood as constituting webs.

Dissertação(mestrado)-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Ambiental, Instituto de Educação, 2011. / Submitted by eloisa silva (eloisa1_silva@yahoo.com.br) on 2012-07-08T19:43:16Z No. of bitstreams: 1 o cristiane.pdf: 2077241 bytes, checksum: b885fbc95403f6cc77ba5d16e004b41b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Bruna Vieira(bruninha_vieira@ibest.com.br) on 2012-08-21T14:41:32Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 o cristiane.pdf: 2077241 bytes, checksum: b885fbc95403f6cc77ba5d16e004b41b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-21T14:41:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 o cristiane.pdf: 2077241 bytes, checksum: b885fbc95403f6cc77ba5d16e004b41b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / A preocupação central deste estudo está em compreender como o processo de constituição da identidade surda é estimulado na escola e como esta prática está articulada às Três Ecologias proposta por Félix Guattari. A pesquisa ocorreu em uma escola especial para crianças surdas, em uma turma de alunos da educação infantil, onde a professora também é surda. Os dados foram produzidos por meio de observação da prática da professora e das relações que nos ocorrem nos diversos ambientes por onde as crianças circulam na escola. Também foram realizadas entrevistas com a professora surda, a ex-professora ouvinte da turma, a fonoaudióloga e os pais. Articularam-se estas práticas discursivas e não discursivas com as Três Ecologias. Esta pesquisa utilizou-se das aproximações teóricas dos Estudos Culturais e Estudos Surdos, sob o viés da Educação Ambiental para discutir sobre a aquisição de uma identidade surda como a base para que o indivíduo surdo consiga situar-se e desenvolver-se neste mundo que, para eles, é ainda mais conturbado. Utilizaram-se os três registros guattarianos, que propõem uma articulação entre a ecologia mental, social e ambiental, para que conseguíssemos uma saída da crise de nossa época. Constatou-se que o processo de construção da identidade surda depende da convergência de inúmeros fatores que concorrem em toda a escola e não apenas no âmbito da sala de aula ou nas relações com o professor surdo. Nas práticas observadas no contexto escolar, foram percebidas evidências que vem ao encontro das dimensões ecológicas de Guattari que engendram o processo de desenvolvimento integral das crianças surdas. Nesta escola especial, elas aprendem com a professora surda, com seus pares e com toda a comunidade escolar a reconhecer-se e viver em harmonia com/no ambiente. / The main objective of this study is to comprehend how the constitution process of the deaf identity is stimulated by schools and how this practice is connected to the Three Ecologies proposed by Felix Guattari. This research was carried out with a group of preschool deaf children whose teacher is also deaf, in a special school. Data was collected during the observation of the teacher‟s practice and the relations in the whole school environment. The teacher, the former teacher (who observed the classes), the speech therapist and the parents were also interviewed. These discursive and non-discursive were then related to the Three Ecologies. This research used the theoretical issues of the Deaf Cultural Studies in the light of Environmental Education in order to discuss the acquisition of a deaf identify – which is the basis that makes the deaf live and develop in this world (a more disturbed one for them). Guattari‟s proposal to connect the ecologies of mind, society and environment in order to find a solution for our contemporary crisis is used. I have observed that the construction process of a deaf identity depends on several factors which are part of the whole school context, rather than just the class and the relation with the deaf teacher. Evidence of Guattari‟s ecological dimensions – which suppose deaf children‟s whole development – was also perceived in the school practices. In this special school, with the help of their deaf teacher, their peers and the whole school community, the children learn how to recognize themselves and how to be in harmony with their environment.

The study of device ecologies in-the-wild presents challenges for researchers. This study builds on previous research using ethnographic techniques with low researcher involvement and real-time collection of data. It seeks to determine how suitable video filming is by users of their own activities in the wild, using first person point of view head-mounted cameras, to provide rich information about their use of an ecology of devices, apps and online services. How does such filming affect the perceived enjoyment of their activity (compared to when not using the video capturing device)? Two geocachers recorded 11 hours of video covering 7 days of activities over a month and the video captured, combined with semi-structured follow-up interviews, indicated that such a method may have value when studying users in- the-wild as a complement to existing methods, especially as a method for enhancing rapid ethnography.

京都大学 / 新制・課程博士 / 博士(地域研究) / 甲第23308号 / 地博第289号 / 新制||地||111(附属図書館) / 京都大学大学院アジア・アフリカ地域研究研究科グローバル地域研究専攻 / (主査)准教授 D'SOUZA Rohan Ignatious, 教授 中溝 和弥, 教授 藤田 幸一, 准教授 中村 沙絵 / 学位規則第4条第1項該当 / Doctor of Area Studies / Kyoto University / DGAM

In this thesis i describe proposals designed to give remaining species a temporary haven until their natural habitat is reestablished.  Designing for decay is about alternative methods for nature conservation, about us working with the forest not against it. Methods based on decaying wood and the reintroduction of fungi into the young boreal forest. Looking at the planetary boundaries as summarized by Stockholm resilience center biosphere integrity is one of the areas where the anthropogenic factors has made the largest impact.

The demand for natural resources is increasing, leading to more exploitations in northern Sweden. This project is situated in the region of Norrbotten, which is currently undergoing significant transformations due to continued mining activity, energy production, and forestry. These activities are claiming, destroying, and disrupting large areas of land. In addition, little of the resources produced from these activities benefit the communities. Sami people were nomads, moving to different hunting, fishing, and reindeer land. However, the Sami community has had southern models imposed upon them, which has affected the loss of Sami knowledge and culture. This project challenges the dominant narrative of ‘green development’, stating that the exploitations are not sustainable or just. Through the lens of sustainability, the project understands the practices of Sami culture and the value of local ecologies in the region to derive solutions. By building on nomadic practice and utilizing the land like the Sami community, this project generates resilient, productive landscapes. This project puts forward an alternative future scenario, one where Sweden is based on a distributed, decentralized structure. This thesis aims to provide strategies for a more self-sufficient, interdependent region where the connection between local communities and local ecologies is re-established.

This study is an examination of the role of community-based food projects in place making and collective futuring efforts. I look specifically at food access projects in Dayton, Ohio, a city I have personal connections to. In this study, I forefront the concepts of relationality, co-creation, ownership, economic (dis)investment, soil systems, and regeneration as they emerge from my fieldwork on food access in Dayton, which consisted of interviews, participant observation, and spatial analysis. My methodology centers on critical mapping which the traces conceptual and material connections that shape food access in Dayton and situate community-based efforts within broader economic and political landscapes. In doing so, I demonstrate how food access can be conceptualized in terms of global contours and local manifestations. I draw on the work of Anna Tsing, Karl Polanyi, Jason Moore and Bikrum Gill, to develop a political ecology of encounter that examines the historical roots and ongoing practices of enclosure as a tactic of governance that shapes human-nature relations in specific ways. I demonstrate how these acts of enclosure bring to the fore certain ecological relations in ways that uphold dominant systems of power, while obfuscating other ecological relations. This allows me to theorize encounters between individuals, communities, and environments as political sites of both impasse and change. I conclude that food (in)access is a feature of the production and management of eco-social relations by governments, communities, and individuals. Thus, in focusing on the eco-social relations and encounters that are fostered through food production, distribution, and consumption, communities can (and are) working to build more socially and ecologically just futures. / Doctor of Philosophy / This study draws on research in ecological sciences and social sciences as well as data gleaned from interviews and observations in Dayton, Ohio to explore the role of community-based food systems in building resilience against the cascading effects of anthropogenic climate change. I turn to Dayton largely due to my personal connection to the city. This speaks to this study's attentiveness to community building efforts of folks in Dayton and attention to politics of the everyday. Using interviews, observations, and scholarship in political ecology, I map the efforts of Dayton residents to improve community food access within broader economic, social, and political systems to show how these projects both improve food access for communities and promote a sort of politics that contributes to the economic, ecological, and social health of Dayton communities. This positions these projects as important efforts in building resilience against ongoing and intensifying disturbances and disasters from climate change amidst the ongoing failure of political and economic institutions to enact meaningful change. Finally, I explore how these findings help to develop a broader research framework that is grounded in lived experience and attentive to broader political, social, and economic systems.

Elderly care is currently undergoing a phase of development in which new technologies are anticipated to increase efficiency, secure quality of services and give care assistants more time with the elderly people. This thesis reports on a study of how people involve technologies in everyday home care work. It focuses on assimilation processes associated with people’s use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and other technologies. The main problem addressed in the thesis is how do care assistants assimilate new emerging technologies in their work practice? The aim of this study is to gain an understanding of assimilation processes and the ways that people learn and select different features of technologies in practice. Technology assimilation processes are in this work assumed being part of people’s everyday use and exploration of the technologies they have at hand. The underpinning fieldwork commenced 2001 and ended 2006 and comprises ethnographical workplace studies in three different home care organisations. When new technologies are brought into an organisation they are not introduced into a vacuum; the thesis shows they are introduced into an existing ecology of work, where links between technologies and resources are tightly associated with ways people deal with contingencies and coordination. The result of the study show that when individuals and workgroups configure their own web of supporting technologies they also reconfigure their workplace. In this work it is revealed that the home care geography holds two main activity domains which provide radically different conditions for technology use. How people effectively manage to balance their work in the two domains is seen as a crucial component in how we can understand use of new technologies. It is also concluded that the involvement of new technologies effect the structure of work as the care assistants either loose or are given a strengthened autonomy and control in their work. This is a relationship that is effected by and dependent on the different ways new technologies are involved and used. Assimilation processes are in this work understood as an ongoing orchestration of tools and technologies. They are catalysed through the conflict between new and established routines and the provision of a social space of innovation, which call for the ability to detect aspects in current practices that could be sorted out, retained and selected to be part of innovation. In home care, an example such innovation is found in innovative ways managing technologies and their involvement in practice. The challenge is to grasp how everyday assimilation processes can strategically advance practice as a whole. The perspective offered by - using technologies with care - suggests a different view on innovation. Such a view focuses on innovative use and workplace configurations, as it is aware of novel technical configurations.

La thèse analyse le processus de genèse et d'institutionnalisation de la démarche HQE, ainsi que ses effets performatifs sur les marchés et les systèmes d'acteurs dans le secteur de la construction en France.La démarche HQE a été initiée en 1992, par le Plan Construction et Architecture (PCA), placé sous l'autorité du Ministère de l'Équipement et du Logement, avec la création d'un collège d'experts sur le thème de la qualité environnementale (QE) des bâtiments. Sur la base des travaux du PCA, une association HQE est créée en octobre 1996 et le premier référentiel officiel de la démarche HQE est publié en novembre 1997. Il établit sous la forme de 14 cibles les principales caractéristiques qui permettent de limiter les impacts d'une opération de construction sur l'environnement extérieur, tout en préservant le confort et la santé des habitants à l'intérieur des bâtiments. Ce premier référentiel est traduit en décembre 2004, en norme officielle par un comité de l'Agence Française de Normalisation (AFNOR) puis, en février 2005, en référentiel privé de certification, spécifié pour les bâtiments tertiaires, par le Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment (CSTB).A travers l'étude historique de la trajectoire de la démarche HQE, la thèse rend compte de l'importante hybridation qui caractérise la " carrière " des dispositifs de normalisation technique. D'un problème public (Gusfield 1981) mis à l'agenda politique (Cobb & Elder 1972) par les autorités publiques au début des années 1990, la QE des bâtiments fait l'objet d'un travail de traduction (Callon 1986) et d'appropriation (Gusfield 1989) par un collège d'experts. La constitution d'un monde social commun (Strauss 1992) et d'une représentation commune (Fligstein 1997), suite à la création de l'association HQE et la publication du premier référentiel officiel, permet à la démarche HQE de s'imposer progressivement auprès des acteurs politiques, sociaux et économiques comme le standard français de la QE des bâtiments. Alors que le modèle économique du bâtiment est centré sur la concurrence par les prix, les " concepteurs " de la démarche HQE, en faisant la promesse aux professionnels (van Lente 1993, van Lente & Rip 1998) d'établir une économie de la qualité (Karpik 1989, 1995), parviennent à leur faire accepter la traduction du standard de la démarche HQE en norme française (NF) homologuée et en référentiel privé de certification.L'analyse met en exergue l'emprise exercée, par un collège d'experts, sur la fabrique de la normalisation technique ainsi que les tensions entre acteurs et professionnels autour de la transformation de l'architecture marchande du bâtiment (Fligstein 2001). L'étude de la démarche HQE montre ainsi le rôle politique joué par les collèges d'experts (Olshon 1993) qui, en participant à la création de nouveaux domaines de compétences et de règles marchandes, performent les modèles économiques (Callon 1998), que ce soit par l'instauration d'une économie de la qualité (Karpik 1989 & 1995, Musselin 1996), l'évolution des dispositifs collectifs de calcul et des business models (Callon & Muniesa 2003, Barrey 2006) la mise en place d'un marché de la prescription (Hatchuel 1995) ou encore, en reconfigurant les juridictions au sein des écologies professionnelles (Abbott 1988).