Creative artificial intelligence (AI) is often explored in terms of machine intelligence on a philosophical basis. As a counter-reaction, there have been calls for user-centered creative AI. This thesis aims to make visible creative practitioners’ needs, values, and ethical perspectives that might inform us on the construction of future creative AI tools. It also discusses the need for pragmatic aesthetics as a holistic design approach. Five artists of different backgrounds were invited to a co-speculative workshop where they expressed their thoughts and imaginings regarding creativity, creative tools, and AI. The results suggest that we need to be mindful of virtue ethics, N-creativity, exploration, intuition, trust, and agency when designing creative AI tools. Furthermore, the findings were used to propose design sensitivities aimed at AI researchers and designers. Future research is needed in order to make conclusions about the practical value of the proposed design sensitivities. / Kreativ artificiell intelligens (AI) undersöks ofta i termer av maskinintelligens med filosofiska grunder. Som en motreaktion har det förordnats mer användarcentrerad kreativ AI. Denna avhandling syftar till att synliggöra kreativa utövares behov, värderingar och etiska perspektiv som kan informera oss om hur framtida kreativa AI-verktyg bör konstrueras. Den diskuterar även behovet av pragmatisk estetik som en holistisk designstrategi. Fem konstnärer av olika bakgrund deltog i en samspekulativ workshop där de uttryckte sina tankar och föreställningar om kreativitet, kreativa verktyg och AI. Resultaten pekar på att dessa verktyg bör designas med begrepp som dygdetik, N-kreativitet, utforskande, intuition, tillit och datainverkan i åtanke. Vidare användes resultaten för att föreslå designkänsligheter riktade till AI-forskare och designers. Vidare forskning krävs för att kunna dra slutsatser kring designkänsligheternas praktiska nytta.

The purpose with this report is to speculate how our neighborhoods could look like in the future, looking at modern collective living due to the housing crisis is Sweden today. This paper will look att different forms of collective housing, to challenge the conventional way of living. Connecting sustainability to the act of sharing space and resources, in creating a collaborative lifestyle. The research methods used in this speculative project looks at three case studies of collective housing to analyse and define different levels of sharing. During the design process one intervention was executed to challenging the norm of ownership, questioning what the act of sharing demands. The goal of this project is to change assumptions of collective living by rethinking space. To create an interlaced community, with hopes of becoming more resilient. The research and its findings worked along- side the report and developed into a zine. The zine was made with key insights from the study, as a tool to communicate the design proposal and can easily be distributed to the Swedish population.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T20:19:58Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Gabriella Caroline Rodrigues Beltrame.pdf: 3522974 bytes, checksum: 0c0db514293c6a4a7285ce45e2c48d5b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-11-11 / This dissertation aims to analyze the processes of duality in the constitution of a company town Ipatinga, in the Steel Valley, in Minas Gerais, and the relationship between the strategic stock of real property, called speculative retention properties, with the consequent barriers to access to land urban-dwelling identified in open-city built around and as a result of the initial nucleus. City caused by the huge steelworks Usiminas, lodging in its bosom the aforementioned separation between city-closed and city-open. Our analysis turned to the city-open, stage of operation of a property market that clings to the very construction of the plant, promoting the rapid transformation of rural land into urban land, building on a land structure concentrated in the growing demand for land urbanized and disclosure of city land as an investment for profit. Based on the assumptions and concepts of historical-materialist perspective, the city, treated as a commodity, it was revealed that scenario speculative retention trade the urban land as a strategy to generate value for the relative scarcity of land-dwelling, restricting the right to choose locational those unable to make the economic front the property market concentrated, expensive and monopolized, where city builders, landowners are allied to big business and are confused with the government, interfering in the primacy of public works, while the legal and administrative regulatory mechanisms present themselves functional or omitted to speculation. In this sense, the spatial configuration of the city presented itself dispersed, with several gaps within the urban fabric and with a sense of growth in the outskirts of the city-open to the center, near the town closed and intense occupation of areas that lack equipment essential collective as well served areas remained stockpiled awaiting recovery. The chosen methodology exercised the complementarity between qualitative and quantitative approaches, based on secondary data from official sources and documents and combining the production of information from interviews with residents and observers of privileged urban history of Ipatinga. The analysis aimed to show how the process of retention and real estate appreciation has developed over the years in Ipatinga, affecting not only vacant lands as real estate built, expanding urban boundaries of the city to neighboring counties where a new round of speculation develops, trying to describe the control of the property market on the city's growth in mismatch with the social function of urban property that must be respected in our legal system. Unveiled is therefore sociospatial inequality, characteristic of cities where the Capital - and the property market - controlling the access to the city to its users and where public policies are not effective in gaining citizenship for all / Esta dissertação busca analisar os processos de dualidade presentes na constituição de uma cidade-empresa Ipatinga, no Vale do Aço, em Minas Gerais, e a relação entre o estoque estratégico de imóveis, denominado retenção imobiliária especulativa, com os conseqüentes obstáculos ao acesso à terra-moradia urbana identificados na cidade-aberta, criada em torno e como decorrência do núcleo inicial. Cidade originada pela grande indústria siderúrgica Usiminas, abrigou em seu seio a citada separação entre cidade-fechada e cidade-aberta. Nossas análises voltaram-se à cidade-aberta, palco de atuação de um mercado imobiliário que se firma com a própria construção da usina, promovendo a rápida transformação da terra rural em terra urbana, alicerçado em uma estrutura fundiária concentrada, na crescente demanda por terra urbanizada e na divulgação da cidade como investimento fundiário de lucro certo. Com base nos pressupostos e conceitos da perspectiva histórico-materialista, a cidade, tratada como mercadoria, revelou-se cenário de retenção imobiliária que mercantiliza a terra urbana como estratégia de valorização por gerar a escassez relativa à terra-moradia, cerceando o direito de escolha locacional daqueles incapazes de fazer frente econômica ao mercado imobiliário concentrado, caro e monopolizado, onde promotores imobiliários, proprietários fundiários aliam-se ao grande capital e confundem-se com o poder público, interferindo na primazia de obras públicas, enquanto os mecanismos de regulação jurídicos e administrativos se apresentam funcionais ou omissos à especulação. Nesse sentido, a configuração espacial da cidade apresentou-se dispersa, com diversos vazios dentro da malha urbana e com um sentido de crescimento da periferia da cidade-aberta para o centro, próximo à cidade-fechada e com ocupação intensa de áreas desprovidas de equipamentos coletivos essenciais, enquanto áreas bem servidas permaneciam estocadas aguardando valorização. A metodologia escolhida exercitou a complementariedade entre as abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas, baseando-se em dados secundários, fontes oficiais e documentais e combinando a produção de informações por entrevistas com moradores e observadores privilegiados da história urbana de Ipatinga. A análise buscou mostrar como o processo de retenção e valorização imobiliária desenvolveu-se ao longo dos anos em Ipatinga, atingindo não só glebas vagas como imóveis edificados, expandindo as fronteiras urbanas da cidade para os municípios vizinhos onde um novo ciclo de especulação se desenvolve, buscando descrever o controle do mercado imobiliário sobre o crescimento urbano da cidade, em descompasso com a função social que a propriedade urbana deve cumprir em nosso ordenamento jurídico. Desvendou-se, pois, a desigualdade socioespacial, característica das cidades onde o Capital e o mercado imobiliário comandam o acesso à cidade aos seus usuários e onde políticas públicas não são eficazes na conquista da cidadania para todos

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Our analysis turned to the city-open, stage of operation of a property market that clings to the very construction of the plant, promoting the rapid transformation of rural land into urban land, building on a land structure concentrated in the growing demand for land urbanized and disclosure of city land as an investment for profit. Based on the assumptions and concepts of historical-materialist perspective, the city, treated as a commodity, it was revealed that scenario speculative retention trade the urban land as a strategy to generate value for the relative scarcity of land-dwelling, restricting the right to choose locational those unable to make the economic front the property market concentrated, expensive and monopolized, where city builders, landowners are allied to big business and are confused with the government, interfering in the primacy of public works, while the legal and administrative regulatory mechanisms present themselves functional or omitted to speculation. In this sense, the spatial configuration of the city presented itself dispersed, with several gaps within the urban fabric and with a sense of growth in the outskirts of the city-open to the center, near the town closed and intense occupation of areas that lack equipment essential collective as well served areas remained stockpiled awaiting recovery. The chosen methodology exercised the complementarity between qualitative and quantitative approaches, based on secondary data from official sources and documents and combining the production of information from interviews with residents and observers of privileged urban history of Ipatinga. The analysis aimed to show how the process of retention and real estate appreciation has developed over the years in Ipatinga, affecting not only vacant lands as real estate built, expanding urban boundaries of the city to neighboring counties where a new round of speculation develops, trying to describe the control of the property market on the city's growth in mismatch with the social function of urban property that must be respected in our legal system. Unveiled is therefore sociospatial inequality, characteristic of cities where the Capital - and the property market - controlling the access to the city to its users and where public policies are not effective in gaining citizenship for all / Esta dissertação busca analisar os processos de dualidade presentes na constituição de uma cidade-empresa Ipatinga, no Vale do Aço, em Minas Gerais, e a relação entre o estoque estratégico de imóveis, denominado retenção imobiliária especulativa, com os conseqüentes obstáculos ao acesso à terra-moradia urbana identificados na cidade-aberta, criada em torno e como decorrência do núcleo inicial. Cidade originada pela grande indústria siderúrgica Usiminas, abrigou em seu seio a citada separação entre cidade-fechada e cidade-aberta. Nossas análises voltaram-se à cidade-aberta, palco de atuação de um mercado imobiliário que se firma com a própria construção da usina, promovendo a rápida transformação da terra rural em terra urbana, alicerçado em uma estrutura fundiária concentrada, na crescente demanda por terra urbanizada e na divulgação da cidade como investimento fundiário de lucro certo. Com base nos pressupostos e conceitos da perspectiva histórico-materialista, a cidade, tratada como mercadoria, revelou-se cenário de retenção imobiliária que mercantiliza a terra urbana como estratégia de valorização por gerar a escassez relativa à terra-moradia, cerceando o direito de escolha locacional daqueles incapazes de fazer frente econômica ao mercado imobiliário concentrado, caro e monopolizado, onde promotores imobiliários, proprietários fundiários aliam-se ao grande capital e confundem-se com o poder público, interferindo na primazia de obras públicas, enquanto os mecanismos de regulação jurídicos e administrativos se apresentam funcionais ou omissos à especulação. Nesse sentido, a configuração espacial da cidade apresentou-se dispersa, com diversos vazios dentro da malha urbana e com um sentido de crescimento da periferia da cidade-aberta para o centro, próximo à cidade-fechada e com ocupação intensa de áreas desprovidas de equipamentos coletivos essenciais, enquanto áreas bem servidas permaneciam estocadas aguardando valorização. A metodologia escolhida exercitou a complementariedade entre as abordagens qualitativas e quantitativas, baseando-se em dados secundários, fontes oficiais e documentais e combinando a produção de informações por entrevistas com moradores e observadores privilegiados da história urbana de Ipatinga. A análise buscou mostrar como o processo de retenção e valorização imobiliária desenvolveu-se ao longo dos anos em Ipatinga, atingindo não só glebas vagas como imóveis edificados, expandindo as fronteiras urbanas da cidade para os municípios vizinhos onde um novo ciclo de especulação se desenvolve, buscando descrever o controle do mercado imobiliário sobre o crescimento urbano da cidade, em descompasso com a função social que a propriedade urbana deve cumprir em nosso ordenamento jurídico. Desvendou-se, pois, a desigualdade socioespacial, característica das cidades onde o Capital e o mercado imobiliário comandam o acesso à cidade aos seus usuários e onde políticas públicas não são eficazes na conquista da cidadania para todos

Orientador: Eduardo Strachamn / Banca: Enéas Gonçalves de Carvalho / Banca: Ernani Torres Teixeira Filho / Resumo: O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar a experiência do Japão após os colapsos das bolhas especulativas dos ativos na década de 1990. Aceitando que o pior já passou, ou seja, que a crise financeira japonesa foi finalmente resolvida, uma coisa é certa; não antes de uma "década perdida" caracterizada por um longo período, de baixo crescimento, aumento das taxas de desemprego, deflação nos preços dos ativos, falências bancárias e persistência dos no-performing loans. Nesse contexto, as principais respostas obtidas por este trabalho foram: a crença que a recuperação econômica viria com o passar do tempo e a falta de entendimento sobre o tamanho do problema que a morosidade de atuação levaria ao sistema, explica em certo ponto a tolerância inicial do governo japonês frente à crise econômica. A política fiscal expansionista foi eficaz, mas, não utilizada de forma consistente, a natureza "stop-start" dos estímulos realizados, e em particular as prematuras reversões fiscais diminuíram a sua eficácia, outros fatores prováveis para a baixa eficácia durante os anos 90 foram: os estímulos fiscais podem ter sido prejudicados pela queda dos multiplicadores fiscais; os efetivos investimentos públicos foram menores que os anunciados e ao invés de se dar ênfase a obras públicas, priorizou-se cortes em impostos. De outra forma, um caminho fundamental de maximizar os estímulos fiscais é através da restauração do crédito do setor bancário, caso a recapitalização e as restaurações do setor fossem realizas em uma fase inicial, os efeitos dos estímulos poderiam ser de curta duração, se o sistema financeiro estivesse em boa saúde. No Japão, as injeções nos bancos "em grande escala" ocorreram apenas em 1999. Por outro lado, a política monetária, com base em uma versão alternativa da armadilha da liquidez levou o BOJ a tomar algumas medidas... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: This dissertation intend to analyze the experience of Japan after the collapse of speculative bubbles in assets in the 1990s. Accepting that the worst is over, that is to say, that the Japanese financial crisis was finally resolved, one thing is certain; not before a "lost decade" characterized by a long period of low growth, increasing rates of unemployment, deflation in asset prices, bank failures and persistence of no-performing loans. In this context, the main responses received for this work were: the belief that economic recovery would come with the passage of time and lack of understanding about the size of the problem that the slowness of action would lead to the system; this explains in some degree the initial tolerance of the Japanese government by the economic crisis. The expansionary fiscal was effective, but not consistently used, the nature of "stop-start" of the stimuli made, and in particular the early tax reversals decreased its effectiveness, other likely factors for the low efficiency during the year 1990 were: the fiscal stimuli may have been harmed by falling tax multipliers; the effective public investments were lower than those advertised instead of giving emphasis to public works, the priority was tax cuts. On the other hand, a fundamental way to maximize the tax incentives is through the restoration of credit from the banking sector, if the recapitalization and the restorations of the sector were held in an early stage, the effects of stimuli could be short term, if the financial system was in good health. In Japan, the injections in banks "large scale" occurred only in 1999. Moreover, monetary policy, based on an alternative version of the liquidity trap led the BOJ to take some innovative measures since 2001. Centered on a strategy to ensure liquidity and extend the warranties on direct purchases of assets, quantitative easing was implanted... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

A perennial question in the philosophy of history is whether history is a science or an art. This thesis contests that this question constitutes a false dichotomy, limiting the discussion in such a way as to exclude other possibilities of understanding the nature of the historical task. The speculative philosophies of Augustine, Kant, and Marx; the critical philosophies of Ranke, Comte along with the later positivist, and the historical idealist such as Collingwood will be surveyed. History is then examined along side art to discuss not only the similarities but, the differences. Major similarities—narrative presentation, emplotation, and the selective nature of historical evidence—between history and fiction are critiqued. A word study of the Greek word ίστοριά will show the essential difference between history and literature. The essential nature of the historical task can best be revealed in the differences between history and art.

This thesis is a science fiction exploration of a future dystopian world where privacy becomes a dominant currency that is distributed according to social class and ranking mechanisms. It utilizes speculative world-building to study the unanticipated implications of technology on personal privacy, surveillance and social inequality on future societies. The project introduces The Mall, as a highly efficient and hyper-connected world, but also exposes its downfall as a society with heightened cultural and socio-political disparities. Inspired by past civilizations, the development of the modern nation-state as well as contemporary society, the design adapts, appropriates and reformulates existing cultures into new hybrid possibilities. This thesis project is presented as an illustrated coded tapestry that allows the viewer to explore and interact with various components of the narrative to speculate and critique an alternative future-world void of privacy.

L'objectif de la présente recherche est de suivre le chemin parcours par Hegel dans l'élaboration de sa conception de la raison dans certains de ses premiers écrits. Dans le premier moment, nous analyserons les textes de l'époque de Stuttgart (1785 - 1788) jusqu'à l'année 1800. Nous montrerons que Hegel a toujours conçu la raison différemment de l'entendement et que sa conception de la raison correspond à son idéal de l'unité, l'unité de l'universel et de l'individualité, son idéal de jeunesse. Notre étude va conduire à une compréhension de cet idéal comme un idéal esthético­politique. Ensuite, nous étudierons deux textes écrits pendant le début de son séjour à Iéna - La différence des systèmes philosophiques de Fichte et Schelling et Foi et savoir. Le but est maintenant de montrer comment Hegel commence l'élaboration de sa philosophie spéculative en tant que l'autoproduction et l'auto-reconnaissance de la raison. Et nous montrerons aussi qu'en même temps que Hegel critique la philosophie kantienne il lui est très reconnaissant. Dans le dernier moment, la recherche présente la conception de la raison dans la Phénoménologie de l'esprit. Nous suivrons donc le parcours de la « raison active » dans sa quête du bonheur, du juste en tant que réalisation effective de l'unité de l'universel et de l'individualité et voyons apparaître son caractère intersubjectif. Notre but central est de montrer que, malgré l'ultérieur développement de sa pensée, la conception de la raison se maintient en tant qu'un idéal de l'unification. / The purpose of this research is to follow Hegel's path in the construction of his conception of reason in some of his first writings. We start analyzing the texts from Stuttgart (1785 - 1788) to 1800. We will show that Hegel has always intended to conceive reason differently from understanding and that his conception of reason corresponds to his ideal of unity, the unity of the universal and the individuality, his ideal of youth. Our study will guide to a comprehension of this ideal as an aesthetical-political ideal. Next, we will study two texts from the beginning of his stay at Iena – “The Difference Between Fichte's and Schelling's Systems of Philosophy and Faith and Knowledge”. The aim at this point is to show how Hegel starts elaborating his speculative philosophy as the auto production and autorecognition of reason. We also show that at the same time Hegel critics Kant's philosophy, he recognizes its value. Finally, the research presents the conception of reason at the Phenomenology of the Spirit. We follow the path of the "active reason" in its quest for the happy state, of fairness as the actualization of the unity of the universal and the individuality and we see the appearance of his intersubjective character. Our main objective is to show, despite the future development of his thoughts, the conception of reason remains as an ideal of unification.

I detta kandidatarbete har vi undersökt kring tekniken projection mapping och projicering och hur dessa skulle kunna användas i framtiden med hjälp av forskningskällor från science fiction, cyberpunk och futurism. I undersökningen kollar vi närmare på hur dessa genre under historien spekulerat kring olika tekniker och dess tankesätt med mestadels inspiration från cyberpunk, där vi satt oss in i det urbana och dess teknik. Vi har sedan, med hjälp av på ett spekulativt designperspektiv som grund och förhållningssätt, fått fram en prototyp av en stad som är baserad i en möjlig framtid där projection mapping har utvecklats och är en väldigt allmän teknik för samhället. Under arbetets gång har vi använt oss utav metoder som mindmap, brainstorming, prototypskapande och spekulativ design för att jobba oss framåt. Dessa metoder har vi arbetat med tidigare och kände att de var mest effektiva för vårt projekt. Vi kom tillslut fram med en gestaltning som visar på en möjlig framtida stad där projection mapping används överallt för att visa reklam och liknande på massa byggnader. Detta har gjort med hjälp av program som Adobe programmen för att skapa det som projicerats och mappningen har gjort i programmet HeavyM, som är ett program enbart gjort för projection mapping. / In this bachelor thesis we have examined technology such as projection mapping and projection, and how these could be used in the future with support from research sources such as science fiction, cyberpunk and futurism. In the thesis, we take a closer look at how these genres throughout history have speculated about different technologies and their ways of thinking, mainly with inspiration from cyberpunk, where we focus on the urban and its technology. We have with the help of a speculative design perspective as a basis and approach, created a prototype of a city based on a possible future where projection mapping has been developed and become a very common technology for society. During the course of the project, we have used methods such as mindmap, brainstorming, prototyping and speculative design to work our way forward. We have worked with these methods before and felt that they were the most effective for our project. We finally came up with a design that shows a possible future city where projection mapping is used everywhere to show advertising and the like on lots of buildings. This has been done using programs such as the Adobe programs to create what is projected and the mapping done in the HeavyM program, which is a program solely for projection mapping.

Access to information is fundamental in health care. This thesis presents research on Swedish medical records with the overall goal of building intelligent information access tools that can aid health personnel, researchers and other professions in their daily work, and, ultimately, improve health care in general. The issue of ethics and identifiable information is addressed by creating an annotated gold standard corpus and porting an existing de-identification system to Swedish from English. The aim is to move towards making textual resources available to researchers without risking exposure of patients’ confidential information. Results for the rule-based system are not encouraging, but results for the gold standard are fairly high. Affirmed, uncertain and negated information needs to be distinguished when building accurate information extraction tools. Annotation models are created, with the aim of building automated systems. One model distinguishes certain and uncertain sentences, and is applied on medical records from several clinical departments. In a second model, two polarities and three levels of certainty are applied on diagnostic statements from an emergency department. Overall results are promising. Differences are seen depending on clinical practice, annotation task and level of domain expertise among the annotators. Using annotated resources for automatic classification is studied. Encouraging overall results using local context information are obtained. The fine-grained certainty levels are used for building classifiers for real-world e-health scenarios. This thesis contributes two annotation models of certainty and one of identifiable information, applied on Swedish medical records. A deeper understanding of the language use linked to conveying certainty levels is gained. Three annotated resources that can be used for further research have been created, and implications for automated systems are presented.