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Building Blocks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 330

Building Blocks

Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning, and working at kindergartens, schools, universities, and companies. This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses, and subjects.

Building Blocks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 319

Building Blocks

Building blocks are practical materials for playing, learning and working at kindergartens, schools, universities and companies. How did building blocks, which were primarily established as toys for children, come to be practical materials used in professional and educational settings? This study explores the historical implications of particular sets of building blocks in the interdisciplinary consolidation and transformation of techniques, materials, discourses and subjects. By mapping the genealogy of building blocks from Fröbel's »gifts« to their current systematization as interlocked blocks, this study proposes that building blocks should be understood not exclusively as concrete objects, but as the materiality of a combinatorial program, which delineates a modular system characterized by a code of composition, a context-neutrality and a semantic component.

Toy Theory
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 287

Toy Theory

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-11-05
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  • Publisher: MIT Press

A novel interpretation of the history and theory of technology from the perspective of toys, play, and play objects. Toy Theory addresses the relationships between toys and technology in two distinct but overlapping ways: first, as underexamined cultural artifacts and behaviors with significant technical attributes and, second, as playful and toylike dimensions of technology at large. Seth Giddings sets out a “toy theory” of technology that emphasizes the speculative, experimental, and noninstrumental in technological paradigms and argues that children’s playthings, rather than being the most ephemeral and inconsequential of technical devices, instead offer analytical and anthropologic...

“Dig Where You Stand” 7
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

“Dig Where You Stand” 7

The history of mathematics education is an interdisciplinary research area that is experiencing a significant development and this book presents recent work in this area. This book is the result of the seventh conference ICHME (International Conference on the History of Mathematics Education) that took place at Erbacher Hof, Mainz (Germany) from 19th to 23rd of September 2022. Nowadays, the history of education is of the utmost importance for assessing the general development of the educational system(s) in which mathematics education occurs. Usually, the history of education is confined to history within a given civilization, country or nation. However, the quality of the research for a given nation is enhanced when situated among various specific cases, and comparative studies provide essential tools to broaden the perspectives to an international level. Moreover, mathematics, as a school discipline, has always functioned at the crossroads between general education and professional training, thus relating its teaching history to professional working environments as well. The 24 chapters in this book reflect this wide area of research.

A History of Folding in Mathematics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 430

A History of Folding in Mathematics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-25
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

While it is well known that the Delian problems are impossible to solve with a straightedge and compass – for example, it is impossible to construct a segment whose length is cube root of 2 with these instruments – the discovery of the Italian mathematician Margherita Beloch Piazzolla in 1934 that one can in fact construct a segment of length cube root of 2 with a single paper fold was completely ignored (till the end of the 1980s). This comes as no surprise, since with few exceptions paper folding was seldom considered as a mathematical practice, let alone as a mathematical procedure of inference or proof that could prompt novel mathematical discoveries. A few questions immediately aris...

Portable Moving Images
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Portable Moving Images

  • Categories: Art

This media history explores a series of portable small cameras, playback devices, and storage units that have made the production of film and video available to everyone. Covering several storage formats from 8mm films of the 1900s, through the analogue videotapes of the 1970s, to the compression algorithms of the 2000s, this work examines the effects that the shrinkage of complex machines, media formats, and processing operations has had on the dissemination of moving images. Using an archaeological approach to technical standards of media, the author provides a genealogy of portable storage formats for film, analog video, and digitally encoded video. This book is a step forward in decoding the storage media formats, which up to now have been the domain of highly specialised technicians.

Future is Urban: Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 712

Future is Urban: Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation

Cities have played an important role in our lives since the dawn of civilization. However, cities are slowly becoming overwhelmed and therefore intervention is desirable towards green, blue and egalitarian nature. Even with current urban issues, we must rise to the occasion as professionals to create cities that are social, cities that take care of the environment, and cities that are digital. Increased citizen participation is indispensable in this process. The ‘International Conference on Future is Urban (IFCU’ 21) Dec 16-18, 2021, Ahmedabad, India’, takes into account Livability, Resilience & Resource Conservation for planning Future and cities in future.

Panorama y experiencia de Psicología Organizacional y del Trabajo
  • Language: es
  • Pages: 392

Panorama y experiencia de Psicología Organizacional y del Trabajo

El presente libro expone a la comunidad académica y profesional Iberoamericana de la Psicología Organizacional y del Trabajo, una versión amplia sobre el campo derivada del trabajo y de la experiencia de la Red Iberoamericana de Psicología Organizacional y del Trabajo-RIPOT. Es un esfuerzo de visibilización de los trabajos adelantados por profesionales y académicos en temas, áreas y abordajes que representan la diversidad y paradójicamente la "universalidad" de encuentros, desencuentros, aciertos y desaciertos de configuran un campo disciplinar y profesional cuya historia en América Latina en particular es de alrededor de un siglo. Se intentó mapear la historia reciente de la RIPOT representada en las cinco versiones de sus encuentros en la forma de congresos, y simultáneamente presentar el acto fundante y una breve reseña de una red que crece, se consolida y presenta desarrollos importantes para pensar y actuar el campo de la POT en América Latina con un apoyo importante de lo que se conoce de forma ampliada como Iberoamérica.

The Illuminated Theatre
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 209

The Illuminated Theatre

  • Categories: Art
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-05-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

What sort of thing is a theatre image? How is it produced and consumed? Who is responsible for the images? Why do the images stay with us when the performance is over? How do we learn to speak of what we see and imagine? And how do we relate what we experience in the theatre to what we share with each other of the world? The Illuminated Theatre is a book about theatricality and spectatorship in the early twenty-first century. In a wide-ranging analysis that draws upon theatrical, visual and philosophical approaches, it asks how spectators and audiences negotiate the complexities and challenges of contemporary experimental performance arts. It is also a book about how European practitioners w...

Final Environmental Impact Statement on Management for the Northern Spotted Owl in the National Forests
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 396