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An Exploratory Spatial Analysis Of The Urban Crime Environment Around The Next National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency West Development, Tara A. Smith, J.S. Onésimo (Ness) Sandoval
An Exploratory Spatial Analysis Of The Urban Crime Environment Around The Next National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency West Development, Tara A. Smith, J.S. Onésimo (Ness) Sandoval
The Geographical Bulletin
The current study provides a baseline, exploratory spatiotemporal analysis of violent and property crimes around the Next National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) West (NNW) development during the pre- and post-demolition periods. Five, 500-meter concentric buffers were created around the NNW site. The geographic distributions and spatial patterns of crime were statistically measured during the pre- and postdemolition periods. We observed that during the post-demolition phase, crime became more concentrated and existing crime hot spots intensified. Crime within the NNW footprint dissolved, but it remained the same in the directly adjacent buffer while the farthest buffer saw higher crime levels. The observations …
Cover And Forewords, Casey D. Allen
Volume 62-2a Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen
Volume 62-2a Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 62-2A Complete Issue
Volume 62-2b Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen
Volume 62-2b Complete Issue, Casey D. Allen
The Geographical Bulletin
Volume 62-2B Complete Issue.
Who Helps Tsimane Children And Adults?, Eric Schniter, Daniel K. Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael D. Gurven
Who Helps Tsimane Children And Adults?, Eric Schniter, Daniel K. Cummings, Paul L. Hooper, Jonathan Stieglitz, Benjamin C. Trumble, Hillard S. Kaplan, Michael D. Gurven
ESI Working Papers
We examine various forms of helping behavior among Tsimane Amerindians of Bolivia, focusing on the provision of shelter, childcare, food, sickcare, cultural influence, and traditional story knowledge. Kin selection theory traditionally explains nepotistic nurturing of youth by closely related kin. However, less attention has been given to understanding the help provided by individuals without close genetic relatedness. To explain who provides various forms of help, we evaluate support for several predictions derived from kin selection theory. Our results show that helpers who are most often closely related and from an older generation tend to provide more costly forms of help …
A Harmonized Public Resource Of Deeply Sequenced Diverse Human Genomes, Zan Koenig, Mary T Yohannes, Lethukuthula L Nkambule, Xuefang Zhao, Julia K Goodrich, Heesu Ally Kim, Michael W Wilson, Grace Tiao, Stephanie P Hao, Nareh Sahakian, Katherine R Chao, Mark A Walker, Yunfei Lyu, Heidi L Rehm, Benjamin M Neale, Michael E Talkowski, Mark J Daly, Harrison Brand, Konrad J Karczewski, Elizabeth G Atkinson, Alicia R Martin
A Harmonized Public Resource Of Deeply Sequenced Diverse Human Genomes, Zan Koenig, Mary T Yohannes, Lethukuthula L Nkambule, Xuefang Zhao, Julia K Goodrich, Heesu Ally Kim, Michael W Wilson, Grace Tiao, Stephanie P Hao, Nareh Sahakian, Katherine R Chao, Mark A Walker, Yunfei Lyu, Heidi L Rehm, Benjamin M Neale, Michael E Talkowski, Mark J Daly, Harrison Brand, Konrad J Karczewski, Elizabeth G Atkinson, Alicia R Martin
Faculty, Staff and Students Publications
Underrepresented populations are often excluded from genomic studies owing in part to a lack of resources supporting their analyses. The 1000 Genomes Project (1kGP) and Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), which have recently been sequenced to high coverage, are valuable genomic resources because of the global diversity they capture and their open data sharing policies. Here, we harmonized a high-quality set of 4094 whole genomes from 80 populations in the HGDP and 1kGP with data from the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) and identified over 153 million high-quality SNVs, indels, and SVs. We performed a detailed ancestry analysis of this cohort, …
The Aesthetics Of Animal Companions, Samantha Vice
The Aesthetics Of Animal Companions, Samantha Vice
Contemporary Aesthetics (Journal Archive)
In the philosophical aesthetics literature, domestic animals, and in particular companion animals or pets, are notable for their absence. I examine the few available accounts of the aesthetics of animals, extend them to animal companions, and argue that they are lacking in important respects. An appropriate aesthetics of these animals should recognize their unique status as individual animals in human spaces, imbued with human meanings, and yet essentially other.
The Hidden Forms Of Violence In The Lives Of Professional Women In Tagamoa, New Cairo, Nouran Elhariry
The Hidden Forms Of Violence In The Lives Of Professional Women In Tagamoa, New Cairo, Nouran Elhariry
Theses and Dissertations
The desire to craft new lifestyles is the main drive for the relocation to New Cairo among Egypt’s upper middle classes. This research is focusing on the upper middle class--people who still rely on their incomes from working to maintain their status—as opposed to the elite upper class, who rely on incomes from property, investments, inheritance, and other forms of intergenerational wealth. These communities were enmeshed in high degrees of domestic violence. The power-relations reconfigured in the domestic sphere, with increasing numbers of upper middle class women embarking on professional careers while navigating households and family relations, have opened the …
Reflections On Zooarchaeology In East Polynesia: Human-Animal Interactions And Human Ecodynamics, Virginia L. Butler
Reflections On Zooarchaeology In East Polynesia: Human-Animal Interactions And Human Ecodynamics, Virginia L. Butler
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
The essay summarizes the key pillars of human ecodynamics (HE) research and then highlights the most trenchant ideas from each of the seven papers in the Special Issue, especially as they intersect with HE.
“Siguiendo Adelante”/ "Moving Forward:" Gender-Based Violence (Gbv) Service-Seeking And Survivorship Among Indigenous Guatemalan Women, Caitlynn C. Carr
“Siguiendo Adelante”/ "Moving Forward:" Gender-Based Violence (Gbv) Service-Seeking And Survivorship Among Indigenous Guatemalan Women, Caitlynn C. Carr
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
This dissertation examines Indigenous women’s access to and beliefs regarding gender-based violence (GBV) services and the Guatemalan legal system. It illuminates the legal, structural, and institutional challenges and power dynamics associated with seeking support and justice for women in Guatemala, as well as why and how women decide to seek formal assistance. This research also investigates changes in attitudes and beliefs regarding women’s rights, gender roles, and formal and informal forms of support for GBV survivors. Utilizing a mixed-methods, engaged anthropological approach during 10 months of ethnographic fieldwork in two primary locations in Guatemala, this dissertation explicates qualitative data collected …
Genealogical Ethics In The United States And The Popularization Of Genealogical Research In The Digital Age, Thomas Daniel Knight
Genealogical Ethics In The United States And The Popularization Of Genealogical Research In The Digital Age, Thomas Daniel Knight
History Faculty Publications
This article examines genealogical ethics in the digital age. At a time when more resources for research are available digitally than ever previously, digital media also pose challenges for the large-scale dissemination of false or misleading information as well as the incautious presentation of more careful research that then might be misconstrued by some. This article first reviews the literature about the development of academic genealogy and professional ethical standards. It then provides a series of case studies, each of which examines particular situations in which ethical questions have arisen about the presentation of research findings. This article argues for …
The Reddit Cannabis Subjective Highness Rating Scale: Applying Computational Social Science To Explore Psychological And Environmental Correlates Of Naturalistic Cannabis Use, Meredith C. Meacham, Alicia L. Nobles, Carlton ‘Cb’ Bone, Michael Gilbert, Johannes Thrul
The Reddit Cannabis Subjective Highness Rating Scale: Applying Computational Social Science To Explore Psychological And Environmental Correlates Of Naturalistic Cannabis Use, Meredith C. Meacham, Alicia L. Nobles, Carlton ‘Cb’ Bone, Michael Gilbert, Johannes Thrul
Anthropology Faculty Publications and Presentations
Social media data provide unprecedented access to discussions of active, naturalistic, and often real-time cannabis use in an era of cannabis policy liberalization. The aim of this study was to explore psychological and environmental correlates of cannabis effects by applying computational social science approaches to a large dataset of unprompted reports of naturalistic cannabis use with corresponding self-reported numerical ratings of subjective highness. Post title text was extracted via the Pushshift dataset from N = 328,865 posts to the r/trees Reddit community, where posters self-assess and disclose how high they feel on a scale from 1 to 10 (M = …
Ethics In/Of/For Design, Deger Ozkaramanli, Laura F. Ferrarello, Linda N. Laursen
Ethics In/Of/For Design, Deger Ozkaramanli, Laura F. Ferrarello, Linda N. Laursen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
We frame design ethics as an invitation to care and argue against reducing it to a methodology, framework, checklist, toolkit, or an afterthought. This broad framing acknowledges that ‘ethics’ can carry multiple meanings in different contexts (e.g. responsible, critical, democratic) and can be approached from various theoretical perspectives (e.g. historical, cultural, speculative). Consequently, we recognize the need for a nuanced and reflexive discussion on why, where and how ethical questions and dilemmas intersect with design research and practices. For this, we aim to look back with critical historical awareness, while also looking forward with cautious optimism. We welcome both theoretical …
Infrastructuring Sustainable Food Futures: A Case Study In Collaborative Innovation For Circular Seafood, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Serena Pollastri
Infrastructuring Sustainable Food Futures: A Case Study In Collaborative Innovation For Circular Seafood, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Serena Pollastri
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Transitioning to a circular economy requires transforming practices across the Ready-to-cook product value chains through shared knowledge. However, generalised solutions rarely succeed, but must be tailored to each context. This study explores using participatory design-informed “infrastructuring” to collaboratively develop novel methods tailored to stakeholders’ existing practices. The Seafood AGE project serves as a case study. We developed two remote, distributed facilitation methods using accessible digital platforms. These engage stakeholders in mapping current practices, analysing responses to speculative fish products, and exploring feasibility of prototypical circular approaches. Key findings demonstrate the potential of co-creative infrastructuring to bridge design research and industry. …
Healing Our Designing: Practices Of Care For Human And More-Than-Human Relations, Marysol Ortega Pallanez
Healing Our Designing: Practices Of Care For Human And More-Than-Human Relations, Marysol Ortega Pallanez
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Ongoing socio-ecological damages stem from dominant design practices rooted in modernist, capitalist ideologies that exploit nature. If we, designers, aim to contribute to healing the web of life, our practices also need healing. Seeking an alternative paradigm to problem-driven design, this article narrates my journey to embrace a paradigm of relation-caring that encompasses humans and more-than-humans. Drawing upon experiences with fellow embroiderers in Hermosillo, Mexico, I present two everyday design practices that explore women-plant relations in the desert: 1) cultivating relationships by embroidery of memories, presents, and futures with plants; and 2) infusing diálogo de saberes (wisdom dialogues) with embodied …
The Future Of Human Reproduction: Exploring Wicked Problems Through Interdisciplinary Speculative Design Practices, Andrew Darby, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Alexandra Krendel, Nicola Williams, Georgia Walton, Laura O'Donovan, Kirsty Dunn
The Future Of Human Reproduction: Exploring Wicked Problems Through Interdisciplinary Speculative Design Practices, Andrew Darby, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Alexandra Krendel, Nicola Williams, Georgia Walton, Laura O'Donovan, Kirsty Dunn
DRS Biennial Conference Series
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Polyphonic Speculations, David Philip Green, Spyros Bofylatos, Mayane Dore, Veronica Ranner
Polyphonic Speculations, David Philip Green, Spyros Bofylatos, Mayane Dore, Veronica Ranner
DRS Biennial Conference Series
'Polyphonic Speculations' unites plurality and possibility; two powerful concepts for Design Research. 'Polyphony,' in the Bakhtinian sense, encourages a dynamic, dialogical interplay of voices, viewpoints, and ideologies. Different perspectives, positions, politics. Different values, ethics, aesthetics. Multiple forms, multiple disciplines, even multiple identities. While ‘Speculation' alludes to what we don't know about the future, the present, or the past, here it recognises plurality in the rich histories of speculative design research, multiple interpretations of the present, and a multiplicity of possible futures. As a practical apparatus, Green et al (2023) refer to Polyphonic Speculation as, “a tool for collectively speculating in …
The Road To Cooptation Is Paved With Good Intentions: An Anarchafeminist Critique Of Empowerment Ambiguity In Dsi, Valentina Volpi, Val Mitchell, Stuart Cockbill, Ksenija Kuzmina
The Road To Cooptation Is Paved With Good Intentions: An Anarchafeminist Critique Of Empowerment Ambiguity In Dsi, Valentina Volpi, Val Mitchell, Stuart Cockbill, Ksenija Kuzmina
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This theoretical paper critically examines the relationship between design for social innovation and the concept of empowerment. It questions to what extent current empowerment discourses in design genuinely amplify marginalized voices or rather reinforce and hide existing structural inequalities. With the aim of unveiling the emptiness of signifiers, such as empowerment, much like the contested concept of ‘social innovation’, this contribution aims to encourage a critical reflection on power dynamics through an anarchafeminist lens. Rather than striving for definite answers or providing blueprints, this lens aims to be an open and dynamic invitation to scholars and practitioners to continue exploring …
More-Than-Human Design And Ai: Exploring The Space Between Theory And Practice, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Johan Redström
More-Than-Human Design And Ai: Exploring The Space Between Theory And Practice, Iohanna Nicenboim, Joseph Lindley, Johan Redström
DRS Biennial Conference Series
While design is turning to more-than-human (MTH) approaches, integrating posthumanist theory into design practices remains challenging. We argue that making MTH thinking “actionable” demands moving beyond the idea that there is a gap to bridge. Instead, we propose that the space between theory and practice could offer an interesting starting point for experimentation. Exploring that liminal space, we designed two generative AI tools – Oblique and MoTH. Using ChatGPT-4, these tools create design strategies based on diverse MTH texts. Reflecting on the process of making and using these tools, we offer two contributions: First, we explain how designers can use …
From Crisis To Transformation: The Role Of Creative Practices In Organisational Transitions, Milad Hajiamiri, Giulia Calabretta, Peter Lloyd, Fatma Korkut
From Crisis To Transformation: The Role Of Creative Practices In Organisational Transitions, Milad Hajiamiri, Giulia Calabretta, Peter Lloyd, Fatma Korkut
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Organizational transitions can evoke a range of reactions and emotions among employees, departments, stakeholders, and leaders. To effectively manage the transition, it is crucial to comprehend how organizations experience and design change to navigate the various challenges of the transition process. This study investigates how changes in the working environment of the catering staff of a convention centre in the Netherlands led to the formation of a close-knit community that not only embraced the change but also developed innovative approaches for addressing local and social challenges. We draw on interviews with 16 individuals from the organization and use social practice …
Activating Key Principles Of Systemic Design Through Exploratory Prototyping, Maria Vitaller Del Olmo, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen, Luca Simeone
Activating Key Principles Of Systemic Design Through Exploratory Prototyping, Maria Vitaller Del Olmo, Nicola Morelli, Amalia De Götzen, Luca Simeone
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Working towards sustainable futures demands competencies and methodologies that support system thinking and action. While prototyping has been designated as a promising method to facilitate complex systemic design processes, studies proving this potential are scarce, and scholars call for a shift in the definition and use of traditional prototyping when applied in design processes targeting complex systems. This paper describes the observed contributions of exploratory prototyping in the emergence of systemic design principles. Results from three systemic design workshops illustrate the role that exploratory prototyping played in the understanding and framing stages of design processes targeting complex systems, particularly in …
The Space Between Procedural And Situated Ethics: Reflecting On The Use Of Existing Materials In Design Research On Children Affected By Stroke, Pleuntje Jellema, Piet Tutenel, Birgit Moser, Anne-Sophie Schoss, Maja Kevdzija, Andrea Jelić, Ann Heylighen
The Space Between Procedural And Situated Ethics: Reflecting On The Use Of Existing Materials In Design Research On Children Affected By Stroke, Pleuntje Jellema, Piet Tutenel, Birgit Moser, Anne-Sophie Schoss, Maja Kevdzija, Andrea Jelić, Ann Heylighen
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Conducting design research in hard-to-enter care environments with children affected by stroke poses important ethical questions. Research focuses on procedural ethics or on situated ethics, emphasizing a hard-cut between research practices be-fore and during fieldwork. This paper explores this duality through an investigation of publicly available existing materials (i.e., biographies and YouTube videos). What was intended as a preparatory step before ‘entering the field’ becomes the primary way to better understand the role of the built environment in everyday lives of families affected by childhood stroke. In this paper we reflect on the shared space the investigation creates within a …
The Future Of Digital Care_Drafting Design Spaces, Venere Ferraro, Carmen Bruno, Silvia Maria Gramegna
The Future Of Digital Care_Drafting Design Spaces, Venere Ferraro, Carmen Bruno, Silvia Maria Gramegna
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The paper presents the findings of a scoping review to explore the key themes within the digital care domain. The study not only encompasses the research methodology employed, which adheres to established guidelines for scoping reviews—research questions, screening, data charting, and visualization—but also explores the principal themes that emerged in the field of digital care. These themes include Distributed Care, Self-Care, and Health Booster Technologies, each of which is expounded upon in detail. The paper emphasizes how digital technologies, such as mobile applications, wearable devices, and IoT systems, have the potential to reshape the care paradigm by improving and enhancing …
Expertise Profiling In Design Schools: A Theoretical Framework, Ehsan Baha, Tomás Dorta, Philippe Gauthier
Expertise Profiling In Design Schools: A Theoretical Framework, Ehsan Baha, Tomás Dorta, Philippe Gauthier
DRS Biennial Conference Series
A renewed interest, propelled by the European Bauhaus initiative, has sparked a re-evaluation of design education in response to the growing complexity and interdisciplinary demands of design, encompassing both craftsmanship and academic discipline. While ongoing discussions focus on school types, curriculum development, and pedagogical approaches, there is an oversight in examining the expertise profiles of design educators. These profiles encapsulate the competencies and proficiencies of teaching staff, profoundly influencing the ethos, objectives, philosophy, and substance of education institutions. This paper proposes a theoretical framework delineating three archetypal expertise profiles for design educators: design practitioner, design researcher, and hybrid, nuanced to …
Transforming Design Museums For Redesigning Design, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse
Transforming Design Museums For Redesigning Design, Anja Neidhardt-Mokoena, Heather Wiltse
DRS Biennial Conference Series
There is a need for spaces that can support reflecting on and reimagining design, and redirecting it toward sustainment and justice. Such spaces would necessarily operate with the understanding that design is ontological and has political consequences. We might think of such spaces as metabolic design museums. In this paper, we imagine how metabolic museums might help to redesign design through keeping process at their heart and critically unpacking design’s involvement in urgencies as well as possibilities to envision and move towards more just futures. To do this, we build on intersectional feminist analysis of existing design museums through museum …
Embodying The Driving Experience Through Ai Driving Assistants As A Means Of Noticing The More-Than-Human, Olga Barbara Lackner
Embodying The Driving Experience Through Ai Driving Assistants As A Means Of Noticing The More-Than-Human, Olga Barbara Lackner
DRS Biennial Conference Series
On the road, a shift of agency away from human drivers is taking place with AI-based roadside monitoring and driving assistants. This changes interaction both within the car and with the environment outside of it, mediated by driving assistant algorithms. It also changes encounters with the non-human, framing and evaluating them from a technological lens. This paper aims to show how the human experience of their environment during a car ride is shifted through AI, where encounters with non-human entities are observed and logged by technology, and how this can be used to remediate passengers’ experience of their environment during …
Designing For Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, A Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring, Margherita Motta, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Annelaure Klaus, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves
Designing For Intimate Wellbeing: Aidee, A Qualitative Approach To Urine Home Monitoring, Margherita Motta, Delphine Ribes Lemay, Sebastian Baez-Lugo, Annelaure Klaus, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Groves
DRS Biennial Conference Series
Despite the widespread use of self-tracking technologies for promoting personal wellbeing, there is limited research on the monitoring of intimate data, particularly urine. To shed light on the design possibilities within this unexplored domain we designed Aidee, a prototype system composed of an app and interactive device that assists users in performing urine monitoring through qualitative data expression and ambient physicalization. To evaluate our prototype we conducted an exploratory between-subjects study involving 54 participants. Our findings indicate user acceptance for qualitative data expressions in the domain of personal wellbeing. Moreover, our study underscores that the combination of an app and …
Enacting Sustainability-Centered Design Curricula: The Role Of Ethos In Translating Educational Goals Into Pedagogy., Charlotte Kessler, Janice Rieger
Enacting Sustainability-Centered Design Curricula: The Role Of Ethos In Translating Educational Goals Into Pedagogy., Charlotte Kessler, Janice Rieger
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The concept of sustainability ethos can be defined as a context enabling an articulated set of educational aims and values to translate into curricula and promote capabilities that empower graduates to create change towards sustainable futures. While emerging as an important factor in developing sustainability-centered design curricula, further research is required to fully comprehend its educational significance, and how it intersects with the prevailing outcome-based approach to higher education curriculum development. This paper draws from interviews with academics and graduate students from three sustainability-centered design programs internationally to explore what enabled sustainability to be integrated in the programs. The findings …
New Interest-Based Social Action As A Design Approach For Youth Community Reconfiguring In The Post-Pandemic Era, Haoyu Dong, Jun Zhang
New Interest-Based Social Action As A Design Approach For Youth Community Reconfiguring In The Post-Pandemic Era, Haoyu Dong, Jun Zhang
DRS Biennial Conference Series
The pandemic has led to increased social distancing and feelings of depression among youth, a significant shift from their previous engagement in activities that enhanced their social skills and community involvement. With the easing of the pandemic, youth re-engaged with their social contacts and skills by participating in new interest-based activities, such as urban camping and frisbee sports. However, the process of how these activities foster youth social behavior changes remains under-explored. This study investigates how emerging interest-based activities facilitate youth social behav-ior and community identity, providing guidance for youth community design. Through a cross-disciplinary sociology-design framework, the "Youth Social …
Relationality In Design: What Can Be Understood?, Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
Relationality In Design: What Can Be Understood?, Isaac Arturo Ortega Alvarado
DRS Biennial Conference Series
This paper addresses the inclusion of relationality as a concept in design. Relational-ity is primarily brought into design from adjacent disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, where the concept helps understand aspects of kinship, care, and belonging. The concept is also infused with elements of associative thinking. The paper narratively reviews examples of relationality in literature from design-related scholarly discourse. The literature sample covers papers addressing relationality through case studies or conceptual calls for practice change. The results from this review provide three understandings of relationality: 1) The utilitarian that unpacks social relations as an epistemic and functional source …