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Material engagement in architecture
Humanities & Social Sciences CommunicationsArchitecture today faces urgent demands for sustainable transformation in the context of climate change and ecological crisis. A central challenge lies not only in improving material performance or reducing emissions, but in rethinking how materials ...
Xiaoping Xie, Heiko Fechner
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Mind and material engagement. [PDF]
Phenomenol Cogn Sci, 2019 Material Engagement Theory (MET), which forms the focus of this special issue, is a relatively new development within cognitive archaeology and anthropology, but one that has important implications for many adjacent fields of research in phenomenology and the cognitive sciences.
Malafouris L.
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Homo faber Revisited: Postphenomenology and Material Engagement Theory. [PDF]
Philos Technol, 2019 Humans, more than any other species, have been altering their paths of development by creating new material forms and by opening up to new possibilities of material engagement. That is, we become constituted through making and using technologies that shape our minds and extend our bodies. We make things which in turn make us. This ongoing dialectic has
Ihde D, Malafouris L.
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Autism and engagement with material culture
Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 2022 Autism spectrum conditions are widely characterized as a cognitive difference which affects social understanding and behaviour. However, evidence increasingly suggests that the condition also affects engagement with material aspects of the environment. Here we review research into how autism affects engagement with the material world.
Barry Wright +4 more
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The materiality of languages in engagements with the environment [PDF]
Multilingua, 2021 AbstractCommunication, an apparently intangible practice, does in fact affect the way people engage with their social worlds in very material ways. Inspired by both ethnographic and archival-driven research, this special issue aims to fill the gap in studies of language materiality by addressing entanglements with other-than-human agencies.
Siragusa Laura +2 more
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International Journal of Public Health, 2022 Objectives: To examine the role of NCD patients’ social ties as informal caregivers and whether receiving their support is associated with engagement in care.Methods: NCD outpatients (N2 = 100) in rural Tanzania completed a cross-sectional questionnaire ...
Brady Hooley +4 more
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The Imagination and Its Technological Destiny
Open Philosophy, 2020 The tradition of Kant’s critical philosophy developed the concept of imagination rigorously and productively. In this article, I shall defend the suitability of placing this concept in a paleoanthropological frame and linking it to the cognitive ...
Montani Pietro
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Undergraduate Research Program to Recycle Composite Waste
Education Sciences, 2021 With the rapid growth in the manufacturing industry and increased urbanization, higher amounts of composite material waste are being produced, causing severe threats to the environment.
Waleed Ahmed +2 more
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Material Engagements with Fog in Lima
Roadsides, 2023 In the Peruvian capital of Lima, local NGOs, conservationists and residents on theurban periphery try to harness ground-touching clouds as part of alternative water-supply systems and environmental infrastructures of underground water production.While NGOs set up fog-capture nets to respond to the absence of state infrastructure,conservationists adopt ...
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Nóema, 2022 Questo saggio si propone di analizzare alcune istanze della Material Engagement Theory (MET) proposta da Lambros Malafouris nelle sue intersezioni con la filosofia speculativa di Alfred North Whitehead.
Nicola Turrini
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