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Anthropology and the City. Street Art in Medellín’s Comuna 13: A City-Making Practice and an Ethnographic Tool

open access: yesAntípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología
Urban anthropologists are shifting from traditional approaches that treated the city merely as the “object” or “context” of research, focusing instead on the city as a dynamic process, shaped and reshaped by city-making practices implemented by its ...
Claudio Riga
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Recognizing arbitrary multi-character text in unconstrained natural photographs is a hard problem. In this paper, we address an equally hard sub-problem in this domain viz. recognizing arbitrary multi-digit numbers from Street View imagery.
Arnoud, Sacha   +4 more
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A cognitive semiotic exploration of metaphors in Greek street art

open access: yesCognitive Semiotics, 2019
Cognitive linguistic and semiotic accounts of metaphor have addressed similar issues such as universality, conventionality, context-sensitivity, cross-cultural variation, creativity, and “multimodality.” However, cognitive linguistics and semiotics have ...
Georgios Stampoulidis   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Learning to ‘be’ an activist: Exploring the relationship between activism and informal education in a youth activism group case study

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract Young people in the United States (and beyond) access spaces for activism in varied ways, including the out‐of‐school time sector, where youth activism (YA) groups draw on informal learning pedagogies to engage young people in collective action.
Laura Weiner
wiley   +1 more source

From the Wall to the Pavement and Back. Murals in the Epoch of Drones. [with an interview with the artist Giulio Vesprini]

open access: yesDisegnare con, 2020
Two phenomena undoubtedly represent our times: drones and street art. Both hit the headlines, are viral, versatile; ignoring them is impossible. In recent years, as flagships of technology and contemporary art, they have experienced points of contact and
Marta Magagnini
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Street Art Hunting

open access: yesUser Experience & Urban Creativity, 2020
The large scale and public nature of murals are quick and easy social media subject matter for visitors to broadcast their discoveries to the world and claim an authentic experience of a special time and place. Wide access to digital photography and social media—Instagram in particular—delivers a game‑like social experience of “hide‑and‑seek” for ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Super farmers' market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
'Super Farmers’ Market' was the second in a series of group shows that tease at the possible proximity of two forms of specialist consumption: fine food and fine art.
Francis, Mary Anne, Heyward, Lucy
core  

Fine-grained acceleration control for autonomous intersection management using deep reinforcement learning

open access: yes, 2017
Recent advances in combining deep learning and Reinforcement Learning have shown a promising path for designing new control agents that can learn optimal policies for challenging control tasks.
Givargis, Tony, Mirzaei, Hamid
core   +1 more source

Engaging with plants in an urban environment through street art and design

open access: yesPlants, People, Planet, 2019
Engaging people with botanical street art and design is a good way to draw attention to the botanical world. Here, the importance of plants to people's everyday life in India is highlighted through street art and design.
G. Sachdev
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The impacts of biological invasions

open access: yesBiological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Anthropocene is characterised by a continuous human‐mediated reshuffling of the distributions of species globally. Both intentional and unintentional introductions have resulted in numerous species being translocated beyond their native ranges, often leading to their establishment and subsequent spread – a process referred to as biological
Phillip J. Haubrock   +42 more
wiley   +1 more source

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