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Understanding Visitor Path Choice and Enhancing Wayfinding in Museums: A Critical Review of a Century of Research

open access: yesCurator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The paths taken by visitors in museums influence what they see, do, learn, and experience. Poorly designed museums can lead to missed goals and opportunities. In this article, I critically review visitor studies published since the 1930s to evaluate explanations for visitor path choice in museums, namely, the location and attractiveness of ...
Gareth Davey
wiley   +1 more source

Symbiots: Conceptual interventions into energy systems [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Symbiots set out to examine values such as ease-of-use, comfort, and rationality assumed within conventions of ‘good design’, in order to expose issues related to energy consumption and current human- (versus eco-) centered design paradigms. Exploring re-
Bergström, J.   +3 more
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Aesthetic Delirious Urbanism – Rem Koolhaas

open access: yesIOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019
Abstract According to Rem Koolhaas, the ’70s had a great impact on the western economic life. It was the beginning of two twin systems: financial and political, the liberalism and the globalisation. During this decade, New York is the stage of the decaying show of organised crime, drugs and social and financial crisis.
openaire   +1 more source

Leading Otherwise: Feminist Instances From the Arts

open access: yesGender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores how feminist artists enact leadership through artistic organizing in the creative industries. Drawing on two case studies—Company Drinks and Homebaked—it examines how leadership emerges not through formal roles or strategic vision, but through practices of care.
Anna De Amicis, Lebene Richmond Soga
wiley   +1 more source

Urban Technologies – The New Everydayness: A Reply to Lehtinen

open access: yesESPES, 2020
This short paper is a reply to Sanna Lehtinen’s article Living with Urban Everyday Technologies whose aim is to introduce the complexity of the problem of everyday technologies in contemporary aesthetics. Thanks to most recent information, computing, and
Sandra Zákutná
doaj  

‘It's Like a Horror Movie That You Walk Through’: Experiencing Horror Through Immersive Recreation

open access: yesThe Journal of American Culture, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Horror stories have provided enjoyable forms of leisure for centuries. Over the past five decades, however, these experiences have evolved into increasingly immersive forms of popular culture. What once involved constructing the narrative world internally through reading has expanded into sensory engagement through visual and auditory media ...
Susan Weidmann
wiley   +1 more source

Philosophy & Architecture [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Philosophy & Architecture special number of philosophy@LISBON (International eJournal) 5 | 2016 edited by Tomás N. Castro with Maribel Mendes Sobreira Centro de Filosofia da Universidade de Lisboa
Castro, Tomás N.   +1 more
core  

From beauty to belief: The aesthetic and diversity values of plants and pets in shaping biodiversity loss belief among Vietnamese urban residents

open access: yesHumanities & Social Sciences Communications
Aesthetics is a crucial ecosystem service provided by biodiversity, which is believed to help improve humans’ quality of life and is linked to environmental consciousness and pro-environmental behaviors.
Quan-Hoang Vuong   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linking Walkable Urbanism and Hiking Tourism in a Mountainous Metropolitan City

open access: yesLand
Mountains in metropolitan cities serve as fundamental features that shape urban landscapes. When incorporated into leisure contexts, mountain resources enhance community well-being and contribute to tourism. However, existing studies rarely address urban
Lankyung Kim, Chul Jeong
doaj   +1 more source

Designing for Sustainability: Emerging Professional Roles and Capabilities for Designers in the 21st Century

open access: yesInternational Journal of Art &Design Education, EarlyView.
Abstract Design Practice is shifting towards transdisciplinary, collaborative and problem‐based approaches in response to complex challenges of a changing world including societal issues and the climate crisis. However, the nature of emerging roles for designers aiming to contribute to sustainability transitions, and the capabilities that empower ...
Charlotte Kessler, Janice Rieger
wiley   +1 more source

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