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A Review of the Unintended Consequences of Biochar in Various Applications
Biochar is widely promoted as a sustainable material for applications ranging from soil amendment to energy storage and construction materials. This review critically examines the often‐overlooked and unintended consequences of biochar, including variability in properties, safety risks, and performance limitations.
Singaravelu Vivekanandhan +14 more
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Cannibal Salvage Expenditure: The Subaltern Style of the Urban Peruvian Amazon
ABSTRACT This paper explores the political ecology of subaltern existence at the urban cutting edge of our apocalyptic present, in the case of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. Through an ethnographically surrealist montage of multiple elements across the themes of accumulation, architecture, and art, cannibal salvage expenditure emerges as a subversive ...
Japhy Wilson
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Controspazio as a "Little Magazine"
Controspazio edited by Paolo Portoghesi, was published from 1969 to 1981 with a total of 60 volumes. Three have been the editorial boards. The first one worked in Milan from 1969 to 1972 and edited 26 volumes; the second (1973-1976) and the third (1977 ...
Claudio D'Amato Guerrieri
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ALL THAT GLITTERS: THE MANY OBJECTS OF ROME'S MUSEUM OF CIVILIZATIONS
ABSTRACT This review article examines the various methodologies practiced by Rome's Museum of Civilizations (Museo delle Civiltà) to discuss the contemporary curatorial approaches of traditional ethnographic museums. It adopts a historical and comparative perspective to situate the diverse collections within ongoing debates about art restitution.
Arielle Xena Alterwaite
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In the context of 55th Venice Art Biennale, Jasmina Cibic transformed the interior of the Slovenian pavilion in a series of “wallpapered” ambiances in which she exhibited still lifes from the Parliament’s art collection and two videos.
Nika Grabar
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Exploring the artistic dimensions of soils in the vadose zone
Abstract The rise of industrialized agriculture, coupled with a global demographic shift toward urbanization, has marginalized every‐day connections between individuals and soils. This societal shift has led to a decline in the appreciation of and cultural identity with soils.
Gerd Wessolek, Alexandra Toland
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To build meanings. Interview with Carlo Ratti
Carlo Ratti Born in Turin in 1971, he is architect and engineer. He teaches Practice of Urban Technologies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, Boston, USA) and Strategic vision for the building engineering of the future at ...
Graziella Bernardo, Luis Palmero
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Massimo Scolari’s Laconic Landscapes and Oblique Architecture
“Landscapes uncontaminated by the usual aesthetic prejudices of human sight” [Moneo 1987, p. 4]: this is how José Rafael Moneo comments the works in the catalogue of the exhibition Hypnos, held in November 1986 at Harvard University and dedicated to the ...
Alberto Sdegno
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Resisting extractivism as a feminist critical socio‐spatial practice
Abstract This paper draws on feminist geographies of space, proposing a feminist critical spatial practice approach to study social movement organizing. Inspired by the work of Jane Rendell, a feminist theorist and architectural historian, we propose embodiment, materiality, affectivity, and alterity as co‐constitutive of feminist organizing ...
Maria Daskalaki, , Marianna Fotaki
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Neighbourhood: A Threatened Heritage in Contemporary Europe
Europe is currently experiencing an identity crisis. The defence mechanisms of the material heritage are presently insufficient to safeguard the significant European intangible heritage: people and their citizen relations gradually conquered throughout ...
Nuno Grande, Roberto Cremascoli
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