The Go West Project aims to study and document the development of new cities in China's interior through focusing on themes of people, money, city development, nature, and identity. The project founders plan to publish their findings in a book to be presented at the 2010 Shanghai Expo, as well as in magazines and presentations. They are seeking partners and sponsors to participate in accumulating knowledge about China's "invisible cities" and help fund publishing the book.
Placemaking: Building our Cities around placesPriya Vakil
ThinkPhi is on a journey to build cities that are healthy and sustainable. We are doing this by using Placemaking - a design philosophy that explores how spaces in a community can be better utilised.
And this is philosophy, we constantly use when having discussion on helping design sustainable cities.
Placemaking: Building our Cities around placesPriya Vakil
ThinkPhi is on a journey to build cities that are healthy and sustainable. We are doing this by using Placemaking - a design philosophy that explores how spaces in a community can be better utilised.
And this is philosophy, we constantly use when having discussion on helping design sustainable cities.
In Donald Barthelme's 1974 short story "I Bought a Little City", the narrator decides one day to purchase Galveston, Texas, where he then tears down some houses, shoots 6,000 dogs, and rearranges what remains into the shape of a giant Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle visible only from the air. As with much of Barthelme's work, the premise seems so absurd that one cannot help but shake it until a metaphor falls out, and here one might well assume that, in the words of the novelist Donald Antrim, "I Bought a Little City" is "a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story – playing god,
Silver Spring future development and art influence depends of visionaries citizens. This presentation serves as a explorative window of new real estate trends, cultural and economic sensitive development and how we move forward an agenda of continuum progress.
Presentation for the SILVER SPRING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
The annual New Cities Summit is the centerpiece of the New Cities Foundation’s work and aims to place the city at the heart of the global discussion. The theme of the Summit, Thinking Ahead, Building Together, reflects our belief that understanding and contributing to our common urban future will require audacity, analysis and, above all, partnership.
This is my portfolio of the work completed thus far this year (2013) during my BTech: Architectural Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology which includes both group and individual projects
Workshop presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) annual conference in Montreal framing a discussion about how to spread good P2 practice.
In Donald Barthelme's 1974 short story "I Bought a Little City", the narrator decides one day to purchase Galveston, Texas, where he then tears down some houses, shoots 6,000 dogs, and rearranges what remains into the shape of a giant Mona Lisa jigsaw puzzle visible only from the air. As with much of Barthelme's work, the premise seems so absurd that one cannot help but shake it until a metaphor falls out, and here one might well assume that, in the words of the novelist Donald Antrim, "I Bought a Little City" is "a take on the role that a writer has in writing a story – playing god,
Silver Spring future development and art influence depends of visionaries citizens. This presentation serves as a explorative window of new real estate trends, cultural and economic sensitive development and how we move forward an agenda of continuum progress.
Presentation for the SILVER SPRING ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
The annual New Cities Summit is the centerpiece of the New Cities Foundation’s work and aims to place the city at the heart of the global discussion. The theme of the Summit, Thinking Ahead, Building Together, reflects our belief that understanding and contributing to our common urban future will require audacity, analysis and, above all, partnership.
This is my portfolio of the work completed thus far this year (2013) during my BTech: Architectural Technology at Cape Peninsula University of Technology which includes both group and individual projects
Workshop presentation to the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) annual conference in Montreal framing a discussion about how to spread good P2 practice.
Suffolk Times article / Mark Moffett\' Adventures Among Ants" on view at The Sirens; Song Gallery, Greenport, NY through November 1.
www.sirensongallery.com.
21st century placemaking: visions, principles and challengesJulian Dobson
How can we conceptualise the city of the future and what makes a place worth living in? This presentation introduces principles of placemaking, examines four case studies and poses some bigger questions.
Montreal's Cultural Revival and its creative classNeal W.
What roles have the local artists played for the city's Nouvelle Renaissance? Created for Quebec Studies 300 Class, Fall 2016, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec.
Sandria P. Bouliane (Université du Québec à Montréal, Post-Doc, Études Littéraires) was my professor at the time.
Distributions are always welcomed as long as you respect the relevant copyright laws!
Prologue to "Better Cities, Better Life" book that is going to be published in the following months.
The Prologue Chapter is called "Urban Innovation: A Decalogue to Explore a City" (Igor Calzada)
The phenomenon of urbanisation, especially suburbanisation, is observed monolithically worldwide, but in a rippling wave like vogue. It trickles down vertically and diffuses out horizontally from the developed to the developing areasand from central to the peripheral regions, respectively. No economically progressing country has ever been able to avert its occurrence, which is inevitable and challenging. The daunting task of intelligently designing and confirming sanity and sustainability for an urban canvas is a multidimensional and multi / cross disciplinary endeavour. This demands retrospective understanding of the place and its people; anticipatory sense to forecast and strategize; and awareness about the practices worldwide and indigenous. Civilizations have always been civilized because of their informed and active citizens, who have come forth to the rescue of theirlands of origin and fellow natives. Representation of this kind can be cited in the Garden City and City Beautiful movements of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, followed by many similar smaller and bigger experiments to the formal school of thought of urbanism, called “New Urbanism”.Many experiments happened under the wide umbrella of New Urbanism and garden city movement across the globe. From Great Britain, to the USA, Abu Dhabi and India, all have witnessed and / or are undergoing the sweeping dynamism in thought and action, for the pursuit of urban revamp and sustainability. This piece of research is an attempt towards compiling and evaluating such utopian models, taking cases from different countries, from different time periods, that have aimed at urban amelioration. The paper considers four cases of Masdar City (Abu Dhabi), Letchworth City (U.K), Disney Celebration Community (U.S.A.) and Magarpatta City (India) to showcase people’s experiments with truth for urban sustainability.
Urban Life behind the mask: Impostura, realidad y relato en la proyección global del Nuevo Poder Urbano.
Presentación para la Masterclass DIRCOM en EIC, Escuela Internacional de Comunicación (Madrid / Junio de 2016)
Por Pablo Sánchez Chillón Abogado. Urban Affairs y Directo de GlobalGOV + Foro Global Territorio
Creating opportunity for smart city citizensKonrad+King
We hosted a smart city event. We asked attendees to sketch a big idea that fulfills citizens’ needs. The idea needed to include elements of a smarter city and use the most relevant data and emerging technologies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE SS ELECTIVE 6 Cities and SocietiesJollibethGante
PART II: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS IMPACT ON CITIES
Overview of Global Cities – Saskia Sassen
The Urban-Rural Interface and Migration – Alan Gilbert and Josef Gugler
Community, Ethnicity, and Urban Sociology – Jan Lin
The New Urban Reality – Roger Waldinger
The Return of the Sweatshop – Edna Bonacich and Richard P. Appelbaum
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3
Go West Project - introduction
1. IMAGINE A CITY CENTRE AS BIG AS
FRANKFURT’S, WITH SKYSCRAPERS
SCATTERED AROUND A CENTRAL MAN-
MADE LAKE. THE ROADS ARE BRAND NEW
AND SIX LANES WIDE.
EVERYTHING LOOKS ALL SHINY, MODERN
AND METROPOLITAN-LIKE.
EXCEPT FOR ONE THING.
12. HOW DO THESE CITIES LOOK LIKE? AND HOW WILL
THEY DEVELOP? AND THEIR INHABITANTS, HOW
DO THEY VIEW THE ONGOING CHANGES? HOW DO
THEY SPEND THEIR MONEY? HOW IS THEIR LIFE AF-
FECTED? WHAT DREAMS ABOUT THE FUTURE DO
THEY CHERISH? AND HOW DO SPECIALISTS VIEW
THESE CHANGES? AND GOVERNMENT? HOW DO
INTERNATIONAL COMPANIES AFFECT THESE CIT-
IES? AND WHAT EFFECT DO THESE NEW MEGACI-
TIES IMPOSE ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND NATU-
RAL RESOURCES?WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES
THEY FACE? AND WHAT ARE BEST PRACTICES? DO
THEY DEVELOP THEIR OWN IDENTITY? AND HOW?
13. THE GO WEST PROJECT ANSWERS THESE,
AND MORE QUESTIONS
ABOUT CHINESE ‘INVISIBLE’ CITIES...
20. TO BE PUBLISHED IN DIFFERENT MEDIA:
A BOOK, TO BE PRESENTED AT SHANGHAI EXPO 2010
WWW.GOWESTPROJECT.COM
PUBLICATIONS IN DIFFERENT MAGAZINES
PRESENTATIONS AT RELEVANT PLATFORMS
EXPOSITIONS
21. THE GO WEST PROJECT IS STILL LOOKING FOR
PARTNERS AND SPONSPORS
22. PARTNERSHIP =
PARTICIPATING IN A PROJECT THAT ACCUMULATES KNOWLEDGE ;
BEING MEMBER OF A NETWORK THAT PROVIDES KNOWLEDGE;
BEING ATTACHED TO ALL EXHIBITIONS AND PRESENTATIONS;
SPONSORING THE BOOK TO BE PRESENTED ON EXPO 2010.
23. THE GO WEST PROJECT IS FOUNDED BY:
MICHIEL HULSHOF, JOURNALIST
(VRIJ NEDERLAND, ANP, TAGESZEITUNG)
DAAN ROGGEVEEN, ARCHITECT
(MADA, NL ARCHITECTS, LUCAS&DAAN, IPMMC)
24. INTERESTED?
INFO@GOWESTPROJECT.COM
OR CALL
MICHIEL HULSHOF:+86.13.52.44.15.510
DAAN ROGGEVEEN:+86.13.81.73.42.801
WWW.GOWESTPROJECT.COM
