A peer-reviewed article with a more holistic approach towards eco-system effects of an integrated physical, digital and social learn/work environment, you can literally transform an organisation, its business and people.
September 2020, Paradigm Explorer (No 133 2020/2) - Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network.
The German writer Johan Wolfgang von Goethe called Architecture ‘frozen music’, I prefer to call it ‘Symphony of Form’, a symbiosis between architecture and its occupants to create (more) added value.
The document discusses the concepts of affect, place attachment, and weak architecture in relation to the construction of place. It explores how affect is embodied and embedded in time and space, operating below cognition. Place attachment is formed through experience-in-place and topophilia, an affective link between people and environments. Weak architecture advocates an approach that is delicate, ambiguous, and allows for improvisation over fixed forms.
Role models can influence communities to adopt more environmentally friendly habits. Regulations and community norms also shape behavior. Changing perceptions of nature from an integrated part of the world to an object dominated by humans contributed to current environmental problems. Making sustainable choices easier through accessible community design could help shift habits.
Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable DesignEcoLabs
'Ecological Literacy in Design Education: A Foundation for Sustainable Design' paper presentation at the DRS//CUMULUS Oslo 2013 - 2nd Int. Conference for Design Education Researchers. More information and paper available here: http://ecolabsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/ecolabs-at-drs-cumulus-2013-2nd-int-conference-for-design-education-researchers/
This document discusses the use of affect in interactive artworks and new approaches in art theory research. It explores how data mining projects are finding relationships between images, sounds, and brain activity. The author has previously explored defining affect in non-living materials and life forms not based on proteins. They propose that data transmission and expression within a system could be a simple form of life. The project aims to transform affects into a database linking sounds, verbs, and images to biofeedback data, allowing the world to translate culture through our bodies at a more knowledge-based, scientific level of aesthetics.
ADA Mesh Cities - Dr Janine Randerson - Ecologies of Practice workshop Auckla...exitstagewest
This document discusses post-nature ecologies and interdisciplinary collaborations related to art and the environment. It provides examples of art projects that measure air quality using sensors to create real-time visualizations and soundscapes. The document suggests that sensor networks can augment human senses to include registers of light, temperature, and location. Effective collaborations require moving beyond disciplinarity through open dialogue between diverse practitioners. Modest, situated ecological art projects may provide conditions for new interconnections rather than large conceptual schemes.
Environment In Context : A Perspective From Environment Behavior Relationinventionjournals
This document discusses the relationship between humans and their environment from an ecological perspective. It provides context on socio-ecological models of human development and explores how these models could better represent ecological influences rather than just human and social factors. The document also examines how environments are defined not just by physical characteristics but by human use and interaction. It analyzes the complex interactions between living organisms and their environments.
Trim tab spring 2013 Regenerating the wholeBill Reed
The document discusses the concept of regenerative design and living system design. The key points are:
1) Regenerative design aims to engage human activities in positive relationships with all life by restoring ecosystems and focusing on interrelationships rather than just minimizing impacts.
2) Living system design views places as unique, interconnected systems and recognizes that life only regenerates through exchange of energies between interrelated living entities.
3) The role of design is to create opportunities for ongoing, evolutionary relationships between people and life that inform infrastructure and buildings.
Trim Tab Spring 2013 Regenerating the WholeBill Reed
The document discusses the concept of regenerative design and living system design. The key points are:
1) Regenerative design aims to engage human activities in positive relationships with all life by restoring ecosystems and focusing on interrelationships rather than just minimizing impacts.
2) Living system design views places as unique, interconnected systems and recognizes that life only regenerates through exchange of energies between living entities in relationships.
3) The role of design is to create opportunities for ongoing, evolutionary relationships between people and life that inform infrastructure and buildings.
The document discusses the concepts of affect, place attachment, and weak architecture in relation to the construction of place. It explores how affect is embodied and embedded in time and space, operating below cognition. Place attachment is formed through experience-in-place and topophilia, an affective link between people and environments. Weak architecture advocates an approach that is delicate, ambiguous, and allows for improvisation over fixed forms.
Role models can influence communities to adopt more environmentally friendly habits. Regulations and community norms also shape behavior. Changing perceptions of nature from an integrated part of the world to an object dominated by humans contributed to current environmental problems. Making sustainable choices easier through accessible community design could help shift habits.
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This document discusses the use of affect in interactive artworks and new approaches in art theory research. It explores how data mining projects are finding relationships between images, sounds, and brain activity. The author has previously explored defining affect in non-living materials and life forms not based on proteins. They propose that data transmission and expression within a system could be a simple form of life. The project aims to transform affects into a database linking sounds, verbs, and images to biofeedback data, allowing the world to translate culture through our bodies at a more knowledge-based, scientific level of aesthetics.
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This document discusses post-nature ecologies and interdisciplinary collaborations related to art and the environment. It provides examples of art projects that measure air quality using sensors to create real-time visualizations and soundscapes. The document suggests that sensor networks can augment human senses to include registers of light, temperature, and location. Effective collaborations require moving beyond disciplinarity through open dialogue between diverse practitioners. Modest, situated ecological art projects may provide conditions for new interconnections rather than large conceptual schemes.
Environment In Context : A Perspective From Environment Behavior Relationinventionjournals
This document discusses the relationship between humans and their environment from an ecological perspective. It provides context on socio-ecological models of human development and explores how these models could better represent ecological influences rather than just human and social factors. The document also examines how environments are defined not just by physical characteristics but by human use and interaction. It analyzes the complex interactions between living organisms and their environments.
Trim tab spring 2013 Regenerating the wholeBill Reed
The document discusses the concept of regenerative design and living system design. The key points are:
1) Regenerative design aims to engage human activities in positive relationships with all life by restoring ecosystems and focusing on interrelationships rather than just minimizing impacts.
2) Living system design views places as unique, interconnected systems and recognizes that life only regenerates through exchange of energies between interrelated living entities.
3) The role of design is to create opportunities for ongoing, evolutionary relationships between people and life that inform infrastructure and buildings.
Trim Tab Spring 2013 Regenerating the WholeBill Reed
The document discusses the concept of regenerative design and living system design. The key points are:
1) Regenerative design aims to engage human activities in positive relationships with all life by restoring ecosystems and focusing on interrelationships rather than just minimizing impacts.
2) Living system design views places as unique, interconnected systems and recognizes that life only regenerates through exchange of energies between living entities in relationships.
3) The role of design is to create opportunities for ongoing, evolutionary relationships between people and life that inform infrastructure and buildings.
Trim tab spring 2013 Regenerating the wholeBill Reed
The document discusses the concept of regenerative design and living system design. The key points are:
1) Regenerative design aims to engage human activities in positive relationships with all life by restoring ecosystems and focusing on interrelationships rather than just minimizing impacts.
2) Living system design views places as unique, interconnected systems and recognizes that life only regenerates through exchange of energies between interrelated living entities.
3) The role of design is to create opportunities for ongoing, evolutionary relationships between people and life that inform infrastructure and buildings.
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Discussion about the interrelationships between architecture and environmental pyschology. Presentation of the PROHABIT research project at the 2nd OIKONET postgraduate seminar, ISCTE-IUL Lisbon, February 15, 2018
Architecture, an important part of our environment, disturbs our experiences, feelings, memories, and ultimately the decisions we make. To explore the connection between architecture and the human Senses was the intention aimed at my paper. Whether positive or negative, everything created or done by man has an effect on his environment. Some people are more aware of their architectural environment some are less but at the end we all live with it and have at least an unconscious impression of it. We understand buildings through our senses. Although the five basic senses are often studied as individual systems covering visual, auditory, taste–smell, orientation and the haptic sensations, there is interplay between the senses.
The document discusses the relationship between social interaction and the environment from the perspective of environmental psychology. It covers several key points:
1) Social norms can strongly influence environmental behaviors as people seek to conform to what is socially acceptable in their community.
2) Social interactions are intertwined with issues of environmental justice, as marginalized groups often face greater environmental hazards and lack access to green spaces.
3) Collective action and advocacy are important for enacting environmental changes, and social media has provided new avenues for global mobilization.
4) Cultural and personal factors like place attachment and social identity can shape how people perceive and interact with the environment.
Media specificity level_5_lecture_finalGretaMedelyte
This document discusses the concept of media specificity. It begins by defining key terms like medium, media, and mass media. It then outlines the main topics that will be covered, including how each medium has unique properties and limitations, theories of medium specificity, and how media can influence and extend human capabilities and social patterns. The document examines examples of media specificity in fields like photography, sound recording, and technology. It argues that an understanding of media specificity is important for theoretical frameworks of communication.
"Our world is made of systems within systems, an interconnected web of life more complex than humanity has the capacity to grasp all at once. It took me ages to realise that design was the main subject and that network science was the key to it all." Rosemary Morrow
"In many ways, the environmental crisis is a design crisis. It is a consequence of how things are made, buildings are constructed, and landscapes are used."
Sim Van Der Ryn & Stuart Cowan
Katie Donaghy
BA in Sociology and Anthropology and MA in Town and Regional Planning, Katie devotes her research to understand how humans interact in public spaces and how these spaces contribute to this.
Menno Cramer
BSc in Neuroscience and Medicine, Menno is achieving his PhD in Neuroscience and Design on how the brain responds to design, and how we can change design to influence behavioural outcomes.
Poster: Sensory Garden Design for Adolescents with Dual Sensory Impairment
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
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This document introduces a framework for analyzing human communities with four interconnected factors: Environment, Society, Technology, and Culture. It discusses how each factor receives inputs and provides outputs, and how the factors interact with and influence each other. For example, the environment provides resources that fuel technological development, while technology can positively or negatively impact the environment. The document argues that a balanced, harmonious community requires all four factors to be developed in a way that supports, rather than undermines, the others.
Pesonal space , territory ,crowding ,privacy and psychology of space with in...Adinew Dinku
This document discusses how architecture and the built environment impact personal space, privacy, territory and crowding from a psychological perspective. It explores how architectural design can support or hinder people's changing privacy needs and preferences for social interaction. The concepts of personal space, territory and privacy are interrelated mechanisms that people use to regulate social interaction. Architects should design environments that are responsive to these dynamics and allow for flexibility in how spaces can be used and experienced. Ignoring psychological needs could lead to conflict between people and their environments.
Measuring the Behavioral Response to Spatial Audio within a Multi-Modal Virtu...Daniel Johnston
This study investigated how children with autism spectrum disorder interact with and respond to spatial audio cues within a virtual reality environment. 29 children with ASD participated in two experiments that compared their behavioral reactions to (1) spatialized vs. non-spatialized audio cues and (2) the effect of background noise on participant interaction. The results showed that participants listening to binaural spatial audio oriented their heads more towards target sounds compared to non-spatialized audio. Additionally, higher levels of background noise were found to negatively influence spatial attention and interaction. These findings suggest that despite auditory processing difficulties, individuals with ASD can correctly interpret spatial audio cues rendered using current techniques.
This document discusses affordances as defined by James Gibson. It provides three key points about affordances:
1. Affordances refer to the action possibilities offered by environments for animals based on their capabilities. They are relationships between aspects of the environment and an animal.
2. Affordances are neither objective properties of the environment nor subjective perceptions of the observer, but exist in the relationship between them.
3. Affordances depend on aspects of both the environment and the observer, such as their size, skills, needs, and intentions. Different observers may perceive different affordances based on their individual attributes and perspectives.
The document discusses how music affects human emotions and behaviors, and can promote social bonding, while also exploring how interactive computer music works and how the performer relates and interacts with the computer during a performance. It also examines what makes popular music popular and how people interpret different sounds.
Elephant Lined Stationery Letter Sheets Elephant WMeghan Howard
The document outlines the steps one must take to request writing assistance from HelpWriting.net, including creating an account, completing an order form with instructions and deadlines, and reviewing writer bids before selecting one and placing a deposit to start the assignment. It notes that customers can request revisions until satisfied with the paper and will receive a full refund if the paper is plagiarized. The process aims to ensure customers' needs are fully met for original, high-quality content.
This document discusses the relationship between science, technology, and society/culture from various perspectives. It defines key concepts like society, culture, science, and technology. Frameworks like symbolic interactionism, functionalism, and conflict theory are used to analyze how science and technology relate to society and culture. The diversity of these relationships across different cultures and time periods is also described. Technological determinism and social construction of technology perspectives on the science-technology-society relationship are introduced.
This document provides an introduction to environmental science and environmental education. It discusses how humans now have the power to impact the environment through resource extraction, waste production, and modification of the natural world in ways that threaten both human and other species' existence. It also notes that while solutions to environmental problems are understood, implementing them faces social, economic, and political challenges. The document defines key terms like environment, environmental science, ecology, and sustainable civilization. It also outlines the scientific method and different levels of ecological organization.
The ecological perspective views human development as the product of interactions between individuals and their various environments over time. It considers humans as biological and social organisms that transact with their surroundings in a reciprocal relationship. Environments can influence behaviors but do not determine them. This holistic framework examines people within the contexts of multiple embedded systems from micro to macro levels.
Approaching Worldviews In Multicultural Counselling The Possible Worldview O...Becky Gilbert
The document discusses approaches to multicultural counseling and worldviews. It explores the worldviews of Charles Sanders Peirce and Gregory Bateson, focusing on Peirce's concept of infinite semiosis and Bateson's ecology of mind. It argues that their theories can strengthen the conceptual model of approaching client worldviews in counseling proposed by Parkkinen and Puukari. Specifically, it notes that client worldviews are dynamically constructed through counselor-client interactions and influenced by social and technological changes.
Lessons Learned, a strategic approach to learning environmentsRené P.M. Stevens
This document discusses how the learning/work environment can contribute to organizational strategy in 7 ways: as a strategic asset, for image building, innovation, team building, integration, distinctiveness, and facilitating meetings and collaboration. It argues that the environment influences behaviors and should be viewed holistically rather than just in terms of costs, as soft aspects are important for employee experience, emotions, and corporate identity.
Meerwaarde creëren met huisvesting: een holistische methodeRené P.M. Stevens
Hoe kun je met huisvesting (meer)waarde creëren? Als antwoord op deze vraag ontwikkelde René Stevens de Real Estate General Performance Survey (RE-GPS). Belangrijk daarbij is een holistische visie, waarbij een regisseur ervoor zorgt dat bij huisvesting de verschillende onderdelen zodanig op elkaar worden afgestemd dat ze het belangrijkste kapitaal van een organisatie, de medewerker, optimaal faciliteren. Daarbij voert de regisseur vervolgens regelmatig ‘functioneringsgesprekken’ met het gebouw.
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"Our world is made of systems within systems, an interconnected web of life more complex than humanity has the capacity to grasp all at once. It took me ages to realise that design was the main subject and that network science was the key to it all." Rosemary Morrow
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For more information, Please see websites below:
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Organic Edible Schoolyards & Gardening with Children
http://scribd.com/doc/239851214
`
Double Food Production from your School Garden with Organic Tech
http://scribd.com/doc/239851079
`
Free School Gardening Art Posters
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159`
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Increase Food Production with Companion Planting in your School Garden
http://scribd.com/doc/239851159
`
Healthy Foods Dramatically Improves Student Academic Success
http://scribd.com/doc/239851348
`
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http://scribd.com/doc/239851110
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Net als leefstijlen voor consumenten, bedrijfsstijlen voor organisaties heeft het onderwijsconcept c.q. de onderwijsstijl een directe relatie met (school)huisvesting. Wat is de ideale huisvestingssituatie voor een gegeven onderwijsconcept waarbij “Forms follows function”? Door de huisvestingsingrepen te benoemen die een bijdrage leveren aan het onderwijsconcept en deze SMART (specifiek, meetbaar, acceptabel, realistisch en tijdgebonden) te maken, is het mogelijk om de feitelijke prestaties van de bestaande schoolgebouwen te vergelijken met de gewenste prestaties en zo de huisvesting meer congruent te maken met het primaire proces. Huisvesting als vliegwiel draagt zo haar ‘steentje’ bij aan Onderwijs (in) 2032.
‘Goed’ vastgoed is congruent met het gekozen onderwijsconcept en draagt bij aan vast ‘goed’ onderwijs.
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Als (aanstaande) ouders gaan we er vaak vanuit dat het vast wel goed zit met het onderwijs. Ongeacht het adagium van “We leiden kinderen op voor beroepen die nu nog niet bestaan”, brengt “ons” onderwijs al decennialang generaties voort die zich staande weten te houden op de (inter)nationale arbeidsmarkt. Maar is dat niet een ad antiquitatem, een drogreden waarbij er een (mogelijk) verkeerd beroep op het verleden wordt gedaan?
Het onderwijs in Nederland is vast goed, maar kan vast ook beter. Althans, beter gefaciliteerd worden. Maar we moeten wel durven vooruit te kijken en paradigma’s los te laten.
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Als het aan ing. Frans (Franciscus Fokko Antonius) Diekstra had gelegen, was het zes jaar geleden opgerichte ingenieursbureau voor de bouw Starke Diekstra inmiddels al tot een multinational uitgegroeid. De tijd heeft hem daarvoor ontbroken en zijn plannen in die richting hebben het op het hoofdkantoor in Nieuwegein nooit gehaald. Onlangs overleed hij plotseling. Hij werd niet ouder dan veertig jaar. 19950524 Technisch Weekblad.
Voor de bepaling of een wijn 'grand cru' is zijn strenge regels opgesteld. Haar de vraag of een kantoor inderdaad op een Al toplocatie staat, zoals meestal wordt beweerd, zal door de projectontwikkelaar, de eigenaar/belegger en de gebruiker steeds anders worden beantwoord.
Alle kantoren zijn centraal gelegen en gemakkelijk in te delen als je de advertenties moet geloven.
De REN-norm is ontwikkeld om meer duidelijkheid te krijgen over de kwaliteit van kantoren. Holland Business, 01-02-1992.
De Real Estate Norm (REN) is een beo ordelingsmethode
voor de kwaliteit van
kantoorgebouwen en hun locaties. Het is
tevens een belangrijke stap op weg naar
een eenduidige normering van vastgoedprojecten.
Volgens de makers betekent
de methode zowel nationaal als internationaal
een doorbraak in de bouw- en
vastgoedwereld. BOUW 13-12-1991
The REN-norm since 1992 the leading pioneer of a de facto standard to determine quality in real estate.
When you buy a diamond, you know exactly what you are getting because there's a certificate with it. But in the case of real estate, there is no guarantee. A good real estate manager knows that quality and money go together. They should be in balance. Once you have a better insight into the quality of real estate, it's much better and easier to negotiate. It's much easier to think about where to save costs, and it's much easier to communicate with people about a project. The Real Estate Norm (REN) can be applied to both developed and undeveloped properties. Our first step was to create a single real estate language with standard definitions that would be understood by architects, real estate agents, contractors and consultants. We had to define real estate terms as completely and unambiguously as possible. We agreed that the real estate terms shouldn't be technical but functional. (By Frans F.A. Diekstra - December 1992 in Site Selection-IDRC Europe)
Hoe draagt huisvesting bij aan Profit en Prosperity?René P.M. Stevens
Als huisvestingsprofessional wordt u dagelijks op tactisch en operationeel niveau geconfronteerd met de impact van de strategische koers van uw organisatie. Gewapend met deze ervaring, wat zou u anders doen als u de strategische koers kon bepalen?
In dit artikel wordt u meegenomen in de strategische denkwereld van het algemeen management en hoe u met huisvesting een wezenlijke tactische bijdrage kunt leveren aan de Profit (goed voor organisatie) en bovendien aan Prosperity (goed voor allen).
De huidige economische situatie maakt het voor nagenoeg alle organisaties noodzakelijk om kritisch te kijken naar kostenreducties maar tegelijkertijd ook naar omzet behoud/verhoging. Hoe kan huisvesting bijdragen aan het vinden van de juiste balans tussen aan de ene kant bezuinigen op kosten en aan de andere kant investeren voor omzetbehoud en wellicht omzetverhoging?
Strategie gaat in basis over waardevermeerdering voor alle stakeholders en hoe dat op een duurzame wijze is te bereiken, zodat het bestaansrecht van de organisatie in stand blijft. Met huisvesting kan ook waarde worden toegevoegd. Maar welke waarde en voor wie?
Gepubliceerd in Facility Management Magazine (20130913 Facto Media).
Imago houdt niet op bij de positionering van gebieden en terreinen. De uitstraling van de huisvesting ter plaatse is minstens zo relevant. Het is daarom belangrijk om na te gaan wat vastgoed moet uitstralen en hoe dat aansluit bij overige communicatie-uitingen. Bedrijventerrein-uitgever Elba Media verhuisde in april en greep die gelegenheid aan om de drietrapsraket locatie, gebouw, inrichting onder de loep te nemen. Imago houdt niet op bij de positionering van gebieden en terreinen. De uitstraling van de huisvesting ter plaatse is minstens zo relevant. Het is daarom belangrijk om na te gaan wat vastgoed moet uitstralen en hoe dat aansluit bij overige communicatie-uitingen. Bedrijventerrein-uitgever Elba Media verhuisde in april 2012 en greep die gelegenheid aan om de drietrapsraket locatie, gebouw, inrichting onder de loep te nemen. Imago houdt niet op bij de positionering van gebieden en terreinen. De uitstraling van de huisvesting ter plaatse is minstens zo relevant. Het is daarom belangrijk om na te gaan wat vastgoed moet uitstralen en hoe dat aansluit bij overige communicatie-uitingen. Bedrijventerrein-uitgever Elba Media verhuisde in april 2012 en greep die gelegenheid aan om de drietrapsraket locatie, gebouw, inrichting onder de loep te nemen.
(20120601 Elba Media BedrijvenTerrein BT03-2012) Ir. Rene P.M. Stevens MBA, ATELIER V real estate B.V. (www.atelier-v.nl)
Re-vitaal staat voor een integrale aanpak door vier gerenommeerde bedrijven: ATELIER V real estate, Ballast Nedam Beheer, Imtech en Troostwijk Real Estate. Re-vitaal is een samenwerkingsverband dat tot doel heeft vastgoed te ‘revitaliseren’ en ‘onderscheidend vermogen’ mee te geven zodat het gebouw aansluit bij de (duurzaamheid)eisen van de zittende of potentiële huurder/gebruiker en binnen de economische randvoorwaarde van de eigenaar. Locatiemarketing.
Sustainability 3.0: Individuals make the difference.René P.M. Stevens
Sustainability and corporate social responsibility may be topics of interest, but they have little to do with individuals. How can an individual contribute to a sustainable world, now and in the future? Businesses can have an effect by involving their employees in their sustainability policy. For them however, it is not enough to say that they work in a sustainable building. The more important point is whether their behaviour inside that building is sustainable. Facility managers can encourage this kind of behaviour. Author: René P.M. Stevens MSC Arch./MBA. First published in the Dutch Facility Management Magazine, November 2010.
Is kantoorhuisvesting slechts een ruimte met een dak waar mensen van negen tot vijf werken of is huisvesting een middel dat kan bijdragen aan de bedrijfsstrategie? Dat laatste kan zeker het geval zijn, maar dan moet wel een aantal bedrijfskundige invalshoeken in acht worden genomen.
Nov. 2010 Facto Magazine - Ir. René P.M. Stevens MBA, www.atelier-v.nl
Vraagsegmentatie cruciaal voor verminderen leegstandRené P.M. Stevens
Aanbieders van kantoren zoals projectontwikkelaars en beleggers hebben zich de afgelopen jaren vooral gericht op de grote middenmoot. Met een ‘marktconform’ gebouw dat voor zoveel mogelijk kantoorgebruikers toepasbaar is trachten zij het risico op leegstand te verkleinen. Maar dé kantoorgebruiker bestaat niet, daarom appelleren marktconforme gebouwen te weinig aan de beleving van de gebruiker, zij zijn voor velen functioneel maar voor nagenoeg niemand onderscheidend. Dat wreekt zich in een markt met een groot (blijvend) overaanbod.
Troostwijk Gouden Kompas juni 2010-Ir. René P.M. Stevens MBA (www.atelier-v.nl).
De bezieling van de directeur. Hoe kun je anderen de hand reiken ondanks dat je zelf in een diepe crisis bent?
René Stevens legt een link tussen zijn entrepreneurschap, het maatschappelijk vorm geven van zijn onderneming en spiritualiteit. Zijn carrière en persoonlijke ontwikkeling zal hij toelichten en hij zal aangeven hoe hij vanuit zijn visie kijkt naar de recente economische ontwikkelingen en hoe hij omgaat met de recessie. Lezing voor het Nederlands Centrum van Directeuren op 06-10-2009 te Zeist.
Het belang van de juiste huisvestingscode. Bestaat er zoiets als een strategisch gebouw? Het woord strategisch wordt tegenwoordig te pas en te onpas gebruikt bij gebouwen. Strategisch lijkt vooral een goed verkopend synoniem om iets belangrijker te laten lijken of in de betekenis van slim handelen. Door dit ‘verkeerd’ woordgebruik is de essentie niet meer duidelijk. Er worden kansen gemist om huisvesting te laten bijdragen om de bedrijfsstrategie te realiseren. FMI nr 10/2009-Ir. René P.M. Stevens MBA (www.atelier-v.nl)
Huisvesting is geen los staand iets maar heeft sterke invloed op alle management aandachtsgebieden. Door een bedrijfskundige benadering biedt huisvesting een kans om de strategische doelen van organisaties te ondersteunen én de belangen van gebruikers te dienen. Huisvesting helpt bij het creëren van blijvend concurrentievoordeel.
2009 juni Facility Randstad nr. 22- "Strategisch Huisvesten" - Ir. René P.M. Stevens MBA (www.atelier-v.nl)
’Toon mij uw huis en ik zeg wie u bent’. Dat deze wijsheid ook voor kantoren opgaat, blijkt uit nieuw onderzoek van Motivaction International BV en Atelier V, waar De Zaak exclusief over beschikt. Kantoorgebouwen zeggen veel, zo niet alles over een bedrijf en zijn werknemers. Wilt u een bepaald imago uitstralen, of de samenwerking onder het personeel vergroten? Laat uw bedrijfspand dan méér zijn dan alleen een onderkomen. 20041101 De Zaak - Ir. René P.M. Stevens MBA (www.atelier-v.nl)
Improving the viability of probiotics by encapsulation methods for developmen...Open Access Research Paper
The popularity of functional foods among scientists and common people has been increasing day by day. Awareness and modernization make the consumer think better regarding food and nutrition. Now a day’s individual knows very well about the relation between food consumption and disease prevalence. Humans have a diversity of microbes in the gut that together form the gut microflora. Probiotics are the health-promoting live microbial cells improve host health through gut and brain connection and fighting against harmful bacteria. Bifidobacterium and Lactobacillus are the two bacterial genera which are considered to be probiotic. These good bacteria are facing challenges of viability. There are so many factors such as sensitivity to heat, pH, acidity, osmotic effect, mechanical shear, chemical components, freezing and storage time as well which affects the viability of probiotics in the dairy food matrix as well as in the gut. Multiple efforts have been done in the past and ongoing in present for these beneficial microbial population stability until their destination in the gut. One of a useful technique known as microencapsulation makes the probiotic effective in the diversified conditions and maintain these microbe’s community to the optimum level for achieving targeted benefits. Dairy products are found to be an ideal vehicle for probiotic incorporation. It has been seen that the encapsulated microbial cells show higher viability than the free cells in different processing and storage conditions as well as against bile salts in the gut. They make the food functional when incorporated, without affecting the product sensory characteristics.
Climate Change All over the World .pptxsairaanwer024
Climate change refers to significant and lasting changes in the average weather patterns over periods ranging from decades to millions of years. It encompasses both global warming driven by human emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. While climate change is a natural phenomenon, human activities, particularly since the Industrial Revolution, have accelerated its pace and intensity
Optimizing Post Remediation Groundwater Performance with Enhanced Microbiolog...Joshua Orris
Results of geophysics and pneumatic injection pilot tests during 2003 – 2007 yielded significant positive results for injection delivery design and contaminant mass treatment, resulting in permanent shut-down of an existing groundwater Pump & Treat system.
Accessible source areas were subsequently removed (2011) by soil excavation and treated with the placement of Emulsified Vegetable Oil EVO and zero-valent iron ZVI to accelerate treatment of impacted groundwater in overburden and weathered fractured bedrock. Post pilot test and post remediation groundwater monitoring has included analyses of CVOCs, organic fatty acids, dissolved gases and QuantArray® -Chlor to quantify key microorganisms (e.g., Dehalococcoides, Dehalobacter, etc.) and functional genes (e.g., vinyl chloride reductase, methane monooxygenase, etc.) to assess potential for reductive dechlorination and aerobic cometabolism of CVOCs.
In 2022, the first commercial application of MetaArray™ was performed at the site. MetaArray™ utilizes statistical analysis, such as principal component analysis and multivariate analysis to provide evidence that reductive dechlorination is active or even that it is slowing. This creates actionable data allowing users to save money by making important site management decisions earlier.
The results of the MetaArray™ analysis’ support vector machine (SVM) identified groundwater monitoring wells with a 80% confidence that were characterized as either Limited for Reductive Decholorination or had a High Reductive Reduction Dechlorination potential. The results of MetaArray™ will be used to further optimize the site’s post remediation monitoring program for monitored natural attenuation.
Kinetic studies on malachite green dye adsorption from aqueous solutions by A...Open Access Research Paper
Water polluted by dyestuffs compounds is a global threat to health and the environment; accordingly, we prepared a green novel sorbent chemical and Physical system from an algae, chitosan and chitosan nanoparticle and impregnated with algae with chitosan nanocomposite for the sorption of Malachite green dye from water. The algae with chitosan nanocomposite by a simple method and used as a recyclable and effective adsorbent for the removal of malachite green dye from aqueous solutions. Algae, chitosan, chitosan nanoparticle and algae with chitosan nanocomposite were characterized using different physicochemical methods. The functional groups and chemical compounds found in algae, chitosan, chitosan algae, chitosan nanoparticle, and chitosan nanoparticle with algae were identified using FTIR, SEM, and TGADTA/DTG techniques. The optimal adsorption conditions, different dosages, pH and Temperature the amount of algae with chitosan nanocomposite were determined. At optimized conditions and the batch equilibrium studies more than 99% of the dye was removed. The adsorption process data matched well kinetics showed that the reaction order for dye varied with pseudo-first order and pseudo-second order. Furthermore, the maximum adsorption capacity of the algae with chitosan nanocomposite toward malachite green dye reached as high as 15.5mg/g, respectively. Finally, multiple times reusing of algae with chitosan nanocomposite and removing dye from a real wastewater has made it a promising and attractive option for further practical applications.
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Microbial characterisation and identification, and potability of River Kuywa ...Open Access Research Paper
Water contamination is one of the major causes of water borne diseases worldwide. In Kenya, approximately 43% of people lack access to potable water due to human contamination. River Kuywa water is currently experiencing contamination due to human activities. Its water is widely used for domestic, agricultural, industrial and recreational purposes. This study aimed at characterizing bacteria and fungi in river Kuywa water. Water samples were randomly collected from four sites of the river: site A (Matisi), site B (Ngwelo), site C (Nzoia water pump) and site D (Chalicha), during the dry season (January-March 2018) and wet season (April-July 2018) and were transported to Maseno University Microbiology and plant pathology laboratory for analysis. The characterization and identification of bacteria and fungi were carried out using standard microbiological techniques. Nine bacterial genera and three fungi were identified from Kuywa river water. Clostridium spp., Staphylococcus spp., Enterobacter spp., Streptococcus spp., E. coli, Klebsiella spp., Shigella spp., Proteus spp. and Salmonella spp. Fungi were Fusarium oxysporum, Aspergillus flavus complex and Penicillium species. Wet season recorded highest bacterial and fungal counts (6.61-7.66 and 3.83-6.75cfu/ml) respectively. The results indicated that the river Kuywa water is polluted and therefore unsafe for human consumption before treatment. It is therefore recommended that the communities to ensure that they boil water especially for drinking.
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ENVIRONMENT~ Renewable Energy Sources and their future prospects.tiwarimanvi3129
This presentation is for us to know that how our Environment need Attention for protection of our natural resources which are depleted day by day that's why we need to take time and shift our attention to renewable energy sources instead of non-renewable sources which are better and Eco-friendly for our environment. these renewable energy sources are so helpful for our planet and for every living organism which depends on environment.
ENVIRONMENT~ Renewable Energy Sources and their future prospects.
Architecture is a Symphony of Form - Environmental Energy Balancing
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Architecture is
a Symphony
of Form
René Stevens
Buildings have a major
impact on the people who
use them. Therefore, also on
the results of the processes
in which these people are
involved as on their personal
health, well-being and
consciousness.
All physical matter in our
universe is vibrating and
emanates a field of energy
that can be measured and
influenced. This is true for
both the human body as well
as for buildings.
One of the lost secrets of
ancient wisdom teachings is
that geometry is vibration.
Geometry is a visual
representation, a structural
manifestation of vibration.
The German writer Johan
Wolfgang von Goethe called
Architecture ‘frozen music’,
I prefer to call it ‘Symphony
of Form’, a symbiosis
between architecture and its
occupants to create (more)
added value.
Instruments in sync
When an orchestra performs a musical
symphony, it is important that all
instruments are tuned, in balance, and
playing with the right intensity and
duration. For a high-level performance,
everything must be in sync.
For the functioning of our learn/work
environment, it is equally important
that all building components, like
shapes, parts, materials and colours,
including the relationship with
nature (e.g. earth’s energy radiation,
geopathic stress, climate, seasons,
vegetation, bodies of water) are also in
sync. They all contribute to the desired
harmonious balancing environment
that supports people and their
functioning within a building.
The perception of being satisfied
with the performance of the building
depends upon our interaction with
the environment and the people in
it, as well as our physical and mental
constitution.
Affect mood
Just as music affects our mood,
buildings do too. We have all
experienced music that can touch you
and make you feel like dancing, or
getting into a romantic or meditative
state, or even a melancholic state. Even
though we may not yet have the tools
to fully measure how architecture
affects the health, well-being and
consciousness of the people inside a
building, we know intuitively that it
makes sense.
A growing body of research
demonstrates that it is not the
objective environmental conditions,
but the subjective interpretation of
it, that affects the well-being and
performance of humans. That is
why the way people experience
their environment also influences
their potential, effectiveness and
efficiency. ‘Soft’ human engagement
metrics, as used in the marketing
and communications industry, are
therefore in most cases more relevant
than the necessary ‘hard’ absolute
metrics of costs and square meters.
Especially when the soft relative
metrics of performance are monitored
over a longer time period.
Symphony of form
As music is frequencies of sound,
architecture is about visual geometrical
and spatial frequencies, and much
more. When we move through a
building, it can shape our thoughts
and feelings just as music does.
My passion is to bring the various
parts together in such a way that the
building components will sound like a
great ‘Symphony of Form’. The whole
is equal to the sum of its parts plus new
properties because of the interactions
between the parts. As frequencies
evoke reactions, architecture can bring
people together, and unite them as one
force. It protects, supports interaction
and engagement and expresses unity
and identity.
Occupants in tune
People inside a building bring their
own etheric field: an integration
of mind, body, heart and spirit, a
determiner of overall health. When
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you interact with a person, you are not
only transferring information but also
emotion. You are transferring things
that are outside the intellect.
A human-centric environment is a
better place for organisations, people
and society. A place that is adaptive to
changing user needs. A place that gets
the best out of its users and a program
that creates a bond between users and
the environment. The design of the
environment doesn’t solely determine
behaviour, but it does shape, enable or
encourage or hinder it.
Effects of shape
In theatre design it is well known that
shape and the materialisation of walls,
floor and ceiling have a profound
impact on the audibility and quality of
the sound in the room.
We also know from experience that
buildings can affect the quality of radio,
mobile telephone and Wi-Fi signals.
Could it be that the built environment
also affects the dynamic multi-
dimensional etheric field of humans,
consisting of a physical, mental,
emotional and spiritual dimension?
The work of Dr Ibrahim Karim, a new
multidimensional ‘Physics of Quality’
called BioGeometry, proofs that this
is the case. His worldview is that
‘ENERGY AND SHAPE CREATE
FUNCTION.’
The Poor scientific measuring
instruments are no proof that outside a
material worldview nothing else exists.
To quote neurophysiologist Dr. Peter
Fenwick: “If you think that the world
is only material, then you are missing a
huge part of human experience.”
Morphogenetic field
Biochemistry scientists like Dr Rupert
Sheldrake and Dr Bruce Lipton suggest
the existence of a morphogenetic field
that not only connects everything in
the environment but has a collective
memory as well. Humans are one
with that field and everything in it and
therefore the human consciousness can
influence this field and vice versa. It is
a two-way communication.
Lipton states that our body consists of
50 trillion cells of living entities. So, we
are a community not a single person.
Every cell is a battery with a positive
and a negative charge of 1,4 Volts.
This life force energy can be focused
and directed by thought and intention.
But besides the internal environment
it is also influenced by the external
environment.
New science
According to new science, we are not
a physical entity but energy waves
of interacting frequencies that can
affect the condition of our body. Our
waves get entangled and resonate
with those of the physical and digital
environment and the people in it.
One could say that it creates a cocktail
of environment frequencies mixed
with vibrating human thoughts and
emotions.
Animals and plants communicate
with vibrations and are sensitive to
the subtle energy in the environment.
In fact, all organisms do, according to
Lipton. We humans have that ability
too but are not trained to use it.
Sheldrake proposes that the
morphogenetic field is also responsible
for telepathy-type interconnections
between organisms. What if humans
could be taught to develop the
sensitivity for vibrations and use
it to navigate in their daily life
through places and in their (work)
relationships?
Digital workplace
Digital technology allows us work
independently of time, space and
device. Documents, pictures, audio and
video are stored in the ‘digital cloud’
and can be retrieved and changed
when you have a device to receive and
send. Laptops and smart phones are
intermediary devices that let humans
interact with data and each other.
New science suggests further that our
human body is the device (biological
vehicle), our consciousness the
operating system and the mind is
part of the morphogenetic field. One
could then argue that the data of our
experiences is stored non-locally in a
virtual ‘consciousness cloud’.
A marriage of Architecture and
Neuroscience can deepen the
understanding of how the learn/
work environment affects human
health, well-being, consciousness and
performance.
Tuning fork
According to Albert Einstein and
Nikola Tesla, everything is energy
and frequency; it should therefore be
possible to introduce a vibration that
acts like a tuning fork. That centers
the cacophony of frequencies of the
built environment, electromagnetic
smog of modern technology and the
etheric fields of humans. Balancing
them all into harmony again. All
these frequencies are resonating and
amplifying each other and should
therefore be treated in a holistic way.
Humans and other living organisms
are part of the natural environment
of subtle energies, they are one
because they are open energy systems
affecting each other. Through the
improvement of spatial forms and
the materialisation of them, a high
potential concept for balancing and
centering, as well as communication
and interaction between people, can
be developed.
High potential
How do people resonate with the
landscape and building frequencies? If
an organisational identity and culture
could be expressed in a melody, how
would that sound? How can we
bring harmony into a learn/work
environment so that a building and
its occupants are able to vibrate in a
highly lively coherent potential?
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“Being interconnected and multidi-
mensional brings greater responsibility,
because of the influence we have over
our self and the environment.
Even to a degree that we can
overcome our environmental
conditions.” (Theresa Bullard, Ph.D.
in Physics)
Transformation
With greater understanding and
a more holistic approach towards
eco-system effects of an integrated
physical, digital and social learn/
work environment, you can literally
transform an organisation, its business
and people.
In the 1940’s, Sir Winston Churchill
made the connection between
architecture and human behaviour
in his famous quote: “We shape our
buildings, thereafter they shape us”.
Unleash capabilities
The Inner Environment (Mind-Body-
Heart-Spirit) of human consciousness
can be changed by personal coaching
and practice. Changing the Outer
Environment (built, digital and
social) of people is an extra leverage
to unleash the capabilities of the
multi-dimensional human being. It is
spirituality at work.
Duet for three hands
Real Estate & Facility Management
(RE&FM) and ICT in collaboration
with Human Resource Management
(HRM) form a ‘duet-for-three-hands’.
This gives a focus on the environment
in which people must function and
perform.
It creates a holistic symbiosis between
the learn/work environment, the
organisational objectives and the
human beings inside. This synergy
will unlock the latent potential for
innovation, growth, health, well-being
and consciousness of an organisation
and its people.
The vision about the symbiosis forms
the score of the symphony, whereby
a conductor ensures that the various
components of the learn/work
environment are coordinated in such
a way that they optimally facilitate
the most important resource of an
organisation: the people.
Regular ‘performance reviews’ of the
learn/work environment as a tool for
managing knowledge are required to
ensure continuous improvement and a
learning organisation.
Monitoring effectiveness
The ultimate test for the effectiveness
of the learn/work environment is the
experience of those who use it.
Apart from the (subjective) opinion
of the users, there is also a need for
an objective assessment whether the
intended effectiveness of the study/
workplace is realized in an efficient
manner on time, within budget and
acceptable risks.
The scores of the required ‘Symphony
of Forms’ should therefore have
appropriate SMARTI performance
metrics:
Specific (Who, what, which, where),
Measurable (Actual vs. desired),
Achievable (How),
Realistic (Worthwhile),
Time-bound (When),
Inspiring (Engagement).
This will make an iterative learning
loop of transparent monitoring,
adaptation and feedback communica-
tion possible. It focuses attention on
measuring process and progress rather
than results. It is more about contin-
uous learning and communicating
than control, identifying problems and
allocating fault.
Take into consideration Albert
Einstein’s words: “Not everything
that counts can be counted, and
not everything that can be counted
counts.”
Adding value is more than cost
reduction
To answer the question ‘Is the learn/
work environment adding value?’,
four sub questions must be addressed:
1 Can I work and study here
effectively -- are we doing the
right things?
2 Is it used efficiently -- do we do
things in the right way?
3 Is the learn/work environment
manageable and under control?
4 How does the learn/work
environment affect me?
(attractiveness-engagement)
Sub-questions 2 and 3 focus on
efficiency and manageability --
cost centre approach -- whereas
sub questions 1 and 4 are more
process oriented and people
centred -– enablers for adding
value. Understanding the complex
interrelationship in the ecological
system of the learn/work environment
supports better decision making. The
effects of cost reduction have a limit,
whereas the so-called soft outcomes
of culture and process changes can be
continuously reinforced and enhanced.
Remember the musical score is not
the music itself just as a map is not the
landscape. An analytical and logical
left-brain approach should be balanced
with an integrated intuitive right-brain
approach. Analytical thinking allows us
to comprehend the parts of the learn/
work environment while integrated
thinking enables us to understand how
they work together. The whole is more
than the sum of its parts.
Where attention goes, energy will
flow. Instead of focusing on avoiding a
cacophony of vibrations, concentrate
on balance and harmony in the learn/
work environment. This requires a
human-centric system approach.
Bridging architecture and
spirituality
Architecture as a Symphony of Form
is an exploration odyssey about
REAL ESTATE and the (real) STATE
of HUMANS. The interface and
interaction between the state of the
built environment (physical, digital,
social) and of the health (body, mind,
heart, spirit) of people using the
built environment. The environment
influences how you think and
feel. The human mind and body
are not separate and distinct from
their environment. A management
team that is aware of the strategic
opportunities of a harmonized
environment, together with the help
of interdisciplinary specialists, can
create the difference in unlocking and
unleashing human potential.
René P.M. Stevens MSc Arch/MBA is
architect, management consultant, coach
and social entrepreneur. End 2002 he es-
tablished ATELIER V real estate, a trend
setting firm in real estate consultancy, of
which he is owner and general director.