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Theorising Interior Architecture and Design: Identity, Practices, Education, and Beyond
(Routledge, 2026) Ebert, Carola
Theorising Interior Architecture and Design: Identity, Practices, Education, and Beyond examines interior architecture and design from a contemporary and international perspective, taking theory building to be one of the most important activities for a discipline. The volume explores the interior discipline's theoretical dimension and its pedagogical, professional, and creative practices in different settings across the globe. Organised in four thematic sections and an epilogue, 20 chapters address vital aspects of contemporary interior architecture and design, including the discipline's contested identity, its relationship to theoretical concepts such as surface, interiority/exteriority, and time, and the diverse roles of interior education and professional practice. The book investigates how the interior discipline, long classified as emerging or relatively young, has over recent decades come of age academically, in practice, and in theory, and what lies beyond its boundaries.
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Von der Architektenausbildung zum Architekturstudium! Forschendes Lernen als architekturwissenschaftliches Integral in der Lehre
(TU Berlin Universitätsverlag, 2021) Ebert, Carola
Das Architekturstudium ist inhaltlich, strukturell und personell im deutschsprachigen Raum eng mit der Berufspraxis verknüpft. Die Ausbildung von Architektinnen und Architekten steht im Vordergrund der Akkreditierungsanforderungen und die architektonische Praxis prägt Alltag und die Erfahrungen der meisten Lehrenden. Das folgende Manifest plädiert für ein erweitertes Verständnis des Architekturstudiums. Es nutzt die forschungsorientierte Perspektive der Architekturwissenschaft und das hochschuldidaktische Format Forschenden Lehrens, um diese Gewissheiten der Architekturlehre zu hinterfragen. Aufbauend auf zehn Thesen postuliert es ein Architekturstudium mit zwei unterschiedlichen Integralen – mit Entwerfen als entwurfspraktischem und Forschendem Lernen als architekturwissenschaftlichem Integral.
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Irish & German Economic Links in Perspective: A Fruitful and Dynamic Bilateral Relationship
(Irish Embassy in Berlin, 2025-05) Behar-Villegas, Erick; Mantel, Peter; Hynes, Jennifer; Koç, Hasan; Rangel, Pedro
This study outlines the development of the economic relationship between Ireland and Germany in the last decade, examining the details of a robust partnership through international trade and investment data, a general macroeconomic analysis and a review of relevant press themes. Macroeconomic aspects The intensification of Ireland and Germany's bilateral economic integration has been marked by a thriving Irish export economy and a stagnant, yet still robust, German economy. Following Brexit, Irish exports to Germany flourished in the pharmaceutical and chemical sectors, potentially reflecting a deeper intra-EU integration as consequence. In addition, the Irish economy has shown a steady growth rate in real GDP and relatively mild growth of modified gross national income (GNI*), despite the COVID-19 pandemic. Macroeconomic data elicit a constant trade surplus for Ireland in the last decade, growing sixfold from 2018 to 2023. This indicates that the demand for Ireland's products and services has risen considerably. A fundamental regional driver of this intensification of trade and investment is the federal state (Bundesland) Baden-Württemberg, which imports more than three times the value of Irish goods and services (such as pharmaceuticals, automotive parts, and electronic components) than its regional neighbours. The leading Irish export sectors are consumption and intermediate goods, while capital goods, such as machinery, show a stronger dominance on the German side, explaining a minor Irish deficit in this category since 2013. With regards to the labour market, both countries portray stable figures and relatively low unemployment rates. In terms of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), 2017 marked the beginning of a considerable rise of German investments in Ireland, while the investment flows from Ireland to Germany, though robust, have fluctuated slightly. However, when looking into the number of Irish companies in Germany, the year 2017 also marks the beginning of a rapid increase of companies and new employment. Irish-German deals and the intensification of a long-term partnership This long-standing partnership includes the establishment of new ventures that showcase a bilateral success story of integration within the European Union. This is exemplified by Merck's approximate €450 million investments in further infrastructure in Ireland until 2027 as well as the multi-million-euro investment in 2022 of the Warsteiner brewery in the Irish craft brewery Rye River. Similarly, Hamburg based company Capital Surge have invested around €140 million to establish 20 solar parks in Ireland. Thematic analysis of Irish and German media from 2016 to January 2024 revealed key discussions on relationships, trade, and investments between the two countries. The economic relationship between Ireland and Germany has demonstrated that both countries benefitted from strong ties with one another. Looking ahead, the future perspectives for this relationship appear promising, as both nations continue to seek opportunities for further cooperation, as exemplified by the energy sector, especially in the field of renewables.
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Radical P/revisions: Heritage Metaphors, Discourses, Becomings
(Bauhaus-Universitätsverlag, 2023) Aquilar, Giorgia
Taking Robert Smithson's unpublished typescript Two Attitudes Toward the City as its point of departure, this chapter constructs a three-act counterdiscourse on architectural heritage through the generative lens of metaphor. Against the reduction of heritage to fixed narratives of authenticity and integrity, Aquilar draws on the radical architecture movements of the 1960s and 1970s — including works by Haus-Rucker-Co., Alan Sonfist, Zziggurat, Ant Farm, Gianni Pettena, the Florentine collective 9999, and SITE — to propose heritage as a site of perpetual becoming. Structured around Smithson's tripartite schema of the old city, the new city, and the technological apparatus, the three acts reframe heritage successively as Time Landscape, Time Warp, and Time Capsule: figures that resist material stasis and open the built legacy toward entangled temporalities, counter-preservation, and speculative futures. Closing with Ettore Sottsass' photographic series Design Metaphors and Hans Hollein's MAN transFORMS exhibition at the Carnegie Mansion, the chapter proposes metaphor itself as a medium for renegotiating the boundary between permanence and change, and for envisioning a heritage that undoes and remakes itself in sequences of perpetual becoming.
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Designing a good story for better policies: Entrepreneurship at the crossroads of AI-powered visual storytelling and sensemaking
(Centre of Sociological Research, Poland, 2024-12-19) Behar-Villegas, Erick; Goh, Zhen; Horowitt, Greg
Sensemaking and AI image generators can contribute as visual storytelling tools to a better comprehension of the life-worlds of entrepreneurs in policymaking. There is doubt about whether policymakers productively understand entrepreneurial realities for the sake of implementing decisions that help startups. Using entrepreneurial journeys of 18 startups in six countries, weak-signal triads and image prompts were derived from shared stories in order to visualize entrepreneurial realities. The advantage of visual storytelling materializes in the cognitive ease that narrative schemas yield. Results indicate that AI generated visuals, e.g. storyboards, depict compelling realities regarding story elements such as character and setting clearly, yet they hardly illustrate the dynamics thereof (e.g. conflict resolution), while triads help understand entrepreneurial priorities. The project showcases the potential of tech-driven visualization, suggesting that visual arts can help the public understand untold stories that drive, among others, entrepreneurial solutions, provided that the dynamics be presented clearly.
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Composite Practice: Interdependence in the design-build process
(Practices in Research, 2025) Brünjes, Katrin
Contemporary construction practice is undergoing a fundamental shift away from demolition and reconstruction toward the transformation of existing building fabric. This article introduces the concept of "composite practice" as a design methodology that responds to ecological imperatives by treating existing architectural elements as active design parameters rather than constraints. Drawing on two case studies; the renovation of a 1908 Berlin apartment and the conversion of a 1940s twin farmworkers' house into a community dwelling; the article demonstrates how preserved fragments, repurposed components, and layered materials can be orchestrated into coherent spatial assemblages. The iterative, in-situ design-build process that composite practice demands supplants the conventional linear sequence of office-based design followed by on-site construction, instead merging these phases into a dialogical collaboration between architects, builders, and the existing structure. Informed by the concept of the palimpsest, composite practice reframes apparent inconsistency and material heterogeneity as compositional assets, challenging Albertian ideals of architectural wholeness in favour of an open, adaptive approach that acknowledges the built environment as perpetually unfinished.
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Models at Different Scales. A Study on the Inference in the Perception of the Relationship between Space, Body, and Object
(Unione Italiana per il Disegno, 2024-06-30) Martin-Fuentes, Daniel; Martín, Javier
The debate of the predominance between drawing and model as design tools is as old as Architecture itself. Up to our days, we cannot deny the centralism of drawings in the process of ideation, configuration, and communication of architecture, but the use of models has never disappeared because both elements result to be complementary. Is widely known how drawings change in concretion depending on the scale. There is no research if the same thing occurs with models. Basing the study on the works done by students along four courses in an Interior Architecture Degree, this paper delves into the mechanisms of perception behind scale inference in architectural models and discusses their implications for design practice.
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Towards an Open Source-first Praxis in Libraries
(Information Technology and Libraries, 2023-12-18) McIlwain, J. Robertson
In terms of utility and technical quality, open source software solutions have become a common option for many libraries. As barriers to adoption have been reduced and systems such as FOLIO appear poised to change the landscape of LIS technology, it is worth examining how the use of open source can support the normative core values of librarianship, and to outline a strategy for critical engagement with the technology that is beneficial to patrons and libraries. That strategy will require further codification, institutionalization and investigation of open source at many levels.
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Analyzing the Influence of Technostress on Students: A Systematic Literature Review
(2023) Pourahmad, Zahra; Koç, Hasan
Technostress is the stress experienced by individuals due to the use of technology. In today's digital age, students are increasingly exposed to technology, which, with many benefits, can also lead to technostress. This can harm students' overall well-being and academic performance. We thus argue that the impact of technology use on students should be better understood, and perform a systematic literature review (SLR), following the guidelines outlined in Okoli's 8-step procedure. Reviewing the articles addressing technostress among students, the findings indicate that technostress can lead to decreased focus and concentration, impaired sleep patterns, social isolation, and a decline in mental health. It can also contribute to a negative attitude towards technology, hindering students' ability to effectively leverage its potential for learning and productivity. The findings also suggest that the experience of stress is influenced by an individual’s perception of a stressful situation. Different individuals may perceive the same situation as stressful or non-stressful, depending on various factors such as time, place, and personal interpretation. This SLR provides a comprehensive and dependable resource for researchers, identifies existing research gaps, and proposes directions for future investigations.
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The post-wall-era club culture of Berlin as cultural heritage : "Where there was jag, there is art"
(Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021) Phillips, Mark Nicholas; Pöğün-Zander, Yüksel
This chapter presents the temporary autonomous underground club scene of Berlin that emerged in Berlin following the fall of the Wall in November 1989 and traces the conditions in which these spaces came to blossom as “interiors without architecture.” The major social, political, and economic modifications that the reunification of Germany necessitated affected the cultural landscape of Berlin and resulted in changes in the cityscape. Abandoned buildings and the consequent ambiguity in legal ownership, combined with the unstable infrastructure and lack of authority, enabled the development of the Berlin model known as Zwischennutzung (temporary use). The anti-aesthetic of the partially illegal club scene with a lack of finish or redesign of spaces, remains the manifestation of what has become a cultural tradition for the city.

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