BioOne Online Journals – FRUIT CHOICE AND CALCIUM BLOCK USE BY TONGAN FRUIT BATS IN AMERICAN SAMOA.

This paper might point us at calcium supplements for female bats. Calcium limitation in ecological systems … see this:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0002011

Abstract
When minerals are deficient in the diet, animals often seek out concentrated sources of essential nutrients to relieve deficiencies. In this study, we documented fruit bat (Pteropus tonganus) preference or avoidance of calcium-rich fruits and use of commercial calcium blocks to obtain additional calcium. Individual captive wild-caught bats were videotaped nightly to document food choice, and results were compared to the nutritional content of the given fruits. Low-calcium, high-sugar fruits were the most preferred by bats of both sexes. Overall, sugar appears to be the primary basis for fruit selection, but sex differences in calcium block use suggest that females also may forage to relieve calcium deficiencies incurred by pregnancy and lactation.

submittedJanuary 6, 2005; Accepted: April 19, 2005

Cellulose-Based Native and Surface Modified Fruit Peels for the Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Solution: Langmuir Adsorption Isotherms – Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data (ACS Publications).

A viable and cost-effective technology was explored in this present task for removal of heavy metal ions such as Cu2+, Ni2+, Zn2+, Cd2+, and Pb2+ from aqueous solution using three fruit peels such as orange peel (OP), lemon peel (LP), and banana peel (BP). The surface of the LP and lemon peel cellulose (LPC) was chemically modified. All these adsorbents were characterized by FT-IR, BET, and SEM. The widely used Langmuir adsorption isotherms were used to describe the adsorption equilibrium process. The adsorption capacity of metal ions such as Cu2+ and Ni2+ was found to be more than that of other metal ions. Upon comparison of the adsorbents, surface modified LPC (LPCACS) was found to show enhanced adsorption activity. A comparative study of adsorption was carried out with activated carbon (AC) also from which it was inferred that the order of the adsorption capacity is as follows: LPCACS > LPC > AC > LP.

Quantitative Determination of Heavy Metal Contaminant Complexation by the Carbohydrate Polymer Chitin – Journal of Chemical & Engineering Data ACS Publications.

Chitin is a cost-efficient and nontoxic biopolymer with potential for use in heavy metal chelation from industrial wastewater. In this study we report the binding strength of chitin and the common water contaminants mercury, copper, iron, nickel, chromium, lead, zinc, cadmium, silver, and cobalt. We have found that the strongest binding takes place with mercury and weakest with cobalt with binding constants of 1.16·105 M?1 and 3.96·103 M?1, respectively. We observed that the formal charge state of the heavy metal inversely affects the binding strength. The divalent metal cation?chitin interactions are all enthalpically driven binding reactions. These results serve to benchmark industrial wastewater treatment by chitin chelation.

Brazilian Journal of Biology – Genetics of Euglossini bees (Hymenoptera) in fragments of the Atlantic Forest in the region of Viçosa, MG.

This paper examines cross-species transmission and a what is claimed to be a confirmed case of wild bat to zoo bat transmission.

Public Health Surveillance for Australian bat lyssavirus in Queensland, Australia, 2000–2001.

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In the information age we can ask: why use durable materials for ephemeral purposes? A gallery guide, an invitation – need they last for generations? Need plastic caps and containers be durable to marine conditions for decades, circulating ad nauseum thru ecosystems? Need we use machine lubricants, like PCBs, that last for centuries, mestasticizing the livers of each little Tomcod swimming thru the Hudson, collecting through the bodies of all the larger fish and into the breast milk of women, the cord-blood of newborn babies?
Although cultural ephemera is rich and important museums can archive in a variety of ways and we can design the cultural afterlife of our material artifacts. Digestion is the new medium. And information and material are not inexorably tied.

Exploring the Afterlife!
You are invited to partake in an experiment to revise this cultural habit–a collective but correctable error. We simply substitute temporal materials for the longlasting, and design how they degrade and circulate thru our socio-ecolgocial systems. We use an inexpensive, enzymatically driven high=performance biodegradation process : your digestive tract. The aggregated efforts of many of us can outperform most industrial processes… you are a digesting machine!

Your participation is solicited in the following :

The Cross(x)Species adventure club issues edible invitations so u can taste this possibility (these include some incredible tastes);

An edition of Edible Gallery Guides [EGG] for Jeremijenko’s Connected Environments Exhibition [CEE].
These have an unmistakable taste of the reverent hush that characterizes museums-certain ecumenical aftertaste. They are Proust Madeline of the museums climate-controlled white-walled quality, a taste that, if not exactly delectable is nonetheless impregnated with a rich history of cultural symbolism.

Fun to share. Preservative Peanut and Pesticide Free. Kosher, Vegan, Fairest of Trades, Organic (who’s really checking?) and absolutely edible.

I’ve started making the acquaintance of a herd of heifers on a farm I will call ‘VT Farm’. The ladies are a dynamic bunch and we are just starting to get to know each other. This interest  in profiling the individual personalities of heifers was partially inspired by the article ‘Exploring Stock Managers — Perceptions of the Human-Animal Relationship on Dairy Farms and an Association with Milk Production’ by Catherine Bertenshaw and Peter Rowlinson at the School of Agriculture and Rural Development, Newcastle University, UK which states; “On farms where cows were called by name, milk yield was 258 liters higher than on farms where this was not the case (p < 0.001).” If interested, the full article can be downloaded from: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/berg/anthroz/2009/00000022/00000001/art00006. Individual attention and interpersonal relationships are known to be paramount to human development and well being, but their being recently proven as beneficial to the bovine species raises interest in other comparative behavioral studies. As human relationships have expanded and been augmented via the internet and social networking sites, cyberpsychology has emerged. Can these investigations be applied to cows? How might cows react to virtual attention? Does the behavioral psychology of social networking have something to teach the dairy industry? Both the dairy industry and online social networking relationships straddle the line between high-tech and high-touch – what does this delicate balance mean for both humans and cows? I will investigate these questions over the coming month as I profile these cows and introduce them to the online community.

The farmers have pointed me towards a few personalities to begin profiling. Firstly there is the herd that is currently being milked for commercial milk and cheese production and then there are the cows who are taking care of the calves. The latter are kept separately and are lovingly referred to as ‘the nursery’. In the nursery I met Norma and Josie who are acting as wet nurses. The cows are mothering 5 calves between the two of them, calves who are not necessarily theirs.  Norma is an older cow, and a veteran mother. She is a Normande which are said by the North American Normande Association to “reach sexual maturity early and have good fertility, mammary conformation, mothering ability and production longevity”. Josie on the other hand is a Jersey which is one of the oldest dairy breeds, popular because of its milk and butterfat production.They have an average weight of 900 pounds, and produce more pounds of milk per pound of body weight than any other breed. Most Jerseys produce more then 13x their bodyweight in milk each time they lactate. Norma and Josie are in the nursery due to the fact that their milk has tested high in somatic cell counts. Somatic cells are white blood cells which are produced when the immune system is in overdrive due to an infection of some sort, possibly mastitis. The milk is not commercially viable when the somatic cell counts are too high and if Norma and Josie’s counts don’t drop they will have to leave the herd. In this instance the farmers are performing a type of experiment to see if rigorous suckling will lower their somatic cell counts. They will test again after this batch of calves is weened from Norma and Josie. This constant milking from calves takes quite a toll on Norma and Josie physically and they are both looking quite thin these days. Traumatic suckling syndrome? Might they benefit from an online support group of nursing mothers? Josie is now a password holding member of http://www.breastfeeding.com/forums/.

ScienceDirect – Journal of Hazardous Materials : Hg(II) removal from water by chitosan and chitosan derivatives: A review.

woodducksection.pdf (application/pdf Object).

Adaptation to fairly rudimentary housing development … not only ducks but owls and otherscheck in …

Animations – Videos – The Earth Institute, Columbia University.

speculations about thte animations of drought for instance …

Water research >> latest similar papers.

a good thousand recent papers on water research .

ScienceDirect – Biological Conservation : Habitat selection of endangered and endemic large flying-foxes in Subic Bay, Philippines.

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ScienceDirect – Biological Conservation : Habitat selection of endangered and endemic large flying-foxes in Subic Bay, Philippines.

another reason why we just need to explode the riparian zones … more better everywhere.

Grey-headed Flying Fox.

images showing the bat density on the trees. Strange fruit for a tree.

Flying Foxes Prefer to Forage in Farmland in a Tropical Dry Forest Landscape Mosaic in Fiji. Matthew Scott Luskin. 2009; Biotropica – Wiley InterScience.

Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., 10, 8765-8810, 2010

www.atmos-chem-phys-discuss.net/10/8765/2010/

doi:10.5194/acpd-10-8765-2010

© Author(s) 2010. This work is distributed

under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Single particle characterization of black carbon aerosols at a tropospheric alpine site in Switzerland

D. Liu1, M. Flynn1, M. Gysel2, A. Créso Targino1, I. Crawford1, K. Bower1, T. Choularton1, Z. Juranyi2, M. Steinbacher3, C. Hüglin3, J. Curtius4, M. Kampus4, A. Petzold5, E. Weingartner2, U. Baltensperger2, and H. Coe1

1Centre for Atmospheric Science, School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, M13 9PL, UK

2Laboratory of Atmospheric Chemistry, Paul Scherrer Institut, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland

3EMPA Überlandstrasse 129, 8600 Dübendorf, Switzerland

4Institute for Atmospheric Physics, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

5Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Institut für Physik der Atmosphäre, Oberpfaffenhofen, 82234 Wessling, Germany

Abstract. Black carbon (BC) mass, size distribution and mixing state in sub-micron aerosols were characterized from late February to March 2007 using a single particle incandescence method at the high alpine research station Jungfraujoch (JFJ), Switzerland (46.33° N, 7.59° E, 3580 m a.s.l.). JFJ is a ground based location, which is at times exposed to continental free tropospheric air. A median mass absorption coefficient (MAC) of 10.2±3.2 m2 g−1 at λ = 630 nm was derived by comparing single particle incandescence measurements of black carbon mass with continuous measurements of absorption coefficient. This value is comparable with other estimates at this location. The aerosols measured at the site were mostly well mixed and aged during transportation via the free troposphere. Pollutant sources were traced by air mass back trajectories, trace gases concentrations and the mass loading of BC. In southeasterly wind directions, mixed or convective weather types provided the potential to vent polluted boundary layer air from the southern Alpine area and industrial northern Italy, delivering enhanced BC mass loading and CN concentrations to the JFJ. The aerosol loadings at this site were also significantly influenced by precipitation, which led to the removal of BC from the atmosphere. Precipitation events were shown to remove about 65% of the BC mass from the free tropospheric background reducing the mean loading from 10±5 ngm−3 to 4±2 ngm−3. Overall, 40±15% of the observed BC particles within the detectable size range were mixed with large amounts of non-refractory materials present as a thick coating around the BC core. The growth of particle size into the accumulation mode was positively linked with the degree of BC mixing, suggesting the important role of condensable materials in increasing particle size as well as enhancing BC mixing state. It is the first time that BC mass, size distribution and mixing state are reported in the free troposphere over Europe. These ground based measurements also provide the first temporal study of BC in the European free troposphere quantitatively measured by single particle methods. At the present time there is only limited information of BC and its mixing state in the free troposphere, especially above Europe. The results reported in this paper provide an important constraint on modelled representation of BC.

via ACPD – Abstract – Single particle characterization of black carbon aerosols at a tropospheric alpine site in Switzerland.

the idea that elephants are similar to humans –even biomechanically !–is gathering evidence. It is their long distance communication that fascinates me …

Elephant Legs Bend Like ‘big Human Limb’ – Science News.

Ice Drilling Nets Shrimpy Surprise – Science News.

Study Reports Hints Of Phthalate Threat To Boys’ IQs – Science News.

For the final weekend of the Waterpod I’ll be doing a few “survival “workshops” this weekend with whoever wants to partake in the adventure

Saturday, 1PM: build a boat from trash and set sail in Queens (with Douglas Paulson)
Sunday, 1PM: make mushrooms and a rocketstove and cook up some bugs (with Ian Warren & Chris Kennedy)

Part of a big blowout weekend for the Waterpod including Natalie Jeremijenko’s Environmental Response Systems, a sea sound and film installation curated by Lauren Rosati, “Ascend” a pirate television broadcast/ planetarium installation by artist James Case Leal, and DJ Trent from WFMU.

http://thewaterpod.org/

Subway Directions: From Grand Central Station take the 7 train to Willets Point Blvd – Mets Station. Head towards Citi Field. Take the sidewalk to the left of Citi Field until it ends. Cross the Whitestone Expressway and the World’s Fair Marina Pier 1 is across the street and to the right. Waterpodâ„¢ is located at the end of Pier 1.

MAP: http://tinyurl.com/worldsfairmarina

The xClinic announces it’s test of the second prototype of the Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project and experiences catastrophic failure! It broke, time to re-visit the carbon fiber mold.

About the Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project:

An accessory for the feminine urban athlete, the Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project is the extreme sports shoe for todays power feminist increasing her mobility in the urban environment. Too often we write off these fashion accessories as painful, crippling and demeaning, forgetting the measurable advantage of those extra few inches both physically and psychologically for the wearer.

Due to many recent layoffs, today for the first time in ever there are more woman in the work force than men, only 40 years ago that number was only 30%. The Hot Rod Hi-Heel is an intelligent footwear choice for these woman fulfilling multiple roles in society as professionals, care givers and women. Hijacking the theories of third wave feminism, the xClinic wishes to disempower the subjective male-gaze and re-energize the sheer force of a constrained achilles tendon.

A transportation alternative, the Hot Rod Hi-Heel re-thinks the ‘achilles heel’ of female corporate power executives around the world, it’s spring-like carbon fiber heel goes beyond just lateral stability and is an amalgamation of technology (complete with linked iphone application) and mechanical engineering (specific energy return / stride increase).

The free iphone application, developed by the xClinic, uses the built in accelerometer to measure shock absorption and specific energy return, documenting an over 80% energy return in joules to the body and an 40% increase in stride length for the Hot Rod Hi-Heel user.

The Hot Rod Hi-Heel Project is a collaboration between the carbon fiber jewelry designer Adam Weeks, fashion designer Diana Baltazar and Natalie Jeremijenko(xClinic).

Announcing the screening of Screening of Icky Futures: Corporate Visions of the Future 1987- at X Initiatives this Friday (June 26, 2009) at 7:45pm, (map).

Natalie Jeremijenko’s archive of, Icky Futures, is a dark digital collage that presents a collective commercial vision for the future of technology. The digitally rendered analog tape is a part of the series Half-inch Half-life, curated by Migrating Forms,  in a semi-intimate viewing room showcasing personal VHS tapes from artists, critics, curators, scholars in a 43-hour marathon on a large, media-appropriate television set. The screening is a part of a larger exhibition at X Initiatives entitled No Soul for Sale that runs from June 24-28, 2009. The exhibition and screenings are free and open to the public daily from 1-9pm.

For more information, please visit the Migrating Forms’ facebook events page.

Icky Futures: Corporate Visions of the Future 1987- includes the following analog VHS clips:

1987 Ameritech – Electronic Homes (08:11)
1987 Apple – Knowledge Navigator (05:58)
1988 Apple – Future Shock (11:54)
1988 Apple – Grey Flannel (08:02)
1990 Motorola – 2000 A.D. (06:23)
1991 Pacific Bell – Concept Video (08:40)
1993 Andersen Consulting – Visions (03:37)
1993 AT&T – Visions of the Future (14:12)
1993 Sun – Starfire (15:42)
1996 Philips – Vision of the Future (13:27)
1996 Apple – Wireless Coyote (07:12)
1998 NEC New Ways of Communicating (02:43)

The Genome of Black Cottonwood, Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray) — Tuskan et al. 313 (5793): 1596 — Science.

Why did they sequesnce this tree … T.O.K.

Title: How ‘How Stuff is Made’ is Made / WritingintheInformationAge
Course number: E90. 1952 – Adv Proj Ditigal Art I / meet with E90.2952 001
Professor: Natalie Jeremijenko
Distinguished Visiting Course Advisor: Colin Beavan aka Noimapactman

Time: Thursday, 08:55AM – 02:15PM
Place: BARN 402

Example Curriculum:
Current classes working on HSIM Madrid:[how architecture is made] London: New York:

Course Structure:
HowStuffisMade is a 6 – 8 week course introducing college level engineering and design students to the social and political constraints, organizational innovations and global context that inform manufacturing decisions. This course complements introductory engineering and design curricula by providing a dynamic, flexible platform for case-study based content and student-led industry investigations not otherwise included in current engineering and design programs. HSIM modules are applied to / taught within existing semester long classes. Class time is divided between weekly studios and lectures/seminars covering assigned reading (manufacturing site-visits are conducted outside of scheduled class-time).

In Spring 2006, HowStuffisMade will begin distributing a course module to university programs in the San Diego region. National distribution will begin in the Fall of 2006. During the project’s first 5 years HSIM staff will conduct site visits and professional development seminars with selected faculty and administrators from city, state and private institutions. Following this period exemplary faculty will be designated as local area representatives for continuing program distribution and professional development subject to oversight and assessment by HSIM staff members.

Core Content Areas:
HSIM is producing course content in the form of two parallel readers (one for faculty and one for students) addressing core topics. As a nationally and internationally distributed program, HSIM is designed to accommodate core content areas and additional areas of faculty expertise, student interest and geographic relevance: each course will develop as a record of student and faculty investigations and local industry resources. Following review and assessment, materials assembled and produced for each course (additional readings, topics, industry contacts and information) will be publicly compiled and organized on the HSIM on-line site and made available for use by future HSIM faculty and students.
HSIM courses address contextual information via lectures, seminars and readings and guide student-led manufacturing investigations via standards of evidence and faculty/industry feedback. Core areas, addressed in seminars, lectures and readings will include the following:
1. Introduction to Industrial Engineering
2. Introduction to International Labor Economics and Policy
3. Path Dependent vs. Discontinuous models of Design Innovation
4. Introduction to Industrial Ecology
5. Commons-based & open-source information production
6. The Politics of Information
HSIM is currently creating a series of lectures/seminars and bibliographies for each of these areas.

Procedures:
Students begin by selecting a product and dissecting it to determine its component parts. Industry contact, site visits and documentation proceed through the 6-8 period during weekly studio crits. To ‘hand-in’ or publicly publish the encyclopedia entry students email the designer and manufacturers identified (ccing faculty) inviting them to improve the entry and instructing them on how to enter corrections/updates. All students have the option to remain on an auto-alert list that notifies them of any edits made to their entries. The decision to adopt edits remains at the discretion of the students and advising project faculty edits are accepted only after meeting standards of evidence and verification.

Assessments & Evaluations:
Student assessments, based on the quality of their entries, are conducted by faculty. General program assessments will be conducted by HSIM staff. Site and user interface functionality reviews will assess data including results from student, faculty and industry interviews, site traffic rates and content editing frequency.

Related events:
Design Heroix Grand Rounds monthly lecture series

Focus the Nation teach-in

Natalie Jeremijenko and fashion designer Diana Baltazar collaborated with carbon fiber specialist and jewelry designer Adam Weeks to create this first mock-up iteration of the high heel c-spring, hacking a BCBG women’s evening stiletto and mounting a carbon fiber plate of custom curvature and variegated weave structure. For the next iteration, we will use a United Nude shoe and fine tune the shape of the spring. 

 

 

1. Side View of Leaf Spring

2. Back View: Note the off-center positioning of the spring heel in relation to the horizontal axis 

3. Bottom View: The spring has been curved slightly to one side to account for the asymmetry of the walking step. 4. Rear View: Fiber changes orientation in this area. This section is reinfoced with 3" of +/-45 fiber instead of the standard 0/90 decree fiber orientation. This makes for somewhat of a progressive rate spring, producing a stiffening effect, resisting torsional or twisting loads and providing greater stability.Â

4. Inner Plate: Used to distribute the clamping load of the machine screws. 

5. Spring Mount

6. Adjusted Height at Resting (No Wearer): The new height of the spring-loaded shoe is approximately 5/8" higher than the stock height of the original BCBG heel. When normal body weight is placed on the spring, it compresses to the stock height.Â

 

 

Check out Adam’s website at http://www.carbonfiberbracelets.com/

The MBT (Masai Barefoot Technology) shoe claims to replicate the walking conditions of the Masai of Kenya. Both back problems and shoes are unknown to the Masai, who travel with a hop step over the spongy earth of their homeland. MBT shoes have a curved sole that creates a walking step of slight imbalance, activating muscle groups that normally atrophy in the flat-shoe user. The FitFlop presents a different interpretation to designing the imbalanced step of barefoot walking (without the bare feet). The FitFlop sole is comprised of a synthetic in variegated density, creating what FitFlop calls a “microwobbleboard” effect.

The effectiveness of FitFlops were analysed through recordings of 3-Dimensional motions and forces during gait. EMG data were collected on the Medial Gastrocnemius, Tibialis Anterior, Quadriceps and Hamstrings.

The only thing more fabulous than fashion is Fashion Technology. Here are a few useful links:

Moondial

Alison Lewis   <– In particular check out her links page for a MASSIVE list of resources for all your fashion, physical computing, and conductive textiles needs!!!

ZCouture Fashiontech Panel Contest   <– Coming up this fall! Send them a short essay, win a prize!

Glenn Bach has a great blog on Pedestrian Culture today and throughout human history. Very useful bibliography as well as comprehensive links.

As part of our very serious research on the physical health benefits of walking and the emotional health benefits of owning numerous pairs of high heels, we joined a session of Legwork, an exercise class combining principles of yoga and pilates, designed to target the muscles necessary for walking properly in heels. Following the challenging mat workout was a lesson on walking in heels. Students brought their favorite or most difficult pair, and with the aid of booming Bitch Hop, we learned to strut like supermodels. Most memorable were our instructor’s very accurate as well as hilarious demonstrations of the various mis-walks that most women perform on a daily basis, inflicting themselves with blisters and back problems, not to mention inadvertently impersonating chickens or horses at dressage.  

Victor Chu, founder of Legwork and a seasoned designer of women’s shoes, also has a very interesting fashion technology portfolio.

An article in the New York Times about Dr. David Ogilvie’s study, ‘Interventions to Promote Walking,’ highlights the finding that programs emphasizing environmental benefits of walking were effective in getting folks off the couch and onto the sidewalks! Read the article here.

Learn more about this research.

A carbon fiber is a long, thin strand of material about 0.0002-0.0004 in (0.005-0.010 mm) in diameter and composed mostly of carbon atoms. The carbon atoms are bonded together in microscopic crystals that are more or less aligned parallel to the long axis of the fiber. The crystal alignment makes the fiber incredibly strong for its size. Several thousand carbon fibers are twisted together to form a yarn, which may be used by itself or woven into a fabric. The yarn or fabric is combined with epoxy and wound or molded into shape to form various composite materials. Carbon fiber-reinforced composite materials are used to make aircraft and spacecraft parts, racing car bodies, golf club shafts, bicycle frames, fishing rods, automobile springs, sailboat masts, and many other components where light weight and high strength are needed.

Carbon fibers are classified by the tensile modulus of the fiber. Tensile modulus is a measure of how much pulling force a certain diameter fiber can exert without breaking. The English unit of measurement is pounds of force per square inch of cross-sectional area, or psi. Carbon fibers classified as “low modulus” have a tensile modulus below 34.8 million psi (240 million kPa). Other classifications, in ascending order of tensile modulus, include “standard modulus,” “intermediate modulus,” “high modulus,” and “ultrahigh modulus.” Ultrahigh modulus carbon fibers have a tensile modulus of 72.5 -145.0 million psi (500 million-1.0 billion kPa). As a comparison, steel has a tensile modulus of about 29 million psi (200 million kPa). Thus, the strongest carbon fibers are ten times stronger than steel and eight times that of aluminum, not to mention much lighter than both materials, 5 and 1.5 times, respectively. Additionally, their fatigue properties are superior to all known metallic structures, and they are one of the most corrosion-resistant materials available, when coupled with the proper resins.

Below are comparisons of the characteristics of Carbon Fiber, Glass Fiber, Aluminum, and Steel:

 

We asked New York City women about their relationship with their heels. Here’s what we found out:

 

Colleen 

1. How often do you wear heels? Everyday.

2. On what occasions do you wear them? To work, going out, to the deli…

3. What kinds of shoes do you like? Something over the top of VERY plain. I prefer something with a high heel, but recently started wearing some lower heel and even flat shoes (sneakers).

4. How do you feel about high heels? I feel like some of my legs are missing when I do not have them on… Sometimes they are painful, but when I wear flat shoes I get pains in my legs because they’re not used to stretching so much that my heel can hit the ground. 

5. How high are your heels? 2.5-4inches.

6. What kind of heels do you like? I have many stiletto heels, but usually wear medium thickness, because most boots come with those kind of heels. In the summer, I wear a lot more really thin heels because I don’t like clunky open shoes unless they are a wedge heel to make a statement. 

7. How often do you buy shoes? I am always on the hunt! I buy them as soon as I find the right pair for the right price!

8. How often do you buy high heels? Every shoe I purchase is high-heeled… well about 95%.

9. What criteria do you use to buy shoes? I am always hunting for the sexy high heel shoe that has some sort of comfort and can really hold up well. I tend to kill shoes with the amount that I pound the pavement. Nothing is worse than getting a flat tire in the middle of the day when you still have hours of running up and down subway steps left. 

10. How many pairs of heels do you have? More than 75.

11. Would you say you develop an emotional attachment to your shoes? YES!! When I find a good pair, I do everything I can to make them last. My shoemaker is as important as my real doctor. When my shoes are on their way out, I will save those last wears (sometimes for months) until I have a special occasion to retire them for. I have a shoe graveyard that gets cleaned out twice a year. I get sad, but then I try to buy more shoes to fill the void. I talk about shoes from the past like they were relatives who passed away! I even took shoe making classes at FIT to see if there were ways I could make my shoes last longer or make shoes myself that would last longer!

12. How often do you walk? I walk for many hours everyday. I do, on average, about 3000 stairs a day in addition to the walking. I am almost always carrying something very heavy too. 

13. For what reasons do you choose to walk/not to walk? If there is ever an elevator or an escalator, I will wait– any opportunity to not have to do another stair is taken! I also live in a 6th floor walk up and I have a dog that has to go out at least 3 times a day– that is over 600 stairs right there. And that is if I don’t go anywhere, like work or to eat something or to see friends. ANY opportunity to not have to take stairs I will take– even if it makes me late! Also, sometimes I take cabs when I just can’t carry something because I will blow out my shoes– which has happened on numerous occasions!! 

 

Beth

1. How often do you wear heels? 2-3 times a week.

2. On what occasions do you wear them? Mostly for work, sometimes to go out at night.

3. What kinds of shoes do you like? I like shoes that are classy, but not too conservative.

4. How do you feel about high heels? Heels are a combination of sexy and painful… but also elegant. Low heels are ok, but I rarely wear super-high heels, especially if I need to walk anywhere (which I usually do).

5. How high are your heels? Most of my heels are about 2″ tall. 

6. What kind o heels do you like? Generally kitten heels. Don’t like chunky heels, and stilettos, while sexy, are just too ouchy to wear.

7. How often do you buy heels? Maybe 2-3 times a year. 

8. What criteria do you use to buy shoes? They have to be versatile – e.g. can wear with many outfits, beautiful (of course) and also comfortable.

9. How many pairs of shoes do you have? How many pairs of high heels? Around 20 pairs (more or less), and about a third are high heels.

10. Would you say you develop an emotional attachment to your shoes? No.

11. How often do you walk? For what reasons do you choose to walk/not to walk? I do significant walking only 3 days a week, as I have to commute by car the other 4… If I could, it would be every day though.

 

Samantha

1. How often do you wear heels? On what occasions do you wear them? I used to wear them every day- until I got pantar fasciatius and now have to wear sneakers with an orthodic. Wish there was a sexy shoe that would hold an orthodic, so I could go back to heels. I have over 300 pairs of brand new shoes that need to go on Ebay– classic, sexy style– always in fashion.

2. What kinds of shoes do you like? Never met a shoe I couldn’t love– want them in all styles & colors to match my outfits. For daily wear, a small not-too-thin heel that I can walk in without tripping and falling. Special events, something more sexy and slutty (but with class).

3. How do you feel about high heels? Painful, sexy, frivolous, confidence-boosters– depending on the shoe. There are some sexy comfortable ones. 

4. How high are your heels? What kind of heels do you like? For work and walking, 2-inch heels– solid, not chunky. For evening, 3 inches, and slimmer. 

5. How often do you buy high heels? Before I had foot problems, whenever a pair caught my attention. Funny thing about shoes– no matter how much weight you gain, and you may not want to buy that extra size in clothes, you can always buy more shoes. 

6. What criteria do you use to buy shoes? I like all kinds of shoes, but they always have to be relatively comfortable. 

7. How many pairs of shoes do you have? High heels? Over 300– mostly heels, about 95%– and then a few flats and sexy boots. I don’t count my sneakers in this total. 

8. Would you say you develop an emotional attachment to your shoes? Yes– as I still have all of them, even though I have not been able to wear them for the past 5 years. I do sneak in some for special occasions– can’t wear sneakers during a formal party– even if I have to wear them to & from.

9. How often do you walk? For what reasons do you choose to walk/not to walk? I walk all the time– fastest way to get somewhere and sometimes the most direct.

Notes: I am passionate about shoes and would love to be further involved in your endeavors– even as a beta tester for a prototype. –Samantha

 

Sarah

1. How often do you wear heels? Twice a year-ish.

2. What kinds of shoes do you like? Sneakers and comfy nicer black shoes with height, platformy sort of, tall boots with height too. 

3. How do you feel about high heels? Very sexy! But impossible for me to feel great in them all night because too uncomfortable. 

4. What kind of heels do you like? Chunky or kitten heels.

5. How often do you buy shoes? Not often.

6. What criteria do you use to buy shoes? Cute and Comfortable.

7. How many pairs of shoes do you have? How many pairs of high heels? 23 pairs of shoes. 2 pairs of high heels.

8. Would you say you develop an emotional attachment to your shoes? No, not a huge shoe person. Grow huge attachment to coats and other apparel though. 

9. How often do you walk? For what reasons do you choose to walk/not to walk? I love walking. But only if my feet feel good. And not when it’s too cold. 

 

Bret

1. How often do you wear heels? Just about every day. 

2. What kinds of shoes do you like? When you wear heels as much as I do, you can tell teh difference between a well-made shoe and well, everything else. So I always look for shoes made in Italy or Europe– sling backs, pumps, boots, etal. 

3. How do you feel about high heels? Nothing looks as put together as a beautiful high-heeled shoe. And when you buy good quality, they are usually quite comfortable. 

4. How high are your heels? What kind of heels do you like? Thin, kitten, stiletto, louis heel– from 2 to 5 inches.

5. How often do you buy high heels? Whenever I can.

6. What criteria do you use to buy shoes? Beautiful, well-made, and “me” — if I stick with that, everything else usually falls into place. 

7. How many pairs of shoes do you have? High heels? Total: over 50. High heels: about 35. 

8. Would you say you develop an emotional attachment to your shoes? Absolutely.

9. How often do you walk? For what reasons do you choose to walk/ not to walk? All the time. I am a runner as well. Although I try not to run in heels

Notes: If you have any other questions feel free to call me.

 

Jennifer

1. How often do you wear heels? On what occasions do you wear them? Special occasions– theatre, dinner, holidays– or when I don’t have to walk anywhere. 

2. What kinds of shoes do you like? I love all kinds. I love frye leather boots, new balance sneakers, and I have a couple of pairs of dress heels for special occasions. 

3. How do you feel about high heels? They look great, and they are fun to wear. I do love them, but they wear me out, and I never wear them during the day. 

4. How high are your heels? They range from super-almost-can’t-walk-in-them to just manageable. 

5. How often do you buy shoes? High heels? Twice a year, but then I only shop four times a year too!

6. What criteria do you use to buy shoes? Comfort first, unless I’m buying a high heel. 

7. How many pairs of high heels do you have? Three. 

8. Would you say you develop an emotional attachment to your shoes? No. 

9. How often do you walk? For what reasons do you choose to walk/not to walk? I walk every day for at least half an hour. I like to incorporate it into my day.

 

Spring-loaded action added to women’s high heeled shoes makes for a high-powered pedestrian vehicle that lifts you higher and gets you where you’re going faster. Inspired by the urban walking woman, her notorious investment in her footwear, and especially her desire to live more sustainably.

 

HOW IT WORKS

A carbon fiber leaf spring in a c-coil shape is bolted to the truncated heel of a shoe. The kit includes a pair of springs, attachment component, and instructions. The kit model allows for spring rate tailoring based on the wearer’s height, weight, and lifestyle. The wearer brings the kit and her favorite pair of heels to her neighborhood cobbler who affixes the springs, hotrodding her shoes. 

WHY WE LIKE IT (aka The Goods)

The Upshoes spring kit acknowledges that the term ‘transport’ is interpreted more widely than in industrialized nations. Walking, cycling, animal-driven vehicles and even wheelbarrows are transport too, and must be considered in transport planning. Upshoes provide an alternative transport technology that decreases the consumption of fossil fuels in urban areas where walking is an efficient way to get around. 

Tailored to the individual, the kit meshes with today’s market dynamic which caters to individual consumer’s emotional desires. The kit model encourages shared ownership of specially designed consumer goods, transferring responsibility of consumption and its environmental impact onto the individual. The act of upgrading such an intimate artefact as women’s shoes encourages reuse and repair as a part of everyday practice. Integration of the cobbler tradition promotes alternative marketing organization, the capillarization of the market into the hands of each and every consumer, and the creation of collaborative consumption.   

Rather than resorting to nostalgic references to suggest environmentalist ideals, Upshoes are environmentalist fashion that is progressive and stylish, visually promoting a sense that environmentalism is about boldly marching forward and treading new territory.

Perhaps most importantly, Upshoes make getting around more fun! Upshoes remove the urban commuter from the automobile cage and transform her into a walking machine, reconnecting and reenchanting her with her surrounding environment.   

 

WHY CARBON FIBER?

Carbon fiber is not the first substance that comes to mind when thinking of renewable materials. Yet because of its outstanding properties combining hardness and elasticity with very light weight, carbon fiber is being increasingly employed in sustainable design products such as wind turbines and fuel efficient automobiles. It is unrealistic to equate sustainable design with the strict use of 100% renewable materials. Instead it is useful to exploit new technologies to re-imagine the way we live on a global scale.   

 

Potent Quotes:

Designers must change consumer preferences… choosing not to possess must be a value for the new century and new technology has to be seen as repairable technology. Good design embodies social principles.  -Adams

The real challenge is to find a way of dismantling the consumer society and replacing it with a society rich in satisfactions and pleasures which make shopping and material acquisitions pall by comparison. -Christensen

Consumption is the moment in the process where symbolic exchanges that determine and reproduce the social code occur, where there is an active appropriation of signs, not the simple destruction of an object. -Poster

hardy party

Within its recent history, New York University (NYU) has seen an unprecedented number of student suicides. Never before has the phenomenon of contagion been so prevalent among the undergraduate population or as feared by the administration. In contrast to the three reported deaths within the first sixty-six years of the school’s suicide timeline (“Gained 105”, 1930; “N.Y.U. Student”, 1950, Arenson, 2003), the NYU community has experienced nine student suicides since 2003 (Healy, 2003; Arenson, 2003; Tavernise, 2003; Arenson, 2004a; O‘Brien, 2004; Collins, 2004; Baker, 2005; Burke & Grace, 2007; Chung, 2007; Gendar & White, 2007). The method of choice for six out of nine deceased students was death by jumping from buildings.

According to a New York State Office of Mental Health (NYSOMH) report, “a number of suicide clusters, usually involving jumping from heights, has been reported on college campuses” (2005, p. 67), NYU receiving official recognition for clusters alongside Cornell University (NYSOMH, 2005). The report also draws attention to the media’s role in spreading contagion in young people. Adolescents are more likely to be affected by the copy-cat syndrome if the death of a young person is highly publicized. Students already contemplating suicide who are exposed to the media attention of previous student deaths are most at risk (NYSOMH, 2005).

The extreme media coverage of NYU’s plight, which has taken forms ranging from a documentary titled The NYU Suicides (Strange, 2005) to the shockingly distasteful photograph of a student falling to her death on the front page of the New York Post (2004), coupled with the university’s high statistic on students who experience depression, anxiety, stress, and low self-esteem makes NYU a suicide breeding ground. In a 2004 self-study report, NYU states that 74% of its freshman felt things were hopeless, 97% felt overwhelmed by all they had to do, 41% felt academics suffered as a result of stress, 95% felt exhausted (from other than physical activity), 90% felt very sad, 58% felt so depressed that it was difficult to function, and 16% seriously considered attempting suicide one or more times throughout the 2003-4 school year.

To respond to the issue of student suicide, NYU has implemented several strategies ranging from expanding the university counseling services to building physical barriers in “high-risk” areas. In 2003, after the first two students jumped from the 10^th floor of Bobst Library, emergency counseling and extended weekend hours were among the first approaches (Arenson, 2003), as well as erecting eight-foot-tall plexiglass walls around the balconies of the library atrium. In addition to physically barring students from certain places, NYU has a history of using guards to keep an eye on students in or around “suspicious” vicinities. As the plexiglass walls were being erected at Bobst, NYU security guards were used as watchmen in the library, and in 2007, the same method was employed for roof tops (Afridi, 2004; Chang, 2007; Dover, 2007; “Officers guarding”, 2007).

After the string of suicides in 2003-4 ending with Joanne M. Leavy, who jumped from the Tisch building, the Wellness Exchange hotline was created for students to have access to therapy services after hours (Arenson, 2004b). In March 2005, the university announced further plans to prevent suicide by restricting balcony access on two high rise dorms, Carlyle Court and Coral Towers (Arenson, 2005). The most recent responses besides posting guards on residential and select educational buildings have been to install magnetic doors that will remain locked at all times except in cases of emergency on all roof access entry ways (Chang, 2007; “Officers guarding”, 2007) and a renewed attention to Wellness Exchange hotline (Timm, Aragon, & Hasnain, 2007).

Additionally, the university states another intervention and treatment method concerning the alarming mental health statistics in their Self-Study Report (2004).

“Medication therapy, once a peripheral aspect of college mental health, has moved front and center. Prescriptions rose 39% last year [2003] and have tripled since 1997-1998, most notably for anti-anxiety medications (up 72%) and anti-psychotics (up 173%). UCS [University Counseling Services] medicated approximately 750 students, about one in five who came to the clinic. An increase in prescriptions may require more health professionals trained in psychiatric assessment and psychoparmacotherapy. Securing permanent funding for an additional psychiatric position is a high budgetary priority for UCS (annual report, 2002-2003)” (p.100).

We, at the Environmental Health Clinic, recognize the university’s efforts to address the problem at an internal level. Yet, despite the increase in use of counseling services and prescription medication (NYU, 2004), student safety is not guaranteed by these measures as clearly demonstrated by the more recent deaths since the 2004 report. Ultimately, the university cannot control students’ mental health; even limited efforts to ensure well-being come under searing attack by students for their right to choose. For example, involuntary leave of absences have been controversial and often a subject of dispute from the student body. However, what the university can control is the design of the environment in which they live and study. Our proposed solution to NYU’s suicide crisis is preventive design for impulse suicide, in line with our external approach to health as a shared experience within a community.

As stated in the NYSOMH report and other college mental health reports, removing risk from prime suicide areas is an effective way to inhibit impulse suicide (2005). The specific focus on roof space puts forth an effort to recreate our relationship to this “high risk” area. However, the campus officials’ militarized, roof lock-down response to the recent string of suicides, banning even academics conducting research on the roofs, is a rather unfortunate attempt to secure students’ bodies¾ it ignores the tremendous psychological and environmental benefits that could be experienced from reclaiming roof space as an area utilized for promotion of biodiversity and life rather than invoking feelings of fear and death.

The proposed garden schemes are not intended to give the student body access to building tops, but are designed to increase the level of building safety. With the use of a particular billowy cloth to surround the garden, jumping from the building would be nearly impossible as the fabric cannot be lifted or climbed. Moreover, the green roof’s composition of plants would maximize environmental benefits, primarily as habitat for urban wildlife and as catchers of storm water, which would have numerous positive impacts on our metropolitan setting. Creating a habitat for urban animals gives the university a chance to utilize more creative therapy methods.

Animal assisted therapy has, for a long time, been a simply constructed program of companion animals and the target group. However, newer models of wildlife therapy have been evolving recently. Several studies have shown that proximity to plants and animals has positive psychological and physiological properties, especially in an urban environment. During this time of tragedy and fear, the NYU community could use the healing effects of nature as opposed to the repressive connotations of the institution’s past design responses.

References

(1930, January 31). Gained 105 Pounds, N.Y.U. Girl Ends Life. New York Times, pp. 23. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2082/pqdweb?index=0&did=96044966&SrchMode=1&sid =2&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=120529611 2&clientId=9269. (1950, January 4). N.Y.U. Student is Dead. New York Times, pp. 7. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2082/pqdweb?index=34&did=86981809&SrchMode=1&si d=4&Fmt=10&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=HNP&TS=12052963 24&clientId=9269.

Afridi, H. (2004, March 21). Taking Refuge Behind Glass Walls. New York Times, section 14, pp.3.

Arenson, K. (2003, October 21). At N.Y.U., Not All Want to Talk About Deaths, but Reminders Are Never Far Away. New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A06E2DC1E3EF932A15753C1A9659 C.

Arenson, K. (2004a, March 10). Suicide of N.Y.U. Student, 19, Brings Sadness and Questions. New York Times, pp. B2

Arenson, K. (2004b, September 10). N.Y.U. Sets Up a Hot Line After a Series of Suicides. New York Times, pp. B7.

Arenson, K. (2005, March 30). After Suicides, N.Y.U. Will Limit Access to Balconies. New York Times, pp. B2.

Baker, A. (2005, November 26). After Samsung Reports Accident, Painful Details of Suicide Emerge. New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://ezproxy.library.nyu.edu:2510/2005/11/26/nyregion/26crash.html?pagewanted=1&_ r=1.

Burke K., & Grace, M. (2007, September 23). NYU freshman commits suicide, dies from 15- story jump. Daily News. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/09/23/2007-09- 23_nyu_freshman_commits_suicide_dies_from_1.html

Chung, J. (2007, November 12). Apparent NYU Student Suicide in Downtown Dorm. Gothamist. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://gothamist.com/2007/11/12/apparent_nyu_st.php.

Collins, G. (2004, September 7). N.Y.U. Student Is Killed in Fall at Tisch School. New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/nyregion/07jump.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewan ted=print&position=.

Dover, S. (2007, October 25). Roof duty continues for guards: widespread rumor said shifts would end Oct. 22. Washington Square News. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/10/25/News/Roof- Duty.Continues.For.Guards-3055963.shtml.

Gendar, A., & White, M. (2007, November 21). NYU student left note before killing himself: cops. Daily News. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/13/2007-11- 13_nyu_student_left_note_before_killing_him.html.

Healy, P. (2003, October 20). N.Y.U. Student’s Fatal Plunge Appears to Be Another Suicide. New York Times, pp. B3.

(2004, March 10). Death plunge No. 4: NYU’s grief. New York Post, front cover.

New York State Office of Mental Health (2005). Saving Lives in New York: Suicide Prevention and Public Health (Volume 2, Approaches and Special Populations). New York: Government Printing Office.

New York University (2004). Self-Study Report on Undergraduate Education for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. New York: New York University.

O’Brien, E. (2004, March 17-23). N.Y.U. copes with another student suicide. The Villager, 73(46).

Strange, A. (Director). (2005). The NYU Suicides [Motion picture]. USA: CustomFlix.

Tavernise, S. (2003, October 26). In College and in Despair, With Parents in the Dark. New York Times. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C05E6DD1031F935.

Timm, J., Aragon, D., & Hasnain, Z. (2007, December 5). Some callers: NYU mental health hotline ineffective. Washington Square News. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/12/05/UniversityNe ws/Some-Callers.Nyu.Mental.Health.Hotline.Ineffective-3133137.shtml.

Washington Square News Editorial Board (2007, October 17). Officers guarding roofs is flawed. Washington Square News. Retrieved March 8, 2008 from http://media.www.nyunews.com/media/storage/paper869/news/2007/10/17/Opinion/Offic ers.Guarding.Roofs.Is.Flawed-3037035.shtml.

National Suicide Strategy and Surgeon General  “call to action” http://www.hopes-wi.org/Resources/NtlStrategy.htm#goal11

http://www.hopes-wi.org/Strategy/index.htm

http://www.hopes-wi.org/Resources/calltoaction.htm

According to the a Natural Resources Defense Council press release, more than 27 billion gallons of raw sewage and polluted storm water discharge out of 460 combined sewer overflows into New York Harbor annually. New York City’s outdated sewer system can overload with as little as one-tenth of an inch of rain, causing combined sewage from buildings with dirty storm water from streets to overflow in the harbor (2008). Sustainable urban infrastructure design can help alleviate our rivers from pollution of this magnitude. A study by Moran et al. (2005) states that green roofing can relieve up to 60% of all rainwater leaving the roof (as cited in Snodgrass & Snodgrass, 2006, p. 21).

In addition to helping clean our waterways and allowing animals to re-inhabit the rivers, green roofs can also promote biodiversity inside our otherwise concrete jungle. With carefully selected plants, green roofs create habitat for the city’s native fauna which go well beyond the expected list of squirrels, rats, and pigeons. For example, New York City is on the migratory route for nearly 90 different species of butterflies (Zirlin & Ingraham, 1997). By planting specifically for their reproductive and dietary needs, we can show a little hospitality to our yearly guests and encourage the butterflies to take a break on their long journeys up and down the East Coast.

 butterfly spreadsheet

Powers, J. (2008, January 30). New York City to Clean Up Waterways by Greening Roadways and Roofs. Natural Resources Defense Council Media Center Press Release. Retrieved March 6, 2008, from http://www.nrdc.org/media/2008/080130.asp.

Snodgrass, E.C., & Snodgrass, L.L. (2006). Green Roof Plants: A Resource and Planting Guide. Portland, OR: Timber Press Inc.

Zirlin, H., & Ingraham, J. (1997). Not Rotten to the Core: Butterflies of the Big Apple. Retrieved January 15, 2008 from http://www.naba.org/pubs/ab97c/p4.html

Links to Oyster Creek related material and literature review. Understanding the remediation issues.  Organisms; monitoring opportunities

NY Times article about urban camoflage in Japan.

Rauminszenierungen

rethinking utilities: large concrete drain pipes as a hotel… reserve a room

Martin Hendrijks show called Enough Room for Space about

“Displacement of residents, whether they are gentrifying artists priced out of Soho or the poor and unemployed excluded from New York altogether, is no random by-product of gentrification but its structural condition. Decay, disinvestment, abandonment . . .prepare the way for profitable reinvestment . . . Like all the social relations that art supposedly transcends, housing is one of the historical circumstances of its existence”. Rosalyn Deutsche, “Alternative Space”

“And howsoever oppositional we architects may be, as long as we fail to challenge basic elements of society, such as the concept of private property, nothing will improve. This is a great paradox for me”. Achim Felz, “IKAS: An Experiment in Extra-Parliamentary Architectural Opposition”

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photo book to buy

“Workplaces at night” is a three-part project combining performance, investigative research techniques,
and creative imaginings. We are exploring evidence of labour during the absence of the workers.
Is representation of work/labour possible?
While researching we visit workplaces at night with flashlights. We do photographic and video
documentation of the left-over, or unfinished tasks resulting from daytime operations.
What do we learn about work processes by exploring workplaces after the employees have left?
What is production? What are the conditions?
Do we find spaces that are not connected with the context of production?
What is the state “of being productive”?
What does the term “creation” mean within the so-called cultural production? Do we find evidence of “cultural industry” within workplaces that are not connected with cultural production?

The project consists of three parts
action > visits to different workplaces at night with flashlights and cameras:
lawyer’s office, medical practice, multimedia studio, theater, airport, toy factory, architectural office,
candle factory, barbershop, artist’s studio
publication > presenting recorded material in a catalog and a blog
(text archive and images attempting to define “WORK” and “PRODUCTION”)
installation > establishing a space to present the material (installation, video, photography, text)