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Why do we need critical sustainability sciences?
(2024)Critical Sustainability SciencesIn this chapter, we first outline the development of “environmental movements” beginning in the early 1960s up through the endorsement of the 2030 Agenda sustainable development goals (SDGs) in 2015, by all member states of the United Nations. Second, we explore how the concept of sustainable development, as articulated in the 2030 Agenda, was linked to establishment of the field of sustainability science. Indeed, this field played a key ...Book Chapter -
Opportunities and future perspectives
(2024)Additive Manufacturing for ConstructionAdditive manufacturing of concrete (AMoC) is a technology that has seen much more widespread development and exposure within the recent past, and has established a foothold in the construction landscape. The construction sector has long lagged behind other economic sectors in productivity, and a higher degree of automation has long been sought, with AMoC as one example of it. While AMoC has been pushed as one possible solution to the ...Book Chapter -
Automata at Court: Characters, Intelligences, Machines
(2024)Synthetic RealitiesDespite the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence, especially Large Language Models (LLMs) in the realm of architectural renderings, their implications for architectural thought and practice remain largely unexplored. Posited at the interplay of technology and technics, this essay proposes an architectonic framework to put today's most powerful machine learning models at play beyond the domain of the visual. Automata as cosmotechnical ...Book Chapter -
Gletscherzungen für Israel. Dürrenmatts Solidarität mit dem Land in Not
(2024)Wirklichkeit als Fiktion - Fiktion als WirklichkeitBook Chapter -
'My software has been learning a lot about you …'. Algorithmische Autorität und Autoritätskritik im künstlerischen Werk Lauren McCarthys
(2024)Autorität und AutoritätskritikBook Chapter -
Dying Apart, Buried Together: COVID-19, Cemeteries and Fears of Collective Burial
(2024)Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the HumanThe COVID-19 pandemic forced cemetery managers and local governments to draw up plans for ‘mass casualty’ events, including communal burial, a mode that has long existed for the indigent but is rarely acknowledged. Media coverage of mass burials brought existing ‘pauper grave’ sites to the fore and precipitated a conversation on the ‘proper’ interment of bodies. This chapter examines the history of collective burial and addresses how ...Book Chapter -
Risk and resilience research in mountains worldwide - review and reflections
(2024)Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems. A Global Challenge : Facing Emerging Risks, Adapting to Changing Environments and Building Transformative Resilience in Mountain Regions WorldwideA life in mountains is exposed to more risks than a life in plains. To overcome the relatively harsh and hazard-prone living conditions, mountain communities developed great capacities to continuously adapt their livelihood strategies and to generate innovative solutions. They feature typical aspects of resilience, which help them to deal with multifaceted stresses and hazardous processes. As such, mountain societies are a useful object ...Book Chapter -
A Comparative Review of Descriptive Process Models in Healthcare Operations Management and Analytics
(2024)Dimensions of Intelligent Analytics for Smart Digital Health SolutionsProblem definition: Even though the digitization of healthcare providers is increasingly supported, no methodology exists that allows for a comprehensive description and alignment of operational, clinical, economical, distributed, and interactive technology with the patient as “self-practitioners”. The question arises, which of the four major descriptive model concepts used in the literature allows for comprehensive analytical data modelling ...Book Chapter -
Effects of Pharmaceuticals
(2024)Toxicology of FishesPharmaceutical residues are very widespread in the aquatic environment. Several hundred compounds and metabolites are documented in wastewaters, fresh and marine waters, groundwaters, soils, and biota. The current perspective is that some pharmaceuticals are of concern to fish and aquatic life. Environmental concentrations need to be reduced in aquatic systems to protect aquatic life, particularly the highly active compounds (i.e., ...Book Chapter -
Sandstone and Plastic: HiRes Slab Switzerland
(2024)3D Printing and Material Extrusion in ArchitectureBook Chapter