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Stephan Barthel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cognitive affordances in sustainable urbanism: contributions of space syntax and spatial cognition
    Journal of Urban Design, 2016
    Co-Authors: Lars Marcus, Matteo Giusti, Stephan Barthel
    Abstract:

    Post-industrial societies impose new ecological challenges on urbanism. However, it is argued here that most approaches to sustainable urbanism still share the conception of the Humans-Environment Relations that characterized modernism. The paper finds support in recent knowledge developments in social-ecological sustainability, spatial analysis and cognitive science to initiate a dialogue for an alternative framework. Urban form engages Humans not only through physical activities, but also mentally through opportunities for learning and creation of meaning, thereby both reinforcing and impeding behaviours on a cognitive level. Against this background, it is proposed that what in cognition studies is termed ‘cognitive affordances’ could form the core of a new epistemological framework of the Human-Environment Relation in sustainable urbanism.

Lars Marcus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cognitive affordances in sustainable urbanism: contributions of space syntax and spatial cognition
    Journal of Urban Design, 2016
    Co-Authors: Lars Marcus, Matteo Giusti, Stephan Barthel
    Abstract:

    Post-industrial societies impose new ecological challenges on urbanism. However, it is argued here that most approaches to sustainable urbanism still share the conception of the Humans-Environment Relations that characterized modernism. The paper finds support in recent knowledge developments in social-ecological sustainability, spatial analysis and cognitive science to initiate a dialogue for an alternative framework. Urban form engages Humans not only through physical activities, but also mentally through opportunities for learning and creation of meaning, thereby both reinforcing and impeding behaviours on a cognitive level. Against this background, it is proposed that what in cognition studies is termed ‘cognitive affordances’ could form the core of a new epistemological framework of the Human-Environment Relation in sustainable urbanism.

Matteo Giusti - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Cognitive affordances in sustainable urbanism: contributions of space syntax and spatial cognition
    Journal of Urban Design, 2016
    Co-Authors: Lars Marcus, Matteo Giusti, Stephan Barthel
    Abstract:

    Post-industrial societies impose new ecological challenges on urbanism. However, it is argued here that most approaches to sustainable urbanism still share the conception of the Humans-Environment Relations that characterized modernism. The paper finds support in recent knowledge developments in social-ecological sustainability, spatial analysis and cognitive science to initiate a dialogue for an alternative framework. Urban form engages Humans not only through physical activities, but also mentally through opportunities for learning and creation of meaning, thereby both reinforcing and impeding behaviours on a cognitive level. Against this background, it is proposed that what in cognition studies is termed ‘cognitive affordances’ could form the core of a new epistemological framework of the Human-Environment Relation in sustainable urbanism.

Alberto Cattaneo - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Perceived educational usefulness of a virtual-reality work situation depends on the spatial Human-Environment Relation
    Research in Learning Technology, 2021
    Co-Authors: Martin Dobricki, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Alessia Eletta Coppi, Pierre Dillenbourg, Alberto Cattaneo
    Abstract:

    Virtual reality (VR) may be useful for situating school-based vocational education in work-life by simulating a work situation such that learners viewing this VR work situation are located inside it. The reason for this assumption is that VR can fully spatially include its viewer. Research on the utility of viewer-including VR work situations for learners has, therefore, already started. However, no study has yet investigated their utility for teachers. This is particularly relevant for work situations involving Environmental planning, as VR is expected to facilitate such a task. We, therefore, asked horticultural teachers to assess the educational usefulness of a VR work situation when they were located outside and inside it. For this purpose, we enabled them to plan a basic garden in the VR work situation when its Environment was spatially excluding them and when it was including them. We found the teachers to perceive the viewer-including VR work situation as more useful for their teaching than its viewer-excluding version. This suggests that the perceived educational usefulness of a VR work situation depends on the spatial Relation of its viewer and Environment, that is, the spatial Human-Environment Relation it involves.

Tiara Elgifienda - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Political Ecology of Tin Mining A Discourse Analysis of the Human-Environment Relation in the Study of Illegal Tin Mining on Bangka Island
    2018
    Co-Authors: Tiara Elgifienda
    Abstract:

    Bangka Island has been known as the most important tin producer in the world. Tin has developed the economy of the local people and even Indonesia in general. Unfortunately, mining is not only operated by corporations, but also by local people without proper procedures, resulting in a ruined landscape and ecosystem. Eventually, on 8th February 2016 a flood occurred and influenced the emotions of the victims in Pangkal Pinang, Bangka. Scientists debate whether what happened in Pangkal Pinang and another area in 2016 were caused by inappropriate reclamations of illegal mining practices, or simply a natural disaster. This research is a case study of illegal practices of mining in Bangka and presents local newspapers as analytical tools to understand the role of tin mining in the Bangka region and how illegal tin mining plays a role in both society and nature. A Political Ecology perspective is used to look at the Human-Environment Relation and how Human and nature act as separate entities, but in the end are connected and bounded. (Less)