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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Making do"”.
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Making Do for the Masses: Imperial Debris and a New Russian Constructivism
… adapted, rather than failed, in the 1920s. In so doing, I identify an alternative Constructivist strain that developed a tactic of recycling and re-appropriation in response to factory shortages and lack of raw materials. I examine how the former Imperial era’s debris became both the physical and …
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The Collaborative Performance of Open Mic Poetry and the Art of Making Do
Open mic poetry events are representative examples of a widespread and socially significant performance phenomenon--the relational and dialogic art and activism of the sustained encounter as a demonstration of the possibility for new social relations. Open mic performances center the pleasure of …
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Doing your best (while making do with less) : the actual value conception of instrumental rationality
… idea that instrumental rationality consists in doing what you have the most reason to do; and, second, that sometimes it is rationally permissible to have non-transitive (but not cyclic) instrumental preferences.
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When the Power is Out: Strategizing for Electricity Disruptions in Lilongwe
… in the event of a power disruption, households do not sit back and wait passively for electricity to come back on. They plan and strategize, making do using any resources within their capacities. A form of infrastructural citizenship, making do around electricity disruptions has the potential to …
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Everyday I'm Hustlin? Hiphop Rhetorics and the Art of Makin? Do
… and erasure, I theorize ?tha art of makin? do? as a method employing tactics able to re-imagine, re-purpose, and re-deploy the material and immaterial in accordance to immediate and long-term needs. Hiphop Studies scholar Tricia Rose writes that the ability to manage and navigate the concept …
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Globalizing Kenyan Culture: Jua Kali & the Transformation of Contemporary Kenyan Art: 1960-2010
… term `jua kali'. By virtue of jua kali artists `making do' with minimal resources and maximum ingenuity, imagination, originality and entrepreneurial acumen, they are creating new art forms or bricolage, the clearest evidence of which is what Kenyan artists call `junk art'; which is made from …
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Resourceful urbanism: revisions of typology a network of resource 'add-ons' for a population of 400 000 in down-town Johannesburg
… with the current changing urban condition of downtown Johannesburg from a purely corporate work environment to a setting for living in and how the existing, decayed building stock has been reused and transformed accordingly by its 400 000 new residents. This 90% increase in population density …
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Towards an everyday peace? Exploring the political significance of everyday life in post-war Nepal
… as the primary organizing principles. This does not mean that everyday life cannot be read as political as well, but it is merely to say that its political significance oftentimes come across as subordinate to this master logic which is focused on ‘making do’ in post-war everyday life.
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Selfsame spaces: Gandhi, architecture and allusions in twentieth century India.
… so in order to emphasize life as the activity of making do with contingencies. To fully appreciate the purport of Gandhi's description of Mira Behn's hut, then, one has to read it primarily as an allusion towards a contrast between an inner life of equanimity and an outward life of coping with …
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Proposta de um método para a identificação, mensuração e caracterização das perdas por transporte nos fluxos físicos em canteiros de obras
… agregam valor e que ocorra um esforço por parte dos projetos de construção na busca da sua redução e eliminação, dificilmente os transportes serão erradicados na construção, devido a necessidade de constantes movimentações de materiais e pessoas durante o processo construtivo. Embora as perdas …
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MASTraf: a decentralized multi-agent system for network-wide traffic signal control with dynamic coordination
… signals to actuated and coordinated corridors, traffic control for urban networks has evolved into more complex adaptive signal control systems. However, unexpected traffic fluctuations, rapid changes in traffic demands, oversaturation, the occurrence of incidents, and adverse weather …
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Postwar British Fictions of Inhabitation
… and buildings were both products of her postwar ‘making’ as she sought to redefine the meaning of home in a deeply transitional world — and the structures that accommodated it. The three chapters of this thesis bring literary and filmic texts into dialogue with architectural forms, considering how …
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An Enhanced Model for Parental Decision Making for Pediatric Care
… constantly changing and developing, with tremendous advancements within the fields of genetics, neuroscience, and clinical research. Developments in these fields have led to the emergence of many new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions for children, but with these new technologies come …