Culture and Thermal Comfort
Our built environments have both physical and social aspects to it. An occupant’s perception of the physical will affect his or her perception of the social, and vice…
Culture and Thermal Comfort
Our built environments have both physical and social aspects to it. An occupant’s perception of the physical will affect his or her perception of the social, and vice…
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping our memory and perception, but it…
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping our memory and perception, but it…
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping our memory and perception, but it…
How Culture’s Influence of Our Worldview Potentially Impacts Building System Commissioning
Not only does culture provide us with written and unwritten rules, or norms, for interacting with the world around us and shaping our memory and perception, but it…
Michel Foucault: Kritik der Gouvernementalität & Gouvernementalität als Chance
“Wie ist es möglich, daß man nicht derartig, im Namen dieser Prinzipien da, zu solchen Zwecken und mit solchen Verfahren regiert wird – daß man nicht so und…
Azar Gat, “War in Human Civilization” (Oxford UP, 2006)
Historians don’t generally like the idea of “human nature.” We tend to believe that people are intrinsically malleable, that they have no innate “drives,” “instinct… Visit New Books…
Embedded Anthropology: My Talk from the RSA Design Society Event
On Monday I spoke at an RSA event on Embedding Design organised by Emily Campbell as part of the . As I said at the time, saying anything valuable…
P. Bingham and J. Souza, “Death From a Distance and the Birth of a Humane Universe” (BookSurge, 2009)
Long ago, historians more or less gave up on “theories of history.” They determined that human nature was too unpredictable, cultures too various, and developmental patterns too evanescent…
Book Review: Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter
Ethnography and the Corporate Encounter: Reflections on Research in and of Corporations - Edited by Melissa Cefkin It is now safe to say that the introduction to the…
Gregory Cochran, “The 10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution” (Basic, 2009)
First, the conventional wisdom. Because Homo sapiens are a young species and haven’t had time to genetically differentiate, we modern humans are all basically genetically identical. Because Homo……
Social learning in embodied agents
I edited, together with Davide Marocco and Paul Vogt, a double special issue of the journal Connection Science on the topic “Social Learning in Embodied Agents”. This is…