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A comparative study for human aspects in acclimatization of adobe vernacular architecture. A case from Denmark and Egypt

Today’s architecture swarms with concepts of energy and resource efficient buildings. In contrast, vernacular buildings are characterized by low-tech climatic responsive strategies and by their inhabitants’ resource and energy savings practices during construction and operation of their dwellings. That makes vernacular buildings highly relevant to resource efficiency in contemporary building resea

Have you been slapped?

Att bli indragen i en rättstvist i USA är mycket kostsamt och som en konsekvens finns det aktörer med stora ekonomiska resurser som inte drar sig för att missbruka civilprocessen, t ex för att skrämma misshagliga parter till tystnad. Denna typ av ogrundade stämningar kallas SLAPPs – Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation – och ett flertal amerikanska delstater har numera en Anti-SLAPP-lag

Standardization, Value Configurations and Implications for Business Model Innovation

Value configurations, originally in the form of the value chain, serve as descriptions of how value is created. They focus on the internal activity character in interaction with the environment and can be seen as the essence of business models. Here, the role of standardization in association with value configurations is clarified through the introduction of a framework outlining how process and o

Old age and the making of everyday life

The surrounding world, filled with objects, is the foundation of our actions, thoughts and emotions. Equally, we affect things and objects in our turn, through the interpretation and the significance we give them. In regard to old age, certain objects, as well as places, may become problematic. Some things lose their importance and fall out of use while others appear and become integrated in every

The God that Failed. Lifelong learning: From Utopianism to Instrumentalism

As the saying goes, “a beloved child has many names”. So, too, is the case with the concept to be dealt with in this paper. Over the years various concepts have been used to denote education in a lifetime perspective, such as “education permanente”, recurrent education and lifelong learning. There are many who have disputed the correctness or appropriateness of one or the other concepts. Boudard (