Link to the publication: https://archidoct.scholasticahq.com/article/118893-rhythm-matters-how-rhythm-analysis-bridges-architecture-and-sociology
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Rhythm publications
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Rhythm Matters! How Rhythm Analysis Bridges Architecture and Sociology
By bringing the social dynamics in cities to the surface, rhythm analysis offers novel insights into the spatio-temporal notions that characterise urban life and experiences. The research presented in this contribution proposes a rhythm analysis framework for bridging architecture and social sciences to facilitate design interventions that are fine-tuned to the social context in cities. The results identify three aspects of city rhythms: (1) rhythms in the outdoor spaces and around the buildings, conceptualised as “rhythm zones”, (2) rhythms in the care services offered by societal organisations that are hosted in public and semi-public buildings, conceptualised as “rhythm-scapes” and (3) rhythms of ordinary activities that shape the urban social life and interactions, conceptualised as “rhythm spheres”. Each aspect includes different methods for analysing and documenting rhythms, enabling novel possibilities for spatial practices. Focusing on the dynamic quality of physical urban spaces, relations between actors and institutions and interactions between communities creates a bridge between academic research and spatial practice at a level of analysis of the urban social life that is straightforward, replicable and inventive.
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When the Rhythm Zones Meet
This study explores the issue of trash around two high-rise apartment blocks in Amsterdam Zuidoost by focusing on city rhythms. Building upon the notion of “patterns of relationship” by Christopher Alexander, the ethnographic research reveals that rhythms formulate five different groupings, which are conceptualised as “rhythm zones.” In the various ways the rhythm zones correspond to each other around the buildings, trash emerges differently. The study establishes that identifying such zones allows for a better understanding of the social phenomena in the urban environment, creating the potential to improve the design of urban spaces.
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Cities and infectious diseases: Assessing the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along city streets
As cities resume life in public space, they face the difficult task of retaining outdoor activity while decreasing exposure to airborne viruses, such as the novel coronavirus. Even though the transmission risk is higher in indoor spaces, recent evidence suggests that physical contact outdoors also contributes to an increased virus exposure. Given that streets constitute the largest percentage of public space in cities, there is an increasing need to prioritise their use to minimise transmission risk. However, city officials currently lack the assessment tools to achieve this. This article evaluates the extent to which street segments are associated with spatiotemporal variations of potential exposures of pedestrians to virus transmission. We develop a multi-component risk score that considers both urban form and human activity along streets over time, including (a) an assessment of pedestrian infrastructure according to the average width of pavements, (b) a measure of accessibility for each street based on its position in the street network, (c) an activity exposure score that identifies places along streets where exposure could be higher and (d) an estimate of the number of pedestrians that will pass through each street during weekdays and weekends. We use Amsterdam in the Netherlands as a case study to illustrate how our score could be used to assess the exposure of pedestrians to virus transmission along streets. Our approach can be replicated in other cities facing a similar challenge of bringing life back to the streets while minimising transmission risks.
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Student projects: Changing Rhythms During the Pandemic in Zuidoost
Ritmes maken deel uit van de vele aspecten van het stadsleven. Hoe beïnvloeden veranderingen in ritmes de dagelijkse ervaringen van mensen?
Steden zijn georganiseerd en volgen een bepaald ritme. Van dag en nacht, van seizoenen, van werk-/schooldagen en weekenden, van vakanties, wekelijkse markten, spitsuren, lunchtijden en veel meer. Tijdens de COVID-19-pandemie werden deze stadsritmes echter verstoord. Een virus dat via de lucht wordt overgedragen, is problematisch voor het samenbrengen van mensen in ruimte en tijd - de belangrijkste kenmerken van ritme. Hoewel de lockdown kan worden gezien als een ingreep in het stadsritme, erkende deze de ritmische kwaliteit van het stadsleven niet. Het vereiste dat veel dagelijkse activiteiten werden uitgesteld, verspreid, verkleind en gecontroleerd. Dit met vele (drastische) gevolgen voor het gezinsleven, verschillende gemeenschappen, openbare ruimtes en werk- en schoolomgevingen, de mobiliteit van mensen en het verkeer in buurten, steden en landen. Hierdoor bleven veel werklozen achter, nam de eenzaamheid toe en ontstonden er moeilijkheden binnen huishoudens.
In deze collectie leest u verschillende onderzoeksprojecten die door tien studenten Sociologie van de Universiteit van Amsterdam zijn uitgevoerd. Deze projecten zijn gepresenteerd in de publicatie 'Changing Rhythms during the pandemic in Amsterdam Zuidoost'. Voor deze afstudeerprojecten hebben de studenten zich gericht op de veranderende ervaringen tijdens de pandemie. Over welke ritmes hebben we het eigenlijk als we dit noemen, en hoe kunnen we die bestuderen?
In totaal zijn 13 locaties in Amsterdam Zuidoost meegenomen in het werk van de studenten. De publicatie presenteert de resultaten in 3 delen; (1) Veranderende ritmes van jongeren, studenten en gezinnen, (2) Veranderende ritmes in gemeenschapsruimten, (3) Veranderende ritmes van culturele instellingen en openbare ruimtes. En misschien kunnen de pandemie, de lockdown en hoe het virus ons allemaal heeft getroffen ons iets nieuws leren over de essentiële ritmes in ons leven. -
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City Rhythm: An Approach to Urban Rhythm Analysis
This chapter explores rhythm as a dynamic in the social and cultural domain. By executing different case studies in which qualitative methodologies from architecture and the social sciences are used, a methodology for rhythm analysis is constructed. In the case studies, it is found that the rhythm analysis functions as boundary object in conversations with stakeholders for identifying new solutions spaces for specific social issues. The case studies also identify three rhythm dynamics that are significant to the social domain: tuning, matching and balancing rhythm.
Results of the case studies are then contextualised by different rhythm theories that are relevant for the urban context: as variation in a pattern, as territory, as force for engagement and factor for trade-offs for trust. Rhythm has long been a topic of interest, though arguably this becomes more explicit over the twentieth century, with rhythm being referenced and studied in Europe in a variety of fields (Crespi 2014). This chapter draws insights from the writings of contemporary academics working on rhythm in order to explore the possibility of bringing rhythm analysis into practice in today's urban contexts. It is found that in the literature there is a gap in formulating a methodology for rhythm analysis that can be validated and falsified. As a result, based on case studies and rhythm theory, a methodology for urban rhythm analysis is formulated.The book where the article is published can be purchased through the link: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-rhythm-and-critique.html
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Podcast: Wij Zijn Ritme
Ritme is van alle tijden en overal om ons heen. In de maan en de sterren, in eb en vloed, in trams, bussen en stoplichten, thuis en op school, op internet en in je telefoon. Ritme is een kracht die helpt om gezond te zijn, vol te houden en je goed te voelen.
De verhalen uit het boek ‘Wij Zijn Ritme’ zijn opgenomen als podcast en worden voorgelezen door de onderzoekers zelf. Laat je meevoeren door de unieke verhalen, begeleid door muziek en geluiden die je de ritmes van het leven laten ervaren.De cover van de podcast is gemaakt door Huda AbiFarès, die ook verantwoordelijk is voor de redactionele vormgeving van alle publicaties van het onderzoeksprogramma Values for Survival.
De productie van de podcast is gedaan door Mart Jeninga van Podcast Studio Amsterdam.
Je kunt de podcast beluisteren op:
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Cahier 3: Values for Survival - Tuning to Rhythm
Cahier 3 staat in het teken van ritme. Van ritme van adem en hartslag, tot ritme in muziek en dans, tot het ritme van groeiende planten en de elkaar steeds afwisselende seizoenen; ritme lijkt mensen met elkaar en met de natuur te verbinden. Wanneer we voor grote uitdagingen staan, kan ritme houvast bieden. Ritme maakt ons weerbaar, omdat ritme er altijd is. We kunnen terugvallen op ritme. En wanneer we opnieuw in het ritme komen, kunnen we onze verbeelding de vrije loop laten.
Ritme is een kracht die verschillende domeinen met elkaar verbindt, zoals de sociale en ecologische dynamieken die in de eerste twee cahiers zijn onderzocht. Ritme houdt verband met de magie van een directe esthetische ervaring. Ritme houdt een netwerk bijeen en bepaalt wat de volgende stap is. Muzikanten, vaklieden, dansers, surfers, biologen en psychologen hebben grondige kennis van ritme - zonder dat expliciet zo te formuleren.
In dit derde Cahier hebben Caroline Nevejan (Chief Science Officer en hoofdonderzoeker van Values of Survival) en ontwerper Huda AbiFarès aan een aantal onderzoekers met verschillende achtergronden gevraagd om vanuit hun expertise een verhaal te schrijven over ritme. De verhalen zijn bedoeld voor kinderen van ongeveer elf jaar oud en elk verhaal is geïllustreerd door een beeldend kunstenaar. Het resultaat is Cahier 3, dat op een bijzondere wijze de kracht en de schoonheid van ritme laat zien. In het ritme komen blijkt een waarde die we nodig hebben om te overleven.
Alle katernen in dit cahier worden voorafgegaan door een schildering van Simon Gawronski.
Klik op 'meer informatie' voor een link naar NAi Booksellers, waar u een hard-copy van dit cahier kunt bestellen. -
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Tides of Tourism
In this track we investigate tourism as a spatio-temporal phenomenon, with its own daily, weekly, seasonal and yearly rhythms, which are guided and governed as flows and tides. Rhythms, like tides, are temporal and spatial compositions; in an urban context they also gain a policy dimension. Conceptualizing tourism via these frames of reference provides for a reconsideration of the ontologies which surround demographics (that is, the tourist and the local), regulations (local and regional scales), and spatial usages and distributions, while rhythm interventions choreograph how these urban practices intersect. Our exploration takes place in Amsterdam, Venice and Glasgow: cities that have been adapted to tidal rhythms throughout the centuries. The first two cities are faced with overflowing tourism, and have adopted different management approaches, while the latter is looking for ways to invite tourism to enrich the economy of the city. Through the lens of speculative rhythm interventions, our research examines how tourism might be better orchestrated in various urban contexts.
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Regionalization of Social Interactions and Points-of-Interest Location Prediction With Geosocial Data
Traditional methods for studying the activity dynamics of people and their social interactions in cities require time-consuming and resource-intensive observations and surveys. Dynamic online trails from geosocial networks (e.g. Twitter, Instagram, Flickr etc.) have been increasingly used as proxies for human activity, focusing on mobility behavior, spatial interaction, and social connectivity, among others. Social media records incorporate geo-tags, timestamps, textual components, user-profile attributes and points-of-interest (POI) features, which respectively address spatial, temporal, topical, demographic, and contextual dimensions of human activity. While the information contained in social media data is complex and high-dimensional, there is a lack of studies exploiting the combined potential of their information layers. This article introduces a framework that considers multiple dimensions (i.e. spatial, temporal, topical, and demographic) of information from social media data, and combines Geo-Self-Organizing Maps (GeoSOMs) in conjunction with contiguity-constrained hierarchical clustering, to identify homogeneous regions of social interaction in cities and, subsequently, estimate appropriate locations for new POIs. Drawing on the discovered regions, we build a Factorization Machine-based model to estimate appropriate locations for new POIs in different urban contexts. Using geo-referenced Twitter records and Foursquare data from Amsterdam, Boston, and Jakarta, we evaluate the potential of machine learning techniques in discovering knowledge about the geography of social dynamics from unstructured and high-dimensional social web data. Moreover, we demonstrate that the discovered homogeneous regions are significant predictors of new POI locations.
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City Rhythm, Logbook of an Exploration
City Rhythm research explored the potential of using rhythm analyses in the physical world and in the data domain for enhancing social safety in neighbourhoods in the Netherlands. Rhythm in the physical world happens both in space as well as in time. Rhythm in data can connect to location (instead of persons), thus circumventing the issue of privacy. The two approaches create the chance to address significant social issues and how they develop in specific times and places. Founded in the social sciences, humanities, arts and computer science, the interdisciplinary research team also included civil servants of six cities in the Netherlands who engaged throughout the research. With the help of students, nine case studies are carried out. In conclusion to the one year exploratory study, City Rhythm indicates that rhythm analyses, in the physical world as well as in the related data domain, offer a potential new approach for policymaking.
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Social Glass: A Platform for Urban Analytics and Decision-making Through Heterogeneous Social Data (2018)
This demo presents Social Glass, a novel web-based platform that supports the analysis, valorisation, integration, and vi- sualisation of large-scale and heterogeneous urban data in the domains of city planning and decision-making. The platform systematically combines publicly available social datasets from municipalities together with social media stre- ams (e.g. Twitter, Instagram and Foursquare) and resources from knowledge repositories. It further enables the map- ping of demographic information, human movement pat- terns, place popularity, traffic conditions, as well as citizens’ and visitors’ opinions and preferences with regard to spe- cific venues in the city. Social Glass will be demonstrated through several real-world case studies, that exemplify the framework’s conceptual properties, and its potential value as a solution for urban analytics and city-scale event moni- toring and assessment.
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2015 - 2016 Data Rhythms in Amsterdam
In 2016 the Amsterdam municipality asked a group of its creative civil servants to come up with ideas for making the city 'more balanced'. One of the initiative was to make an exhibition on the Rhythm in different Amsterdam movements. It was shown on the Rokin. Here are the panels of this exhibition.
The data analyses and visualisations are made by Alessandro Bozon and Achilles Psylidis at the Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions and Delft University of Technology in 2015-2016.Hier zie je de resultaten van dit onderzoek: Stad in balans
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MSc Thesis TU Delft - Building a Housing Block with Rhythm in Addis Ababa
The rhythm analysis can be performed by using many different methods, in various urban areas or non-urban contexts, and by different actors. This article will talk about the experience with rhythm analysis during my masters studies in architecture, which was the consulted method for defining a critical view on the numerous problems in rapidly developing urban environments. The context of the presented rhythm analysis was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where fascinated by the colorful life of the informal settlements and their contrast with the newly developed areas, an attempt of looking at this reality in an objective view was performed.
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Witnessing You & being-here.net
How are trust and truth established in a networked world? What actually happens when one is witness to another? On this study-site 44 authors contribute reflections and experience on how a world full of media changes our lives. This research took place between 2008 - 2012.
Artists, academics and professionals from a variety of disciplines, address these issues by reflecting on their own practice. To be able to enjoy this research environment, one needs to take time.
See http://www.being-here.net/
This site publishes reflections form scientist, artists, professionals and students about their work. Scientists reflect on their research, professionals reflect on their practice, artists reflect on their artwork, students present their designs. Apart form the authors, many people have contributed to this website.
Principle investigator: Caroline Nevejan
On the 23rd of January 2013, the book Witnessing You, On Trust and Truth in a Networked World, was launched.