In this article, I explore the question of what it means to create a science for all from the vantage point of urban homeless children. I draw on the work of critical and feminist scholars in science and education, as well as my own teaching and research with urban homeless children, to question how inclusive the science education community is in its efforts to understand the margins of science...

the aim of this research is the examination factors effecting reduce of employee's turnover in the public sector, which factors such as: job characteristics, supervisor characteristics, organizational identity, emotions at work, working conditions and job attitudes were selected as factors affecting reduce of employee turnover. statistical population is the employees of ministry of road an...

This paper introduces the concept of participatory sensing, which tasks everyday mobile devices, such as cellular phones, to form interactive, participatory sensor networks that enable public and professional users to gather, analyze and share local knowledge. An initial architecture to enhance data credibility, quality, privacy and ‘shareability’ in such networks is described, as well as a cam...

Mobile geotagging services offer people new ways to interact with and through urban space. In this paper, we focus on a mobile geotagging service called Socialight and the social practices associated with it. In-depth interviews and participant observation were conducted in order to explore how Socialight’s virtual ‘‘sticky notes’’ were used in everyday life. Findings indicated how users commun...

This paper focuses on the use of the critical design approach to analyze and understand the connection between human beings and urban spaces. Taking inspiration from the value that place and space have for people (e.g. for the construction of their individual identities) and from previous works concerning memories in the urban space experienced while cycling, we propose to undertake a design re...

Inquire about problems of design in our time of globalization, mainly the loosing of cities identities, of architects identities, differences and cultural heritages. Philosophy, methodology and tools of Argenia, generative software able to produce complex architectural and urban scenarios connected with the cultural identity of each context.

Identity has been a major factor in establishing and maintaining traditional forms of dwellings and settlements. Today this connection between people and place has been fragmented because of social, economic and technological forces. An examination of the hill town of Giove in 1987 revealed how twentieth century people can identify with places built long ago. The author's "reading" of Giove and...