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The plethora and availability of digital tools and practices have transformed the ways art is created, perceived and disseminated. This had a distinct impact on how research is conducted across the arts and humanities as a whole from practice-led to process-focused and people-centred research. Airea’s first issue “Computational tools and digital methods in creative practices” germinated from a ser
This article discusses a prototype that explores the simultaneous manipulation of three-dimensional digital forms and sound. Our multi-media study examines the aesthetic affordances of tight parameter couplings between digital three-dimensional objects and sound objects based on notions of process and user-machine interaction. It investigates how effective cohesion between visual, spatial and soni
Sound is a fundamental element of our relationship to others and to the world. Current environmental, sociopolitical, cultural, and economic dimensions of our society can be captured and studied through sound. This article investigates ways of listening to future versions of our cities. Sound’s role is explored in the transformation of spaces and communities based on a dialectic between sound art,
Following the successful first Urban Sound Symposium held at Ghent University in 2019, the second edition in 2021 had to face the challenges of the pandemic. The symposium turned this challenge into an opportunity for giving easier access to practitioners and experts from around the globe who are confronted with urban sound in their professional activities. It was organized simultaneously in Ghent
The pervasive influence of human agency on biodiversity in the Anthropocene gives rise to several new challenges for national and international wildlife law, including questions regarding what is natural and what is alien. Ultimately, a new vision and new rules are called for but in the meantime wildlife lawyers and other conservation professionals must work with conventional legal frameworks. Str
Abstract What is political about political refugeehood? Theorists have assumed that refugees are special because their specific predicament as those who are persecuted sets them aside from other “necessitous strangers.” Persecution is a special form of wrongful harm that marks the repudiation of a person's political membership and that cannot—contrary to certain other harms—be remedied where they
We argue that the (mis)treatment of Eastern European migrant workers during the pandemic revealed the existence of a two-tier EU citizenship, despite the political discourse of equality within the EU. We show that this two-tier citizenship system was generated by the combined effect of differentiated rights and of prejudicious practices applied to EE citizens. In terms of differentiated rights, we
Objective Menopausal transition, brings significant changes to various aspects of health and well-being, including sexuality. These changes are influenced by hormonal changes, psychological factors, and societal perceptions. Historically, research on menopausal transition has predominantly focused on pharmacological treatments, to address symptoms. However, these studies often neglect the inclusio
This presentation discusses material and performative aspects of sound art through the combination of sculptural objects, sounds and a sensing system. Our work ‘Schíma – morphé – íchos’, offers itself up as a sound installation, a sculptural ensemble and a live performance where form, structure, playability and the background system are brought together to identify new ways of composing, making an
The art of medicine in the semi-urban and poorly literate medieval Nordic countries was essentially a craft. Those skilled in medicine learned their profession by being apprenticed to people who were more experienced and knowledgeable. But unlike other crafts, such as that of the potter or the carpenter, one could not practice just any way. One could not start from scratch with one’s lump of clay
This article examines a gendered reconfiguration in the Japanese empire’s approach to the control of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) during the Asia-Pacific War (1937–1945), tracing how state surveillance expanded from targeting women, especially sex workers and ‘comfort women’, to also encompass imperial soldiers as potential vectors of infection. This reallocation of scrutiny restructured t
Floods account for the majority of disasters caused by natural hazards worldwide, and their frequency and intensity are set to increase further as a result of climate change. To protect people and property, protective measures such as dykes and drainage systems are put in place. However, events that are often overlooked in this context are compound floods, in which several types of flooding occur
The Mediterranean subpopulation of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) is classified as Endangered by the IUCN, yet the western Ionian Sea, a key corridor connecting the eastern and western Mediterranean sub-populations, remains a data-poor region for cetacean monitoring. Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) offers an effective approach for long-term surveillance of this deep-diving species, but la
Spår i sanden: Mänsklig påverkan på sandstränder Att åka till stranden en varm sommardag är en populär aktivitet som många ser som en självklarhet. Inför badsäsongen rensas de populäraste stränderna på tång och annan stranddrift för att välkomna de snart kommande badgästerna och när tiden väl är inne fylls både stranden och dynlandskapet med folk som letar efter den perfekta platsen att slå sig nDuring the summer season, many popular beaches are subjected to human disturbances by way of excessive trampling and beach cleaning. Falsterbo beach in the south of Sweden is one example of this. By making plant establishment harder and removing important habitat structures, these types of disturbances have been shown to negatively influence the vegetation of coastal habitats, reducing both biodiv
