The formalities of informal improvement: technical and scholarly knowledge at work in do-it-yourself urban design

Unauthorized yet functional and civic-minded “do-it-yourself urban design” contributions have seen growing interest in recent years. Authorities and community members alike rightfully wonder about the meanings of these actions and the questions they raise about rights, responsibilities, contexts, and consequences. Building from a multi-year study of DIY urban design across 17 cities, this paper focuses on the backgrounds and methods of these would-be local improvers. In particular, it demonstrates that many are informed by sophisticated knowledge of scholarly urban theory and official planning and design standards. Referencing debates on informality and formality in urbanism, I show that highly technical, academic, and formalized elements pervade these informal efforts, suggesting a gray area in our normative assumptions about official versus unauthorized placemaking. I argue that this knowledge enables and inspires many do-it-yourselfers’ actions and produces a complex and potentially problematic reflexivity around their place in the city and their potential impacts.     

Claiming participation – a comparative analysis of DIY urbanism in Denmark

The article discuss the conflicts, potentials and possible alliances of do-it-yourself (DIY) urbanism when it takes the form of spontaneous place appropriations, when it is performed as participatory urban design and when it is integrated strategically in planning. DIY urbanism and experimentation with participation are currently strong influential factors in Danish planning. The article explores the use of participatory DIY urban design in two cases: the relocation of beer drinkers in Enghave Square and the Carlsberg City development in Copenhagen, Denmark. Carlsberg City is the most thorough Danish example of how DIY urban design is employed as an investment and planning tool. It discusses the implications of DIY urbanism in terms of how it can be understood in the context of the struggles over ‘the right to the city’, how it applies different activist tactics for the appropriation of space, and how it is integrated in planning and the development logic.     

"DIY"--家居装饰新理念

本文从我国家居装饰行业的发展趋势与前景,提出了"DIY"装饰新理念,深入分析了在当前的行业状况、经济环境和技术条件下,家居装饰"DIY"的可行性、优势与影响.指出在发展"DIY"中存在的制约因素,相应的对策与设想.     

PC机加LCNP卡攒成GUS站用于应急的探索

DCS的应用愈来愈普及 ,DCS的发展也越来越接近开放性、通用性。HoneywellTPS系统以其良好的开放性深受用户喜爱。DCS在实际应用过程中 ,由于现场条件等原因 ,出现问题在所难免。在备件一时难以到货的紧急情况下 ,当TPS系统的GUS站硬件出现问题时 ,能否利用GUS站的通用性及开放性 ,用普通PC机加TPS专用LCNP卡 ,攒成GUS站用于应急呢 ?通过理论分析及实践进行了探索并证明是可行的     

DIY创意灵性生活空间——浅析涂料在家居设计的新运用

DIY是"Do It Yourself"的英文缩写,即"自己动手做",它包括自己设计及自己制作两方面。现代社会人们更加注重精神和情感的需求,追求自我、张扬个性成为一种生活态度。家居设计是最直接的可以用设计改造生活的方式之一,运用DIY创意个人灵性生活空间的理念深入人心,使得许多原有设计材料尤其是涂料在家居设计中获得新的运用,艺术涂料市场得以不断升温,这在给与机遇的同时也对涂料行业提出了新的挑战。     

让我们来折腾QQ吧

QQ玩了这么多年，老是那些现成的东西有什么意思呢?现在让我们举起DIY的大锤砸向QQ，尽情地去折腾它。不管是膨胀的创意还是过胜的精力，都可以从中得到发泄。想要与众不同，就从现在开始。     

DIY,个性化设计的点睛之笔

DIY起源于欧美,兴起于近几年,正在成为一种时尚。通过提供订单式服务、标准接口、可扩展接口、可塑性材料、"再设计"的工具与材料等途径可以为消费者提供DIY空间。DIY极大地满足了消费者追求个性化的心理需求,堪称个性化设计的点睛之笔。     

Questions of Taste

Charles Holland of FAT picks up the Post-Modern baton from Venturi Scott Brown and Charles Jencks and raises the neglected topic of taste. Though the way architecture is experienced by people is bound up with taste, it remains an area of discomfort for architects – tied up with awkward discussions of privilege and class. Holland shows how in FAT's Islington Square housing project the DIY taste of the residents was not only embraced, but fully accommodated. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

DIY Dreams and the Potential of Home

Despite the cultural and economic importance of do-it-yourself (DIY) home improvement, questions about its role in the production and consumption of home have been traversed in only a limited way in the housing studies literature. We consider New Zealanders’ DIY house improvement intentions and what these ideas for house modification reveal about the idealized relationships they have with their dwellings. We focus on homeowners’ thinking and dreaming about the ways the material and symbolic “potential” of home can be achieved by engaging in DIY projects. We theorize our work using the literatures on house and home, self-provisioning activities, leisure work and cultural intermediation, particularly the important roles played by family, friends and print and electronic media in advancing ideas for DIY projects.     

网络系统应用在煤炭企业的环境构想

网络系统如何在煤炭企业进行应用 ,是煤炭企业实现科学化、网络化管理的关键 ,本文详细阐述了煤炭企业网络环境建设中存在的问题及网络环境设计的逻辑思维。