Not exact matches
Current
research projects focus on the process and outcomes of food system localisation in a globalising environment, the sustainability implications of a large
scale transition to agriculturally derived bio-fuels, the effects of school and community context on childhood obesity, and the micro-politics of animal welfare in alternative livestock systems.
As large -
scale genome sequencing
projects, such as the Human Genome
Project, near completion, the
research community's
focus is shifting toward efforts to determine functional information about these sequenced genes.
They tend to
focus on small, individual
research projects rather than supporting large -
scale development and evaluations of alternative techniques and programs for helping all children to succeed in school.
Italian architect Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, partner at OMA working on preservation, scenography and curation, is both leading OMA Urban Studies, as well as the team of creative mediators, which includes the Swiss contemporary art curator Mirjam Varadinis, who works in Kunsthaus Zurich and was co-curator of TRACK, a large
scale city - wide international exhibition in the tradition of «Chambres d'amis» in Ghent, Belgium; Spanish architect, artist and scholar based in New York and Madrid, Andrés Jaque, the founder of the Office of Political Innovation, working on the intersection of
research, politics and design; and Dutch filmmaker and journalist Bregtje van der Haak, who has been directing international documentaries and transmedia
projects on long - term social change with a special
focus on urbanisation and technological culture.
«Ultimately, however, the greatest and most valuable knowledge would be gained through
focused research and monitoring at commercial -
scale demonstration
projects throughout the construction phase and over the long - term during operation.
We did not attempt to quantify congruence of our
project with PR principles, 1,8 but the framework we adapted served to structure and
focus our reporting «beyond the rhetoric», 5 illustrating applied PR principles in large -
scale community - based
research.
The
scales are intended to complement data about the managerial subsystem of a family and are to be used in conjunction with a regional
research project focused on home - based work.