Animated Architecture: Maria Luiza Mendez Lins and the Colonial Water Taps of Olinda, Brazil
Bibliographic record
Abstract
An uneasy relation between water contamination and social contamination plays out at the water tap (bica, fonte, chafariz) in Olinda, Brazil. Originally built to provide fresh water for the public and for ships, the taps are set in decoratively carved plaster or stone walls. Architecturally, they are beautiful, even when overgrown, disfigured by road and utility construction, or strewn with waste. Today, bicas are extraneous to centralized water, sewage or drainage infrastructure. Water flows passively from hillside crevices through the simplest of plumbing. Because the water table underlying the city is contaminated, the quality of water emerging from bicas is always subject to question. The politics of bica performance involves partially clad persons drinking and bathing in central areas of public space, where these architectural extensions of dead colonial powers are sometimes dressed illegally in murals and signatures of graffiti artists. Guided by Iza do Amparo, a painter from Olinda, this essay reflects on the connections among water architecture, social marginality, and street art.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".