Bibliographic record
Abstract
IntroductionThe task of situating applies as well to broader discussions, which include such topics as the creative economy, design for sustainability, and universal design.Authors explore how these big ideas apply in Alberta and how local applications can inform general understandings of these topics.This is a unique exploration; there are few surveys of design in Alberta, let alone analyses of local design work.The focus of the book, as one of the first publications on the subject, is necessarily broad.It provides a lay of the land to characterize design in Alberta and to highlight important issues for the local design community and for local arts, culture, industry, and planning.The word situating also hints at the concept of situated knowledge, often employed in socially engaged and critical writing.Situated knowledge refers to understandings informed by context: personal experience, culture, and geographic location, for example.Contributors to the book have strong Alberta connections and write from their perspectives as local designers, researchers, educators, and design students.This range of experience helps anchor discussions on topics of local interest and relevance and includes reflections on local culture, studies of successful (and less successful) companies, critiques of design training, calls to action, and visions of future practice.The situated focus provides an important counterpoint to large, generalized, and globalized conceptions of design and its practice, education, and research.In the context of globalization, the "grobalization" or growth and spread of mass culture is countered by the re-embedding and emphasizing of local or "glocal" identity.3 This book contributes local perspectives to these broader discussions and is part of the movement to "glocalize" design work.Individual chapters also introduce perspectives toward localglobal connections, and authors debate the extent to which local designers can and should engage with global networks.Local creative culture and the diversity of products, services, and experiences that designers co-develop are becoming increasingly valuable assets as globalization brings about the growth and spread of mass and highly segmented consumer culture.Celebrating and investing in regional arts
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.336 | 0.181 |
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; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
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".