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Floral Clock - Carl Linnaeus, 1751

Carl Linnaeus was a Swedish botanist who is best known for developing a system for naming, ranking, and classifying organisms still in use today.

Linnaeus divided flowers into three categories. The Meteorici, which open and close with the weather. The Tropici open during the day and close at night. The Aequinoctales, Linnaeus wrote, “open precisely at a certain hour of the day and generally shut up every day at a determinate hour.”

Linnaeus proposed the idea that it might be possible to tell time with reliable accuracy by observing when certain species of plants open and close their flowers. He designed the horologium florae with the plan to plant different flowers that reliably open and close at different hours, offering a different way to tell the time of day.

Unfortunately the application of the clock would be limited to Linnaeus’ place of his observations - in Uppsala, Sweden, and even then only at a specific time of year. Flowers are sensitive to the seasons and will open and close differently at different latitudes. 

Some new Season 3 gifs from the Facebook group: Wakfu Serie. 

One of the competitor is Katherine Charlotte and I don't see the Face book page shared but there is a monthly plan posted and it cost around $999 (full cost). The business have different plan option and pricing. Responds to questions about 3 hours.

Another competitor is Taxit4me and not more information on the webpage. The responding time takes 1 week. There no pricing information posted. Last update was done about 3 months ago.

Another competitor is Liberty Tax Services. They have various locations. They do mostly Tax returns. The web page is well designed and the Facebook page is well designed withe recent updates. They give $20 discount for every referral. This is a franchise ownership business.

STUDIO W3 THE UNDERBELLY: COLOMBIA & CORRUPTION

The corrupt underbelly of Colombia

Weak and unaccountable public institutions in Latin America have created a fertile ground for organised criminal networks to flourish, fuelling violence and insecurity. In many countries, law enforcement and corrupt officials collaborate with criminal gangs or accept bribes in exchange for turning a blind eye to their illicit activities. Additionally, evidence suggests that organised criminals wield a strong influence over candidates and politicians, financing electoral campaigns and even running for office themselves.

Colombia has a relatively high corruption index, with the highest number of killings of human rights defenders with 138/year, followed by Mexico with 42/year, and 27/year in Brazil. Too often, murders of environmental and anti-corruption defenders go unpunished due to corruption, criminals infiltrating local governments and the justice system.

The solution could be to follow the United states: Well functioning democratic systems boost transparency and accountability. Gustavo Petro’s victory in 2022 presidential elections has generated expectations of change, spurred on by massive protests in 2019 and 2021 as a result of the high levels of corruption and organised crime, like illegal deforestation, which act as barriers to achieving the country’s social, economic and environmental agenda.

Governments in the Americas should strengthen their institutions to ensure the necessary checks and balances to fight corruption effectively. Governments should also guarantee adequate conditions for civil society, activists and different communities to participate in public life and demand accountability without fear of retaliation.

KEY WORDS POVERTY POPULATION DENSITY PEACE JUSTICE POLITICIANS POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS INEQUALITY GENDERED VIEWS LEXICON IDENTITY TRANSPLANT KLEPTOCRACY CORRUPTION SOCIAL STRATIFICATION CLASS SYSTEMS GRASSROOTS POSITIVE PROPAGATION

STUDIO WK3 NOTES

THE UNDERBELLY: COLOMBIA & CORRUPTION

Primary concepts talked about on the table with David (tutor): NETWORK / TOURISM / POWER / GENDER / POVERTY / REDISTRIBUTION

MAIN TAKEAWAYS:

find a key metric (in my case it seems to be corruption), and find a way to make an empirical improvement.

NEXT WEEK:

FURTHER DEVELOP STG TEAM TOPIC IN RELATION TO INFO & DATA FOUND

FURTHER DEVELOP DATA VISUALISATION PDF'ABLE

EXPERIMENT WITH VISUALISATION & MORE METRICS

FURTHER SITE ANALYSIS.//DONT FOCUS SOLELY ON LARGE

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF INFO

PERHAPS SELECT NEIGHBORHOOD

Refer to site / context plans which are required based on the data - create an informed perspective on Bogota & the data is represents.

Connect to an area. Begin the site analysis.

What is a public sphere? When individual people come together in a public space that has equal ad protected participation, unlimited access to information and which is outside of institutional influence. They gather to further critical knowledge using reason which can lead to political change.

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But, does the public sphere actually exist? Is there a space on social media that meets all the requirements of a ‘public sphere’? I’m not sure that there is a one space that isn’t overlooked by the platform to some extent, or where everyone has full access and equal participation. Public spheres are spaces where people need to feel safe to express themselves and their ideas and opinions, does that exist on social media?

For example, TikTok heavily relies on algorithms to bring content to the individual, meaning that people who may be interested in participating in a public sphere, may not know it even exists. Or, in a post-2018 Tumblr, restrictions are tighter and there is heavier supervision.

However, people believe that micro-publics have popped up all over different social media platforms. Facebook groups, comments, blogging, and hashtag activism.

#bodypositive

A hashtag that people tag their selfies with. A hashtag that has the potential to depict a greater diversity and authenticity, smashing through the so-called ideal female body. But its also at risk of promoting self-objectification, of internalising the ‘thin ideal’.

BUT, the hashtag brings together a community of like-minded people. People that believe in celebrating all bodies, people who embrace confidence and empowerment and who want to protest in favour of female beauty and more diversity. Solidarity across class, race, and sexuality.

  Anne Reif, Insa Miller & Monika Taddicken (2022) “Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive Download “Love the Skin You‘re In”: An Analysis of Women’s Self-Presentation and User Reactions to Selfies Using the Tumblr Hashtag #bodypositive, Mass Communication and Society, DOI: 10.1080/15205436.2022.2138442Links to an external site.