Background – Examples – Affects / Conclusion
by
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch, IPC, FPAC
BACKGROUND
Various activities were undertaken in the Berlin period by the IPC (Charly, Johnny, etc.), which can be disregarded in the present consideration. A special project was the Power Box, a joint effort between Germany and Malaysia (see: www. ...).
With increasing international activity from 1990, which started in Pakistan and then continued into Cameroon, Colombia, etc., new challenges were encountered in the field of construction methods and technology.
EXAMPLES
In the TTTC of the AeFeA (NGO) in Pakistan, solar cookers, solar dryers, windmills (Savonius principle), hot water heaters, also a power box, for applications in rural areas and able to be locally produced, i.e. also without electricity and special tools, were made available and accessible not only to the villagers, but also to student visitors for educational purpose.
The objects were made in small quantities, distributed and sold and explained in lectures and workshops - from Adamkot in the south to Bahawalnagar to Abbottabad.
In the case of building methods, foremost the “women's center”, a competition for building samples was carried out, with a jury, awards and an exhibition. Not only experiences from excavations in the ancient city of Harappa by M. Kenoyer (three-layer wall construction used 5000 years ago, today referred to as passive solar architecture) were used, but also tests carried out in the wind tunnel of the TU Berlin before building, in order to ensure natural ventilation and air circulation cycles; The village and the planned development were modeled in accordance with the results of the study.
Different materials were used for the buildings (mud bricks, hollow bricks, solid wall and combinations with insulating material, also upside-down clay pots). The temperature was measured regularly at fixed points in order to use the experiences for later buildings (Lahore, D.I.K.). The experimental buildings in Lahore (PCC and BNU) were financed by the German Embassy and the IPC, the one for DIK (flood victims) by the Rotarians and with the help of the SES. The objects for the flood victims also considered results of developments in adapted technology. The building experiments in the BNU led to establishment of an Institute for Experimental Buildings (IEC, see www. ...).
The requirements for AT (alternative technology) and AB (adapted, climate-friendly construction) were different in Pakistan, Cameroon, Colombia, but similar in prevailing conditions (lack of tools, lack of electricity, etc.).
In Bamenda/Cameroon a permanent exhibition for AT and AB was created in the Center for Adapted Techniques (CAT, NGO), with workshops, lectures and presentations from Douala to Bafoussam to Maroua. A cooperation with the BUST led to the founding of the IAM; CAT's work has received several awards and it has been praised in press articles, the crown was thereby the establishment of RUC / Royal University Centre.
With the support of the then GTZ, as well as the IPC, also with the support of the SES, Misereor, etc., CAT-clubs were established in the districts of the former NW province; the Kids-Club in Bamenda conducted and still conducts environmental workshops, despite the turbulent situation in the English-speaking areas.
In Colombia, TM (ONG) Saboya was able to bring awareness about AT to the people in the town; Through cooperation with a workshop in Chiquinquira, equipment was manufactured for schools (to explain and raise awareness of the students about AT) and remote Fincas (independent of power supply) and introduced for use. A particular success was the branch in Leticia on the Amazon with the assistance of the National University in Bogota (including a course for environmental technology as a run-up to an exhibition in the Museum Leopoldo Rother with material from Germany ). IdEpeT, an institution for like-minded people, was established in project and partner locations. In Colombia, the project work was supported by IPC, DGFK, Misereor and SES.
EFFECTS
If one asks about the achievements of the activities outlined, then, according to spectacular reports in the media, they are visible in everyday life. Everyday life includes coping with the normal demands of life and dealing with other developments. People in rural areas in particular are subject to enormous information pressure from the cities. In order to appear open minded, ideas are being adopted which are usually not compatible with the environment. There is a certain tragedy in the subsequent realizations of the townsfolk, whose previous influence on the rural population had already had a negative impact on the environment. A certain traditional conservative attitude can be helpful here, but it will be difficult for the willing and affected to maintain it.
A remarkable example was the experience in a Pakistani village - one lived there, in today's sense very environmentally friendly, was economical with water and fuel! And all this without much dependence on the urban areas.
CONCLUSION
All in all one can say: Good ideas require the right point in time and a minority that lives what it considers right and environmentally friendly!
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:47 AM,
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What one thinks to believe, it is better
to be silent about it.
by Prof. Norbert Pintsch, SRF/FPAC
If one were to take the statements of the heading and the subtitle to heart, there would only be social noises on the planet, such as: Oh, so, - ah, yes, So-so, - the difference to cattle on a pasture would not be very big, - whereby the principles: coming-staying-going are still true for all life!
Presumably, there are special relationships in each individual thoughts and Expression. Where do the thoughts come from and where do you get the names in the spoken expression? It is a lengthy process that starts even before the schooling and is always associated with imprints from the respective cultural environment.
When the schooling starts, "half the matter" is already set, and it would not be false to say if - instead of the schooling, individual experiences were being made. In the existing, impact-oriented life styles, there are various stipulations that hardly allow any space for deviations from the standard.
When special challenges arise in the increasingly globalized and digitized world with its unification and uniformity doctrines, we are not equipped to handle them. Attempts to find solutions can only be undertaken with existing instruments, whether in research, development, production!
The call for creativity and innovation is acoustically understandable. But cannot be implemented because the huge system is stuck. Weaknesses and general problems are repaired, refurbished, modernized. Short-sighted and short-term action and financial success are the yardstick, although human weaknesses are reflected in all undertaken measures.
Special situations such as wars, (natural) disasters, illnesses - specially of longer duration, offer both opportunities and challenges. So you have to think about the causes and act accordingly. This however contrasts with the persistence of global political, social and large economic systems.
However, the individual can, in parallel and during the course of usual schooling and qualification phase, step alongside oneself and practice free thinking. A fundamental effect would be to find out what is actually believed and what is factually known, see heading and subtitles. The resulting knowledge leads to a shock!
Such a shock is the prerequisite for the beginning of independent thinking and will not be based on the quantity of publications studied. Perhaps even the childhood impressions have to be taken into account in order to process the subsequent schooling.
Wars, disasters, diseases - they are challenges and opportunities to understand yourself and the environment and to move from the short-sighted and short-term effect-oriented to the far-sighted and long-term cause-oriented action and effect. It means free thinking - a luxury that everyone can afford, even if the daily problems of the cost of living and making sense of life are still to be overcome!
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 7:16 PM,
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By Norbert Pintsch / IPC-FBTC
Should one meet directly or hold indirect contact?
What is better or worse or more suitable or environmentally friendly or...?
It would be nice if there was a correct answer, - well it seems that there is none! Human coexistence is enormous and varied, full of misunderstandings and wonders that are eliminated by the technical possibilities that create them, the misunderstandings.
A personal contact for the sake of a contact prevents misunderstandings. If a personal contact has been made, then further topics and problems can be discussed on this basis. In the academic context, the question arises as to whether the use of the technical possibilities can be a substitute or only a tool to keep in touch. Replacement can be the visual presentation of topics, in any case, it is environmentally friendly, but never substitute for personal discussions.
The TV/video factor should be understood in this sense.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:29 AM,
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Media and Society - Future and Beyond
By Norbert Pintsch / SRF-FPAC
In fact, they have brought movement in society and politics.
They transfer information independently, - as far as possible, and also neutrally, - but in any case faster and faster to achieve attention and effect!
Their messages complete a tightrope walk between reality, interpretation and possibility.
To speculate about the daily events sets limits.
The following scenario appears as a literary visa and lets you forget how far the vision is in the real world.
The possibilities of the media are integrated into the vision and show the inter-dependencies in the culture.
The model used is a closed system. In any case, it should be thought-provoking.
In the closed system
The word "closed" has an unpleasant aftertaste in everyday life, - involuntarily one thinks of closed institutions and thus of the restriction of freedom, - whatever one imagines it to be.
If you lean back and reflect on the experiences of life, you can certainly recognize a protective function and if you think about the regulated and organized environment in which you live, you come to completely different, also interesting, aspects!
Apart from that, with the slogan you can defend your freedom and you have the most curious and terrible measures - better, you do not think about it.
Well, the closed system, we live increasingly in one. In historical times, one also lived in a system that was reasonably closed. The environment was hostile, but internally one lived in balance with nature, holistically we call it holistic.
In the closed system, one has turned away from the shortcomings, pains and ruinations of the open system. It is more deliberate with the resources and uses the technological possibilities. So, for example, recycling.
If physical measures are undertaken, this is done by auxiliary means, e.g. interactive robot.
Thus, variations of the dwellings can easily be printed, whereby the autonomous variants are to be preferred; Energy, drinking water, industrial water, fecal waste, etc. are recycled through sophisticated system. The costs for the central infrastructure are almost completely eliminated. By linking individual data, basic disposal tests can be carried out at any time, so that residents can be informed as soon as possible about changes in their health.
In the closed system, imports and exports of goods are controlled, - one tries to get along with what one has; i.e. Food is produced centrally in closed circuits, or even in the "dwellings". The central production can take place in automatic multi-tiered farms, for example vegetation and animal production by using the principle of integrated production for mutual advantages.
Even the term "housing" is negatively understood, - who wants to "house", but if you come to the core, it has always been housed - between "the worst" and "the most luxurious", even if the latter hasled to ruin.
The concentrated form of the housing leads to enormous space savings, whereby a total of generous communal areas can be arranged, in which performances that are space-consuming in the open system (concert halls, museums, exhibitions, botanical and zoological gardens) are carried out in a contemporary manner and using the technological possibilities. Car racing, sporting and recreational activities of all kinds will take place in a new, digitized and visualized form, fitness centers are connected to the medical care, diet advice and individual disposal data.
Concentration in a closed system also has a positive impact on mobility, in which analogue luxury shifts into digital, artificial language. This also benefits the more creative residents of closed systems.
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posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:41 AM,
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