Sunday Coffee : Arts Design Architecture

Happy Holiday week 2022

Today's guest is Darlene Crone-Todd from the BF Skinner Foundation.

As my audience may know, my first career was a dolphin trainer at the Gulfarium in Ft.  Walton Beach Fl. I have been used the BF Skinner teaching methods for not just dolphins but in teaching swimming, teaching my employees, and managing my various businesses. I am thrilled to introduce this amazing group of people who are carrying the light of the positive reinforcement torch on today. 

My very special guest today is Darlene Crone-Todd from the BF Skinner Foundation from Harvard. She is a full time professor in Psychology at the Salem University from Salem, MA. 

What would you like to learn? How were you taught in school? Do you remember the material well? There are different teaching techniques. And, to a varying degree they can be effective. However, study after study from BF Skinner demonstrated how the principals of learning (positive, variable schedules, shaping, extinguishing,) have stood the test of time across human demographics and species. What are these techniques?

As a student, what type of teaching technique would you prefer? Do you want a positive environment with quick progress? What would that look like? This type of teaching shapes the learning into small steps for the quickest progress. It's by breaking down the learning (either physical i.e. ice skating or mental i.e research papers) that the students can enjoy the process as well as the instructor. They both get positive reinforcement from the interaction and exchange of knowledge?   

Studies are demonstrating that employees are not always happy in the workplace. How can we have a better work environment? What is "positive" anyway? Does it work for anyone. If you are a manager, how can you be more effective?

To answer these questions, and many more tune into this essential Sunday Coffee podcast for a Happy 2023!

Darlene Crone-Todd  https://directory.salemstate.edu/profile/darlene.cronetodd

Her selected works: https://works.bepress.com/darlene-cronetodd/

B. F. Skinner Foundation board member profile

5. Google scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=nkcXfQJxe04C&view_op=list_works&sortby=pubdate

 She is co-editing a book with Andresa de Souza with a working title "Behavior Analysis in Higher Education and Supervision", and another one with Donald Hantula and T. V. Joe

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Place & Prosperity: How cities help us to connect and innovate: by William Fulton Published by Island Press 2022

Where are you from? Where do you live? These are the two most common and powerful questions we ask and answer to each other. It's deeply personal to our sense of identity and place in a community. What is this "place" we call home? How do places come into being? Why do we long to go back "home" ? Or, do we want to explore and find a new community?

Mr. Fulton has these questions too and he has learned a few lessons along the way -coming from a small town and then traveling the world. This book is his own life long lessons and answers searching for "the place". How they are shaped and how we can change them.

Why community would you like to live in? A daily walkable city to you job and supermarket or would you still prefer connect via car? In national surveys again and again it was a 50/ 50 split. In our conversation we discuss what it means to create places like these and why they come into reality.

I hope you'll enjoy this conversation with your hot cuppa this morning.

Click to this book's link on Island Press
Place & Prosperity: How cities help us to connect and innovate: by William Fulton Published by Island Press 2022

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Rural Renaissance Revitalizing America's Hometowns through Clean Power: by L. Michelle Moore published by Island Press 2022

Each step on our power grid journey has benefited humanity. The coal we burned fueled homes, businesses, and lifted us out of poverty. Now today, we have an opportunity to use new technologies to a new level. With clean technology made in America, we can be more independent with local decision making for a better community system.

Michelle takes us through "how to do it" step by step with her principals for an even better future for rural areas. Her organization https://groundswell.org is taking action and assisting local leaders plan better futures to power and connect their communities with affordable and independent technologies.

Sit back and pour a nice hot cuppa tea or coffee for an interesting conversation. 

Rural Renaissance Revitalizing America's Hometowns through Clean Power: by L. Michelle Moore published by Island Press 2022

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Exercises in Architecture: learning to think like as architect   2nd Edition by Simon Unwin published by Routledge in 2023

Each art form has it's own language. While we may not equate architecture with written music, it is - just like it. As the author discusses from his own struggles with learning architecture, he discovered architecture anew while teaching it. How do we communicate? Does architecture communicate with us? The answer is yes if we are aware of it. It forms the basis for our daily lives in many humble and not so humble ways.

Architecture informs our behaviors. It communicates ideas. Just like any other art form the language is distinct and all it's own.

In this book (and his series of books) Simon explores how we come to learn communication. How we have lost the art of spaces and voids in our daily lives. It is an instinct that we can become aware of once more. There are principals to making better spaces for not just our homes but our spiritual places and work places.

This book applies to more than architecture. It's about the bigger picture of urban design and landscape architecture too.

This is a book of exercise for both studio architecture teachers and students who want to do more.

Exercises in Architecture: learning to think like as architect   2nd Edition by Simon Unwin published by Routledge in 2023 

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Managing The Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire by Jonathan Barnett & Matthijs Bouw  Published by Island Press in 2022

It's getting hot on planet Earth. There are forces in motion that can be reversed but we will have to deal with the effects of floods, heat, drought, and wildfire for the foreseeable future. How can our communities adapt today so that we can live a full life and reverse the effects for the next generation?

There are steps we can take today because pennies do add up.

Join me in this conversation with Jonathan and Matthijs about how to protect our communities and our families with small but powerful changes in our daily lives. Climate change is already here. The question is what are we going to do  today that will make our children and grandchildren proud of us?

"Failure is not an option" - movie Apollo 13.

If there was ever a time or a "how to" book, this is yet. This book takes a complicated science problem and breaks it down into easy to read steps. It's not too late but the time is now. Take this book to your local community leaders to share. The clock is ticking.


Managing The Climate Crisis: Designing and Building for Floods, Heat, Drought, and Wildfire by Jonathan Barnett & Matthijs Bouw  Published by Island Press in 2022

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Brandi Long, MFA website and social links

Good morning!

I'm so excited to bring you my first professional artist interview. Today's guest is a colleague of mine from Florida International University art program.  The video interview portion will be posted to my YouTube channel to see her new studio and artwork from her MFA show at the Frost Museum. 

Brandi Long was born and raised in Miami Florida. She first became interested in art
when she was around the age of fifteen. In her early years, she mainly painted and used her
artmaking as a means of therapy. Losing both her parents in her early twenties those events led Long to rethink her perspective on life. Around this time she fell in love with the world  of fiber arts. Fiber Can be a very general word that covers a multitude of techniques. Her current work is mixed media-based sculptures that highlight her connection to nature for nature. Long Recently Graduated from Florida International University in April of 2022 upon completion of her Thesis Exhibition Echo, long was awarded Berry Laird Perry Award and will be showing her "Forgotten Chapters" series next at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute in Jamestown, New York.

Brandi Long, MFA website and social links

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No Farms, No Food Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture by Don Stuart

What happens when a farm fails? Sold? Retires?

These are not easy answers but they can have devastating results for the communities and environment they serve. Mr. Stuart takes a good, hard, long look into the research and reality of the decisions we make about our food. We discuss the history of farms in the US. The  "why and how"  they landed there. And, the financial realities to make food.

Real Estate -
It's a balancing act. When a property is deemed more valuable with retail and housing the property value goes up. Farmers have to leverage their land in order to grow us food. It needs to be affordable for everyone. How do we balance the real estate pressures with our food?

Climate -
Farmers do care about the environment. Rain is very important to a farmer as well as the soils. They like to eat good food too. How do we strike a balance to have our cake and eat it too?

There are many questions and this book offers some answers and a new perspective. Can we  use coalitions to protect our resources? How can we wisely leverage them for our survival and to cherish the the home planet that we all love: Earth.

Don Stuart is a former director for AFT's Pacific Regional Office and has also served as executive director for the Washington Association of Conservation Districts and executive director for Salmon for Washington, a non-profit trade association. Stuart is the author of Barnyards and Birkenstocks: Why Farmers and Environmentalists Need Each Other.

No Farms, No Food Uniting Farmers and Environmentalists to Transform American Agriculture by Don Stuart

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Ecologies of Inception: Designs potentials on a warming planet by Simone Ferracina published by Routledge in 2022

Humans have utilized raw materials for - ever actually. We love art and to create useful vessel for our food, survival, warfare, and entertainment. It's how we shelter ourselves and brings us comfort.

Since the industrial revolution, we are still following the tabula rasa concept of form from matter at an increasing and alarming  rate.  The prevailing thought of designing are way out of it may not be enough. Can we upcycle, recycle, downcycle our way out of the heap? Or as this book offers, a new perspective about our stuff?

Mr. Ferracina's elegant writing balances out the academic qualities of this book to offer useful questions and solutions to the pressing issues about today's climate emergency and our mountains of stuff. Join us on this podcast for a most interesting conversation - with your cuppa coffee of course! 

Simone Ferracina is the founding director of Exaptive Design Office (EDO) and a Lecturer in Architectural Design/Detail at the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA), The University of Edinburg.


Ecologies of Inception: Designs potentials on a warming planet by Simone Ferracina published by Routledge in 2022

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The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age by Nicholas P. Sullivan  Published by Island Press in 2022.

Fishing - it's not as easy as it sounds. It's one of the world's oldest professions and not really understood by the public at large. I have lived on the Gulf Coast most of my life and being surrounded by water; I've not really understood it. We all want a sustainable resource for our generation and the next that is healthy and strong. It's a big question with many people involved trying to figure out how to make the regulations fair for all: the consumer, the fish, and the fisher people.

If you are a fisher person, this book may enlighten you about the industry at large and what your counterparts are doing overseas. For the layperson who wants to know what you are eating, this guide book is for you.

In the information age, we can catch our fish and eat it too!

For more information, click on the link below
The Blue Revolution: Hunting, Harvesting, and Farming Seafood in the Information Age by Nicholas P. Sullivan  Published by Island Press in 2022.

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Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva published by Routledge in 2022

This book is an introduction to Bruno Latour. He is a leading figure in Social Sciences today. In the past decade his Action-Network Theory (ANT) has gained much popularity in the field of architecture.

This book discusses his philosophy and how it applies to specific methods of new thinking in architecture and design pedagogy. It demonstrates these methods in practical examples of architectural practice and urban design. This book argues for the ANT-inspired approach to architecture and how the methodological insights can outline new research avenues in the field.

The book draws on the world of architectural practice and how it can re-order the world to handle human and nonhuman collective life. It re-examines the role of matter in design and redefines the forms of social, political, and ethical associations that bind us together in cities.

This interview discusses the role of landscape architecture too.

Click here for more information from Routledge.

Latour for Architects by Albena Yaneva published by Routledge in 2022

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