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2 DZUP programs win in Gandingan 2024

May 07, 2024
Two DZUP 1602 service-oriented radio programs won in the 18th UP ComBroadSoc Gandingan Awards (Gandingan Awards) held on May 4 at the Charles Fuller Baker Memorial Hall in UP Los Ba帽os (UPLB). Serbisyong Tatak UP (STU) by the National Service Training Program Diliman and the UP Reserve Officers鈥 Training Corps won Most Development-Oriented AM Program under the General Awards (Radio) category. STU representatives receiving the award. Image from the Gandingan Awards Facebook page Go Teacher Go! (GTG) by the UP Diliman (UPD) National Institute for Science and Mathematics Education Development won Most Development-Oriented Educational Program under the Core Awards (Programs) category. GTG representatives receiving the award. Image from the Gandingan Awards Facebook page STU airs twice a week, while GTG airs twice a month, on DZUP 1602, UPD麻豆视频 official radio station operated by the UPD College of Mass Communication. The Gandingan Awards is organized by the UP Community Broadcasters鈥 Society Inc., a media-oriented student organization based at the UPLB College of Development Communication. The theme for this year is Agrikultura: Mga Kuwento ng Hamon at Pag-asa, which according to the Agriculture takes center stage in 18th UP ComBroadSoc Gandingan Awards article on the UPLB website, 鈥渋s the guiding principle in choosing the winners for this year麻豆视频 awards.鈥 鈥淭he winners should best capture, through stories, the pressing problems faced by farmers, fisherfolk, and other concerned groups and how these affect the overall agricultural landscape in the country,鈥 stated in the article.
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CA opens 2 exhibits

May 06, 2024
Two art installations were unveiled on the same day at the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) as part of the UPD Arts and Culture Festival 2024 and the President麻豆视频 Committee on Culture and the Arts鈥 (PCCA) Day of Remembrance. The CA first launched the HOM(e)AY ng Pangarap: HOMage to the UP Dreams of palAY farming families (HOM(e)AY), a land art installation. The Space LAb x lighting. Photo by Jacelle Isha Bonus, UPDIO Maria Vio Bianca C. Fernandez, program coordinator of the bachelor of landscape architecture program, said the installation 鈥渋s a testament to the resilience of Filipino migrant rice farmers鈥 who face significant challenges in providing education for their children including the dream of attending institutions like UPD.鈥 As part of the HOM(e)AY launch, the UP Filipiniana Dance Group performed a ritual dance celebrating the hard work of migrant farm rice workers. HOM(e)AY was presented by the CA Environmental Landscape Studio Laboratory (ELSL), in partnership with the Office for Initiatives in Culture and the Arts. The UP Filipiniana Dance Group. Photo by Jacelle Isha Bonus, UPDIO Following the HOM(e)AY launch was the official launch of the Space (LAb) x: Space x (Landscape + Architecture + Laboratory) x Experiences Project (Space Lab x), a CA project undertaken with a grant from the PCCA. Nappy L. Navarra, head of the ELSL, said Space Lab x 鈥渃an be divided into three groupings or clusters of meaning.鈥 Navarra said the first part is the space. According to him, 鈥渟pace is the main product of architects and landscape architects.鈥 The second part is the 鈥淟Ab鈥 and the third is the 鈥渪鈥. 鈥淭he LAb is spelled with L, A, and b to emphasize the role of landscape architects in creating spaces. It also represents the ELSL. The x stands for their readiness to collaborate with other disciplines, other professions, other units and colleges, and with the UP System and UPD administration and offices,鈥 he said. He added that the art installation, which is the centerpiece of the Space Lab x, is 鈥渋nspired by the concept of artificial nature鈥攁 human made or simulated environment that mimics natural element or ecosystem.鈥 鈥淭his installation adopts a critical perspective that examines the troubled connection between humans and nature, the constituent麻豆视频contestations between culture and nature, formality and informality in buildings and in ourhabitations, and the technologies that we can see all around us, be it mechanical, analog, or digital,鈥 Navarra said. In describing the installation features, he said the natural elements were deliberately made to look artificial. 鈥淭he landforms were made of cardboards and artificial turf, the trees were made of bamboos to look like manufactured structure, the…
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Arki forum recalls elder Marcos鈥 administration

May 06, 2024
The first History, Theory, and Criticism (HTC) lecture series was recently launched by the UP Diliman (UPD) College of Architecture (CA) and featured a two-part lecture on urbanism during the administration of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and the memorials built in honor of the EDSA Revolution that ended it. Recuperating Marcosian Nostalgia: The Politics of Memory and Forgetting (Recuperating Marcosian Nostalgia) featured the research Specters of the City: The Afterlife of Marcos-Era State Urbanism by John Patrick Canteros and Monumentalizing Uprising: An Introspection of Collective Memory through the Built Memorials and Shrines of EDSA People Power by Bernard Joy Dones. The International Experts for Research Enrichment and Knowledge Exchange defines urbanism as 鈥渢he study of how population of urban areas, such as towns and cities, interact with the built environment,鈥 such as buildings and roads. Canteros, a Fulbright scholar, and Dones, an instructor at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines and the Technological Institute of the Philippines, are both under the mentorship of Gerard Rey A. Lico, PhD, a professor at the CA and director of the CA Research Office. Canteros. Photo by Jerald D.J. Caranza, UPDIO According to the CA, the two speakers 鈥渟hed light on thought-provoking topics that resonate with the contemporary socio-political landscape.鈥 Canteros spoke about the popularity of nostalgia during the Marcos era, specifically construction projects like the San Juanico bridge, the Film Center of the Philippines, and the buildings in the Cultural Center of the Philippines complex. 鈥淚 explore the use of 鈥榮pectacle,鈥 particularly its ability to structure a political economy and consolidate state power, to understand how old representations of long-abandoned buildings and 鈥榩ipedream鈥 projects continue to influence a desire for modernity and shape the politics that entails. Unlike the massive construction projects of the past, however, I suggest that the reproduction of these images possesses a 鈥榟auntological鈥 potency where reality is no longer a limiting factor. Instead, memory becomes an inconvenience, and the promise of a future becomes more real than the present,鈥 Canteros said. Dones麻豆视频 research, on the other hand, examined existing EDSA Revolution monuments and their importance in 鈥渟afeguarding historical narratives鈥 and the effect time and polarization have had on their meaning. 鈥渉e study also reveals that limited rituals and the underutilization of the surroundings of these monuments for educational purposes create vulnerable gaps in memory, exposing them to potential distortions if not activated through placemaking,鈥 Dones said. Dones. Photo by Jerald D.J. Caranza, UPDIO Recuperating Marcosian Nostalgia included a panel discussion with Carmen Bettina Silong-Bulaong…

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Moving toward a socially sustainable Philippines

March 26, 2024
The Philippines needs to strengthen its existing support programs, such as those for indigenous people (IP), women, and climate change resilience, to step closer to social sustainability, according to Louise Cord, PhD. Cord is the World Bank global director for social sustainability and inclusion in the World Bank麻豆视频 sustainable development practice. Cord said social sustainability occurs 鈥渨hen communities and societies are able to work together to deal with common challenges such as flooding, droughts, poor quality education, a poorly stocked health center in a way that all people thrive over time and in a way that people consider to be fair and just.鈥 Cord. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO She said some of the Philippines鈥 economic indicators in the past few years are strong, such as a drop in inequality and strong poverty reduction metrics. To move towards social sustainability in the Philippines, Cord proposed actions in the areas of women empowerment, digital services, and programs for IP. Cord made a case of social sustainability particularly for the country麻豆视频 IP communities. She said the IP’s remote ancestral lands contain many 鈥渋mportant minerals whose value will grow.鈥 She proposed developing a digital portal to centralize data such as the locations of ancestral lands and the services available to IP. Cord also proposed creating integrated packages for remote communities that provide 鈥渁ccess to digital resources, access to transport, access to local infrastructure.鈥 She added that access to digital services could improve the role of women and other marginalized groups by enabling and expanding their access to markets. Cord said digital services would also enable women and marginalized groups to 鈥渢alk with one another across communities and to learn from one another. And to track funds to build accountability at the local level using a cellphone to be able to have an app to track funds.鈥 The World Bank official cited the work of the National Commission on Indigenous People麻豆视频 (NCIP), which she said could be bolstered by giving them more resources to go out to the IP communities. 鈥 so happy that an institution like the NCIP provides that support. What I would like to see is that they won’t have to come all the way to Manila to make their claim. That there are easier access to systems, to have a voice at the local level and have themselves be heard,鈥 Cord said. While a lot is being done to build climate change resilience in communities, Cord said there needs to be more initiatives, particularly in infrastructure and service delivery. 鈥淎ll of this is absolutely key, but we also need resilient communities, because…
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Dealing with cybersecurity and AI

April 29, 2024
鈥淚f technology is a very potent force in our world, then it makes sense to harness technology itself to solve the problems that it creates.鈥 UP Diliman (UPD) Chancellor Edgardo Carlo L. Vistan II emphasized this point in his keynote address at the forum Securing the Future: Forum on Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Vistan. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO The forum was organized by the Center for Policy and Executive Development (CPED) of the UPD National College of Public Administration and Governance (NCPAG), in partnership with the Congressional Planning, Research, and Budget Department, the UPD College of Engineering Computer Vision and Machine Intelligence Group, and the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise. According to a CPED post on its Facebook page, 鈥渢he forum aims to foster strategic partnerships in advancing cybersecurity and AI policies bringing together experts from national and international institutions.鈥 Vistan opened his keynote with an overview of his experiences in conducting research in law and technology, particularly cybersecurity and international law. Vistan shared that as a faculty member of the UP College of Law, a large part of his research focuses on 鈥渃ybersecurity and 鈥榗yber鈥 in general and their intersections with policy and other interventions.鈥 He said, 鈥淭he attempt to control or regulate the profound and wide-reaching technological changes such as the 鈥榗yber,鈥 biotechnology, and artificial intelligence (AI) by social institutions, political institutions, governments, and the law, will not always work.鈥 Vistan explained about cultural lag and mentioned William F. Ogburn, the 20th century sociology professor who coined the term. 鈥淲hat that believes, are initiated by technological changes,鈥 he said. Vistan pointed out that milestones in technological changes or advancements, such as the creation of the steam engine, creation of the first computer, the internet, and now the AI, trigger responses from other sectors of society. People in authority always think of ways to address the anticipated problems that these new technologies bring. 鈥淭hose milestones in technological change or advancement, they trigger responses from other aspects of society, and one major response is through law, through policy,鈥 Vistan said. According to Vistan, most of the responses always lag behind. He, however, pointed out that late responses are natural. Vistan delivering his keynote address before the attendees. Photo by Jefferson Villacruz, UPDIO 鈥淭hat is always the case historically. We don鈥檛 have to be worried about that. The key here is to respond…

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