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Cyanotype is the most accessible and frequently used of all the alternative photographic processes. When utilized properly, it has the potential to rival other processes when it comes to detail and tonal range, but its Prussian blue color isn’t always suitable for the final photograph. Throughout history, cyanotype prints have been toned not only with various—and at times hazardous—chemicals but also with more natural ingredients like tea and coffee. Since the cyanotype itself is non-toxic, Cyanotype Toning will champion an innovative process, developed by the author, of toning cyanotypes with natural material. This process, which is easy and reliable, offers a much broader range of possible colors and even beautiful black and whites. Even duotone or tricolor prints can be attained.

The book consists of two parts. Part One is a step-by-step how-to section including all the information that a student at any level needs to achieve a successfully toned print. Easy-to-understand background information is provided on how and why the process works so that readers can venture on their own into the world of natural colors. The first part also has a detailed section on all the factors that can influence the outcome, like paper choice, water quality, properties of the plants, temperature of the bath and the duration of the toning. Part Two is devoted to contemporary artists who have explored toning with botanicals and integrated the process into their creative practice.

The book includes:

* A list of equipment and supplies needed.

* In depth information about useful plants and the specific properties that make them suitable for toning cyanotypes.

* Concise step-by-step instructions for printing cyanotypes successfully.

* A chart of more than 60 tested papers with recommendations on paper choice.

* Step-by-step generic instructions on toning with botanicals.

* Troubleshooting toning with botanicals.

* More detailed recipes for specific colors with information about the plants.

* Step-by-step instructions on how to print duotone and tricolor prints.

* A range of creative ideas on how to use the process in classrooms and with different age groups.

* A comprehensive list of more than 380 tested parts of plants and possible color outcomes.

Using botanicals to tone cyanotypes broadens the color spectrum, enlarges creative possibilities and makes the cyanotype process even more versatile. The process is not cut and dried science but a limitless field for discovery and surprises. Cyanotype Toning provides accessible information and instructions for readers at all levels. It is comprehensive and explanatory, so that readers can expand on the subject on their own, as did the contemporary artists who share their experiences and the works they have created using this innovative toning process.

Photography --- blueprint process --- photographic techniques --- cyanotypes [photographic prints]

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Developing "sustainable" architectural and agricultural technologies was the intent behind Blueprint Farm, an experimental agricultural project designed to benefit farm workers displaced by the industrialization of agriculture in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Yet, despite its promise, the very institutions that created Blueprint Farm terminated the project after just four years (1987-1991). In this book, Steven Moore demonstrates how the various stakeholders' competing definitions of "sustainability," "technology," and "place" ultimately doomed Blueprint Farm. He reconstructs the conflicting interests and goals of the founders, including Jim Hightower and the Texas Department of Agriculture, Laredo Junior College, and the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems, and shows how, ironically, they unwittingly suppressed the self-determination of the very farm workers the project sought to benefit. From the instructive failure of Blueprint Farm, Moore extracts eight principles for a regenerative architecture, which he calls his "nonmodern manifesto."

Architecture --- Farm buildings --- Technology --- Agricultural innovations --- History --- Social aspects --- Blueprint Farm (Laredo, Tex.)

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"Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Practice is a two part book on the much admired blue print process. Part One is a comprehensive how-to on the cyanotype process for both beginner and advanced practitioners, with lots of photographs and clear, step-by-step directions and formulas. Part Two highlights contemporary artists who are using cyanotype, making work that ranges from the photographic to the abstract, from the traditional to the conceptual, with tips on their personal cyanotype methods alongside their work. These artists illustrate cyanotype's widespread use in contemporary photography today, probably the most of any alternative process." -- Publisher's description.

Blueprinting --- Photography, Artistic --- fotografie --- fotografietechniek --- fotografische technieken --- cyanotypie --- blauwdruk --- eenentwintigste eeuw --- 77.02 --- 77.023 --- Fotografie ; oude technieken ; "photogenic drawing"; Cyanotypie --- Artistic photography --- Photography --- Photography, Pictorial --- Pictorial photography --- Art --- Blue-printing --- Photographic reproduction of plans, drawings, etc. --- Fotografie ; technieken --- Fotografie ; werkzaamheden na de belichting, printtechnieken --- Aesthetics --- Printing processes --- Cyanotype --- Ferroprussiate --- blueprint process --- photographic techniques --- cyanotypes [photographic prints]

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Among urban designers and municipal officials, the term encroachment is defined as a deviation from the official master plan. But in cities today, such informal modifications to the urban fabric are deeply enmeshed with formal planning procedures. Master Plans and Encroachments examines informality in the high-modernist city of Islamabad as a strategic conformity to official schemes and regulations rather than as a deviation from them.For the new administrative capital of Pakistan designed in 1959 by Greek architect and planner Constantinos A. Doxiadis, Islamabad's master plan offers a clear template of formal urban design within which informal spaces and processes have been articulated. Drawing on deep archival research, wide-ranging interviews, and an array of visual material, including photographs, maps, and architectural drawings, Faiza Moatasim shows how Islamabad's master plan is not simply a blueprint that guides future urban development or makes its violations apparent; it is used by both city officials and citizens to develop informal spaces that accommodate unfulfilled needs and desires of those living and working in the city.Master Plans and Encroachments is the first book that examines the informal practices of both the privileged and the underprivileged. The book highlights how low-, middle-, and upper-income people do not randomly build informal spaces; they strategically use architectural techniques to support their informal claims to space, which are often met with the government's tacit approval. By focusing on those spaces in Islamabad's urban fabric that are not part of its official master plan, the book demonstrates how planning actually works in complex ways.

1950s. --- Constantinos A. Doxiadis. --- Elite. --- Encroachment. --- Global South. --- Informality. --- Islamabad. --- Pakistan. --- Plan. --- aesthetics. --- architecture. --- blueprint. --- business. --- capital. --- city cities. --- development. --- forms. --- governance. --- homes. --- informal spaces. --- interiors. --- law. --- layout. --- maps. --- master plan. --- modernism. --- negotiation. --- photographs. --- privilege. --- regulations. --- stalls. --- street vendors. --- technique. --- twentieth century. --- urban studies.

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The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) of the European Academy of Teachers in General Practice/Family Medicine (EURACT) is the third paper in a row following the European Definition of General Practice/Family Medicine (WONCA Europe) in 2002 which identified 6 core competencies and 11 abilities every general practitioner (GP) should master, and the EURACT Educational Agenda in 2005 which provided a framework to teach the core competencies by setting learning aims and monitoring their achievement. Performance (in contrast to competence) is understood as the level of actual performance in clinical care and communication with patients in daily practice. Small groups of EURACT Council members from 40 European countries have discussed and developed EUPA since 2007. EUPA is a general, uniform and basic agenda of performance elements every GP masters in daily practice, applicable and adaptable to different countries with different systems. It deals with the process and result of actual work in daily practice, not with a teaching/learning situation. EUPA discusses in depth the psychometrics and edumetrics of performance assessment. Case vignettes of abilities in GPs' daily practice illustrate performance and its assessment in every chapter. Examples of common assessment tools are workplace-based assessment by a peer, feedback from patients or staff and audit of medical records. EUPA can help to shape various performance assessment activities held locally in general practice/family medicine, e. g. in continuing professional development cycles, re-certification/re-accreditation/licensing procedures, peer hospitation programmes and practice audit programmes in quality management. It can give orientation for self-assessment for reflective practitioners in their continuing professional development. The EURACT Performance Agenda (EUPA) encourages general practitioners to initialize performance agendas adapted to their national health system to further strengthen the role of general practice/family medicine in their country.

MEDICAL / General. --- Adam Windak. --- Alma Eir Svavarsdottir. --- Bernard Gay. --- Bernhard Rindlisbacher. --- CBD. --- COT. --- Cees P. M. Van der Vleuten. --- Dolores Forés. --- EURACT. --- Egle Zebiene. --- Elena Frolova. --- Eva Jurgova. --- Filipe Gomes. --- Francesco Carelli. --- George Spatharakis. --- Georgi Ivanov. --- Givi Javashvili. --- Howard Tandeter. --- Janko Kersnik. --- Jean-Marie Degryse. --- Llukan Rrumbullaku. --- Mario R. Sammut. --- Markku Timonen. --- Maryna Oliynik. --- Mette Brekke. --- Mladenka Vrcic-Keglevic. --- Monica Lindh. --- Natalia Zarbailov. --- Natasa Pilipovic Broceta. --- Okay Basak. --- Owen Clarke. --- Paula Vainiomäki. --- Peter Vajer. --- Phil Phylaktou. --- Razvan Miftode. --- Roar Maagaard. --- Roger Price. --- Ruth Kalda. --- Sandra Gintere. --- Smiljka Radic. --- Valéry Dory. --- WPBA. --- Wolfgang Spiegel. --- Yvonne van Leeuwen. --- Zalika Klemenc-Ketis. --- appraisal. --- blueprint. --- edumetrics. --- holistic approach. --- psychometrics. --- simulated patient.