Third places as catalysts of resilience

Third places, often hybrid organizations and, normally, always inclusive, are places of project realization, sharing, exchange, and transmission, especially of skills. This contribution focuses on the evolution of these new places since the last decade in France, and especially during the COVID-19 crisis. The diversity of the functioning and the trajectories of these organizations with their particular temporalities, often ephemeral, is great. Not all third places are liked to citizen projects, not all these social experiments lead to an increase in individual and/or collective resilience. In some third places, a desire for institutionalization on the part of the initiators, who may be public authorities, for example, and instrumentalization on the part of the users may thwart the project of permanent, self-organized, self-managed experimentation. The analysis is based on typologies and some examples set up in the department of Yvelines. The aim is then to specify the catalytic role of certain third places, whose trajectories are likely to create individual and collective capacities for resilience, rebound and innovation. © 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Third Places: An Option for Reconfiguring Work-Community Relationships?

This text addresses one of the terms applied to describe spaces of experimentation, namely third place. This concept refers to new places that connect the functions of working, living, and socializing. These three functions had been separated by capitalism under a Fordist mode of regulation. However, since the 2000s, various space-based initiatives have reunited them. In this context, third places represent reference points for community life that favor broader and more creative exchanges at the local level and thus help to maintain sociability, especially in the post-COVID-19 era. Third places offer the opportunity to rethink the link between the workplace and mobility, to review spatial planning practices, and to re-examine the relationship between the local and the global. © 2022, University of Alberta Library. All rights reserved.

Third places: an option for reconfiguration work-community relations?

This text addresses one of the terms applied to describe spaces of experimentation, namely third place. This concept refers to new places that connect the functions of working, living, and socializing. These three functions had been separated by capitalism under a Fordist mode of regulation. However, since the 2000s, various space-based initiatives have reunited them. In this context, third places represent reference points for community life that favor broader and more creative exchanges at the local level and thus help to maintain sociability, especially in the post-COVID-19 era. Third places offer the opportunity to rethink the link between the workplace and mobility, to review spatial planning practices, and to re-examine the relationship between the local and the global.

Social and Creative Hubs as the Third Places of Post-Covid Era

To support social activities of the post-pandemic, some social and creative hubs in Malaysia have emerged with more positive vibes that may revitalise the community. With these third places revival, there is still a lack of study on what has changed for the design of third places in response to the recent Covid-19 crisis. Therefore, this study aims to examine the design of two social and creative hubs in Kuala Lumpur based on the adaptation of Ray Oldenburg's theory of third places. The research objective is to ascertain the third places' characteristics of the case studies through on-site observation.

Supervised Domain Adaptation for Extractive Question Answering in Spanish

Recent releases of pre-trained language models and Question Answering (QA) datasets have led to rapid improvements in Extractive QA. This paper describes the work done for QuALES, part of IberLEF 2022, a task to automatically find answers to questions in Spanish from news text related to Covid-19. We present an approach mainly centered on transfer learning applied to BETO and RoBERTa-base-bne based models. The models were fine tuned on different combinations of Spanish QA datasets. Our submission achieved third place in QuALES challenge for Exact Match and F1-Score metrics. © 2022 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).

THE IMPACT OF CRISIS ON THE WORK OF A SMALL PUBLIC LIBRARY: CONTRIBUTION OF THE LIBRARIAN’S ENGAGEMENT TO THE BETTER STATISTICAL INDICATORS OF LOANS AND VISIBILITY OF THE PUBLIC LIBRARY AND READING ROOM IN KLIS IN 2020 AND 2021

Purpose. The paper presents the lending statistics of the Public Library and Read¬ing Room in Klis in the time of the COVID-19 pandemic in the period from March 16, 2020, when the library was first closed for users, to March 16, 2021, the time of writing this paper. The analysis of statistical printouts and comparison with the first quarter of 2020 also raises the issue of adaptation of the library and its members to crisis situations as well as the success achieved in encouraging users to continue using the library despite new situation. Methodology. Quantitative methods (analysis of statistical printouts of the comput¬er library program) and qualitative methods (analysis of the collected user impressions, monitoring of accumulated impressions and work evaluation) were used in writing this paper. The methodological approach is also reflected in the analysis of available litera¬ture related to the operation of libraries in new circumstances and crisis situations. The synthesis of statistical data and steps taken in communication with users and analysis of the literature on the ways of functioning of other libraries during the Covid era, but also after it, leads to the conclusions of this paper. The results. An insight into the statistics generated by the printout from the library program related to the researched period of the library’s work, and the analysis of avail-able information on the work of other libraries and valid recommendations and guide¬lines has shown an increasing trend in book lending. The increase in book lending is linked to promotional, creative and educational virtual and media activities, the meas¬ures taken by the library staff and the current ways of managing operations in the public library. Value. The paper emphasizes the importance of reviewing traditional library ser¬vices, as well as ways of organizing them in times of crisis. The paper also highlights positive examples of other libraries as well as the library researched in this paper, but also emphasizes the issues discussed in the paper that have potential for improvement. © 2021, Hrvatsko Knjiznicarsko Drustvo. All rights reserved.

Communication and Cultural Third Places During and After Covid-19. Towards Solidarity Communication?

Placing arts and cultural creativity at the heart of their work, cultural third places explore new collaborative working methods. They occupy-according to Ray Oldenburg who introduced the term third places-the space where people spend time between their home (first) and work (second place) and which allow citizen engagement while creating a feeling of belonging. But what happened to these places during Covid-19? How did they react? How did they engage with their audiences? What changes in their mission will this period bring? In this article we firstly explore the results of a collective study on a sample of third places that took place during spring-summer 2020 as a part of the Creamed research network. After a short review of the links that exist between crisis communication and solidarity communication, we first describe and analyse the key points of our overall corpus and secondly, we give examples from our study that are pertinent to the research question. Finally, we try to give an answer to the general concern about the future of communication by focusing on the notion of solidarity communication. © The Authors 2021.