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Designing the interface between research, learning and teaching.
Abstract:
This paperâs central argument is that teaching and research need to be reshaped so that they connect in a productive way. This will require actions at a whole range of levels, from the individual teacher to the national system and include the international communities of design scholars. To do this, we need to start at the level of the individual teacher and course team. This paper cites some examples of strategies that focus on what students do as learners and how teachers teach and design courses to enhance research-led teaching.
The paper commences with an examination of the departmental context of (art and) design education. This is followed by an exploration of what is understood by research-led teaching and a further discussion of the dimensions of research-led teaching. It questions whether these dimensions are evident, and if so to what degree in design departments, programmes and courses. The discussion examines the features of research-led departments and asks if a department is not research-led in its approach to teaching, why it should consider changing strategies
Symbiots: Conceptual interventions into energy systems
Symbiots set out to examine values such as ease-of-use, comfort, and rationality assumed within conventions of âgood designâ, in order to expose issues related to energy consumption and current human- (versus eco-) centered design paradigms. Exploring re-interpretations of graphical patterns, architectural configurations and electrical infrastructure typical in Swedish cities, Symbiots takes the form of a photo series in the genre of contemporary hyper-real art photography. Painting a vivid picture of alternatives to current local priorities around energy consumption, the three design concepts depicted are strangely familiar, alternatively humorous and sinister
Virtually Sensuous (Geographies): Towards a Strategy for Archiving Multi-user Experiential and Participatory Installations
This paper explores potential strategies for the audio-visual documentation of a multi-user choreographic digital installation entitled Sensuous Geographies using VR technologies. The installation was interactive, fully immersive and participatory, with the general public initiating the details of the installationâs sonic and visual worlds. At the time of the making of Sensuous Geographies, the means of documenting participatory installations in action was limited to video documentation and photographs, which represent a third-person perspective. This article suggests that new forms of technology provide an opportunity to archive interactive choreographic installations in such a way that the choreographic forms and embodied experience they generate can be re-presented in audiovisual form to historians and audiences of the future.
This article expands on a conference presentation of the same title given at the DocPerform2 Symposium, City University. London in November 2017
A dramaturgy of intermediality: composing with integrative design
The thesis investigates and develops a compositional system on intermediality in
theatre and performance as a dramaturgical practice through integrative design.
The position of the visual/sonic media in theatre and performance has been
altered by the digitalisation and networking of media technologies, which enables
enhanced dynamic variables in the intermedial processes. The emergent
intermediality sites are made accessible by developments in media technologies
and form part of broader changes towards a mediatised society: a simultaneous
shift in cultural contexts, theatre practice and audience perception.
The practice-led research is situated within a postdramatic context and develops a
system of compositional perspectives and procedures to enhance the knowledge of
a dramaturgy on intermediality. The intermediality forms seem to re-situate the
actual/virtual relations in theatre and re-construct the processes of
theatricalisation in the composition of the stage narrative. The integration of
media and performers produces a compositional environment of semiosis, where
the theatre becomes a site of narration, and the designed integration in-between
medialities emerges as intermediality sites in the performance event.
A selection of performances and theatre directors is identified, who each in distinct
ways integrate mediating technologies as a core element in their compositional
design. These directors and performances constitute a source of reflection on
compositional strategies from the perspective of practice, and enable comparative
discussions on dramaturgical design and the consistency of intermediality sites.
The practice-led research realised a series of prototyping processes situated in
performance laboratories in 2004-5. The laboratories staged investigations into
the relation between integrative design procedures and parameters for
composition of intermediality sites, particularly the relative presence in-between
the actual and the virtual, and the relative duration and distance in-between
timeness and placeness. The integration of performer activities and media
operations into dramaturgical structures were developed as a design process of
identifying the mapping and experiencing the landscape through iterative
prototyping.
The developed compositional concepts and strategies were realised in the
prototype performance Still I Know Who I Am, performed October 2006. This final
research performance was a full-scale professional production, which explored the
developed dramaturgical designs through creative practice. The performance was
realised as a public event, and composed of a series of scenes, each presenting a
specific composite of the developed integrative design strategies, and generating a
particular intermediality site.
The research processes in the performance laboratories and the prototype
performance developed on characteristics, parameters and procedures of
compositional strategies, investigating the viability of a dramaturgy of
intermediality through integrative design. The practice undertaken constitutes
raw material from which the concepts are drawn and underpins the premises for
the theoretical reflections
An aesthetics of touch: investigating the language of design relating to form
How well can designers communicate qualities of touch?
This paper presents evidence that they have some capability to do so, much of which appears to have been learned, but at present make limited use of such language. Interviews with graduate designer-makers suggest that they are aware of and value the importance of touch and materiality in their work, but lack a vocabulary to fully relate to their detailed explanations of other aspects such as their intent or selection of materials. We believe that more attention should be paid to the verbal dialogue that happens in the design process, particularly as other researchers show that even making-based learning also has a strong verbal element to it. However, verbal language alone does not appear to be adequate for a comprehensive language of touch. Graduate designers-makersâ descriptive practices combined non-verbal manipulation within verbal accounts. We thus argue that haptic vocabularies do not simply describe material qualities, but rather are situated competences that physically demonstrate the presence of haptic qualities. Such competencies are more important than groups of verbal vocabularies in isolation. Design support for developing and extending haptic competences must take this wide range of considerations into account to comprehensively improve designersâ capabilities
Sectoral structure of Slovak industry: A widening of the backwardness or a chance for the future
A main goal of my paper is to give a perspective of a future position of the Slovak industry in the coming information-age society. Disadvantageous sectoral structure is a main problem but there is also a chance for a better future development in the human potential (knowledge as well as cheap labour), established infrastructure and other developmental possibilities. In the paper I deal some theoretical (global world-economy, long waves of the world economy, product life cycles) as well as experiential (new international division of labour, Slovak cultural preconditions, experiences of similar newly industrialized countries...) preconditions inevitable for the optimal (sectoral) structure of Slovakian economy in a coming information age.
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