Dossier spécial "Lumières": Special Issue "Lighting"

International audienceBilingual issue French/English. The Festival of Avignon 2009: Claude Régy’s last creation, Odemaritime, the audience’s enthusiasm, and all the reviews! While theplay’s director co-designed the lighting, one fact went unnoticed: theexclusive use of LED lighting instruments, which offer that distinctiveluminous tone, vibratile – a first in the arts of the theater. Today, theaterlighting is on the verge of major changes. In addition to the emergenceof a new generation of equipment, technology offers digital controlof lighting equipment, freeing it, among other things, from the linearflow of data imposed by the tradition lighting control consoles. Fromadvances in equipment to revolutionary changes in lighting practice,this special report reviews the promising features of these developingtechnologies, comparing the point of views of lighting designers, techniciansand artists.With Kasper T. Toeplitz, Claude Régy, Dominique Bruguière, AJ Weissbard, Jean-Jacques Monier, Philippe Montémont, Birdy Nam Nam, Stéphane Gladyszewski, Jim CampbellEdition bilingue français / anglais. Festival d’Avignon 2009 : la dernière créationde Claude Régy, Ode maritime, enthousiasmele public et la critique. Pourtant, alors que lemetteur en scène cosigne l’éclairage avecRémy Godfroy, un fait passe inaperçu : l’emploiexclusif de projecteurs à leds, qui donnecette tonalité lumineuse si particulière, vibratile– une première dans les arts de la scène.Aujourd’hui, la lumière au théâtre est à la veillede changements majeurs. Outre l’apparitiond’une nouvelle génération de matériel, l’informatiquepermet une commande numérique desprojecteurs, pour s’affranchir, entre autres, de laconduite linéaire imposée par les jeux d’orguestraditionnels. Entre évolution du matériel etbouleversement des pratiques, ce dossier estl’occasion de revenir sur les promesses de cestechnologies en développement, en croisantles paroles d’éclairagistes, de techniciens etd’artistes.Avec Kasper T. Toeplitz, Claude Régy, Dominique Bruguière, AJ Weissbard, Jean-Jacques Monier, Philippe Montémont, Birdy Nam Nam, Stéphane Gladyszewski, Jim Campbel

Library buildings around the world

"Library Buildings around the World" is a survey based on researches of several years. The objective was to gather library buildings on an international level starting with 1990

Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference

Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference - June 5-12, 2022 - Saint-Étienne (France). https://smc22.grame.f

ICNS Proceedings

The night has been the subject of multiple readings by the social and human sciences, as well as it has inspired multiple narratives throughout history, literature and popular culture. However, the study of nightlife, practices, and actors only gained attention in recent years. The appearance of “mayors of the night” with the intention of improving urban governance during this period and thus guaranteeing needs, rights and services is the result of a progressive change in the local political paradigm, which begins to face this space-time as a “new” opportunity for its economic, social and cultural development. We could say that the night and the activities that take place in it begin to be projected as forms of tourist attraction, whether for their leisure activities such as discos, parties or other forms of fun; or because of its cultural potential, such as the White Nights. Contemporary urban night implies having active professionals, capable of reacting to any incident, such as the case of health professionals, but also maintaining those professions – often illegal – that tend to be considered problematic or hidden as could be prostitution. Surveillance and control during this period is also a good example of active professions, such as the case of the police, surveillance companies, video-doorman, or firefighters. It has never been so easy to commute in the urban space, public transport normally meets the needs of users, and the emergence of new forms of transport resulting from the circular economy, both of people and goods, completes the demand, not without controversy. There are many different ways to approach the night, but here we collect some of the communications that participated during the I International Conference on Night Studies, that took place on-line, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, on July 2 -4, 2020. These communications are also on-line on the official account of the conference.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

More-than-human Nights:Intersecting lived experience and diurnal rhythms in the nocturnal city

The contemporary nocturnal city is characterised by the interplay of luminosity and darkness, a chiaroscuro tableau inhabited by a myriad of flora and fauna—including, of course, humans. What patterns, rhythms, and indeed disturbances can be detected in this patchwork i.e. how do humans, non-humans, and wider natural cycles and rhythms co-produce the nocturnal urban environment? How is this coexistence of light and darkness inhabited by these multiple species? In short, how is the night moved through, and how does it move through us and our non-human companions? This paper is sited at the intersection of two perspectives on the urban night—first, lived experience and the affective dimension of the nocturnal city; and second, the wider rhythms of the city and the sky above that inscribe themselves into us and our companions. It asks how we, as researchers, can be attentive to the urban night so as to bring these two perspectives together. To do this, we will discuss two methods that the authors have used to inhabit and describe the urban night—one a perambulatory autoethnography of urban edgelands described through text and photography, the other an ethnography of urban temporality using photographic and sonic field recording techniques. Together, the authors’ different approaches pay close attention to both the human and non-human dimensions of the environment. We examine the diversity of nocturnal atmospheres, ambiances, and soundscapes to better understand their meanings and uses. Furthermore, we do this in a way that is attentive to the various spatial and temporal scales of darkness and light—from the palpable immediacy of lived experience or the daily tides of rush hour traffic to the changing phases of the moon or the activities of migrating birds or foraging beetles. By bringing these methods together, our aim is to contribute to a toolkit for situated fieldwork that can be used to create a rich description of the nocturnal urban environment—particularly one that includes but does not privilege the human. Furthermore, the work aims to make such descriptions legible and accessible within and beyond academia

Enacting Inquiry Learning in Mathematics through History

International audienceWe explain how history of mathematics can function as a means for enacting inquiry learning activities in mathematics as a scientific subject. It will be discussed how students develop informed conception about i) the epistemology of mathematics, ii) of how mathematicians produce mathematical knowledge, and iii) what kind of questions that drive mathematical research. We give examples from the mathematics education at Roskilde University and we show how (teacher) students from this program are themselves capable of using history to establish inquiry learning environments in mathematics in high school. The realization is argued for in the context of an explicit-reflective framework in the sense of Abd-El-Khalick (2013) and his work in science education

Animating the Ethical Demand:Exploring user dispositions in industry innovation cases through animation-based sketching

This paper addresses the challenge of attaining ethical user stances during the design process of products and services and proposes animation-based sketching as a design method, which supports elaborating and examining different ethical stances towards the user. The discussion is qualified by an empirical study of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in a Triple Helix constellation. Using a three-week long innovation workshop, UCrAc, involving 16 Danish companies and organisations and 142 students as empirical data, we discuss how animation-based sketching can explore not yet existing user dispositions, as well as create an incentive for ethical conduct in development and innovation processes. The ethical fulcrum evolves around Løgstrup's Ethical Demand and his notion of spontaneous life manifestations. From this, three ethical stances are developed; apathy, sympathy and empathy. By exploring both apathetic and sympathetic views, the ethical reflections are more nuanced as a result of actually seeing the user experience simulated through different user dispositions. Exploring the three ethical stances by visualising real use cases with the technologies simulated as already being implemented makes the life manifestations of the users in context visible. We present and discuss how animation-based sketching can support the elaboration and examination of different ethical stances towards the user in the product and service development process. Finally we present a framework for creating narrative representations of emerging technology use cases, which invite to reflection upon the ethics of the user experience.</jats:p