Why Cities Need Strategic Plans by Former Portland, Oregon Mayor Sam Adams

Will a given public project help a city? Hurt it? Make no difference? What appears to be good for a city might actually be bad. A project that helps out some residents may gentrify out many others. It is often hard to tweeze out the costs, benefits and unintended consequences of the projects and policies that cities take on. Although we will never have a perfect algorithm that weighs the costs and benefits of a given project or policy, we can improve upon relying too much on good intentions and political expedience

Chem# - Semantically Enriched Linked Open Chemical Data

The problem: Vast quantities of chemical data (e.g. crystal structures, NMR spectra, experimental reports) are generated every day. The majority of this data is never published, and the data that is published is fragmented,trapped in legacy formats and difficult to discover. The solution: Semantically Enriched Linked Open Chemical Data: browsable, searchable, discoverable and interpretable by humans and machines alike, using standardized extensible data formats (Chemical Markup Language) and technologies (HTTP, RDF).Funded by JISC

Making the most of crafts in Merseyside schools

This article was published in AD Magazine (2020), Issue 28. AD Magazine is published by the National Society for Education in Art and Design (NSEAD).During 2018/19 the Bluecoat Display Centre (BDC) in Liverpool set out to undertake a review of best-practice models for integrating craft-makers into secondary education to support research-informed practice in creative education. The project took us into a number of local secondary schools around Merseyside to meet teachers who had integrated artist-led working and residencies into their curriculums, to help us build a detailed picture of the conditions and resources that are essential for a productive long-term collaboration between the schools and the craft-maker

An Analysis Of United We Stand As A Dance Performance By Bauchi State Council For Arts And Culture

Dance as a mother of all arts is tolerant and accommodating in nature. All the variants of both plastic and performing arts find their living expressions in the production of any dance theatre. This is because dance stands as an entertainment and natural phenomenon constantly predicted on conscious or unconscious movements of man within a social setting. Ability of dance to accommodate these arrays of production codes can be linked to its double learning on time and space. This study therefore, analyses the performance of united we stand by the Bauchi State Council for Arts and Culture as dance theatre. The study employs the descriptive and analytical methods with participant- observation approach as instrument of research. The researcher uses direct involvement in the dance performance as produced by the Bauchi State Council for Arts and Culture at Bayelsa’s NAFEST, 2013. In addition, interviews were conducted as books and journals were equally consulted. It is discovered from the foregoing that united we Stand Dance performance at the 2013 NAFEST in Bayelsa State, is a dance theatre. Music, costumes, makeup, lighting, properties and other theatrical elements enhance the communicative potential of dances in modern time as the blending of dance, costumes, music are expressive and not mimetic. This concludes that no art; plastic or performing arts, is an island of survival as they co-exist in the continuous development of their cultural abode. If art is a recreation of life, and life activities goes beyond imitation of an action (drama) to expression of unspoken feelings in gesticular movements, then, a conglomeration of all performing and plastic arts cannot be overemphasized. it is therefore our recommendation that clinical approach to dance packaging be adopted to make it a total dance theatre. Because if dramatic presentations can be enliven with intersperse of dance performances, then choreographers should as a matter of artistic relevance, be pragmatic in their thematic arrangements of choreographic elements. This will enhance its recognition as the mother of all arts