The Embodiment of Photographic Imagery Through the Lens of Time, Light and Memory

The photograph has its own unseen and implied past and future. The lens of memory accesses both the conscious and subconscious thoughts of its creator and audience. The photographer utilizes memory as an embodied experience in the construction of the photograph. Memory is filtered through the prevision experiences, assumptions beliefs, and cultural biases of its creator. This paper is a theoretical discussion about the way memory, experience and vision can connect the photographer to their photomechanical device, the camera, as an extension of the body. capturing time, light and memory shapes new states of beings and opens possibilities whereby the improbable and the impossible are envisioned as an embodiment of the photographers past, present and future imaginings. In field of visual art and design education, students must develop skills as inventive designers and photographers who can connect to their embodied past. For the students to achieve embodiment of the image, they need to have control of the technical and aesthetic elements of the photographic medium through the lens of time, light and memory

Researching Photographic Participatory Inquiry in an E-Learning Environment

This article focuses on the use of Photographic Participatory Inquiry (PPI) in researching the teaching and learning of photography in the e-learning environment. It is an arts-informed method drawing on digital tools to capture collective information as digital artefacts, which can then be accessed and harnessed to build critical and reflective photographic practices. The multimedia tools employed (for example GoPro video and screen capture) are critically discussed for their potential to contribute understanding of photographic artistic practice and the learning of a digital generation. The article may also provide critical insights and inform more nuanced methods for research and scholarship when wishing to investigate the personalized, participatory, and productive pedagogies of a networked learning society.Cet article porte sur l’utilisation, en contexte d’apprentissage en ligne, de la photographie participative comme méthode de recherche dans le domaine de l’enseignement et de l’apprentissage de la photographie. Cette méthode, fondée sur les arts, s’appuie sur l’utilisation d’outils numériques pour recueillir de l’information sous forme d’artéfacts numériques, artéfacts pouvant ensuite être consultés et exploités pour élaborer des pratiques photographiques critiques et réflectives. Les outils multimédia utilisés (par exemple, des vidéos GoPro et des captures d’écran) et leur potentiel à contribuer à une meilleure compréhension des pratiques de photographie artistique et d’apprentissage de la génération numérique sont examinés sous un angle critique. Cet article peut également fournir des perspectives critiques et engendrer des méthodes de recherche plus nuancées pour ceux désirant enquêter les pédagogies personnalisées, participatives et productives d’une société d’apprentissage en réseau

Including stakeholder input in formulating and solving real-world optimisation problems: generic framework and case study

Multi-objective evolutionary algorithms (MOEAs) are becoming increasingly popular for solving formal environmental and water resources optimisation problems. In the past, the focus of these studies has generally been on methodological issues related to the optimisation algorithm. However, in recent years, there has been increased recognition of the need to apply these approaches to real-world problems to facilitate the realisation of their full potential. In order to assist with this, a framework for including stakeholder input in real-world optimisation problems is introduced in this paper, including a conceptual framework and a procedure for implementing it. The framework is applied to an urban water supply security study for Adelaide, South Australia. This study highlights the role of stakeholder input at the various stages of the optimisation process, as well as the resulting changes in the formulation, analysis and results. A discussion of the lessons learnt from the case study is also provided

A Study into the Supply, Demand, Economic, Social and Institutional Aspects of Optimising Water Supply to Metropolitan Adelaide - Preliminary Research Findings: Summary Report from Project U2.2

In November 2012, the Goyder Institute for Water Research funded a research programme as a contribution to the building of a strong information base to inform debate on how best to underpin an efficient and sustainable water supply for metropolitan Adelaide, now and into the future, due to the likely impacts of a drying climate and population growth. Metropolitan Adelaide has multiple sources of water – surface water, groundwater, desalinated water, stormwater, roof or rain water, recycled water and the River Murray – that can be utilised and managed for supplying the city’s water needs. Using those sources in combination requires consideration of an appropriate balance across objectives such as supply security, economic cost, social preferences and environmental impacts