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Dancing in the Streets - a design case study
How do you transform a city center at night to enhance the experience of residents and visitors and to combat the publicâs fears over safety and security after dark? This challenge was set by the York City Councilâs âRenaissance Project: Illuminating York,â and we took them up on it. We made it our goal to get pedestrians to engage with our interactive light installationâand to get them dancing without even realizing it. People out shopping or on their way to restaurants and nightclubs found themselves followed by ghostly footprints, chased by brightly colored butterflies, playing football with balls of light, or linked together by a âcatâs cradleâ of colored lines. As they moved within the light projections, participants found that they were literally dancing in the street
Istorija ir struktƫra
âHistoire et structureâ (in Histoire et psychanalyse entre science et fiction) de Michel de Certeau © University of Minnesota Press, 1986 amerikietiĆĄkam leidimui; © Editions Gallimard, Paris, 1987 pirmajam prancĆ«ziĆĄkajam leidimui ir kitiems anglĆł kalba pasirodĆŸiusiems leidimams; 2002 antrajam pataisytam ir papildytam leidimui âUn chemin non tracĂ©â par Luce Giard ir 2016 pasirodĆŸiusiam pataisytam ir papildytam leidimui
Towards a new theory of practice for community health psychology
The article sets out the value of theorizing collective action from a social science perspective that engages with the messy actuality of practice. It argues that community health psychology relies on an abstract version of Paulo Freireâs earlier writing, the Pedagogy of the Oppressed, which provides scholar-activists with a âmapâ approach to collective action. The article revisits Freireâs later work, the Pedagogy of Hope, and argues for the importance of developing a âjourneyâ approach to collective action. Theories of practice are discussed for their value in theorizing such journeys, and in bringing maps (intentions) and journeys (actuality) closer together
Die absolute LektĂŒre: Theorie und Praxis der christlichen Mystiker im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
Mit der LektĂŒre, die ich als »absolut«, im Sinne von abwesend oder losgelöst, bestimme, soll nicht jegliche Art von LektĂŒre bezeichnet sein. Diese »Losgelöstheit« bezieht sich nur auf eine unter vielen Varianten des Lesens, und sie erlaubt mir, auf einen Aspekt der Beziehung, die wir zum Buch, diesem Garten geordneter Zeichen, unterhalten, nĂ€her einzugehen: Was bewerkstelligt der Leser mit diesem mit Schriftzeichen tĂ€towierten Ding? Die Loslösung des Lesers Wenn ich mich hier mit der TĂ€tigke..
Siting Performance Philosophy: Positions, Encounters and Reflections at <em>Beirut: Bodies in Public</em>
Beirut: Bodies in Public was a three-day workshop that took place in Beirut, Lebanon from 9-11 October 2014, supported by a Performance Philosophy grant for interim conference events. The workshop integrated academic research with performances, movement workshops, film, and site-specific responses to the city, and welcomed disciplinary perspectives from a broad range of fields. In this article, the convenors Ella Parry-Davies and Eliesh S.D. reflect on the central issues and encounters foregrounded by the event, and the disciplinary or methodological implications of the project for performance philosophy. Taking as its central provocation the controversial statement: âArt in public spaces doesnât exist anymoreâ, the workshop sought to address the role of embodied practice in Beirutâs precarious public sites. Insofar as philosophy can be âperformedâ, it is grounded in the particularities of its social space, an utterance shaped by its historical and geopolitical locality. As a practice of performance philosophy, then, Beirut: Bodies in Public triangulated these two forms-of-knowing with a third: the interrogation presented by the site itself - its potentialities, contingencies and challenges
Die absolute LektĂŒre: Theorie und Praxis der christlichen Mystiker im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert
Mit der LektĂŒre, die ich als »absolut«, im Sinne von abwesend oder losgelöst, bestimme, soll nicht jegliche Art von LektĂŒre bezeichnet sein. Diese »Losgelöstheit« bezieht sich nur auf eine unter vielen Varianten des Lesens, und sie erlaubt mir, auf einen Aspekt der Beziehung, die wir zum Buch, diesem Garten geordneter Zeichen, unterhalten, nĂ€her einzugehen: Was bewerkstelligt der Leser mit diesem mit Schriftzeichen tĂ€towierten Ding? Die Loslösung des Lesers Wenn ich mich hier mit der TĂ€tigke..
The tactical mimicry of social enterprise strategies: acting âas ifâ in the everyday life of third sector organizations
Using England as a paradigmatic case of the âenterprising up â of the third sector through social enterprise policies and programs, this article sheds light on resistance as enacted through dramaturgical identification with government strategies. Drawing from a longitudinal qualitative research study, which is interpreted via Michel de Certeauâs theory of the everyday, we present the case study of Teak, a charitable regeneration company, to illustrate how its Chief Executive Liam âacted as â a social entrepreneur in order to gain access to important resources. We establish âtactical mimicry â as a sensitizing concept to suggest that third sector practitioners â identification with the normative premises of âsocial enterprise â is part of a parasitical prosaics geared toward appropriating public money. While tactical mimicry conforms to strategies only in order to exploit them, its ultimate aim is to increase potentials of collective agency outside the direct influence of power. The contribution we make is threefold: first, we extend the recent debate on productive resistance by highlighting how âplaying the game â without changing existing relations of power can nevertheless produce largely favorable outcomes. Second, we suggest that recognition of the productive potential of tactical mimicry requires methodologies which pay attention to the spatial and temporal dynamics of resistance. And third, we argue that explaining âsocial enterpriseâ without consideration of the non-discursive, mainly financial resources made available to those who identify with it, necessarily risks overlooking a crucial element of the dramaturgical dynamic of discourse
We are Designers Because We Can Abstract
Organised by: Cranfield UniversityDue to the increasing systems complexity, architecture design became an important issue. It gained
interest and its importance was framed in three domains: as a way to understand complex systems, to
design them, to manage their manufacturing process and to provide long-term rationality. The purpose of
this paper is, firstly, to survey the existing definition approaches on architecture. Secondly, we propose a
model for architecture design which articulates the potential linkage between two principle concepts:
synthesis and abstraction. Our proposal model focuses on abstraction concept and permits an effective
top-down design approach. It helps also designers to more respond to issues that characterize architecture
design.Mori Seiki â The Machine Tool Compan
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