A Daycare Artist Residency in Minusio: Aesthetic Eunuciations in Borderspaces

This is a compilation of happenings from an artist residency at an urban core daycare and kindergarten site from July-December, 2021. The artist provides some notes on how to approach a residency, create site-specific art and work with the children, their teachers, care staff and the community surrounding the site. A newly coined concept of minusio, emerged over time and served as an invisible basis for art-care, in a sense the mirror(ing) of the gift of nurturing but also the lack of care—and offering a route to what human’s really desire, when they are not so busy and distracted by the banality of the world. Minusio is not an answer to lack of care; perhaps, but an aesthetic way to be with art and stones, and other materials and processes in borderspaces that may provide a ‘bridge’ for us back to the maternal, to Nature and healthy ways to exist. Using an ethical minusio principle of less is more aesthetic, the art residency was empathetically sensitive to place, and specifically to mountain crushed stones (gravel) for children and adults to bond with

Learning Under Fire: Adult Education in the Heat of Conflict

A critical review of the discourses on ‘conflict’ in conflict management education literature revealed an ideological bias and hidden curriculum of propaganda, which is heavily influencing social conflict conceptualizations and practices. Workers with adults have an emerging \u27conflict\u27 pedagogy to develop and draw upon as counterhegemonic. Conflict is re-examined as a critical site of learning

Two Hands, Two Decks and a Theory in Action: Expanding Thinking Vocabularies of Learners in the 21st Century

A complex 21st century offers us complex problems. We need more complex ways to think in order to solve them—such as Ken Wilber’s integral thinking. In this article, utilizing historical education referents for reconceptualizing curriculum in order to create more emphasis on meta-cognitive thinking about thinking, I offer a playful arts-based inquiry and performance of a unique curriculum device (a deck of thinking cards) that allows educators and researchers to bring forward their diverse vocabulary of types of thinking. I assert that it is time we passed on this vocabulary to our youth, to access and utilize in their own human potential growth and transformation into integral thinkers

The Mystery of Dr. Who? On a Road Less Traveled in Art Education

This article is a \u27fun\u27 puzzle (and quiz) to solve. Please do not look to the next pages ahead, or the mystery of Dr. Who will be spoiled. We have recently discovered an intriguing art educator out of the blue, whose work is largely out of cite/sight in most art education circles today. We want to bring Dr. Who\u27s \u27spirit\u27 and work back to life and teach others some of what we have been learning in the past six months of intense research. The two metaphors we utilize (puzzle/ game and invoking a specter) are not without their sociopolitical power agendas and thus, we shall return to problematize the disappearance of Dr. Who in the field of art education as well as our own claims for a timely re-appearance (perhaps, co-appearance) of Dr. Who in postmodern times

The Environmental Impacts of Trade Liberalization: A Quantitative Analysis for the United States Using TEAM

A highly disaggregated emissions factor model is presented. The model generates changes in emissions and resource use by state and 6-digit NAICS sector. Removal of all U.S. import restrictions is examined. Results for agriculture show that composition effects explain highly varied regional patterns of emission changes. Scale effects are also important for expanding sectors. Quantitative assessments such as this may prove useful in conducting full environmental reviews of U.S. trade agreements consistent with Executive Order 13141 and the Free Trade Act of 2002.trade, emissions, input-output, residuals, International Relations/Trade,

Dynamic Dependency Tests for Audio-Visual Speaker Association

We formulate the problem of audio-visual speaker association as a dynamic dependency test. That is, given an audio stream and multiple video streams, we wish to determine their dependancy structure as it evolves over time. To this end, we propose the use of a hidden factorization Markov model in which the hidden state encodes a finite number of possible dependency structures. Each dependency structure has an explicit semantic meaning, namely “who is speaking. ” This model takes advantage of both structural and parametric changes associated with changes in speaker. This is contrasted with standard sliding window based dependence analysis. Using this model we obtain state-of-the-art performance on an audio-visual association task without benefit of training data. Index Terms — Pattern clustering methods 1

New Criticality of 1D Fermions

One-dimensional massive quantum particles (or 1+1-dimensional random walks) with short-ranged multi-particle interactions are studied by exact renormalization group methods. With repulsive pair forces, such particles are known to scale as free fermions. With finite $m$-body forces (m = 3,4,...), a critical instability is found, indicating the transition to a fermionic bound state. These unbinding transitions represent new universality classes of interacting fermions relevant to polymer and membrane systems. Implications for massless fermions, e.g. in the Hubbard model, are also noted. (to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett.)Comment: 10 pages (latex), with 2 figures (not included