Alzheimer’s: A Quiet Story. A photographic series and solo exhibition.

This series of 20 artworks was developed by Plouviez looking at the experience of memory loss, photography and how the everyday routine can become unfamiliar. Work from the series was shown as a billboard in CIVIC, the first international festival of billboard art, Sunderland UK (November 2011), and as part of the Action Field Kodra photography festival in Thessaloniki, Greece (October 2012). The full series of work is exhibited in Thessaloniki, Greece (22 November 2013-17 January 2014) as part of PhotoBiennale, an international photography festival organized by the Museum of Photography, and at Panna Foto Studio, Jakarta, Indonesia (23 November-14 December 2013)

Meshworks & Photography

Exploring approaches to teaching photography, integrating professional opportunities for students, used at University of Sunderland

Factors Influencing Feedback Receptivity

Current methods in assessing a person’s receptivity to feedback are inherently biased. First, these methods are founded upon differing assumptions about feedback availability. Feedback seeking, operationalized as effort toward acquiring feedback, assumes feedback must be actively sought, also thus assumes feedback is not imminent. Feedback avoidance, operationalized as effort toward delaying or avoid receipt of feedback, assumes feedback must be actively avoided, and thus also assumes feedback is imminent. Second, implicit in the methods’ definitions of effort toward or away from feedback is the assumption that feedback receptivity results from a motivated state rather than being influenced by default feedback availability. This research provides a more comprehensive account of feedback receptivity by systematically varying both motivations and feedback availability and examining their relative effects on receptivity. The data supported the influence of motivated factors on receptivity but failed to support the influence of defaulted feedback availability on receptivity. Further, coping resources, perceived utility, and perceived feedback recommendation influenced receptivity. These results may help managers leverage this knowledge to maximize feedback receptivity behaviors in the workplace

Du prix de Rome au quai de la Piperie, Mathurin Crucy, entrepreneur de construction navale à Nantes

Établi à Nantes à partir de 1780 et partie prenante de l’entreprise familiale de construction navale au service de l’État, Mathurin Crucy livre un récit autobiographique intitulé L’Exorde dans lequel il détaille ses années de formation, son activité d’architecte-voyer et sa participation dans la société L. Crucy frères jusqu’à la faillite de cette dernière et la mésentente qui en découle avec sa famille à la fin de l’Empire. Ce document de for privé se révèle indispensable pour pénétrer l’intimité d’un des acteurs au cœur de l’effort de guerre naval de la Révolution et de l’Empire. En marge de cette charge contre ses frères et des différents gouvernements qui se sont succédés à partir de 1793, l’Exorde offre la possibilité d’approcher d’une manière originale le fonctionnement des chantiers navals privés à vocation militaire.Established in Nantes beginning in 1780, and stakeholder in the family business of naval construction for the State, Mahurian Crucy left an autobiography entitled L’Exorde, detailing his formative years, his activities in the service of the city, and his participation in the company of the L. Crucy brothers until their bankruptcy, and the resulting dissensions with his family at the end of the Empire. This highly personal document is indispensable for probing the private life of one of the personalities at the center of the naval war of the Revolution and the Empire. In addition to retailing his criticisms of his brothers and the successive revolutionary governments from 1793 onwards, L’Exorde affords an original approach to the understanding of the operation of naval shipyards

Sébastien Martin, Rochefort arsenal des colonies au xviiie siècle

Rochefort arsenal des colonies est la version remaniée de la thèse de Sébastien Martin soutenue en 2012 à l’université de Nantes. Cet ouvrage se donne pour objectif de lever le voile sur le service des colonies de l’arsenal charentais au xviiie siècle, une activité méconnue, largement éclipsée par la construction et l’entretien de la flotte de guerre, la mission principale de ce type d’infrastructure à l’époque moderne. Rochefort avait donc la charge d’approvisionner régulièrement les possess..

Marine et Justice

L’histoire de l’administration de la marine française est une thématique originale à plus d’un titre, qui semble relever d’une tradition historiographique immuable. C’est d’abord un champ de recherche peu dynamique et confidentiel dans lequel les principales études remontent désormais à près d’un siècle. L’Essai sur l’histoire de l’administration de la marine de France d’Alexandre Lambert de Sainte-Croix est publié en 1892, tandis que l’importante Étude sur l’organisation administrative de la..

Contraintes de temps, contraintes d’espaces

Les arsenaux de la marine de guerre sont les pivots de la puissance maritime de l’État français au xviiie siècle. Or, ce sont des complexes industrialo-portuaires naturellement soumis à une infinité de contraintes temporelles difficilement conciliables les unes avec les autres. Loin de simplifier l’entrecroisement de ces différentes temporalités, les réformes maritimes du xviiie siècle vont imposer aux arsenaux de nouveaux calendriers, plus complexes et augmenter considérablement le temps de réaction de ces structures militaires.In the 18th Century, the mainspring of French sea power was based on the naval dockyards. And yet, these industrial and port complexes were obviously subjected to an infinite number of temporal restraints that were difficult to reconcile with one another. Moreover, these temporalities didn’t intermingle simply at all because of the maritime reforms of the 18th century since they set more complicated schedules on the dockyards and considerably increased the reaction time of these military structures