A Persuasive Picture of Picturesque Polk

Series 1.5.2 - Fay Webb Gardner; Desk Contents; Genealogical Research & Notes Contents of Series 1.5 are items from Fay Webb Gardner\u27s personal desk at her home in Shelby, NC at the time of her death on January 16, 1969. Article from The State Magazine kept by Fay Webb Gardner. Includes notations indicating information that was of genealogical interest to Mrs. Gardner.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/fay-webb-gardner-desk-contents/1003/thumbnail.jp

Emerging technologies for learning (volume 1)

Collection of 5 articles on emerging technologies and trend

Producing inclusion with three horizons

This chapter brings together work from the established field of futures practice and futures studies with emerging practice in inclusion. The futures practice – Three Horizons – is becoming widely used when organizations seek to bring about fundamental change. The inclusion practice is being pioneered by the second author of this text in her work developing inclusion programmes with organisations and individuals. Bringing these two practices together is a new contribution within the broader field of participatory futures and inclusion. (DIPF/Orig.)Dieses Kapitel verbindet einen etablierten Ansatze aus dem Bereich der Zukunftspraxis (Das Drei Horizonte Modell) mit der neuen Praxis des „Producing Inclusion“. Das Drei Horizonte Modell wird häufig eingesetzt, wenn Organisationen grundlegende Veränderungen anstreben. Die zweite Autorin dieses Textes leistet mit ihrer Arbeit zur Entwicklung von Inklusionsprogrammen mit Organisationen und Einzelpersonen Pionierarbeit auf dem Gebiet der Inklusion. Die Zusammenführung dieser beiden Praktiken ist ein neuer Beitrag im breiteren Feld der partizipativen Zukunftsforschung und Inklusion. (DIPF/Orig.

Cultural value networks research findings

An extended report on the methods and findings of the DCRC's AHRC Connected Communities project concerning cultural value network

Cultural value networks summary report

A summary of the AHRC Connected Communities project conducted by the DCRC concerning cultural value network

Three horizons:A pathways practice for transformation

Global environmental change requires responses that involve marked or qualitative changes in individuals, institutions, societies, and cultures. Yet, while there has been considerable effort to develop theory about such processes, there has been limited research on practices for facilitating transformative change. We present a novel pathways approach called Three Horizons that helps participants work with complex and intractable problems and uncertain futures. The approach is important for helping groups work with uncertainty while also generating agency in ways not always addressed by existing futures approaches. We explain how the approach uses a simple framework for structured and guided dialogue around different patterns of change by using examples. We then discuss some of the key characteristics of the practice that facilitators and participants have found to be useful. This includes (1) providing a simple structure for working with complexity, (2) helping develop future consciousness (an awareness of the future potential in the present moment), (3) helping distinguish between incremental and transformative change, (4) making explicit the processes of power and patterns of renewal, (5) enabling the exploration of how to manage transitions, and (6) providing a framework for dialogue among actors with different mindsets. The complementarity of Three Horizons to other approaches (e.g., scenario planning, dilemma thinking) is then discussed. Overall, we highlight that there is a need for much greater attention to researching practices of transformation in ways that bridge different kinds of knowledge, including episteme and phronesis. Achieving this will itself require changes to contemporary systems of knowledge production. The practice of Three Horizons could be a useful way to explore how such transformations in knowledge production and use could be achieved

Density and Velocity Fields from the PSCz Survey

We present the results for the predicted density and peculiar velocity fields and the dipole from the PSCz survey of 15,000 IRAS galaxies over 84% of the sky. We find a significant component to the dipole arising between 6000 and 15,000 km/s, but no significant component from greater distances. The misalignment with the CMB is 20 degrees. The most remarkable feature of the PSCz model velocity field is a coherent large-scale flow along the baseline connecting Perseus-Pisces, the Local Supercluster, Great Attractor and the Shapley Concentration. We have measured the parameter beta using the amplitude of the dipole, bulk flow and point by point comparisons between the individual velocities of galaxies in the MarkIII and SFI datasets, and the large-scale clustering distortion in redshift space.All our results are consistent with beta = 0.6 +- 0.1.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figures. To appear in 'Towards an Understanding of Cosmic Flows', Victoria, July 1999, eds Courteau,S., Strauss,M., Willick,J. PAS

The practice of cultural ecology: network connectivity in the creative economy

© 2016 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. ABSTRACT: This paper reflects on approaches to collaborative knowledge exchange projects between UK universities and the creative economy. It develops a preliminary account of cultural ecology as a systematic approach to producing impact in the creative economy. It argues that such an approach is a powerful way to aggregate micro-businesses and small and medium sized enterprises in a meaningful network of new relationships. The paper uses social network analysis software to begin to visualise the pattern of relationships that constitute the ecosystem. The paper reports on the work of the Research and Enterprise for Arts and Creative Technologies Hub, one of four Knowledge Exchange Hubs for the Creative Economy established by the Arts and Humanities Research Council

Renewing universities in our climate emergency : Stewarding system change and transformation

This paper outlines climate emergencies facing universities and, by drawing on research on system transition, provides insights about how change to overcome the challenges might be stewarded. Climate change brings three interconnected and urgent emergencies for universities: (1) Manifest emergencies such as risks to operations and business models; (2) Conceptual emergencies that arise because assumptions, ideologies, systems and structures cannot match the scale of the manifest challenges; and (3) Existential emergencies where current identities and sense of purpose are incapable of supporting the changes needed to overcome the conceptual challenges. To be viable leaders in the world, universities will need to renew their commitments to serving the public good, be dedicated to an unwavering challenge-orientation, create post-disciplinary structures, and be the change one seeks to see in the world. Importantly, universities will need to overcome the emergencies on the inside if they are to help society address the scale of the challenges on the outside, to which both universities and human capacity are seriously cognitively and emotionally ill-prepared. Fortunately, new insights from research on system transition provide helpful advice on how to steward transformational change. This work highlights that successful transformation requires strong adherence to transformational intent and, in the case of universities, working with all three emergencies simultaneously. Successful transformation will also require harnessing opportunities to disrupt the status quo; supporting an interplay of different forms of management and orientations to the future; developing appropriate infrastructure to support transformation; and rapidly accelerating the development of capacities for transformational change. By actively developing capacities for transformation on the inside universities will then be in a much better position to help and lead others beyond the halls of the academy