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Creative Infrastructures
Creative Infrastructures is a new collection of connected essays that examines the relationships between art innovation entrepreneurship and money. Essig uses her extensive knowledge of the field of arts entrepreneurship and puts it to broader practical use and greater impact by offering a theory for arts entrepreneurship that places more emphasis on means over ends. Essig uses illustrative case studies to show how her theoretical framework explains a number of innovative efforts in culturally and racially diverse communities.
The Ouroboros the serpent eating its own tail is a visual metaphor deployed by Essig in the opening essay to shift commonly held perspectives on especially the relationship between art and money. Art is the head; money is the tail feeding and nourishing the head in a cycle that enables the organism to not only survive but also thrive.
Between the art and the money is the body: innovation and entrepreneurship. Innovation is understood to be a novel idea that is implemented and has impact on a domain. For that is what the artist does: create something new and unique that has impact. Entrepreneurship is conceived of as the discovery or creation of a mediating structure that can convert the artistic innovation into capital (financial and other types) that can be re-invested in the artist and the making of more art. This book endeavours to untie the knotty relationships between artists and entrepreneurship in order to answer the question 'How can artists make work and thrive in our late-capitalist society?'
Other essays in the collection consider a range of topics including how aesthetic and cultural value are transmitted from the artist to the audience; the complexity of the tension between what art fundamentally is and the reproduction of that work and the recent foregrounding of the idea that art can produce positive social change – through current and late-twentieth-century trends in 'social impact art' or 'art for change'.
As in sports business and other sectors the star artists the top 1 per cent have disproportionately influenced the public expectations for what 'a successful artist' means. It isn’t necessary to retell the stories of the one per cent of arts entrepreneurs; instead Essig looks instead at the quotidian artist at what they do and why not what they make. All too often artists who are attentive to the 'business' of their creative practice are accused of 'selling out'. But for many working artists that attention to business is what enables an artist to not just survive but to thrive. When artists follow their mission Essig contends that they don’t sell out they spiral up by keeping mission at the forefront.
The closing essay is a work of speculative fiction based in all that comes before both in the preceding essays and in Essig’s work as an artist arts advocate and scholar of cultural policy. Returning to the symbol of the Ouroboros it connects the head (art) to the tail (not money specifically but resources) and back again. It is a 'future imaginary' in which she profiles three fictional artists in the year 2050.
The field of arts entrepreneurship is growing – thanks in large part to the work of Linda Essig. The case studies in the book are US-based but the issues addressed are universal.
This book is ideal for use in training programmes for arts administrators and advocates; policy analysts and business schools that are looking to add in arts programmes. It will be of great interest and significance to people working in the cultural industries in the United Kingdom and Europe especially Germany where there has also been some recent research interest on similar topics.
It is also relevant to the many artists who participate in training and professional development programmes in their community as well as those who are just starting out.
Insights in Applied Theatre
Much more than an archive these are the vivid still pertinent voices and messages of the pioneers worldwide.
The nineteen articles chosen by the editors of Applied Theatre Research represent key themes and elements from the early days of applied theatre that are still – and indeed now more than ever – relevant. They are all high-quality articles some of which were highly influential in their own time. All of them still have plenty to say to today’s applied theatre both in their own terms and sometimes in terms of how their publication influenced the development at the time of this still-expanding field or refracted it in ways that give us new insights with hindsight.
They have been arranged in sections according to some of the key themes – and problematic issues – that were discovered thought out and sometimes stumbled across by the pioneer writers in the collection. Each section is preceded by a critical editorial commentary on those themes besides thorough introductions to all the articles and in some cases re-evaluations. The editors have added substantial additional new material to the collection and in doing so bring their own applied theatre experience to bear on these themes as they raise general questions that are wide-ranging contemporary and urgent: from the vital and contested issues of power partnerships and the giving of voice through theatre to applied theatre’s proactive response to COVID-19 to the need to identify take account of and address the needs of all stakeholders in any applied theatre project.
The articles are grouped in six sections covering areas such as diversity of geography community contexts forms of applied theatre and organizational factors that characterize applied theatre; the definition and nature of applied theatre; how the best intentioned projects could be compromised by any of the many opportunities for applied theatre to go wrong; opportunities for change it can offer and the incorporation of new media technologies and ethnographic performance two factors that have now become major preoccupations for our field particularly in the years since the articles were written. The final section recognizes that applied theatre has been around not for 30 years but for thousands and in countless cultures.
The editorial chapters have strong connections with the rest of the book but are written with the editors’ deep insights into the field and are sharp in their focus and context. The book offers useful insights into the start of applied theatre and its development as an area of practice and research. The chapter collection is relevant and includes influential names in the field who have contributed significantly to the development of applied theatre over time.
The primary market will be academics and advanced practitioners in applied theatre drama education and theatre studies – including the expanding fields of drama therapy theatre and health etc. It will also be useful for educators exploring creative pedagogy and drama in education strategies across the curriculum.
It will be valuable introductory background reading for advanced undergraduate and post-graduate students in drama theatre studies and theatre arts performance studies and community theatre.
The Music Diva Spectacle
This original new book has a unique focus on diva camp as popular music praxis. The author analyses case studies of diva concert tour shows in order to present a performance studies reading of camp the culture-sharing process of production and audience reception. Detailed case studies include contemporary stars Madonna Kylie Beyoncé Lady Gaga and a look at audience drag.
The book contains detailed descriptions of artists’ performances along with the analysis of exciting and popular contemporary performers. The emphasis on camp is particularly interesting as thinking about queerness has pushed camp into the background in recent years. This is an interesting and exciting revival of the question of camp in contemporary queer performance.
The book considers and investigates the relationship between camp theory as an academic subject and the figure of the diva as one that utilizes and expresses camp in various ways. It seeks to establish how camp is appropriated or owned by the diva and how this impacts on and is in turn appropriated and owned by the audience.
Primary readership will be among researchers and educators working in the fields of cultural studies performance studies theatre studies music studies LGBTQ+ studies critical race studies as well as undergraduate students interested in these topics. It will be a useful classroom resource and addition to recommended reading lists.
The Music Diva Spectacle may have interest for more general readers with an interest in the subjects of the case studies but the main focus is on the academic market.
Visual Futures
The overall subject of the book is visual culture. What sets it apart and gives it such an original emphasis is its multi-disciplinarity and the range of critical voices ranging through film studies architecture creative practice biology pedagogy and media theory which are brought to bear upon the question of visuality and its relationship to futurity.
In our everyday lives we navigate across a vast sea of visual imagery. Yet we rarely pause to question how or why we derive meaning from this sea. Nor do we typically contemplate the impact that it has on our motivations our assumptions about science and about other people and our actions as individuals and collectives. This book is a collection of interdisciplinary perspectives from science to film from graffiti and virtual environments to architecture and education that examines the ways in which we interact and engage with the visual elements of our environments.
Visual Futures provides an interdisciplinary examination of how we visualize and use visuals to make meaning within our environment. A diverse range of contributions and perspectives from biology film virtual reality urban graffiti architecture critical pedagogy and education challenge our current attitudes norms and practices of looking and seeing opening up questions about the future. The future is a concept with significant political stakes and the work of rethinking and reimagining possible worlds requires a host of practices which include the work of seeing of image-making and of representation – all of which is political work taken up by the book contributors.
Primary readership will be among scholars and students of visual culture media studies digital cultures fine art architecture education science communication and sociology. Clearly aimed at an academic readership it will also appeal to practising artists architects software developers and educators.
Equality in the City
This collection considers the city of the future and its relationship to its citizens. It responds to the foregrounding of digital technologies in the management of urban spaces and addresses some of the ways in which technologies are changing the places in which we live and the way we live in them.
A broad range of interdisciplinary contributors reflect on the global agenda of smart cities the ruptures in smart discourse and the spaces where we might envisage a more user-friendly and bottom-up version of the smart future. The authors adopt an equality studies lens to assess how we might conceive of a future smart city and what fissures need to be addressed to ensure the smart future is equitable. In the project of envisaging this they consider various approaches and arguments for equality in the imagined future city putting people at the forefront of our discussions rather than technologies.
In the smart discourse hard data technological solutions global and national policy and macro issues tend to dominate. Here the authors include ethnographic evidence rather than rely on the perspective of the smart technologies’ experts so that the arena for meaningful social development of the smart future can develop.
The international contributors respond purposefully to the smart imperative to the disruptive potential of smart technologies in our cities: issues of change design austerity ownership citizenship and equality. The collection examines the pull between equality and engagement in smart futures. To date the topic of smart cities has been approached from the perspective of digital media human geography and information communications technology. This collection however presents a different angle. It seeks to open new discussions about what a smart future could do to bridge divides to look at governmentality in the context of (in)equality in the city. The collection is an approachable discussion of the issues that surround smart digital futures and the imagined digital cities of the future. It is aspirational in that it seeks to imagine a truly egalitarian city of the future and to ponder how that might come about.
Primary readership will be academics and students in social science architecture urban planning government employees and those working or studying in social justice and equality studies
Sight Readings
Jazz photography has attracted increasing attention in recent years. Photographs of musicians are popular with enthusiasts while historians and critics are keen to incorporate photographs as illustrations. Yet there has been little interrogation of these photographs and it is noticeable that what has become known as the jazz photography 'tradition' is dominated by a small number of well-known photographers and 'iconic' images.
Many photographers including African American photojournalists studio photographers early twentieth-century émigrés the Jewish exiles of the 1930s and vernacular snapshots are frequently overlooked. Drawing on ideas from contemporary photographic theory supported by extensive original archival research Sight Readings is a thorough exploration of twentieth century jazz photography and it includes discussions of jazz as a visual subject its attraction to different types of photographers and offers analysis of why and how they approached the subject in the way they did.
One of the remarkable things about this book is its movement back and forth between detailed archive research the empirical documentation of photographers their techniques working practices equipment etc. and cultural theory the sophisticated discussion of aesthetics cultural sociology the politics of identity etc. The result is both a fine scholarly achievement and an engaging labour of love.
Lessons from a Multispecies Studio
A highly original book in which the author proposes an expanded field of aesthetics guided by her philosophy and approach to working through the ways that philosophy can be manifested in art. She demonstrates the depth and complexity that she brings to her work through a sustained and committed relationship to working with animals across multiple projects.
The book tells real-world stories about the author’s creative encounters – with animals plant life mineral beings and forest ecosystems – in her Vancouver-based interspecies art practice Animal Lover and how they shifted her outlook on the Earth and all of life. Each chapter presents a weaving together of personal reflection interdisciplinary research critical thought and art methods. The threads converge on this main point: the need to move away from anthropocentrism and towards ecological understanding reciprocity and biophilia. The local journeys in each chapter are guided by more-than-human ways of knowing which provide an expanded sense of the world and an understanding of the imperative for action. This book is an invitation to readers to step into more-than-human worlds re-sense life and re-think their relationship with the planet and all its inhabitants. It asks readers to slow down look around and listen – and feel. Love for life is practised by all beings in their lively projects. It is what joins us together in the relational flourishing that is the vital wondrous complexity of the Earth.
The Anthropocene is a term used to describe the geological era in which we live marking the realization that humans have become such a force that we are affecting the Earth’s air lands oceans climate. At its core in the modern Eurocentric societies that typify this era is an entrenched worldview of nature as a means to fuel global capitalist-colonial systems. This anthropocentric worldview justifies the colonization and exploitation of ecosystems and nonhuman life seen as ‘resources’ available for human expansion and prosperity and readily available as free labour. The consequential outcomes are manifest in today’s climate emergency and ecological degradations including animal slavery industrial farming over-fishing deforestation and habitat loss and the coming environmental collapse with its sixth mass extinction. Within recent decades the sustainability of anthropocentric views have been called into question across disciplines. Lessons from a Multispecies Art Studio joins with these movements and offers new applied approaches – from interspecies art – to help shape and evolve human outlooks emotions and actions.
Primary readership will be research-creation academic artists working with animals and researchers working around animals; more-than-human-animal activists; artists and emerging artists as well as to art theorists and to those with a strong interest in environmental values.
Epidemic Urbanism
Includes 36 chapters that deploy interdisciplinary approaches to the analysis of the mutual relationship between pandemics and the built environment. The chapters share the story of a pandemic in a particular city or region from five continents and are organized in four sections to convey the mechanisms of change that affect vulnerabilities and responses to epidemic illnesses: 'Urban Governance' 'Urban Life' 'Urban Infrastructure' and 'Urban Design and Planning'. Two prominent scholars from the disciplines of public health and medical anthropology provide a prologue and epilogue: Sandro Galea writes on 'Pandemics and urban health' and Richard J. Jackson on 'Urbanism and architecture in the post-COVID era'.
The contributors to this new study are historians public health experts art and architectural historians sociologists anthropologists doctors and nurses. In researching their contributions all have spoken to an audience that includes the public practitioners and academic readers; the resultant case studies reveal a diverse range of urban interventions that are connected to the impact of epidemics on society and urban life as well as the conceptualization of and response to disease.
Epidemic illnesses – not only a product of biology but also social and cultural phenomena – are as old as cities themselves. The recent pandemic has put into perspective the impact of epidemic illness on urban life and exposed the vulnerabilities of the societies it ravages as much as the bodies it infects. How can epidemics help us understand urban environments? How might insights from the outbreak and responses to previous urban epidemics inform our understanding of the current world? With these questions in mind this book gathers scholarship from a range of disciplines to present case studies from across the globe each demonstrating how cities in particular are not just the primary place of exposure and quarantine but also the site and instrument of intervention.
This book seeks to explore the profound and complex ways that architecture and landscape design were impacted by historical epidemics around the world from North America to Africa and Australia and to convey this information in a way that meaningfully engages a public readership. The chapters analyse the development of urban infrastructure institutions and spaces in western and eastern societies in response to historical pandemics. They also demonstrate how epidemic illnesses and their responses exploit and amplify social inequality in the urban contexts and communities they impact.
Entanglements of Two: A Series of Duets
Drawing out the particularities of working in twos with a focus on collaborative performance making this book considers the duet as a particular configuration in which to think the duo a microcosm of humankind and presents everyday entanglement of form and practice seen through the lens of the smallest multiple unit.
This book explores the practical philosophical and aesthetic implications of performers working in pairs. It focuses on a ten-year period in the work of Karen Christopher alongside wider reflections on the duet as a concept in artistic and social life. The book presents an investigation of the entanglement of form and practice seen through the lens of the smallest multiple unit of collaboration: the pair.
During this ten-year period Christopher set out to create a series of duets by working with one other artist. The 25 pieces in the collection includes reflections from an international group of collaborators artists linguists physicists theologians philosophers and performance scholars. Many of them deal with the question of artistic collaboration and entanglement contemplating the significance of those terms both on an interpersonal and global level.
This book provides a fascinating insight into the creative working process of a particular artist whilst providing a blueprint for how collaboration might take place. There are many passages that might provide inspiration for other artists and overall the book makes a moving and heartfelt plea for interpersonal open-ness and mutual investment.
Primary readership will be among international theatre-makers artists performance and art scholars philosophers teachers directors actors dancers performance artists and those interested in creative and personal writing about performance art and art-making. It will be of particular relevance to those with an interest in Karen Christopher or in the other contributors.
Strategic Advertising Mechanisms
It is the first time that the different strategic advertising mechanisms are explained in a single book. And this is also the first time that a book has brought together the most important and transcendent (for its applicability to the advertising market) strategic advertising mechanisms.
The text explains from classic mechanisms such as Rosser Reeves's USP or Procter & Gamble's copy strategy to modern mechanisms such as Kevin Roberts's Lovemarks or Douglas Holt's iconic brands. It also considers European mechanisms such as Jacques Séguéla’s star strategy or Henri Joannis’s psychological axis. The book has the most complete academic review.
Strategic Advertising Mechanisms: From Copy Strategy to Iconic Brands integrates the most important strategic advertising mechanisms developed throughout the time: USP brand image positioning Lovemarks... This is the first and only book to date that compiles the most consolidated methods by advertisers or advertising agencies (P&G Bates Ogilvy or Euro) in the history of modern advertising.
Primary readership will be among practitioners researchers scholars and students in a range of disciplines including communication advertising business and economic information and communication sociology psychology and humanities. There may also be appeal to the more general reader with an interest in how advertising strategic planning works.
Punk Identities, Punk Utopias
Punk Identities Punk Utopias: Global Punk and Media seeks to unpack and illuminate punk as a trajectory of ‘timelesness…as a set of diverse but confluent values and appropriations’ that have both reflected and informed an increasingly complex indefinable social political and economic setting. Whereas the first two volumes in the series were broadly focused on local punk ‘scenes’ in a disparate range of countries and regions around the world Punk Identities Punk Utopias extends that critical enquiry to reflect broader social political and technological concerns impacting punk scenes around the world from digital technology and new media to gender ethnicity identity and representation. This new volume therefore draws upon the interdisciplinary areas of cultural studies musicology and social sciences to present an edited text on the notion of identities ideologies and cultural discourse surrounding contemporary global punk scenes. It is hoped that the books in the Global Punk series will add to the academic discussion of contemporary popular culture particularly in relation to punk and the critical understanding of transnational and cross-cultural dialogue.
Punk is a global phenomenon and the Global Punk series aims to reflect contemporary scenes around the world since the millennium. Punk and its subsequent variants from hardcore to post-punk have always crossed borders and become assimilated within countercultural practices with local national and regional variations.
Produced in collaboration between the Punk Scholars Network and Intellect Books the Global Punk book series focuses on the development of contemporary global punk (c. 2000 onwards) reflecting upon its origins aesthetics identity legacy membership and circulation. Critical approaches draw upon the interdisciplinary areas of (among others) cultural studies art and design sociology musicology and social sciences in order to develop a broad and inclusive picture of punk and punk-inspired subcultural developments around the globe. The series adopts an essentially analytical perspective raising questions about the dissemination of punk scenes and subcultures and their form structure and contemporary cultural significance in the daily lives of an increasing number of people around the world.
This book has a genuine crossover appealed. It will be a key resource for established academics postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students as well as being suitable for adoption as an undergraduate student textbook. Suitable courses will include those in the fields of popular music youth culture sociology urban/cultural geography political history heritage studies media and cultural studies.
The Impact of Touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy
This book explores the therapeutic use of touch focusing on an in-depth case study of work in an NHS setting with a client with learning disabilities and situating this within a wide theoretical context. This is a unique and influential study illustrating the impact of touch in dance movement psychotherapy and laying the ground for a theory on the use of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP).
The case study illustrates the impact of touch upon the therapeutic relationship with the use of video transcription and descriptive reflexive accounts of the session content. The case analysis sections establish the ground for a paradigm shift and for emergent theory and methods in support of the use of touch in Dance Movement Psychotherapy and other contexts. The role touch takes is beyond its affect which expands our understanding of its potency as an intervention. The writing is embedded in many years of practice-led-research in the field of dance and somatic practices in particular Body-Mind Centering® and Contact Improvisation in which touching and being touched is met with curiosity as a place of insight and revelation beyond the bounds of taboo and social diktat.
The study considers the philosophical landscape of both touch and non-touch. This book explores and reflects upon the use of touch considering the wider context and socially imposed perceptions that would prevent touch from taking place – including philosophical and social discourses. Through telling the story of a client case the book offers a wealth of thought-provoking content to inspire continued dialogue.
Key strengths of this book are the depth warmth and perceptiveness of the case history and the way in which this is successfully linked with theory. Particular attention is paid to embodied cognition and exosystemic theory the two leading developments of current thinking.
With the ethical practical and philosophical content the book will be of interest to psychotherapists health and social care practitioners as well as arts in health practitioners and beneficiaries in educational programs and settings.
Primary readership will be among DMP psychotherapists body psychotherapists drama therapists Body Mind Centering® practitioners arts in health practitioners people working with clients with learning disabilities and any practitioner and researcher interested in understanding the role touch may play in the psychotherapeutic encounter.
Sine ni Lav Diaz
This original collection fills a gap in the literature on Lav Diaz and more broadly on slow and durational cinema. The importance of the director in contemporary world cinema is beyond doubt.
This collection considers Lav Diaz and his works holistically without being confined to a specific approach or research method. On the contrary it involves almost all the major contemporary academic approaches to cinema. It focuses on an auteur who has been celebrated immensely in recent times and yet has remained largely unexplored in cinema studies. The book will address this research gap.
As such this book aims to situate Diaz at the crucial juncture of ‘new’ auteurism Filipino New Wave and transnational cinema but it does not neglect the industrial–exhibitional coordinates of his cinema. The rationale behind this project is to raise questions on the oeuvre of a significant auteur to situate him in and outside of his immediate national context(s) to present a repository of critical approaches on him to reconsider the existing critical positions on him to find newer avenues to enter (and exit) his canon that will consciously avoid the time-worn rhetoric of long take and slowness of the proverbial ‘slow cinema’ camp and to find corridors in him that will lead to informed ways of reaching other movements/auteurs in other times other places.
It explores various other aspects of Diaz and his cinema whose notoriety the editors believe should not rely solely on its incredible running time. The collection looks at Diaz from the perspectives of a national and a transnational critic – one of the two editors is from the Philippines the other from another Asian location. It concentrates both on the spatial and the temporal to place him within the intricacies of the culture and creative industries and the distribution practices and politics in his native place to allow space for his ‘detractors’ who (perhaps rightly) focus on and object to his ‘artlessness’ and also to read him in the context of his fascination for the epic novel and novelistic cinema his engagement with Dostoevsky and Jose Rizal among others.
This is the first book-length study on the Filipino auteur Lav Diaz. It looks critically at his career and corpus from various perspectives with contributions from cinema studies researchers film critics festival programmers and artists. It offers a nuanced overview of the filmmaker and the cinematic traditions he belongs to for film enthusiasts researchers and general readers alike.
Primary readership will be researchers scholars educators and students in film studies. Also academics and researchers interested and working in cultural studies and Philippine studies.
Becoming a Visually Reflective Practitioner
Professional practice is increasingly becoming more complex demanding dynamic and diverse. This important and original new book considers how self-study using arts-based methods can enable purposeful reflection toward understanding and envisioning professional practice. Ideally for visual arts practitioners on all levels this book presents a self-study model grounded in compelling research that highlights arts-based methods for examining four areas of professional practice: professional identities work cultures change and transitions and envisioning new pathways.
Chapters address the components of the self-study model artistic methods and materials and strategies for interpreting self-study written and visual outcomes with the aim of goal setting. Each chapter includes visuals references and end-of-chapter prompts to engage readers in critical and visual reflection. Appendices offer resources and guidelines for creating and assessing self-study outcomes.
The fluctuating nature of professional practice necessitates the pursuit of discernment and clarity that can be achieved through an ongoing reflective practice. Self-study is a systematic and flexible methodology for purposeful reflection on professional practice that embraces dialogic interpretive rhizomatic and visual inquiry. Self-study can occur at any level of practice and in the context of work-related professional development formal study or as a self-initiated inquiry. An arts-based self-study model for visual arts practitioners is explored and focuses on four intersectional components shaping professional practice: professional identities work cultures and communities transition and change within professional practice and envisioning new pathways for professional practice.
The self-study model is grounded in contemporary theory practice and compelling research and embraces robust strategies for understanding the complexities of professional practice that can include dual multiple overlapping hybrid and conflicting professional identities tensions within work cultures and unexpected changes within professional practice. Each chapter focuses on a component of the self-study model and an area of professional practice concluding with references and end-of-chapter prompts that are aimed to facilitate critical reflection-on-practice and the creation of written and visual responses.
With visual arts practitioners in mind various arts-based methods for self-study are discussed that highlight visual journaling as a key method for engaging in self-study. Interpretive research methods are discussed to guide readers in understanding the phases and processes for interpreting written and visual self-study outcomes. Processes are outlined to help readers determine key insights themes issues and questions from their self-study outcomes how to use them in formulating new questions and articulating new professional goals. Several levels for interpretation are presented to offer readers options relative to their professional needs and aims.
Throughout the text charts and visuals serve to summarize and visualize key chapter points. Images by visual arts practitioners appear throughout the text and represent a wide range of artistic media methods and approaches appropriate for self-study. The appendices provide additional resources for enhanced understanding of chapter concepts and key terms guidelines and rubrics for writing reflections creating visual responses and using a visual journal in the self-study process.
Primary readership will be visual arts practitioners at all levels. Ideal for university level graduate courses or as a guide for individuals and small groups of practitioners who seek to engage in arts-based self-study as professional development.
Painting, History and Meaning
This compelling new study considers contemporary painting’s relationship with time and with events ideas and paintings from the past. Following French philosopher Jean-François Lyotard’s determination of painting as entailing a series of temporal sites Painting History and Meaning examines works that tendentiously engage with aspects and events derived from the past.
A unique examination of the relationship that contemporary painting has with history and historical material Painting History and Meaning is a timely response to and discussion of how contemporary painters and artists have addressed a significant area of concern for both practitioners and theorists in recent years.
Craig Staff explores art that has encompassed strategies of excavation anachronism and memorialization examining key works by artists including Dana Schutz Tomma Abts Gerhard Richter Marlene Dumas Johannes Phokela and Taus Makhacheva. A scholarly examination of contemporary painting through an innovative interdisciplinary research methodology this fascinating study illuminates the complex relationship between painting and history.
Primary readership will be the fine art academic community art and painting practitioners scholars and academics. Will appeal to second and third year undergraduate and postgraduate students of fine art and art history. Of interest to students of cultural studies history curatorial studies and continental philosophy and to those in the visual arts wanting to develop their understanding of contemporary art.
Prototyping across the Disciplines
If people from different fields are going to work together on projects then they need to begin to understand each other. They can be separated by the words they use the ways they work and how they think. However in many fields there is common ground in the attempts to create what is sometimes called inventive knowledge. These fields progress not only by understanding increasingly more about what already exists but by making guesses about possible better futures. The guesses consist of small forays into that future using strategies that are variously called learning through making research through design or more simply prototyping.
While traditionally associated primarily with industrial design and more recently with software development prototyping is now used as an important tool in areas ranging from materials engineering to landscape architecture to the digital humanities. This book collects current theories and methods of prototyping in a dozen disciplines illustrating them through case studies of actual projects whether in industry or the classroom.
This edited collection aims to provide a context a theoretical framework and a set of methodologies for interdisciplinary collaboration in design. Each chapter offers a different disciplinary perspective on prototyping providing a case study as a point of comparison for identifying commonalities and divergences in current practices. Contributions are from a group of scholars with worldwide experience of working and presenting in design and who are currently based in Canada the United States Chile and Brazil.
This book isn’t just about design across the disciplines it is about how prototyping works in different disciplines. Prototyping is a crucial part of the design process and a practice used by creators from all design disciplines from architects and engineers to industrial and service designers to test a concept or process and evaluate an idea.
Much research has been published on prototyping in design; what makes this new book unique is the cross disciplinary nature showing designers how they can learn from various approaches to improve their skills. Disciplines discussed include post-human design theatre tabletop game design landscape architecture and arts entrepreneurship.
Primarily of interest to design scholars and practitioners with an interest in integrative design. Undergraduates and graduate students in design HCI (human-computer interaction) and the digital humanities. Textbook potential.
Architecture and the Urban in Spanish Film
This will be the first edited collection in English on urban space and architecture in Spanish popular film since 1898. Building on existing film and urban histories this innovative volume will examine Spanish film through contemporary interdisciplinary theories of urban space the built environment visuality and mass culture from the industrial through to the digital age.
Architecture and Urbanism in Spanish Film brings together the innovative scholarship of an international and interdisciplinary group of film architecture and urban studies scholars thinking through the reciprocal relationship between the seventh art and the built environment. Some of the shared concerns that emerge from this volume include the ways cinema as a new technology reshaped how cities and buildings are built and inhabited since the early twentieth century; the question of the mobile gaze; film's role in the shifting relationship between the private and the public; film and everyday life; monumentality and the construction of historical memory for a variety of viewing publics; the impact of the digital and the virtual on filmmaking and spectatorship.
Primary readership will be those researching teaching and studying Spanish film international film studies urban cultural studies cultural studies and architects who are interested in interdisciplinary endeavours.
Data Dating
What does it mean to love with technology? Does data improve our emotional interactions? The collection approaches the query with critical essays and works of new media art to look into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships. With expertise coming from recognized researchers critics and artists in the field of media and cultural studies it analyses relationship trends and affect cultures that have emerged from technological acceleration.
Data Dating: Love Technology and Desire is a comprehensive study of love and intimacy under digitalism that reflects on the structure of feeling(s) and libido environments in the high-tech and media-bound landscapes of contemporary technocracies. Organized around ten chapters and ten works of new media art the collection offers an extensive critical analysis of technologized romance (and other emotional relations) as well as provides an insight into the codification execution deployment and evolution of the patterns of togetherness in the so-called Tamagotchi era.
The chapters engage in the problems of new material planes that have emerged from the abstraction of networked communication and dispersion of traditional notions of physicality. They close-read the templates of contemporary fantasy fetish and eroticism as shaped by platform capitalism datafication and new commodity cultures in which self-promotion for bonding relies on the new possibilities that are coming in with new media self-mediation formats. Central to the analysis is the carbon-silicon dynamics of love’s contemporary DNA and libidinal techne – practiced in the environment where screens interfaces algorithms data protocols and non-organic objects of affection and affect delineate organize and program the trajectories of encounter limerence and erotic pleasure. All the chapters are authored by recognized researchers in the field of love emotion media technology and cultural studies and they critically explore various aspects of love/intimacy under technocracy approaching them with expertise the goes beyond the typical high-modernist and post-structural reading of the media-ridden life practices and environments.
More importantly the collection includes landmark works of new media art coming from prominent new media artist gathered around 'Data Dating' – new media art exhibition curated by Valentina Peri (co-editor of the collection) and presented in Paris Tel Aviv and London. As such the collection proffers a unique and original critical approach – one that combines artistic practice and cultural criticism – to comment upon the transformation of human relationships and emotional standards under technological development with reference to the social change and cultural condition.
The collection of essays each accompanied by a work of media art that provides a comprehensive insight into the construction of love and its practices in the time of digitally mediated relationships.
Primary readership will be among educators researcher and students in disciplines including cultural studies media and communications philosophy sociology psychology and gender LGBTQ+ and sexual studies. It will be an extremely valuable resource for those in these fields.
It will be of interest to other groups including art curators online platform designers social media content managers and designers and data specialists.
The Return of Twin Peaks
In 2017 twenty-five years after its initial release a new season of Twin Peaks shook the world of television.
This new book is a detailed analysis of the third season of the television series and aims to elucidate some of the meanings of Twin Peaks: The Return and explain these in terms of philosophical mythological and spiritual approaches. It focuses on the third season of Twin Peaks but also refers to the first two seasons and to the film Fire Walk with Me.
Divided into three sections the book first examines the third season as expanded storytelling through the lens of Gene Youngblood's theory of synesthetic cinema intertextuality integrationist and segregationist approaches in the realm of fiction and focuses on the role of audio and visual superimpositions in The Return. It goes on to question the nature of the reality depicted in the seasons via scientific approaches such as electromagnetism time theory and multiverses. The third and final section aims to transcend this vision by exploring the role of theosophy the occult and other spiritual sources.
The author’s focus on the role of spirituality and science in Twin Peaks is what distinguishes this book from other works on the famous television series. The work of a scholar who is also a fan the book should appeal to any hard-core Twin Peaks viewer.
Foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz editor-at-large at RogerEbert.com and the television critic for New York magazine.
This will be essential reading for fans of Twin Peaks and academics writing about it.
Also of interest for students with an interest in philosophy religion science or spiritualism in visual and popular culture.
Fortunes of War
Eric Lesdema’s photographic series Fortunes of War was awarded the UN Nikon World Prize in 1997. Originally a series of fifteen images this extended edit includes 83 colour photos accompanied by a series of essays by leading academics in the field. The essays explore ideas raised by the prescient nature of the work offering a highly original and engaging debate about its alternative approach to documentary photography which views photography as an alternate space with the potential to project events rather than record them. In exploring an approach that cuts against the traditional concept central to documentary photography since its inception the book thus raises important questions about twenty-first century interpretations and applications of photography and media. With thought-provoking research and a diverse array of essay contributions Fortunes of War proposes new lines of interdisciplinary investigation reflection and inquiry.
Nikon Award info: https://www.artimage.org.uk/artists/l/eric-lesdema/
Beyond Text
This original new book represents a variety of art forms across different professional contexts. Its focus is on the ways that educational practitioners and leaders from a range of cultures disciplines professions and organizations practice arts-based research and it explores how these can enable innovative means of learning and enhance professional and organizational development.
This vibrant project allowed for long term systematic conversations between a large and unusually diverse group of twenty-nine people from eight organisations in six countries. It was unusually diverse in many senses: for some the word ‘data’ meant little for others it was central to their daily work; for some artistic practice was core while for others the arts were a means to an end; while some were social entrepreneurs running their own companies others were researching in universities and a number were doing both; some were working within the STEM disciplines of business management engineering science technology sustainability and the built environment others were in the social sciences of social and health care education and youth work while others were engaged in rapid or long term social and cultural action as a means of resisting state violence and military occupation; some worked in one of the safest countries on the planet others in one of the most tear-gassed refugee camps in the world.
Within these professional groups there were also ranges of experience for example senior researchers early career researchers PhD students seasoned professional artists and newcomers to arts forms. Whilst the main communication of this group was English six other major languages were spoken Estonian Finish Catalan Spanish Arabic and key stakeholders bought Swedish and Japanese into the space. This meant that while the conversations in and about arts-based practice were transnational interdisciplinary and systematic they had all the messy troubled-ness that the intercultural on all of the above levels brings with it.
This unique and exciting collection discusses how creative arts practices can have a significant impact on research across a range of international contexts drawing on their own field of research and educational experience. For instance drama music dance and visual arts can be used to understand how learners internalise concepts reflect on how decisions are made in the midst of action in leadership education or investigate the use of the intuitive alongside the rational and analytical in their educational experience. Non-textual arts-based forms of research can also provide modes of investigation into pedagogical and professional practices when applied to fields that normally lie outside of the arts.
Its greatest strengths are its focus on arts-based research as a way of learning in a variety of contexts and often in collaboration. Its consistent theoretical artistic and professional engagements make it a very readable and engaging read.
The representation of a variety of art forms across different professional contexts means that this book will have appeal to several readerships in higher education including the following groups.
Academics and practitioners using arts-based methods in organisation and business settings. Researchers in the arts and researchers generically in the social sciences humanities and arts. University students of the arts education and professional studies especially those interested in the wider international and intercultural diversity of research methodologies.
Those working in international research teams using any form of qualitative research will also find this collection very interesting. It also has potential interest for groups outside higher education with an interest in arts-based research – for example community groups looking to explore collaborative projects.
Phenomenology for Actors
This book gives new insight into acting and theatre-making through phenomenology (the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience). It examines Being-in-the-world in everyday life with exercises for workshops and rehearsal. Each chapter explores themes to guide the creative process through objects bodies spaces being with others time history freedom and authenticity. Key examples in the work are drawn from Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard Sophocles’ Antigone and Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Practical tasks in each section explore how the theatrical event can offer unique insight into Being and existence. In this way the book makes a bold leap to understand acting as an embodied form of philosophy and to explain how phenomenology can be a rich source of inspiration for actors directors designers and the creative process of theatre-making.
This original new book will provide new insight into the practice and theory of acting stimulate new approaches to rehearsal and advance the notion of theatre making a genuine contribution to philosophical discourse.
The fundamental task of the actor is to be on stage with purposeful action in the given circumstances. But this simple act of ‘Being’ is not easy. Phenomenology can provide valuable insight into the challenge. For some time scholars have looked to phenomenology to describe and analyse the theatrical event. But more than simply drawing attention to embodiment and the subjective experience of the world a philosophical perspective can also shed light on broader existential issues of being.
No specialist knowledge of philosophy is required for the reader to find this text engaging and it will be relevant for second-year students and above at tertiary level.
For postgraduates and researchers the book will provide a valuable touchstone for phenomenology and performance as research. The book will appeal to theatre and performance studies and some applied philosophy courses. The material is also relevant to studies in literary and critical theory cultural studies and comparative literature.
The work is relevant to The International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR/FIRT) (Performance and Consciousness) Performance Studies International (psi) and the Performance Philosophy Research Network — an influential and growing research field.
Primary markets for this book will be students (both at university and conservatoires) and academics in theatre studies as well as practitioners and actors in training. The text will be useful to students in units or modules relating to acting theory and theatre-making processes and which combine critical theory with practical performance. It will also be useful for practitioners of theatre looking to expand or inflect their own methods of approaching performance.
Radioactive Documentary
How have nuclear issues been covered in documentary since the end of the Cold War? This original new book explores how the sometimes elusive sometimes dramatic effects of uranium products on the landscape on architecture and on social organisation continue to show up on-screen maintaining a record of moving images that goes back to the early twentieth century.
It is the first book to analyse independent documentary films about nuclear energy - it suggests an approach to documentary films as agents of change.
Each chapter of this book focuses on one of ten different documentary films made in Europe and North America since 1989. Each of these films works the material and the ideological heritage of the nuclear power industry into visions of the future. Dealing with the legacy of how ignorance and neglect led to accidents and failures the films offer different ways of understanding and moving on from the past. The documentary form itself can be understood as a collective means for the discovery of creative solutions and the communication of new narratives. In the case of these films the concepts of radioactivity and deep time in particular are used to bring together narrative and formal aesthetics in the process of reimagining the relationships between people and their environments.
Focusing on the representation of radioactive spaces in documentary and experimental art films the study shows how moving images do more than communicate the risks and opportunities and the tumultuous history associated with atomic energy. They embody the effects of Cold War technologies as they persist into the present acting as a reminder that the story is not over yet.
Primary readership will be academics and students working in environmental communication and in environmental humanities more broadly. For students of independent film or documentary it will also provide a clear picture of contemporary themes and creative practice.
Invisible Presence
This book looks at the representation of female characters in French comics from their first appearance in 1905. Organised into three sections the book looks at the representation of women as main characters created by men as secondary characters created by men and as characters created by women.
It focuses on female characters both primary and secondary in the francophone comic or bande dessinée as well as the work of female bande dessinée creators more generally. Until now these characters and creators have received relatively little scholarly attention; this new book is set to change this status quo.
Using feminist scholarship especially from well-known film and literary theorists the book asks what it means to draw women from within a phallocentric male-dominated paradigm as well as how the particular medium of bande dessinée its form as well as its history has shaped dominant representations of women.
This is the first book to study the representation of women in the French-language drawn strip. There are no other works with this specific focus either on women in Franco-Belgian comics or on the drawn representation of women by men.
This is a very useful addition to both general discussions of French-language comics and to discussions of women’s comics which are focused on comics by women only.
As it is written in English and due to the popularity of comic art in Britain and the United States this book will primarily appeal to an Anglo-American market. However the cultural and gender studies approach this text employs (theoretical frameworks still not widely seen in non-Anglophone studies of the bande dessinée) will ensure that the text is also of interest to a Franco-Belgian audience.
With a focus on an art-form which also inspires a lot of public (non-academic) enthusiasm it will also appeal to fans of the bande dessinée (or wider comic art medium) who are interested in the representation of women in comic art and to comics scholars on a broad scale.
Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE
A retrospective monograph of Alistair MacLennan’s performance art practice its influence on the Belfast art scene and its relationships with wider art histories. This new book is the most comprehensive and complete legacy monograph about Alastair MacLennan’s extensive performance practice
Alastair MacLennan is emeritus professor of fine art School of Art and Design Ulster University in Belfast. He is one of Britain’s major practitioners in live art and travels extensively in Eastern and Western Europe also America and Canada presenting ‘Actuations’ (his term for performance/installations). MacLennan is a founding member of Belfast's Art and Research Exchange of Belfast's Bbeyond performance collective and is a member of the performance art entity Black Market International. He has represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale (1997) and is an honorary associate of the National Review of Live Art Glasgow Scotland.
There is a wide variety of approach in the essays ranging from descriptive to interpretive. Some set the work in historical context and others provide pertinent biography. This variety is appropriate – and perhaps even necessary – in looking at the work of a living artist whose work is particularly complex. The selection of essays presents a complex body of work in an understandable way with each writer allowed to address the art in their own terms. Placing the work in historical context is important but presenting MacLennan as an influential teacher is also important.
Includes a significant contribution from Adrian Heathfield (professor of performance and visual culture at Roehampton UK) who has written an extended essay on MacLennan’s oeuvre focusing on its use of materials and its creation of sculptural environments. Discussing the artist’s deployment of slow-time action and contemplative space Heathfield sees MacLennan’s work as activating sustained contact with the elemental and locates MacLennan’s work as a significant intervention in performance art history globally and discusses the politics of its engagement with local history violence social conflict and memory.
The primary readership will be academics researchers and scholars working in performance art and contemporary art in general. Also valuable to students in performance art visual arts and related practices.
Of relevance to academics and artists in the interrelated fields of performance art art and philosophy critical theory conflict studies and Zen philosophy.
Devising Theatre and Performance
Devising Theatre and Performance is a hands-on guide for artists students and teachers of performance at any stage of their practice. It offers a wide range of creative prompts and pathways enriched with critical thinking tools and questions a hybrid approach Hill and Paris call ‘Curious Methods’.
This is a welcome addition to the field created and curated by two experienced artists who have operated at the international interface of academia and professional practice for over three decades.
The collection is packed with fun creative thoughtful exercises distilled from over twenty years of running interdisciplinary artist workshops and teaching both devising and performance making. As well providing numerous exercises and suggestions for devising composing and editing original works this book offers tools for giving and receiving feedback critical reflection and framing artistic work within academic research contexts.
Readers can choose to dip in and out to follow the book as a course or to work section by section focusing on organizing principles such as working from the body working with site working with objects or performance activism. The book includes a detailed production workbook and a practice-based research workbook you can tailor to your own projects. The 'Curious Methods' approach encourages users to take the time and space their practice deserves while offering tools nourishment and encouragement and inviting them to take risks beyond their comfort zones. The exercises are carefully described so that they can easily be tested out by readers and are well contextualized in relation to vivid examples from contemporary performance practice and relevant political contexts. This compelling approach goes beyond many other books on theatre devising which merely provide performance recipes; they do so by repeatedly highlighting the vital cultural relevance and potential personal impact of the experiments that they invite us to undertake.
The primary audience for this important new book will be academics instructors and students in courses on devised theatre improvisation performance art experimental performance and practice-based research. It will be essential for classroom use for students of theatre and performance and live art – undergraduate postgraduate and Ph.D. teachers and all those needing strategies for getting started.
It will also appeal to readers from the broader arts humanities and social sciences who are seeking resources for integrating creative methods into their research.
Visual Research Methods in Architecture
This book offers a distinctive approach to the use of visual methodologies for qualitative architectural research. It presents a diverse selection of ways for the architect or architectural researcher to use their gaze as part of their research practice for the purpose of visual literacy. Its contributors explore and use ‘critical visualizations’ which employ observation and sociocultural critique through visual creations – texts drawings diagrams paintings visual texts photography film and their hybrid forms – in order to research architecture landscape design and interior architecture. The visual methods intersect with those used in ethnography anthropology visual culture and media studies. In presenting a range of interdisciplinary approaches Visual Methodologies in Architectural Research opens up territory for new forms of visual architectural scholarship.
Slow TV
Slow TV has become a familiar feature of broadcasting in Norway. It refers to a set of programmes produced by the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) since 2009 starting out with a seven-hour broadcasting of the train ride between Bergen and Oslo.
The concept of slow TV and ‘minute-by-minute’ broadcasting was developed so that the event on television lasts as long as in real time. Several broadcasters outside Norway including BBC Four YLE SRF and Netflix have now taken up the concept of slow TV.
The first study of this genre this highly original book explores three different aspects of the phenomenon of slow TV: the perspective of the broadcaster the perspective of the producers and other actors involved in the production of the programme and that of the audience.
It goes beyond the question of genre and considers how slow TV fits into television scheduling and how the audience appeal can be understood within broader concepts such as media events media tourism reception and national identity. Public service broadcasters can be seen as having more opportunity to experiment and slow TV can be seen as a good example of public service programming. What attracts viewers to the programmes is that they invite a contemplative mode of watching: there is a chance to see something unexpected or to be introduced to interesting new things.
Illustrated throughout in full colour using stills from broadcast programmes.
This book will appeal primarily to an academic readership both researchers and students. Most readers are likely to be involved with media and communication studies cultural studies and film studies. It will also be of interest more generally to the humanities and social sciences fields as it touches on topics such as national and local identity popular culture Nordic lifestyle well-being tradition community and popular culture.
Columbo
This book presents an analysis of Lieutenant Columbo's investigative method of rhetorical inquiry as seen in the television police procedural Columbo (1968-2003). With a barrage of questions about minute details and feigned ignorance the iconic detective enacts a persona of ‘antipotency’ (counter authoritativeness) to affect the villains' underestimation of his attention to inconsistencies abductive reasoning and rhetorical efficacy. In a predominantly dialogue-based investigation Columbo exhausts his suspects by asking a battery of questions concerning all minor details of the case which evolves into an aggravating tedious provocation for the killer trying to maintain innocence. Based on the Ancient Greek ideal of Sophrosyne (temperance restraint) and the Socratic method of questioning to discover truths the Lieutenant models effective rhetorical inquiry with resistant responders: shy secretive anxious emotionally-disconnected angry arrogant jealous and in this case murderous conversants. While designed to be critical and theoretical this text strives to be accessible to interdisciplinary readers practical in application and amusing for Columbo buffs.
Decolonial Metal Music in Latin America
The long-lasting effects of colonialism are still present throughout Latin America. Racism political persecution ethnic extermination and extreme capitalism are some salient examples. This new book explores how heavy metal music in the region has been used to critically challenge the historical legacy of colonialism and its present-day manifestations.
Through extensive ethnographic research in Puerto Rico Cuba Dominican Republic Mexico Guatemala Colombia Peru Chile and Argentina Varas-Díaz documents how metal music listeners and musicians engage in ‘extreme decolonial dialogues’ as a strategy to challenge past and ongoing forms of oppression. This allows readers to see metal music in a different light and as a call for justice in Latin America.
Heavy metal related scholarship has made strides in the past decade. Many books have aimed to explain its origins uses and the social meanings ascribed to the music in a variety of contexts. For the most part these have neglected to address the region of Latin America as an area of study.
It represents a historical and sociological journey in Latin American heavy metal music through rich ethnographic engagements with performers fans and scholars of music. Its central premise is the dialogic relationship amongst deep histories of coloniality systematic oppression entrenched inequalities and the expressive forms generated by ‘decolonial metal music’. The book also provides an exemplary and potentially iconic model of ethnomusicology and the anthropology of music.
Most previous work on metal music in Latin America has relied on theoretical frameworks developed in the Global North and is therefore limited in understanding the region through its particular history and experiences. There is no scholarship of heavy metal scholarship in the Latin American region that achieves the depth or breadth of analysis represented by this book. It provides a roadmap and a model for this emerging mode of musical analysis by demonstrating how decolonial metal scholarship can be achieved.
Academic readership for the book will come from multiple disciplines including cultural studies musicology ethnomusicology sociology anthropology cultural geography history and Latin American studies. It will be of interest to music studies programmes as well as for methods courses on structurally informed social research. The book will also be of interest to those outside academic settings – accessibly written with its concise reviews of historical and political-economic contexts and its vivid storytelling it will be of interest to consumers of the metal musical genre.
Shiny Things
Shiny Things combines an interest in visual art with a broad attention to popular culture – the wideness of its range is striking. It is more than just an expansion of subject matter which many of today’s innovative books also have – it considers how a specific physical property manifests itself in both art and culture at large and contributes to an analysis of and polemics about the world. It is accessibly written but with a careful application of contemporary theory.
Interesting informative and entertaining this will appeal to progressive thinkers looking for new ways of presenting ideas. This is scholarship that challenges stale thought and interacts with philosophical ideas in real time with a versatility that can often be lacking in traditional academic scholarship.
Using art especially contemporary art as its recurrent point of reference the authors argue that shininess has moved from a time when rarity gave shiny things a direct meaning of power and transcendence. Shininess today is pervasive; its attraction is a foundation of consumer culture with its attendant effects on our architecture our conceptions of the body and our production of spectacle. Power and the sacred as readings of the shiny have given way to readings of superficiality irony and anxiety while somehow shininess has maintained its qualities of fascination newness and cleanliness.
Examines the meanings and functions of shininess in art and in culture more generally: its contradictions of both preciousness and superficiality and its complexities of representation; the way shininess itself is physically and metaphorically present in the construction of major conceptual categories such as hygiene utopias the sublime and camp; and the way the affects of shininess rooted in its inherent disorienting excess produce irony anxiety pleasure kitsch and fetishism. All of these large ideas are embodied in the instantly noticeable sometimes precious and sometimes cheap physical presence of shiny things those things that catch our eye and divert our attention. Shininess then is a compelling subject that instantly attracts and fascinates people.
The book engages primarily with visual art although it makes frequent use of material culture as well as advertising film literature and other areas of popular and political culture. The art world however is a place where many of the affects of shininess come into clearest focus where the polemical semiotics of shine are most evident and consciously explored.
Artists as diverse as Anish Kapoor (whose popular Cloud Gate sculpture in Chicago is a repeating example in the book) Olafur Eliasson Jeff Koons Carolee Schneemann Audrey Flack Fra Angelico and Gerard ter Borch centre the book in an art discourse that opens up to automobiles Richard Nixon and Liberace.
Will be relevant to academics scholars and students with an interest in contemporary theory and material and popular cultures. Potential interest across the humanities: philosophy gender studies perhaps public relations advertising and marketing.
It will also appeal to more general readers with an interest in popular and material cultures art and aesthetics. It is written in a genuinely accessible style and its ideas and theory are embodied through examples and narratives. Will be of interest to readers of Oliver Sacks James Gleick George Lakoff James Elkins or Rebecca Solnit.
The Performances of Sacred Places
This is the first book to explore the notion of sacred places from the perspective of performance studies and presents both practice-as-research accounts alongside theoretical analysis. It is multidisciplinary bringing together religious studies philosophy and anthropological approaches under the umbrella of performance studies. By focusing on practice and performance rather than theology it also expands the notion of sacred places to non-religious contexts.
This new collection offers a multi-layered and contemporary approach to the question of sacred sites their practices politics and ecologies. The overarching critical framework of inquiry is performance studies a multidisciplinary methodological perspective that stresses the importance of investigating the practices and actions through which things are conducted and processes activated. This is an innovative perspective that recognizes the value function and role that practices and their materialities have in the constitution of special places their developments in culture and the politics in place for the conservation of their sense of specialness.
The questions investigated are: what is a sacred place? Is a place inherently sacred or does it become sacred? Is it a paradigm a real location an imaginary place a projected condition a charged setting an enhanced perception? What kind of practices and processes allow the emergence of a sacred place in human perception? And what is its function in contemporary societies?
The book is divided into three sections that evidence the three approaches that are generally engaged with and through which sacred places are defined actualized and activated: Crossing Breathing and Resisting. There is a strong field of international contributors including practitioners and academics working in the United Kingdom the United States Poland and Australia.
Primary interest will be students academics and practitioners studying or working in theatre and performance studies; fine art; architecture; cultural and visual studies; geography; religious studies; and psychology.
Potential for classroom use and very strong potential for inclusion on reading lists as a secondary text for undergraduate and postgraduate courses in fine art live art performance art performance and theatre studies.
Material Media-Making in the Digital Age
There is now no shortage of media for us to consume from streaming services and video-on-demand to social media and everything else besides. This has changed the way media scholars think about the production and reception of media. Missing from these conversations though is the maker: in particular the maker who has the power to produce media in their pocket.
How might one craft a personal media-making practice that is thoughtful and considerate of the tools and materials at one's disposal? This is the core question of this original new book. Exploring a number of media-making tools and processes like drones and vlogging as well as thinking through time editing sound and the stream Binns looks out over the current media landscape in order to understand his own media practice.
The result is a personal journey through media theory history and technology furnished with practical exercises for teachers students professionals and enthusiasts: a unique combination of theory and practice written in a highly personal and personable style that is engaging and refreshing.
This book will enable readers to understand how a personal creative practice might unlock deeper thinking about media and its place in the world.
The primary readership will be among academics researchers and students in the creative arts as well as practitioners of creative arts including sound designers cinematographers and social media content producers.
Designed for classroom use this will be of particular importance for undergraduate students of film production and may also be of interest to students at MA level particularly on the growing number of courses that specifically offer a blend of theory and practice. The highly accessible writing style may also mean that it can be taken up for high school courses on film and production.
It will also be of interest to academics delivering these courses and to researchers and scholars of new media and digital cinema.
Arnold Wesker
This new collection will add significantly to the body of scholarship on this important dramatist. This is the first study of the whole body of Wesker’s work and will create new interest in this partly forgotten key figure in post-war British theatre.
A new study of Wesker’s work is overdue. The editors are recognized scholars in the field with a track record of publication on British theatre. An impressive list of contributors comprises important scholars of post-war theatre – including John Bull and Chris Megson – alongside practitioners such as Edward Bond and Pamela Howard who bring professional insights to bear.
Arnold Wesker was hailed in the press as ‘one of the great overlooked’ of British drama when he died in April 2016. Despite his pivotal engagement with the cultural politics of 1960s Britain and his international career only a fraction of Wesker’s dramatic output tends to be studied. He is still remembered and discussed as the author of The Trilogy three plays staged between 1958–60 that fail to reflect the daring aesthetics of his later work thereby perpetuating an incorrect image of a naturalist playwright.
This important new book aims to remedy the recent critical neglect of the dramatist building on existing scholarship and introducing new insights and perspectives. It examines the whole body of Wesker’s work for the first time including some of his non-dramatic work and considers it from a variety of perspectives. These include Wesker’s reception in Europe his Jewishness and his attitude to politics and to community. Significant use is made of material from the Arnold Wesker archive held by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin USA.
It includes chapters on Wesker’s representation of and attitude towards women his relationship with his Jewish origins and identity and his role in establishing Centre 42 following his imprisonment for participation in the Aldermaston March in 1959. Centre 42 was initially a touring festival aimed at devolving art and culture from London to the other working class towns of Britain and arose from Resolution 42 of the 1960 Trades Union Congress which concerned the importance of arts in the community.
It will be of most interest to academics and scholars of post-war British theatre and to those teaching theatre and drama. It is accessible for a student readership at all undergraduate levels as well as postgraduates. It has potential for textbook and reading list use.
Wesker’s significance in British theatre history of the 1950s and 1960s means that the book may find readers amongst the informed general public.
The Lure of the Social
This new and original book is a creative practice ethnography which navigates a spectrum where at one end the author works closely with socially engaged artists as part of her ethnographic research and at the other she tries to find a critical distance to write about their art projects and the institutional structures that support their work such as art schools and conferences.
Artists increasingly find themselves working in participatory settings where skills in social engagement are as essential as their creative skills. The author was involved in the field of social practices from its early stages and stayed engaged with the primary movers in the field for nearly two decades as a witness participant and critical observer. Her writing evokes the people and places she discusses and her writing style is personal and accessible.
Over the course of the book readers are introduced to artists and their work and to the key debates and issues facing this fast-growing and emergent field. The author navigates the contradictions and paradoxes of this field of practice through description and analysis and importantly gives voice to the artists who are working to make art relevant in times of social and political uncertainty.
The problems addressed by social practices as well as their contradictions very much reflect our troubled political global moment. This book is a significant contribution to the field – few people have followed the development of social practices for as long as Coombs and her dual perspective as an art critic and anthropologist make her ideally placed to describe and evaluate the institutions and practices. While there are many books already in this growing field the experimental and intensely personal nature of this book sets it apart. It could be a useful teaching tool to generate debate around the tensions and paradoxes inherent in the field of social practices and politically engaged art. Students will appreciate the author’s attempt to convey what it was really like to be there at certain key events and insights gained from direct conversations with the artists curators and writers shaping the field.
Relevant to academics working in and students studying art and social practice community arts programmes contemporary anthropology cultural historians and those with an interest in the sociology of art protest or activism.
Will appeal to artists writers and students interested in the history of how social practices developed as a field through its practitioners discourse and lived experience.
Fat Activism (Second Edition)
In this new edition of her accessible autoethnography of fat feminist activism in the West Charlotte Cooper revisits and discusses her activism in the context of recent shifts in the movement. The new preface explores the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic on fat people and fat activism and how Black Lives Matter is inspiring new forms of activism. Cooper issues a call to action in Fat Studies and offers alternatives to current public health approaches to Diabetes.
What is fat activism and why is it important? To answer this question Charlotte Cooper presents an expansive grassroots study that traces the forty-year history of international fat activism and grounds its actions in their proper historical and geographical contexts. She details fat activist methods analyses existing literature in the field challenges long-held assumptions that uphold systemic fatphobia and makes clear how crucial feminism queer theory and anti-racism are to the lifeblood of the movement. She also considers fat activism’s proxy concerns including body image body positivity the obesity epidemic and fat stigma.
Combining rigorous scholarship with personal accessible writing Fat Activism: A Radical Social Movement is a rare insider’s view of fat people speaking about their lives and politics on their own terms. This is the book you have been waiting for.
Dancing to Transform
Paolo Sorrentino’s Cinema and Television
The Naples-born director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino has to date written and directed nine films winning an Oscar a Bafta and a Golden Globe for The Great Beauty in 2013. In 2016 he created and directed his first TV series The Young Pope which starred Jude Law. John Malkovich joined the cast in 2020 for the follow-up series. He has established himself as a world-leading auteur with a list of critically acclaimed and award-winning films.
This is an invaluable contribution to the existing literature on Sorrentino and is the first English language collection dedicated to this prolific director who has emerged as one of the most compelling figures in twenty-first-century European film.
International contributors from the UK Italy France The Netherlands Australia Israel Canada and the United States Italy Israel France UK Australia Canada offer original interpretations of Sorrentino’s work. They examine his recurrent grand themes of memory nostalgia ageing love thirst for fulfilment search for the self identity crisis human estrangement marginality irony and power. In so doing they offer new perspectives and unique cues for discussion challenging established assumptions and interpretations. Important and current themes such as eco-cinema and post-secularism are addressed as well as the links between Sorrentino’s highly visual cinema and artistic practice such as painting and architecture.
While there are several books on Sorrentino available in Italian none
of these provide an authoritative account of his work; and language has restricted the readership. This is the first English-language collection focussed on Sorrentino arguably the most successful and significant contemporary Italian filmmaker.
The majority of the chapters included in this new book are original and it also includes a Foreword by Giancarlo Lombardi Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature at CUNY and an interview with renowned costume designer Carlo Poggioli who has worked with Sorrentino on many productions.
Some of the chapters were previously published in a special issue of the journal JICMS – The Journal of Italian Cinema and Media Studies in 2019. The new collection makes a significant coherent contribution to the field.
Primary readership will be academics researchers and scholars of Italian film and media studies. Also post-graduate students and upper level under-graduates.
Potential to be used as textbook or as supplementary reading for undergraduate and graduate courses
Given the subject there is a possibility for some crossover appeal to a broader readership but this is primarily a scholarly text.
The Poetics of Poetry Film
Set to generate and influence discussions in the field for years to come this is an encyclopaedic work on the ever-evolving genre of poetry film. It will set the benchmark for all subsequent works on the subject being the first book of its kind.
Poetry films are a genre of short film usually combining the three main elements: the poem as verbal message; the moving film image and diegetic sounds; and additional non-diegetic sounds or music which create a soundscape. This book examines the formal characteristics of the poetic in poetry film film poetry and video poetry particularly in relation to lyric voice and time.
Provides an introduction to the emergence and history of poetry film in a global context defining and debating terms both philosophically and materially. Examines the formal characteristics of the poetic in poetry film particularly in relation to lyric voice and time. Includes interviews analysis and a rigorous and thorough investigation of the poetry film from its origins to the present. This is a very important groundbreaking work on film poetry. The ideas discussed here are of great importance and the diversity and breadth of the volume is especially impressive and very useful. This book brings together in one place crucial ideas and information for practitioners students and academics and is clearly and accessibly written.
Including over 40 contributors and showcasing the work of an international array of practitioners this will be an industry bible for anyone interested in poetry digital media filmmaking art and creative writing as well as poetry filmmakers. It explores working practices processes of collaboration and the mechanisms which make these possible. It also reveals the network of festivals disseminating and theorizing poetry film and presents a compelling bibliography.
This is the most incisive and complete analysis of filmic poetry to date. It is poised to become a major text in the field.
Essential reading for academics teaching poetry filmmaking moving image film media and media poetry writing and art. Undergraduate and postgraduate students in those fields. Great potential for textbook adoption.
Also relevant to poets filmmakers visual artists graphic artists and theorists filmmakers screenwriters art historians philosophers cultural commentators arts journalists.
The Politics of Migration and Mobility in the Art World
While Eastern European migration is predominantly seen as one-way permanent for economic reasons and as going bilaterally from East to West Europe this book investigates alternative patterns of migration and mobility across Europe.
This original new book explores how visual artists take part in regular cross-border mobilities onward migrations and transnational communications across Europe for work and the effects of this on their feelings of home and belonging. It assesses how far there is a culture of mobility amongst visual artists from the Baltic States of Lithuania Latvia and Estonia for whom a combination of onward migration and regular cross-border mobilities is a necessity for career progression. This is due to the ‘glass ceiling’ in the Baltic States with regard to a lack of local art markets few dealers buying art and governments not providing enough funding.
How then do artists from the Baltic States get onto the global art market in the face of such barriers? This is a particularly important question as these artists come from a region where migration mobilities and cross-cultural exchanges were not freely available during the Soviet Union. This transdisciplinary investigation into visual artists’ working practices ways of moving and placing dwellings addresses this issue.
Mobile working practices have an impact on artists’ feelings of home and belonging which can be seen in their artworks that compare different cultures. This is a result of their particular combination of onward migration and regular mobilities the multiple flows in and out of the home cities and the workings of the global art market within which these artists are operating. Nevertheless these movements are determined by the forces of the global art world whereby a particular politics of migration and mobility is experienced by artists from the Baltic States wanting to ‘make it’ in the global art world.
With its focus on Baltic artists and their mobilities the scope and space explored is the whole of Europe and the mobilities explored in this text are crucially enabled by the freedom of movement in the European Union.
The book is multidisciplinary and at the intersection of art geographic mobility and creative practice. It combines visual cultures and social sciences in order to answer questions more thoroughly as well as to contextualise an analysis of artworks in a conversation with the artists themselves.
This topic is current with the situation of the ‘refugee crisis’ and Brexit that has created a culture of anti-immigration and resurgence in anti-Eastern European sentiment in government mainstream media and society.
The book discusses the implications of these complex itineraries on the conventional sociological notions of home mobility and diaspora. The author argues that artists form a ‘diaspora of practice’ rather than of ethnicity their homes are multiple as are the directions of their settlement.
Primary appeal will be to artists and art professionals; scholars working and researching on mobilities and migration issues; those working on the concepts of belonging and home; sociologists; anthropologists; those in the fields of cultural studies and European Union studies.
(Re:) Claiming Ballet
The collection of essays demonstrates that ballet is not a single White Western dance form but has been shaped by a range of other cultures. In so doing the authors open a conversation and contribute to the discourse beyond the vantage point of mainstream to look at such issues as homosexuality and race. And to demonstrate that ballet’s denial of the first and exclusion of the second needs rethinking.
This is an important contribution to dance scholarship. The contributors include professional ballet dancers and teachers choreographers and dance scholars in the UK Europe and the USA to give a three dimensional overview of the field of ballet beyond the traditional mainstream.
It sets out to acknowledge the alternative and parallel influences that have shaped the culture of ballet and demonstrates they are alive kicking and have a rich history. Ballet is complex and encompasses individuals and communities often invisiblized but who have contributed to the diaspora of ballet in the twenty-first century. It will initiate conversations and contribute to discourses about the panorama of ballet beyond the narrow vantage point of the mainstream – White patriarchal Eurocentric heterosexual constructs of gender race and class.
This book is certain to be a much-valued resource within the field of ballet studies as well as an important contribution to dance scholarship more broadly. It has an original focus and brings together issues more commonly addressed only in journals where issues of race are frequently discussed.
The primary market will be academic. It will appeal to academics researchers scholars and students working and studying in dance theatre and performance arts and cultural studies. It will also be of interest to dance professionals and practitioners.
Academics and students interested in the intersection of gender race and dance may also find it interesting.
Performing #MeToo
A tweet by American actor and activist Alyssa Milano sent on October 15 2017 opened the floodgates to an outpouring of testimony and witnessing across the Twitterverse that reverberated throughout social media. Facebook status lines quickly began to read “Me too” and #MeToo was trending. That tweet re-launched the ‘me too’ movement which was started in 2006 by Tarana Burke.
Performing #MeToo: How Not to Look Away does not attempt to deliver a comprehensive examination of how #MeToo is performed. What it does aim at presenting is a set of perspectives on the events identified as representative of the movement through a lens or lenses that are multinational as well as work and analysis from a variety of time periods written in a diversity of styles. By providing this means of engaging with examples of the many interpretations of and responses to the #MeToo movement and by identifying these responses (and those of audiences) as provocations of examples of how not to look away the collected chapters are intended to invite reflection discussion and hopefully incite action.
It gives writers from diverse cultural and environmental contexts an opportunity to speak about this cultural moment in their own voices. There is a wide geographical range and variety of forms of performance addressed in this timely new book. The international group of contributors are based in the UK USA Australia South Africa Scotland Canada India Italy and South Korea.
The topics addressed by writers include socially engaged practice; celebrity feminism archive and repertoire; rape/war; misogynistic speech; stage management and intimacy facilitation; key institutions’ responses; spatial practices as well as temporal ones; academic call-outs; caste/class; political contexts; adaptation of classic texts; activist events; bouffon (a clown technique) and audience response
Forms of performance practice include applied theatre performance protest verbatim solo performance institutional practice staging of plays street responses academic adaptation of classic text play reading events and the musical.
Although there is much to read in the media and alternative media on the #MeToo movement this is the first attempt to analyse the movement from and in such diverse contexts.
Bringing together twelve writers to speak about works they have either performed witnessed or studied gives the reader a nuanced way of looking at the movement and its impact. It is also an incredible archive of this moment in time that points to its importance.
Suitable for use in several graduate and undergraduate courses including performance studies feminist studies sociology psychology anthropology environmental or liberal studies and social history.
Essential reading for theatre workers academics students and anyone with an interest in feminism contemporary theatre or human rights. For artists considering projects that include the themes of #MeToo and for producers and directors of such projects looking for good practices around how to create environments of safety in their organizations as well as those who wish to organize communities of artists.
For anyone interested in learning more about how to support the movement or an interest in the specific social narratives told in each individual chapter. For women feminists and anyone with an interest in the issues.
Iconoclastic Controversies
The book combines photography and written text to analyse the role of memorials and commemoration sites in the construction of antagonistic nationalism. Taking Cypriot memorializations as a case study the book shows how these memorials often support but sometimes also undermine the discursive-material assemblage of nationalism.
The Otherness of the Everyday
At the end of 2019 to the beginning of 2020 when the coronavirus first emerged Wuhan in China became the first city in the world affected by this deadly disease. It then rapidly spread to the entire country and further on to Europe America and the rest of the world.
During these strange times we witness the emptiness of streets squares and cities everywhere; we are estranged from and yet ‘connected’ to each other. As a response to the pandemic Jiang Jiehong convened in-conversation talks with figures from different disciplines in the Chinese-speaking world including anthropology architecture art curating fashion film literature media museum music and photography.
The twelve high-profile participants in these conversations are Xiang Biao Zhang Peili Pi Li Zhang Zikang Gu Zheng Li Lin Zhang Zhen Shu Kewen Jiang Jun Wang Shouzhi Chen Danqing and Zhu Zheqin.
These conversations foster new understandings of this present-day crisis; the threat of the invisible notions of distance and spatialization separation and isolation communication and mobility discipline and surveillance and community and collectiveness as well as the increase in conflicts and divisive voices between China and the world. At the same time these reflections give us the opportunity to re-examine our past ‘normality’ and to project our future visions of a post-COVID world.
Readership will include those working and studying in the humanities and specifically in the disciplines of the interviewees and those who have particular interests in contemporary China. The Otherness of the Everyday is also of interest to a more general audience who has experienced the pandemic and is seeking innovative understandings of this global crisis in human history.
MEDIA
The first in the Media-Life-Universe trilogy this volume explores a transdisciplinary notion of media and technology exploring media as technology with special attention to its material historical and ecological ramifications. The authors reconceptualize media from environmental ecological and systems approaches drawing not only on media and communication studies but also philosophy sociology political science biology art computer science information studies and other disciplines.
Featuring a group of internationally known scholars this collection explores evolving definitions of media and how media technologies are transforming theory and practice. As the current media includes a wider and wider range of concepts products services and institutions the definition of media continues to be in a state of flux. What are media today? How is media studies evolving? How have technologies transformed communication and media theory and informed praxis? What are some of the futures of media?
The collection challenges traditional notions of media as well as concepts such as freedom of expression audience empowerment and participatory media and explores emergent media including transmedia virtual reality online games metatechnology remediation and makerspaces.
This is the first volume in the MEDIA • LIFE • UNIVERSE Trilogy. LIFE: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry 9781789382655 follows and builds upon this 2021 collection.
Mathias Spahlinger
The first book-length study in English of composer Mathias Spahlinger one of Germany’s leading practitioners of contemporary music. One of the most stimulating and provocative figures on the new music scene on Germany he has long been a touchstone for leftist ‘critical’ composition there yet his work has received very little attention in Anglophone scholarship until now.
Born in 1944 Spahlinger has risen only gradually to prominence in his native Germany and for many years was considered an outsider within the contemporary music scene. Yet his position as one of the most venerable exponents of post-WWII modernism in his homeland is now undeniable: his music is regularly performed he has received commissions from many of the major orchestras and new music groups in Germany and in 2014 he received the Großen Berliner Kunstpreis (Berlin Art Prize – Grand Prize) from the city’s Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts).
Spahlinger is however becoming increasingly known as a significant figure within later twentieth-century music – in 2015 a festival in Chicago focused exclusively on his music and he was a keynote speaker at a conference on Compositional Aesthetics and the Political at Goldsmiths University of London.
This new book provides an essential reference for scholars of new music and twentieth-century modernism. There are no other book-length studies of Spahlinger in English though there is a monograph and a book of essays in German and books of interviews. This original work promises a more critical perspective upon the composer and his aesthetics and political ideas compared to previous publications. The illustrations include musical examples.
Its primary market will be a specialist musicological readership including academics researchers and composers but the writing style such that it could be accessible also to undergraduates interested in the field. The discussion of aesthetic debates in post-war Germany and the interesting reading of the work of Jacques Rancière means that it could also have significant appeal across the disciplines of philosophy and critical theory.
Mediatization(s)
This new collection is the first book to bring together Latin American and European traditions of mediatization research integrating macro level theorization with applied observations of mediatization processes from a multidisciplinary perspective.
In the last decade several European and Latin American researchers have set a very solid theoretical corpus around mediatization. The book brings these two theoretical traditions close together for a dialogue: the Latin American sociosemiotic matrix consolidated by Eliseo Verón in the 1980s and the institutional and constructivist approaches developed in Europe. The main objective of the book is to explore and activate possible theoretical and applied exchanges between these approaches.
This book introduces the main theories and authors on mediatization from Europe and Latin America especially Brazil and Argentina in the last two decades. It historically and epistemologically frames these theories within the context of communication and media theories and pays particular attention to the opportunities generated by the exchanges between European and Latin American approaches. It is edited by scholars from Spain Argentina and the United Kingdom and includes contributors from universities in France Germany Switzerland Brazil Denmark and The Netherlands.
The handbook format including introductory comprehensive sections written by the editors and original texts signed by world leading researchers will make this a useful resource for researchers and students in the field.
The interdisciplinary approach displayed by the book has the potential to make it of interest not only to people working on communication or media studies but also in other disciplines within the humanities and social sciences.
It will be of primary interest to academics scholars researchers undergraduate and postgraduate students particularly a growing population of Latin American postgraduate students in the Global North.
Fields of interest will include communication and media social sciences and social actors linked directly or indirectly to the transformation of the media landscape.
Trans-Global Punk Scenes
This new collection is the second in the Global Punk series. Following the publication of the first volume the series editors invited proposals for a second volume and selected contributions from a range of interdisciplinary areas including cultural studies musicology ethnography art and design history and the social sciences.
This collection extends the theme into new territories with a particular emphasis on contemporary global punk scenes post-2000 reflecting upon the notion of origin music(s) identity careers membership and circulation.
This area of subcultural studies is far less documented than more ‘historical’ work related to earlier punk scenes and subcultures of the late 1970s and early 1980s. This new volume covers countries and regions including New Zealand Indonesia Cuba Ireland South Africa Siberia and the Philippines alongside thematic discussions relating to trans-global scenes the evolution of subcultural styles punk demographics and the notion of punk identity across cultural and geographic boundaries.
The book series adopts an essentially analytical perspective raising questions over the dissemination of punk scenes and their form structure and contemporary cultural significance in the daily lives of an increasing number of people around the world.
This book has a genuine crossover market being designed in such a way that it can be adopted as an undergraduate student textbook while at the same time having important currency as a key resource for established academics postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.
In terms of the undergraduate market for the book it is likely that it will be adopted by convenors of courses on popular music youth culture and in discipline areas such as sociology popular music studies urban/cultural geography political history heritage studies media and cultural studies.
The Drama Therapy Decision Tree
This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of drama therapy methods through the provision of examples so therapists can select the most appropriate methods and apply them themselves. The authors provide a common language for communicating what drama therapists do in terms of diagnoses and interventions especially for new students in the field.
There has been no systematic method developed for drama therapists and drama therapy students for selecting the most appropriate drama therapy technique or method for clients. Typically students leave university and have to work out how to plan treatment through trial and error. This book is not intended as an instruction manual but the authors of this book have identified and analysed how they approached this task themselves and they explain how the theory learnt at university can be put into practice. Their desire is to give early career drama therapy professionals a reliable and effective tool for making the best clinical decisions they can. This book is not only an educational tool but also a practitioner’s reference tool for planning how to address the socio-emotional needs of their clients. Readers will find this timely book offers structure to drama therapy teachers and students alike.
It explains the basic tools that drama therapists use in all therapy situations starting with the therapeutic process then moves on to identify the core healing concepts that make drama therapy so powerful and unique. The diagnostic systems used by all mental health professionals (DSM-5 and ICD-11) are integrated by relating the core healing concepts and tools to the symptoms of diagnoses. The basic treatment planning process is also discussed. The book then explains how these components are used together systematically through a series of questions (that the therapist asks themself) in order to identify the most appropriate type of intervention for the client. Finally the book offers several examples of how this system can be applied to a variety of common diagnoses. The appendices provide resources about drama therapy in terms of theory approach and specific population.
Of primary relevance to teachers and students of drama therapy and drama therapists and integrative arts therapists in training and early career stages. May be useful for other professionals interested in drama therapy and related creative or therapeutic practices where theatre and drama are used.
Note: in the US context there is a wider range of related practices which are often regarded as part of drama therapy.
Dance and Authoritarianism
Everyone who viewed the opening ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games can understand the power of dance and mass movement in the service of politics. While examples of such public performances and huge festivals are familiar in Nazi Germany the former Soviet Union and today's North Korea this new book addresses the lesser known examples of Spain under Franco the Dominican Republic Iran Croatia and Uzbekistan all of which have been subjected to various political regimes.
Dance and choreographed mass movement is the newest field of serious research in dance studies particularly in the fields of politics and international relations and gender and sexuality. The author uses dance as a lens through which to study political ethnic and gendered phenomena so that the reader grasps that dance
constitutes an important non-verbal lens for the study of human behaviour.
This is the first study on dance and political science to focus specifically on authoritarian regimes. It is a significant and original contribution to scholarship in the field with the key studies drawn from a variety of different geographical and historical backgrounds.
In Spain under Franco the Women's Section of the fascist Falange created a folk dance program that toured widely and through the performance of Spanish regional folk dances performed by virginal young Spanish women embodying Catholic purity permitted the regime to re-enter the world of polite diplomacy.
The Dominican Republic dictator Rafael Trujillo himself a gifted dancer raised the popular folk and vernacular dance the merengue to the level of the "national" dance which became a symbol of his regime and Dominican identity which merengue it still maintains.
For over a thousand years Croatia has endured a series of authoritarian regimes – Hapsburg Napoleon the Yugoslav royal dictatorship fascist Josip Broz Tito's communist regime Franjo Tudjaman – that ruled that small nation. For over 70 years Lado the National Folk Dance Ensemble of Croatia has served as "the light of Croatian identity." Through its public performances of folk dances and music Lado has become the face of a series of different regimes.
In Iran dance became banned under the Islamic Republic after serving the Pahlavi regime as a form of representation of its peasant population and its historic Persian identity. Uzbekistan currently has expanded the role of the invented tradition of Uzbek "classical" dance created during the soviet period as a representation of Uzbek identity in national festivals. Thus through these examples the reader will see how dance and mass movement have become important as political means for a variety of authoritarian regimes to represent themselves.
Primary readership will be dance scholars; particularly the growing number interested in ethno-identity dances of the second half of the twentieth-century
Will be of interest to academic libraries and departments with valuable information and interest also for scholars of ethnology anthropology cultural studies history.
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Some 22 years after its creation The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is still held in high critical regard as one of the finest examples of the video game medium. The same is true of the game’s music whose superlative reception continues to be evident whether in the context of the game or in orchestral concerts and recordings of the game’s music.
Given music’s well-established significance for the video game form it is no coincidence that music is placed at the forefront of this most lauded and loved of games. In Ocarina of Time music connects and unifies all aspects of the game from the narrative conceit to the interactive mechanics from the characters to the virtual worlds and even into the activity of legions of fans and gamers who play replay and reconfigure the music in an enduring cultural site that has Ocarina of Time at its centre. As video game music studies begins to mature into a coherent field it is now possible to take the theoretical apparatus and critical approaches that have been developed in antecedent scholarship and put these into practice in the context of an extended concrete game example.
The most extensive investigation into the music of a single game yet undertaken this book serves three important primary purposes: first it provides a historical-critical account of the music of an important video game text; second it uses this investigation to explore wider issues in music and media studies (including interactivity fan cultures and music and technology); and third it serves as a model for future in-depth studies of video game music.
Beijing Film Academy 2018
The annual Beijing Film Academy Yearbook showcases the best academic debates discussions and research from the previous year as previously published in the highly prestigious Journal of Beijing Film Academy. This volume brings together specially selected articles appearing for the first time in English in order to bridge the gap in cross-cultural research in cinema and media studies.
The book is the latest in the Intellect China Library series to produce work by Chinese scholars that have not previously been available to English language academia. Covering the subjects of film studies visual arts performing arts media and cultural studies the series aims to foster intellectual debate and to promote closer cross-cultural intellectual exchanges by introducing important works of Chinese scholarship to readers.
The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Insightful provocative and now in paperback The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race is a collection of original material that goes beyond simple analysis of the show and examines the profound effect that RuPaul’s Drag Race has had on the cultures that surround it: audience cultures economics branding queer politics and all points in between. Once a cult show marketed primarily to gay men Drag Race has drawn both praise and criticism for its ability to market itself to broader straighter and increasingly younger fans. The show’s depiction of drag as both a celebrated form of entertainment and as a potentially lucrative career path has created an explosion of aspiring queens in unprecedented numbers and had a far-reaching impact on drag as both an art form and a career.
Contributors include scholars based in the United Kingdom the United States Canada and South Africa. The contributions are interdisciplinary as well as international. The editor invited submissions from scholars in theatre and performance studies English literature cultural anthropology media studies linguistics sociology and marketing. What he envisaged was an examination of the wider cultural impacts that RuPaul’s Drag Race has had; what he received was a rich and diverse engagement with the question of how Drag Race has affected local live cultures fan cultures queer representation and the very fabric of drag as an art form in popular cultural consciousness.
This original collection with its variety of topics and approaches is a critical appraisal of RuPaul’s Drag Race at an important point of the programme’s run as well as of the growing industries around RPDR including DragCon and drag queens' post-show careers in the on- and offline world.
Primarily of interest to students scholars and researchers in media and communication studies gender and sexuality studies popular culture queer theory LGBTQ history media studies and fan studies. Will also appeal to fans of the series.
Narrating the City
Analysing a variety of international films and ultimately placing them in dialogue with video art photographic narratives and emerging digital image-based technologies the contributions explore the expanding range of ‘mediated’ narratives of contemporary architecture and urban culture from both a media and a sociological standpoint. Each chapter presents an interesting critical approach to the diversity of topics with clear explanation of the contextual framework and methodology and a consistent depth of analysis.
In the three sections of the book authors underline the continual role of film and media in creating moving image narratives of the city identifying how it creates cinematic – and ever more frequently digital – topographies of contemporary urban culture and architecture re-presenting familiar cities modes of seeing cultures and social questions in unfamiliar ways. This filmic emphasis is placed into dialogue with a more diverse range of related visual media which illustrates the overlaps between them and reveals how moving image technologies create unique visual topographies of contemporary urban culture and architecture.
In making this shift from the filmic to the new age of digital image making and alternative modes of image consumption the book not only reveals new techniques of representation mediation and the augmentation of sensorial reality for city dwellers; its emphasis on ‘narrative’ offers insights into critical societal issues. These include cultural identity diversity memory and spatial politics as they are both informed by and represented in various media.
The focus for the book is on how films can produce mediation of urban life and culture by connecting the notions of identity diversity and memory. Both the subject and the approach are gaining in popularity in recent years. This book's main feature is its dual perspective involving both practical and theoretical stances – and it is this approach that makes it a particularly relevant and original contribution.
Primary readership will be academics scholars undergraduate and postgraduate students and practitioners interested in architecture and media in general film moving images urban studies in particular. Also of relevance to sociologists and those interested in cultural theory. The inclusion of chapters on urban photography and art installations may also be of interest to students and designers in these areas.
The Cultural Meaning of Aleppo
The book documents the history and morphology of the Ancient City of Aleppo outlining first the urbanistic development of the city and then focusing on the architectural heritage with specific focus on the domestic architecture addressing the initiatives to reconstruct and rehabilitate the urban fabric. The author argues in favour of the safeguarding and rehabilitation of the architectural heritage to protect the cultural memory of the inhabitants of Aleppo despite of the destruction of architecture due to the recent war.
Through a capillary documentation of the palimpsest of Aleppo – the peculiar characteristics of its courtyard houses and the neighbourhoods of Bayyada Bab Quinnesrin and al-Farafra – this is a theoretical and practical handbook for architects urban planners and restorers alike. Through this analytical discussion of the city’s urban fabric it introduces the concept of the cultural urban landscape acting as a 'cohesive territorial organism' nourished by different cultures in which contrasting scales of land city and neighbourhood are interconnected in a fractal state. With a focus on retaining the uniqueness and diversity of this residential typology which bore witness to the rich cultural history of Syria and the Middle East as a whole Neglia maps a future reconstruction that focuses on cultural continuity tradition and the re-establishment of a crucial social memory.
Of particular interest and relevance to cultural heritage experts urban planners architects and designers. Also to researchers scholars and students interested in studies on urban morphology and building typology UNESCO and ICOMOS. Scholars and students interested in the Middle East.
Will also be of significant interest to professionals dealing with the implementation of rehabilitation measures in other cities inscribed on the Word Cultural Heritage List or cities with a sound historic fabric which has been destroyed due to war or other events.
Language of Tomorrow
This book gives an overview of the development of the evolution of language through a philosophical lens and is a culmination of research combining visual communication semiotic theory cultural studies linguistics artificial intelligence and new media.
It discusses the future of communication – through a pictographic framework – and the possibility of developing a standardized universal pictographic communication system that fosters mutual understanding and bridges diverse cultures. The research aims to locate the direction that research and development of a universal language for the posthuman era could take through the contextualization and realization of associated practice.
Highly relevant in today's discussion about globalization language and culture the combination of the view of design philosophy culture and technology makes this book unique.
Postgraduate students of design art philosophy and researchers and academics in the fields. Scholars and students working in linguistics. Cultural studies. Theory of art and design. Artificial intelligence (AI) and art-tech.
Music by Numbers
The music industries are fuelled by statistics: sales targets breakeven points success ratios royalty splits website hits ticket revenues listener figures piracy abuses and big data. Statistics are of consequence. They influence the music that consumers get to hear they determine the revenues of music makers and they shape the policies of governments and legislators. Yet many of these statistics are generated by the music industries themselves and their accuracy can be questioned. This original new book sets out to explore this shadowy terrain.
While there are books that offer guidelines about how the music industries work as well as critiques from academics about the policies of music companies this is the first book that takes a sustained look at these subjects from a statistical angle. This is particularly significant as statistics have not just been used to explain the music industries they are also essential to the ways that the industries work: they drive signing policy contractual policy copyright policy economic policy and understandings of consumer behaviour.
This edited collection provides the first in-depth examination of the use and abuse of statistics in the music industries. The international group of contributors are noted music business scholars and practitioners in the field. The book addresses five key areas in which numbers are employed: sales and awards; royalties and distribution; music piracy; music policy; and audiences and their uses of music. The authors address these subjects from a range of perspectives. Some of them test the veracity of this data and explore its tactical use by music businesses. Others are helping to generate these numbers: they are developing surveys and online projects and offer candid self-observations in this volume. There are also authors who have been subject to statistics; they deliver first-hand accounts of music industry reporting.
The digital age is inherently numerical. Within the music industries this has prompted new ways of tracking the usage and recompense of music. In addition it has generated new means of monitoring and engaging audience behaviour. It has also led to increased documentation of the trade. There is more reporting of the overall revenues of music industry sectors. There is also more engagement between industry and academia when it comes to conducting analyses and offering numerical recommendations to politicians.
The aim of this collection is to expose the culture and politics of data. Music industry statistics are all-pervasive yet because of this ubiquity they have been under-explored. This book provides new ways by which to learn music by numbers.
A timely examination of how data and statistics are key to the music industries. Widely held industry assumptions are challenged with data from a variety of sources and in an engaging lucid manner. Highly recommended for anyone with an interest in how the music business uses and manipulates the data that digital technologies have made available.
Primary readership will be among popular music academics undergraduate and postgraduate students working in the fields of popular music studies music business media studies cultural studies sociology and creative industries. The book will also be of interest to people working within the music industries and to those whose work encounters industry statistics.
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen
The book offers an introduction to adaptations between stage and screen examining stage and screen works as texts but also as performances and cultural events. Case studies of distinct periods in British film and theatre history are used to illustrate the principle that adaptations can't be divorced from the historical and cultural moment in which they are produced and to look at issues around theatrical naturalism and cinematic realism.
Written in a refreshingly accessible style it offers an original analysis with emphasis on performance and event. It opens up new avenues of exploration to include non-literary issues such as the treatment of space and place mise en scène acting styles and star personas. The recent growth of digital theatre is examined to foreground the 'events' of theatre and cinema with phenomena such as NT Live analysed for the different ways that 'liveness' is adapted.
Adapting Performance Between Stage and Screen explores how cultural values can be articulated in the act of translating between mediums. The book takes as its subject the interaction between film and theatre and argues that rather than emphasising differences between the two mediums the emphasis should be placed on elements that they share in particular the emphasis on performance and the participation in an event. It uses a number of case studies to show how this relationship is affected by changes in technology – the coming of film sound the invention of live-casting – and in the nature of the event being offered to particular audiences. These examples ranging from the well-known to the obscure are all treated with relevant and knowledgeable analysis and a strong and appropriate sense of context.
The book offers a welcome overview of previous work in this area and demonstrates the importance of basing analysis on historical context as well as giving new insights into some familiar examples. Discussion ranges from Steven Spielberg and Alfred Hitchcock to Robert Lepage and Ivo van Hove. There are detailed analyses of Alfie Gone Too Far and Festen as well as authoritative analyses of NT Live performances and British New Wave cinema.
The book will be of primary interest to academics researchers teachers and students working in adaptation studies film studies and theatre studies. Written in an accessible style it will appeal to teachers and students on A-level undergraduate and postgraduate film theatre media and cultural studies courses. The chapter on digital theatres will add to the growing body of literature in this area and appeal to students and academics working on digital cultures and new media.
Live screenings of theatre events are becoming more widely available and increasingly popular including some of the productions discussed. There is potential interest for a general audience interested in British films theatre and actors.
The Friday Mosque in the City
Concerned with the relationship between Friday mosque and city in the Islamic context. Focusing particularly on the Friday mosque the book aims at exploring the concept of liminal(ity) in spatial terms and discuss it in terms of the relationship between the Friday mosque and its surrounding urban context. Transition spaces/zones between the mosque and the urban context are discussed through the case studies from various contexts. In doing so the manuscript reveals different forms of liminality in spatial sense.
Considers widely-studied topics such as the ‘Friday mosque’ or the ‘Islamic city’ through a fresh new lens critically examining each case study in its own spatial urban and socio-cultural context. While these two well-known themes – concepts that once defined the field – have been widely studied by historians of Islamic architecture and urbanism this collection specifically addresses the functional and spatial ambiguity or liminality between these spaces. Thus instead of addressing the Friday mosque as the central signifier of the ‘Islamic city’ the articles in this volume provide evidence that there was (and continues to be) a tremendous variety in the way architectural borders became fluid in and around Friday mosques across the Islamic geography from Cordoba to Jerusalem and from London to Lahore.
By historicizing different cases and contributing to our knowledge of the way human agency through ritual and politics shaped the physical and social fabric of the city the papers collectively challenge the generalizing and reductionist tendencies in earlier scholarship. The disciplinary approaches are varied and include archaeology art history history epigraphy and architecture.
The original approach in the book addressing of the topic of liminality from different points of view and in different periods creates a fresh approach that invites students and scholars to think deeply about the imbrication of congregational mosques in the daily life of the cities that host them. Moreover in considering mosque and city together the mosque appears as a living space subject to change and history and made with political and social purpose rather than as a holy space disconnected from the rest of the world.
Traditional studies of mosques focus on architecture and aesthetic language and try to establish a lineal development of the building typology connected to the history of Islam across different territories. The present study offers an alternative (though not competing) perspective where locality and politics play a major role in the materialization of the congregational mosque as a religious and communal space. The wide historical frame enables comparison of congregational mosques in different historical periods: it is particularly a strong contrast to see how the liminality of the mosque changes between the early and classical periods of Islam on one side and the more contemporary times on the other. The consideration of diverging cultural political and sectarian settings is another interesting element of comparison.
Primary market will include scholars academics and students working on or studying Islamic studies particularly Islamic history Islamic architecture and Islamic archaeology.
Also of relevance to architectural historians architects art historians city planners city historians urban designers architectural critics historians sociologists archeologists and those interested in religious studies and in archaeology of religion.
Cross-Cultural Design for Healthy Ageing
This book is based on many years of research and practical pedagogical experiences around cross-cultural and multidisciplinary design for healthy ageing. It provides important insight into origins design implementation and impact of cross-cultural design student study tours and takes an original approach by foregrounding pedagogical practice for exploring healthy ageing solutions.
The populations of Australia and many other countries in the Asia Pacific region are ageing. The next few decade will see up to half of the population in many countries represented by the over 65s. The impact of this change in population balance will be profound and it represents a potential global shift in design for society. This will challenge designers planners and health care professionals to develop solutions to better meet the needs and harness the capacity of our growing and diversifying populations of older citizens in relation to housing community interaction and co-operation health and well-being and the integration new technologies. Different disciplinary and cultural perspectives can be a means to create new ideas and approaches that provide a deeper understanding of the needs of the global ageing population.
This book examines some of the challenges associated with ageing in multi-cultural societies. We explore some of the major issues facing society in the area of ‘healthy ageing’ and propose a method of working with cross-disciplinary groups of health practitioners designers architects and cultural practitioners. Through case-studies of a series of workshops run in China and Singapore with Australian Chinese and Singaporean students we review the benefits of this approach and provide a framework for engaging designers planners and health professionals in the process of creating new design solutions for the growing global ageing population.
This book is especially useful for academics and educators in the design and health areas. Design professionals in urban architectural interior industrial graphic multimedia fashion interaction service and user-experience design will find many useful ideas. Health professionals across the range of disciplines including medical practitioners nurses physiotherapists other allied health professionals and carers practising in different settings such as aged-care facilities government offices and others will also find it useful.
It also provides insights and ideas for innovators businesses and everybody interested in exploring design and innovation for an ageing population which has been identified as a growing market. It may also be useful to anyone who wants to understand how to provide care for ageing members of the family and friends or for anyone who wants to better understand issues around their own ageing.
Although there are many articles and books on social design there has been very little work on the methods to combine the discipline areas of Health and Design in the creation of concepts and artefacts around design for healthy ageing. There is also very little on the understanding of ‘Cross-cultural Empathy’ in design. This book takes an original approach to ‘Design for Healthy Ageing’ by combining not only a varied discipline group of practitioners from design and health but also presenting cross-cultural methods to deal with issues associated with the social cause.
The primary readership will include professionals and academics in the areas of cross-cultural design health ageing and related policies government institutions and gerontologists. It will also be of interest to tutors and lecturers across design practice internationally and the case studies are useful for those with a specific geographical interest (Australia Singapore China) including clinicians carers and other health professionals in those areas.
A Cultural History of the Disneyland Theme Parks
When the first Disneyland opened its doors in 1955 it reinvented the American amusement park and transformed the travel tourism and entertainment industries forever. Now a global vacation empire the original park in Anaheim California has been joined by massive complexes in Florida Tokyo Paris Hong Kong and Shanghai.
Spanning six decades three continents and five distinct cultures Sabrina Mittermeier presents an interdisciplinary examination of the parks situating them in their proper historical context and exploring the distinct cultural social and economic landscapes that defined each one at the time of its construction. She then spotlights the central role of class in the subsequent success or failure of each venture.
The first comparative study of the Disney theme parks this book closes a significant gap in existing research and is an important new contribution to the field providing the first discussion of the Disney parks and what they reveal about the cultures they are set in. There has been a lack of focus on cross- and trans-cultural analyses of theme parks generally and Disney theme parks specifically until now.
It is also particularly interesting – and will be welcomed for it – for the non-United States context of the study. This is a thorough examination of all of the existing Disney Parks and how they function within their respective cultures. While Disney themes and characters attempt to be universal the author does a good job of arguing for where this is not possible and how glocalization is crucial to the parks’ successes.
The writing is academic but it is not inaccessible. It will have wide disciplinary appeal within academia as tourism studies cross into a variety of fields including history American studies fandom studies performance studies and cultural studies.
It will be invaluable to those working in the field of theme park scholarship and the study of Disney theme parks theme parks in general and related areas like world’s expositions and spaces of the consumer and lifestyle worlds.
It will also be of interest to Disney fans those who have visited any of the parks or are interested to know more about the parks and their cultural situation and context.
Dr. Sabrina Mittermeier and Dr. Tracey Mollett discuss the cultural histories of Disney's theme parks and fairy tales:
Photography as Critical Practice
The ‘other’ is a topic of great interest within and across contemporary photographic practice and theory yet it remains neglected outside the now well-established field of postcolonial studies. This volume brings together photography and written essays that relate to aspects of otherness and visual work. Presented together the images and critical writings work in concert to construct a new social perspective on questions of otherness and alterity and to highlight photography as a form of critical practice.
In a departure from existing conceptions of otherness in postcolonial discourse Photography as Critical Practice places emphasis on the human condition not as a liberal concept but as something formed and framed by a broader dimension of social sexual and cultural otherness.
Including contributions by Elina Ruka Katrin Kivimaa Parveen Adams and Liz Wells the book provides a fascinating new vista on the otherness of photography.
Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating
This edited collection explores a subject of great potential for both art historians and museologists – that of the nature of the specimen and how it might be reinterpreted. Through its cross-disciplinary contributions written by a team of art historians artists poets anthropologists critics and curators this book looks at how artistic encounters in museums ranging from anatomy museums to contemporary cabinets of curiosity can provoke new modes of thinking about art science and curating.
Museological literature in the past focused on artefacts or objects; this is an original contribution to the field and offers new readings of old issues inspiring new understandings of the relationships between art science and curating.
Brings together international expertise from art practitioners historians creative writers and theorists in France the United States United Kingdom and New Zealand. Contributions from creative practitioners draw upon their own experience of producing artworks in response to specific scientific collections while historians anthropologists critics and writers examine how museums stimulate incite and otherwise inspire artistic awareness of science and its specimens.
One of the most important contributions this book will make is drawing together several threads of research and practice to encourage interdisciplinary discussion.
It provides new ways of thinking about the relationships between art science museums and their objects. It concentrates on the ways in which scientific collections kindle novel aesthetic strategies and inspire new scholarly interpretations of art science curating and epistemology. In so doing it will make a considerable contribution to the fields of art writing creative practice art theory the history of science and curating.
This book will appeal to academics researchers undergraduates and postgraduates studying fine art curating museology art history the history of science creative writing; visual artists curators and other creative practitioners. Also of interest to museum audiences. Reading list potential.
Red Creative
This book brings together multiple strands of debate around the cultural creative industries and contemporary capitalism China’s position in global capitalism the future of modernity and new ways of thinking about culture and cultural policy. Clearly written and engaging it is the first study to provide a critical lens on creative industries discourse and to bring it together with detailed historical and social analysis.
It analyses the ongoing development of China’s cultural industries examining the institutions regulations interests and markets that underpin the Chinese cultural economy and the strategic position of Shanghai within that economy. Explores cultural policy reforms in post-colonial China and articulates Shanghai’s significance in paving China’s path to modernity and entry to global capitalism. In-depth and illuminating this book situates China’s contemporary cultural economy in its larger global and historical context revealing the limits of Western thought in understanding Chinese history culture and society.
This book is aimed at a broad educated audience who seek to engage more with what is happening in China especially in the cultural field. It tries to take such an audience outside the standard frame of Western modernity suggesting the possibility of different historical trajectories and possibilities. Because the book is theoretical and empirical in its approach it will be of strong interest to both those interested in Chinese cultural policy and the creative industries approach generally.
Cultural and creative industries is an increasingly important subject area in Higher Education with undergraduate and postgraduate programs representing some of the fastest growing areas in arts humanities and social science faculties. This audience is increasingly global as this policy debate has now moved outside the Western countries whose economic competitiveness it was meant to promote. It is an agenda promoted by agencies such as UNESCO UNCTAD the World Bank British Council and the Goethe Institute.
Primary readership will be academics with a particular interest in Chinese culture cultural studies media studies public policy and management studies cultural policy East Asian studies and cultural policy researchers. It will also be relevant to all those interested in China and Chinese’s culture; and those interested in the history of Shanghai and the role it plays in contemporary Chinese culture and politics. Given the current interest in China it may also be of wider appeal too.
How Belfast Got the Blues
This is not just an important music book; it is an important history book. It captures the moment before Belfast and Northern Ireland became synonymous with the Troubles. It places one of the best-known figures in global popular music Van Morrison in his historical and sociocultural context. It also reinstates Ottilie Patterson into her rightful role as a central figure in Ireland’s music. It addresses a significant gap in Ireland’s popular music studies by appraising the contribution of a politically and musically significant female figure.
It makes a major original contribution to the understanding of popular music culture in Northern Ireland and to the broader popular music culture in Britain in the 1960s. It will remain for many years the definitive study of the subject and a point of reference for further research and controversy.
In light of the re-emergence of Northern Ireland in contemporary British political debate this book presents a nicely timed intervention placing Northern Ireland at the forefront of a key moment in British and Irish cultural history and presenting highly innovative readings of key popular cultural figures. Integrating its account of the popular music culture and local ‘scene’ in Northern Ireland with the broader and highly complex context of the sociopolitical milieu it offers original and insightful readings of key 1960s figures including film director Peter Whitehead The Rolling Stones Them Ottilie Patterson and Van Morrison. It includes much new material obtained in interviews and through meticulous archival research to challenge the mainstream narrative of the mid-1960s music scene in Belfast.
It is extremely well researched making use of newspaper and film archives and existing publications but also an impressive set of personal interviews with veteran musicians and others from that time. The authors challenge much of the received wisdom about the period – for instance about the decline of the showband – and present their arguments carefully and thoughtfully. While meticulously researched and thoroughly analytic the writing is uniquely accessible and engaging.
The chapter on the neglected Belfast blue singer Ottilie Patterson represents a paradigm shift in Irish popular music studies and sets her story and considerable achievements centre stage. This alone makes the book very noteworthy. The chapters on Van Morrison and his band Them place his early career in the context of the local and global music industry. The story of The Rolling Stones film made by Peter Whitehead is discussed in the context of the international fervour of the times. The knitting of the music scene with the distinctive social cultural political and religious factors is deftly done.
Primary readership will be academic – scholars researchers and students across a range of areas. Fields of interest include popular music studies Irish studies political history cultural studies film studies jazz/blues history women’s studies civil rights.
It will also appeal more broadly to fans writers journalists and musicians interested in Belfast Northern Ireland the Blues rock and roll jazz and the 1960s as well as to fans of the individual musicians.
Lesbians on Television
The twenty-first century has seen LGBTQ+ rights emerge at the forefront of public discourse and national politics in ways that would once have been hard to imagine. This book offers a unique and layered account of the complex dynamics in the modern moment of social change drawing together critical social and cultural theory as well as empirical research which includes interviews and multi-platform media analyses.
This original new study puts forward a much-needed analysis of twenty-first century television and lesbian visibility. Books addressing the representation of lesbians have tended to focus on film; analysis of queer characters on television has usually focused on representations of gay males. Other recent books have attempted to address lesbian gay and trans representation together with the result that none are examined in sufficient detail – here the exclusive focus on lesbian representation allows a fuller discussion. Until now much of the research on lesbian and gay representation has tended to employ only textual analysis. The combination of audience research with analysis in this book brings a new angle to the debates as does the critical review of the tropes of lesbian representation. The earlier stereotypes of pathological monsters and predators are discussed alongside the more recent trends of ‘lesbian chic’ and ‘lesbianism as a phase’.
Acts of Dramaturgy
A case study of one specific substantial three-part project inspired by the work of William Shakespeare. Three interconnected performances that interrogate roles in the theatre-making process along with essays that contextualize the themes and approaches of the work serve as provocations for the acts of dramaturgy the work entailed juxtapose new writing and performance writing and problematize the notion of playtexts.
Taking as their starting point a stage direction or a moment in the narrative that is not the main focus the playtexts recontextualize deconstruct and disorientate the classic text within a landscape that is more polarized free from the text and inherently and explicitly aware of its own theatricality. The work negotiates the ever-shifting relationship between the text and its performance the performers and their audience whilst acknowledging that Shakespeare often employed a play-within-a-play as a device what we now call a meta-theatrical mode of representation.
The three playtexts are The Beginning an interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream The Middle a deconstruction of Hamlet and The End triggered by a stage direction from The Winter’s Tale. Shown together as The Trilogy each play asks the audience to enter a world where a performance can be a rehearsal text can be both script and set … and they are always aware of where the fire exits are. The playtexts are presented with essays from a range of contributors that reflect on their poetics themes and concerns in relation to dramaturgy.
Brings together scholarship and creative work places them in dialogue with each other and does so from a wide range of perspectives: from those involved in the process those in the margins of that process and those encountering the works without having been part of that process. The particular strengths of this challenging but accessible book are in the ways it places these perspectives in conversation with and through dramaturgy and contributes a dialogue about making and reflecting text and performance.
A rich and thought-provoking text that has the potential to move the dialogue on dramaturgy forward both among practitioners and academics. It is a fresh intellectually invigorating read; the change of perspective and the playful structure that brings a recognisable five-act dramatic structure and academic elaboration together keeps readers focused and guides them through the book. Very conscious of its own unorthodox format – a combination of script and reflection by a variety of voices – which is certainly part of the freshness of the book and part of its appeal.
Primary readership will be among practitioners academics and researchers in the field of dramaturgy teaching devising writing for performance and non-linear narrative; performance students making or reflecting on their own devised performance work; postgraduate students who are engaged in making practice as research.
Also of relevance and interest to makers and scholars of theatre and performance alongside those interested in creative critical writing; to those interested in how we make and reflect on theatre and performance; those interested in contemporary dramaturgy and embedded criticism; and those studying theatre and performance and interdisciplinary practice research.
Cosmopolitics of the Camera
In Cosmopolitics of the Camera the leading experts in the field present Les Archives de la Planète (The Archives of the Planet) – Albert Kahn’s stunning collection of early colour photography and documentary film – and discuss the extraordinary intellectual context from which it grew. The archives collected between 1909 and 1932 show the cultural richness and diversity of humanity at a time of drastic geographical and historical change. Consisting of 183000 metres of film 72000 autochromes and more than 6000 stereographs it portrays the beauty and creativity of cultures and their fatal disappearance of which Kahn believed to be only a question of time.
The Archives of the Planet was one of a string of institutions for research and international cooperation established in Kahn’s utopian World Gardens near Paris. Some of the best-known minds of the age met there regularly in order to discuss the problem of how to make new media of communication serve the cause of peace and human development. The Cosmopolitics of the Camera presents ten expert voices from seven different countries studying the work of Kahn and his key collaborators the geographer Jean Brunhes and the philosopher Henri Bergson in the spirit of their culturally diverse venture placing it in its proper historical and intellectual context and exploring its ambitious achievements and failures. By pushing Kahn’s work back into active discussion the analysis forces us to reflect on the ways our world is shaped and recorded by the media and reactivates the time capsule that Kahn designed to communicate with the future.
The Cinematic Sublime
This interdisciplinary volume is dedicated to exploring the idea of the cinematic sublime by bringing together the disciplines of film studies and aesthetics to examine cinema and cinematic experience. Explores the idea of ‘the sublime’ in cinema from a variety of perspectives; the essays range in focus from early cinema through classical Hollywood documentary avant-garde and art cinema traditions and on to contemporary digital cinema. The book aims to apply the discussion of the sublime in philosophy to cinema and to interrogate the ways in which cinema engages with this tradition.
Offers new and exciting insights into how cinema engages with traditional historical and aesthetic discourse. Original and wide-ranging this clear and coherent volume is a useful resource for both post-graduate students and established scholars interested in the interrelations between film and philosophy. The range of material covered in the individual essays makes this a wide-ranging and very useful introduction to the topic.
A significant new contribution to the literature on Film-Philosophy. What sets this reader apart from the existing books on the subject is the wider scope. It embraces both philosophers and film scholars to consider films from throughout film history in light of theories of the sublime from throughout the history of Philosophy. In doing so it aims to demonstrate the diverse value of sublime approaches (versus a singular definition and philosophical perspective) to a wider range of films than has previously been considered.
An original and stimulating collection of essays contributing new insights into the crossover between historical and aesthetic approaches to contemporary cinema and cinematic experience.
The main readership will be academic markets including film studies and philosophy and academics with an interest in the legacies of Burke and Kant on aesthetics. Useful for teaching aesthetics through cinematic illustration and application.
Appropriate to final year undergraduate and postgraduate students with an interest in ideas at the boundaries of contemporary film studies.
American Presidents and Oliver Stone
Perhaps no current filmmaker has made more provocative films about American history than Oliver Stone. In this book Carl Freedman gives a detailed and nuanced account of the presidencies of John F. Kennedy Richard Nixon and George W. Bush as fictionalized in Stone’s biographical films JFK Nixon and W.
Offering detailed historical perspectives alongside careful aesthetic criticism Freedman explores how Stone uses melodrama tragedy and farce to transform politics into national mythology. Synthesizing film criticism with political and historical analysis the book transcends the limitations of formalism and empiricism reflecting on both Stone’s achievements as a filmmaker and American politics of the past sixty years.
Oliver Stone’s importance among filmmakers as the major chronicler of recent US history is the starting point for the analysis of his three ‘presidential’ films: JFK Nixon and W. While not claiming equal artistic merit for Stone’s films Freedman makes some comparison with Shakespeare’s history plays and draws on T.S. Eliot’s notion of ‘essential history’ to transcend the barren dichotomy of formalism versus empiricism – that is treating historical fiction as either only pure fiction with nothing to say about real history or judging it as non-fiction by the extent to which it adheres to superficial historical detail. Instead the focus is on the capacity of Stone’s films to illuminate the structural workings of history contemporary and general.
Freedman is thoroughly familiar with his subject and his meticulous attention to historical accuracy and critical attention to the films is impeccable. This book has a powerfully original focus and makes a significant contribution to the field through offering these detailed historical perspectives alongside much more careful aesthetic criticism of the films. It has the potential to become not only a great source on its subject but a model of how to approach historical fiction in general.
This is an academic study but is written in such an accessible style that it will have genuine appeal to the general reader – to anyone with an interest in cinema politics and recent history. Wide-ranging accessible and highly original American Presidents combines erudition and complex analysis with jargon-free writing and is sure to engage anyone interested in the intersection of American politics and cinema.
The academic readership will be among humanities scholars and students of film popular culture media politics political history and modern history. It will be highly relevant to undergraduate and postgraduate students studying film or modern American history and culture.
The Traumatic Screen
Christopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood mainstream creating complex original films that achieve both critical acclaim and commercial success. In The Traumatic Screen Stuart Joy builds on contemporary applications of psychoanalytic film theory to consider the function and presentation of trauma across Nolan’s work arguing that the complexity thematic consistency and fragmentary nature of his films mimic the structural operation of trauma.
From 1997’s Doodlebug to 2017’s Dunkirk Nolan’s films highlight cinema’s ability to probe the nature of human consciousness while commenting on the relationship between spectator and screen. Joy examines Nolan’s treatment of trauma – both individual and collective – through the formal construction mise en scène and repeated themes of his films. The argument presented is based on close textual analysis and a methodological framework that incorporates the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan. The first in-depth overtly psychoanalytic understanding of trauma in the context of the director’s filmography this book builds on and challenges existing scholarship in a bold new interpretation of the Nolan canon.
Taste and the TV Chef
Food journalist podcast producer and former academic Gilly Smith offers fresh insights into the creation of contemporary British food culture. Her latest book explores the story of modern food culture with the creators of lifestyle and food TV and with the academics carving a new world in food and media studies. Taste and the TV Chef investigates how television changed the way Britain eats and sold it to the world.
While cooking shows are far from new they have exploded in popularity in recent years and changed consumption patterns at a time when what we eat has an enormous impact on climate change.
What was once merely a genre is now a full-blown phenomenon: never before has food been so photographed fawned over fetishized and celebrated as various answers to saving the planet. Celebrity chefs and so-called ‘foodies’ have risen to new levels of fame and the cultural capital of cooking has never been so valuable.
Looks at the influence of chefs like Jamie Oliver Nigella Lawson and Gordon Ramsay and the role of TV storytelling in transforming how and what we consume. A ground-breaking contribution to food and media studies which includes rare interviews with the producers who created some of the most influential stories television ever told Taste and the TV Chef investigates how food and lifestyle TV changed the way an entire country ate and then fed it to the rest of the world.
Main academic readership will be scholars researchers and students in cultural studies media studies. Also practitioners and students in the fields of TV production and writing.
Will also appeal to anyone with an interest in the development of food TV and the rise of the TV chef.
The Media-Democracy Paradox in Ghana
This original new book researches into the praxis of this democracy and its media delving into Ghana’s evolvement media practice leadership aspirations pressure group politics and ethnic and tribal cleavages. Written in accessible language it will provide valuable source material for readers interested in the development of a democratic culture.
A rich data source for students scholars and researchers on both the African continent and in the diaspora it examines the growing influence of social media in political discourse and provides an insightful analysis on debates surrounding political communication and its implications for strengthening democratic culture. Its intention is to challenge the intellectual rigour of scholars academics researchers and students. The analytical frames it offers are to generate intellectual discourses.
Provides an overview of the history of the press in Ghana and how that has shaped the current media landscape and draws attention to the growing influence of social media in political messages and debate. The historical analysis of the political situation of Ghana and its relationship to the press is informative comprehensive and stimulating to read. Ideas discussed are revealing and relevant to current discussions on the contributions of the media to the growth and development of democracy in Ghana in particular – and in Africa as a whole.
The unusual and highly original comparative analytic approach used here is in dealing with the media-democracy paradox through comments and analysis that challenges the orthodoxy of western idealism. The discussion of media and democracy with private and state media operating side-by-side in a multiparty democratic setting regulated by a constitution adds significantly to the wider field of knowledge on the media and democracy.
Primary audience will be academics scholars researchers and students – undergraduate and postgraduate – in the humanities and social sciences. Of particular relevance to those in media and communication studies political science journalism cultural studies postcolonial studies and historians whose research interests include Ghana. Also relevant to those with an interest in democracy and development to media advocacy institutions and policy makers and to media development experts.
Curriculum
There is an urgent focus on education around the world and this book is pushing directly into this territory. It will appeal to a wide range of readers – to anyone who is passionate about art and or education – and will have a strong international appeal as the contributors have international profiles and the book is poised to address global issues concerning contemporary art education and independent practice.
In this collection of original essays the writers engage with the work of the artists who took part in Art School. Each contribution provides a lens through which each writer can focus on specific moments within the evolution of Art School working outwards to explore how these moments resonate with the wider fields of art-in-education and radical pedagogies. These texts respond to a widespread concern with art and its place in education while retaining a committed and informed engagement with the phenomena they assess.
Art School takes place as a series of independent projects exhibitions workshop and residency programmes bringing active contemporary artists into educational systems to inspire and expand their teachings.
Responding to a growing desire to rethink art education at all levels it is for those committed to new forms of social imagination and social engagement in contemporary art. This book is for curators schoolteachers and other educators and also for artists and art students who wish to extend their practice beyond the gallery.
Less a manifesto or a declaration of doctrine than an emergent set of experiments Curriculum considers the school as a zone of artistic and curatorial practice foregrounding the potential of contemporary art (understood in wide terms) to stimulate students’ creativity in original and open ways.
Although the book focuses on a specific project in Ireland that project exemplifies trends in art and education that are happening around the world and includes contributions from an international group of scholars all well-known in their field.
Contributors: Clare Butcher Gerard Byrne Juan Canela Helen Carey Daniela Cascella Fiona Gannon Jennie Guy Andrew Hunt Hannah Jickling & Helen Reed Alissa Kleist Rowan Lear Peter Maybury Annemarie Ní Churreáin Nathan O’Donnell Sofia Olascoaga and Priscila Fernandes Matt Packer and Sjoerd Westbroek.
Artists: Sven Anderson John Beattie Clare Breen Sarah Browne Karl Burke Rhona Byrne Ella de Búrca Vanessa Donoso Lopez Priscila Fernandes Hannah Fitz Jane Fogarty Kevin Gaffney Adam Gibney Fiona Hallinan Elaine Leader Maria McKinney Maeve Mulrennan Mark O’Kelly Sarah Pierce Naomi Sex and Orlaith Treacy.
Primary interest will be among educators artists curators academics and students and others working or studying in a variety of settings including school universities museums and other arts organisations.
Of interest to these groups in the following ways:
Artists: Learning about how other artists are working in sites of education.
Curators: Reading about the curatorial mechanisms that support artists maintaining the ethics and integrity of their practice when working with younger audiences in schools.
Gallerists: Extending the horizons of audience and public outreach.
Museums: Considering new models of education outreach exhibition and off-site events.
Schools: Learning about new models of artist residencies and workshops.
Students and Parents: Researching the potential of contemporary artists’ impact on education.
Educators: Forming a critical perspective of how contemporary arts practice can be integrated in curricula.
Local and National Arts Agencies: Learning about how independent curatorial and artistic practice can co-exist within sites of education.
This publication was funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and the Arts Office of Wicklow County Council.
Responding to Site
This book focuses on the performance art of Marilyn Arsem an internationally acclaimed performance artist known for her innovative and experimental work. Arsem’s work addresses women’s history and myth-making capacities the potency of site and geography the idea of the audience as witnesses and the intimacy of one-to-one works.
One of the most prolific performance artists working in the United States today Arsem performs carefully choreographed durational actions that are developed site-responsively and range from deceptively simple interventions to elaborately orchestrated actions. This edited volume seeks to extend Arsem’s legacy beyond the audiences of her live performances and enter her work into the lexicon of the art world. Accompanied by 200 images this book will be of interest to scholars and students of performance studies feminist performance feminist art history and performance history. It will also contribute to the history of alternative spaces and galleries which is only now being written.
I have had the privilege of knowing Marilyn for over 30 years. Her work has given me so many epiphanies about live art time-based art practice and durational performance practice. How and why do you choose a single action and enact it over an extended period of time? How do you respond to site and create a sacred meditational zone; a reflexive space about the human condition? And most importantly how do you teach future generations about the importance of living while making art as a spiritual and philosophical practice? This book is yet another example of Arsem’s legacy. Fundamental I’d say.
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Watching Marilyn Arsem perform can be a slow careful vulnerable and heart-stoppingly profound experience. To see her is to know better the complex intermingling particularities of body space time being and action. Reading this comprehensive lucidly written and deeply insightful book – the first significant publication on Arsem’s practice as a performance artist – will enable new perspectives on a major artist’s work. It also sheds vivid light upon enduring themes for the critical encounter with art: duration and doing materiality and nothingness truth and representation commitment and experiment togetherness and solitude experience and endurance.
- Dominic Johnson Queen Mary University of London
Producing Children’s Television in the On Demand Age
This book provides a detailed account of the creative economic and regulatory processes underlying the production of children’s television in a multi-platform era. Its collection of integrated case studies includes extended interviews with leading producers whose programs are watched by children all over the world. These reveal the impact of digitization on the funding distribution and consumption of children’s television and the ways that producers have adapted their creative practice accordingly. In its comprehensive analysis of the production culture of children’s television this book provides a valuable lens through which to view broader transformations in media industries in the on-demand age.
This original and engaging book explores the creative processes underlying the production of children’s television with close attention to underlying economic and policy dynamics. It does so through a combination of detailed case studies and interviews with leading producers from across three English-language markets. In its examination of the impact of new streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime on the funding production and distribution of children’s screen content the book will reveal how producers successfully created content for these increasingly influential new services.
It offers important insights into the production of children’s screen content in Australia New Zealand and the United Kingdom and builds on previous research in the field. The addition of analysis which provides the context of historical regulatory and economic factors that shape production in all three countries is important for situating the personal testimonies and providing some critical distance. The variety of productions chosen for analysis including drama factual productions and animation represents the very different pressures on different genres. Previous studies have looked at children’s content as one genre whereas this new study reveals children’s content to be as diverse in range as adult content.
The case studies show the pressures and opportunities emerging from different national and international context and offers its own unique take on matters such as diversity gender representation and indeed the ethics of representing children from a producers’ perspective. As a contribution to industry studies this volume represents a valuable addition to the literature and will no doubt be referenced by future studies.
The quantity and quality of original interview material goes far beyond interviews in the trade press. Combined with the rich detail of production case studies the articulate interviews and Potter’s highly engaging mode of writing this book is an invaluable additional to research in the area.
This book will provide a crucial analysis of success stories in the children’s screen production industries at a time of flux and adaptation as television’s distribution revolution takes place.
The book will be indispensable for scholars of children’s television and of UK New Zealand and Australian media policy. It will also engage a wider audience interested in television production production studies and digital distribution – including those teaching at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It will be a valuable library resource for courses that include screen media industries and television production culture as part of their content. It will be of interest to scholars beyond children’s television because of its analysis of success stories in screen production at a time of change and uncertainty.
It will also be of relevance to the international screen production sector and industry bodies including screen organizations such as Screen Australia and the UK’s Children’s Media Foundation for its analysis of success stories in the screen production industries. Also of interest to the many groups with vested interests around children and children’s media – including regulatory bodies like Ofcom in the UK the Australian Communications and Media Authority in Australia and other key institutions including legacy broadcasters such as the BBC ABC and ITV.
Radical Mainstream
Radical Mainstream examines independent film and video cultures in Britain from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s in the context of struggles against capitalism patriarchy racism colonialism and homophobia examining relations between counterpublics and social change. The book considers this period in order to examine the capacity for radical discourse to affect dominant cultural media forms arguing that independent film- and video-makers helped transform television into a vital site of counterpublic discourse.
The end of the twentieth century saw the development of new social models of film and video production and exhibition alongside the formation of new alliances to campaign for changes to social practice policy and legislature. Radical Mainstream explores the interrelation between public debate institutions and individuals arguing that independent film and video in Britain at this time – including activist documentary currents of counter-cinema avant-garde film and video art – were largely concerned with creating and circulating counterpublic discourses. The book traces the diversity of the influences on independent film and video from socialist and liberation movements to popular radical histories and psychoanalytic and Marxist film theory. The account provides a historic backdrop to contemporary documentary and moving image work and illuminates the heritage of critical thinking within such practices.
Heavy Metal Music in Argentina
An in-depth regional discussion of heavy metal music Heavy Metal Music in Argentina explores metal music as a catalyst for social change and site for engaging political reflection. Originally published in Spanish and sold locally in Argentina this is the first time the work has been available in English.
Edited by leading researchers this collection addresses the music’s rituals circulations cultural products lyrics and allows readers to rethink the place of heavy metal within Argentinean politics and economics. Exclusively written by members of the Group for Interdisciplinary Research on Argentinian Heavy Metal (GIIHMA) in a communal approach to scholarship the book echoes the working-class voices that marked early post-dictatorship metal music in Argentina.
This is the first collection of essays on Argentine metal music. It has opened up research channels between different universities in the country while also engaging a non-academic audience and widening the potential market for the book.
The book makes an interdisciplinary examination of a complex and fascinating object: it allows for the examination discussion and analysis of its nationalist postulates relationship with the Creole culture (for example with nineteenth-century ‘gauchesca’ literature) indigenism and with the political processes of contemporary Argentina.
Metal Music Studies as an academic area of inquiry has focused mostly on the music’s cultural components in Europe and the United States. The few books that have addressed metal music as a global phenomenon have severely neglected the inclusion of Latin American countries. Argentina with the largest and oldest metal scene in the region has also been neglected in the existing literature. There is a growing interest in this area as demonstrated by the emergence of documentary film on metal music in Latin America.
The book has potential use as a resource on courses in several disciplines including sociology cultural studies musicology ethnomusicology sociology and Latin American studies. It will also be of interest to the more general readers with an interest in the musical genre.
Film Studies in China 2
Film Studies in China 2 is a collection of selected articles chosen from issues of the journal Contemporary Cinema published throughout the year and translated for an English-speaking audience. As one of the most prestigious academic film studies journals in China Contemporary Cinema has been active not only in publishing Chinese scholarship for Chinese readers but also in reaching out to academics from across the globe. This anthology hopes to encourage a cross-cultural academic conversation on the fields of Chinese cinema and media studies. Following the successful release of the first volume this is the second collection to be released in the Film Studies in China series.
Modern Melbourne
Melbourne founded in 1835 among marshes and beside a sluggish stream grew from wetlands into a world-class modern city. Drawing on a wide range of historical literary and artistic sources this book explores the cultural and environmental history of the city and its site. Tracing the city from its swampy beginnings in a squatter’s settlement nestled in the marshy delta of the Yarra and Maribyrnong Rivers Rod Giblett illuminates Melbourne through its visible structures and the invisible history of its site.
The book places Melbourne within an international context by comparing and contrasting it to other cities built on or beside wetlands including London New York Paris Los Angeles and Toronto. Further it is the first book to apply the work of European thinkers and writers on modernity and the modern city – such as Walter Benjamin and Peter Sloterdijk – to an analysis of Melbourne. Giblett considers the intertwining of nature and culture people and place and cities and wetlands in this bioregional and ecocultural analysis. Placing the city in its proper bioregional and international contexts Modern Melbourne provides a rich historical analysis of the cultural capital of Australia.
Women in Iberian Filmic Culture
Though cinema arrived in Spain and Portugal at the end of the nineteenth century national and industrial problems as well as the dictatorships of Salazar and Caetano (in Portugal) and Franco (in Spain) meant Iberian cinemas were isolated from European cultural trends. Strict censorship in both countries limited the themes and artistic practices adopted while a specific cinematographic language in many cases full of metaphors and symbolism sought alternatives to the imposed official discourse and preconceived definitions of supposed national identities. By contrast the arrival of democracy from the 1970s onwards widened not just the panorama of film production and criticism but also opened the film industry to women’s participation in areas historically assigned to men.
Focusing on Portuguese and Spanish cinema this collection brings together research about women and their status in relation to Iberian filmic culture. The volume contributes to ongoing debates about the position of women in the cinemas of Portugal and Spain from interdisciplinary and feminist perspectives as well as new accounts of film history. It also aims to promote comparisons between Iberian cinemas and visual culture a topic that is almost unexplored in academia despite the similar histories of the two countries particularly throughout the twentieth century.
Journalism, Society and Politics in the Digital Media Era
Advances in digital communication have affected the relationship between society journalism and politics within different contexts in varied ways and intensities. This volume combining interdisciplinary academic and professional perspectives assesses the impact of the digital media environment on citizens journalists and politicians in diverse sociopolitical landscapes. The first part evaluates the transformative power of media literacy in the digital age and the challenges that journalism pedagogy encounters in global and fragmented environments. The second part critically examines the methods in which social media is used by politicians and activists to communicate during political campaigns and social protests. The third part analyses the impact of digitalization on professional journalism and news consumption strategies. The fourth part offers a range of case studies that illustrate the significant challenges facing online media regarding the framing and representation of communities in crisis and shifting contexts. The book is intended to introduce readers to the crucial dynamic and diverse challenges that affect our societies and communitive practices as a result of the interplay between digital media and political and societal structures.
Photography from the Turin Shroud to the Turing Machine
This book introduces two conceptual models of photography: the Turin Shroud and the universal Turing machine. The Turin Shroud inspires a discussion on photography’s frequently acclaimed ‘ontological privilege’ which has conditioned an understanding of photography as a sui generis breed of images wherein pictorial representation is coextensive with human vision. This is then contrasted with a discussion of the universal Turing machine which integrates photography into a framework of media philosophy and algorithmic art. Here photography becomes more than just the present-day sum of its depiction traditions devices and dissemination networks. Rather it is archetypical of multiple systems of abstraction and classification and various other symbolic processes of transformation.
Fellini’s Films and Commercials
Federico Fellini’s distinct style delighted generations of film viewers and inspired filmmakers and artists around the world. In Fellini’s Films and Commercials: From Postwar to Postmodern renowned Fellini scholar Frank Burke presents a film-by-film analysis of the famed director’s cinematic output from a theoretical perspective. The book explores Fellini’s movement from relatively classic filmmaking to modernist reflexivity and then to ‘postmodern reproduction’. Burke moves from analysis of stories told from a relatively ‘objective’ standpoint to increased concentration on Fellini-as-author and on the cinematic apparatus to Fellini’s dismantling of authorship and cinematic apparatus to his postmodern signifying strategies. Grounded in poststructuralist approaches to texts and signification Burke shows that Fellini is profoundly readable if extremely complex.
Revisiting Burke’s 1996 Fellini’s Films: From Postwar to Postmodern this new edition includes revised material from the original plus a new preface and new chapter on the filmmaker’s work on commercials. Elegantly written and thoroughly researched this book is essential reading for Fellini fans and scholars.
Punk Now!!
Punk Now!! brings together papers from the second incarnation of the Punk Scholars Network International Conference and Postgraduate Symposium with contributions from revered academics and new voices alike in the field of punk studies. The collection ruminates on contemporary and non-Anglophone punk as well as its most anti-establishment tendencies. It exposes not only modern punk but also punk at the margins: areas that have previously been poorly served in studies on the cultural phenomenon. By compiling these chapters Matt Grimes and Mike Dines offer a critical contribution to a field that has been saturated with nostalgic and retrospective research. The range and depth of these chapters encapsulates the diverse nature of the punk subculture – and the adjacent academic study of punk – today.
The Baroque Technotext
To date most criticism of print and digital technotexts – literary objects that foreground the role of their media of inscription – has emphasized the avant-garde contexts of a text’s production. The Baroque Technotext opens new perspectives on this important and innovative literary canon analysing the role of baroque and neo-baroque aesthetics in the emergence and possible futures of technotexts. Combining the insights of poststructuralist theory of the baroque postcolonial theory of the neobaroque and insightful critique of the prevailing modernist approaches to technotexts The Baroque Technotext reframes critical debate of contemporary experiments in literary practice in the late age of print. Analyses of works from authors including Jonathan Safran Foer Chris Ware and David Clark are matched with reflections on other media texts – film visual art and interface design – that have adopted baroque aesthetic tropes.
Design Discourse on Culture and Society
Just as the term design has been going through change growth and expansion of meaning and interpretation in practice and education – the same can be said for design research. The traditional boundaries of design are dissolving and connections are being established with other fields at an exponential rate. Based on the proceedings from the IASDR 2017 Conference Re:Research is an edited collection that showcases a curated selection of 83 papers – just over half of the works presented at the conference. With topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for Artificial Intelligence systems this book collection demonstrates the diverse perspectives of design and design research. Divided into seven thematic volumes this collection maps out where the field of design research is now.
Cultura: A Communication Toolkit for Designers to Gain Empathic Insights Across Cultural Boundaries
- Chen Hao Annemiek van Boeijen Pieter Jan Stappers
Designing successful products and services that people like requires an understanding of the context and the aspirations of those people. Over the past decade a range of methods has been developed to help designers gain such empathy. These have worked well when designer and target user share a cultural context. However designers often find it difficult to empathize with the user insights of individuals from a culture beyond their first-hand experience. To help designers step beyond this limitation those user insights need to be placed in a larger understanding of the cultural context. In this paper we present Cultura: a toolkit that uses nine cultural aspects based on cultural models informing designers about user insights in a broader cultural context. The toolkit was evaluated in design sessions with four design teams. The findings indicate that Cultura provides inspiration and motivation for designers to gain empathic insights into users beyond their own cultural boundaries and to make effective designs for people.
Graphic Designers as Cultural Innovators: Case Studies of Henry Steiner and Kan Tai Keung
• Tian Yao Ilpo Koskinen
It is common to see graphic design copies of foreign models or other Chinese designers. These designers are apathetic toward the work and neglect its ongoing challenges including the need for constant innovation. In contrast there are masters who use Chinese culture in creative ways and achieve outstanding reputations all over the world. The reasons design masters choose Chinese culture as a theme for their graphic work and the unique ways in which they symbolize cultural resources and knowledge are explored and explained in this study. This study also illustrates how traditional culture can become a potential innovative strategy by applying a systematic and culture-based methodology. The case studies presented concern the first generation of graphic designers in Hong Kong: Henry Steiner and Kan Tai Keung. The preliminary results of the two case studies show very positive outcomes for cultural interpretation becoming a new innovative stream of graphic design.
Cultural Differences in Aesthetic Preferences: Does Product-to-Context Match Matter?
• Tseng-Ping Chiu Carolyn Yoon Shinobu Kitayama Colleen Seifert
Western cultures focus on salient objects and use categorization for purposes of organizing the environment (an analytic view) whereas East Asians cultures focus more holistically on relationships and similarities among objects when organizing the environment (a holistic view). Previous research has shown that cognitive approaches differ between cultures: European Americans prefer an analytic style and East Asians tend to use a holistic style. However little is known about how cultural differences in cognition relate to aesthetic preferences. In this paper we explored whether cultural differences arise in preferences for products set in matching vs. mismatching contexts. Participants in a laboratory experiment included European Americans and East Asians. Individually they viewed images of a variety of furniture products (chairs coffee tables and floor lamps) and rated their aesthetic appeal. Each product type appeared in three different contexts: matching (target product shown in its usual in-home context); mismatched (target product shown in an unusual in-home context) and neutral (the target product shown on a white background). For both cultural groups products were judged to be more aesthetically pleasing in the matching than in the mismatched context. However ratings for products in mismatching contexts were significantly higher among East Asians. Our findings suggest that those with holistic views (East Asians) are more tolerant of mismatches than are those with more analytic views (European Americans). The implications for product and marketing design include greater attention to context presentation.
Discourses on Japanese Lifestyle in Early Modern Design: A Turning Point from Westernization to Modern Design
• Yoshimune Ishikawa
Low-seated chairs for tatami mats that are characteristic of Japanese-style interior appeared after late 1940s. This article focuses on the ambivalence between Western lifestyles and Japanese lifestyles by tracing the comments of designers critics magazines and so forth to clarify a background of them. The introduction of chairs in Japan was actually involved by definition in a dichotomy between sitting on the floor and in chairs which therefore was far from the domestic practicality of lifestyles among the public. Then we have to observe the two points for the introduction of chairs to break through this rigid situation: (1) how did the public establish definition of chairs outside the Westernization? This article grasps the fact that the artisans and early designers accumulated their experience of producing chairs from scratch through trial and error. (2) How did the relation between sitting on the floor and in chairs break out of the dichotomy through ambivalence? This article focuses on the fact that the public enjoyed the physical relaxation offered by the mix of sitting on the floor and in chairs. This constituted the domestic practicality of chairs for the Japanese. Therefore such experiences of making and using chairs can be summarized as the awakening of a universe in the distance between the floor and the seat-height of Western chairs. It was a new frontier for Japanese designers and low-seated chairs were born in this space. This article concludes that it marked the transition from Westernization to Japanese modern design.
Using Practice-Led Industrial/Product Design Research to Explore Opportunities to Support Manufacturing-Related Enterprise in Overseas Development Assistance (ODA) Countries
• Mark Evans Timothy Whitehead
The profession of industrial/product design has the capacity to support wealth generation through a product-driven supply chain that extends across services that include manufacturing distribution sales and maintenance. Moving away from the more typical manufacturing approaches of developed countries where the resources available to support designers employ advanced technologies and materials this paper discusses an on-going UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project to explore ways in which industrial/product design can provide opportunities for entrepreneurship and employment in countries on the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Development Assistance Committee (DAC) List and receive Overseas Development Assistance (ODA). Through practice-lad research with participants from Uganda Kenya Indonesia and Turkey; industrial/product design educators/researchers/practitioners shared knowledge and expertise and engaged in creative activity to translate propositions into proposals with the potential for manufacture in each of the four countries. The findings articulated product visualizations indicate significant potential to support manufacturing in countries in a variety of levels of economic development by adding value to the packaging of traditional foods; integrating low-cost imported components to add value to indigenous crafts and materials; producing contemporary furniture designs using materials that can be considered as traditional materials; and employing unorthodox and unexpected materials.
Preserving Craft Heritage by Forging Rural–Urban Connections
• Haodan Tan Huaxin Wei Eli Blevis
This study aims to explore the difficulties of preserving cultural heritage in rural areas and to inform better designs of computer systems to support such preservation. In this case study we observed and documented craft cultures in three rural villages in China. Our methods include photo-ethnography interview and observation. From analyzing various types of data we were able to identify issues of cultural heritage preservation including cultural identity and values. We propose a conceptual system design for an installation and software connecting rural craftspeople and people who appreciate crafts as a means of fostering a mutual relationship of support and appreciation. We believe this relationship can help preserve cultural heritage in rural areas. Some of the system installation elements were prototyped in scale models. The paper’s primary contribution is the design field research analysis of design field research and conceptualization.
Designing Language Learning for Migrant Workers’ Workplace Integration
• Young-ae Hahn Nyamsuren Gombodoo
The number of migrant workers in South Korea is on the rise but their inadequate Korean language skills prevent them from being promoted at work or fairly treated as respected members of the society. In this study in collaboration with a government-authorized language educational facility for immigrants the authors investigated (a) challenges in migrant workers’ Korean as a second language learning and (b) design principles of lessons and learning materials specifically targeted to their needs. Student and teacher interview data confirmed that the workers’ limited time for study weak motivation Korean colleagues’ indifferent attitude and limited teaching resources at educational facilities are major barriers to achieving higher levels of linguistic skills. From the data the authors identified four design principles: personalized content community participation portability of materials and micro learning modules. Informal lessons via Facebook factory safety signs and portable writing drill booklets are designed as on-going experimentations of the principles.
Designing One-Flat Church as Small-Scale Community Space in Densely Populated Urban Environment to Perform Both Sacred and Contemporary Functions
• Louis Poon Shek Wing
This research is based on the scenario in the context of Hong Kong in which church has been built in densely populated urban environment restricted in flat space. The research objectives were: (1) firstly to investigate the relationship between theology and spatial design in Hong Kong Protestant church; (2) secondly to analyze the issue of the lack of design with respect to sacred identity in the church of Hong Kong that leads to an unappealing and non-sacred appearance of Protestant church; (3) and finally to establish theoretical standpoints on designing sacred space with contemporary quality without surrendering of the sacred identity. The aims of the research were to understand the influence of secularization to the rationale of church design and to generate an appropriate identity of church with a theoretical standpoint to serve the contemporary community effectively. In order to meet these objectives the study comprised of a qualitative site observations of 171 churches which provided comparative figures for the study of churches incorporated with design elements or no design elements. In Hong Kong approximately 775 one-flat churches which are 66% of the total number of Protestant churches are located in different layers of vertical space within this vertical city. When churches provide social services in the same limited space the identity of church is surrendered to the need of the social community. This study endeavors to facilitate church design with the focus on the immanence quality in order to encounter the different spatial limitations in church design.
Design Dialogs as a Specific Mode of Communication: About the Ongoing Exploration of Solution Space
• Terry van Dijk Matthew Cook
Decision-making with respect to urban design is a particular arena where designerly modes of interaction are used but placed in the specific context of coordination across a variation of actors. The planning literature that describes how urban design is included in decision-making is poorly connected to design literature. This paper laments this disconnection and shows where design theories reflect planning theories and where they can further complement in order to create a richer understanding of urban planning.
Urban Planning in the Middle East: Analyzing Al-Tahrir Square as a Public–Political Space in Iraq
• Rasha Al-Tameemi
Al-Tahrir Square surrounded by commercial crowded streets financial headquarters and governmental institutions is one of the most iconic squares in Baghdad. It is part of daily life for many Iraqi people due to its central location which is characterized by busy roads with honking cars. In this essay I am going to explore Al-Tahrir Square in Baghdad Iraq as a venue of rebellion for Iraqi people. Since 2015 Iraqi people from diverse backgrounds have been gathering in the square to protest for their rights every Friday. It has been the site of many historical events in Iraq although it has been established as a social place. I will explore the sociopolitical significance of Al-Tahrir Square by connecting the history of the place with how it has been changed since 1961 when the Freedom Monument was first open to the public. The research addresses the urban landscape of Al-Tahrir Square and its transformation over time taking into consideration the political issues that affect it. I will analyze policies and regulations that have discouraged people from gathering in the Square to prevent political threats to the government and suggest ways to create safer spaces and mixed used attractions modify the natural landscape of Al-Ummah Garden to make it more connected to the Square and revitalize the existing kaleidoscope for closer proximity to Tigris River.
Design and Digital Interaction
Just as the term design has been going through change growth and expansion of meaning and interpretation in practice and education – the same can be said for design research. The traditional boundaries of design are dissolving and connections are being established with other fields at an exponential rate. Based on the proceedings from the IASDR 2017 Conference Re:Research is an edited collection that showcases a curated selection of 83 papers – just over half of the works presented at the conference. With topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for Artificial Intelligence systems this book collection demonstrates the diverse perspectives of design and design research. Divided into seven thematic volumes this collection maps out where the field of design research is now.
From Software Engineering to Information Design
• Yvette Shen
Most academic methodologies are developed from a prescribed methodological process that is limited to a specific area of study. However the disciplinary landscape in which the knowledge is established is being rapidly reconfigured. Given the vast varieties of practices and knowledge base required from information designers it is even more crucial for them to look outside of the traditional visual design fields and seek diversities for better research and creation methods. The two disciplines software engineering and information design are often perceived as one provides technical solutions to the other. This essay intends to move beyond the common perception and identify relevant issues in software engineering design that resonate with the information design process. The issues include the multi-component planning approach; the human-oriented agile method; design concepts such as abstraction decomposition component modularity hierarchical relationship and extensibility. The perspectives from software engineering design and information design is examined through units of analysis terminology explanations and forms of communications. The collective design methods and principles provide a systematic framework to the methodological thinking in information design. The discussion serves the purpose of encouraging more conceptual-based conversations between information design and other disciplines especially in the fields of science and technology.
Designing Information for Artificial Intelligence: Path Recommendation and User Acceptance in a Virtual Space
• Jong Myoung Lee Kyung Hoon Hyun
In this study the authors propose two information layout strategies (informative layout and decisive layout) that influence the user acceptance rate on recommended information. The informative layout is the degree of descriptions in the recommendation process. The decisive layout is the degree of choices in recommendations. Thus the objective of the paper is to discover how users’ acceptance of a recommendation changes when the recommendation is displayed in different degrees of informative and decisive layouts. To this end we have conducted the following tasks: (1) sophisticated software was created with JavaScript to conduct experiments with users online; (2) experiment subjects (N=247) with various education and demographic levels were recruited; (3) user acceptance rate depending on the information layout strategy was collected; (4) the relationships between information layout strategy and user acceptance of the recommended information were computationally analyzed. The results of the study indicate that the information layout strategy proposed in this research significantly influences user acceptance of the recommended information. Also this research identified effective combinations of informative and decisive layouts to maximize the user acceptance.
The Research on Design Framework for Citizen Science
• Zhiyong Fu Jia Lin Lu Wang
Citizen science is a process in which ordinary citizens contribute to scientific research. How to create citizen science design framework to achieve better awareness initiative and action is our research focus. This paper will explore citizen science design in the context of smart city on the basis of activity theory and by means of digital social innovation. “Smart City” concept provides new elements including social communication collaborative design and innovative community to citizen science. With the rapid development of science and information and communication technologies (ICTs) and with the arrival of Web 2.0 social innovation is endowed with digital factors so as to be evolved to digital social innovation (DSI) which gives various design perspectives on citizen science and also plays an important part in establishing citizen science evaluation model. In this paper a citizen science design framework consisting of citizen science content model design model and evaluation model is proposed by discussing related theories models and citizen science cases. It acts as not only design lead to inspire two citizen science case practices but also an evaluation term in the view of citizen science. The framework and models developed in this research will hopefully be leveraged and refined to support citizen science design in the future.
Finding the Expectations of Smart Home and Designing the Meaningful Technology for Delivering Customers’ Satisfaction
• Yaliang Chuang Lin-Lin Chen Yu-Shan Athena Chen
Smart home is becoming a focus in both literature and product development practices. The current study employed a human-centered design approach to understand users’ desires and expectations from their living context. Six critical themes were developed via in-deep interviews field observations and data analysis. They are housed as a supportive friend atmosphere generator theme songs for every moment coordinator and reminder life memory collector and routine builder for young generations. Those concepts were partially integrated to define the value proposition for the target user group of parents with young children. This guides the design ideation and video prototyping to illustrator the user experiences. Through a focus group discussion the design concepts were validated with six potential customers. The results also show that the design concept has the potential to motivate children’s behaviors help to build their routine and has the flexibility to fulfill different needs toward the changes of the family’s life cycle.
Using Frame Analysis to Organize Designers’ Experience on the Cloud
• Julija Naskova
This paper demonstrates how Goffman’s frame analysis is applied in a research on designers’ experience with Cloud-based digital tools. At the base of Goffman’s structure is the “primary frame” – in this case designers’ experience with computer-based digital tools. These tools’ transition to the Cloud initiated by business are called “fabrications.” Goffman’s “structural issues in fabrication” such as “retransformations” and the “nature of recontainment” are also discussed through contemporary examples. These fabrications are used or “keyed” by “active agents” from various design fields. The data collected showed different levels of understanding of Cloud technology and the application of various tools in everyday design practices. Thus the interviewees were clustered into three groups – designers developers and artists. Their experiences form the creative technology and experimental frame derived from keying of the primary frame. Design researchers can selectively borrow elements from frame analysis’ complex structure to build an effective user experience narrative.
(Un)intended Value Implications of Graphical Representations of Data
• Milena Radzikowska Stan Ruecker
The design of meaningful graphical objects to represent collection items must balance the following: amount of useful information that can be communicated through the object’s graphical form meaningful graphical difference between individual items or groups of items and restraint in form complexity to allow for the simultaneous display of numerous collection items at a small size. How the user interprets difference and sameness and more importantly whether the user attaches hierarchical value to the emergent categories may play a significant role in determining whether that user focuses attention on one set of data over another on one set of processes over another and ultimately on one set of tasks over another. This paper examines the significant consequences for the understanding of the user resulting from representation of data files and other objects in a human–computer interface (HCI) and proposes that new approaches may be indicated given the growing complexity of what is being represented and how what is represented can be used.
Mapping Communication Design through the Web
• Giulia De Rossi Paolo Ciuccarelli
Design is by nature an interdisciplinary dynamic and fluid discipline. To define what design is has proved to be a very difficult – if not impossible and meaningless – exercise making also the understanding of the evolution of both the design discipline and practice a complex challenge. A rapidly changing technological landscape increases the breadth of design both in geographical terms and by extending to new domains merging with different and new disciplines. Communication Design especially being closer to the information and the media spheres is the most sensitive and receptive design area. Communication Design finds online a fertile ground for its growth and developments thus the online environment and the Web especially can be explored dug and mapped as mirrors of that evolution. The aim of our research is to map through the Web the complexity of the intersections between design as a discipline and design as a field of practice. Our exploration and representation of the online design territory covered four online environments: Behance Wikipedia Google and the websites of the top 100 design universities. The study has been conducted by using digital statistical and visualization methods. This exploration seeks neither to confirm theories nor predict the future rather it wants to make explicit and observable what Communication Design has become today. It aims to screenshot the state of the art the emerging paths in order to understand where and how it is going to develop. The attempt is to make design as a complex phenomenon visible through the construction of a set of maps and representations for professors students and associations. These representations are tools to trigger reflections on the discipline and the profession bringing a contribution to the experimental research in this field.
A Content Analysis of Wired Magazine and Self-Tracking Devices
• Serefraz Akyaman
Living in a modern society is becoming more complex so in order to keep up with a person should accomplish various kinds of task at once. Daily life requirements obligations and the capacity of human memory lead us to collect and control our behaviors bodies and lives through self-tracking devices. Aim of this paper analysis of emerging digitalized self-tracking trend through content analysis of Wired Magazine. Wired Magazine both in printed and online monthly publish technology-related articles how emerging technologies affect culture the economy and politics. It reaches more than 30 million people each month through wired.com digital edition. Since the term “quantified self” emerged for the first time in Wired Magazine for this reason Wired Magazine is one of the most important sources to be used for content analysis. This present study carries out a content analysis of all the issues until December 2016 through “self-tracking” and two other related terms: “quantified self” and “lifelogging.” The usage period and popularity of these terms and the relation network with the main topics and the subtopics are examined. As a result it is possible to define Wired Magazine as a medium in which industry–academia and users come together and feed each other reciprocally. Wired Magazine has contributed significantly and continues to contribute to the development of the digitalized self-tracking trend in terms of its content.
Interaction Design and Use Innovation for Interactive Products
• Geehyuck Jeong James Self
Product use innovation is a means to facilitate the design-driven innovation approach. We explore how the mode-of-use concept may apply to state-of-the-art product interactions to enhance user experience and provide opportunities for design-driven innovation within the interactive product space. To achieve this we apply taxonomy of interactions to classify interaction styles as along the two dimensions explanatory or exploratory and discrete or composite. Adopting the research through design approach two interactive mood lamps were developed and expressed as high-fidelity prototypes. These were then used as stimuli to evaluate the influence of interaction style on product experience. Results indicated the touch-free magic interaction style an interaction providing explorative and composite modes of interaction was initially considered more innovative in terms of use. However participants also expressed negative emotions related to dissatisfaction and embarrassment toward the touch-free magic interaction due to an inability to intuitively understand the use functions. Implications for the application of use innovation within the interactive product context are finally discussed.
Study of the Implementability of Tactile Feedback While Operating Touch Panel Device: From Two Directions of Efficacy and Feasibility
• Jien Wakasugi Masayoshi Kubo
In a few years the number of apparatuses with touch panel displays like smartphones will increase. People who are visually impaired hearing impaired and disabled can use tactile feedback for receiving incoming communications. However opportunities for tactile feedback applications are limited. Our hypotheses follow: as there are haptics patterns suitable for use cases we will design haptics samples of tactile feedback and inspect their effectiveness. This study focuses on haptics patterns showing a relationship between the user’s impression and various use situations. Previous studies have been insufficient so our target subjects inspected a limited number of objects. This study consists of two inspections:
• We collected various haptics patterns that users had defined and analyzed the first inspection. For the next inspection we manufactured a smartphone prototype. We matched the impression of eight haptics patterns types that we got from the subjects in the first analysis with different situations and tested various replies. Tests were repeated and recorded for various situations. As different haptics vibrations were added to e-mails we inspected whether subjects could distinguish a difference in their meanings. Thus we added different haptics patterns that corresponded to various situations. We concluded the hypothesis was effective for subjects. We could inspect the hypotheses in relation to subjects’ impressions of the haptics pattern.
• Additionally we obtained different results between elders and youths. Consequently we suggested design guidelines for the new tactile feedback of the smartphone application. We suspect that haptics will be possible for a variety of interactive designs.
Sensory Reflection toward Product Design Ideation
• Pratiksha Prabhakar Heekyoung Jung Vittoria Daiello
As humans’ information processing abilities have become more and more disconnected from their senses due to an increasing quantity of abstract information so have design processes. There is a demand for designers to include human sensation as part of engaging product forms and experiences. This qualitative case study explores the role of senses and their potential use in design ideation. A literature review of related theoretical and pragmatic perspectives and a survey of 15–20 product examples that provide unique sensory experiences are analyzed and sorted through four sensory design strategies: Sensory Augmentation Conversion Transition and Isolation. Using the four strategies as core concepts a Sensory Reflective Framework with a mindful focus on sensory appreciation and translation is proposed to support designers’ ideation in creating unique product forms and experiences. The paper reports the process and findings of a sensory ideation workshop which was conducted based on the framework and further discusses the development and implications of the framework in supporting designers’ sensory ideation.
Design and Living Well
Just as the term design has been going through change growth and expansion of meaning and interpretation in practice and education – the same can be said for design research. The traditional boundaries of design are dissolving and connections are being established with other fields at an exponential rate. Based on the proceedings from the IASDR 2017 Conference Re:Research is an edited collection that showcases a curated selection of 83 papers – just over half of the works presented at the conference. With topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for Artificial Intelligence systems this book collection demonstrates the diverse perspectives of design and design research. Divided into seven thematic volumes this collection maps out where the field of design research is now.
Using Frameworks to Cross Interdisciplinary Boundaries: Addressing Wellness
• Traci Rose Rider
Increasing interest is seen at the intersection of architecture and health. The built environment has become associated with a number of negative health outcomes including obesity cancers and diabetes. Engaging design students in these inquiries surrounding health is integral in preparing them for future practice. This paper reviews the conceptual development and tested implementation of an interdisciplinary course focusing on the well-being and overall health of the occupant using primary and secondary framework structures in the vein of Groat and Wang’s logical argumentation. The reviewed course engages interdisciplinary teams composed of students from the School of Architecture the College of Engineering and the College of Natural Resources with private practice. The course puts forth an effort to break out of the conventional pedagogical structure found in architectural education primarily the studio and large lecture spaces. The course has been specifically designed to: (1) establish a framework for common content relating to health in the built environment across disciplinary boundaries; (2) build meaningful partnerships between interdisciplinary student groups; and (3) establish a common vocabulary between architectural education and aligned disciplines regarding health and the built environment. The course structure activities and assessments are reviewed proposing a solid framework for including integrated design and themes of health in architectural education.
Qualities of Public Health: Toward an Analysis of Aesthetic Features of Public Policies
• Sébastien Proulx Philippe Gauthier Yaprak Hamarat
Design is gaining popularity as a way to address complex social problems in various fields of practices. Strangely public health which by nature is concerned by such kinds of problems remains foreign to this way of thinking. Building on the increasing popularity of design in policy-making we stress that public health could also benefit from this conceptual yet pragmatic framework. To open a critical perspective about the potential of design for public health we examine four design projects that address social determinants of health and whose outcomes promote healthy living habits. Finally we argue that the interest of design for public health lies on its concern for the users’ aesthetic experience emerging of its encounter with the touchpoints that embody health policies. This contribution ought to act as a stepping stone to open a debate about design as offering a critical perspective for the practice and study of public health.
Participatory Design for Behavior Change: An Integrative Approach to Healthcare Quality Improvement
• Fernando Carvalho Gyuchan Thomas Jun Val Mitchell
Behavior insights have been extensively applied to public policy and service design. The potential for an expanded use of behavior change to healthcare quality improvement has been underlined in the England’s National Health Service Five-Year Forward View report in which staff behavior is connected to the quality of care delivered to patients and better clinical practice. Improving the quality of healthcare service delivery involves adopting improvement cycles that are conducted by multiple agents through systematic processes of change and evaluation. Despite the recognition that some of the recurring challenges to improve healthcare services are behavioral in essence there is insufficient evidence about how behavioral insights can be successfully applied to quality improvement in healthcare. Simultaneously the discussion on how to better engage participants in intervention design and how to better enable participation are not seen as fundamental components of behavior change frameworks. This paper presents an integrative approach stemming from comprehensive literature review and an ongoing case study in which participatory design is used as the conduit to activate stakeholder engagement in the application of a behavior change framework aiming to improve the processes of diagnosing and managing urinary tract infection in the emergency department of a hospital in England. Preliminary findings show positive results regarding the combined use of participatory design and behavior change tools in the development of a shared-vision of the challenges in question and the collaborative establishment of priorities of action potential solution routes and evaluation strategies.
Development of a Design Competence Model for Learners of Human-Centered Design
• Christi Zuber
Learning a new competence and attempting to perform it within an organization not only takes time but it is heavily influenced by the real-world context of day-to-day work culture and individual perceptions. The little-understood world of learning Human-Centered Design (HCD) within an organization is studied over 1 year in inside of a group of healthcare organizations through a training and mentoring program called the “Innovation Catalyst Program.” Deep insights and personal narratives are gathered by studying learners and their coaches in real-time observations and conversations. A dynamic story unfolds as those who are learning creative approaches for organizational innovation are coached by those with many years of experience on the topic. These same participants provide feedback on the frameworks generated. The result of this Longitudinal Grounded Theory field study is a new actionable model for understanding experiences and approaches to learning HCD within the context of an organization a novel approach to assessing development and ultimately a way to empower individuals with the mindsets and skillsets of HCD for real-world challenges.
Health Education that Breaks through Language Barriers: Prototyping and Evaluation of Child Care-Related ICT Self-Learning Resource
• Toshinori Anzai Kazuyo Matsuura Takanobu Yakubo Tomoko Mikami Kouta Uemura
This paper explores the findings of a study into the telecommunications environment in Mongolia. It was hoped that an effective self-learning resource for the prevention of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) in infants for distribution to parents in that country could be created and evaluated using these findings. Based on a field survey conducted in Mongolia the most effective format this resource should take was identified. A prototype was created that featured video taken from both a third-person and parent’s (first-person) perspective. After further evaluation this prototype is to undergo revisions that will be assessed in Japan and Mongolia before a final version is distributed utilizing information and communication technologies (ICT). It was found that a visual message that did not rely on written language was the most effective means of communicating the desired message. With input from nursing staff in Mongolia the Sapporo City University School of Design and School of Nursing came to leverage their respective strengths to create an effective prototype that will be used as the basis for a resource for relaying this preventive information to the target audience.
Empowering the Preschool Children: A Service Platform Design Aiming at the Communication of Balanced Diet Information
• Xing Zhou
Childhood obesity increases the risk of obesity in adulthood and is associated with cardiovascular disease risk factors. The prevalence of overweight and obesity is increasing in China. It is necessary to develop an intervention project for preschool children. Based on a service design project aiming at the communication of balanced diet information to the preschool children in China this paper discusses how to take advantage of the digital platform and game-based learning to empower the preschool children. It argues for the importance of the DIKW hierarchy for empowerment. It also proposes an innovative model to involve new stakeholders into the whole system and to improve the viability of the project.
Snack Food Package Design: Exploratory Study on Children’s Snack Choices and Design Elements
- Sunghyun R. Kang Debra Satterfield Nora Ladjahasan
Packaging is an essential element of design for both consumers and businesses. Product packaging functions both as a communication tool for product information and for brand messages. In addition the role of visual elements and messages on snack packages are not well understood. This is particularly true from the standpoint of influencing the selection of snack food in children even though there has been growth in the economic power of children as a consumer group. Therefore this study examines: (1) the role of design variables such as typography images and the stylistic combination of these visual elements in affecting children’s snack food selection; (2) the role of health messages on children’s snack food selections; and (3) the role of perceived “healthiness” in influencing children’s snack food selections. Digitally simulated snack package images were created and sixty children ages 9–13 were recruited for this study. From these design variables “preferred-selections” and “perceived healthy-selection” of children in this age group were identified.
Breaking through Fuzzy Positioning: Diverse Design Communication Strategies for Older Adults’ Healthcare Wearables
- Chen Li Chang-Franw Lee
In this study based on the perception of older adults fuzzy positioning of healthcare wearables and impacts of differentiated product positioning on human considerations and design communication strategies are studied. Empirical researches are performed by adopting both quantitative research (248 questionnaires for clustering and regression analysis) and qualitative research (15 cases for in-depth interview). The perceptions of older adults on product positioning are divided into three types: Tech-Aid Fash-Acc and Fash-Tech. Results indicate that the influential human considerations for each positioning were different from each other. Through coding and storyline analysis diverse communication strategies are found for each positioning. The outcomes for each type are as follows. For Tech-Aid wherein older adults lay emphasis on usefulness ease of use and privacy the designers can adopt a calm communication strategy by giving priority to older adults’ control power fitting symptoms user-friendly and cautious interconnection. For Fash-Acc wherein older adults focus on personal image aesthetic appearance and ease of use an active communication strategy for modeling a style for elderly fashion that agrees with aesthetic appreciation and simplified operation can be adopted. For Fash-Tech wherein older adults require to integrate usefulness ease of use aesthetic appearance comfort privacy and self-image a persuasive communication strategy can be used through which designers can offer older adults more data insights and entertainment along with data association and in the meantime reduce data interferences and pay attention to style modality and appropriate display with context fusion and contact comfort.
Developing Design Criteria for iPad Stands to Meet the Needs of Older Adults in Group Settings
• Sonja Pedell Jeanie Beh Gianni Renda Emily Wright
This paper details the evaluation process undertaken to create criteria for the development of an iPad stand for elderly users. Emphasis is on the requirements elicitation stage with end users in the field. Thirty-two elderly participants taking part in the activity group as part of the Ageing-Well program of a City Council in a cosmopolitan area in Australia were part of an evaluation in which three existing iPad stands were trialed. While commercially available stands are abundant specific problems such as reduced grip basic technical understanding of the stand and concerns surrounding stability were encountered within the group. Observation and semistructured interviews were undertaken with the cohort to determine factors surrounding the suitability and uptake of these stands by elderly users – most of them with some disabilities – with findings suggesting that current tablet stands require fine levels of dexterity which may not be appropriate for elderly users where such a device is needed. While usability in setting up the stand and use is a strong factor aesthetics and material qualities are equally important for enjoyable use. In addition the use of iPads in social activities between two or more older adults has specific demands in terms of visibility of screen sturdiness and easy movement that is not considered by current tablet stands. The paper ends with proposing design recommendations. Further research is required to develop a suitable solution and refines these.
Innovative Handle Design and Evaluation of Woks for Middle-Aged and Elderly People
• Fong-Gong Wu Yu-Chi Lin Hsiao-Han Sun
With the enhancement of medical technology and human living standards the world is showing a trajectory toward an aging society. The elders generally suffer from degeneration which may cause problems in their daily lives. Aging has since become a major issue of scientific researches. Elders in Taiwan mostly live alone or with a partner. Because eating out is not a habit cooking often plays an important role in their lives. Due to the degeneration happening to their bodies the danger during cooking activities increases. Therefore it is necessary for them to seek help from assistive devices. In this research we will make assistive design models that help elders use woks. The designs are for the task we have chosen from our investigation. We will also evaluate the effect of the aids objectively using the EMG system and collect the iEMG value for evaluation. The iEMG values were collected from four muscles (FDC FCR biceps and deltoids). Eight middle-aged participants who will become elders in the near future were invited to participate in the experiment. Four design solutions were chosen from seven working models. The design solutions were all helpful to the task and the performances of the stove design solutions are significantly better than the original wok. The degrees of hand trembling while performing tasks were also measured; however the differences were not significant.
Designing with and for People with Dementia: Developing a Mindful Interdisciplinary Co-Design Methodology
• Kristina Niedderer Isabelle Tournier Donna Maria Coleston-Shields Michael Craven Julie Gosling Julia A. Garde Ben Salter Michaelle Bosse Ingeborg Griffioen
This paper reports on the development of a mindful interdisciplinary design methodology in the context of the MinD project research into designing for and with people with dementia which takes the particular focus on supporting the subjective well-being and self-empowerment of people with early to mid-stage dementia in social context. Existing research is for the most part focused on functional support and safe-keeping from the perspective of the carer. References to decision-making and empowerment are predominantly related to action planning for dementia care or advance care planning. References to care and social interaction show that caregivers tend to take a deficit-oriented perspective and occupation of people with dementia is often associated with doing “something” with little focus on the meaningfulness of the activity. Furthermore caregivers and people with dementia tend to differ in their perspectives e.g. on assistive devices which might offer support. The MinD project has therefore developed an interdisciplinary co-design methodology in which the voices to people with dementia contribute to better understanding and developing mindful design solutions that support people with dementia with regard to their the subjective well-being and self-empowerment a well as meaningful and equitable social engagement. This paper discussed the design methodological framework and methods developed for the data collection and design development phases of the project and their rationale. It thus makes a contribution to interdisciplinary methodologies in the area of design for health.
Assessing a Rehabilitation Living Lab Research Project: The Meta-Analysis of an Inclusive Environment for People with Disabilities
• Tiiu Poldma Sylvain Bertin Sara Ahmed Guylaine Le Dorze Keiko Shikako-Thomas
This paper presents the results of a research based Living Lab experience where people participate together as users researchers stakeholders and collaborators working to effect change to improve social inclusion and social participation for persons with functional difficulties. The Rehabilitation Living Lab in the Mall (RehabMall) transforms an urban shopping mall into an interdisciplinary multi-sectorial research platform that supports multiple projects investigating what constitutes an accessible and inclusive environment for people with physical sensory and cognitive disabilities. We present an overview of the RehabMALL Living Lab the contexts of the project and the project meta-analysis to present the salient issues emerging from the projects that were done. Grounded in a design research approach and inspired by the Ecological Systems Theory of Bronfenbrenner (1979) the investigations conducted focus on subjective and inter-subjective experiences within understanding obstacles and facilitators that frame how people experience going to the mall and how the physical cognitive and virtual environments that support these activities might be better served. Disability is defined within the framework of the “World Health Organization’s International Classification of Functioning.” The overview of the project is presented with particular attention to the various collaborations and partnerships created alongside the issues that emerge in terms of results and how people might be better served when public spaces are designed with their input and within a perspective of universal design.
Giuseppe Pagano
Giuseppe Pagano-Pogatschnig (1896–1945) was a twentieth-century polymath operating at the intersection between architecture media design and the arts. He was an exhibition and furniture designer curator photographer editor writer and architect. A dedicated Fascist turned Resistance fighter he was active in Italy’s most dramatic social and political era.
Giuseppe Pagano provides a comprehensive overview of the influential architect and his contribution to the development of modern architecture. It follows a central biographical line with in-depth mini chapter contributions on aspects of Pagano’s cultural production concluding with writings by Pagano himself and a critical bibliography to aid scholars in further study.
Teaching and Learning Design
Just as the term design has been going through change growth and expansion of meaning and interpretation in practice and education – the same can be said for design research. The traditional boundaries of design are dissolving and connections are being established with other fields at an exponential rate. Based on the proceedings from the 2017 International Association of Societies of Design Research conference Re:Research is an edited collection that showcases a curated selection of 83 papers – just over half of the works presented at the conference. With topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for Artificial Intelligence systems this book collection demonstrates the diverse perspectives of design and design research. Divided into seven thematic volumes this collection maps out where the field of design research is now.
Opening a Design Education Pipeline from University to K-12 and Back
• Peter Scupelli Doris Wells-Papanek Judy Brooks Arnold Wasserman
To prepare students to imagine desirable futures amidst current planetary-level challenges design educators must think and act in new ways. In this paper we describe a pilot study that illustrates how educators might teach K-12 students and university design students to situate their making within transitional times in a volatile and exponentially changing world. We describe how to best situate students to align design thinking and learning with future foresight. Here we present a pilot test and evaluate how a university-level Design Futures course content approach and scaffolded instructional materials – can be adapted for use in K-12 Design Learning Challenges. We describe the K-12 design-based learning challenges/experiences developed and implemented by the Design Learning Network (DLN). The Design Futures course we describe in this paper is a required course for third-year undergraduate students in the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University. The “x” signifies a different type of design that aligns short-term action with long-term goals. The course integrates design thinking and learning with long-horizon future scenario foresight. Broadly speaking we ask how might portions of a design course be taught and experienced by teachers and students of two different demographics: within the university (Design Undergraduates) and in K-12 (via DLN). This pilot study is descriptive in nature; in future work we seek to assess learning outcomes across university and K-12 courses. We believe the approach described is relevant for lifelong learners (e.g. post-graduate-level career development transitional adult education).
Re-Clarifying Design Problems Through Questions for Secondary School Children: An Example Based on Design Problem Identification in Singapore Pre-Tertiary Design Education
• Wei Leong Leon Loh Hwee Mui Grace Kwek Wei Leong Lee
It is believed that secondary school students often define design problems in the design coursework superficially due to various reasons such as lack of exposure inexperience and the lack of research skills. Questioning techniques have long been associated with the development of critical thinking. Based on this context and assumption the current study aimed to explore the use of questioning techniques to enable pre-tertiary students to improve their understanding of design problems by using questions to critique their thinking and decision-making processes and in turn generate more effective design solutions. A qualitative approach is adopted in this study to identify the trajectories of students during design problem identification and clarification process. Using student design journals as a form of record for action and thoughts they are analyzed and supplemented by hearing survey with the teacher-in-charge. From the study the following points can be concluded: (1) questions can be a useful tool to facilitate a better understanding of the design problem. (2) The process of identification and clarification of design problem is important in the development of critical thinking skills and social-emotional skills of the students. (3) It is important that students are given time and opportunity to find out the problems by themselves. (4) Teachers can be important role models as students may pick up questioning techniques from teacher–student discussions. (5) Departmental reviews and built-in professional development time for weekly reviews on teaching and learning strategies are necessary for the continual improvement D&T education.
Surveying Stakeholders: Research Informing Design Curriculum
• Andrea Quam
Fundamental to design education is the creation and structure of curriculum. Neither the creation of design curriculum nor the revaluation of existing curriculum is well documented. With no clear documentation of precedent best practices are left open to debate. This paper and presentation will discuss the use of a survey as a research tool to assess existing curriculum at Iowa State University in the United States. This tool allowed the needs and perspectives of the program’s diverse stakeholders to be better understood. Utilizing survey methods research revealed the convergence and divergence of stakeholders’ philosophies theories and needs in relation to design curriculum. Accreditation and professional licensing provide base level of guidelines for design curriculum in the United States. However each program’s curricular structure beyond these guidelines is a complicated balance of resources facilities faculty and the type of institution in which it is housed. Once established a program’s curriculum is rarely reassessed as a whole but instead updated with the hasty addition of classes upon an existing curricular structure. Curriculum is infrequently re-addressed and when it is it is typically based on the experience and opinions of a select group of faculty. This paper presents how a survey was developed to collect data to inform curricular decision-making enabling the reduction of faculty bias and speculation in the process. Lessons learned from the development of this research tool will be shared so it might be replicated at other institutions and be efficiently repeated periodically to ensure currency of a program’s curriculum.
New Challenges when Teaching UX Students to Sketch and Prototype
• Joep Frens Jodi Forlizzi John Zimmerman
In this paper we report on new challenges when teaching User Experience (UX) students how to sketch and prototype their designs. We argue that UX students sketch and prototype differently than other design students and we discuss how changes in the field necessitate a response in education. We describe sketching and prototyping as a continuum that students successfully traverse when they follow a process of “double loop learning.” We highlight three new challenges: (1) New computational design materials (2) new maker tools and (3) changes within the tech industry. We explore these three challenges through examples from our students and we outline strategies for sketching and prototyping in this new reality. We conclude that this is a starting point for further work on keeping education up to speed with practice.
How to Teach Industrial Design?: A Case Study of College Education for Design Beginners
• Joomyung Rhi
Industrial design education has existed for a long time as part of the university system but the curriculum and contents of each subject vary considerably from school to school. In recent years the introduction of new concepts that change the definition of design has blurred the boundaries of design making the curriculum different. Establishing a standard curriculum to address these challenges is an important task but it is necessary to fully understand how design education actually takes place and to share content with educators. This paper aims to contribute to the debate on industrial design education by fully disclosing the process and results of the first stage of industrial design education of a university by autobiographical method. The first course Product Design Practice 1 is a studio class based on a task feedback iteration system. Students are required to submit assignments showing weekly progress. The instructor reviewed the assignments submitted before the class and gave written comments in class. In addition details of the design process and method that are difficult to identify as novice students are learned through twelve case studies and applied to the project. This Task Feedback Repeating Class system gives students the opportunity to implement design ability while gaining detailed skills with a comprehensive view. Through this process the researcher got a reflection on the class and implications for the improvement of the class.
Preliminary Study on the Learning Pressure of Undergraduate Industrial Design Students
- Wenzhi Chen
Learning pressure affects students’ learning process and performance. Industrial design education emphasizes that operations on real design problems that have heavy working loads may cause learning pressure. The purpose of this study is to explore the issues causing learning pressure and the pressure management strategies of undergraduate industrial design students. There were 297 students who participated in the questionnaire survey. The main findings are as follows: First learning pressure includes academic pressure peer pressure self-expectations time pressure financial pressure pressure from instructors external pressure future career pressure from parents resource pressure achievement and situational pressure. In addition the main learning pressure is caused by finance time resources external issues and future career. Second the pressure management strategies include problem solving procrastination and escape help seeking leisure emotional management and self-adjustment. The most useful strategy for managing pressure is leisure and procrastination and escape is the least useful strategy. Third all learning pressures are significantly correlated with procrastination and escape strategy but the coefficients are low. The results can be a reference for industrial design education and related research.
Rewarding Risk: Exploring How to Encourage Learning that Comes from Taking Risks
• Dennis Cheatham
High-stakes testing that became the norm after the “No Child Left Behind Act” of 2001 helped condition students to strive for correct answers for clear problems all on the first try. However the iterative process inherent in designing requires risk-taking to conduct a trial-and-error process of defining problems and exploring possible solutions. This design research project was operated with Miami University Graphic Design students to test their willingness to take risks in their coursework to achieve their self-defined measures of success. Students identified that improving their skills was how they defined success. An interaction design assignment involving front-end coding was modified to test students’ comfort taking risks to grow their skills. Most students took risks in the assignment to grow their interaction design skills. The project revealed that closer attention to student motivation when developing learning experiences could help students make the transition to practicing design as an iterative process fraught with risk.
An Analysis of the Educational Value of PBL Design Workshops
• Ikjoon Chang Suhong Hwang
The purpose of this study is to plan and operate design-workshops based on project-based learning (PBL) and examine their educational value for students. The PBL workshop encourages direct participation from students and produces educational value and it is important to raise the interest level of workshops to elicit proactive participation. The workshop in this study was carried out over 2 weeks in January 2017 at Korea’s Yonsei University. The workshop was composed of eight teams of students from three countries including Korea China and Japan and the course was primarily divided into two sessions. The workshop participants examined in this thesis were notably satisfied with the elements of the course meant to garner interest. In the questionnaire results participants also indicated that they obtained ample educational value through the workshop. An important element of the workshop was to connect the participants with businesses which is also an important component of design education. Despite this participants expressed a relatively lower level of satisfaction compared to other elements of the workshop. The results and analysis of this study will hopefully become a meaningful resource for educators when designing workshops in the future.
Collaborative Design Education with Industry: Student Perspective by Reflection
- Nathan Kotlarewski Louise Wallis Michael Lee Gregory Nolan Megan Last
This study suggests that student reflection on academic and industry collaborative projects can enhance student’s understanding on the design process to solve live industry problems. It contributes to the body of design literature to support students learning of explicit and implicit knowledge. A 2017 learning by-making (LBM) unit in the School of Architecture and Design at the University of Tasmania Australia developed a unit for students to collaborate with Neville Smith Forest Products Pty. Ltd (NSFP). NSFP is a local Tasmanian timber product manufacturer who currently stockpiles out-of-grade timber that has limited market applications. Undergraduate design students from second- and third-year Furniture Interior and Architecture degrees collaborated with NSFP to value-add to their out-of-grade resource in the LBM unit. A series of design challenges observations of industry practice and access to out-of-grade timber from NSFP exposed students to live industry problems and provided them the opportunity to build professional design skills. Students reflected on the collaborative LBM unit in a reflection journal which was used to provide evidence of their learning experiences. The collaborative environment between academia and industry allowed students to acquire an understanding of timber product manufacturing that helped them develop empathy toward the industry problem and influence the development of new products. This study presents how student reflections influenced a change in their design process as they progressed through sequential design challenges to address an industry problem by adopting Valkenburg and Dorst reflective learning framework.
Interdisciplinary Trends in Design Education: The Analysis of Master Dissertation of College of Design and Innovation Tongji University
• Lisha Ren Yan Wang
This paper expounds the background of Chinese design education as well as the orientation of the design education of Tongji University in the new times it also collects 458 Master Thesis of College of Design and Innovation during 2010–2016 as analyzed sample. Based on the coding of subject classification quantitative analysis and content analysis are made in order to understand the interdisciplinary education status of College of Design and Innovation from the two perspectives: the overall cross-disciplinary performance and the relationship between different cross-disciplinary directions.
From ANT to Material Agency: A Design and Science Research Workshop
• Anne-Lyse Renon A. De Montbron Annie Gentes Julien Bobroff
This paper studies a design workshop that investigates complex collaboration between fundamental physics and design. Our research focuses on how students create original artifacts that bridge the gap between disciplines that have very little in common. Our goal is to study the micro-evolutions of their projects. Elaborating first on Actor Network Theory we study how students’ projects evolved over time and through a diversity of inputs and media. Throughout this longitudinal study we use then a semiotic and pragmatic approach to observe three “aesthetical formations”: translation composition and stabilization. These formations suggest that the question of material agency developed in the field of archeology and cognitive science need to be considered in the design field to explain metamorphoses from the brief to the final realizations.
Art inSight
A first encounter with art is like meeting a stranger: it opens you to new ideas people places and parts of yourself. In Art inSight: Understanding Art and Why It Matters Fanchon Silberstein delves into the first known art and explores what it can reveal about how its makers saw the world and how contemporary artists can help us to see our own. The result is equal parts an ode to the joy of artful engagement a how-to for anyone interested in understanding art and culture and a journey around the world from prehistory to the present day. Readers confront strangeness through observation description and conversation and are given the skills to understand cross-cultural divisions and perceive diverse ways of interpreting the world.
Organized by ideas rather than history chronology or cultures the book presents dialogues imagining interactions between paintings created centuries apart and describing discussions among students learning the role of art in conflict resolution. By emphasizing the relationship between viewer and image Art inSight urges readers to discover meaning in their own ways and offers questions that lead them into profound connections with works of art and the cultures behind them.
Queer Communion
Ron Athey is one of the most important prolific and influential performance artists of the past four decades. A singular example of lived creativity his radical performances are at odds with the art worlds and art marketplaces that have increasingly dominated contemporary art and performance art over the period of his career.
Queer Communion an exploration of Athey’s career refuses the linear narratives of art discourse and instead pays homage to the intensities of each mode of Athey’s performative practice and each community he engages. Emphasizing the ephemeral and largely uncollectible nature of his work the book places Athey’s own writing at its centre turning to memoir memory recall and other modes of retrieval and narration to archive his performances.
In addition to documenting Athey’s art ephemera notes and drawings the volume features commissioned essays concise 'object lessons' on individual objects in the Athey archive and short testimonials by friends and collaborators including Dominic Johnson Amber Musser Julie Tolentino Ming Ma David Getsy Alpesh Patel and Zackary Drucker among others. Together they form Queer Communion a counter history of contemporary art.
Design Discourse on Business and Industry
Just as the term design has been going through change growth and expansion of meaning and interpretation in practice and education – the same can be said for design research. The traditional boundaries of design are dissolving and connections are being established with other fields at an exponential rate. Based on the proceedings from the IASDR 2017 Conference Re:Research is an edited collection that showcases a curated selection of 83 papers – just over half of the works presented at the conference. With topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for Artificial Intelligence systems this book collection demonstrates the diverse perspectives of design and design research. Divided into seven thematic volumes this collection maps out where the field of design research is now.
Interaction Between Client and Design Consultant: The Stance of Client to Design Consultant and Its Influence on Design Process
- Haebin Lee Muhammad Tufail Myungjin Kim KwanMyung Kim
Design is essential in product development but several small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) relatively capable of manufacturing are suffered from lack of in-house design ability. For new product design these SMEs typically employ external designers. In this client–designer interaction designers propose design solution alternatives to their clients which clients may accept or reject. In some cases clients provide designers further design requirements. A study on how interactions are performed and what effects these interactions have on the results of product development is essential to determine what is needed to achieve successful collaborative relationships. Thus this study analyzed three design development cases that were previously performed to understand how interactions work between clients and designers and its effect on the outcomes. In all cases the design team developed designs for the clients based on their technological requirements. This study focused on the effect of client stance on the process and deliverables. Clients usually take various actions that accept or reject design solutions or give additional demands. This is because clients take initiative in decision making. Clients’ stance was divided into receptive and expressive stances. As a result a receptive stance ensured the design capabilities of design consultants whereas expressive stance confined design capabilities to some extent but a new design direction may be proposed based on a client’s knowledge information and judgment.
Speed Dating with Design Thinking: An Empirical Study of Managers Solving Business Problems with Design
- Seda McKilligan Tejas Dhadphale David Ringholz
The concept of design thinking has received increasing attention during recent years particularly from managers around the world. However despite being the subject of a vast number of articles and books stating its importance the effectiveness of this approach is unclear as the claims about the concept are not grounded on empirical studies or evaluations. In this study we investigated the perceptions of six design thinking methods of 21 managers in the agriculture industry as they explored employee and business-related problems and solutions using these tools in a 6-hour workshop. The results from pre and post-survey responses suggest that the managers agreed on the value design thinking could bring to their own domains and were able to articulate on how they can use them in solving problems. We conclude by proposing directions for research to further explore adaptation of design thinking for the management practice context.
Product Design Briefs as Knowledge-Based Artifacts of Cross-Functional Collaboration in New Product Development
- Ian Parkman
Contemporary research in business strategy new product development and design management has suggested that cross-functional collaboration within team-based environments is critical to successful product development processes. However scholars have also demonstrated that the mere presence of inter-functional structures does not necessarily lead to better outcomes. Indeed the very differences which cause cross-disciplinary teams to result in improved design processes may also lead to friction as team members’ backgrounds orientations and training often cause them to have different perspectives on what information is important to the product design process and to solve development-related problems. Improved understanding how to integrate information from differing functional areas is a clear emphasis of research yet very few empirical studies have precisely defined the units of knowledge flowing through NPD projects differences in importance of information elements by functional area or the structures which may facilitate the sharing of information within NPD. This study presents an investigation of product design briefs as knowledge-based artifacts of cross-functional collaboration within NPD. Drawing on a proprietary sample of 68 briefs analyzed through an expert rating procedure alongside survey questionnaire of 153 product development managers our results define 51 information elements commonly shared between functional areas during an NPD project. We organize these information elements as eight factors categorize the “importance” of each element to NPD success and describe differences in evaluation from across three primary functional domains of NPD: (a) Design (b) Marketing and (c) Engineering/ R&D/ Development.
Entrepreneurial Universities Meet Their Private Partners: Toward a Better Embedding of the Outcomes of Cross-Sector Collaborations
- Baldini Luca Calabretta Giulia De Lille Christine
In the past decades universities’ involvement in socio-economic development which goes along with their teaching and researching activities has defined a new role for them in society’s ecosystem. This new role is often referred with the term of “entrepreneurial” university whose objectives are positive societal economic and environmental impacts. In order to fulfill such objectives entrepreneurial universities might engage in cross-sector collaborations with external organizations. Despite the great contributions that cross-sector collaboration can give to the partners involved the outcome is mostly unfocused and rarely embedded. This paper explores the outcome embedding in the cross-sector collaboration between entrepreneurial universities and the private sector. To this end we provide the case of the collaboration between a Dutch airline company and four Dutch entrepreneurial research and teaching institutions. We aim to uncover hindering and enabling factors to the outcome embedding in order to design an interaction platform design it together. This platform will be a tool to encourage the outcome embedding moving from being inspired by to the actual implementation of the cross-sector collaboration. In order to fulfill this goal this study employs a research through design methodology. This approach is a generative process where cyclic loops of iterations and evaluations with stakeholders tend to the research goal. The solution is a digital platform co-created with all stakeholders. This study can inspire practitioners and future research on the problem of unsuccessful cross-sector collaborations between entrepreneurial universities and external organizations with more emphasis on the value of embedding and translating the outcomes.
Expert Opinion on the Barriers to Communicating Excellent Research in Commercially Driven Design Projects
- Dana Al Batlouni Katie Beverley Andrew Walters
Effective university–industry collaboration has become a major focus for governments in recent years. Universities are increasingly expected to play a greater role in the innovation system and evidence their contribution to economic development. At the same time the growth in research quality assessment exercises makes it imperative that the excellence of research conducted in commercially driven activities can be appropriately evaluated. This paper explores the challenge of reconciling commercially focused activity and research quality assessment in design. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 13 experts including representatives from the design discipline other applied academic disciplines research quality assessment leaders and commercial designers. The interviews identified a number of barriers to demonstrating research excellence in commercially driven projects. These were classified as barriers resulting from: the nature of industry/academic relationships; the nature of the project; and the nature of the research quality assessment. It is concluded that there is a need to build a simple easily usable framework for assessing the research potential of commercially driven design projects from the outset to ensure that the appropriate processes are put in place to communicate research conducted within them.
Exploring Design-Specific Factors for Building Longer Term Industry Relationships
- Medeirasari Putri Mersha Aftab Mark Bailey Nicholas Spencer
When design works with industry it tries to sell two things first selling design as an agent of transformation and second selling design as a skill. Whilst historically design has been successful in the latter it is the former that is more challenging making it a necessity for design to work in none design contexts in order to build trust and credibility. Therefore it is necessary to investigate the ways in which design interacts with industry and how these interactions enable design to establish longer term relationships. This investigation set out to answer the question what design-specific characteristics are applied to establish successful longer term relationships between design and industry? The paper aims to illustrate the intrinsic factors that enable design to get access and designers to get authority to play a significant role in organizations. Five well-established relationships between design and industry have been used to analyze to find correlations. The investigation identifies three stages of collaboration between design and industry namely involvement collaboration and partnerships contrary to Cahill’s theoretical model which claimed four stages to long-lasting partnerships. Also the case studies confirm three stages of trust and credibility as factors that help in strengthening a relationship between design and industry. Finally several intrinsic factors that are unique to design have been identified which are seen to have helped design in building high levels of trust and credibility.
Collaborating Design Risk
- Laura Ferrarello Ashley Hall Mike Kann Chang Hee Lee
The “Safety Grand Challenge” is a collaborative research project between the Royal College of Art (RCA) School of Design and the Lloyd’s Register Foundation (LRF). The maritime industry is dominated by “grandfathering” leading to a slow-pace of adopting innovations that can reduce risk and save lives at sea. We describe how impact was achieved through collaboration and design innovations that bridged the risk gap between technologies and human behaviors. Starting from the project brief we designed a collaborative platform that supported a constructive dialog between academia and partner organizations that aimed to foster innovative design approaches to risk and safety. The project generated an engaged community with diverse expertise that influenced the outcomes which included seven prototypes designed by a group of 30 students from across the RCA. Throughout the course of the project the network extended to other partners beyond the initial ones that included the RCA LRF and Royal National Lifeboat Institution. The “Safety Grand Challenge” demonstrates how research can be an explorative platform that offers opportunities to analyze and design solutions to real-life safety problems in mature industries through the prototypes that reflect the sophistication of the project’s collaborations. Our conclusions support how design research helped identify the value of design for safety in tackling complex issues that intertwine human environmental and commercial views and can shape new forms of collaborative research between academia and industrial partners.
Understanding Passengers’ Experiences of Train Journeys to Inform the Design of Technological Innovations
- Luis Oliveira Callum Bradley Stewart Birrell Rebecca Cain Andy Davies Neil Tinworth
In this paper we present results from a collaborative research between academic institutions and industry partners in the UK which aimed to understand the experience of rail passengers and to identify how the design of technology can improve this experience. Travelling by train can often provide passengers with negative experiences. New technologies give the opportunity to design new interactions that support the creation of positive experiences but the design should be based on solid understanding of user and their needs. We conducted in-depth face-to-face semi-structured interviews and used additional questionnaires given to passengers on board of trains to collect the data presented on this paper. A customer journey map was produced to illustrate the passengers’ experiences at diverse touchpoints with the rail system. The positive and negative aspects of each touchpoint are plotted over the course of a “typical” journey followed by the explanations for these ratings. Results indicate how the design of technological innovations can enhance the passenger experience especially at the problematic touchpoints e.g. when collecting tickets navigating to the platform boarding the train and finding a seat. We finalize this paper pointing toward requirements for future technological innovations to improve the passenger experience.
Taxonomy of Interactions and the Design of the Airport Passenger Screening Process
- Levi Swann Vesna Popovic William Mason Benjamin MacMahon
This paper presents a case study analyzing the interactions of nine security officers during the mandatory passenger screening process at an Australian international Airport. Eye-tracking glasses were used to observe the visual physical and verbal interactions of security officers while they performed the x-ray task. Stationary video recording devices were used to record physical and verbal interactions performed by security officers during the load search and metal detector tasks. Six taxonomic groups were developed that define the different types of interactions performed by security officers during each task. Each taxonomic group is comprised of several discrete interactions specific to each of the tasks observed. Through analyzing the composition of interactions and the relationships between interactions in different tasks this paper highlights the prominence of interactions that security officers perform with passengers and their belongings. These interactions play an important role in the first and last stages of the passenger screening process as well as influence the functioning of the overall passenger screening process. Due to this they have substantial effect on passenger experience throughput efficiency and security efficacy. In response to these findings we draw from emerging security technologies and persuasive design principles to present potential design solutions for optimizing the passenger screening process. These are presented in the context of a preliminary framework with which to inform the design of current and future passenger screening processes.
Raising Crime Awareness through Design Thinking within a ‘High Street Retailer’ in the United Kingdom
- Meg Parivar David Hands
Since the 1800s England became an industrialized country and experienced extensive urban growth so sales associates chose this location to establish large stores. Toward the end of the nineteenth century the aim was to create the stores to entice customers through space impressive architecture interior design and the elegant display of merchandise. At the same time the display techniques were growing to promote sales. Therefore more retail equipment manufactured and supplied for displaying products in the stores. This significant variation led the retail industry as the goods could be touched by the customers and they were not accessible only through retail assistant anymore. Since then due to this new differentiation retailers have been experiencing a significant change in their customer’s behavior. Now the retailers are trying to give a brilliant shopping experience to their customers with more reason to increase the sale. However there are some restrictions to this strategy that afford excellent opportunities for shoplifters and opportunist criminals. Store design can be a fantastic and efficient tool to increase sales. Also it could significantly increase the chance of retail crime. This paper examines how to minimize criminal activity in retail environments to reduce loss prevention and retail shrinkage by raising awareness through design thinking. Therefore interviews observation and exploration were done based on the experience of employees and customers in “The High Street Retailer.” The research project outcome included as over a creative retail crime learning package and a digital platform to raise awareness and improve communication.
A Study on the Entrepreneurial Path of Design-Led Startups in Taiwan
- Fang-Wu Tung
The phenomenon of design entrepreneurship has received attention in the field of design. The trend of design entrepreneurship emerges in Taiwan and becoming a new career option for designers. Entrepreneurial activities can promote economic growth through innovation and knowledge spillovers. Studies on designer entrepreneurship are warranted because it proposes the possibility of entrepreneurial innovation contributing to industrial and economic development. A multiple case study was employed and seven design-led startups were selected as case study subjects to explore and conclude how these firms integrate their own profession and acquire resources to construct the value chain so as to keep the company operational and profitable. According to the results the value chain of design-led startups identified. The findings are further discussed to provide a better understanding of the entrepreneurial path of design-led startups in Taiwan.
EV 3.0: A Design-Driven Integrated Innovation on Rapid Charging Model BEV Mobility
- Miaosen Gong Qiao Liang Juanfang Xu Xiang Zhou
This submission reports a design-driven integrated innovation on EV mobility EV 3.0 as a collaboration between design research institution and a small BEV company in China. The on-going project provides a novel vision and design strategies of Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) and mobility and has achieved a key technological performance on rapid charging of BEV. The current situation of BEV Industry and their recharging patterns show a big gap of new energy mobility. Key issues of BEV and mobility are defined by analysis of users’ need of mass market and a case study of a leading BEV. Usability of charging is identified as a bottleneck of BEV industry. Hence a new vision and scenario of rapid charging are defined leading to respective design strategies and technological routines. With a long-term investigation and iterative prototyping an established prototype is developed and officially tested in the National Center of Supervision and Inspection on New Energy Motor Vehicle Products Quality in Shanghai. The test result indicates that the prototype has 431-km range in speed of 80km/h with only 15 minutes’ recharging which provides a valid routine to break bottleneck of BEV industry.
Design for Better Comprehension: Design Opportunities for Facilitating Consumers’ Comprehension of Really New Products (RNPs)
- Peiyao Cheng Cees de Bont Ruth Mugge
Developing successful really new products (RNPs) can bring competitive advantages for companies. However the success rate of RNPs are relatively low because consumers often feel resistant to adopt them. One reason for consumers’ resistance is their lack of comprehension of RNPs. To facilitate consumers’ comprehension this paper conceptually discusses the opportunities related to designing the appearances of RNPs. More specifically to facilitate consumers’ internal and external learning this paper explores four underlying mechanisms: (1) product appearance as a visual cue to trigger category-based knowledge transfer (2) to trigger analogy-based knowledge transfer (3) product appearance as an information carrier to communicate innovative functionality directly and (4) product appearance as a way to trigger congruity with innovative functionality of RNPs. The rationales for each underlying mechanism are conceptually discussed supported with relevant empirical evidence and examples found in the markets.
Understanding Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
Scholars have been studying the films of Stanley Kubrick for decades. This book however breaks new ground by bringing together recent empirical approaches to Kubrick with earlier formalist approaches to arrive at a broader understanding of the ways in which Kubrick’s methods were developed to create the unique aesthetic creation that is 2001: A Space Odyssey. More than 50 years after its release contributors explore the film’s still striking design vision and philosophical structure offering new insights and analyses that will give even dedicated Kubrick fans new ways of thinking about the director and his masterpiece.
Connecting People, Place and Design
Connecting People Place and Design examines the human relationship with place how its significance has evolved over time and how contemporary systems for participation shape the places around us in our daily lives. Divided into three parts – place people and participation – this interdisciplinary volume examines people place and design across the fields of architecture design cultural studies sociology political science and philosophy.
Part I on place considers the cultural political and philosophical shifts in our historical relationship to place. Part II on people considers movement and migration and how it affects place relations. Part III on participation examines forms of public engagement and cultural systems for collaborative contribution to the design and creation of place. Improving people’s relationships with place requires connection and in Connecting People Place and Design Edmonds demonstrates the importance of connection underscoring that working together to nurture and sustain places that celebrate the diversity of our human species is one of the most critical issues of our time.
The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces
The Architecture of Cinematic Spaces by Interiors is a graphic exploration of architectural spaces in cinema that provides a new perspective on the relationship between architecture and film. Combining critical essays with original architectural floor plan drawings the book discusses production design in key films from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries including The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Rope Le mépris Playtime 2001: A Space Odyssey Home Alone Panic Room A Single Man Her and Columbus. Each chapter is accompanied by an original floor plan of a key scene bridging the gap between film criticism and architectural practice. The book written by the editors of the critically acclaimed online journal Interiors will appeal to both film and architecture communities and everyone in between. A must-read for fans and scholars alike this volume prompts us to reconsider the spaces our favourite characters occupy and to listen to the stories those spaces can tell.
Crossing Gender Boundaries
This volume presents a collection of the most recent knowledge on the relationship between gender and fashion in historical and contemporary contexts. Through fourteen essays divided into three segments – how dress creates disrupts and transcends gender – the chapters investigate gender issues through the lens of fashion. Crossing Gender Boundaries first examines how clothing has been and continues to be used to create and maintain the binary gender division that has come to permeate Western and westernized cultures. Next it explores how dress can be used to contest and subvert binary gender expectations before a final section that considers the meaning of gender and how dress can transcend it focusing on unisex and genderless clothing.
The essays consider how fashion can both constrict and free gender expression explore the ways dress and gender are products of one other and illuminate the construction of gender through social norms. Readers will find that through analysis of the relationship between gender and fashion they gain a better understanding of the world around them.
The Howff Project
The Howff Project is an exploration of artist Tim Knowles’s landscape project by the same name. For more than two years Knowles built a network of hidden site-specific shelters across the Scottish landscape. Inspired by the Scottish word ‘howff’ which describes an abode tavern familiar haunt or shelter Knowles utilized existing structures and features in the landscape and then adapted modified and reconfigured their characteristics to create a series of unique hidden shelters providing refuge in remote areas.
The Howff Project takes readers behind the scenes of the making of each structure from conception to finished product. Visually rich the book captures the landscape through more than one hundred stunning photographs and drawings while personal anecdotes detail Knowles’s experience traveling through the Scottish Lowlands and the mountains of Aberdeenshire and the Cairngorms.
Architecture Filmmaking
Unlike other books on architecture and film Architecture Filmmaking investigates how the now-expanded field of architecture utilizes the practice of filmmaking (feature/short film stop motion animation and documentary) or video/moving image in research teaching and practice and what the consequences of this interdisciplinary exchange are. While architecture and filmmaking have clearly distinct disciplinary outputs and filmmaking is a much younger art than architecture the intersection between them is less defined. This book investigates the ways in which architectural researchers teachers of architecture their students and practising architects filmmakers and artists are using filmmaking uniquely in their practice.