http://folksonomy.co/?rss=2820 Folksonomy.co is a structured repository of digital culture and creative practice. en-au Creative Commons License: (cc), Simon Perkins Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:06 +1000 Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:06 +1000 Constellations 2.0 http://folksonomy.co/?member=1 60 http://folksonomy.co/Folksonomy.gif http://folksonomy.co/ http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3303 Narrativism as represented by Hayden White and Frank Ankersmit can fruitfully be analyzed as an inversion of two brands of positivism First narrativist epistemology can be regarded as an inversion of empiricism Its thesis that narratives function as metaphors which do not possess a cognitive content is built on an empiricist picture view of knowledge Moreover all the non-cognitive aspects attributed as such are dependent on this picture theory of knowledge and a picture theory of representation Most of the epistemological characteristics that White and Ankersmit attribute to historical narratives therefore share the problems of this picture theory The article s second thesis is that the theories of narrative explanation can also fruitfully be analyzed as inversions of positivist covering-law theory Ankersmit s brand of narrativism is the most radical in this respect because it posits an opposition between narrative and causal modes of comprehension while simultaneously eliminating causality from narrativist historical understanding White s brand of narrativism is more of a hybrid than is Ankersmit s as far as its theory of explanation is concerned nevertheless it can also be fruitfully interpreted as an inversion of covering-law theory replacing it by an indefinite multitude of explanatory strategies Most of the striking characteristics of both White s and Ankersmit s narrativism pre-suppose positivism in these two senses especially their claim that historical narratives have a metaphorical structure and therefore no truth-value These claims are had to reconcile with the factual characteristics of debates by historians this problem can be tracked down to the absence in metaphorical narrativism of a conceptual connection between historical narratives and historical research Chris Lorenz 1998 Wiley-Blackwell Lorenz C 1998 Can Histories Be True Narrativism Positivism and the MetaphoricalTurn History and Theory 37 3 309-329 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3303 Sun, 12 May 2013 15:41:06 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3254 We differentiate research artifacts from design practice artifacts in two important ways First the intent going into the research is to produce knowledge for the research and practice communities not to make a commercially viable product To this end we expect research projects that take this research through design approach will ignore or deemphasize perspectives in framing the problem such as the detailed economics associated with manufacturability and distribution the integration of the product into a product line the effect of the product on a companyos identity etc In this way design researchers focus on making the right things while design practitioners focus on making commercially successful things Second research contributions should be artifacts that demonstrate significant invention The contributions should be novel integrations of theory technology user need and context not just refinements of products that already exist in the research literature or commercial markets The contribution must demonstrate a significant advance through the integration This aspect of a design research contribution makes particular sense in the interaction design space of HCI Meteoric technological advances in hardware and software drive an aggressive invention of novel products in HCI and interaction design domains that are not as aggressively experienced by other design domains While product designers might find themselves redesigning office furniture to meet the changing needs of work interaction designers more often find themselves tasked with inventing whole new product categories Our model of design research allows interaction design researchers to do what designers do best to study the world and then to make things intended to affect change Our model provides a new channel for the power of design thinking desired by many disciplines to be unleashed as in a research context Design researchers can contribute from a position of strength instead of aping the methods of other disciplines as a means of justifying their research contribution John Zimmerman Jodi Forlizzi Shelley Evenson p 500 2007 John Zimmerman Jodi Forlizzi and Shelley Evenson 2007 Research through design as a method for interaction design research in HCI In Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems CHI 07 ACM New York NY USA 493-502 DOI 10 1145 1240624 1240704 http doi acm org 10 1145 1240624 1240704 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3254 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 22:20:39 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3196 Dying metaphors A newly invented metaphor assists thought by evoking a visual image while on the other hand a metaphor which is technically dead e g iron resolution has in effect reverted to being an ordinary word and can generally be used without loss of vividness But in between these two classes there is a huge dump of worn-out metaphors which have lost all evocative power and are merely used because they save people the trouble of inventing phrases for themselves Examples are Ring the changes on take up the cudgel for toe the line ride roughshod over stand shoulder to shoulder with play into the hands of no axe to grind grist to the mill fishing in troubled waters on the order of the day Achilles heel swan song hotbed Many of these are used without knowledge of their meaning what is a rift for instance and incompatible metaphors are frequently mixed a sure sign that the writer is not interested in what he is saying Some metaphors now current have been twisted out of their original meaning without those who use them even being aware of the fact For example toe the line is sometimes written as tow the line Another example is the hammer and the anvil now always used with the implication that the anvil gets the worst of it In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer never the other way about a writer who stopped to think what he was saying would avoid perverting the original phrase George Orwell George Orwell 1950 Shooting an Elephant and Other Essays Secker amp Warburg Publishers UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3196 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 16:06:52 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3182 The approach we developed in working with our clients at Monitor Institute is what we call adaptive strategy We create a roadmap of the terrain that lies before an organization and develop a set of navigational tools realizing that there will be many different options for reaching the destination If necessary the destination itself may shift based on what we learn along the way Creating strategies that are truly adaptive requires that we give up on many long-held assumptions As the complexity of our physical and social systems make the world more unpredictable we have to abandon our focus on predictions and shift into rapid prototyping and experimentation so that we learn quickly about what actually works With data now ubiquitous we have to give up our claim to expertise in data collection and move into pattern recognition so that we know what data is worth our attention We also know that simple directives from the top are frequently neither necessary nor helpful We instead find ways to delegate authority get information directly from the front lines and make decisions based on a real-time understanding of what s happening on the ground Instead of the old approach of making a plan and sticking to it which led to centralized strategic planning around fixed time horizons we believe in setting a direction and testing to it treating the whole organization as a team that is experimenting its way to success This approach wouldn t surprise anyone in the world of current military strategy Recent generations of military thinkers have long since moved beyond the traditional approach most notably famed fighter pilot John Boyd He saw strategy as a continuous mental loop that ran from observe to orient to decide and finally to act returning immediately to further observation By adopting his mindset with a particular emphasis on the two O s given our turbulent context we can get much better at making strategy a self-correcting series of intentional experiments To provide structure to this fluid approach we focus on answering a series of four interrelated questions about the organization s strategic direction what vision you want to pursue how you will make a difference how you will succeed and what capabilities it will take to get there The skills and mindset for today s strategic planning will come from continuously asking ourselves these questions about our organizations programs and initiatives Once we accept Dwight D Eisenhower s sage advice that Plans are useless but planning is everything we will be ready to adapt to whatever curveballs the twenty-first century sees fit to throw Dana OoDonovan amp Noah Rimland Flower 10 Jan 2013 Stanford Social Innovation Review http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3182 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 09:59:15 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3132 Del icio us tag bundles are basically just title headings to help organise your tags so it s an alternative to an alphabetical list also tags can be kept under multiple headings A good future development would be to make these bundle headings tags themselves also with an RSS feed this way we could subscibe to topic tags or bundle tags as they would be called So at the moment tag bundles are for personally organising your tags into groups good also to view other people s accounts as their is now some context John Tropea 13 May 2005 Library clips http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3132 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:05:51 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3121 Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the meaning and value of culture in the twenty-first century In a programme recorded in front of an audience at Newcastle s Literary and Philosophical Society Melvyn and the panel consider whether Matthew Arnold s assessment of culture as the great help out of our present difficulties still has any relevance almost 150 years after it was written Melvyn Bragg 2013 The Value of Culture Two Cultures Radio broadcast Episode 5 of 5 Duration 42 minutes First broadcast Friday 04 January 2013 Presenter Melvyn Bragg Producer Thomas Morris for the BBC Radio 4 UK Photo credit J Russell Strobel Lab Yale University 2009 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3121 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:10:43 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3115 team s of students of mixed disciplines worked together to understand and map a problem-space identified by the client They then defined a solution-space before focussing on a particular opportunity outcome The range of projects included incremental innovation opportunities represented by the Lego and Hasbro projects through radical Philips work to truly disruptive work with Unilever The studies confirmed stereotypical view points of how different disciplines may behave They showed that design students were more but not completely comfortable with the ambiguous aspects associated with phase zeroo problem-space exploration and early stage idea generation They would only commit to a solution when time pressures dictated that this was essential in order to complete the project deliverables on time and they were happy to experiment with and develop new methods without a clear objective in mind In contrast the business students were uncomfortable with this ambiguity and were more readily able to come to terms with incremental innovation projects where a systematic approach could be directly linked to an end goal The technologists were more comfortable with the notion of the ambiguous approach leading to more radical innovation but needed to wrap this in an analytical process that grounded experimentation Meanwhile the designers were unclear and unprepared to be precise when it came to committing to a business model Mark Bailey 2010 p 42 Bailey M 2010 Working at the Edges Networks Art Design Media Subject Centre ADM-HEA Autumn 2010 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3115 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:58:24 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3106 Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the most influential works in American experimental cinema A non-narrative work it has been identified as a key example of the trance film in which a protagonist appears in a dreamlike state and where the camera conveys his or her subjective focus The central figure in Meshes of the Afternoon played by Deren is attuned to her unconscious mind and caught in a web of dream events that spill over into reality Symbolic objects such as a key and a knife recur throughout the film events are open-ended and interrupted Deren explained that she wanted to put on film the feeling which a human being experiences about an incident rather than to record the incident accurately Made by Deren with her husband cinematographer Alexander Hammid Meshes of the Afternoon established the independent avant-garde movement in film in the United States which is known as the New American Cinema It directly inspired early works by Kenneth Anger Stan Brakhage and other major experimental filmmakers Beautifully shot by Hammid a leading documentary filmmaker and cameraman in Europe where he used the surname Hackenschmied before he moved to New York the film makes new and startling use of such standard cinematic devices as montage editing and matte shots Through her extensive writings lectures and films Deren became the preeminent voice of avant-garde cinema in the 1940s and the early 1950s MoMA 2004 The Museum of Modern Art MoMA Highlights New York The Museum of Modern Art revised 2004 originally published 1999 Maya Deren 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon 16mm film black and white silent 14 min Acquired from the Artist http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3106 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 21:44:00 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3092 Given the accessibility of media devices available to us today and utilising van Leeuwen s concept of inscription and synthesis as a guide this thesis explores the practice of re-presenting a domestic material object the Croxley Recipe Book into digital media Driven by a creative practice research method but also utilising materiality digital storytelling practices and modality as important conceptual frames this project was fundamentally experimental in nature A materiality-framed content analysis interpreted through cultural analysis initially unraveled some of the cookbook s significance and contextualised it within a particular time of New Zealand s cultural history Through the expressive and anecdotal practice of digital storytelling the cookbook s significance was further negotiated especially as the material book was engaged with through the affective and experiential digital medium of moving-image A total of six digital film works were created on an accompanying DVD each of which represents some of the cookbook s significance but approached through different representational strategies The Croxley Recipe Book Archive Film and Pav Bakin with Mark are archival documentaries while Pav is more expressive and aligned with the digital storytelling form Spinning Yarns and Tall Tales a film essay engages and reflects with the multiple processes and trajectories of the project while Extras and The Creative Process Journal demonstrate the emergent nature of the research The written thesis discusses the emergent nature of the research process and justifies the conceptual underpinning of the research Sasha McLaren 2008 McLaren Sasha 2008 Material Synthesis Negotiating experience with digital media MA thesis The University of Waikato Aotearoa New Zealand http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3092 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:01:30 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3011 The Research Catalogue RC is a searchable database for archiving artistic research RC content is not peer reviewed nor is it highly controlled for quality being checked only for appropriateness As a result the RC is highly inclusive The open source status of the RC is essential to its nature and serves its function as a connective and transitional layer between academic discourse and artistic practice thereby constituting a discursive field for artistic research The RC creates a link between 1 elaborated documentation of the work and 2 expositions and comments that engage with the contribution of the work as research Given that the RC is a site for artistic research to add a work is to make a claim that the work can be seen as research through expositions comments and articles the initial claim is transformed into an argument It is believed that the reflective space provided by the RC can become an essential part of the research process by providing a suitable structure in which to develop the relationship between documentation and exposition whilst also retaining congruence with art itself Clearly the RC is the backbone of JAR potential JAR expositions emerge from the range of the artistic research activities taking place in it for peer-review and development within the RC space itself Authors may nominate or JAR editors may select expositions for development as JAR contributions If you believe that RC software might also support your research database needs then explore the possibility of using the RC as your repository by contacting us Society of Artistic Research http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3011 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:05:29 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3009 Open Courses will definitively shift the power from content to community in Higher Learning The second coming of knowledge is firmly associated with free connections inquiry and conversations something that textbooks implicitly discourage Textbooks for all they stand for are the industrial age contraptions that dominated learning for most of last fifty years Open courses bring a much needed paradigm shifting update In summary then Open Courses are eating the publishers lunch and that s where the resentment comes from These masters of the learning universe already had enough trouble with the culture of Internet and Open Courses represent everything they feared the communities the conversations and the knowledge commons This isn t a battle which is over yet but we may just be witnessing a passing of an age Supriyo Chaudhuri 05 November 2012 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3009 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 18:53:54 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3008 SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DESIGN PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICES Japan Proposals for In-Person Presentations Due 6 December 2012 The International Conference on Design Principles and Practices its associated design journals the On Design Book Series and the Design News Blog are sites of discussion which explore the meaning and purpose of design Participants in these forums also speaking in grounded ways about the task of design and the use of designed artifacts and processes The Conference Journal Book Imprint and News Blog support a cross-disciplinary knowledge community bringing together researchers teachers and practitioners to discuss the nature and future of design The resulting conversations weave between the theoretical and the empirical research and application market pragmatics and social idealism In professional and disciplinary terms the conference journals book series and online media traverse a broad sweep to construct a transdisciplinary dialogue which encompasses the perspectives and practices of anthropology architecture art artificial intelligence business cognitive science communication studies computer science cultural studies design studies education e-learning engineering ergonomics fashion graphic design history information systems industrial design industrial engineering instructional design interior design interaction design interface design journalism landscape architecture law linguistics and semiotics management media and entertainment psychology sociology software engineering technical communication telecommunications urban planning and visual design e to name some of the design disciplines Common Ground http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3008 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 09:22:21 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3004 The adaptability necessary to succeed as a design or media specialist comes not only from deep disciplinary knowledge Graduates also need a breadth of knowledge and skills which some commentators have referred to as being T-Shaped These additional skills include the ability to work with and increasingly work across disciplines entrepreneurial attitudes and a knowledge of the business contexts in which they will operate All undergraduate Ravensbourne programmes incorporate curriculum and learning activities designed to develop these skills in our students Cross-disciplinary collaborative projects offer students the opportunity to work in teams with other disciplines The course structure draws on the creative synergies and frictions of the different disciplines at Ravensbourne and provides physical and intellectual opportunities for students to meet learn and work together with students from different disciplines Ravensbourne UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=3004 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:58:08 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2976 Date 29 May 2013 - 30 May 2013 Location venue Thistle Brighton King s Road Brighton England BN1 2GS The Higher Education Academyos second annual learning and teaching Arts and Humanities conference Storyville Exploring narratives of learning and teachingo will take place on 29 e 30 May 2013 in Brighton At the heart of the Arts and Humanities disciplines sit stories e stories which create and recreate worlds distant and present stories which inspire and engage stories which grow imaginations and expand what is thinkable Stories are everywhere and our second annual conference seeks to explore the intersections between narrative and learning and teaching Higher Education Academy UK http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2976 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 16:21:49 +1000 http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2971 SAN FRANCISCO - Three weeks after Curtis Kimball opened his cr egrave me br ucirc l eacute e cart in San Francisco he noticed a stranger among the friends in line for his desserts How had the man discovered the cart He had read about it on Twitter For Mr Kimball who conceded that he hadn t really understood the purpose of Twitter the beauty of digital word-of-mouth marketing was immediately clear He signed up for an account and has more than 5 400 followers who wait for him to post the current location of his itinerant cart and list the flavors of the day like lavender and orange creamsicle I would love to say that I just had a really good idea and strategy but Twitter has been pretty essential to my success he said He has quit his day job as a carpenter to keep up with the demand Much has been made of how big companies like Dell Starbucks and Comcast use Twitter to promote their products and answer customers questions But today small businesses outnumber the big ones on the free microblogging service and in many ways Twitter is an even more useful tool for them Claire Cain Miller 22 July 2009 New York Times http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2971 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:13:18 +1000