scholarly journals With and After Grotowski

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 336-359
Author(s):  
Thomas Richards ◽  
Mario Biagini
Keyword(s):  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski ◽  
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In 1996, Jerzy Grotowski changed the name of his Workcenter at Pontedera in Italy to that of the Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards, and it was here that Richards and his associate Mario Biagini developed the Actions that had originated with their thirteen years of close collaboration with Grotowski before his death in 1999. Dies Irae was premiered in 2004. Various research projects led by Richards and/or Biagini include Tracing Roads Across (2003–06) and Open Programme, which began in 2007. Such works as I am America, crafted on the poems of Allen Ginsberg, and Electric Party, both directed by Biagini and first performed in 2009, have emerged from Open Programme. A recently ‘finalized’ work, The Letter (2008), directed by Richards, was the result of a long process of development that passed through three major phases and two differently named Actions, starting in 2003. Richards is the author of At Work with Grotowski on Physical Actions (1995) and Heart of Practice (2008), while Biagini has edited, with Antonio Attisani, the three-volume Opere e Sentiere (2007 and 2008). The conversation below is an edited version, in consultation with Richards and Biagini, of their discussion with Maria Shevtsova in November 2008, as part of her ‘Conversations’ series at Goldsmiths, University of London. These last pupils of Grotowski give uncommon insight into the processes of their work together, continuing their generous and open reflections in their responses to questions from members of the audience.

BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN UNIVERSITY AND INDUSTRY: THREE MECHANISMS FOR INNOVATION EFFICIENCY

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (01) ◽  
pp. 1440005 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHANNA WALLIN ◽  
OLA ISAKSSON ◽  
ANDREAS LARSSON ◽  
BENGT-OLOF ELFSTRÖM
Keyword(s):  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Contextual Understanding ◽  
Industry Collaboration ◽  
A Company ◽  
University Industry ◽  
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A key challenge for competence networking is the difficulty of contextual understanding between people from different organizations. Despite close collaboration, full insight into a company is difficult, although desirable, for university partners to achieve and vice versa. The case study described in this paper is of a company with long experience of university–industry collaboration. The paper reports on a designerly approach to overcome barriers of university–industry collaboration. The approach is combined with strategic, tactic and operational dimensions. It builds on three corresponding mechanisms: a tool to facilitate strategic understanding, workshops to facilitate tactical co-creation, and prototyping to facilitate operational ideation.

scholarly journals “So, it is about how negative it is?!” Understanding researcher/researched interactions as relations between intersectional social positions

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sune Qvotrup Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Ethnic Minority ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Minority Men ◽  
Powerful Mechanism ◽  
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The article argues that interactions in qualitative interviews and ethnography can be analyzed as relations between intersectional social positions. It draws attention to the importance of class and geographical location in such analysis. It further argues that such interactions work through typifications, that they have a power dimension and that they entail processes of identity formation. The identities being offered through these processes can, however, be negotiated or resisted. The article then analyses such interactions as they were experienced in two research projects the author participated in: His PhD project about young marginalized ethnic minority men, and the collective project INTERLOC which focused on the interplay between gender, class, ethnicity and ‘race’ in an underprivileged Danish suburb. It is demonstrated that relationality influences the assumptions research participants have about the researcher. It is also demonstrated that the research encounter entails powerful mechanism of identity formation. The informants, however, sometimes resist these processes resulting in blurred and unstable, sometimes antagonistic, power relations. It is finally argued that analyses of such interactions can provide central insight into the subject studied.

scholarly journals How theory and design-based research can mature PBL practice and research

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 879-891 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana H. J. M. Dolmans
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Design Based Research ◽  
Single Solution ◽  
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Abstract Many educational institutions in higher education switched to problem-based learning (PBL) in the last 5 decades. Despite its’ successful implementation worldwide, many institutions still encounter problems in their daily teaching practices that limit deep learning in students. This raises the question: How else can we look at PBL practice and research? The main argument of this reflective paper is to better align PBL practice with the theories or principles of contextual, constructive, self-directed and collaborative learning. This paper explains what these principles or theories are. In addition, it discusses a new way to bridge theory and practice: design-based research (DBR), which combines redesigning theory-based teaching practices with investigating these practices in close collaboration with various stakeholders. There is no one-size-fits-all solution to address the problems encountered in PBL. We should be very careful in drawing conclusions about which PBL approach works best. No single solution works optimally under all conditions. At most, DBR can help us gain better insight into why PBL with certain characteristics, preferably based on theory, might work in a specific context with particular goals in mind.

scholarly journals Through the Interviewer's Lens: Representations of 1960s Households and Families in a Lost Sociological Study

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Goodwin ◽  
Henrietta O'Connor
Keyword(s):  
Family Life ◽  
Young Worker ◽  
The Other ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Workplace Experiences ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
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In this paper we aim to use the interviewer notes from a lost sociological project (The Young Worker Project) to answer two broad, interrelated, questions: i) how was family life documented and represented by the researchers in their interviewer notes and ii) what does analysing interviewer notes in this way add to our understanding of families and households? The answers to these questions are considered in the context of a further question – why did the young worker research contain so much data on families and households when the research was concerned with young workers’ early workplace experiences? In answering these questions we offer some insight into family life in the 1960s as documented by the researchers and locate Norbert Elias's young worker research within the context of the other large sociology research projects being undertaken at the time.

scholarly journals Uma Arte do Encontro

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-286
Author(s):  
Éric Vautrin
Keyword(s):  
Allen Ginsberg ◽  
Open Program ◽  
Jerzy Grotowski

RESUMO A partir da abertura para pesquisas dos arquivos da segunda parte da vida de Grotowski, este texto se debruça sobre as concepções de teatro do mestre polonês, nas quais ele o descreve como a arte do encontro. Trata-se, ao mesmo tempo, de colocar essa proposição nas interrogações de uma época e de mostrar como esse encontro é o anátema que reverterá as perspectivas tanto sobre a arte do ator, quanto sobre a criação e as relações teatrais. Enfim, essas pesquisas sobre o teatro como arte do encontro têm continuidade hoje por intermédio do Open Program, um dos dois grupos do Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards e, notadamente, suas criações em torno do poeta americano Allen Ginsberg, autor cuja poesia pretende, da mesma forma, um encontro com o outro e com o mundo.

scholarly journals The experience of qualitative research with young fathers: considerations of gender, class and reflexive practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Davies ◽  
Esmée Hanna
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Young Men ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Young Fathers ◽  
Reflexive Practice ◽  
Class Context ◽  
Qualitative Work ◽  
Fruitful Research ◽  
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Qualitative research into the lives and experiences of young fathers has seen some increased interest in recent years, yet comprehensive understandings of the ‘doing’ of such research remain absent from the literature. The small existing literature positions young men who are fathers as potentially difficult to research, in terms of access and encounters. This article draws on experiences and reflections from two UK-based research projects with young men who are fathers to explore the practice of qualitative work with this particular group of participants. Beyond the choice of methodology, there appear to be several elements pertaining to the practice of researching the lives of young men who are fathers that may require consideration. Through discussion of gender, class, context, authenticity and rapport, the article argues that researching young men is not inherently problematic but is a practice which requires consideration and substantial reflexion in order to produce fruitful research encounters for both parties. This article therefore seeks to add nuance and insight into the experience of researching with young men who are fathers, and in doing so, adds sophistication to our limited understandings of qualitative encounters with this group.

scholarly journals Clay Minerals in European Painting of the Mediaeval and Baroque Periods

Minerals ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Hradil ◽  
Janka Hradilová ◽  
Petr Bezdička
Keyword(s):  
Clay Minerals ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Specific Approach ◽  
X Ray ◽  
New Findings ◽  
The Common ◽  
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Clay-based pigments are among the most traditional. Unlike other mineral pigments, they have never been fully replaced by synthetic analogues and are still used in painting today. Since their analysis requires a specific approach, detailed distinction of clay pigments has never been a part of routine chemical-technological research in fine arts—regardless of a great potential of clay minerals for determining regional provenance of the material. This review article maps and summarizes research on clay pigments in historical paintings that has been systematically pursued by authors since the beginning of this millennium. This rallying and interconnection of knowledge was an opportunity for a new reflection on the common aspects of these research projects, either methodological or interdisciplinary, since these findings are closely related to art-historical evaluation of artworks. It offers a comprehensive insight into the microanalysis of clay pigments with using powder X-ray micro-diffraction and complementary methods. Significant new findings come, for example, from research on the Italian Baroque. It becomes clear that cheap availability of raw material, pottery clays, could have played an important role in the change in painting technology at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries.

THE COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH CENTER 588: "HUMANOID ROBOTS — LEARNING AND COOPERATING MULTIMODAL ROBOTS"

2004 ◽  
Vol 01 (03) ◽  
pp. 429-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
REGINE BECHER ◽  
PETER STEINHAUS ◽  
RÜDIGER DILLMANN
Keyword(s):  
Modeling And Simulation ◽  
Collaborative Research ◽  
Humanoid Robots ◽  
Research Center ◽  
Experimental Setup ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Environment Modeling ◽  
Robot System ◽  
Research Activities ◽  
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This paper gives an overview of the current and forthcoming research projects of the Collaborative Research Center 588 "Humanoid Robots — Learning and Cooperating Multimodal Robots." The activities can be divided into several areas: development of mechatronic components and construction of a demonstrator system, perception of user and environment, modeling and simulation of robots, environment and user, and finally cooperation and learning. The research activities in each of these areas are described in detail. Finally, we give an insight into the application scenario of our robot system, i.e. the training setup and the experimental setup "household."

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