(Im)possible Performatives

2017 ◽  
pp. 368-390
Author(s):  
Beatrice Allegranti
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Loss And Grief ◽  
Ongoing Relationship ◽  
The Dead ◽  
And Performance

Little is said about the process of loss and grieving as both corporeal and as a performative process. This chapter presents loss in a way that leads beyond the confines of discursive labels, diagnosis, and narrow views of human suffering, to an understanding of loss and grief as a performative, mutually entangled process between self, other, and the person ‘lost’. Building on previous research establishing links between psychotherapeutic and performance processes dealing with loss, this chapter explores the complexity of loss and grief as a corporeal process (biological, kinaesthetic, non-human) and discursive (psychological, sociopolitical) construction of bodies in motion. Drawing from personal experience of loss and dance-based research projects, the chapter suggests a possible corporeal reclaiming after loss: the dead can be in us, the living, and this (im)possible performative can contribute to feelings of wellbeing and transformation by providing a creative ongoing relationship with the person who has died.

An Alternative Method for Identifying a Failed Engine in Twin-Engine Propeller Aircraft

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-111
Author(s):  
Andrey K. Babin ◽  
Andrew R. Dattel ◽  
Margaret F. Klemm
Keyword(s):  
Human Error ◽  
Flight Simulator ◽  
Traditional Group ◽  
Aircraft Accidents ◽  
Alternative Method ◽  
Indicator Group ◽  
Group A ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Engine Failure ◽  
And Performance

Abstract. Twin-engine propeller aircraft accidents occur due to mechanical reasons as well as human error, such as misidentifying a failed engine. This paper proposes a visual indicator as an alternative method to the dead leg–dead engine procedure to identify a failed engine. In total, 50 pilots without a multi-engine rating were randomly assigned to a traditional (dead leg–dead engine) or an alternative (visual indicator) group. Participants performed three takeoffs in a flight simulator with a simulated engine failure after rotation. Participants in the alternative group identified the failed engine faster than the traditional group. A visual indicator may improve pilot accuracy and performance during engine-out emergencies and is recommended as a possible alternative for twin-engine propeller aircraft.

scholarly journals The Ways of Knowing the Pandemic With the Help of Prompted Autoethnography

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042096013
Author(s):  
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Self Care ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Different Types ◽  
And Performance

This article discusses how different forms of autoethnographic production prompted by diverse forms of academic self-expression can lead to different types of knowing. Utilizing five examples from the Massive_Microscopic project, where participants responded to 21 different prompts inviting autoethnographic reflections about COVID-19 global pandemic, the article explores the responses from the perspective of alternative ways of knowing, reflecting on questions of motherhood, self-care, and performance in academia. Whether visual, rhythmic, or text produced from the perspective of things, the different modalities of the prompts allowed unexpected knowledge to emerge and supported deeper and more colorful reflections. Exploring the personal experience with the pandemic is expanded by the qualitative inquiry supported by different (self-)expression formats.

scholarly journals Vocal Symphony of Boris Tishchenko

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Iurii Eduardovich Serov
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Multiple Images ◽  
Russian Music ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Performance

The subject of this research is the monumental vocal-symphonic piece of the prominent Russian composer of the second half of the XX century Boris Tishchenko. His Symphony No.6 s based on the poems by A. Naiman, A. Akhmatova, O. Mandelstam, M. Tsvetaeva and V. Levinzon, completed in 1989, and tribute to Yevgeny Alexandrovich Mravinsky, who passed away a year before. Poetic lines that form the backbone of the symphony contain multiple images resembling death, which imparts a profound meaning, a moment of personal experience in dedication to the prominent conductor. Special attention is given to the symphonic dramaturgy of the Symphony No.6, the problem of interrelation between music and poetry, realization of the complex literary texts in the ultimately modern symphonism of Boris Tishchenko. The conclusion is made that Tishchenko is absolutely seamless in this vocal-symphonic opus and reveres his coauthors. The translates everything into the music, without missing a tiny thing that can reveal its meaning and beauty. At the same time, the circle of poetic images, semantics of the verse were transformed in accordance with his worldview. The novelty is defined by the fact that this article is first in Russian musicology, to comprehensively analyze the Symphony No.6  by Boris Tishchenko, reveal its semantics, and performance difficulties. The author attributes this symphonic composition of Boris Tishchenko to most remarkable in the history of Russian music.

Reality and Diversity: Reform in the Architectural Design Studio

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-31
Author(s):  
Jia Beisi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Learning Activities ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Learning Style Inventory ◽  
Reflection In Action ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
And Performance

Habraken points out that the architectural studio failed to bring students to basic questions in the architecture of everyday environments. Till criticizes that in a studio, it is only the professional value represented by the teachers that prevails. To investigate the reasons of the allegation, this paper introduces a learning model defined by David A. Kolb, in which a learning process consists of two dimensional movements: i.e., prehension (concrete experiences vs. abstract conceptualization) and transformation (reflection and experiment). The paper then inquires into Schön's observation in the studio learning mode characterized as reflection-in-action. It is found that this studio is mainly dealing with the transformation dimension, and prehension dimension is either suppressed or represented by the teacher's experiences and conceptions. The paper discovers that the cause of problems raised by Habraken and Till is the inherent lack of substance in the prehension dimension. The paper assesses a studio programme in which the basic questions of built environment were systematically introduced. It analyzes the students' reactions and performance in line with students' learning styles found using Kolb's Learning Style Inventory (LSI). It suggests that the students' learning activities are more diversified than what Schön could perceive. There is a possibility to adapt students' personal experience and abstract conceptualization which may play into the studio. By enhancing diversity of learning styles rather than letting one's learning style (reflection-in-action) prevail, the studio may become a platform in which students may learn from each other.

Interactive Models for Virtual Enterprises

2011 ◽  
pp. 316-333
Author(s):  
Håvard D. Jorgensen ◽  
John Krogstie
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Virtual Enterprises ◽  
Major Result ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Visual Model ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Interactive Models ◽  
And Performance

This chapter presents a novel approach to the development, integration, and operation of virtual enterprises (VEs). The approach is based on the idea of interactive models. An interactive model is a visual model of enterprise aspects that can be viewed, traversed, analyzed, simulated, adapted, and executed by the participants of the VE. The approach has been developed in several research projects, where experiences from industrial case studies are used as a basis for validation and further enhancement. A major result of this work is the model-driven infrastructure that integrates and supports VEs. The main innovative contributions of this infrastructure include concurrent modelling, metamodelling, management and performance of work, integrated support for ad hoc and structured processes, and customizable model- and process-driven integration.

Competences as a Core Factor Impacting Market Research Usage in Poland

2017 ◽  
pp. 223-247
Author(s):  
Zofia Bednarowska ◽  
Michał Andrzej Chrzanowski
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Market Research ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
External Source ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Management And Development ◽  
Source Of Information

Almost two-thirds of Polish companies declare that the most important source of information are their own observations and personal experience (Kaper & Kuziak, 2006, p. 6). Only 32% of companies use benchmarking as an external source of information, while over two thirds of the companies do not measure their effectiveness at all (Bednarowska, 2015). They do not mention market research, which is an essential element in the management and development of enterprises. Not only they provide knowledge about the environment, but also support knowledge management in the enterprise. In order to proceed with acquiring knowledge, it is necessary to overcome a group of internal and external determinants that prevent many Polish companies from proceeding with market research. However, one of the crucial one are competences of decision makers and power sponsors of market research projects.

Self-management: A patient’s perspective

2020 ◽  
pp. 321-328
Author(s):  
Marieke M.J.H. Voshaar
Keyword(s):  
Chronic Illness ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Self Management ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Medical Support ◽  
Psychosocial Effects ◽  
Expert Patient ◽  
Patient’S Perspective ◽  
Ongoing Relationship

This chapter is written by an expert patient who works with medical professionals. It covers a personal experience of being diagnosed and the psychosocial effects that arose from this period of time. It highlights the requirements for self-management in terms of retaining autonomy, models the definitions of self-management, and discusses the outcomes of different approaches. All chronic illness support, including self-management programmes, require an ongoing relationship between the patient and provider, including considerations of individual barriers; therefore the necessity for both social and medical support for patients’ self-management is also discussed, including differing needs for people from marginalized backgrounds, and suggestions on improving programmes is deliberated.

scholarly journals Documenting Refugee Stories: Resettlement and Integration Challenges of East African Refugees

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 76
Author(s):  
Nimo Bokore
Keyword(s):  
Interest Groups ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Professional Service ◽  
Human Suffering ◽  
East African ◽  
African Refugees ◽  
Forced Migrations ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
And Migration

<p>Recently we have witnessed forced displacement and migration on a globalized scale and the human suffering that this creates. Since early 2014, events have escalated in Syria and other Middle Eastern countries as religious-based interest groups such as ISIS push to make territorial gains. One cannot escape media reports documenting the devastating impact this has as refugees try to reach safety, whether by crossing the Mediterranean Sea or European borders.</p><p>In this article, I present my personal experience of refugee life as a survivor of war and multiple forced migrations and as a professional service provider to immigrants and refugees who make Canada their new home. In many ways, my story is the story of other refugees who also encounter issues of race, religion and geopolitical locations as they migrate and resettle in a new country.</p>

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