Untethered: A designer’s reflection on a process, interrupted

Scene ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 71-76
Author(s):  
Christina Smith

For this special edition of Scene, award-winning Australian set and costume designer Christina Smith was invited to reflect on her experience of resuming work on Melbourne Theatre Company’s Berlin after a year hiatus due to COVID-19 lockdowns. In the form of a reflective note from the field, Christina examines the unexpected discoveries and unlooked-for liberation that came from being forcibly untethered from her creative process. Raw and personal, this note offers one designer’s journey out of isolation and back to the stage.

Author(s):  
Gamze Toylan

Focusing on the award winning costume designer Yves Barre’s work for The League of Gentlemen (BBC, 1999-2002), this article explores the role of the costume designer in television production. Using an anthropological method that combines original interviews with Barre, Steve Pemberton (one of the writer/performers) and Jon Plowman (the executive producer) as well as second hand material such as DVD extras, the article provides insight into the show’s creative process. The underlying objective is to shed light on the costume design process – an understudied stage of television production.


2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-15
Author(s):  
Patricia Vilches

Abstract Blest Gana at 100 is a special edition for Open Cultural Studies. Alberto Blest Gana was a Chilean writer who wore many hats during his long life, dying in 1920 at the age of 90. One of the most prominent authors of nineteenth-century Chile and Latin America, he went to military school and later held political and diplomatic appointments, all of which caused him to travel and live abroad. In fact, nel mezzo del cammin of his life, Blest Gana transferred to Europe and eventually settled in Paris, never to return to his country of birth. His fiction and non-fiction conveyed a vast array of experiences and insights from his life in Chile and overseas. To commemorate the 100 years since his death, contributors to Blest Gana at 100 approach his oeuvre from innovative and fresh scholarly angles and thus generate new perspectives on the Chilean author’s most celebrated texts, such as Martín Rivas and El ideal de un calavera. They also examine the early days of his literary career; revisit critical scholarship on Blest Gana from the past; bring less explored texts, such as Mariluán and Los Trasplantados (the latter written and published in Paris) to the foreground; research the background to his work as a columnist and discover the extent to which it informed his literary career; and examine the urban social practices in Blest Gana’s award-winning novel La aritmética en el amor. From these analyses, we hope to foster an ongoing conversation of lively and invigorating Blest Gana scholarship.


2013 ◽  
Vol 311 ◽  
pp. 328-333
Author(s):  
Kuen Meau Chen

The imaginative power of human beings is the reappearance and integration of emotional and perceptional experiences. Therefore, if the personal imagination would like to be further developed, the first thing is to enhance agility of emotional experiences and perception. And also the conceptual combination involves joining of two or more concepts to produce a new meaning that satisfies the representation of each constituent concept. Original concepts may emerge from conceptual combination in imagination. New attributes may also emerge from conceptual combination that cannot be explained by each individual concept. The cognitive processes that produce emergent concepts and attributes in conceptual combination may be viewed as a creative process. This research was conducted through a literature review, case studies, and interviews with experts on award-winning works in international design competitions. Through qualitative analysis of these design projects, we identified several paths leading from imaginative constructs to conceptual development in the design process: thematic relationships, intersecting attributes, the transfer of attributes, inherited attributes, causal relationships, analogical relationships, multi-level inclusive relationships, and the interpretation of contrasting meaning. It is hoped that the results of this study will serve as a useful reference in design education, particularly with regard to the development of imaginative and creative capacity.


Film Matters ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-124
Author(s):  
Angelique Acuna ◽  
Joseph Lee ◽  
Din Dinso

Academy award-winning Director Bong Joon-ho has captivated the global audience with compelling takes on the concept of the monstrous. From his earliest film, Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000), to his most recent Best Picture Winner Parasite (2019), each of his films explores personal and intimate experiences in monstrous societies. Bong Joon-ho speaks about his most personal works while examining his success of The Host (2006) and how this shifted perspectives on the monster movie genre in South Korea. Additionally, Bong discusses his creative process and future works with upcoming adaptations of his beloved films.


1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-1

It is my pleasure to introduce this newsletter, which is the first collaborative effort between Division 1, Language Learning and Education and Division 9, Hearing and Hearing Disorders in Childhood to share information we believe affiliates from both divisions will find useful.


1978 ◽  
Vol 23 (6) ◽  
pp. 431-432
Author(s):  
SUSAN D. DEVOGE
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2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 471-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelsey E. Medeiros ◽  
Logan M. Steele ◽  
Logan L. Watts ◽  
Michael D. Mumford
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