scholarly journals Rethinking the Connection Between Creative Clusters and City Branding: the Cultural Axis of Piraeus Street in Athens

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 87-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Karachalis ◽  
Alex Deffner
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Social Effects ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Planning Tool ◽  
City Marketing ◽  
European Cities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Fashion Designers ◽  
Effective Planning

Abstract As culture and the arts gain importance within the agendas of cities, the operation of urban creative clusters is manifested as an effective planning tool for rundown neighbourhoods. Artists and cultural businesses (galleries, theatres, design offices, fashion designers, etc.) form a unique and distinctive sector among other sectors of the economy; their effect on the development and image of a particular neighbourhood can be very important. As part of wider urban processes, city marketing and city branding techniques are often used in order to promote the change in these neighbourhoods and, ideally, prevent negative social effects. The main goal of this paper is to present the experience and implications of the - mostly accidental - formation of a creative cluster in Athens (in the areas surrounding the Athenian part of Piraeus Street) and to critically evaluate the potential role of branding, drawing on the experience of similar efforts in other European cities.

scholarly journals Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville, an Integrative Learning Experience: A Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1065
Author(s):  
Monique Y. Wells ◽  
Kathleen Stein-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Educational Programming ◽  
Integrative Learning ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Adult Participants ◽  
French And English ◽  
Travel Abroad

This case study examines the role of integration of the arts into learning within the framework of interdisciplinarity and integrative learning. Specifically, it describes and discusses the Classes Duo Paris/Knoxville program, which brings together students from Paris and Knoxville through the life and art of Knoxville-born, Paris-expatriate artist Beauford Delaney. The integration of the arts, languages (French and English), and travel abroad is the basis for a survey distributed to the adult participants in the program by the organizer, who is one of the authors of this study. Responses to the survey have been described and discussed in terms of arts education and international experiential learning, with implications for similar future initiatives and the current and potential role of philanthropy in educational programming.

scholarly journals Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominik Welke ◽  
Isaac Purton ◽  
Edward A. Vessel
Keyword(s):  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Idea Generation ◽  
Psychological State ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Activity Form ◽  
Writing Task

Moments of creative inspiration – an evoked state of motivation for creative activity – form a distinct step in creative processes. We hypothesize that the psychological state of being creatively inspired is similar to the state of being aesthetically moved, and that aesthetically moving experiences can serve as prompts for creative inspiration. In Experiment 1, 25 participants wrote 12 short creative texts (repeated measures) in response to “aesthetic” prompts (visual artworks they rated highly aesthetically moving) or “non-aesthetic” prompts (triads of unrelated words). People then rated how inspired they had felt during idea generation. Ratings of felt inspiration were significantly higher for aesthetic vs. non-aesthetic prompts. In Experiment 2, 34 participants performed the same task with prompts consisting of highly-moving, non-moving, or novel artworks they didn’t rate in advance. While pre-exposure to the stimuli had no significant effect, felt inspiration was significantly higher for moving vs. non-moving prompts, and post-test aesthetic ratings of novel artworks were positively correlated with felt inspiration. Furthermore, inspiration ratings correlated positively with the amount of produced text. Being aesthetically moved increases the likelihood of creative inspiration, a finding with implications both for the study of creative and aesthetic processes and also for the potential role of the arts in educational settings.

POPDC proteins and cardiac function

2019 ◽  
Vol 47 (5) ◽  
pp. 1393-1404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Brand
Keyword(s):  
Potential Role ◽  
Striated Muscle ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Effector Proteins ◽  
Muscle Disease ◽  
Disease Genes ◽  
Protein Protein Interaction ◽  
Interaction Partners ◽  
And Function

Abstract The Popeye domain-containing gene family encodes a novel class of cAMP effector proteins in striated muscle tissue. In this short review, we first introduce the protein family and discuss their structure and function with an emphasis on their role in cyclic AMP signalling. Another focus of this review is the recently discovered role of POPDC genes as striated muscle disease genes, which have been associated with cardiac arrhythmia and muscular dystrophy. The pathological phenotypes observed in patients will be compared with phenotypes present in null and knockin mutations in zebrafish and mouse. A number of protein–protein interaction partners have been discovered and the potential role of POPDC proteins to control the subcellular localization and function of these interacting proteins will be discussed. Finally, we outline several areas, where research is urgently needed.

The Effect of Path Length and Display Size on Memory for Spatial Information

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Guérard ◽  
Sébastien Tremblay
Keyword(s):  
Path Length ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Spatial Information ◽  
Recall Performance ◽  
Minor Role ◽  
Length Effect ◽  
Serial Memory ◽  
Fixed Reference ◽  
A Minor

In serial memory for spatial information, some studies showed that recall performance suffers when the distance between successive locations increases relatively to the size of the display in which they are presented (the path length effect; e.g., Parmentier et al., 2005) but not when distance is increased by enlarging the size of the display (e.g., Smyth & Scholey, 1994). In the present study, we examined the effect of varying the absolute and relative distance between to-be-remembered items on memory for spatial information. We manipulated path length using small (15″) and large (64″) screens within the same design. In two experiments, we showed that distance was disruptive mainly when it is varied relatively to a fixed reference frame, though increasing the size of the display also had a small deleterious effect on recall. The insertion of a retention interval did not influence these effects, suggesting that rehearsal plays a minor role in mediating the effects of distance on serial spatial memory. We discuss the potential role of perceptual organization in light of the pattern of results.

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