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The economy of suffering during the mpox crisis
Get PDFThis study examines the ethical dimensions of health communication during the 2022 mpox outbreak, focusing on the interplay between social media and public health officials in shaping stakeholder responses. Based on semi-structured interviews, findings reveal that social media played a crucial role in information dissemination for months during the crisis, while public health officials were slow to offer clear guidance. While social media empowers advocacy and the sharing of personal stories, it also raises ethical concerns, particularly regarding how vulnerable communities may become entangled in an economy of suffering, where their experiences of pain are validated and interpreted by stakeholders through a selective mechanism rooted in cultural codes and power dynamics. Moreover, systemic inequities render the suffering of marginalized groups, particularly those with intersecting identities, less visible and intensify the consequences of inadequate outreach. This creates a disparity where the suffering of those in more privileged positions is more readily recognized and addressed. The theoretical advancement lies in reconceptualizing the platformization of pain to include narrative resistance, highlighting that marginalized groups actively contest and reshape suffering narratives rather than passively experience them. This expanded framework also deepens the concept of an economy of suffering by integrating hermeneutical injustice, which emphasizes how power dynamics shape not only the visibility of suffering but also the interpretive frameworks that validate certain narratives while marginalizing others
The tri-dimensional role of sustainable secondhand clothing consumption in circular systems: a conceptual framework
Get PDFSustainable fashion scholarship has advanced, yet the industry’s unsustainability persists (Abbate et al., 2024; Mukendi et al., 2020; Niinimäki et al., 2020). Textile waste remains a key issue, exacerbated by unsustainable consumption (Birtwistle and Moore, 2007; Tang, 2023). Whilst circularity is seen as a model for circular transitions, its environmental impact reduction is debated, especially regarding clothing reuse (Corvellec et al., 2021; D’Itria and Aus, 2023; Sandin and Peters, 2018). Secondhand consumption (SHC) is booming (Herjanto et al., 2019) and remains crucial for achieving sustainability, given the role of the consumer in CE (Machado et al., 2019; Turunen and Gossen, 2024; Valor et al., 2022). There is a surge in scholarly calls challenging the crux of SHC, concerning when and how SHC consumption contributes to sustainability, which remains absent (Iran and Schrader, 2017; Moon, 2024; Sandberg, 2021). This study addresses this, proposing a conceptual framework to guide scholarly and practitioner avenues for further research
Creative Writing in the Threshold Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor
Get PDFCreative Writing in the ȋreshold: Narratives on Point of View and Perspective, Intertextuality, Place and Setting, and Metaphor is a thesis that combines academic and creative writing to investigate narratives by tutors in Ibero-American academic institutions. Accompanying my research is a handmade artist’s book that calls itself ȋe Diviner, who intervenes in my chapters in the form of marginalia, expanding on my qualitative research with autoethnographic and metafictional references. Underpinned by an epistemology of between-standing – e.g., learning from the liminal space or “threshold” between creative writing, pedagogy and research –, my go-finding approach defines the sought encounters with the Other, between disciplines and modes, and with other languages via literary translation. Tutors’ narratives in translation are curated to weave a tapestry of diǺferent perspectives on four key threshold aspects that apply narrative concepts to creative writing pedagogy: point of view and perspective, intertextuality, place and setting, and metaphor. Reframing the tutor of creative writing as a narrator, I explore what these aspects reveal about method but also the narrative choices that they imply: how tutors craȄt their narratives, how they manifest their cognizance, where they situate themselves on the psychic distance spectrum, and what tone they adopt (Chapter One); what criteria guide their selection of exemplary literary works (Chapter Two); how tutors and students are aǺfected by place, and how tutors design their settings (Chapter ȋree); what the workshop as a metaphor means to them, and what other metaphors they associate with creative writing as an institutionalised discipline and as an artistic practice (Chapter Four). Foregrounding plurality, subjectivity, unfinishedness and aesthetic coherence, this thesis performs its findings as much as it narrates them, inviting readers to reimagine research in the field of creative writing studies
Agency - Towards a Film about Radical Ageing Now
No full textThis participatory workshop at House of Annetta, as part of Antiuniversity was open to all aged 50 and over, developing creative strategies around issues of ageing and elder knowledge in contemporary society. Working together we explored forms of cultural expression for these ideas. Workshop initiated by film-maker and cultural activist Andrea Luka Zimmerman with curator and creative consultancy by Gareth Evans.
Agency is a long-term, cross-disciplinary, collaborative cultural-social project considering ageing in its traditional, imposed, multi-dimensional and oppositional manifestations. Working with older people both invited and drawn from open participatory workshops, as well as those younger and from various communities of interest, Agency will explore diverse expressions of what it means to grow older in our society. Thinking through and with the body, ecology, the more-than-human, scales of time, class, race and gender concerns, it will deliver various outcomes. Under the direction of Andrea Luka Zimmerman, and with Creative Consultancy from Gareth Evans, it is currently partnered with House of Annetta and Raven Row
Prinz Albert - Sammler, Erzieher und Kulturvermittler
Get PDFVictoria and Albert – Paths and Effects: The volume presents selected results from the 38th annual conference of the Prince Albert Society, held in Coburg in 2019 to commemorate the 200th birthdays of Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. The contributions all follow an approach rooted in reception history, which aims not only to discuss the biographies of the two protagonists but also to focus on their historical legacy
No room! Of course there's room
Get PDFThis article is an adaptation of a workshop provocation given at the University of the Arts London (UAL) Education Conference in July 2023, which I set up as an ‘Alice in Wonderland’ ‘Mad Hatter’s’ table. I dressed the table on theme and equipped it with props, as a set to share with fellow educators a focus group project I had undertaken with students on overcrowding in their college art studios. I held up the lack of room in the studios as a social justice issue for exploration, first, as the inflation of numbers and knock-on impact of overcrowding of studios felt by students was acknowledged as result of over-recruitment to the course during and post pandemic; and second, exploring the question of whether minority students are most impacted; including those who are less confident to claim space due to factors such as accessibility, language barriers, financial issues and lack of peer support within the course. By putting workshop participants in the position of taking a seat at a fictional table space, loaded with caricature, I sought to provoke a creative dialogue around positionality and our relationship to shared space, while contemplating anonymised transcripts of the focus group dialogue that had taken place with students around a different table earlier in the academic year. The workshop gave reference to the ideas of Nirmal Puwar regarding positionality and the negotiation of space; and to Mikhail Bakhtin when considering student utterances in the focus group dialogue
Exploring gestural affordances in audio latent space navigation
Get PDFThe latent space of generative AI models affords unique creative possibilities and broad design space for AI-enhanced digital music instruments. While interface designs for latent space navigation typically rely on sound-producing gestures that involve bodily motions and movements, the underlying subjective perception of these gestures remains underexplored. To understand how musicians perceive sound-producing gestures and tailor performance techniques in audio latent space, we present a user study workshop with an AI-enhanced digital music instrument with a tablet interface. Eighteen musicians were recruited to test out open-ended gestures and tasked to create musical scores. We report how they use sound-producing gestures in the latent space and develop performance techniques. We contribute findings from an embodied music cognition perspective of how subjective perception of gestures shapes musicians' technique development in audio latent space navigation. We discuss the implications of new gestural affordances discovered by participants in our workshop, aiming to elucidate new opportunities for digital musical instruments with audio latent space navigation
The Circularity Radar: A Framework for the Circular Economy in Retailing and Manufacturing
Get PDFIn the traditional linear economy, materials and goods are extracted, consumed, and discarded, without significant attention to the wide range of negative environmental and social externalities that this unsustainable production and consumption model creates.
Evaluating the expected environmental impact of more sustainable business practices becomes challenging without effective ways to measure the adoption and evolution of Circular Business Models (CBMs) in the economy.
This report, based on research undertaken by a team led by Professor Regina Frei from the University of Surrey, examines how Circular business models (CBMs) can provide a means to tackle the environmental problem of product returns within the clothing manufacturing and retail sector.
It proposes a tool, the Circularity Radar, for retailers and manufacturers to conduct a self-assessment of their CBM’s by exploring and assessing their transition to more sustainable and circular business models identifying opportunities for increasing their sustainability
Transmutação em Luz e Som
No full textA Max/MSP/Jitter workshop entitled “Transmutação em Luz e Som” (Transmutation into Light and Sound) at the University of Coimbra, Portugal: Sala do Carvão - Casa das Caldeiras, Teatro Académico de Gil Vicente
From Laughter to Lament: Mapping the Rise and Fall of Humour in Hong Kong Activism 2019–2020
No full textThis article examines the emergence, transformation, and eventual decline of humour in the 2019–2020 Hong Kong protest movement through discourse analysis, supported by first-hand participation and semi-structured interviews. It argues that humour initially offered temporary superiority over authority, fostered solidarity, and shaped lived experiences of collective resistance. However, the classist and meritocratic implications embedded in protest humour fractured the movement. The deliberate overlook within the jokes further undermines the validity of the humour. The nationhood invoked through humour also became a tacit test of allegiance. Externally, escalating state violence and the imposition of the National Security Law rendered humour increasingly untenable, shifting affective registers from laughter to grief, trauma, and self-censorship. By mapping this transition, the article demonstrates how humour can move from an empowering practice to a divisive and even detrimental force, contributing to broader debates on affect, censorship, and the politics of expression under authoritarianism