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UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Multiple possible futures - Three imaginaries
Get PDF‘UAL Climate Systems Mapping’ is pilot research project conducted by researchers and team members employed at UAL supported by the Social Purpose Lab.
Outputs from the project are multiple:
- Wallace, N., Mazé, R., Williams, D., Landin, D., Tuft, N., and Ng, N. (2024) UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Report on the pilot research project. University of the Arts London. ISBN 978-1-906908-85-0
The report presents five sets of findings toward two research questions: ‘What is…?’, e.g. UAL’s contribution to extraction and regeneration, and; ‘What if…?’, e.g. how might we transition to a regenerative future UAL. The report also includes a number of key insights and proposals for future work resulting from the year-long research project. One of the findings includes the tool "Multiple Possible Futures," which contains these three imaginaries.
- Wallace, N., Mazé, R., Williams, D., Landin, D., Tuft, N., and Ng, N. (2024) UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Facilitation guide and toolkit. University of the Arts London.
The facilitation guide and toolkit includes the tool "Multiple Possible Futures," which contains these three imaginaries.
This PDF comprises the three imaginaries as high-resolution images
Expanded Sexual and Gender Identities in Contemporary Photography
Get PDF“Expanded Sexual and Gender Identities in Contemporary Photography” begins with the radical potential of the term ‘queer,’ as it was articulated in the 1990s. Considering the evacuation of this charge as it has come into everyday usage, which has occurred alongside shifts in what we understand to constitute the photographic image, this chapter asks ‘what's queer about queer photography now?’ This question is explored across four sections, and in relation to an international selection of contemporary work dealing with questions of translation, archiving, the complex condition of visibility, and photography's materiality. By way of answering the question ‘what's queer about queer photography now?’, the chapter interrogates the term ‘queer’ itself, looking to a range of practitioners from around the world, whose work emphasizes the still disruptive potential of using photography to visualize expanded sexual and gender identities
Role of Socio-Cultural Capital and Country-Level Affluence in Ethical Consumerism
Get PDFSo far, most ethical consumerism research has been contained within Western countries, thus limiting our understanding of the concept in emerging markets. Given the call for extending empirical-based knowledge for a better understanding of peculiarities, dynamics and country-level variations (i.e. social, cultural) in the context of ethical consumerism in emerging markets, this research cross-examines the interactive nature of individual- and country-level predictors of ethical consumerism in emerging and developed markets, employing a multilevel approach. At the individual level, we posit that ethical consumerism is motivated by social and cultural capital. In contrast, at the contextual level, we choose country-level affluence as an influential factor that might impact the relationship between socio-cultural capital and ethical consumerism. The study uses the International Social Survey Programme’s (ISSP) 2014 citizenship module data set (including 34 countries) for investigating individual-level predictors (of social and cultural capital). The GDP per capita data from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Economic Outlook database was used to examine the cross-level interactions between individual-level predictors and country-level affluence. The findings suggest that social and cultural capitals positively influence ethical consumerism in emerging and developed markets. Further, country-level affluence moderates the relationship between socio-cultural capital and ethical consumerism for both markets. However, cultural capital proved to be a stronger predictor of ethical consumerism as country-level affluence increases. The research findings highlight meaningful cross-country-level interactions that help further understand the basis of ethical consumerism from a global perspective
Dzaleka Style
No full textThe Vital Signs project continues and this entry marks the first film made with the newly established 'Dzaleka Arts Lab' a group that has formed out of the workshops delivered at Dzaelka Refugee Camp, Malawi, since 2023.
The film was released on World Refugee Day 2024
Invisible Voice - 'Invisible Voice,' S+T+ARTS Symposium Barcelona (Solo Exhibition)
No full textThe interactive public art installation features an advertising board equipped with custom sensor technology. When an audience member approaches, the sensor triggers an analysis to identify brands the person is wearing or carrying. These brands are cross-referenced with the Invisible Voice database, displaying relevant images and (controversial) news article headlines on the screen to create a subvertising effect. This setup not only educates but also encourages active public participation by revealing the social and environmental impacts of consumer brands. As viewers approach, the installation displays detailed data about the companies, including environmental impacts, corporate accountability, lobbying, and financial conduct, along with a network graph showing links to other companies and individuals. This dynamic interaction transforms passive observation into an engaging pedagogical experience
A Conversation about "Doing" and Being "Done To" in Humanitarian Storytelling
Get PDFThis co-authored article is the result of a series of conversations between Arash Bordbar and Jess Crombie, who met in 2021 while working together to develop UNHCR’s internal ethical communications policy. Jess had been brought in as a communications and ethics consultant, and Arash as one of the members of the UNHCR evaluation team, also contributing as a person with lived experience of being a refugee. During the process of developing the communications policy, their conversations revealed a shared interest in the power of stories, but also a recognition of the inequalities in the humanitarian sector in terms of who has the power to shape and share narratives about affected populations and individuals. The title of this essay is borrowed from Jessica Benjamin who, in her text exploring intersubjective psychoanalysis, describes the basic building blocks of connection as understanding “whether doing is with or to” (Benjamin 2018, 5). A theme running through this conversation is how to complicate who falls into the roles of “doer” and “done to”, so that “doing with” becomes the norm
Moda na Fronteira: Roupa Masculina Tropicale o Capitalismo Extrativista na Amazônia Brasileira, 1907-1912 [Fashion on the Frontier: Tropical White Menswear and Extractive Capitalism in the Brazilian Amazon, 1907-1912]
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Em 1910, no auge do ciclo da borracha na América do Sul, o fotógrafo nova-iorquino Dana Bertran Merrill foi contratado para documentar a construção transnacional da ferrovia Madeira-Mamoré, construída nas profundezas da Amazônia brasileira.
A sua câmara atuou tanto como testemunha quanto cúmplice deste projeto imperial de expansão capitalista americana e exploração da América do Sul. Merrill não foi contratado com o intuito de documentar a cultura do vestuário transnacional da sociedade fronteiriça masculina que surgiu ao redor da construção da ferrovia. Não obstante, suas fotografias transbordam de informações visuais sobre o vestuário: o que os trabalhadores usavam e como o usavam, documentadas em detalhes extraordinários. Voltar-se para a moda oferece uma visão revisada sobre como seus sujeitos predominantemente masculinos, vindos de mais de 52 países, usaram roupas para construir suas identidades e posicionarem-se em relação uns aos outros naquele local remoto e pouco convidativo. O arquivo de Merrill fornece um estudo incomum para o historiador avaliar criticamente a desvalorização colonial e neocolonial do trabalho manual, na qual se basearam os projetos de modernidade industrial do início do século XX, como a ferrovia Madeira-Mamoré. Ao unir os aspectos visuais e sensoriais da moda, esta pesquisa apresenta novas compreensões sobre a história da moda, bem como sobre a fotografia na sua intersecção com projetos globais do capitalismo industrial.
In 1910, on the cusp of the rubber fever that gripped South America, New York photographer Dana Bertran Merrill was hired to document the transnational construction of the Madeira-Mamoré railroad, built deep in the Brazilian Amazon.
His camera acted both as witness to, and abettor in, this imperial project of US capitalist expansion and exploitation of South America. Although Merrill was not employed to document the transnational clothing culture of the transient frontier society that sprang up around the construction of the railroad, his commissioned photographs overflow with visual information on dress: what people wore, and how they wore it, documented in extraordinary detail. Turning to fashion offers a revised lens into how Merrill’s predominantly male subjects, who had journeyed to the Amazon from over 52 nations, used clothing to construct their identities and position themselves in relation to one another in the remote and uninviting location. Merrill’s archive provides an unusual case study for the historian to critically evaluate the colonial and neocolonial devaluation of labour upon which early-twentieth century projects of industrial modernity such as the Madeira-Mamoré railroad were predicated. In bridging the visual and sensory aspects of fashion, this research presents new insights into fashion’s histories as well as those of photography at its intersection with global projects of industrial capitalism