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Framework for Social XR, Navigating Challenges, Ethics and Opportunities for Authentic Community Engagement
Get PDFVirtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), and Mixed Reality (MR) redefine community engagement, posing challenges in user experience, privacy, security, inclusivity, and authentic interactions. This work proposes strategies for authentic community interactions in virtual realms, presenting a framework for ethical engagement through AR/VR/MR. Assessing industry trends, we categorize XR potential and challenges into Users, Technology, and XR experiences, emphasizing research gaps and opportunities for addressing social goals. We review and propose strategies to navigate the ethical considerations, inclusive design practices, and user satisfaction metrics to foster genuine connections across boundaries
A Feminist Exploration of Labour in Performance, Sound and Moving Image work in Yugoslav Collectives in 1970s and 1980s
Get PDFWho does what type of work in collective art-making? Who is seen and who remains invisible? Who tells the story and whose names enter histories? How are different forms of labour valued in collective practice?
These are some of the questions that Lina Dzuverovic's research project 'And Others - The Gendered Practices and Politics of Art Collectives' has been exploring over the past eighteen months through a series of group-authored documents, panel discussions and workshops. This illustrated lecture explored the inner workings and division of labour in collective practice, seeking to highlight inequalities, forms of silencing and marginalising of certain participants, often along gender lines. Drawing on methodologies developed by the And Others network so far, the lecture used performance, moving image and sound networks in Central Eastern Europe in 1970s and 1980s as a case study. The talk centred on Slovenia-based collectives such as OHO/The Sempas Family (1970s) and the multifaceted sound, video and performance outputs by FV112/15, a multimedia platform for the production of alternative forms of culture which embraced the DIY ethos of punk
Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen: Daughter of Dog
Get PDFOver the years, Revital Cohen & Tuur Van Balen have assembled a meticulous body of works that intervene in and poetically short-circuit existing planetary networks: from industrial assembly lines and global supply chains to bioengineering labs and gambling halls. Whether reverse-engineering the manufacture of electronic devices back to their raw components, introducing glitches in global trade routes or breeding their own species of sterile goldfish, the artist duo seeks to interrupt and reroute these abstract and impersonal systems while shining a light onto their complex bio and geopolitical entanglements. The pair’s current exhibition, ‘Daughter of Dog’, comprises ciphers and motifs familiar from their previous work, yet pushes them into new territory. Here it’s not impersonal systems that are taken apart and reassembled, but personal experiences of loss and grief, particularly the aggressive responses triggered by the severance of affective bonds with humans and non-humans alike
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No full textResearch, design, production & engineering of a four font family of a typeface. Weights include, Thin, Regular, Bold & heavy. The typeface has been accepted by the Monotype forum 'Myfonts' & is published on that platform
Camberwell College Citizens – what does art and design have to do with building community power?
Get PDFHow can art and design be used as a tool to listen, and community organise? Can a university share power and really deliver its ‘civic agenda’? And how does a festival lead to real world change on the things that matter most to a community?
Camberwell College of Arts, part of University of the Arts London, has been exploring how to use art and design methodologies to build long-term relationships with local communities. Partnered with Citizens UK and working in a hyperlocal way, we joined Southwark and Peckham Citizens focusing our energy on local needs including housing, health justice and living wage. Our activity includes the Festival for Community Organising which has led to real-world change by impacting local housing actions, ESOL and Living Wage campaigns; for example, being part of actions that resulted in The Globe accrediting.
Our work has been coined by Citizens UK ‘the Camberwell model’, acknowledging the mutual benefit working to our strengths brings to the local alliance and the university’s social purpose agenda. If selected, we will share our initial ideas and creative projects that show how a large bureaucratic university can adapt its practices to embrace the agile nature of locally embedded community organising
To the Death: Fortitude and Judgment in Bentham’s Deontology
No full textThis paper was presented at the 17th Conference of the International Society for Utilitarian Studies, 18–20 June 2024, UCL Faculty of Laws.
The paper discusses Bentham’s writing on fortitude, part of a sustained period of work on logic and language that Bentham undertook between 1813 and 1815. My analysis shows how Bentham works between two vantage points. The first decides whether or not someone acted the part of a person of fortitude. The second emerges
when the first vantage point is seen to fail to deliver a judgment on fortitude. If logic is allowed to ‘take the command and give direction to the course of Ethics itself’ a new standpoint for fortitude is revealed. The fictitious entity of fortitude is situated in relation to the real entities of pleasure and pain, allowing us to follow a judgment ‘to the death’.
Bentham begins by asking how someone can be judged to be a person of fortitude. He argues that asking this question can lead us astray, first, because it can direct someone to act against their own interest, second, because it can be a way of avoiding exposure to actual pain or danger. If a judgment on whether someone is a person of fortitude is ‘a mere question of words’, then, paradoxically, ‘words are everything’ because, if a person is seen to have justice on their side, they can play the part of a person of fortitude without any act of fortitude taking place. Bentham suggests, instead, that we can follow our judgments on fortitude ‘to the death’, for example in cases where people accept death in defence of their personal liberty, as the price that must be paid for a benefit to oneself or to others. He goes further, arguing that, in contrast with the established church that prohibits suicide, the doctrines of Jesus ask us to encounter the reality of actual pain or danger, up to and including a self-willed death
Мода на Дьявольской железной дороге
Get PDFВ статье рассматривается связь между модой, временем, глобальным опытом современности и сложностью транснациональных отношений в контексте визуальной культуры США и Бразилии начала XX века. В ее фокусе находится набор негативов со стеклянных пластин, на которых запечатлены рабочие, мигранты из разных стран, помогавшие строить железную дорогу Мадейра—Маморе в глубине амазонских джунглей в период с 1907 по 1912 год. Они были сняты нью-йоркским модным фотографом Даной Б. Мериллом, и щелчок затвора его камеры знаменовал собой буквальную паузу в рабочем дне. Мерилл подробно документировал
изношенные и потертые комбинезоны, хлопчатобумажные рубашки, функциональные брюки и утилитарные куртки, между которыми попадались разнообразные национальные детали, будь то балканский жилет или индийский тюрбан, проливающие свет на географические коммуникации индустриального модерна. Прозванная «железной дорогой дьявола» из-за огромного количества рабочих, погибших во время ее строительства от несчастных случаев и болезней, линия Мадейра—Маморе была американо-бразильским предприятием, призванным ускорить глобальный экспорт каучука и других тропических товаров из Боливии, не имевшей прямого выхода к морским путям
Quantifying Circularity: tools and insights for fashion design for recycling
Get PDFThe reduction in carbon emissions achieved in this decade will be crucial to limiting climate change and the threat it causes to people and planet (Calvin et al., 2023). To contribute to a transition to net zero, the textile and fashion industry must urgently decouple itself from the use of virgin resources (Sadowski, Perkins and McGarvey, 2021). As put forward by WRAP’s Textiles 2030 roadmap, the use of recycled fibres is a key leverage point to reduce impacts including CO2 (WRAP, 2021). However, the textile-to-textile recycling system is currently fractured by the inadequate design of garments. Most garments on the market are not designed for recyclability, and even when they are, they are difficult to identify as such. To limit entropy in the form of material waste, it is therefore urgent that all new clothes should be designed for recycling and clearly labelled for efficient collection. McKinsey's Scaling Textile Recycling in Europe (McKinsey, 2022) report highlights that real collaboration is needed for the textiles value chain to reach the critical scale needed to provide sufficient feedstock for fibreto- fibre recycling technologies. Building on previous research providing ‘insights for designing with future garments with full recyclability in mind’ (Goldsworthy et al, 2019, p47, Hornbuckle et al, 2023, p11) the Quantifying Circularity project brings together partners from both sides of the garment circularity equation: brands and recyclers. The research is carried out by academic and industry go-betweens who bridge the divide between technical recyclers and creative brands. Importantly the project also brought environmental analysts into the process to apply LCA methods to better ‘understand the environmental impacts of design decisions’ (Goldsworthy et al., 2017, Goldsworthy and Ellams, 2019, Forst et al., 2023). The project aims to develop tools to facilitate the access to specific recycler parameters in the early stages of the design process. This paper will present the insights from developing and testing guidelines to support designers in embedding recyclability within each product of their collections. The guidelines were tested and refined through three workshops carried out with fashion and textiles brands across the UK. These collaborative sessions produced a range of garment concepts that offered solutions to current recyclability challenges. Across the wide range of brand type and size, some common challenges were identified. These issues highlight the need for a systemic approach to recyclability, one that addresses both the detailed scale of trims as well as shifting agendas and complex communications between stakeholders in the field
Tackling Climate Change with End-of-Life Circular Fashion Practices - Remade in Italy with Amore
Get PDFThe fashion industry makes a sizeable contribution to climate change. Research on grand challenges has now gained momentum in the management literature, given the vast array of grand challenges that are now globally affecting industries, societies and governments, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, the war in Ukraine and global warming. By coupling paradox theory with the literature on circular economy, this paper investigates the end-of-life circular practices implemented by ‘born-circular’ Italian fashion companies. The paper focuses on upcycling and remanufacturing, which have been neglected in the literature and whose widespread implementation has been deemed suitable to tackle climate change. The analysis of several in-depth interviews with companies and industry experts results in the development of a process model. The model provides granular insights into the environmental value created by the implementation of end-of-life circular practices by fashion firms in their quest to tackle climate change. The study both suggests that paradox theory is likely to have broader applicability to reconcile a wide set of managerial and societal issues and also supports the argument that overcoming an intrinsic paradox could lead to a strategic pivoting within an industry that might yield a paradigm shift
Art in mental health settings: who is it for and what is the role of the artist?
Get PDFThere has been increasing research since the end of the Covid 19 pandemic on the benefits of art in health settings, including mental health services. This paper will explore the journey I encountered as lead artist (jointly with Anna Frijsten) of a project with Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service users and staff to create new, permanent artworks for their centre at St Charles’ Hospital, North Kensington, London. The centre offers therapy to survivors and bereaved from Grenfell Tower and the surrounding Lancaster West Estate, following the fire on 14 June 2017, that killed 72 people. The project will be considered as a case study of an artist's role in healthcare settings.
This case study will be put into conversation with the recent work of the international Hospital Murals Evaluation (HoME) study of the Jameel Arts and Health Lab with NYU Steinhardt, evaluating benefits of art in medical settings for patients (‘service users’) and staff for their wellbeing. This study includes the UK charity Hospital Rooms, which centres the artist within its projects, and expresses their intention that the art they create in the mental health hospitals should be of a similar standard to that shown in museums.
In documenting this case study project, conclusions are drawn as to the relevance of the professional ‘quality’ of the art, as weighed up against the level of agency and input of the service users and staff members in the creation of the artwork