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Specific findings from a survey of cricket players related to cricket gear and plant-based/’vegan’ leather alternatives
Get PDFThe report provides specific results from a survey of cricket players covering perceptions of the potential use of ‘vegan’ leathers. Vegan Leather Cricket Gear (VLCG) project is funded by UKRI via University for the Creative Arts, AHRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)
Bleeding garments: a magical and poetic approach to the phenomenology of intensely evocative garments
Get PDFI have a black dress that has been hanging dormant in my wardrobe for nearly a decade. I say dormant to suggest that the dress is not in active use but is nonetheless part of my wardrobe. What the dress looks like has become irrelevant. What matters is the way its presence brings back feelings of summer rain, the rough texture of pavement under bare feet, and that feeling of how love sometimes seems to stop time. The dress, however, is more than an anecdote; there is something very particular about how I feel in the presence of the dress. It stirs something deep within me and somehow seems to expand beyond its physical materiality.
There is nothing unusual about emotional attachment to clothing and the phenomenon has not gone unnoticed by academics and artists. Existing research, however, tends to focus on cognitively produced anecdotes and there is a gap in research that considers how evocative garments actually make us feel. This research is concerned with the experience of evocative garments that evoke particularly intense emotions (intensely evocative garments) and proposes that it is our encounters with the garments in the moment that makes them meaningful as a phenomenon. The aim of this research is twofold: it seeks to explore what intensely evocative garments are and can be like as an experience and what a methodology for exploring these garments might involve.
This research draws on a practice-led, interdisciplinary methodology that is underpinned by phenomenology, magical awareness, and poetry in its broader meaning. This involves exploring intensely evocative garments by applying the phenomenological attitude of wonder to practice-led experiments and to participatory workshops that invite people to ‘uncover’ poetic fragments from garments. Rather than taking the form of a traditional phenomenological text, this research also seeks to inspire phenomenological insights through practice-led outputs, such as photographs, poems, and installations. Through this in-depth exploration, this research seeks to contribute to the growing discussion on clothing and emotion and to inspire more meaningful engagement with clothes as material culture
Applying British academic design curricula to a Chinese environment: challenges and potentials
Get PDFThis project investigated the challenges and potentials of applying UCA design curricula to Chinese academic context. To do this, I adopted the case study of the Institute of Creativity and Innovation at Xiamen University. ICI is a partnership between Xiamen University (XMU), China, and the University for the Creative Arts (UCA). At ICI I was the unit leader of Analogue Design Skills and Digital Design Skills. In this project I organized an exhibition with ICI Creative Foundation Tutor Link Daniel Tollady. The exhibition was called ‘Stories from Other Places’ and it featured works created by ICI students enrolled in the Analogue Design Skills and Digital Design Skills units. The exhibition’s location was the Herbert Read Gallery at the UCA Canterbury campus. This event created the opportunity of initiating a dialogue between UCA and ICI student and faculty populations about pedagogical aspects related to applying UCA creative foundations curricula to a Chinese academic context
Power and built environment course delivery: a modern solution to force majeure
No full textWhile the pandemic has seen dramatic changes to higher education delivery and strategy in the past few years, there appears to be a certain continuity in the functioning of power relations in pedagogy. It is argued that teaching and learning online, which was accelerated by the pandemic, transformed not only how education was organised and delivered, and raised expectations about increased transparency, accountability, service orientation, and civic participation but also exacerbated associated fears concerning surveillance and control, privacy issues, power relations, and inequalities. Consequently, Michel Foucault’s critical studies concerning regimes of power are of particular interest when applied to teaching and learning in creative sectors such as Built Environment and Construction in Higher Education Institution (HEI) settings. Teaching Built Environment and Construction courses online has always been seen as pivotal but faced some challenges during the shift to online teaching across HEIs in the UK. It has long been argued that the development of construction professionals requires utilising digital technologies, which can be achieved by working remotely. Equally, there is a vital need to be present and witness the physical development of products and operations in the form of structures. This chapter utilises Foucault’s conception of power relations and governmentality to explore how micro-level techniques of power, such as surveillance, manifested during the pandemic, particularly in the Built Environment and Construction in HEI settings, and created resistance, advocacy, and regulation among the key stakeholders, particularly academics. In this context, we look at Foucault's notions of governmentality and control and how they might be used to critically view managerialism as a manifestation or practice of surveillance. Subsequently, the chapter argues that the new ‘managerialism’ that emerged during the pandemic acts as an emergent and increasingly rationalised and complicated power and control technology that operates at various levels on the individual, both educator and learner, and the broader institution
Gallivant
Get PDFBromley-born Andrew Kötting is one of the most innovative and most respected artists, writers and filmmakers in Britain today. His best known work, GALLIVANT from 1996, can best be described as part road movie and part home movie as we follow him, his then 85-year old gran Gladys and his seven year-old daughter Eden (who suffers from Joubert Syndrome) on a thirteen week long journey around Britain’s coastline, spanning over 6,000 miles. Along the route, the trio meet locals, eccentrics and above all, get accustomed with long-standing traditions which makes this fascinating travelogue a homage to British culture and identity.
To gallivant about means to wander or travel about from one place to another in pursuit of adventure and entertainment. This is precisely what filmmaker Kötting tried to achieve with his travelogue (which premiered at the Edinburgh Film Festival where it won the ‘Channel 4 Best New Director’ award). As Kötting states: “It was my gran Gladys and her husband Albert who took me on my first trips to the seaside, camping or caravanning. We would nearly always go to Bexhill-on-Sea…” Obviously, those fond childhood memories are full of nostalgia and it’s little wonder then that the artist’s film (after a brief pre-title sequence) – and the journey together with his opinionated gran Gladys and his daughter Eden – begins at the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea. Little Eden suffers from Joubert Syndrome, meaning that mainly, she can only communicate via sign language using her hands. While Gran and Eden don’t appear to be that close at first, during their long journey they really bond – it is one of the factors why Kötting decided on this trip… because he wanted to document this travelogue as a journey across generations and before the three might part in ‘different’ ways
Traces Under the Surface
Get PDF‘Traces Under the Surface’ is a research-led exhibition commissioned for the opening of the Red-River Culture Art Museum in Beijing, China. The exhibition investigated the transformation of everyday urban space during the Covid lockdown in Chinese cities. It explored how urban visual media can serve as an alternative observation tool for critically understanding the living experience during the pandemic via the lens of students in Beijing. Through a site-specific curation, the exhibition included a group of installations and a film produced in 2022. The co-curators are currently working on a publication with the Beijing Institute of Technology Press.
The exhibition and the film examine the idea of a 'virtual field-trip' to map out a psychogeographic guide of Beijing during the pandemic lockdown. It foregrounds personal stories, as well as their social, spatial, and psychological connections with other people, objects, and spaces in the city. It resonates with the philosopher Judith Butler's writings on pandemic, to highlight how the pandemic illuminated the everyday object as a 'social form' that bears invisible traces. The exhibition aims to register and document the 'unnoticed' stories of grassroots who traverse, resist and negotiate with the authoritative restrictions - stories that would be struggling to find a place in official records but demonstrating an important layer of urban life in the city
China: the great transition: from agrarian economy to technological powerhouse
No full textThis book explores the great transition of China from a subsistence agrarian economy to a technologically driven economic powerhouse which reflects the achievements of the hardworking Chinese people. China continues to grow as the second largest economy of the world from 2010 onwards. It is going to be the largest economy in the world by putting US economy behind. The Chinese GDP has increased of 1,500 times from 1952. This book examines the transformation of China and its economic growth is neither miraculous nor a product of market economy. Further, this book states economic development in China as a product of political pursuit shaped by the Chinese people led by the Communist Party of China from 1921 onwards. China is not only the workshop of the world today but also works as the engine of global economic growth and recovery of crisis ridden global economy. This book also shows how phenomenal Chinese economic growth and development led to the significant fall of poverty in China.
This book states that the prosperous transition in China continues to show features of combined and uneven development. This is evident as China has largest billionaires, but many people still live and practice subsistence economy. However, many Chinese do not have access to clean air, water, sanitation and dignified sources of livelihoods. This book shows the social, economic and political inequalities as hindrances to deepening of democratic and egalitarian development in China. This book states that the gender gap and widening gap between urban and rural China are twin serious challenges to progressive transformations in China. The Chinese state and government are trying to implement different policies and programmes to overcome these challenges
Linking leader’s positive humor and employee bootlegging: empirical evidence from China
Get PDFPurpose: With the increasingly fierce market competitions, non-linear development of organizations through bootlegging has become a key path for enterprises to advance competitiveness. Motivating employees to carry out bootlegging in an organization is becoming an important issue many enterprises face now. This paper aims to analyze the relationship between leader’s positive humor and employee bootlegging. We introduced norm violation acceptability as the mediating variable and trust in leader as the moderating variable to propose a theoretical model and verified it by structural equation modeling (SEM) and multiple regression analysis separately.
Patients and Methods: Based on both the emotion as social information theory and the social information processing theory,
a sample of 278 professional employees working in an information technology (IT) enterprise of China was used to test the moderated mediation model. We used SPSS and AMOS to further verify the research model through structural equation modeling (SEM) and multiple regression analysis.
Results: The results indicate that there is a positive relationship between leader’s positive humor and employee bootlegging, which is partially mediated by norm violation acceptability. Moreover, trust in leader not only moderated the relationship between leader’s positive humor and norm violation acceptability but also strengthened the influence of leader’s positive humor on employee bootlegging through norm violation acceptability.
Conclusion: These findings have implications in identifying factors which contribute to employee bootlegging and providing
a theoretical foundation for leaders in an organization
Making space: architecture students' creative reflections on digital and physical learning spaces
Get PDFSong of Mary
No full text4 minute composition. Donghyeok Jeong participated as a composer, lyricist, and bass player
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