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Interdisciplinary reflections on South Asian transitions: exploring the rise of far right ideology
No full textThis book presents an interdisciplinary understanding of the social, and economic drivers of far-right politics in South Asia. In response to the growth of xenophobia, reactionary nationalism, authoritarianism, and aggressive leadership in the region, it examines both the religious and economic conditions that have encouraged far-right populism and the profit-driven capitalist systems it produces. The book also delves into the unique histories of South Asia, along with the region's religious and cultural traditions, to provide context for broader economic and political trends and shed light on the consolidation of wealth and growing inequality.
The book thoroughly explores the economic and political transformation of South Asia resulting from far-right populism, making it a valuable resource for students and researchers in the fields of political economy and South Asian studies
Business models of contemporary art galleries and art fair influence: a thematic synthesis of the literature
No full textArt galleries have traditionally played a pivotal role in the contemporary art system, divided between cultural and commercial goals, which are not necessarily compatible. In recent times this has been further challenged by the emergence of art fairs. In this paper we consider the construct of business model and how it has more or less explicitly applied to art galleries and their relation to art fairs through a semi-systematic review of the literature with a method of thematic synthesis. From an initial body of 642 retrieved sources, our analysis selected and assessed 16 final references. Major themes that emerged encompass business model typologies, value creation, resources, partners network, customers, decision-making, organisational structure, internationalisation, norms, risk and vulnerability, and the emerging online market, accounting for a quite articulated business model of art galleries
Interiors in the age of Covid-19: interior design between the public and private realm
No full textThe Covid-19 lockdowns caused people worldwide to be confined to their homes for longer and on a greater scale than ever before. This forced many unprecedented changes to the way we treat domestic space – as relationships shifted between the public and the private worlds, and homes were rapidly adapted to accommodate the additional roles of schools, offices, gyms, restaurants, making-spaces and more. Above all, our understanding of the home as a site to support and enhance the well-being of its inhabitants changed in a variety of novel ways.
Interiors in the Era of Covid is a collection of essays which explore the complex ways in which our inside spaces (contemporary and historical) have responded to Covid-19 and other human crises. With case studies ranging from US and Europe to Japan, China, Colombia, and Bangladesh, this is a truly global work which examines wide-ranging subjects from home-working and home technologies, to the impact of lockdown on people's identities, gender roles in the home, and the realities of domestic living with Covid in refugee camps.
Exploring the roles played by designers (both amateur and professional) in accommodating changing requirements and anticipating future ones – whether Covid or beyond – this book is a must-read for students and researchers in interior design, architecture, architectural and design history, and anyone interested in the home and the relationships between health and design
This is Britain: photographs from the 1970s and 1980s
Get PDFBritain experienced profound changes in the 1970s and 1980s, when it was racked by deindustrialization, urban uprisings, the controversial policies of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, and the Troubles in Northern Ireland. Photography became a central form of creative expression during this period, supported and disseminated through new schools, galleries, artists’ collectives, magazines, and government funding.
'This Is Britain' is a group exhibition that brings together the work of a generation of photographers who were commenting on the deep unrest of these pivotal decades. Vanley Burke, Pogus Caesar, Anna Fox, Paul Graham, Sunil Gupta, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, and others pictured communities, traditions, and landscapes affected by Britain’s shifting social and economic realities. Together, they photographed a nation redefining what it meant to be British and, ultimately, modern
The ‘C’ word: the challenges of class in creative business education
Get PDFAs many academics acknowledge class is a complex and fuzzy term that presents challenges in creative business education. Recent research clearly demonstrates the significance of class inequality in cultural and creative industries and highlights the way class inequality intersects with race, gender, and disability. Within creative education, class inequality is also at play. Research suggests that working class students' lack of economic, cultural, and social capital hiders theirs their ability to take up work placements and internships and creates barriers to social engagement. Talking about these issues, however, is also highly challenging, for the ‘unspeakability’ of class means that structure inequalities are often interpreted as individual failings. In this chapter, I look to address the challenge the ‘c’ word presents in creative business education. In doing so, I consider how contemporary academics understand class and how class has been approached in an intersectional way in the context of arts and creative industries. I then turn to the significance of class inequality within the sector and how class origin shapes students’ experiences of education with creative disciplines. The chapter argues that students can find it hard to unpack the ways in which class operates and how it impacts on their lives. Providing space to share these experiences and anxieties, however, can be one way of increasing understanding of class inequality with a view to challenging its influence across the creative sector
Queer transplanting from the Himalayas to Yorkshire: Reginald Farrer's loves for men and alpine plants (1880-1920)
Get PDFThe impact of campaign features on crowdfunding success in contemporary visual public art: a machine-learning application
Get PDFThis paper aims to shed light on the use of crowdfunding in the contemporary art market by studying the impact of main features of crowdfunding campaigns on their success for less tangible contemporary visual artistic expressions which might be more difficult to be traded through traditional art market channels, such as art public art. In order to disentangle possible benefits of crowdfunding for visual artists, we apply a machine-learning methodology to an ad-hoc taxonomy we elaborated, based on the general literature on crowdfunding benefits. An original dataset was built starting from Kickstarter category “Public Art” for the period 2009-2022. Using Data Robot, we estimated 36 ML models to predict raised funding amount in the public arts crowdfunding campaigns. Out of the estimated models, the Light Gradient Boosted Trees Regressor (Gamma Loss) (4 leaves) performed the best. Feature impact and feature fits were estimated after this model. Main results show that having a direct link of project realisation on the Kickstarter page, number of pledge levels, types of rewards, number of project updates, and number of backed projects by creator are top five features influencing the raised funding amount
Mobile games success and failure: mining the hidden factors
Get PDFPredicting the success of a mobile game is a prime issue in game industry. Thousands of games are being released each day. However, a few of them succeed while the majority fail. Toward the goal of investigating the potential correlation between the success of a mobile game and its specific attributes, this work was conducted. More than 17 thousand games were considered for that reason. We show that IAPs (In-App Purchases), genre, number of supported languages, developer profile, and release month have a clear effect on the success of a mobile game. We also develop a novel success score reflecting multiple objectives. Furthermore, we show that game icons with certain visual characteristics tend to be associated with more rating counts. We employ different machine learning models to predict a novel success score metric of a mobile game given its attributes. The trained models were able to predict this score, as well as the expected rating average and rating count for a mobile game with 70% accuracy
Painting postcolonial displacement: reconceptualising South African modernism
Get PDFThis research project aims to theorise, critique, and respond through an art practice to a largely unknown but unique aspect of architectural Modernism. Modernism's history may be well understood in the West, but this practice-based PhD finds and details the unusual appropriation and deployment of Modernism in South Africa. My enquiry therefore proposes a critical investigation into politics that both geographically and socially brings to the fore issues of nationhood, origin, and displacement. This project sets out to articulate an historic archive of the development of Modernism that is framed through a colonialist dialectic, visualising a darker side of the modernist project.
My response to the visual manifestations of modernist traditions and legacies in South Africa’s architecture is traced through historic race-based urban spatial structures and inbuilt inequalities that are still prevalent today. Contextualised through colonial, postcolonial, and decolonial references, a visual language emerges which is situated within post-conceptual painting and sculptural production methods. My methodologies draw from overlooked historical references and specific architectural archival repositories in South Africa. My process starts with preparatory drawings and collages including architectural model-making focusing on domestic architecture. These models are photographed and subsequently turned into large-scale paintings that due to their hybrid nature appropriate a language of fiction/science fiction. This enables me to open up this particular historical content and allow for ambiguity and multiple interpretations.
What my research found was how architectural Modernism was used by White nationalists during 1950s apartheid South Africa to develop and represent a heroic and modern society that simultaneously was determined to distinguish itself from the legacy of British imperialism. The result was a particularly cruel programme that relied on scientific and technological solutions to segregate the Black and White population spatially and socially. The egalitarian futuristic dreams of the International Style were thus manipulated and mutated into modernist structures that were specifically designed to keep the population segregated from each other. Modernism in South Africa has its roots firmly linked to the International Style or Modern Movement in architecture and planning that shows an inextricable linking of colonialism and Modernism. The visual side of this research project works to draw attention to marginal modernist aesthetics in order to reconceptualise and reinterpret hierarchical colonial frameworks that developed out of the centre of European Modernism
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