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Orquestra Errante: Free Improvisation and Decolonial Practices at the Brazilian University
No full textThrough this article, I seek to demonstrate how much the activities developed by Orquestra Errante for more than ten years at the University of São Paulo were consolidated as a practical and theoretical proposal for reflection on issues related to new decolonial epistemologies. These decolonial perspectives emerge as a fundamental theme for the urgent review of political pedagogical projects at universities that can help and enable the confrontation of colonial cultural dependence and economic exclusion and inequality in Brazil
English: Experiences from an Itinerant Improvisation Workshop in Mexico
No full textThis article discusses the author\u27s journey of facilitating improvisation workshops in Mexico, starting in 2007. The text first provides personal context, as well as context related to the emergence of a local improvised music scene in Mexico City in the 2000s. The text goes on to expound the underlying ideas that function as guidelines for the workshop, and the various strategies that it employs in its ever-changing methodology. Originally written in Spanish, this English version includes a new section that provides follow-up reflections four years after writing the original text was written
How is Rural Going Digital? Using Community-Based Research to Understand Rural Broadband Use
No full textThe knowledge economy is changing the rules and landscape for economic development. Rural communities could be one of the biggest beneficiaries of the new reality as broadband and other digital technologies can mitigate the challenges of distance and density that rural usually faces. To better harness digital technologies it is essential that rural communities consider the potential of the technologies and how they can align with community development plans. Community-based research (CBR) provides an exciting approach that can help communities work through the new opportunities and realities presented by digital technologies as the approach is based on communities leading the research process and working with researchers to explore issues and opportunities. This presentation will share CBR results from rural Manitoba communities that are exploring how broadband and digital technologies are currently being used and how those communities would like to use those technologies in the future
The Impact of Automation on Local Businesses: Economic Futures in Rural Canada
No full textAutomated technologies, increased digitalization, and international events, such as COVID-19, are putting pressure on national and local economies to adapt or face rising unemployment and economic downturn. Rural communities are particularly impacted by these pressures as their economies are often built around a common industry, and the lack of access to reliable broadband creates significant barriers. This project asks: what are the implications of automation for labour in rural Canada? How prepared are rural businesses for change? What policy options are available to address the challenges resulting from the adoption of automated technologies? We conducted a localized assessment of how businesses in a rural community in Western Canada view the scale, nature and impacts of automation. Interviews with 60 businesses found that most business owners and managers are unprepared for technologically-driven disruptions. They are unlikely to adapt, adopt, or innovate in response to a changing business and economic environment. Recognizing that this compounds the employment and labour challenges already present in rural places, we present some policy options (such as re-skilling workers and closing economic gaps between urban and rural areas) that various levels of government and businesses could adopt moving forward
Landscape Design Guidelines for Enduring Industrial and Manufacturing Spaces: A Case Study of Lunenburg Nova Scotia’s Working Waterfront
No full textIndustry has sought to incorporate green space into their landscape since the 19th century beginning with the factory garden and continuing through to corporate landscapes today, yet academic literature does not address best practices for designing industrial and manufacturing landscapes. The goal of this research is to create design guidelines for industrial landscape architecture which will be developed through literature review and critiqued using key informant questionnaires and an illustrative case study. This poster explores how landscape architecture can unify the interface of industry, public space, and climate change by providing an overview of the results to date. This research aims to contribute to the quality of life for rural communities that are integrated with industry and build knowledge on best practices for the design of industrial spaces
Remote Craft: Three Cases of Design Intrusions and Social Marginalization in Artisan Communities
No full textFor millennia, indigenous communities have engaged in craftsmanship, which, if observed through a contemporary lens, would be recognized as designing. However, a significant shift occurred in the 1970s when designers began inserting themselves into these societies, luring them with promises of improved livelihoods. Despite being hailed as conduits to "modernity" and access points to new markets, these designers, even if unintentionally, established exploitative business models that detach the creative essence of crafting from the community, relegating artisans to mere inexpensive labor.
In this presentation, I will shed light on several such instances, delving into how these imposed models perpetuate social marginalization. These dynamics epitomize what Colombian scholar Alfredo Gutiérrez terms as design south(s), a phenomenon even observable in ostensibly geographically "northern" regions.
Drawing on my fieldwork research with traditional and indigenous communities in Guatemala, the United States, and Sápmi (northern Finland), I will describe the craft activities within each community and the impact of design and designers on both support and marginalization. In the context of an exploitative artisan sector, I contend that it is the very remoteness of these communities that should position them at the center of sustainable futuring, and not marginalized at its periphery
Commuters and communities: How employment mobility affects community development in source communities
No full textIn the past decade, scholars (Hannam, et al., 2006; Sheller and Urry, 2006) have identified a ‘mobilities shift’ observing increased levels, new forms, and different patterns of mobility among people, ideas, and knowledge. One type of mobility is Employment-Related Geographical Mobility (E-RGM) which is defined as people who commute for work away from their place of residence that involves more than 2 hours daily to more extended absences and journeys lasting weeks, months or even years. The purpose of this paper, which is part of the On the Move Partnership: Employment-Related Geographical Mobility in the Canadian Context 7-year SSHRC funded project, is to examine the impacts of E-RGM on community development in source communities. Specific impacts include a mobile workers’ investment of time, financial investments, and emotional attachments to place within his or her source community
Community resilience and resistance in the shadow of offshore fossil fuel development
No full textFor over a decade, concerned citizens and communities in Atlantic Canada have pushed back against planned offshore drilling in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence. Existing on the periphery of provincial and national economies and often outside the focus of government policies designed to create economic growth, these communities have successfully raised awareness of risks from offshore petroleum development and more sustainable alternative industries. We propose a presentation on this issue that focuses on the resistance of PEI citizens to offshore petroleum development in response to direct threats to local industries and the marine environment. The presentation will explore the beginnings of this movement, its accomplishments, struggles and the ability of marginalized citizens to influence government and industry decisions. The potential economic risks and benefits of offshore petroleum development will be compared to more environmentally sensitive, place-based renewable energy options pursued by rural communities elsewhere in North America
Rural Vibrancy in Nova Scotia
No full textRural communities are encountering substantive changes to local economies, government structures, and service provisions. These changes are happening at an increasingly rapid frequency and involve an increasing engagement of local actors. The ability of local actors to collectively respond influences a community’s vibrancy. This panel will share findings from recent examinations of rural vibrancy in South Kerry, Ireland and Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. The panel will also include perspectives from local civil society organizations. These community-based research initiatives focus on the role of civil society organizations (CSOs). Within rural communities CSOs consist of voluntary and non-profit organizations, both incorporated and non-incorporated entities. The results of this study will provide useful insights into vibrancy among civil society organisations, which in turn can be utilized to support future developments, policies, and programs in rural communities
Building communities with new rural regions in Manitoba
No full textFollowing several decades of losing population in rural Manitoba, more than 80 communities fell below the minimum requirement of 1000 people needed to maintain their municipality status. In 2012, the Provincial government responded with an amalgamation initiative of modernizing rural municipalities. This initiative allowed municipal jurisdictions to determine their amalgamation partners, a more suitable and collaborative intervention than predetermined amalgamation. In addition to locally driven partner identification, this amalgamation initiative was also notable for being one of the first instances where a national analysis of a functional economic region model at the provincial scale informed the amalgamation process. Provincial and municipal jurisdictions involved in the initiative were provided with a breakdown of the functional economic regions based on where residents live and work. In addition to geographic boundaries, the analysis also provided findings regarding potential population and fiscal strengths for these regions. This presentation provides important insight into municipal amalgamation by examining the overlap between the proposed functional regions and the 47 amalgamations resulting from locally driven \u27municipal partnering\u27. Since the new legislation gives municipalities until 2019 to complete this process, the jury is still out if this initiative will result in strengthening rural regions in Manitoba