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Med Fagdidaktikk som omdreiningspunkt
No full textLiv Merete Nielsen disputerte i år 2000, med avhandlingen Drawing and spatial representations. Det var trangt i salen, i de gamle lokalene til AHO, ved St. Olavs plass. Disputasen var historisk. Da doktorgradsprogrammet ved Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo (AHO) i 1995 la til rette for å inkludere designdidaktikere, fikk også denne profesjonsgrenen innen ‘the making professions’ mulighet til å forske i eget fagfelt. Liv Merete var den første som disputerte, med eksplisitt fagdidaktisk tematikk. Vi visste det ikke da – men dette var den første disputasen i en rekke av flere, med designdidaktisk forankring. For flere av tilhørerne ble denne begivenheten en inspirasjon for videre forskningskarriere, men også for undervisning i fagdidaktikk, på BA-, MA- og etter hvert også Ph.d.-nivå.  
Hilsen til Liv Merete Nielsen på 70-årsdagen
No full textProfessor Emerita Liv Merete Nielsen har i en årrekke vært svært sentral i arbeidet ved Institutt for estetiske fag.
Dette strekker seg fra satellittsendinger i forhold til Reform 94 og arbeidet som høgskolelektor på 90-tallet via en periode som doktorgradskandidat og førsteamanuensis, til slutt som professor ved instituttet. Hun har trukket i tråder, løftet studenter og kollegaer, bygget forskningsgrupper, nettverk og frontet viktige saker for instituttet og faget. I tillegg har hun påtatt seg store oppgaver knyttet til utvikling av læreplaner, stadig med et blikk for strategi og vekst for fagområdet design, kunst og håndverk.
Vi takker henne for bidraget og vi gratulerer henne så mye med 70-årsdagen
Kjære Liv
No full textDu har vært en foregangskvinne og gjort vei i vellinga. Du har vært uvurderlig i å synliggjøre faget og snakke tydelig om hvilken rolle vi som fag har og kan ha i samfunnet. Din kunnskap og interesse for hvordan designkompetanse er noe som angår oss alle var med å vekke mitt fagdidaktiske hjerte og hjerne. Kombinert med bakgrunnen og kunnskapen jeg hadde som designer, ble møtet med dette i PPU studier mye av grunnen til at jeg fikk en økende interesse for mer kunnskap om feltet. Du har en svært positiv energi, som og kommer til syne med ditt glimt i øyet og lure smil
På väg mot industrikarriärer i Sverige: En narrativ studie av elevers val av industriteknikprogrammet
No full textTowards industrial careers in Sweden – A narrative study of students choosing the industrial technology program
This article is about six students’ descriptions of their choice of the Industrial technology program. I have applied a narrative perspective and analysed the students’ narratives thematically. The research question is about the prominent themes of students’ descriptions of their choice of the program, and the answer is that four themes emerge from the descriptions. Two of the themes point to the advantages and disadvantages of industry jobs and industrial education. The third theme is about the choice of the program as a way for newly arrived refugees to get industrial work and eventually a permanent residence permit. The fourth theme is about students’ choice of industrial education as influenced by other people such as parents, teachers or study counsellors. The conclusion is that students who choose industrial education do not necessarily have the ambition to work as industrial workers. This may affect the industrial skills supply in the future in Sweden as an industrial country. Newly arrived refugees in industrial education can be included in this supply of skills, but these young people can also pursue other careers after completing their education. Although the choice of upper secondary education is free in Sweden, this freedom does not apply to these young people who make the choice based on the pressure on them to get a job after completing their education to be able to stay in Sweden.Den här artikeln handlar om sex elevers beskrivningar av deras val av industritekniska programmet på gymnasiet. Jag har utgått från en narrativ ansats och analyserat elevernas berättelser tematiskt. Forskningsfrågan handlar om dessa framträdande teman i elevernas beskrivningar av deras val av program. Som svar framkommer fyra teman ur beskrivningarna. Två av temana pekar på för- och nackdelar med industri och industriutbildning. Det tredje temat handlar om elevers val av industriutbildning som påverkas av andra människor, och dessa andra människor kan vara anhöriga, föräldrar, lärare eller studievägledare. Det fjärde temat handlar om valet av program för nyanlända flyktingungdomar som ett sätt att få ett arbete inom industri och så småningom få ett permanent uppehållstillstånd. Slutsatsen är att de som väljer industriutbildning inte alltid har ambitionen att arbeta som industriarbetare vilket kan påverka kompetensförsörjningen inom industrin i framtidens Sverige. Nyanlända flyktingar som studerar på industritekniska programmet inkluderas i kompetensförsörjning, men dessa ungdomar kan också ändra karriär efter avslutad utbildning. Även om valet av gymnasieutbildning är frivilligt i Sverige, gäller inte denna frivillighet för nyanlända flyktingungdomar som gör valet utifrån den press de har på sig att få ett jobb efter avslutad utbildning för att kunna stanna i Sverige.På väg mot industrikarriärer i Sverige – En narrativ studie av elevers val av industriteknikprogrammet
Den här artikeln handlar om sex elevers beskrivningar av deras val av industritekniska programmet på gymnasiet. Jag har utgått från en narrativ ansats och analyserat elevernas berättelser tematiskt. Forskningsfrågan handlar om dessa framträdande teman i elevernas beskrivningar av deras val av program. Som svar framkommer fyra teman ur beskrivningarna. Två av temana pekar på för- och nackdelar med industri och industriutbildning. Det tredje temat handlar om valet av program för nyanlända flyktingungdomar som ett sätt att få ett arbete inom industri och så småningom få ett permanent uppehållstillstånd. Det fjärde temat handlar om elevers val av industriutbildning som påverkas av andra människor, och dessa andra människor kan vara anhöriga, föräldrar, lärare eller studievägledare. Slutsatsen är att de som väljer industriutbildning inte alltid har ambitionen att arbeta som industriarbetare vilket kan påverka kompetensförsörjningen inom industrin i framtidens Sverige. Nyanlända flyktingar som studerar på industritekniska programmet kan inkluderas i denna kompetensförsörjning, men dessa ungdomar kan också ändra karriär efter avslutad utbildning. Även om valet av gymnasieutbildning är frivilligt i Sverige, gäller inte denna frivillighet för nyanlända flyktingungdomar som gör valet utifrån den press de har på sig att få ett jobb efter avslutad utbildning för att kunna stanna i Sverige
Building a Tiny house from waste: An alternative platform for exploring sustainability
No full textThis paper contributes to the understanding of how critical reflection can be applied to sustainability. This was accomplished by tracing the progression of a tiny-house project over time and the associated activities, which involved sourcing secondhand and discarded materials. We are a group of researchers and practitioners who worked together to explore and challenge the established norms of sustainability in housing practices: who is building, what is being built, with what materials, and through which processes. The use of discarded materials as resources for building a tiny house came to be decisive in shaping a platform for inclusion and sustainable practices. While the most common practice of building involves buying the materials needed at a lumber yard, working with discarded and secondhand materials requires time and flexibility. Tools play a central role in adapting random waste to specific purposes, a process that also demands skills in handling tools creatively. Additionally, gathering, organizing, and cleaning are activities that should be given special attention when working with these types of materials. In this paper, we explain how we reinjected waste materials into the production chain and how our work contributes to sustainable development from environmental and social perspectives. The argument for sustainability in our research revolves around exploring processes that include more groups in society and alternative ways of organizing the resources available
Valuation Mechanisms of Fine European Tapestries in the International Auction Market
No full textUsing textile arts (fine European tapestries) as a case study, we demonstrate the potential of hedonic regression to better understand buyers’ willingness to pay for these works at auction. Once highly valued, this medium offers unique characteristics that differ in part from paintings and affect buyers’ purchasing behaviors differently. Based on a dataset of 602 wall-hangings sold at Christie’s and Sotheby’s over the last decade, our empirical findings suggest that local place branding, aesthetics (antiqueness, ornamental effects), and material quality are crucial price determinants of textile arts
Skill, craft, and poiesis-intensive innovation
No full textWhat is craft practice? The purpose of this paper is to contrast the categorization of craft practice with that of skill and innovation. I argue for the relevance of innovative skilled practice to future-making. Both skill and craft play an important part in collective engagements with futuring. With an ethnographic methodology, typical of anthropological fieldwork, I have explored skill in dairy farming, cheese making, and currently food gardening. In all these three realms, the results of ethnographic observation are that ideational processes immediately connect to intimate acquaintance with materials and ecosystems (including flora and fauna, soil, climate, landscape and humans). My conclusion is that craft practice and its outcomes imply a highly localized cosmology of evaluation. I show how comparative ethnography allows the mapping of these relations between people and places, and their more-than-local connections
Negotiation of Forces in Performative Weaving
No full textI am a textile artist that builds performative weaving constructions emphasizing the tensions in the reciprocal dialogue that occurs between body, tools and materials. This strategy has emerged from an intention to approach an embodied and immersive relationship with a weaving practice. How does a body adapt to a craft, and how does the craft change in response? All making, especially weaving, can be considered a modality of growth, and the body and any work produced in a craft relationship become a symbiotic, adaptive being. The textile is a life-sustaining extension and evolution of the human body. Our mutual dependence is the ground out of which I develop my projects. My research has settled into a generative weaving installation, designed to encourage the blurring of boundaries between body, loom and dyebath, fibers and pigments (the body becomes the tool, the material is the body, the material is the tool). The installation itself is woven as it is activated, made up of an unbroken silk band. The weaver is integrated through a modified backstrap loom, ancient technology that relies on muscular resistance for tension. To this end, the woven band loops around the waist, and around the weaving heddles, connecting the feet to them. The dyepot anchors the system to the room and to the body. If an element is out of balance, it will collapse. One can continually graft new threads onto this band, so in theory it could go on growing indefinitely. This ecosystem is perfectly calibrated to fit the weaver\u27s body and circumstance, an enhanced, collaborative being, like a stone-age cyborg
Negotiating Authenticity and Climate Change in Heritage Gardens
No full textWith this paper we explore and discuss the priorities of and possible goal conflicts between authenticity and climate change in heritage gardens. How can climate change mitigation, adaptation, resilience, and cultural heritage conservation be combined in heritage gardens? Our study was guided by the following research question: How do gardeners negotiate climate change and authenticity in heritage gardens? From Rachel Carson\u27s Silent Spring in the 1960s through to the 2002 report Gardening in the Global Greenhouse and the recent Gardening in a Changing World in 2022 mankind\u27s impact on the environment and the emerging climate change has been the focus of increasing attention. By investigating and interviewing multiple gardeners our objective was to pinpoint common challenges, as well as what can be learned from one another within the field of gardening and heritage conservation. The case study method was adopted for this study, involving three head gardeners in the United Kingdom. Interviews were conducted with Joseph Atkin at Aberglasney Gardens, Claire Greenslade at Hestercombe Gardens, and Steve Lannin at Iford Manor about their expertise and knowledge. The gardeners expressed concern regarding climate change and the challenges it poses. The interviewees shared their experience with drought, reduced use of pesticides and herbicides, and the peat legislation in relation to their role as head gardeners. We argue that authenticity and the traditional gardening practised before the advent of power tools, plastic, peat issues, and uninformed transportation can be part of the solution to loss of biodiversity and climate change. This paper identifies some of the obstacles encountered in relation to negotiating questions of authenticity and climate change in heritage gardens