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Nurturing Creativity Using Intentional Event Design
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Nurturing Creativity Using Intentional Event Design
The purpose of this project is to continue the research and strengthen the academic foundation that underlies the intersection where creativity and creative leadership are supported by intentional event design. This project will explore the tools that can help determine if an organization encourages bold creativity or limits the time or energy allowed for creative problem solving, and the many ways we can design experiences with the intention to allow creativity to enter the room. This will extend the practical applications and explore stories where leadership, creativity and experience design intersect that others can take lessons from. The information shared will be relevant across the events and experiences industry, not too long or dense so it is highly consumable and provides a body of work that is useful to others.
I have a unique position having supported messaging for a variety of leaders with creative, intentional event design using the mediums of both live and digital event experiences to educate, inform and inspire. This shared knowledge [TE1] will provide tools that allow event designers to get closer to the decision makers to best understand the desired outcomes will ultimately ensure greater success in delivering events that meet and exceed organizational objectives.
This proposed book will be my second, the first being Intentional Event Design, Our Professional Opportunity (Endean, 2017). Ideally, the completed work would compel organizations to invite me to share this information and I can continue the work that encourages more events to include a rigorous and iterative design process.
Tahira Endean
April 24, 202
The Moral Hygiene Movement in the United States, 1840s—1920s
Get PDFDuring the 19th and 20th centuries, the mental health care system in the United States underwent a series of reforms in an effort to better care for some of the country’s frailest citizens. This period, called the moral hygiene era of mental health care, emerged from a further understanding of psychiatry and psychology which led to structural changes in the mental health care system.
This thesis examines the beginnings of the Kirkbride system, which sought to reform the whole of American mental health care through landscaping and architecture as well as the specific treatment plan for each individual. Using case studies like the Buffalo State Hospital demonstrates how Dr. Thomas Kirkbride’s ideas filtered throughout the country. Adding to Kirkbride’s ideas, reformer Dorothea Dix also promoted humane treatment for the mentally ill. Unfortunately, with the onset of the Industrial Revolution and ideas about scientific management and eugenics Dix and Kirkbride’s ideas faded. It took reformers like stunt reporter Nellie Bly to reenergize those earlier ideas. But most professionals squabbled amongst themselves instead of making real progress. World War I served as a catalyst for a reset in how practitioners approached mental health care. By the 1920s, new practitioners like Mary Cromwell Jarrett took the ideas of Kirkbride and Dix and created psychiatric social work. An assessment of these reformers shows that their plans for a modern mental health care system are still relevant in twenty-first-century society
Project CPS: Curriculum Content + Creative Problem Solving = Successful Integration
Get PDFThe goal of my master’s project is to empower teachers to unlock the Creative Problem Solving potential in their students and open the door to a world of possibilities by providing strategies, resources, and support to integrate CPS into their teaching practice.
To achieve this, I have designed a book that presents an original and engaging
imaginative characters to foster an immersive and interactive learning experience that will capture the imagination of both students and teachers.
Meet the Spirit of Creativity, represented as E. Paul Torrance, along with four Creative Problem Solving Characters who will guide teachers and students through the Lands of Clarification, Ideation, Development, and Implementation. As they progress through the Land of Clarification, the Land of Ideation, the Land of Development, and the Land of Implementation, students earn a Key of Understanding by completing a Problem Solving Challenge.
To supplement the book, an accompanying Teacher Guide, which will be completed as an independent study, will provide extended learning experiences for each step of the CPS process and specific examples of how to integrate Creative Problem Solving into classroom content and standards
Taking Science Museums to The Edge: How Science Museums Can Advocate for Social Justice, Education and Inclusivity Through Their Exhibits
Get PDFScience museums have often associated affluent populations and quality education with access to scientific material and content. While these institutions have become more accessible in many ways, they can and should increase their efforts to include BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities and individuals. As the need grows for diversity in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields so does the demand for science museums to include these communities’ needs and wants. This thesis discusses the need for and importance of BIPOC representation in science museums and what museums have already done to include them in their programming and exhibits. This discussion explores solutions to improve museums’ relationships with and trust by BIPOC populations. The aim in this discussion is to create awareness and understanding for the need to include BIPOC individuals in STEM related content, fields, and leadership roles
Seasonal variation in condition, body lipid, reproductive investment, and diet in brook stickleback (Culaea inconstans)
Get PDFNorth-temperate fishes are subject to significant changes in abiotic and biotic conditions across seasons, which are likely reflected in temporal differences in energy dynamics, reproductive investment, and diet. This study explores seasonal changes in body lipid content, female reproductive investment (GSI), body condition (Fulton’s K), and diet in brook sticklebacks (Culaea inconstans) in Western New York. I expected body lipid content and body condition would decline during the breeding season reflecting energy expenditure for reproduction, and these parameters would increase in the summer and fall prior to the onset of winter. Based on previous studies, I also expected the diet of sticklebacks would vary seasonally, reflecting a broad and flexible feeding strategy. GSI of female brook sticklebacks was highest during the spring, declined and remained low during the summer, and gradually increased during the fall; Fulton’s K showed a similar pattern. In contrast, body lipid content increased during the spring in male and female sticklebacks before declining in the summer and increasing in the fall, and Fulton’s K overall was not a reliable predictor of female body lipid. The diet of brook sticklebacks was broad in terms of the number of taxa consumed but was focused primarily on aquatic insects and crustaceans. The feeding strategy was seasonally variable, expressing a generalist feeding strategy in the spring and more specialized in the summer and fall. An enhanced understanding of prey fish energetics may aid in informing the management and conservation of native freshwater fish communities, sport fisheries management, and waterfowl conservation
Behavior Management Systems in American and Italian Schools
Get PDFThis is qualitative study examined the behavior management systems used by elementary school teachers practicing in Italy to determine how behavioral management strategies may change based on geographical location. The primary research question was: How does behavior management vary in Italian schools versus American schools? Information was gathered through structured interviews with teachers in both countries; field notes were taken while students were interacting in various environments such as classroom, gymnasium and hallways. Information from the blogs of members of my peer’s cohort were also analyzed. Implications for this research may include positive practices in behavior management that can be applied to future classrooms of my own and shared with my educational colleagues and peers.https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/ipds_research/1005/thumbnail.jp
Social Sanguinity: Communal Ties and the Pursuit of Political Power in Saga Age Iceland
Get PDFPrior to the Norwegian annexation, Icelandic society lacked a government with an executive branch. As a result their legal system evolved in a highly privatized fashion in which individuals and their families were expected to self-advocate in order to assert and defend their rights and interests. Icelandic law also privatized the prosecution of criminals and enforcement of legal verdicts. Such a legal system required individual Icelanders to forge and maintain an array of social connections in order to protect themselves from both legal actions brought against them and the violent feuds that resulted due to the system’s short comings.
This thesis analyzes the constructs of kinship and other social connections that were defined through their resemblance to kinship to better understand the complex nature of medieval Icelandic society and the social phenomenon of feud as presented in the Icelandic Sagas. While scholars have often been tempted to fit social connections into a hierarchy based on their perceived social importance, this thesis asserts that such a hierarchy is inconsistent with the saga evidence. Rather than rank social connections into a hierarchy, this paper argues that kinship should be viewed as the default social connection that other social ties were constructed to emulate in order to grow social networks. A close examination of the sagas indicates that even the construct of friendship was closely connected to the social norms surrounding kinship and individuals frequently strove to solidify their friendships by forging additional kinship ties
Conservation Treatment and Technical Analysis of a Blue & White Parian Vase
Get PDFParian ware is a type of hard-paste, biscuit porcelain first manufactured in Victorian England and later in Bennington, Vermont as well. This project studied a Parian vase with Multi-Spectral Imaging and x-ray radiography and analyzed it with x-ray fluorescence (XRF) and scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). Results suggested a potassium rich clay, a zinc rich cobalt overglaze, and an interior clear lead glaze. Conservation treatment cleaned and compensated for the losses in the vase. Library research did not identify the vase’s place of manufacture; it showed the vase has similar designs as objects in the Elizabeth McCullough Johnson collection and provided a foundation for future research
Nassau Hall Stair: The Analysis and Conservation Treatment of a Gelatin Silver DOP Photograph
Get PDFNassau Hall Stair by photographer Elizabeth G.C. Menzies, was brought into the Buffalo State College’s Garman Art Conservation Department for examination and treatment. Conservation imaging was utilized during examination and documentation. Nassau Hall Stair was attached to a window mat which was found to be significant due to graphite and ink inscriptions. The photograph exhibited puncture-like damage and undulations while the window mat showed similar undulations and brown tidelines. Nassau Hall Stair was identified as a gelatin silver developed-out-paper (DOP) print with X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (XRF) and went through a series of solvent and aqueous baths which reduced tape adhesive and flattened undulations and protruding damages. Simultaneously, the window mat underwent aqueous baths which resulted in remounting the facing paper onto a new archival window mat
ANT341
No full textPrerequisite: ANT 100. Examination of art and material culture within Indigenous communities. How material culture can be used as evidence for human behavior, especially ritual behavior. Historical factors affecting the production and use of material culture. Continuity/change within material culture/artistic repertoires. Every other spring, even years