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Arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more equal world
Get PDFThe cultural sector is a potential instigator of change due to its experimental, performative, and relational nature. However, like everywhere else, the cultural sector re-enacts and thus conserves inequalities of various kinds through its outreach to wider audiences and its deep engagement in socio-cultural practices. By taking our actions within the ERASMUS+ project ‘Voices of Women’ as a creative catalyst, this paper scrutinizes a set of items for further discussion of arts-based pathways for sustainable transformation towards a more (gender) equal world. We discuss the ability of the arts to engage, educate, and transform power relations through three pathways towards sustainable transformation: 1. Canon critique; 2. Decolonization; and 3. New materialism. We argue that all three pathways enable novel forms of knowledge creation and actions in arts-based research, arts education, the cultural sector, and beyond.
Cover image: Still picture from film: Music and Gender in Balance (Mittner and Bergli, 2018
Drama as a hopeful practice when navigating liminal times
Get PDFThis article presents results from a study where applied drama interventions were deployed in four different groups to build capacities to re-imagine economics. Participants were interviewed or entered dialogue with each other after completing the drama work. Through a close reading of one of the conversations that stands out as glowing in the research material and with inspiration from rhizomatic analysis, we identify four nodes that point to drama as a hopeful practice during insecure times. The dramatic arts have historically facilitated the navigation of localized political and economic tensions, but research and practice has not seemingly addressed the transitions to more holistic forms of development embedded within the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Inclusive Economic Growth. Conceptualizing this transition as liminal, we argue for the use of drama(tic) arts to navigate this state. The node Space for emotions articulates drama as a possibility to embrace and integrate difficult emotions. The node Openings and invitations – a new learning experience describes drama as an unconventional form of teaching that opens for creativity and new understandings. The third node Pretending towards new realities points to how the imaginative aspects of drama can give experiences of new pretended states beyond the liminal. Finally, the node Discomfort and its reinterpretations shows how challenging aspects of drama can be understood as in itself creating a liminal state where the unexpected can emerge. Findings echo the transformatory potential of drama(tic) arts in prior environmental and sustainability education research but extend it in the specific context of navigating and re-imagining economic growth (SDG8), and point to specific qualities of drama when trying to move towards sustainability in difficult times
Shadow talk
Get PDFAs the old man looks into his shadow, he must reflect on his past choices, are we on the right path to improving society or are we simply following, a new energy crisis created for profiting from a new global climate agenda? Each generation has faced this dilemma and may have to face a new series of problems as the transition of energy moves forward. The artwork is created as a stencil, can be found in Stord, western Norway.
Cover image: Naeem Searle, aka NIMI. Detail from street artwork Shadow tal
Working the Boundaries of Social Work: Artificial Intelligence and the Profession of Social Work
Get PDFArtificial intelligence (AI) and algorithmic decision-support are relatively new technologies within the field of social work. This paper investigates how the social work profession in Denmark responds to the current technological changes. Analysing articles from professional journals associated with the Danish Association of Social Workers, online content on the association’s website, and interviews with key actors involved in the association’s work on technology, this paper shows how professional agents legitimize and criticise these technologies, thereby performing different kinds of boundary work. The paper will show how such boundary work, carried out by the profession of social work in Denmark, change over time, and how, in the discussion on artificial intelligence, the profession reinforces its own position within the welfare state, demarcates the boundaries between the profession of social work and other occupational groups, and formulates a new professional project
Nyanlända elever i slöjdklassrummets lärmiljö
Get PDFThis article explores the learning environment that newly arrived students encounter in sloyd classrooms in Sweden. The empirical material was collected through a handheld camera, at two schools with newly arrived students, in school Years 8–9, in the educational subject sloyd. The findings show that newly arrived students’ encounters with the rich learning environment of the sloyd classroom contribute to rich social interaction and communication during lessons. Further, the results show how interior and furnishing in sloyd classrooms enable newly arrived students to cooperate and support each other. The article also highlights that the sloyd classroom offers resources that can be used as teaching materials in sloyd teaching.Artikeln belyser och beskriver den lärmiljö som nyanlända elever möter i slöjdklassrum i svensk grundskolekontext. Det empiriska materialet har samlats in genom videodokumentation på två skolor med nyanlända elever, i år 8–9 i slöjdundervisning. Resultatet visar att nyanlända elever möter en rik lärmiljö i slöjdklassrum som bidrar till social interaktion, delaktighet och multimodal kommunikation och interaktion i undervisning. Vidare visas hur interiör och möblering i slöjdklassrum möjliggör samarbete mellan elever och att slöjdklassrummets lärmiljö erbjuder resurser som kan användas som läromedel i undervisningen
Investigating the Mechanism of the Effect of Nature-based Architectural Components on Residential Satisfaction
Get PDFThe development of multi-unit urban housing, especially in the metropolises of Iran, does not take into account the effects of cultural factors on the perceived quality of housing architecture. Since the community is diverse in metropolises, especially on a sub-culture scale, it is impossible to provide housing development strategies and practical actions concerning the factors related to this scale of culture. The compatibility of lifestyle at the national or structural level with housing can be considered a general strategy to solve this problem. Based on the position of nature in the foundations of the Islamic lifestyle, it is possible to accommodate humans’ significant needs through inspiration from nature. This paper intends to investigate the mechanism of the effect of nature-based architectural components (NBAC) on residential satisfaction (RS) from the Islamic lifestyle perspective to apply the findings in architectural planning and programming processes. The results demonstrate that as adherence to the Islamic lifestyle increases, residential preferences related to the formal and semantic dimensions of NBAC also increase. Qualitative deficiencies in these components cause a decrease in perceived quality and, consequently, RS. Therefore, high residential preferences regarding semantic and formal components lead to the intensification of deficiencies in qualitative perception. In such conditions, a large part of the RS is due to residents’ adaptive behaviors. Therefore, measuring RS based on accommodating residential needs cannot be considered an objective criterion to determine housing architecture quality to test the fit of housing development patterns with residential needs. This proves the necessity for the measurement of the perceived quality of housing architecture based on the main influential factors involved, which are NBAC
Leder. Et nettverk av samskapt viten : - et vitenskapsfelt i utvikling
Get PDFIn 2013, the National Center for Art and Culture in Education took the initiative to gather teacher educators in design, Art and Craft in an independent network, in order to strengthen cohesion and develop the field of knowledge. The first gathering was at Gardermoen, and since then the Network for Design, Arts and Crafts in the Higher Education Sector (NDACHE) has held annual conferences where teacher trainers have presented papers with their own development projects and their own research. These presentations have led to good and developing discussions across the country\u27s educational institutions. The participants have been the backbone of the community of practice that has developed in the past 10 years. As participants, we develop in a field of research and practice. We meet as colleagues, teachers, supervisors, article authors, peers, and editors. In a field where different understandings and insights are negotiated, in a network of co-created knowledge. With this anniversary issue, we want to strengthen the link between the NDACHE network and the development of the academic field.I 2013 tok Nasjonalt senter for kunst og kultur i opplæringen (KKS) initiativ til å samle lærerutdannere i formgiving, kunst og håndverk i et eget nettverk for å styrke samhold og utvikle fagfeltet. Første samling var på Gardermoen, og siden da har Nettverk for formgiving, kunst og håndverk i UH-sektoren (KHUH) hatt årlige konferanser der lærerutdannere har presentert egne utviklingsprosjekt og egen forskning. Disse presentasjonene har ført til gode og utviklende diskusjoner på tvers av landets utdanningsinstitusjoner. Deltakerne har vært selve ryggraden i det praksisfellesskap som har utviklet seg i de 10 årene som har gått. Som deltagere utvikler vi oss i et forsknings- og praksisfelt. Vi møtes som kollegaer, undervisere, veiledere, artikkelforfattere, fagfeller og redaktører i et fagfelt hvor ulike forståelser og innsikter brytes frem i et nettverk av samskapt viten. Med dette jubileumsnummeret ønsker vi å styrke koblingen mellom KHUH-nettverket og utviklingen av det akademiske fagfeltet
Stitching Together (in) Anthropology Class : On the Use of Craft Practices in Higher Education Humanities
Get PDFAs an anthropologist teaching at a German-speaking Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology Department (pertaining to a Humanities Faculty), it always struck me how much we know about the role embodiment plays in and for culture and how little we make use of this in teaching. For this reason, I decided to expand established Higher Education pedagogy by putting craft (as a) practice at the centre of my newly developed course entitled DIY in Times of Crisis and Beyond. As a result, my students and I developed our thinking through and while practising embroidery in class, weaving in the mandatory readings and narrations of (pandemic) crafting experiences along the way. Borrowing from the low-threshold approach to stitching in community-based creativity projects, our shared and mostly novice stitching facilitated the articulation of thoughts-in-progress, thus creating a space in which dominant views regarding social (craft) norms, quantifiable productivity as well as academic logocentrism could be temporarily suspended, giving way to embodied wisdom
Material-economic aspects of wooden pole fence-buildings: Examples from a flexible building method
Get PDFThis paper examines different aspects of wooden pole fence-buildings through two different perspectives. In the first part of the article, the material-economic conditions and the nature of the crafts involved in the building technique is examined through a sloyd-theoretical perspective. By comparing approaches and methods of the wooden pole fence building-technique with those of domestic sloyd rather than architecture, an attempt is made at understanding the techniques epistemological nature. The versatile nature of the building technique is emphasized, and its regenerative qualities highlighted. The second part takes a closer look at the craft procedures involved in the making of a wooden pole fence-building through a processual reconstruction of a small barn based on a filmed documentation of the building process from the 1930s. Through practical experiments, attempts are made to understand and recreate the craft procedures documented in the film. Questions about the selection of wood for the barn and how material conditions affect the craft procedures are discussed. A filmed documentation of three of the procedures of the reconstruction gives an insight into the process
The Gardener’s Practical Knowledge: The importance of time, reflection and knowledge of a place to become a site builder
Get PDFWith this article, I want to raise questions about the gardener’s practical knowledge in order to create greater awareness in educational contexts and working life of the importance and application of what it means to be and work as a gardener. Practical knowledge takes time to develop and requires experience and conscious reflection. It also requires knowledge of the particular site you are working with, which in principle is always complex, as it involves everything from natural habitats to human expressions, such as history. To understand what practical knowledge is, I drew on situations from my working life and discuss these with references that highlight the importance of involving different forms of knowledge, phenomenology and hermeneutics. I used the concept of genius loci to formulate the meaning of places and posthumanist thoughts on the relationship between humans and nature. My conclusion is that experience, reflection and knowledge of a place are central to building sites, a task in which the gardener is highly involved. I conclude with a number of questions about how to work with these aspects of the profession in education and working life