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Releasing Inner Creative Potential through Co-Design
No full textThis presentation is concerned with the value of co-design in the interdisciplinary MedTech space. It will propose that, given appropriate conditions and materials, designing is an innate skill that can be released and practiced across disciplines to achieve a common goal. This will be illustrated through case studies showing the co-development of visual tools to assist in the physical rehabilitation of stroke survivors, and to train healthcare professionals in infection prevention and control. The audience will be invited to keep two thoughts in mind during the presentation, i.e. the need for the co-existence of a range of types of evidence and also the different types of engagement required in interdisciplinary research. The presentation will argue that co-designing in an interdisciplinary context is a distributed social accomplishment, that there is a need to understand (all) your potential end-users and to engage with them from the outset, that one's particular field of knowledge, abilities, prejudices and preferences may not be the only ones required to address a complex issue, and that one needs to ‘build to think’, to prototype and test iteratively, and to learn from mistakes early
The Edge of the Land
Get PDFThe Edge of Land was written to accompany Louise Hopkins exhibition Double Flower at Cove Park. The Edge of Land uses an epistolary form reflecting ‘Double Flower Performance’, a limited edition postcard offered to visitors in the exhibition. The text is composed from letters written to Louise Hopkins following a visit to her studio in Glasgow. The letters directly address Louise, her habits of practice, the emotional range of her works and the relationship of Double Flower to the Rosneath Peninsula where Cove Park is situated, and where the exhibited works evolved in residence
How do we care for others if we don't care for ourselves?
Get PDFHow do we care for others if we don't care for yourselves?
This presentation considers how self esteem and confidence can be engendered within architectural students, during an extended education which is intellectually challenging dealing with ambiguity and alterity, yet personally and financially demanding. What role does empathy, kindness and ethical thinking play in the development of the next generation of architects? How can schools provide the circumstances to support this
Three Little Words: The Critical Charge in Popular Music
No full textHow can social and political critique be delivered in the vernaculars of popular music? Can popular music be a vehicle adapted to critical research
Redefining Glasgow as a Feminist City
Get PDFA recent motion has been passed At Glasgow City Council whereby councillors backed a motion from Green Councillor Holly Bruce which will see Scotland’s largest city making women central to “all aspects of planning, public realm design, policy development and budgets”.
As a collection of students and staff, we examined the principals of feminist spaces and discussed how to provoke discussions around redefining Glasgow as a feminist city through a co design event with Glasshouse
Is Green Consciousness a pre-condition for Urbanity?
Get PDFURBAN FLORAS – A CONTRIBUTION TO BIODIVERSITY
A two day conference with the Botanical Society of Scotland that presented a review of research on the topic of urban floras and a report of the Botanical Society of Scotland’s Urban Flora project 2015-2023 highlighting the role of urban sites for biodiversity including:
The physical and chemical environment for plant life in cities. The process of urbanisation as it affects wild-flowers and bryophytes. Plant life on man-made surfaces, urban microclimates and the heat-island effect, atmospheric pollution and hydrological aspects as they affect flooding
Home: A Journey with Plants and People
No full textScottish Book Week event at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
"Make yourself at home and coorie in the Botanic Cottage for an inspiring exchange on language, place and plants.
RBGE botanist and author Greg Kenicer will be in conversation with visual artist and writer Amanda Thomson about their shared interest in plant names and lore. Join us for this special event, which includes an audience Q&A and the opportunity to purchase books by the authors and have them signed. This event is British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted.
Amanda Thomson is a visual artist, writer, and lecturer at the Glasgow School of Art. She is interested in how we are located (and locate ourselves) in the world, notions of space and place, and ideas of belonging. A lot of her work is about nature, flora and fauna, and rooted in the highlands of Scotland, where she is happiest.
Greg Kenicer is the author of Scottish Plant Lore, Plant Magic and Scottish Plant Names. A botanist and tutor at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, he has inspired learners of all ages for 20 years. He has published numerous scientific papers on the evolution and diversity of peas and beans, but his heart also lies with the fantastic relationships between plants and people.
Where past and future meet: Artificial intelligence and the art museum
No full textABSTRACT:
Museums seek new ways to engage, enchant and educate audiences.
In the future, Artificial Intelligence will play an increasingly important role in audience-orientated digital learning and engagement offers as well as in scientific terms as a research companion for museum curators. Now first steps in this direction are being taken in small experimental projects as for example in the AI project presented here “The Infinite Loop ring”. It is a joint project between artists
and art museums. AI can inspire artists interested in interrogating the past, working along similar lines as museum curators do in processes of data gathering and interpretation. “The Infinite Loop ring” shows how (art) historical museum collections can be used for new artistic questions and demonstrates the development potential of museum artefacts. At the same time, curators and artists can enter into
an exciting new dialogue with visitors with the help of such creative, forward-looking projects.
The EVA Berlin conference – Electronic Media & Art, Culture and History is the annual forum for electronic documentation and visualisation techniques in the cultural sector. The 27th EVA Berlin TRANSFORM will take place from 29 November to 1 December 2023 in the Kunstgewerbemuseum at the Kulturforum. 'Game-changing' technologies are at the centre of this year's event.
TRANSFORM
Game-changing technologies are at the heart of the EVA Berlin 2023 conference. Machine learning, artificial intelligence, blockchain and XReality applications are the innovative drivers in the ecosystems of the cultural sector, in creative industries and in artistic production. Haptic components of a work can be made tangible and pictorial representations can be put into appropriate words. A landscape painting gains an acoustic horizon of experience as a soundscape, or it is embedded in a game setting as an animated weather backdrop.
The educational mission in cultural institutions benefits from these possibilities. There are fundamentally new ways to interact with the audience and to address a broader public. Multimodal access and personalized communication services support the inclusive demands of today’s visitors and open up for a barrier-free perception also by disadvantaged or impaired audiences.
At the same time, innovative technological tools have become firmly established in the fields of documentation, conservation and reconstruction. Machine learning tools ranging from linguistic analysis of historical records to OCR on handwritten texts are already providing valuable metadata for documentation. Digital twins are successfully utilized in the conservation and restoration of artworks to analyse damage, to suggest restoration methods, or even to plausibly reconstruct the colours and textures of destroyed artefacts.
However, ‘The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Generatability’ also entails serious risks. The new coexistence of human, machine and objects predictably dissolves familiar ties to the factual, to the material testimony of the artefacts and to the physical presence at the scene of the real. This raises questions of credibility and verification. Who are we actually talking to when entering into dialogue with an algorithmic counterpart
Modelling compassionate feedback
No full textFeedback is a critical area of practice where the emotional impact of assessment is at play (Falchikov & Boud 2007; Rowe, Fitness & Wood 2014; Winstone & Carless 2020) and where compassion and belonging can enhance resilient learning communities. While the central role of feedback in students' learning is well documented (Hattie & Timperley 2007) and guidance for staff for effective feedback is available (Boud & Molloy 2013), using compassion as a primary driver has been less explored.
The objectives were to create workshop models that staff can use to generate definitions of compassionate feedback and guidance for approaches within creative HE. The aims were to co-develop advice we might give ourselves, our colleagues, and students for a compassionate approach to feedback and to interrogate how to adapt existing processes to further compassionate feedback. This approach responds to Jan McArthur's call to restore 'joy' in assessment (2018) by contributing manageability, compassion, and resilience to the assessment experience for students and staff, including in terms of workload and the 'emotional labour of feedback' (Spaeth 2018).
This research stems from the QAA collaborative project Belonging in Assessment (University of the Arts London, Leeds Arts University & Glasgow School of Art)
Domesticating SDGS in Rwanda’s Housing: The Case of Karama Model Village in Kigali
No full textRwanda has set a clear intention to domesticate the SDGs by integrating them into her national development plans and strategies, especially the umbrella National Strategy for Transformation 2017–2024 and Vision 2050. Rwanda’s Vision 2050 identifies urbanisation as a key driver for economic transformation and urban development. This has further inspired the development of grouped villages, locally known as “imidugudu”, which have been a central part of the government’s Integrated Development Programme (IDP) and the Economic Development & Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS) policy targets. Since 2010 over 60 IDP model villages have been built in Rwanda, inspired by the notion of leave no one behind, and with the aim of resettling vulnerable households living in high-risk areas. Taking the case study of Karama, a model village located in peri-urban Kigali, completed in 2019, a post-occupancy appraisal through direct participant observation and interviews with residents was conducted between 2021 and 2022. Coupled with a critical discourse analysis approach to national policies, the findings emerging from the fieldwork are discussed in relation to SDGs exposing the tension between the overarching discourse and their local grassroots applications. The qualitative data from the post-occupancy interviews is used to discuss SDGs’ potential and relevance in housing. This mapping of global policy framework alongside its local application helps to identify the extent to which context specific projects such as Rwanda’s IDP model villages can provide opportunities for the local implementation of SDGs and in doing so achieving a more resilient future for Rwanda’s communities