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What do business students value in the emerging virtualisation of learning and teaching that is accelerated by COVID-19? A pilot.
No full textThe threshold of language: design and soma
No full textThis paper explores the soft, fluid space in between disciplines that allow for an
expansion of creativity. Disciplines often employ their own diverse modalities to express their
work, including verbal vocabulary. The paper is an extended case study into a cross-disciplinary project between fashion design and dance students at LASALLE College of the Arts,
Singapore. The project uses origami as a shared provocation. While origami tends to be a set
of instructions aimed at arriving at a specific form or figure, in this project, paper folding, more
specifically the concept of the fold itself, was used in loose, abstract and organic manner to
allow students to explore it as a language responding to visual, haptic and verbal stimuli
Songs of place and time: birdsong and the dawn chorus in natural history and the arts
No full textThere is an established understanding that birdsong is rooted on the premise that each singing bird is only, or predominantly, concerned with intra-specific communication. Yet, on listening to the mass of birds singing at dawn we have intuitively described the phenomenon as a ‘chorus’. A close analysis of the whole auditory scene suggests inter-specific structure as well as intra-specific relationships, giving rise to the ‘chorus’ impression, rather than random cacophony.
This publication explores how the arts can represent bird song in general and the dawn chorus in particular through ways that underline each chorus’ specific nature of space and place, whilst avoiding the trap of projecting human phenomena onto the more-than-human world.
Transcriptions of birdsong date back to antiquity and imitations of it feature in every culture’s music. However, ‘hearing music in birdsong’ can be little more than a projection of human codes and conventions on to the natural world, avoiding the radical unknowability of this more-than-human world.
The creative work by 29 writers, artists, musicians and poets presented in this multidisciplinary volume reconfigures ways in which the more-than-human is spatially experienced and understood. Such an approach is crucial as we seek alternative narratives to urgently address our current ecological crisis
Chang and Eng and Me (and Me) [creator, performer]
No full textA short performance for puppets in 3 acts. Tobi has spent most of his life with a weird, romanticised and probably quite orientalist image of the deaths of Chang and Eng Bunker – the original Siamese twins – in the back of his mind. He isn’t sure why. Recently he discovered that like him, they were of mixed Chinese heritage, and perhaps the first such performers to make it big in the West. In doing so they carved out an uneasy space in the rotten heart of the American dream
Using puppetry, music and striptease, this is a show about diaspora, assimilation, and siblinghood; about what happens when you don’t know how to read yourself; and about reaching across history in search of a reflection
social studies
Get PDFThis set of short exercises can be used as material for exploring group interactions in ensemble situations, and can be also developed for performance. They were originally made as material for an abandoned ensemble piece but work well as separate studies for group playing. The title refers to the fact that each piece plays with a different aspect of social behaviours in ensemble music making
National SENCO Workforce Survey 2020. Supporting children and young people with special educational needs and their families during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: a national survey of SENCOs
No full textNow in its third year, Bath Spa University and nasen have continued their research into the
role of the SENCO through the National SENCO Workforce Survey 2020. However, a crucial
difference with the 2020 survey was the exceptional time period during which it took place.
Schools have had to respond immediately to this unprecedented event. To this end in addition
to exploring the SENCO role in general, the 2020 survey also focused on capturing the
experiences of SENCOs and their schools in response to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The survey opened on 24th August 2020 and closed on 5th October 2020. The survey asked
SENCOs to consider their experiences in school, from when schools closed to the majority of
children and young people (YP) in March 2020 to the present day. This report covers the findings
Neuroplasticity and crossmodal connectivity in the normal, healthy brain
Get PDFObjective: Neuroplasticity enables the brain to establish new crossmodal connections or reorganize old connections which are essential to perceiving a multisensorial world. The intent of this review is to identify and summarize the current developments in neuroplasticity and crossmodal connectivity, and deepen understanding of how crossmodal connectivity develops in the normal, healthy brain, highlighting novel perspectives about the principles that guide this connectivity. Method: To this end, a narrative review is carried out. The data documented in prior relevant studies in neuroscience, psychology, and other related fields available in a wide range of prominent electronic databases are critically assessed, synthesized, interpreted with qualitative rather than quantitative elements, and linked together to form new propositions and hypotheses about neuroplasticity and crossmodal connectivity. Results: Three major themes are identified. First, it appears that neuroplasticity operates by following eight fundamental principles and crossmodal integration operates by following three principles. Second, two different forms of crossmodal connectivity, namely, direct crossmodal connectivity and indirect crossmodal connectivity, are suggested to operate in both unisensory and multisensory perception. Third, three principles possibly guide the development of crossmodal connectivity into adulthood. These are labeled as the principle of innate crossmodality, the principle of evolution-driven “neuromodular” reorganization and the principle of multimodal experience. These principles are combined to develop a three-factor interaction model of crossmodal connectivity. Conclusions: The hypothesized principles and the proposed model together advance understanding of neuroplasticity, the nature of crossmodal connectivity, and how such connectivity develops in the normal, healthy brain
Curating lived Islam in the Muslim world: British scholars, sojourners and sleuths
No full textBeginning with the medieval period, this book collates and reviews first-hand scholarship on Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, as noted down by eminent British travellers, sleuths and observers of lived Islam.
The book foregrounds the pre-colonial and pre-Orientalist phase and locates the multi-disciplinarity of Britain’s relationship with Muslims over the last millennium to demonstrate a multi-layered interface. Fully sensitive to a gender balance, the book focuses on specially selected individuals and their transformative experiences while living and working among Muslims. Examining the writings of male and female authors including Adelard, Thomas Coryate, Mary Montagu and Fanny Parkes, the book analyses their understanding of Islam. Moreover, the author explores the works of a salient number of representative colonial British women to move away from the imperious wives stereotype and shed light on gender and Islam in Near East and South Asia by illustrating the status of women, tribal hierarchies, historic and architectural sites and regional politics
