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Nothing Ever Stays the Same
No full textMariele Neudecker sets us on a journey of discovery. In the exhibition the artist reports on her artistic and actual research on and in nature. She asks us what nature and landscape are, what both can be and what they are not. What artificial, artistic, and human intervention can be, and how everything can interact.
The exhibition raises cross-genre questions about shaping reality, seeking orientation, and finding direction. The exhibition is a combination of paintings and sculptures, stand-alone or in a cross-genre and questioning sense, in terms of content and form. Global and universal regularities are part of the investigations
Exploring fluctuations and interconnected movements in stock, commodity, and cryptocurrency markets
Get PDFThis research employs a vector autoregression (VAR) analysis to explore the volatility and dynamic
interactions between stock, commodity, and cryptocurrency markets. It focuses on the returns of the S&P
500, gold, crude oil, and Bitcoin to analyse their interconnections. Our results indicate that Bitcoin returns
positively affect S&P 500 and crude oil, but negatively impact gold. Conversely, crude oil returns have a
positive influence on gold but lead to decreased returns for Bitcoin and the S&P 500. Similarly, higher gold
returns correspond to increased returns in crude oil and S&P 500 but decreased returns in Bitcoin. The rise
of the S&P 500 negatively influences Bitcoin and crude oil returns, while gold returns remain unaffected.
However, these relationships exhibit weak and limited strength. Including these assets in a portfolio can
help risk mitigation, as Bitcoin diversifies crude oil, gold, and S&P 500, and crude oil diversifies S&P 500.
These findings contribute to our understanding of global financial dynamics and inform decision-making
in risk assessment, portfolio management, risk mitigation, and diversification strategies
Sociocultural pressures, internalization and body esteem in congenitally blind, late-blind and sighted men and women
Get PDFIntroduction: Visual experience has a substantial effect on how individuals construct a template of their own bodies in space. Whether the absence of total or partial visual exposure in individuals of both genders allows the buffering of harmful effects has yet to be tested. This study examined the role of vision among congenitally blind and later blind subjects for the expression of body esteem and sociocultural attitudes toward appearance. Methods: Participants comprised 101 subjects, 53 sighted and 48 visually impaired men and women. For the purpose of the study, we took into consideration congenitally blind, late blind, and typically sighted individuals. The Sociocultural Attitudes toward Appearance Questionnaire-3 (SATAQ-3) and the Body-Esteem Scale Questionnaire (BESQ) were used as measures. Results: Although congenitally blind, late blind, and typically sighted individuals showed similar awareness of media content and beauty ideals, typically sighted women displayed higher pressure to conform and had higher levels of social comparison. Congenitally blind women placed less emphasis on mass media as an influential aspect of their body perception and showed reduced internalization of beauty ideals and higher levels of body esteem. Moreover, men with visual impairments considered siblings and family to be the most influential information sources for their own body perception, while showing reduced levels of athlete internalization. Discussion: In this research, it was identified that the absence of sight influences an individual's body image beyond its physical, metric representation. Susceptibility to detrimental messages linked to sociocultural standards of attractiveness is interiorized by individuals with and without visual impairments, regardless of their gender. Implications for Practitioners: Further studies on body esteem and sociocultural pressures could enable practitioners to better understand how to support individuals with visual impairments in coping with an unhealthy social environment and with feelings of unhappiness related to their appearance
‘Making you aware of your own breathing’: human data interaction, disadvantage and skills in the community
Get PDFUnlearning unsustainability in design education
Get PDFThe climate and ecological emergencies present a crisis for all global communities. This moment
reveals both resistances to accepting the need for fundamental change – alongside opportunities for, and
challenges to, new ways of living. The authors call on the design education community to reflect on how
design education is responding to ecological crises. Sustainability scholars have long described the crucial
role of education as a facilitator of sustainable change. We argue that educational institutions, like many
formal institutions today, have aimed to address contemporary concerns by adding sustainability ideals to
existing ways of working, resulting in ineffective sustainability outcomes – and delays to delivering learning
and action that support sustainable transitions. We propose the meaningful adoption of design for
sustainability requires the unlearning of unsustainability and its associated structures, processes, and
outcomes, to rebuild a discipline able to meet the challenges that ecological crises bring
Sports writing
No full textThis chapter looks at the print culture of sport in the Romantic era and the extraordinary effervescence of sporting prose in the period. William Hazlitt’s famous meditation on bareknuckle boxing, ‘The Fight’ (1822), an account of the championship contest between Tom ‘The Gas Man’ Hickman and Bill Neat, is one of the most significant of Romantic-period prose writings. It can also be seen as the culmination of several decades of sports writing, initiated by Peter Beckford’s Thoughts on Hunting (1781), including the four volumes of Pierce Egan’s Boxiana, or Sketches of Modern Pugilism (1812–1829), and the first modern sports biography, Charles James Apperley’s (‘Nimrod’s’) sensational, tragi-comic Memoirs of the Life of the Late John Mytton (1837). Sport became a forum in the late Georgian period to discuss matters such as masculinity, war, and education, what it meant to be British, and what it meant to be a man
The agential causes of business management students in the implementation of the full virtual teaching
Get PDFObjective:- This study investigates the agential causes influencing undergraduate business management students in their handling of change. The objectives are: (1) To investigate emotional reactions experienced by students since the launch of full virtual teaching as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. (2) To investigate the students’ concerns in their lived experiences. (3) To identify commonalities and differences in students’ experiences during the implementation of full virtual teaching induced by COVID-19 in the socio-cultural contexts of China, the UK, and Ukraine.
Methods:- This research employed an embedded multiple-case design, following the logic of literal and theoretical replication. One-to-one interviews were conducted, involving a total of 61 business management students. All scripts were analyzed using framework analysis and summative content analysis.
Results:- The study found that all sampled students have experienced a wide range of emotions as emerged from their reflexive accounts of their lived experiences associated with full virtual teaching as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. A discernible trajectory of emotional changes was observed. The students’ primary concerns evolved as situations progressed, with the desire to return to campus being pronounced at the beginning of the change and intensifying over time. Additionally, the study identified differences in emotional reactions and considerations of personal development between Chinese students and their counterparts from other socio-cultural backgrounds.
Conclusion:- Emotions, reflexivity, absence, and absenting are influential factors shaping student experiences
Expressions of solidarity: student responses during experiential enquiry-based fieldwork
No full textExperiential enquiry-based fieldwork offers unique opportunities for students to be immersed in unfamiliar environments that challenge both cognitive and emotional states. Their experiences can be transformative through critical reflection of their own positionality and connection with place and its peoples. This can lead to expressions of solidarity that are seen to emerge when being in borderland spaces and being challenged by “others”. Such expressions can emerge through fleeting empathetic engagement with local social, political, and environmental issues. Solidarity can also be expressed as a sense of unity amongst students sharing a common challenging experience through the extant demands of fieldwork. This presentation reveals the importance of emotional experiences and resulting expressions of solidarity that manifest through a series of encounters. By identifying critical reflections of students using reflective diaries, essays and conversations, expressions of solidarity are rendered visible. We examine how the use of student-led peer teaching and learning, facilitated by tutors, and supported by self-reflectivity exercises facilitate students’ altruistic awareness. Our studies show how the effective integration of peer learning with self-reflectivity enhances students’ emotional intelligence and resilience and creates a deeper understanding of a sense of place. Expressions of solidarity are powerful in revealing the transformative impact that these experiences have on learners
Human flourishing: a conceptual analysis
No full textThis first systematic reconstruction of the concept of human flourishing addresses the central problems with the treatment of the concept in psychology, education, policy and science. Drawing on Wittgenstein and his followers, Mountbatten-O'Malley develops a sophisticated methodology of conceptual analysis and makes the case for paying closer attention to complex human contexts, purposes and uses.
Adopting a conceptual approach, informed by fundamental insights adapted from Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, Mountbatten-O'Malley highlights the key features and connections in the conceptual landscape of human flourishing, such as humanness, agency, personal growth, happiness and meaning. He considers the extent to which any claim to knowledge is reliant on a putative human nature, what that nature is, and how we can better understand such notions.
Re-humanizing current research on the concept that is technicalized and detached from ordinary uses, this volume takes the 'human' in conceptions of human flourishing seriously