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The Future Is Present : Designing Time for Sustainable Change
No full textIn matters of teaching design for sustainable change, we are still in a situation that requires us to break new ground. New sets of tools, methods, and criteria are needed. One important criterion is the aspect of temporality. Not thinking about design's long-term effects, pushing acceleration, and neglecting the future have been a major cause of our unsustainable present. Still time is not commonly addressed in design education. To work with time offers several exciting possibilities. One is to extend the focus onto the entire life cycle of an artefact, exploring technical solutions and systems; another is to address aspects of planning for an unpredictable future. The third, which is at the core of my research, is to focus on design as a process rather than an object, and to design time itself. Design is what it makes possible, what it allows for, not what shape or finish it has. My research, which taken place through work with students and staff at the Department of Design, hopes to inspire new ways of working with sustainability within design educations.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Dare to Intervene : Facilitating learning and caring in design education
No full textThis chapter is an exploration into how new ways of practicing and teaching design can inform the leap from philosophical thought into practical action within design education. It is based on an account of working with design interventions in the setting of an international, studio-based bachelor programme in design. The work itself rests within the larger context of exploring and negotiating what it means to educate designers in a complex and more than human-centric world. </p
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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