618 research outputs found
The evolution of a writer's voice: Gloria Naylor reads and reflects on her own work
No full textRecorded in Ithaca, NY by Cornell University., Sponsored by: Society for the Humanities., Speaker(s): Author of The Women of Brewster Place, Mama Day and Linden Hills., Reading, November 21, 1988.Naylor describes the development of her literary voice and suggests that the legion of voices which have preceded her have molded hers into what it is today.1_k80p6ida1_cmmq69o
Perspectives on Critical Design: a Conversation with Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor
No full textThis paper features an edited conversation with designers Ralph Ball and Maxine Naylor. It explores their thinking in relation to critical design.
In the preface to 'Form Follows Idea' (Ball & Naylor, 2005) Jeremy Myerson describes Ball and Naylor as being regarded among Britain’s most thoughtful furniture designers.
In 1985 Ball formed a design partnership with Maxine Naylor a reputable experimental designer maker. Together they began to challenge the boarders between art, craft and design. They have exhibited work internationally and held teaching positions in colleges in the UK and USA. Over the course of a decade from 1985 Ball taught on Furniture, Jewellery and Industrial design at the Royal College of Art where Naylor taught on Furniture Design, directing the course between 1995 and 1998. Today Ralph Ball is Professor of Design at Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London and Maxine Naylor is Professor of Design and Director of the Design Research Institute University of Brighton.
Through practice and academic tenure they have developed a distinctive approach to practice based research and refined their critical perspectives. They describe themselves as critical designers and use design as a critical, visual discourse to communicate ideas about design culture and society today. Taking experimentation as a research method they subject their ideas to a critical process of refutation. They question the work through a scholarly approach that challenges protocols of design to enhance the design profession.
In this conversation the designer’s concepts of ‘open-process’ and ‘design poetics’ are discussed. They describe their role acting as critics of design from within design practice. They outline their thoughts on the increasingly un-ideological culture of industrial design. They describe how through playful experiment they question the value of repetition in design and mass production of products. They do this by taking modernist axioms to extremes and ‘embedding narrative’ into objects as commentary on the state of contemporary design.
Supplementing the conversation the author offers his reflections. Primarily this exposes a form of critical design that differs significantly from popular and often technologically orientated notions of critical design
The Evaluation of the Impact of Outreach:Standards of Evaluation Practice and Associated Guidance
No full textOFFA commissioned a team at the University of Warwick, including Dr Claire Crawford and Professor Robin Naylor, in August 2016 to investigate how universities and colleges evaluate their outreach schemes for young, disadvantaged learners who are the first in their family to go to higher education. This first phase of OFFA’s ongoing research into the impact of outreach has used feedback from universities with an access agreement and interviews with widening participation staff in eight institutions to understand current evaluation practice, leading to the development of proposed standards of evaluation.
In the second phase of the project, for which OFFA has today published an invitation to tender, these standards will be tested with a number of outreach schemes, delivered by institutions and third party organisations, to help OFFA develop further guidance on the evaluation of outreach, and to provide data on the impact of outreach in different contexts
Higher education outcomes, graduate employment and university performance indicators
No full textOfficial employment-related Performance Indicators in UK Higher Education are based on the population of students responding to the First Destination Supplement (FDS). This generates potentially biased performance indicators as this population of students is not necessarily representative of the full population of leavers from each institution. University leavers not obtaining qualifications and those not responding to the FDS are not included within the official analysis. We compare an employment-related performance indicator based on those students responding to the FDS with alternative approaches which address the potential non-random nature of this sub-group of university leavers
Foreign direct investment and wage bargaining
No full textWe derive the sub-game perfect Nash equilibria for the foreign direct investment (FDI) game played between two unionized firms. We show that FDI is less likely, ceteris paribus, the greater is union bargaining power and the more substitutable are the firms' products in the potential host country. We also examine the conditions under which the FDI game between firms will possess the characteristics of a Prisoners' Dilemma.Foreign direct investment, oligopoly, wage bargaining,
Endogenous determination of trade regime and bargaining outcome
No full textWe show that whether trade is one-way or two-way depends on wage strategies adopted by trade unions. The union’s wage strategy choices themselves depend upon the conditions under which trade takes place, as well as upon the characteristics of both the labour and the product markets in the trading countries. The impact of economic integration on union choices and therefore upon both labour market and trade outcomes is shown to vary according to the nature of the prevailing trade regime. We generate testable hypotheses and discuss the implications for the development of econometric tests of these hypotheses
THE EFFECTS OF ENTRY IN BILATERAL OLIGOPOLY
No full textWe show that a firm’s profits under Cournot oligopoly can be increasing in the number of firms in the industry if wages are determined by (decentralised) bargaining in unionized bilateral oligopoly. The intuition for the result is that increased product market competition following an increase in the number of firms is mirrored by increased labor market rivalry which induces (profit-enhancing) wage moderation. Whether the product or labor market effect dominates depends both on the extent of union bargaining power and on the nature of union preferences. A corollary of the results derived is that if the upstream agents are firms rather than labor unions, then profits are always decreasing in the number of firms, as in the standard Cournot model. We also show that if bargaining is centralized then there is no wage moderation effect and wages are the same independent of the number of firms, as in the standard model with exogenous factor costs.Unionized bilateral oligopoly ; wage bargaining ; firm profits
The effects of entry in bilateral oligopoly
No full textWe show that a firm’s profits under Cournot oligopoly can be increasing in the number of firms in the industry if wages are determined by (decentralised) bargaining in unionized bilateral oligopoly. The intuition for the result is that increased product market competition following an increase in the number of firms is mirrored by increased labor market rivalry which induces (profit-enhancing) wage moderation. Whether the product or labor market effect dominates depends both on the extent of union bargaining power and on the nature of union preferences. A corollary of the results derived is that if the upstream agents are firms rather than labor unions, then profits are always decreasing in the number of firms, as in the standard Cournot model. We also show that if bargaining is
centralized then there is no wage moderation effect and wages are the same independent of the number of firms, as in the standard model with exogenous factor costs
Tina McElroy Ansa, Gloria Naylor, Ntozake Shange and the christio-conjure literary tradition, 1995
No full textThe Christio-Conjure paradigm, a product of both Christianity and Conjuring, historically has provided an alternate set of ideologies for African Americans. As an ontological archetype, the Christio-Conjure paradigm is centered around a set of metaphysical phenomenon featuring various conventions such as religious/moral guidance, natural healing, and contact with spirits. To a large extent, the Christio-Conjure paradigm functions within a matriarchal network designed to extol the African American woman as the life force and mother of humanity. A corpus of African American women writers have exhibited a critical interest in the Christio-Conjure paradigm because of its cultural link with the past and because of the Afrofemcentric allure associated with this ancient, yet ever-active, African American tradition. Tina McElroy Ansa, Gloria Naylor, and Ntozake Shanqe are three authors who contribute to the matrix of African American womens writing via their novels, Baby of the Family (1988), Mama Day (1989), and Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982) respectively; each author functions as a literary Christio-Conjure woman, fashioning worlds of women richly impacted by the power of conjure
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