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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
Processes of 'positive multiculturalism' in practice : an extended case study with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC)
No full textThis thesis consists of three distinct but interconnecting case studies that took place
between 2007 and 2010 in collaboration with Warwick Arts Centre (WAC), Britain’s
second largest multi-arts venue. The study developed practice-led methods to
investigate the dynamic interactions between notions and perceptions of
‘multiculturalism’ and ‘internationalism’ in relation to WAC’s theatre and performance
programming and education activities. The first case study is a qualitative audience
reception study designed to make sense of WAC’s programme in relation to
multicultural and international issues. The second case study focuses on an
educational outreach project that placed two local schools in collaboration with a
commissioned teacher-artist and a University of Warwick academic. These
encounters inspired the final case study, which made use of WAC’s newly built
Creative Space as a site for a devising project with young people from nearby
Coventry, culminating in a performance for an invited audience.
The thesis explores the varied complexities that frame ‘multiculturalism’ by focusing
on its origins as a political concept in post-1945 Britain and its subsequent
association with contemporary contentious social, political and cultural national and
international issues. An analysis of the negative effects of ‘multiculturalism’ is
balanced by considerations of the project’s emergent concepts: ‘hospitality’ and
‘conviviality’, which articulate the possibilities of living in diversity in more ‘positive’
terms. These paradigms reverberate throughout each case study, informing their
methodologies, influencing their conceptual frameworks and placing
‘multiculturalism’ in more dynamic and relevant dimensions of pedagogical and
creative practices. Each case study considers collaboration between strangers and
investigates the potential of WAC as a hospitable and convivial environment. These
new perspectives demonstrate the optimistic possibilities of creative and humane
action for producing a ‘positive multiculturalism’
And So The Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop at the University of Warwick
No full textPulitzer Prize winning author Cormac McCarthy’s work has become required reading in literary criticism, and yet no syllabus appears to provision for the in-depth discussion his texts, particularly the 1985 novel, Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West, require. The ‘And So the Judge Returns: Blood Meridian Workshop’ at the University of Warwick emerged from the idea to provide a space that facilitates such a discussion. Designed to bring academics and non-academics of all ages together in one space, the workshop quickly developed from a small, Warwick-based event into a live-streamed and recorded international conference with a significant audience based in the United States. The workshop reaffirmed the interest in the novel’s enigmatic antagonist Judge Holden and motifs such as the landscape and violence. Less traditional ideas of the judge were also discussed, such as reading the judge as fraud or as weary of chaos and perpetual violence. The workshop succeeded in creating a space to share thoughts and ideas and continue the academic discourse on the novel. Speakers included Dr Nicholas Monk and Dr David Holloway, both established McCarthy critics; Peter Josyph whose artistic engagement with McCarthy’s work and career his highly respected among critics; and Dr Dan O’Hara, expert in American Studies. Ronan Hatfull and Katja Laug represented the younger generation of McCarthy critics. Live-streaming also afforded insights into the academic discourse to the mostly non-academic online audience. The article provides a summary of the day’s events and the links to the edited recordings
Waringh Waringh: a history of Aboriginal People in the Warwick Area and their Land
No full text[Preface]: This book is dedicated to the First People of the Warwick area. The portrayal of history in Australia frequently neglects to address Aboriginal people at all or with the importance they deserve. In particular, accounts of history often fail to address the contribution of Aboriginal people to the prosperity of our
nation and the substantial impact Aboriginal culture, tradition, lifestyle and language has had. In this book I hope to contribute to an understanding by other Australians of Aboriginal people of the present by recognising the history of those Aboriginal people of the Warwick area.
The contents of this book have been shown to and discussed in part with Sam and Ethelynn Bonner who are First People of this area and who are therefore Traditional Owners. If there are other First People of the area who I do not know, I extend my apologies to them and hope that there is nothing written here which may concern them.
Regrettably the vast majority of historical information
concerning Aboriginal people has been recorded by European
people and mainly by European males who had above average
social status by virtue of wealth or profession. The writings regularly show evidence of the writers’ perceptions of themselves as superior to the people of whom they were writing. However in many cases such writings are the only sources of information and I have attempted to interpret those writings in the light of current understanding and attitudes.
Some of the scanty information about how people lived in
traditional times has been interpreted in the light of more
general knowledge of how Aboriginal groups lived in other areas of Australia. However the wording should allow the reader to easily distinguish between specifically local knowledge and that more general knowledge.
Warwick Shire today covers area traditionally held by two
groups of people. To the west there were the Gnarabal people and to the east the Gidhaba people. The approximate
boundaries of the Gidhabal area are shown on the map on page 231 Most of the information in this book refers to the Gidhabal people and their area because that area forms the major part of the Warwick Shire.
There is some confusion about the naming of the traditional
owners to the east of Warwick because the European way of
thinking and grouping does not coincide with the traditional Aboriginal grouping. The Gidhabal people occupied an area from about Woodenbong in NSW to Allora in the north. Their language is very similar to that spoken by people in a much larger area extending to the coast in the east and to well south of Lismore and scholars now refer to this group as the Bundjalung speaking people. To further confuse the issue, there was a clan of the Gidhabal people living mainly between Warwick and Killarney known as the Geynyan people. Their language was only occasionally different to the main Gidhabal language.
This history then is mainly a contribution by a person of
European background to the education of other non-
Indigenous people in order that we might act to restore
Aboriginal people to their rightful place as the First People of this community. In the following paragraphs, I will tell something of my own history so that readers may make their own interpretations of what I have written.
I am of European descent (mainly English but with a bit of
Spanish) with an Aboriginal family which is described below. I am aware that my interpretations have been coloured by the perspectives inherent in who I am – my ethnicity, my gender and my class. This history has been written however as a genuine attempt to put on record as much as possible of what has been recorded about Warwick's First People. It also represents my own personal attempt to understand how the people lived in this land and how present people have been affected by the Invasion.
I was born into a modest land-owning family in the New
England area of NSW of a mother from a reasonably well-off
background and a father from a poor farming background. My
mother’s family had owned considerable areas of land in that area for several generations and so by implication my ancestors must have been closely associated with taking land from Aboriginal people. My father’s family were also land holders but on a more struggling level and my grandmother in particular had an unusual sympathy for the plight of the Aboriginal people who used to live in her area in the late 1800s.
As a child on the central coast of NSW I scarcely knew of the existence of Aboriginal people and so was somewhat disgusted to discover in adolescence that many were living in extreme poverty in makeshift shelters. I visited an Aboriginal camp near the Armidale tip in about 1959 and another near Nowra in about 1963 which began to make the facts abundantly clear to me. From then on throughout my life, I have endeavored to find ways to do something to improve things. These activities have included working in the Gurindji Campaign in the 1960s to help those people get back their land in the Northern Territory, helping to run a before-school breakfast program in Sydney,
helping at an after school homework centre in Sydney, and
more recently working with a variety of groups in Warwick.
My wife and I adopted three children of Aboriginal descent with the promise to ourselves that we would “grow them up” to be proud of their ancestry. My wife has also discovered since our marriage that her olive skin colouring and her father's and grandmother's colouring and features came from an Aboriginal ancestry. We also have two biological children and I am thus the only non-Indigenous person in my own immediate family.
As a consequence of all these experiences, I and my family have always valued other Aboriginal people, and encouraged our children to be proud of their heritage. We have also sought to act to redress the inequalities suffered by many Indigenous people which have flowed from the dispossession by my ancestors and conscious that much of our own material wellbeing has come because of the benefits of this stolen land.
Since living in the Warwick area it has become apparent to me that many non-Aboriginal people of the area are ignorant of the facts of the dispossession of the Aboriginal people. While this ignorance persists, Aboriginal people will continue to be discriminated against and suffer the economic and social
penalties which follow
Warwick Bar Masterplan: lead artist
No full textAs lead-artists for Birmingham’s Warwick Bar urban development, ‘liminal’ were invited by MADE (Midlands Architecture and the Designed Environment) to work with Architects Kinetic AIU on the area’s masterplan, funded by the PROJECT fund overseen by CABE (Commission for the Built Environment) and A&B (Arts and Business).
We set out to explore how consideration of sound can inform approaches to urban design, planning, regeneration, and their surrounding discourses, and began by surveying the site from the perspective of sound. Planners’ and architects’ surveys traditionally focus primarily on topography, with some acknowledgement of social and historical context. Acoustical concerns are almost never addressed beyond utilitarian issues of noise limitation and isolation. Our survey began with the premise that soundscapes are important to urban geographies and that the development’s sustainability would depend on rigorous understanding of the site’s sonic character, history and potential for further intervention.
Our first outcome was a soundwalk commissioned for Birmingham ArtsFest (8th-9th September 2006). This considered how materials collected during making and sharing the walk might identify important soundmarks to be kept, enhanced or even reinstated, and might raise the status of sound to become a significant influence on project design overall
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Integrating active thermal mass strategies in responsive buildings
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Engineering Doctorate and awarded by Brunel University.Thermal mass can be used in buildings to reduce the need for and dependence on mechanical heating and cooling systems whilst maintaining environmental comfort. Active thermal mass strategies further enhance the performance of thermal mass through integration with the Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems. For the design of new buildings to include active thermal mass strategies, experience from operational projects and design guidelines are normally used by engineers. However, dynamic thermal modelling is required in most cases to accurately determine the performance of its integration with the environmental systems of the building. Design decisions made in the preliminary stages of the design of a building often determine its final thermal characteristics. At this stage, reasons for not integrating active thermal mass strategies include the lack of knowledge about the performance of previous buildings and the time and resources required to carry out detailed modelling. In this research project a commercially available dynamic building thermal program has been used to construct models for active thermal mass strategies and compare the results with monitored temperatures in buildings incorporating the strategies in the UK. Four active thermal mass strategies are considered (a) hollow core slabs (HCS), (b) floor void with mass, (FVWM) (c) earth-to-air heat exchanger (ETAHE) and (d) thermal labyrinth (TL). The operational strategies and monitoring are presented and their modelling is described in terms of geometrical configuration and input parameters. The modelling results are compared with the measured parameters successfully. Using the calibrated model, an excel based tool (TMAir) was then developed that can be used at the concept design stages of a typical office building to determine the benefits of integrating an active thermal mass strategy. Key design parameters were identified for each system. These parameters can be split into two categories; fixed parameters and user selected parameters. The fixed parameters are pre-selected for the design tool and have to be a fair representation of the projects that the tool will be used for. The user selected parameters are chosen by the user to represent the way the building will be used, and to look at the effect of key design decisions on the performance of the building. The tool has an easy-to-use interface which allows direct comparison of the different active thermal mass strategies together with the effects of changing key design parameters. Results are presented in terms of thermal comfort and energy consumption. TMAir has then been used to carry out a series of parametric analyses. These have concluded the following: There is only a benefit in integrating a HCS strategy when night cooling is introduced There is no benefit in integrating a FVWM strategy when only one parameter is improved An ETAHE and TL strategy will always provide a benefit, although the benefits are greater when night cooling is introduced, solar and internal gains are reduced and when the air change rate is increased. When all of the parametric improvements are applied to the test room the results show that all of the active thermal mass strategies can provide a reduction in annual overheating hours when compared to the Standard Strategy. Only a small benefit is found for the FVWM Strategy, however around a 25% reduction is found for the HCS Strategy, over a 50% reduction for the TL Strategy and nearly a 75% reduction for the ETAHE Strategy. This demonstrates the importance of applying a low energy, passive approach when considering the application of active thermal mass strategies. The key results have shown that when comfort cooling is provided, adding a HCS or FVWM strategy always results in an increase in the annual cooling load. This is as a result of the temperature of the air being supplied into the cores or floor void being higher than that of the internal surface temperatures of the cores or void. This results in the supply air being heated, and less cooling provided to the test room per cooling energy delivered. Due to the pre cooling effect of the ETAHE and TL strategies, these strategies always result in a reduction in the annual cooling load. The key results have shown that the annual heating load is reduced by a small amount for the HCS and FVWM strategies unless the solar gains or internal gains are reduced, whereas the ETAHE and TL strategies always result in a around a 10% reduction in annual heating load as a result of the preheating effect these strategies have on the supply air.This study is funded by Buro Happold, and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
Author David Foster with academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Author David Foster and academic Jeff Doyle at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
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