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Designing for people you can’t meet: Persuasive design to nurture seniors’ participation in community services during the COVID-19 pandemic The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-26 Mingzhu Li, Miso Kim, Liqing Huang, Houjiang Liu
During the COVID-19 pandemic, seniors were required to strictly isolate themselves, as the disease affects them disproportionately. Simultaneously, seniors had particular difficulty adjusting to th...
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Professionalism and Artist–Teachers in Adult Community Learning in the UK The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Abbie Cairns
The professionalism of artists and further education (FE) teachers is often questioned. This research will evaluate the impact this has on artist–teachers working in FE. Schön defines a professional as an individual who works in a highly specialized occupation. This article examines how this applies to artists and FE teachers, with reference to historical and contemporary cross-disciplinary research
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Blackboard voices Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Luc Pauwels
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Heir to the throne: photography and the rise to presidency by politicians in Zimbabwe and South Africa Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Lungile Augustine Tshuma
Photographs are rarely given much academic attention, especially, in Africa. This is against the popular use of photography in political communication. Against this background, this study examines ...
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School Uniform Customization Design Platform Based on Virtual Display Technology Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Xue Li, Lei Shen, Wanning Song
The current school uniform customization mode cannot satisfy the requirements of customers regarding the elements such as design and efficiency, though the demand for the customization of the schoo...
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Decolonising Art and Design Education through Standpoint Theory, Embodied Learning and Deep Listening The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-18 Belinda MacGill
Understanding and advancing pluralist worldviews through education is a tenet of decolonisation. This paper explores the importance of a decolonial pedagogical framework in visual art and design education by disrupting epistemic injustice through employing creative body-based learning (CBL). This approach focuses on relationality and inter-subjectivity through embodied strategies that create encounters
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The Influence of Humanities on Art and Design Learning Performance: An Empirical Study The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-16 Qizhang Sun, Zhaolin Lu, Xipei Ren
Theoretical studies and perspectives have argued that humanities positively influence art and design learning performance, yet little study has tested this argument empirically. Further than testing the impact of humanities on art and design learning performance, the present study explores how humanities influence art and design learning performance. The present study investigates the influence of
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Making Art Explicit: Knowledge, Reason and Art History in the Art and Design Curriculum The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Neil Walton
Different and competing conceptions of knowledge have recently been the focus of debate in education, especially art education. The cognitive science conception of knowledge as information processing and storage in long-term memory is especially prominent in educational policy. By contrast, within writing that is directly about art education, discussion of knowledge has often been framed in negative
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Benefits of Volunteerism: From Extracurricular to Service Learning and Beyond The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Barbara Young
Faculty continue to support extracurricular activities, co-curricular activities and service learning for the long-term student's benefits that outweigh obstacles present in community engagement. This case study describes relationship building between a community partner and an interior design programme through extra- and co-curricular activities which led to more robust projects for service learning
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A Green Manifesto for Art, Craft and Design Education The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Emese Hall
In the challenging – and frightening – times in which we now live, education is seen as playing a key role in making change for the better. However, the Department for Education's (2022) strategy on education for sustainability and climate change, applicable to schools in England, is lacking in many areas and fails to address students’, teachers’, and teacher educators’ priorities (Dunlop & Rushton
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Editorial Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Julie Patarin-Jossec, John Grady, Susan Hansen, Gary Bratchford, Kate Korroch
Published in Visual Studies (Vol. 38, No. 3-4, 2023)
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Gender and the Diversity of the Human Body as Challenges for the Inclusive Design of Wearable Technology Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Jenni Hokka
Abstract Particularly since the 1990s, there has been an active discussion on inclusive design and on the possibility of designing products that would be suitable for every kind of user. Wearable technology products that need to be in close contact with the user’s skin to function must be a good fit for the user’s body. As wearable technology has transitioned from a specialty of the “quantify-yourself”
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‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-12 Sathyaraj Venkatesan, Livine Ancy A
There is a world, invisible to many, of terminally ill people being cared for full time by a loving family member or friend. These caregivers are living with burdens and pressures that even regular...
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Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Virpi Salojärvi, Emilia Palonen, Laura Horsmanheimo, Roosa-Maria Kylli
The far right is active on social media, including YouTube for its outreach, community-building and mainstreaming of radical content. This article compares campaign videos of two distinct Finnish far-right parties. It develops a rhetoric-performative and multimodal analysis of audiovisual material and unveils how the contemporary Finnish far right articulates and performs affectively ‘us’ through counterhegemonic
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Interweaving artist-researcher-teacher identities: facilitating visitor-artwork interactions Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Juyoung Yoo
This visual essay portrays how an artist-researcher-teacher investigates the idea of a/r/tography and constructivist teaching pedagogy while using her own artwork, Fantasy Museum, as a platform for teaching. Fantasy Museum features a series of digitally altered photographs of museum visitors viewing emptied artworks, and visitors are invited to draw their own collections inside the empty spaces, which
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Adapting the Flipped Classroom Model to a Design Course in Online Learning Environments: A Case Study The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Omer Kocak
This study aimed to investigate the views of students enrolled on a desktop publishing course of the flipped classroom model adapted to a design course conducted in an online learning environment. The model was implemented over one semester, and at the end, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 65 volunteer students. Content analysis was used to analyse the students' views. It was determined
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A Reflection on Dialogic Diving Boards and Decolonising School Art: The African Mask Project The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Will Grant, Malcolm Richards, Ros Steward, Jamie Whelan
In this paper, four colleagues working in teacher education reflect on a conversation. The conversation in question was a tangible discussion documented through frequent and purposeful email exchange, exploring traditionalist school art curricula through reference to lived experience, academic theory, and professional anecdote. The primary objective of this dialogic self-enquiry was informal critical
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Challenges and Changes to the Product Development Process for Fashion Omnichannel Retailers Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-08 Rachel Parker-Strak, Stephen Doyle, Rachel Studd
Abstract This paper focuses on the relatively limited research activity for Fashion Product Development (FPD). This work aims to challenge the traditional FPD theoretical process model within existing academic literature and presents a revised version which is underpinned by the concept of “robust management” derived from the New Product Development (NPD) literature and industry discussion. This new
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Immersive 2D versus 3D: how does the form of virtual reality inspirational stimuli affect conceptual design? The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Chunlei Chai, Xiyuan Zhang, Qing Chai, Yang Yin, Wenan Li, Jinlei Shi, Hao Fan, Xinnan Liu, Deyin Zhang, Ning Zou
Abstract This study investigates a new form of inspirational stimuli deployed in virtual reality (VR) and utilizes them in conceptual design. Compared with prior research that directly embedded 2D inspirational materials in an immersive VR space (immersive 2D), we built completely stereoscopic inspirational stimuli therein (immersive 3D) and allowed designers to generate schemes that could interact
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Planet Anima: a virtual graduation experience in the metaverse Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2023-09-05 Zihan Gao, Xin Lyu
ABSTRACT In this paper, we present Planet Anima, a virtual environment designed for hosting virtual graduation events in the metaverse. Through this digital space, we successfully organized an online event under the COVID-19 circumstance, including a graduation ceremony and a student art exhibition. Our user study analyzes the Planet Anima experience with a focus on collaborative engagement and creative
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Inclusive Signs: A Teaching and Learning Toolkit to Generate Inclusive Meta-Design Concepts The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Emilio Rossi
The value introduced by informed teaching practices on Design for Social Inclusion is becoming widely accepted by many Design programmes worldwide, though students frequently struggle to propose novel concepts and design ideas from which to develop inclusive solutions. Both teachers and students often employ stereotyped concepts that ultimately lead them to propose ‘disabling solutions’. This inevitably
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Letter from the Editor Dress Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Dr. Ingrid Mida
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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A theory of assembly: From museums to memes Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Caitlin Swindell
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Turning inwards for change – The role of inner conditions in transformative co-design The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Kirsi Hakio, Tuuli Mattelmäki
Abstract The transformation towards eco-social sustainability is an important issue for many of us. Those involved in transformative activities often undergo continual processes of self-reflection, enhancing their awareness and capabilities. This paper focuses on co-design with transformative aims and on processes for which the ability and willingness of individuals to shift their perspectives and
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Design with change The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-24 Louise Valentine
Published in The Design Journal: An International Journal for All Aspects of Design (Vol. 26, No. 5, 2023)
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Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-21 Anwesha Chakraborty, Alice Mattoni
In the past decades, several grassroots movement organisations across the world have tackled the issue of corruption with the aim of mobilising knowledge on this widespread problem. In our paper, we look at three bottom-up civil society organisations and collective actors fighting for greater transparency and curbing of corruption in Indian society, highlighting how they employ visuals to debate on
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From concept to space: a new perspective on AIGC-involved attribute translation Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Kaiyu Cheng, Paulina Neisch, Tong Cui
ABSTRACT Drawn inspiration from phenomenal attributes and translating them into heuristic model tools is one of the effective means to promote architectural form innovation. However, over-reliance on perception indicates greater risks in decision-making. Nowadays, AI-generated Content (AIGC) technology combines the advantages of information comprehensiveness and modelling efficiency, providing new
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Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Rachelle Sabourin
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Anita Strasser
This visual essay has two aims. On the one hand, it is intended as a visual exploration of gentrification-induced displacement. It focuses on photographic material generated for Deptford is Changing, a research project which exposed and politicised the emotional upheaval caused by contemporary state-led gentrification in Deptford, south-east London. On the other hand, the essay presents socially and
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The “Perfect Dress” Dress Pub Date : 2023-08-10 Jean L. Parsons, Sara B. Marcketti
The process of “knocking off” the work of others has been an integral practice of the United States ready-to-wear industry since the 1890s. In the 1930s, the Fashion Originators Guild of America (FOGA) created an internal system to protect its members’ design work, but in 1941 this system was declared in restraint of trade, and the next best protection option laid in the US design patent system. This
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Knit in Gold: An Examination of a Seventeenth-Century Knitted Waistcoat Dress Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Margaret O’Neil
Seventeenth-century knitted-silk waistcoats have mystified dress historians for years since little is known about how these intricately patterned knitted garments were worn or used. This paper documents the examination and research of a seventeenth-century woman’s knitted-silk waistcoat from the Burrell Collection, Glasgow Museums, Scotland. This waistcoat, acquired by the museum in 1937, is knit in
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Melting Memories: Footwear Drawn out of Ice Dress Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Sarah Casey
This visual essay presents drawings related to a research project that sought to develop a visual language that communicates the precarity of clothing items that have emerged from alpine glaciers in Europe. These artworks achieve a poetic effect that recalls the tensions and challenges of preserving these artifacts of glacial archaeology. This essay focuses on selected drawings of footwear from the
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Costume Society of America Fellow 2023 Dress Pub Date : 2023-08-08 Susan L. Hannel
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Rebel imaginings: street art in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-03 Michelle Mansfield, Pam Nilan, Gregorius Ragil Wibawanto
Street art in the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta is popular, dynamic and vibrant. Like other cities such as Buenos Aires, it has become something of a tourist attraction in its own right. This article examines Yogyakarta street art as a visual phenomenon that activates political change potential in three ways. First, it provokes the critical consideration of ordinary people who pass by the walls and
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Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 David Shim
In this visual essay, I draw on my own photographs taken as a so-called food-aid monitor working in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea for the United Nations World Food Programme. I provide an autoethnographic account to allow consideration of the visual dimension of humanitarian aid: everyday observations, field visits and snapshots inform humanitarian action. I intend to shed a different light
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Crip genealogies Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Sophia Booth Magnone
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-04 Amandine Desille, Karolina Nikielska-Sekuła
The rapidly developing field of visual methods and growing body of literature employing visual methodologies in the collection of data have contributed to the acknowledgement of the senses with a prevalence of sight in the research process. Yet, the ‘sensuous scholarship’ is not always considered in the systematic methodological process when visual methodologies are at stake. The aim of this paper
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Constructing the affectiveness and aesthetics of touch through shape-changing fashion and textiles The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-08-02 Xinyi Huang
Abstract This ongoing PhD study aims to explore the potential of shape-changing fashion and textiles for aesthetic haptic interaction and affective soma experiences using Research through Design methodology. The research has progressed through multiple workshops and design projects, with each one building upon the previous findings and contributing to the ongoing work. Design strategies and toolkits
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‘DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING’: tactility, COVID-19, and graphic medicine Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ishani Anwesha Joshi, Sathyaraj Venkatesan
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the precarious porosity of the human body. Biological vulnerability and the fear of contagion in recent times has prompted the exercise of caution by enforcing distinct demarcating boundaries between the environment, the self, and the other. Thus, the faculty of touch is restricted despite its importance in functional, developmental, haptic, intimate, non-verbal, therapeutic
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Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G20 Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-08-01 Ryan McCaffrey, Kiah Rutz
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Artificial intelligence as relational artifacts in creative learning Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Jeongki Lim, Teemu Leinonen, Lasse Lipponen, Henry Lee, Julienne DeVita, Dakota Murray
ABSTRACT Artificial Intelligence (AI) has significantly advanced in creating professional-level media content. In creative education, determining how students can benefit without becoming dependent on them is a challenge. In this study, researchers conducted an exploratory experiment that positioned AI as a relational artifact to students in a series of drawing activities and examined the potential
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Elaborated images as decolonial praxis Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-28 Laurence Butet-Roch, Deanna Del Vecchio
Among lens-based artists and educators, the generative potential of annotating photographs, especially in participatory contexts, is commonly understood. Responding to a lack of cohesive labelling and description of these practices in the literature, the authors identify them as elaborated images and categorise how the method operates. Elaborated images unsettle the authoritative perspective of the
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Fischer von Erlach and the Habsburg imperial historians Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Kristoffer Neville
Abstract The Entwurff einer historischen Architectur (Outline of an Historical Architecture, 1721), by Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, architect to the Austrian imperial court, is often seen as a milestone in the literature of architecture, and as the first comparative and universal history of architecture. In part because it has been studied primarily as a work of architectural history, rather
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Performing palettes: Doni, Anguissola, and the origins of poeitic self-portraiture Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Philip Sohm
Abstract Agnolo Bronzino performs a visual experiment in Anton Francesco Doni’s I Marmi (Venice, 1552). “Do you see these pigments?” he asks as he shows his palette to a group of Florentine artisans. Bronzino had mentally dismantled a painting by Andrea del Sarto and loaded his palette with those pigments that Sarto would have used. With them, he painted a copy of the Sarto. How was this strange mind
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The birth of Masaniello: poverty, society, and the visual in Naples and beyond Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Graylin Harrison
Abstract This article demonstrates the role of the visual arts, alongside literature, in mythologizing Masaniello (d. 1647) as hero and martyr, despite the limited role he played in the so-called “Revolt of Masaniello” (1647–1648). In addition to printed accounts of the revolt in a variety of languages, Masaniello imagery circulated on paper and canvas, in marble and wax. His likeness was illustrated
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‘The Constantin Guys of the atomic era’: on the poetic reception of Robert Rauschenberg by Alain Jouffroy and Surrealism Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Gavin Parkinson
Abstract Robert Rauschenberg is not usually thought to have had much contact with Surrealism and even spoke openly about his disdain for the movement on some occasions. However, through the period 1958–69, the Surrealists showed great enthusiasm for the ‘poetic’, ‘metaphorical’ resonance of Rauschenberg’s work, a positive response that has since largely been lost. In place of that history, the interpretation
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Botanical symbolism in the Hypnerotomachia: botanical signifiers of a humanist handling of interior transformation Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 James Calum O’neill
Abstract This article focuses on the botanical specimens and their symbolic purpose in the narrative of the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili (1499). It examines the questions as to why certain plants are positioned at certain narrative stages, and how the relationship between their aesthetic, medical, literary, and symbolic purpose fits with the narrative. It also examines how this ratiocination of reflecting
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Woman in a turban: Domenichino’s Sibyl, Staël’s Corinne, and the image of female genius Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Emma Barker
Abstract The heroine of Germaine de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy (1807) makes her first appearance in the novel ‘dressed like Domenichino’s Sibyl’, wearing an Indian shawl wound into a turban. The aim of this essay is to highlight the contribution that the tradition of Sibylline iconography made to the characterization of the heroine of Corinne by locating Staël in a long line of artists, writers, and
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Indigenous image theory Word & Image Pub Date : 2023-07-25 Barbara E. Mundy
Abstract Pliny the Elder’s Natural History, which contains an account of the origins of painting, offered sixteenth-century European artists a gift as they struggled to advance the status of painting as an intellectual rather than a mechanical art. The Roman authority was also read by Indigenous intellectuals in New Spain; they described their autochthonous painting practice in an account written in
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Informal learning in architectural education through sociomaterial approaches: Towards a network-based pedagogy in design education The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-26 Barak Pelman, Amit Raphael Zoran
Abstract Most ethnographic research on architectural education focuses on formal teaching events. It mainly analyses meetings between students and teachers in tutorial sessions, design reviews, and formal presentations. Architectural knowledge, however, is also acquired informally between formal academic sessions. This study focuses on informal design-learning processes within formal architecture academic
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Critical computational relations in design, architecture and the built environment: editorial Digital Creativity Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Yana Boeva, Vernelle A. A. Noel
ABSTRACT Computation in design, architecture and the built environment, and its practices, methods, and tools frequently offer ‘neutral’ and ‘optimized’ techno-solutions to (social) design problems. Such a portrayal of these computational infrastructures as neutral solutions that open participation in design hides the social, political, and environmental entanglements involved in their creation and
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Research streams and frontier issues of visual perception in the 21st century The Design Journal Pub Date : 2023-07-24 Xiaochen Fang, Jinwei Zhu
Abstract Visual perception has always been the focus in design research. In order to systematically summarize the research streams and frontier issues related to visual perception since the beginning of twenty first century, 378 articles were retrieved under the ‘A&HCI‘ in the Web of Science Core Collection. Firstly, the research distribution of these articles is introduced, and four research streams
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Crisis vision: Race and the cultural production of surveillance Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-17 Julia Chan
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Design for Narrative Change. A Pedagogical Model for Interactive Digital Narratives The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-07-16 Ilaria Mariani, Mariana Ciancia
Narratives mirror shared interpretations of the world. Still, dominant narratives prevail, pushing non-hegemonic narratives in the corner. A change in the creation, interaction and distribution of narratives can support the design of counter-narratives able to feed social change. Interactive Digital Narrative (IDN) can be considered an emerging experimental context in which designers, researchers and
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The Unique Qualities of Junior Cycle Visual Art Education in Ireland The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Avril Buttle, Isobelle Mullaney
The aim of this paper is to ascertain the main subject qualities in Junior Cycle (JC) Visual Art (VA) in The Republic of Ireland, and whether these qualities are unique to the subject. The context of JC VA education is outlined through the exploration of its values, aims and objectives as well as investigating the subject's unique qualities. A mixed methods research approach was used to analyse three
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Fresh, Fly, and Fabulous: 50 Years of Hip Hop Style Dress Pub Date : 2023-07-14 Mary Kate Farley
Published in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (Vol. 49, No. 2, 2023)
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Spirit in film: the work of James Ault Visual Studies Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Jenn Lindsay
Published in Visual Studies (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Research Subjects, Participants or Co-researchers? Extending the Involvement of Students in Art and Design Research The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Liam Maloy, Pat Thomson
Art education has a range of purposes. Art is said to support students to explore, interpret, ask critical questions, communicate and realise ideas, experiment, take risks, collaborate, tell stories and/or engage in social and political actions. In this paper, we consider whether educational researchers have the same capacious view of students’ potential and capacities for involvement. We bring the
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‘Who Thinks this Teaspoon Is Art?’ A Discourse Analysis of Elementary School Students' Negotiation of Meaning During Art Museum Visits The International Journal of Art & Design Education (IF 0.813) Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Sylvia Ya-Hsuan Yang, Stephanie Sanders-Smith
This intrinsic case study examines art museum learning of elementary school students during a week-long visit at the Mackenzie Art Museum. Museums are informative institutions that provide opportunities for visitors to engage with self, others, and society. It is a unique place for visitors to learn beyond classroom settings. This project aims to analyse the discourse around art and understand how
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Editorial Fashion Practice Pub Date : 2023-07-07 Caroline Stevenson, Sandy Black
Published in Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)