Sites Of Transformation

Author : Louise Ann Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Landscapes in art
ISBN : 1350104477

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"In this book practitioner and scholar Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of therapeutic scenography as an applied art form. Through an account of her own practice combined with case studies drawing on artworks from other international practitioners - including those from Early Romanticism and the Land Art movement of the 1960s, the autobiographical work of artists such as Elena Brotherus (Finland), Tabitha Moses (UK) and Marina Abramovic's autobiographical walking-work The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk (1988, China) - this is the first book on the emerging area of site-specific, socially engaged and therapeutic scenography. The book analyses how Wilson's inter-disciplinary, site-specific walking-performances are created in rural landscapes and seek to emplace, re-image and transform a participant's relationship to and experience of 'missing', unmarked or challenging life-events for which traditional rites of passage or ceremonies do not exist. The book explores the transformational -- therapeutic -- effect of Wilson's practice, which becomes an instrument for personal and social change and can be understood as a form of applied performance practice. Case studies drawn from her own practice include Fissure (2011), The Gathering (2014), Warnscale (2015), Mulliontide (2016) and Women's Walks to Remember (2018). Each is illustrated and is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects of the practice and research. Using this series of case studies, Wilson investigates how 'transformation' is achieved through an inter-disciplinarily, three-tiered methodological process and the application of the concept of the feminine sublime, which she develops into six scenographic-led principles. These principles were informed by theories and aesthetics relating to landscape, pilgrimage, Early Romanticism, and a close study of the approach of Dorothy Wordsworth and her female contemporaries to landscape."--

Author : Harald A. Mieg,Heike Oevermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317755203

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Industrial Heritage Sites in Transformation by Harald A. Mieg,Heike Oevermann Pdf

The management of industrial heritage sites requires rethinking in the context of urban change, and the issue of how to balance protection, preservation/conservation, and development becomes all the more crucial as industrial heritage sites grow in number. This brings into play new challenges—not only through the known conflicts between monument preservation and contemporary architecture, but also with the increasing demand for economic urban development by reusing the built heritage of former industrial sites. This book explores the conservation and change of industrial heritage sites in transformation, presenting and examining ten European and Asian case studies. The interdisciplinary approach of the book connects a diversity of rationales and discourses, including monument protection, World Heritage conventions, urban regeneration, urban planning and design, architecture, and politics. This is the first book to deepen the understanding of industrial heritage site management as a networked, multi-dimensional task involving diverse social agents and societal discourses.

Author : Thomas BorŽn
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783898217392

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Meeting Places of Transformation by Thomas BorŽn Pdf

What happened to the urban spaces of everyday life when the Soviet Union collapsed? And how may this change be understood? Based on long-term qualitative fieldwork in post-Soviet Russia, this study draws upon time-geographic, social and semiotic theory to formulate a model of how urban space is formed. Mirrored through the case of Ligovo/Uritsk, a high-rise residential district situated on the outskirts of Sankt-Peterburg (St Petersburg), the changing relation between the lifeworlds of people and the system of governance is highlighted with regard to the transformation of Soviet and Russian society over the last decades. The empirical material presented here documents a number of processes within urban identity formation, spatial representations and local politics. The resulting findings add both empirically and theoretically to the knowledge of urban cultural geography in Russia—a field of research that until recently was closed to Western researchers, and seems currently to be closing again.The book will be of interest to researchers with an interest in social, semiotic and geographic theory as well as to students and researchers of cultural and urban studies, urban life and Russian affairs. The study could be also helpful to professionals working in fields related to post-Soviet urban identity, spatial representations and local politics.

Author : Cynthia Cohen,Roberto Gutiérrez Varea,Polly O. Walker
Publisher : New Village Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781613320617

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Acting Together II: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict by Cynthia Cohen,Roberto Gutiérrez Varea,Polly O. Walker Pdf

Acting Together, Volume ll, continues from where the first volume ends documenting exemplary peacebuilding performances in regions marked by social exclusion structural violence and dislocation. Acting Together: Performance and the Creative Transformation of Conflict is a two-volume work describing peacebuilding performances in regions beset by violence and internal conflicts. Volume I, Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence, emphasizes the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of direct violence, while Volume II: Building Just and Inclusive Communities, focuses on the transformative power of performance in regions fractured by "subtler" forms of structural violence and social exclusion. Volume I: Resistance and Reconciliation in Regions of Violence focuses on the role theatre and ritual play both in the midst and in the aftermath of violence. The performances highlighted in this volume nourish and restore capacities for expression, communication, and transformative action, and creatively support communities in grappling with conflicting moral imperatives surrounding questions of justice, memory, resistance, and identity. The individual chapters, written by scholars, conflict resolution practitioners, and artists who work directly with the communities involved, offer vivid firsthand accounts and analyses of traditional and nontraditional performances in Serbia, Uganda, Sri Lanka, Palestine, Israel, Argentina, Peru, India, Cambodia, Australia, and the United States. Complemented by a website of related materials, a documentary film, Acting Together on the World Stage, that features clips and interviews with the curators and artists, and a toolkit, or "Tools for Continuing the Conversation," that is included with the documentary as a second disc, this book will inform and inspire socially engaged artists, cultural workers, peacebuilding scholars and practitioners, human rights activists, students of peace and justice studies, and whoever wishes to better understand conflict and the power of art to bring about social change. The Acting Together project is born of a collaboration between Theatre Without Borders and the Program in Peacebuilding and the Arts at the International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life at Brandeis University. The two volumes are edited by Cynthia E. Cohen, director of the aforementioned program and a leading figure in creative approaches to coexistence and reconciliation; Roberto Gutierrez Varea, an award-winning director and associate professor at the University of San Francisco; and Polly O. Walker, director of Partners in Peace, an NGO based in Brisbane, Australia.

Author : Charles Neal Stewart,Alisher Touraev,Vitaly Citovsky,Tzvi Tzfira
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780470958940

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Plant Transformation Technologies by Charles Neal Stewart,Alisher Touraev,Vitaly Citovsky,Tzvi Tzfira Pdf

Plant Transformation Technologies is a comprehensive, authoritative book focusing on cutting-edge plant biotechnologies, offering in-depth, forward-looking information on methods for controlled and accurate genetic engineering. In response to ever-increasing pressure for precise and efficient integration of transgenes in plants, many new technologies have been developed. With complete coverage of these technologies, Plant Transformation Technologies provides valuable insight on current and future plant transformation technologies. With twenty-five chapters written by international experts on transformation technologies, the book includes new information on Agrobacterium, targeting transgenes into plant genomes, and new vectors and market systems. Including both review chapters and protocols for transformation, Plant Transformation Technologies is vitally important to graduate students, postdoctoral students, and university and industry researchers.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Geology
ISBN : UIUC:30112113004821

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Practical Aspects of Applying Geostatistics at Hazardous, Toxic, and Radioactive Waste Sites by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers Pdf

Author : Louise Ann Wilson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-24
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350282759

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Sites of Transformation by Louise Ann Wilson Pdf

"In this book practitioner and scholar Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of therapeutic scenography as an applied art form. Offering an account of her own practice combined with case studies drawing on artworks from Early Romanticism and the Land Art movement of the 1960s, Elena Brotherus (Finland), Tabitha Moses (UK) and Marina Abramovic's autobiographical walking-work The Lovers: The Great Wall Walk (1988, China), this is the first book on the emerging area of site-specific and therapeutic scenography. The book analyses how Wilson's interdisciplinary, site-specific walking-performances are created in rural landscapes and seek to emplace and transform a participant's experience of challenging life-events for which traditional rites of passage or ceremonies do not exist. The book explores the therapeutic effect of Wilson's practice, which becomes an instrument for personal and social change and can be understood as a form of applied performance practice. Case studies drawn from her own practice include Fissure (2011), The Gathering (2014), Warnscale (2015), Mulliontide (2016) and Women's Walks to Remember (2018). Each is illustrated and is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects of the practice and research. Using this series of case studies, Wilson investigates how 'transformation' is achieved through an interdisciplinarily, three-tiered methodological process and the application of the concept of the feminine sublime, which she develops into six scenographic-led principles. These principles were informed by theories and aesthetics relating to landscape, pilgrimage, Early Romanticism, and a close study of the approach of Dorothy Wordsworth and her female contemporaries to landscape"--

Author : Dr T. E Mohan Kumar,Dr. S. R. Pratap ,Dr. S. Z. Mohamed Shamshuddin
Publisher : Krishna Publication House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789390627387

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Customized sorts of Zirconia as catalyst/s: Towards various organic transformation/s by Dr T. E Mohan Kumar,Dr. S. R. Pratap ,Dr. S. Z. Mohamed Shamshuddin Pdf

Author : Chosein Yamahata,Donald M. Seekins,Makiko Takeda
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811596162

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Social Transformations in India, Myanmar, and Thailand: Volume I by Chosein Yamahata,Donald M. Seekins,Makiko Takeda Pdf

“This book focuses on the different challenges and opportunities for social transformation in India, Myanmar and Thailand, by centering communities and individuals as the main drivers of change. In doing so, it includes discussions on a wide array of issues including women’s empowerment and political participation, ethno-religious tensions, plurilingualism, education reform, community-based healthcare, climate change, disaster management, ecological systems, and vulnerability reduction. Two core foundations are introduced for ensuring broader transformations. The first is the academic diplomacy project – a framework for an engaged academic enquiry focusing on causative, curative, transformative, and promotive factors. The second is a community driven collective struggle that serves as a grassroots possibility to facilitate positive social transformation by using locally available resources and enabling the participation of the resident population. As a whole, the book conveys the importance of a diversification of engagement at the grassroots level to strengthen the capacity of individuals as decisive stakeholders, where the process of social transformation makes communities more interconnected, interdependent, multicultural and vital in building an inclusive society.”

Author : Andrea Kahn,Carol J. Burns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429514432

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Site Matters by Andrea Kahn,Carol J. Burns Pdf

In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume. Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated anthology assembles essays from architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, historians, and artists to explore ways to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the traditional design disciplines, this edition will trace important developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as climate change, landscape as infrastructure, shifts from global to planetary urbanization debates, and the proliferation of participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading practitioners and academics, Site Matters juxtaposes timeless contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Beauregard, and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter Marcuse, Jane Wolff, Neil Brenner, and Thaisa Way, amongst others, to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal text for students, academics, and researchers interested in site and design theory.

Author : Gabriel Cooney
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816531141

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Transformation by Fire by Gabriel Cooney Pdf

Transformation by Fire offers a current assessment of the archaeological research on the widespread social practice of cremation. Editors Ian Kuijt, Colin P. Quinn, and Gabriel Cooney chart a path for the development of interpretive archaeology surrounding this complex social process.

Author : Ian Douglas Clark
Publisher : Queen's School of Policy Studies
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education, Higher
ISBN : 1553392655

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Academic Transformation by Ian Douglas Clark Pdf

The large scale publicly funded system of postsecondary education in Ontario developed in the 1960s has been largely successful in fulfilling important societal needs in the areas of education, human resource development, and research. Existing approaches, however, are unlikely to be sufficient to address the challenges of the coming decade. Academic Transformation: The Forces Reshaping Higher Education in Ontario examines the developments that are re-shaping the province's post-secondary system, including higher enrollment, further development of a knowledge-based economy, increased demands for research focused on competitiveness and productivity, and Ontario's transition to a multicultural, internationally connected, urban, and aged society. Universities and colleges are also adjusting to internal changes in the composition of the student body and staff, faculty work profiles, and funding arrangements. The authors consider possible changes in the system's structure, policy, and governance that may be helpful in dealing with the anticipated changes in societal needs, and expectations related to post-secondary education.

Author : Irene Curulli
Publisher : Altralinea Edizioni
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9788894869446

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Ghost industries by Irene Curulli Pdf

What is the role of water in the conversion of former industrial areas? How is water used in engaging the public to experience these sites both as physical and cultural places? Can ecological design foster the coexistence of industry and environment? The book addresses these core questions by examining the impact of the former Oregonian industry (1830-1940) on the Willamette River landscape and discussing how projects of transformation interpret the triangular interplay among industry, landscape and water.This book is a source of suggestions and ideas for scholars, students and professionals in architecture, landscape architecture, planning and their related fields who want to manage the urban landscapes successfully.

Author : Rachel Bezner Kerr,T. L. Pendergrast,Bobby J. Smith II,Jeffrey Liebert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 85 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031304842

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Rethinking Food System Transformation by Rachel Bezner Kerr,T. L. Pendergrast,Bobby J. Smith II,Jeffrey Liebert Pdf

This book contains a collection of selected papers from the 2017 Farm-to-Plate: Uniting for a Just and Sustainable Food System conference in Ithaca, New York, which explored what different advocates, stakeholders, growers, and community members today prioritize when it comes to justice, action, and transformation in the agri-food system. The research presented at this symposium shows the diverse range of approaches scientists have taken to investigate this aforementioned question. The papers represent a combined effort to creatively educate, share, and connect work being done by stakeholders on food system transformation. Previously published in Agriculture and Human Values Volume 36, issue 4, December 2019

Author : Fred Geyer,Joerg Niessing
Publisher : Frederick Geyer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781734296921

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THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO B2B DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION by Fred Geyer,Joerg Niessing Pdf

This book guides B2B leaders along a step by step path to uncommon growth through three transformative shifts: The Digital Selling Shift to digital demand generation, The Digital Customer Experience Makeover to digital customer engagement, The Digital Proposition Pivot to data-powered, digital solutions. The Definitive Guide is informed by the work of Fred Geyer at Prophet, a leading digital transformation consultancy, and Joerg Niessing at INSEAD, a global standard-bearer for business education. Rich case studies from Maersk, Michelin, Adobe, and Air Liquide with best practices from IBM, Salesforce.com, Thyssenkrupp, and scores of leading B2B companies illustrate how putting customers at the heart of digital transformation drives uncommon growth. Fred and Joerg map the route from customer insight to in-market implementation for each transformational shift in four steps: Where to Play - Identify top customer growth opportunities, How to Win - Build the strategy to win customer preference, What to Do - Effectively deliver the strategy, Who is Needed - Assemble the team to make it happen. The two biggest barriers to successful digital transformation, effectively using customer data and enabling employees, are addressed by outlining a clear path to navigate forward based on best practices from other leading companies. The guide has won rave reviews from B2B leaders: "This book illuminates the secret sauce of digital transformation in the B2B space" – David Aaker, renowned brand strategist and bestselling author. "A thought-provoking exploration of three crucial transformational shifts for B2B companies" – Vincent Clerc, CEO, Maersk Ocean & Logistics "This is a great guide to applying best practices to the formidable challenge of digital transformation in complex markets and supply chains." – Dr. Lars Brzoska, Chairman of the Board of Management, Jungheinrich AG. "By providing case examples and step by step assistance in determining where to play, how to win, what to do and who to win, this book fulfilled my need for inspiring and pragmatic transformation guidance" – Lindy Hood, Chief Customer Experience Officer, Zurich Financial North America