Art & Photography Books

Book SynopsisTheatre in Towns offers a contemporary perspective on the role of theatre in the cultural life of towns in England. Exploring volunteer-led, professional and community theatres, this book investigates the rich and diverse ways that theatres in towns serve their locality, negotiate their civic role, participate in networks of mutual aid and exchange, and connect audiences beyond their geographical borders. With a geographical focus on post-industrial, seaside, commuter and market towns in England, the book opens questions about how theatre shapes the narratives of town life, and how localism, networks and partnerships across and between towns contribute to living sustainably. Each chapter is critically and historically informed, drawing on original research in towns, including visits to performances and many conversations with townspeople, from theatre-makers, performers, set-builders, front-of-house volunteers, to audience members and civic leaders. Table of Contents1. Theatres in Towns: Places of Hope and Experiment 2. Local Theatres: Cultures of Participation 3. Making a Civic Spectacle: Towns for Rent 4. Volunteer-led Theatres: Meshworks of a Coastal Town 5. Made to Connect: Theatrical Exchange between Towns and Cities 6. Hopeful Futures: Theatres in Towns

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Book SynopsisThe book is designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way, such that trainees engage with the subject and remember how to apply it in the work environment. It will be useful for managers, trainers, professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupational health and safety.The text comprehensively explains the effect of the brain on learning and then develops the training processes from training needs analysis all the way through effective training techniques and ending with competence assurance. The unique approach of the book is that Part II provides a range of 30 tried and tested original resource ideas to make health and safety training effective and memorable. It will be a valuable text for professionals and graduate students in the fields of ergonomics, human factors, and occupation health and safety. Provides practical and tested solutions to common training problems Covers a resource section showing how to develop interesting and relevant training exercises Focuses on special needs of health and safety training Guides the reader through identifying the training need, delivering the training and finally assuring competence Designed to help trainers design and deliver health and safety training in a fun and high-impact way Table of ContentsPART I1 INTRODUCTION 2 THE IMPORTANCE OF MEMORY TO LEARNING – How adults learn2.1. Short-term & Long-term memory 2.2. Repeat, Recap & Review 2.3. Other Memory techniques – Mnemonics and Acronyms.2.4. Get in the Cue2.5. Memory Techniques3 COMMUNICATION – Getting the message across3.1 Verbal Communication3.2 Active listening3.3 Visual Communication3.4 Written Communication4 THE AUDIENCE – Who will be there?4.1. Types of trainees 4.2. Large audiences4.3. Training Room Layouts & Numbers of trainees 4.3.1. Board Room Layout4.3.2. U- Shape or Horseshoe layout4.3.3. V-Shape layout4.3.4. Cafe Style layout4.3.5. Theatre Style layout4.4. Where should training be done? 5 TRAINING NEEDS – Who needs to know what?5.1. Identifying Training Needs 5.2. Knowledge Checks5.3. Training levels5.4. Records6. DESIGNING THE TRAINING – What do they need to know?6.1. Session Specifications6.2. Sacrificial Content7 TRAINING STYLES & TECHNIQUES - Making the training interesting7.1. What type of training is appropriate?7.2. Videos as a training aid 7.2.1. Commercial videos7.2.2. Bespoke videos7.3. Models7.4. Posters and chart boards7.5. Sticky note displays7.6. Real life experience7.7. Simulations7.8. Role Plays7.9. Photographs7.9.1. Photographs in Work Instructions & Training manuals7.9.2. Photographs as Posters7.9.3. Photographs in safety training presentations7.9.4. Photographs used in training exercises7.9.5. Photo hazard spotting exercises7.9.6. Photographic hazards spotting (Camera Hunt)7.10. Jigsaws7.11. Using Flip Charts7.12. Drawings, & wallcharts 7.13. Props and Gizmos7.14. Exhibits & displays as an aid to training7.15. Webinars8 PREPARING COMPUTER DISPLAYED VISUAL IMAGES – What you see is what you get!8.1. PowerPoint presentations 8.2. Too many slides8.3. Important Tip8.4. Animation8.5. Media transfers9 HANDOUTS & SUPPORTING MATERIALS – Providing supporting material9.1. Remove text that you will use for interactive questions9.2. Remove all the background graphics9.3. Making changes9.4. Handouts for international audiences9.5. Professionally printed handouts9.6. Using handouts during a presentation9.7. Bookmark handouts9.8. Ponder Sheets10 THE ART OF PRESENTATION DELIVERY – Getting your message across.10.1. Giving a performance 10.2. The Difference between Data & Information10.3. Address trainees by name 10.4. Dress Code10.5. Mannerisms10.6. Enthusiasm10.7. Engagement10.8. Setting the Scene10.9. Promoting discussion10.10. Tempo10.11. Public Speaking 10.12. Attention Span10.13. Emphasis10.14. Use of pointers, lasers and presenters10.15. Pilot Events10.16. When things go wrong 11 RUNNING EXERCISES & ACTIVITIES – Making it fun!11.1 How to plan the exercise12 VALIDATION & COMPETENCE – Checking that they have understood.12.1. Validation 12.2. Mentoring & the road to competence 13 TRAINING ADMINISTRATION13.1. Pre-Course information13.2. Equipment lists & trainers kits13.3. Stationary box14 EVALUATING TRAINING – Did it work?14.1. The 4 levels of training assessment 15 TRAINER SELECTION - Select Leaders who will inspire!15.1. Who should do the training?15.2. Presenter / Trainer deputies 16 TRAIN THE TRAINER 16.1. Train the Trainer materials16.2. Trainer skill trainingPART II - TRAINING RESOURCES SECTION PURPOSE - Using the resources sectionTraining activities & Exercises:A) JigsawsB) Photohazard spottingC) Camera HuntsD) Bespoke Videos & DVDsE) Flash CardsF) Gizmosa. Consequences GameG) Interactive ExercisesH) Gamesa. Solway Risk Gameb. Happy Human Factorsc. Hierarchy of Controls Magnetic DartsI) Role Playsa. Excalibur Supplies ExerciseJ) Event Case Study (Lochside Engineering Ltd)K) Emergency SimulationL) CompetitionsM) QuizzesN) Puzzles (Communications exercise)O) Mock Scenariosa. Safe Systems of Workb. Confined Space Entryc. Working at HeightsP) Personal Protective Equipment ExerciseQ) Noise Simulation Exercise R) Manual Handling Assessment ExerciseS) Crosswords & PiecewordsT) Personal Commitment StatementU) Hazard RecognitionV) Co-incidence or not?W) Unfamiliar Task Assessment slide rule X) MicrobooksY) Circle the Hazards

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Book SynopsisFocusing on three iron-silver processesâkallitype, Vandyke Brown, and argyrotypeâthis book will guide readers through how to create prints using these accessible and historic processes in the digital age.Often termed the Brownprint processes, author Donald W. Nelson provides step-by-step detail on how to create prints using kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype methods, including information on the materials needed, troubleshooting issues, and examples from contemporary artists. The book consists of two parts. Part I is a step-by-step how-to section including all the information that a practitioner at any level needs to achieve successful kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotype prints. Part II is devoted to contemporary artists who have integrated the process into their creative practice.The book includes the following: A list of equipment and supplies needed Concise step-by-step instructions for creating kallitype, Vandyke brown, and argyrotypTable of ContentsPreface Chapter 1. Introduction to Kallitype, Vandyke Brown, and Argyrotype Chapter 2. Chemistry Supplies Chapter 3. Setting up the Brownprint Dimroom Chapter 4. Creating the Digital Negative Chapter 5. Paper selection Chapter 6. Mixing Chemistry for the Processes - Sensitiers, Developers and Toners Chapter 7. Making the Kallitype Print Chapter 8. Making the Vandyke Brown Print Chapter 9. Making the Argyrotype Print Chapter 10. Troubleshooting Chapter 11. Making the Toned Print Chapter 12. Finishing Prints Chapter 13. Contemporary Artists Appendix A - Kallitype Developer Quadtonerip Ink Definiton Files Appendix B - Gold Toner Quadtonerip Ink Definition Files Appendix C - Prehumidified Argyrotype Quadtonerip Ink Definition File Bibliography

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Book SynopsisCantley's work offers a unique and critical insight into the emergence of a liminal territory that exists between the real and the virtual that mainstream architecture has yet to exploit. Speculative Coolness surveys and collects a highly experimental architecture/design praxis. This book presents a selected body of his work, showcasing projects which seek to understand and explore the conditions, contexts, and media logics which govern this new territory, and to speculate on the Architecture[s] which it might occupy, and which might occupy it. Featuring both resolved projects and work[s] that are under development, this anthology represents constructs that locate themselves somewhere between architecture and its documentative media. The projects are presented alongside a series of critical essays written by pre-eminent architectural practitioners and theorists. These essays explore the disciplinary, social, and cultural context of the work, serving to underscTrade Review"Bryan Cantley’s latest book Speculative Coolness is a tour de force in speculative architectural representation. Through an impressively displayed selection of Cantley’s work, it critically explores the liminal realm that separates—and integrates—the digital and analogue voices of architectural representation. For those readers who have been unable to acquire Cantley’s first book Mechudzu: New Rhetorics for Architecture—now long out of print—Speculative Coolness will be a revelation."Daniel K. Brown, Architecture New Zealand May/June 2023"For decades, Bryan Cantley has been coolly speculating about architecture that surfs through the suburbs with expressive technology. His beautifully layered drawings, combining computer generation with the craft of hand delineation, manage to evoke without designating, and are in themselves objects of architecture. This book collects some of his best work in an accessible and seductive manner."Aaron Betsky, Professor, Virginia Tech."Delectable, deliberate and dizzying in equal parts, Speculative Coolness is […] a requiem for the masses where promiscuous marks, coded indexes, innovative formations, linguistic shenanigans, and seemingly mystical calibrations are rendered visible in a mind-warping collection. These extraordinarily tantalizing speculations are protests against the spatial and representational straitjackets that for too long have plagued architecture’s visualized and material agency."Perry Kulper, Architect and Professor, Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning, University of MichiganTable of ContentsForeword: ‘Architectural Cymbalism and the Caress of Steel; Editorial: ‘Read Me’ Instructions for Proper Use; 1. Emergent CONditions + Media Logics; ME-di@ Logics + Being in the [k]now; Alice [2.0]; CSFU Sentinel; ‘Ten Years After’; 2. Dirty Geometries + Mechanical Imperfections; Social AMPs 01,02 + 03; OMWFT WYSIWYG; COSMO; 3. Towards a Taxonometric Architecture; Tree Hugger; On the Move; Palimpsestuous Relationships; Ideal for frequent drawers. Not for any use on skin, including tattoos; 4. rE-mergent CONditions; Ozone Metric Anomaly; Ministry of [w]Hore-2:culture; Calibrating Space; Towards a s[Y/N]thetic Reality; 5. Speculative Conditions; ‘S(y/n)taxo[G]nome + (taxon objects)’; ‘20220202_02’; Camera Noxoculo; H[n]otel-CA; DomestiC-19; Eye, Hand and Mind: an interview with Bryan Cantley; Afterword: Human Error

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Book SynopsisThis book explores environments where art, imagination, and creative practice meet urban spaces at the point where they connect to the digital world. It investigates relationships between urban visualizations, aesthetics, and politics in the context of new technologies, and social and urban challenges toward the Sustainable Development Goals.Responding to questions stemming from critical theory, the book focuses on an interdisciplinary actualization of technological developments and social challenges. It demonstrates how art, architecture, and design can transform culture, society, and nature through artistic and cultural achievements, integration, and new developments. The book begins with the theoretical framework of social aesthetics theories before discussing global contemporary visual culture and technological evolution. Across the 12 chapters, it looks at how architecture and design play significant roles in causing and solving complex environmental transformatioTrade Review"Designing an urban environment aimed at a smart city between physical and virtual spaces means visualizing the future. Christiane Wagner’s book, Visualizations of Urban Space, discusses the digital resources and the limits of human perception in the face of artificial intelligence applications and the Internet of Things, regarding automating various processes, simulations, and realities involved in the function of an urban city. Furthermore, it is an aesthetic-social approach to the effects of the fourth industrial revolution, focusing on sustainable development." Lars Christian Grabbe, Dean, Professor Theory of Perception, Communication and Media, Münster School of Design, University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany "Christiane Wagner’s sensible and powerful book Visualizations of Urban Spaces provides a welcome new consideration of the use of art and technology in designing inclusive urban spaces. Beyond being a brilliant read, this think-piece is a compelling guide through which cities can connect with their citizens in order to advance the global public good." Frank-Jürgen Richter, Chairman, Horasis: The Global Visions Community, Switzerland"Visualizing the city is part of the everyday aesthetic experience in which past, present, and future converge. In Visualizations of Urban Space, Christiane Wagner addresses the urban transformation related to the arts and architectural spaces as part of cities’ material and immaterial heritage. Overall, this is a valuable contribution to the challenges of a more inclusive society, considering education, culture, and new technologies." Edson Leite, Professor and President of the Research Commission at the Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Sao Paulo (MAC USP), Brazil"Visualizations of Urban Space by Christiane Wagner is a timely contribution to the expanding literature on the dual role art and technology can play as positive forces in the way we see and experience urban space." Gary Bratchford, President of the Visual Sociology Research Committee, Editor of Visual Studies Journal (Routledge), Senior Lecturer at the University of Central Lancashire, United Kingdom"One of the most significant characteristics of modernity is urbanization, enormous and high-tech cities where people exchange not only economic goods and services but also culture. Visualizations of Urban Space by Christiane Wagner contains a deep analysis of how twenty-first-century cities become new environments that allow the speechless to have a voice, the invisible to have a presence and the oppressed to state their commands. This could be possible thanks to the intersection of technology, education, art and culture, resources that approach each other, to let societies become more democratic in these new urban spaces."Omar Cerrillo Garnica, Director of the School of Humanities, Education, Architecture, Art and Design, at Tecnológico de Monterrey, Campus Cuernavaca, México Table of Contents1. Cultural Images: Real and Imagined Experiences 2. Urban Space and Collective Consciousness 3. The Arts and Traces of the Ideal City 4. Democratization of Art and Culture 5. Visual Media Effects 6. Urban Resilience: Toward Postcolonial Aesthetics 7. Sociopolitical Facts, Art, and Technology 8. Technicization and Aestheticization of Social and Urban Structures 9. The Urban Image in Motion and Connection 10. The Arts’ Function: Social Inclusion and Sustainability 11. Designing for Sustainability 12. Aesthetic, Social, and Urban Solutions for a New World View

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Book SynopsisThis book excavates the depths of creative purpose and meaning-making and the extent to which artist autonomy and authenticity in art is a struggle against psychological conditioning, controlling cultural institutions and markets, key to which is representation.The chapters are underpinned by examples from the arts, and the narrative weaves a trail through a range of conceptualizations that are applied to various aspects of visual culture from mainstream canonical arts to avant-garde, community and public art; social and political art to commercial art; and ethereal art to the popular, edgy and kitsch. The book is wide-ranging and employs various aesthetic, cultural, philosophical, political, psycho-social and sociological debates to highlight the problems and contradictions that an encounter with the arts and creativity engenders.The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, museum studies, arts management, cultural policy, cultural studies and cult

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Book SynopsisUsing five case studies of contemporary art, this book uses ideas of systems and dispersion to understand identity and experience in late capitalism.This book considers five artists who exemplify contemporary art practice: Seth Price; Liam Gillick; Martin Creed; Hito Steyerl; and Theaster Gates. Given the diversity of materials used in art today, once-traditional artistic mediums and practices have become obsolete in describing what artists do today. Francis Halsall argues that, in the face of this obsolescence, the ideas of system and dispersion become very useful in understanding contemporary art. That is, practitioners now can be seen to be using whatever systems of distribution and display are available to them as their creative mediums. The two central arguments are first that any understanding of what art is will always be underwritten by a related view of what a human being is; and second that these both have a particular character in late capitalism or, as is nTable of ContentsIntroduction: Systems Everywhere! The Age of Dispersion 1. The Aesthetics of Dispersion 2. Seth Price and the Stuff of Systems 3. Liam Gillick and the Aesthetics of Disappointment 4. Martin Creed, the Anti-Readymade and the Dispersed Art Object 5. Theaster Gates and Systems of Improvisation and Entrepreneurship 6. Hito Steyerl: In Defence of the Poor Manifest Image 7. Envoi: The End of Art, Again

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Book SynopsisFutures of Performance inspires both current and future artists/academics to reflect on their roles and responsibilities in igniting future-forward thinking and practices for the performing arts in higher education. The book presents a breadth of new perspectives from the disciplines of music, dance, theatre, and mediated performance and from a range of institutional contexts. Chapters from teachers across various contexts of higher education are organized according to the three main areas of responsibilities of performing arts education: to academia, to society, and to the field as a whole. With the intention of illuminating the intricacy of how performing arts are situated and function in higher education, the book addresses key questions including: How are the performing arts valued in higher education? How are programs addressing equity? What responsibilities do performing arts programs have to stakeholders inside and outside of the academy? What are programs' etTrade Review"What is most meaningful about Futures of Performance is the focus on what individual and collectives of college and university faculty can (and should) do to insure a vibrant and impactful future for the performing arts. Futures of Performance explores the intersection of the vitality of the performing arts in society with the profound potential tertiary education has on preparing vocational professional artists and avocational arts lovers to make and love even more art. The extent to which the volume investigates the socio-political, economic, media, and cultural systems inherent in both the making of art and its consumption, as well as upon the entire educational enterprise, is significant."Tayloe Harding, Dean, School of Music, University of South Carolina, USA "Futures of Performance is distinct in that it places the performing arts in dialogue with each other through an interactive set of responsibilities–to the field, society, and academe–that continually influence and impact each other. One of the strengths of this volume is the personal journeys of the authors as they respond to devising new modes of interaction, the cultural history of their students, unanticipated historical events as well as the politics of the academy, the professional field, and society. Other strengths include the volume’s focus on DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Throughout there is an emphasis on wholistic student centered approaches, responsiveness to unique cultural histories, and an open attitude toward an ever-evolving historical context. The essays in this volume are successful in providing this discursive dialogue and therefore provide an important contribution to a consideration of the future of performance in higher education."Barbara Sellers-Young, Professor Emerita, York University, Toronto, CanadaTable of ContentsSection 1: Responsibilities to Academia Section I Introduction Karen Schupp Performance Across the Disciplines: Envisioning Transdisciplinary Performance Pedagogies in Postsecondary Education Jesse Katen Ethics, Standards, Evaluation, and Support of Creative Research in Academia Ali Duffy, Isabella Gonzales, and Destanie Davidson Preston Ugly Feelings and Social Justice: Interrupting Inaction in Times of Perpetual Crisis Lauren Kapalka Richerme Hosting Co(n)fusion: Art Residencies as Invitation-Practices Janaína Moraes Decolonizing Tertiary Dance Education Through Including Student Voices in a Curricula Change Project Camilla Reppen, Lovisa Lundgren, and Tone Pernille Østern The Creative Spaces at HBCUs Avis HatcherPuzzo, Soni Martin, Denise Murchison Payton, and Amanda Virelles Call of the Butterfly: The Tao of GenuineGenerosity Robert Farid Karimi Section 2: Responsibilities to the Fields Section II Introduction Karen Schupp The Distance of Education Adesola Akinleye Performing Hartford: A Community Turns its Head Rebecca K. Pappas Integrating Disciplines–Disciplining Integration: Opera Curriculum through a Transdisciplinary Counter-Critical Pedagogy Kevin Skelton Sustainable Futures in Performance Practice, Production, and Distribution Ecologies Max Zara Bernstein Fighting for Equity With(in) Parasitical Resistance Jessica Rajko A Tertiary Music Performance Education Through a Lens of Entrepreneurship Deanna Swoboda "Undervalued, Underpaid, Underappreciated": The Lived Experiences of Adjunct Faculty in the Performing Arts. Karen Schupp, Artemis Preeshl, and Joya Scott Section 3: Responsibilities to Society Section III Introduction Karen Schupp Performing Arts Education for Democracies: Are We Cultivating Citizens or Docile Laborers? Robin Raven Prichard Revitalizing the US Baccalaureate Dance Major: Integrating Values of Diversity and Interdisciplinarity Sherrie Barr and Wendy Oliver Interrogating the Academy’s Role in the Journey from Art Music to Heart Music Fiona Evison Toward a Pedagogy of Care: Well-being, Grief, and Community-based Theatre’s Role in Higher Education Rivka Eckert Arts Education in Community Colleges: A Critical Connection Amy C. Parks Pedagogies of Critical Embodiment: Activating Submerged Histories, Moving Toward Anti-Racist Futures Dasha A. Chapman The Performing Arts in the Next America: Preparing Students for Their Future Peter Witte

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Book SynopsisThe established canon of architectural pedagogy has been predominantly produced within the Northern hemisphere and transposed â or imposed â across schools within the Global South, more often, with scant regard for social, economic, political or ecological culture and context, nor regional or indigenous pedagogic principles and practices. Throughout the Global South, architectureâs academic community has been deeply affected by this regime, how it shapes and influences proto-professionals and by implication architectural processes and outcomes, too.The Routledge Companion to Architectural Pedagogies of the Global South resituates and recenters an array of pedagogic approaches that are either produced or proliferate from the âGlobal Southâ while antagonizing the linguistic, epistemological and disciplinary conceits that, under imperialist imperatives, ensured that these pedagogies remained maligned or marginalized. The book maintains that the exclusionary implications o

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Book SynopsisThe politics of Broadway musicals matter a great deal more to U.S. American culture than they appear to mean, and they are especially important to mainstream politics surrounding sex, gender, and sexuality. Love Is Love Is Love looks to the Broadway musicals of the past decade for help understanding the current state of LGBTQ politics in the United States. Through analyses of Promises, Promises, Newsies, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Color Purple, and Frozen, this book attempts to move past the question of representational politics and asks us instead to think in more complex ways about LGBTQ identity, what LGBTQ politics are, and the politics of Broadway musicals themselves. Producing new, complex readings of all five of these musicals, author Aaron C. Thomas places each of them within the context of the LGBTQ politics of their day. Some of the issues the book treats are controversies of casting, the closetedness and openness of musical theatre, Table of Contents1. Shut Up and Deal 2. It Gets Better Than Boyhood 3. A Gender of One, a Sexuality of Many 4. All My Life I Had to Fight 5. Frozen Eleganza

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Book SynopsisThis book offers an innovative and interdisciplinary approach to Pop art scholarship through a recuperation of popular music into art historical understandings of the movement. Jukebox modernism is a procedure by which Pop artists used popular music within their works to disrupt decorous modernism during the sixties. Artists, including Peter Blake, Pauline Boty, James Rosenquist, and Andy Warhol, respond to popular music for reasons such as its emotional connectivity, issues of fandom and identity, and the pleasures and problems of looking and listening to an artwork. When we both look at and listen to Pop art, essential aspects of Popâs history that have been neglectedâits sounds, its women, its queerness, and its black subjectsâcome into focus.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Towards a Definition of Jukebox ModernismChapter 1: How to Hear a Painting: Jukebox Modernism and Elvis Presley in PopChapter 2: Pink, White, and Black: The Strange Case of James Rosenquist's Big BoChapter 3: The Sound and Look of Melodrama in Pauline Boty’s Pop Paintings Chapter 4: Soundtrack Not Included: Andy Warhol’s SleepChapter 5: Sounding Pop Art: An Exhibition HistoryConclusion: Contemporary Jukebox ModernismBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisGrounded in contemporary landscape architecture theory and practice, Cybernetics and the Constructed Environment blends examples from art, design, and engineering with concepts from cybernetics and posthumanism, offering a transdisciplinary examination of the ramifications of cybernetics on the constructed environment. Cybernetics, or the study of communication and control in animals and machines, has grown increasingly relevant nearly 80 years after its inception. Cyber-physical systems, sensing networks, and spatial computingalgorithms and intelligent machinescreate endless feedback loops with human and non-human actors, co-producing a cybernetic environment. Yet, when an ecosystem is meticulously managed by intelligent machines, can we still call it wild nature? Posthumanism ideas, such as new materialism, actor-network theory, and object-oriented ontology, have become increasingly popular among design disciplines, including landscape architecture, and may have provided tr

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Book SynopsisThis book delves into the intricate realms of games and their creation, examining them through cultural, systemic, and, most notably, human lenses. It explores diverse themes such as authorship, creative responsibility, the tension between games as a product and games as a form of cultural expression, and the myth of a universal audience.The book analyzes why we should put politics in our games and how hyperrealism may be a trap. It also proposes a new framework for thinking about game narrative and a different paradigm for the production altogether. Topics tackled are approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, so be prepared to read both about Peter Paul Rubens and John Carmack. There are also graphs, system rhetorics discussions, and the market realityâstakeholders, return on investments, and the gaming bubble bursting.This book is written for readers passionate about the craft of making games, including journalists and industry professionals. It offers a more humanistic perspective on games, presented by experienced writers who know the intricacies of game development.

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Book SynopsisConservation of Time-based Media Art is the first book to take stock of the current practices and conceptual frameworks that define the emerging field of time-based media conservation, which focuses on contemporary artworks that contain video, audio, film, slides or software components.Written and compiled by a diverse group of time-based media practitioners around the world, including conservators, curators, registrars and technicians among others, this volume offers a comprehensive survey of specialized practices that have developed around the collection, preservation and display of time-based media art. Divided into 23 chapters with contributions from 36 authors and 85 additional voices, the narrative of this book provides both an overview and detailed guidance on critical topics, including the acquisition, examination, documentation and installation of time-based media art; cross-medium and medium-specific treatment approaches and methods; the registration, stora

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Book SynopsisThis introduction to queer theatre and performance in the United States explores the pioneering artists that have shaped this ever-changing field across the past two centuries, through ten key moments and movements.Designed for weekly use in queer and LGBTQ+ theatre courses, the ten chosen milestones move chronologically from nineteenth century shifts in the understanding of homosexuality through the queer postmodernist avant-garde to the rise of intersectionality and recognition of trans identities. This clear, dynamic framework uses âqueerâ as a flexible and intersectional term, addressing sexualities and sexual identities, the people and groups who claim them, and the practices that challenge heteronormative structures.Milestones are a range of accessible textbooks, breaking down the need-to-know moments in the social, cultural, political, and artistic development of foundational subject areas.

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Book SynopsisStanislavsky and Intimacy is the first academic edited book with a focus on how intimacy protocols, choreography, and theories intersect with the broad practices of Konstantin Stanislavsky's system'. As the basis for most Western theatre and film acting, Stanislavsky's system centers on truthful performances. Intimacy direction and choreography insists on not only a culture of consent, but also specific, repeatable choreography for all staged intimate moments. These two practices have often been placed as diametric opposites, but this book seeks to dispel this argument. Each chapter discusses specific Stanislavskian principles and practices as they relate to staged sexually intimate moments, also opening the conversation to the broader themes and practices of other kinds of intimacy within the acting field. Stanislavsky And... is a series of multi-perspectival collections that bring the enduring legacy of Stanislavskian actor training into the spotlightTable of Contents1. Consent and Impulse to Action within Intimacy ChoreographyLaura Rikard2. Stanislavsky and Intimacy: The Brain-Body RespondsJoelle Ré Arp-Dunham3. Which Me do you See?: Emotional and Social intimacy, Researched or RevealedChrissie Poulter4. Relaxed Readiness, Increased Awareness, and Intimacy Protocols – Increasing Actors’ Agency and Authenticity in Stanislavsky’s SystemEmily Rollie6. The 5 Pillars of Intimacy and The System: A Springboard for Truth and CreativityD Granke 6. Black Women and The Stanislavsky MethodAnn James7. Stanislavsky and Staged Sexual Intimacy in Film: An Interview with Intimacy Coordinators Vanessa Coffey and David ThackerayVanessa Coffey and David Thackeray, with Joelle Ré Arp-Dunham8. Techniques for Action within Actor Boundaries for Film and TheatrePia Rickman

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Book SynopsisDecolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today. The contributors provide an inclusive and trans-national conversation between a diverse set of academics, design practitioners and thinkers, and activists. This book is structured around three thematic and practical categories: Part 1 studies decolonisation conceptually; Part 2 studies decolonisation as a process; and Part 3 studies the products of decolonisation as materialised in the form of buildings, urban design, planning, policy, and social practices.Essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners, this book presents the project of decolonisation as a pedagogy and an ongoing process.

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Book SynopsisReligion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making, exhibiting, and discussion of contemporary art. Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, critics, and artists, the book reflects on what might be termed an accord between contemporary art and religion.It explores the common strategies contemporary artists employ in the interface between religion and contemporary art practice. It also includes case studies to provide more in-depth treatments of specific artists grappling with themes such as ritual, abstraction, mythology, the body, popular culture, science, liturgy, and social justice, among other themes.It is a must-read resource for working artists, critics, and scholars in this field, and an invitation to new voices curious about its promises and possibilities.Trade Review"This remarkable volume invites into conversation an impressive assembly of interlocutors and an impressively diverse set of approaches to a still-mystifyingly understudied subject. Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord represents a signal contribution that brings into creative relation its two key terms to demonstrate how they are not simply manifest in adjacency but often also inextricably fused. Highly recommended to scholars in art and/or religion as to artists in all media!"Sally M. Promey, Yale University, USATable of ContentsIntroduction Ronald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith Part I: Theoretical and Interpretative Frameworks 1. The New Visibility of Religion in Contemporary Art: Four Interpretive Horizons Jonathan A. Anderson 2. Exploring Theological Dimensions of the Work of Art Linda Stratford 3. Translating Religion: Contemporary Art Through a Postsecular Lens Lieke Wijnia 4. The Question of Criticism: What to Do with Our Revelations? Jeffrey L. Kosky 5. Curating Faith: Art, Religion, and the Curatorial Daniel A. Siedell 6. A Loving Regard: Contemporary Art and Expanding the Archive Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt 7. Exhibition as Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interfaith Dialogue Aaron Rosen Part II: Artistic Strategies 8. Iconic: Contemporary Portraiture and Sacred Personhood Katie Kresser 9. Relic-ing Now: Reliquary Strategies of Materiality and Memory in Contemporary Art Cynthia Hahn 10. Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage Site: Ambrosio’s As Far as the Eye Can Travel Zine Kathryn Barush 11. Rogue Priests: Ritual, Sacrament, and Witness in Contemporary Art Rachel Hostetter Smith 12. Walking Naked and Barefoot: When Ancient Jewish Prophets Meet Avant-Garde Performance Artists Wayne L. Roosa 13. Revisiting "Art in the Dark": Thomas McEvilley, Performance Art, and the End(s) of Shamanism Karen Gonzalez Rice 14. Infused with Light: Christian Traces in Multimedia Installation Art Jorge Sebastián Lozano 15. Bill Viola, the Icon, and the Apophatic Sublime Ronald R. Bernier Part III: Case Studies of Artists and Artworks 16. The Lived Religion of Andy Warhol Stephen Bush 17. "A King Aesthetic?": Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the Ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. James Romaine 18. From the Wounds Grace: John August Swanson and the Theological Aesth/Ethics of Liberation Cecilia González-Andrieu 19. Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light & Space Movement Matthew J. Milliner 20. Performativity and the Flesh: The Economy of the Icon in Lia Chavez’s Light Body Julie M. Hamilton 21. Theaster Gates and the Good Use of Forgotten Things Donato Loia 22. On Preaching, Performance Art, and Television: Christian Jankowski’s The Holy Artwork Isabelle Loring Wallace 23. Tools of the Apocalypse: Eschatology in Contemporary Jewish and Catholic Art Ben Schachter 24. Back to the Garden – Utopia and Paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari Eleanor Heartney 25. Deep Waters: Art and the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China Patricia Eichenbaum Karetzky 26. Salvation in the Fallen World: On Meng Yan’s Recent Monumental Works Changping Zha 27. Chrysanne Stathacos and Charwei Tsai: The Mandala Haema Sivanesa 28. Performing Memory and Mourning: Diane Victor’s Martyred Women Karen von Veh 29. Weaving Land and Water: On the Poetics of Diasporic and Indigenous Resistance Yohana Agra Junker 30. Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art Sascha Crasnow Afterword: A Colloquy with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, James Elkins, Ben Quash, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate. Contributors: Biographical Notes Credits Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is an easily digestible guide to the management and practice knowledge needed to establish and run an architectural practice. It is of particular interest to those starting out in the profession and to students, whilst also being useful to architects more widely who need succinct information to assist them in the daily management of their work. The book sits beside the Architectâs Legal Pocket Book providing legal information and the Architectâs Pocket Book providing guidance in design. It covers all the main management and practice topics relevant to the running of an architectural business including setting up the company, the profession, project management, fees, office management, financial management and teamwork. It also looks at the state of the construction industry and the architectural profession today, new forms of practice, and how the profession is changing. The book is interweaved with pearls of wisdom and experience and reflections from archite

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Book SynopsisThe Built Environment through the Prism of the Colonial Periodical Press is a venture of the International Group for Studies of Colonial Periodical Press of the Portuguese Empire (IGSCP-PE), who are also interested in comparative studies and conceptual discussions. Through a focus on the understudied role of colonial periodicals in the creation and public discussion of colonial built environments, the present book contributes to a cultural history of the idea of built environment. The studies underscore the role of press in articulating environment imaging and transformations with colonial ideologies, projects and policies, and the fixing, othering and disputing of identities, while still retaining the epochal circulation of ideas. This role is evidenced through discussions of forests, clubs, hotels, barracks, hospitals, houses, verandas and gardens, railways, Catholic churches and Hindu templescapes, restorations and exhibitions. The book also examines a non-canonical varietTable of Contents1. The Forest or the Tree? Colonial Forestry and Environmental Debates in the Goan Periodical Press.José Ferreira2. Iron Message: Railways in the German Colonial Press.Corinna Schäfer3. Infrastructure in the Making: The Ottoman Railway Company as Portrayed by the Smyrna Mail.Elvan Cobb4. Tropical Building: A Typology Defined in British Military Engineering Journals.Pedro Guedes5. Illustration as propaganda in the nineteenth-century periodical press: British Empire building on the terrace at Shepheard's Hotel, Cairo.Anne Shelley6. Educating the colonial spouse or pushing the agenda of Tropical Modernism in the Belgian Congo? Architecture and the coloniser's house in the pages of the Bulletin de l'Union des Femmes Coloniales.Johan Lagae7. Reconstructing Templescapes in Goa: Santeri-Śāntādurgā and Other Female Deities through the Compromissos of the Boletim OfficialCibele Aldrovandi8. Conflicted Identities: Bombay's Catholic communities, its buildings and the Press.Alice Santiago Faria and Sidh Losa Mendiratta9. Constructing the Empire: Italian Colonial Architecture and the practice of ambientazione.Monica Palmeri10. 'Old Goa must be brought back to life': The restoration of Old Goa's monuments in the Goan periodical press during the Portuguese colonial period.Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos11. Cabo Verde Boletim de Propaganda e Informação (1949-64): from propaganda to the demands for change at the periphery of the Portuguese empire.Ana Vaz Milheiro

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Book SynopsisSecrets of Screen Acting, Fourth Edition, is a step-by-step guide to the elements of successful screen acting.When it was first published in 1993, Secrets of Screen Acting broke new ground in explaining how acting for the camera is different from acting on stage. Reaction time is altered, physical timing and placement are reconceived, and the proportions of the digital frame itself become the measure of all things, so the director must conceptualize each image in terms of this new rectangle and actors must ''fit'' into the frame. Based on a revolutionary non-Method approach to acting, this book shows what actually works: how an actor, an announcer, or anyone working in front of the cameras can maximise the effectiveness of their performances on screen. This fourth edition is completely updated to cover new techniques, film references, and insights, including: Updated information on vocal work outside acting, such as audiobooks and voice-overs Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Screen versus Stage 3. The Frame 4. The Camera 5. Sound and Vocal Levels 6. Reactions and Business 7. Screen Acting 8. Casting 9. Auditions and Interviews 10. Rehearsals and technicals 11. The Shoot and 12. Post-Production 13. Presenting 14. Career Thoughts and Epilogue

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Handbook of Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans is a comprehensive overview of major topics, established debates and new directions in the study of popular music and politics in this region.The vibrant growth of this subject area since the 1990s has been intertwined with the region's political and socio-economic transformations, including the collapse of state socialism in much of the region, the break-up of Yugoslavia, the advent of neoliberal capitalism, the rise of Romani activism, the complex politics of Europeanization' before and after the global financial crisis, and the region's relationship to the European Union border regime. The handbook illustrates the wide range of disciplines and methods that contribute to this field's interdisciplinary dialogue and highlights emerging approaches such as the study of Black diasporas in the region, popular music's links with LGBTQ+ communities, and the impact of digital technologies on musical culture

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Book SynopsisStanislavsky and Race is the first book to explore the role that Konstantin Stanislavsky's system and its legacies can play in building, troubling and illuminating today's anti-racist theatre practices.This collection of essays from leading figures in the field of actor training stands not only as a resource for a new area of academic enquiry, but also for students, actors, directors, teachers and academics who are engaged in making inclusive contemporary theatre. In seeking to dismantle the dogma that surrounds much actor training and replace it with a culturally competent approach that will benefit our entire community, the system is approached from a range of perspectives featuring the research, reflections and provocations of 20 different international artists interrogating Stanislavsky's approach through the lens of race, place and identity.Stanislavsky and is a series of multi-perspectival collections that bring the enduring legacy of StanislavTable of Contents1. Re/Gaining Trust: The "System" and the System of Actor TrainingSylvan Baker, Zuri Eshun and James PalmA Reflection on Re/Gaining Trust: Revelation and ResponsibilityJoe Wilson, Jr2. Black British Perspectives, Pedagogy and Power: Addressing the Canon through S.P.H.E.R.E.Gemma Crooks and Erica Jeffrey3. Logunedé in Salem: Making Sense of Stanislavsky’s Last Experiments in Contemporary Brazil Diego Moschkovich 4. Emotion Memory versus Physical Action: Towards Anti-racist Pedagogies that Make Way for Critical PraxisEvi Stamatiou5. Breaking Away: Latinidad and Moving Beyond the "System"Marissa Chibás, Michelle Jasso and Tlaloc Rivas with Siiri ScottA Reflection on Breaking Away: Looking through All Kinds of Windows Sandra Marquez6. A Jewish Journey: Stanislavsky’s "System" to the American MethodConrad Cohen7. The Intracultural Project: Creating an Inclusive Rehearsal Room Beyond StanislavskyKristine Landon-Smith and Dominic HingoraniA Reflection on The Intracultural Project: Mabuhay as an Act of ResistanceJames Cooney 8. Stanislavsky, Rose McClendon and Reparations: Whiteness, Professionalization and Reframing Amateurism in the Theater of the United StatesAmy Steiger9. I Ain’t Studyin’ Stanislavsky: We Are the Key to Reimagining 21st-Century Actor Training Monica White Ndounou

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Book SynopsisThe problem with the way the safety industry functions is three-fold: (1) the dysfunctional relationship between business and safety leaders, (2) the practice of Results-Based Safety, and (3) the creation of a false reality. This book presents an insightful and practical approach to how you can move your safety program from Results-Based to Behavior-Based Safety. The move involves understanding what motivates behavior, utilization of consequences, practicing the seven steps of performance coaching, creating accurate safety campaigns, and defining evidence of a healthy Behavior-Based Safety programthis is the other side of safety.. The text:Defines the four major motivations, explains how they work, and how safety leaders can use the right motivation for the right person to help them practice safe behavior Explains how to maximize the impact of reinforcement consequences and minimize punitive consequences in a way thaTable of ContentsForward Introduction Part 1: The Problems with the Way Safety Functions Chapter 1: Ineffective Leadership Between Business and Safety Leaders 1.1 The Focus of Business Leaders and Safety Leaders Are Not Aligned1.2 Leading with Authority is Dangerous Leadership 1.3 The Lack of Diversity in Personality Types of Leaders Chapter 2: Practicing Results Based Safety (RBS)2.1 Good Intensions Are Not Science 2.2 Using Lagging Indicators is the Wrong Premise for Problem Solving 2.3 Pursuing Results is Results Based Safety Chapter 3: Creating A False Reality Part 2: Applying the Science of Behavior Chapter 4: What Motivates Behavior4.1 Extrinsic Motivation4.2 Identified Motivation4.3 Intrinsic Motivation4.4 Introjection Motivation4.5 Emotional Intelligence Chapter 5: Focusing on the Utilization of Consequences5.1 Maximizing the Impact of Reinforcements (Pr, Nr, Re)5.2 Minimizing the Impact of Punitives (Pu/Pe/Ex)5.3 Clarification of Terms Chapter 6: Practicing Performance Coaching6.1 Performance Coaching vs. Development Coaching6.2 The Seven Steps of Performance Coaching Conversations6.3 Demonstrating Fluency of the Seven Steps of Performance Coaching6.4 Practicing Frequency of Reinforcement to Shape Behavior to Habit Strength Chapter 7: Safety Campaigns Should Be Safe Behavior Campaigns Chapter 8: Evidence of Healthy Behavior Based Safety Program8.1 Locus of Control8.2 Self-Esteem8.3 Self-Efficacy8.4 Self-Actualization8.5 Full Functioning Individuals and Teams8.6 Perceptual Schematic Part 3: Structuring the Culture for Functional Safety Chapter 9: Designing the Safety Culture on Purpose9.1 Establishing Safety Culture Leadership9.2 Leadership Styles9.3 Leadership Practices9.4 Leadership Influence Chapter 10: Establishing Safety Culture Infrastructure10.1 Mechanistic or Organic Culture10.2 Impact of Cultural Phenomena10.3 Linking Requirements with Goals10.4 Integrating Expectations with Achievement Chapter 11: Create a Fully Functioning Safety Culture 11.1 Alignment of Corporate and Safety Culture11.2 Creating Leading Indicators Conclusion References

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Book SynopsisIn Humanizing Ballet Pedagogies, Jessica Zeller offers a new take on the ballet pedagogy manual, examining how and why ballet pedagogies develop, considering their implications for students and teachers, and proposing processes by which readers can enact humanizing, equitable approaches.This book supports pedagogical thinking and development in ballet. Across three parts, it reflects how pedagogies come to be: through rationales, dialogues, and practices. Part 1, Philosophies, offers a contextual reading of ballet pedagogyâs historic relationship to ideals, and it describes an alternative approach that takes its meaningful purpose from the embodied knowledge of participants in the ballet class. Part 2, Perspectives, looks at how the teacherâs person shapes the ballet class. It draws from a new survey of ballet students that illuminates the direct effects of pedagogies and proposes future directions. Praxis, Part 3, includes three theoretically based approaches that c

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Book SynopsisThe urban attentions of Pritzker Laureate Sverre Fehn (19242009) are extensive, but as yet virtually unexplored. This book examines ten select projects to illuminate Fehn's approach to the city, the embodiment of that thinking in his designs, and the broader lessons those efforts offer for better understanding the relationship between architecture and urban life, with unignorable implications for emergent urban architecture and its address of sociological and ecological crises. Wary of large-scale planning proposals or the erasure of existing urban patterns, Fehn offered an uncommon and profoundly vibrant approach to urbanism at the scale of the single architectural project. His writings, constructed buildings, competition entries, and lectures suggest opportunities for reinvigorating architecture's engagement with the city, and provoke a rethinking of concepts foundational to its theorization. What is the nature of urbanity? What is the relationship of urbanity to the natural worldTrade Review"What if a good urban solution doesn’t involve ‘fitting into existing conditions’ but adding a clear and articulate voice to barely audible communications about ways of living that could be less wasteful, more humane, and just? Read this forward-looking book to discover modern architecture’s positive contribution to the city and the cultures it embodies."David Leatherbarrow, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania"This is a thesis that takes architectural scholarship and criticism to an entirely new level, in part because of the exceptionally sensitive talent and inventive energy of Sverre Fehn, and in part because of Anderson’s comparable sensitivity and profound erudition, influenced as it has been by the architectural phenomenologies of Dalibor Vesely and David Leatherbarrow. This is a truly important work."Kenneth Frampton, Emeritus Professor of Architecture Columbia UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments. Chapter 1 Fehn in the City: “What makes this all so alive”. Chapter 2 Opened Ground. Chapter 3 Sverre Fehn’s Ambient Urbanity. Chapter 4 Sverre Fehn, the City, and the Architecture of Participation. Chapter 5 More Oslo. Afterword. Appendix 1. Appendix 2. Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book outlines the process of writing and publishing research in the field of architecture and design. The book sets out to help researchers find a voice and find the best fit for their work. Information about the different types of publication on offer is set out, as well as how to make that important initial approach. From pitching an idea for a review in a magazine, to producing a journal article right through to the monograph, Writing and Publishing in Architecture and Design maps out the different steps for the novice author. Your first steps in publishing can be daunting, and the book offers material which will inspire confidence, by demystifying the publication process. It also includes valuable nuts and bolts material such as planning and structure, time management, writing styles, editing, production of the final manuscript and picture research. How do you turn your PhD into a book? How do you turn conference proceedings into a publication? Commissioning editors

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Book SynopsisTowards Embodied Performance invites directors and other generative performance makers to experiment with making their own original, visually stunning, sonically immersive, and physically rigorous embodied performance.Through historical context, the author's 30-plus years of experience, and original interviews with leading theatre artists, this book sets the stage for a new generation of artists building boundary-breaking work. Directors are often categorized into one of only two frameworks: the Stanislavskian director, whose method is based on text analysis and character wants and needs, and the auteur director, whose work might focus on visual spectacle at the expense of text or character objectives. This book argues that the director of embodied performance fuses these two approaches, acting as the author of the event. In Part I, readers will explore the core elements of embodied performance space, time, body, language, and action through a lens that bridge

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Book SynopsisInteractive Sound and Music: Beyond Pressing Play provides an accessible exploration into the aesthetics of interactive audio, using examples from video games, experimental music, and participatory theatre and sound installations. Offering a practitionerâs perspective, the book places interactive sound and music within a broader aesthetic context relating to key texts and discussion within musicology and wider art practices. Each chapter takes the reader through a key debate surrounding interactive sound and music, such as: Is it actually interactive and does it actually matter? How do audience expectations change in an interactive space? How do you compose for multiple possibilities? Is interactive sound and music ever finished? Where now for interactive sound and music? Supported by a series of questions at the end of each chapter that can be used as a focus for seminar or reading group activities, this is an idea

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Book SynopsisThis book draws on the relationship between culture and the environment and its connection with health and well-being. Therapeutic environments are settings that comprise the physical, ecological, psychological, spiritual and social environments associated with treatment and healing. Throughout the chapters, the understanding of therapeutic environments is broadened through the exploration of specific Indigenous cultural and social dimensions. Case studies comprise a combination of research papers regarding the theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of therapeutic environments and their application following traditional methods. This book contributes to the expanding body of knowledge focusing on the role of therapeutic environments and their role in shaping health and well-being through the development of new research methods.This book is essential for practitioners, scholars and students in architecture, landscape architecture, interior architecture, urban design, plannin

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Book SynopsisThis volume explores the relationship between the emphasis on performance in Elizabethan humanist education and the flourishing of literary brilliance around the turn of the sixteenth century. This study asks us what lessons we can learn today from Shakespeare's Latin grammar school. What were the cognitive benefits of an education so deeply rooted in what Demosthenes and Quintilian called actioacting? Because of the vast difference between educational practice then and now, we have not often followed one essential thread: the focus on performance. This study examines the connections relevant to the education offered in schools today. This book will be of great interest to teachers, scholars, and administrators in performing arts and education.Trade Review''I guarantee that Lessons from Shakespeare's Classroom will be the most surprising, most readable learning you will do all year, and that you will laugh out loud in every chapter. Zwounds!—hie thee to these pages most expeditiously.'' Eric Booth, Actor and author of "The Everyday Work of Art," "The Music Teachers' Bible," "Playing for Their Lives," and "Tending the Perennials."''Robin Lithgow has done anyone interested in Shakespeare or education (and more particularly those of us interested in both Shakespeare and education) a great service with her book. By detailing the classical grounding of Shakespeare’s writing she shows us the great tradition of which we are a part; a tradition that expands in its inclusivity as the world changes and evolves. This tradition is the "fertile soil" that contributed to the brilliance of Shakespeare’s generation and lights a path for our own. It is truly an "education for the benefit of the commonwealth," which we perhaps need now more than ever.'' Louis Fantasia, Artistic Associate, Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles''Lithgow’s book reanimates the Erasmian spirit of teaching in all the best ways: it’s artfully copious, humanely conversational, and models throughout a witty flair for drama. Her students were fortunate; now we are, too.''Scott Newstok, author of How to Think like ShakespeareTable of ContentsTimelineCast of CharactersAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Time Travel: Setting the sceneChapter 2. Engagement before Information: Instruction in both colloquial and rhetorical language in Elizabethan schoolsChapter 3. Angels and Eaglets: Schoolboy actors set the sceneChapter 4. Good Behavior and Audacity: The training up of Elizabethan schoolboysChapter 5. The Lego Snap of Learning: Research in arts education and neuroscience Chapter 6. Context: The Hatch and Brood of Time: A brief history of the English ReformationChapter 7. Erasmus’ Egg: His life and his works in support of performing arts in educationChapter 8. The Delightful Mulcaster: Playmaking schoolmasters in Tudor EnglandChapter 9. Per Quam Figuram? Rhetoric in Shakespeare’s classroomChapter 10. Erasmus Writes Colloquies: Classroom training in Latin conversationChapter 11. The Little Eyases: Professional boy actors in the 16th centuryChapter 12. ConclusionBibliographyAppendix I: Performing the ColloquiesExamples of Erasmus’ Colloquies in Latin and English Proci and puellae (Courtship) Naufragium (The Shipwreck) Uxor (Marriage) Abattis et eruditae (The Abbot and the Learned Woman) Herilia (A Master’s Commands) Appendix II: Selection of Educational Drama Resources for Teachers Index

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Book SynopsisDiscussing the state of play in contemporary popular culture, specifically the role of crime and crime control in the video game medium, this book discusses the criminological importance of video games.Pulling together an international group of scholars from Brazil, Canada, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States, this edited volume analyzes a wide range of noteworthy video games, including Bioshock, Death Stranding, Diablo 2, Beat Cop, The Last of Us, Disco Elysium, Red Dead Redemption, P.T., Spider-Man, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, and Grand Theft Auto. The book thus seeks to advance dialog on video games as important cultural artifacts containing significant insights regarding dominant perceptions, interests, anxieties, contradictions, and other matters of criminological interest.Covering policing, vigilantism, different forms of violence, genocide, mental illness, and criminological theory, Video Games, Crime, and Control

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Book SynopsisDhrupad is believed to be the oldest style of classical vocal music performed today in North India. This detailed study of the genre considers the relationship between the oral tradition, its transmission from generation to generation, and its re-creation in performance. There is an overview of the historical development of the dhrupad tradition and its performance style from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and of the musical lineages that carried it forward into the twentieth century, followed by analyses of performance techniques, processes and styles. The authors examine the relationship between the structures provided by tradition and their realization by the performer to throw light on the nature of tradition and creativity in Indian music; and the book ends with an account of the revival' movement of the late twentieth century that re-established the genre in new contexts. Augmented with an analytical transcription of a complete dhrupad performance, this is the firsTrade Review"A significant contribution to Indian musical studies, breaking new ground in documentation and analysis, and in its fruitful approach to collaborative musicological method. For its systematic definition of a musical domain it should become required reading for students of North Indian music, but beyond this it supplies a wealth of new material which will lay the foundations for further research." Jonathan Katz, Ethnomusicology Forum"A model for the sort of joint undertaking that should occur more often in the field of ethnomusicology... the definitive monograph on its subject." Peter Manuel, Music and Letters"Dhrupad is a notable attempt to develop a "context-sensitive music analysis" that can uncover the "inner logic" of the music and identify "formal archetypes" within it, and it presents a carefully nuanced and extremely detailed view of dhrupad from many angles. Sanyal and Widdess's coauthorship is to be lauded, and readers may hope that it will be as much an inspiration for future collaborative projects as it is a valuable resource for the student of dhrupad." Matthew Allen, The Journal of Asian Studies"The authors consistently and successfully integrate disparate but important strands of historical, theoretical, and practical knowledge throughout the narrative...In addition to its meticulous historical research, the extensive performance analysis emerges as its most significant contribution." Natalie Sarrazin, NotesTable of ContentsCh. 1 What is Dhrupad Ch. 2 The Historical Emergence of Dhrupad Style Ch. 3 Tradition and Style: Th Four Banis Ch. 4 The Transmission of Tradition: The Dagar Heritage Ch. 5 Alap and Tradition Ch. 6 An Alap Performance in the Dagar Tradition Ch. 7 Composition and Tradition Ch. 8 Performing the Composition: Rhythmic Variation and ImprovisationCh. 9 Dhrupad in the Modern World: Tradition, Performance and Revival Appendix 1: PrincipalDhrupad Tals Appendix 2: Dhrupad Lineages Appendix 3: Alap and Dhrupad, Rag Multani (Transcription)

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Book SynopsisLying in the Dark Room: Architectures of British Maternity returns to and reflects on the spatial and architectural experience of childbirth, through both a critical history of maternity spaces and a creative exploration of those we use today.Where conventional architectural histories objectify buildings (in parallel with the objectification of the maternal body), the bookâin the mode of creative practice researchâpresents a creative-critical autotheory of the architecture of lying-in. It uses feminist, subjective modes of thinking that travel across disciplines, registers and arguments. The book assesses the transformation of maternity spacesâfrom the female bedchamber of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century marital homes, to the lying-in hospitals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries purposely built by man-midwives, to the late twentieth-century spaces of home and the modern hospital maternity wingâand the parallel shifts in maternal practices. The spacTable of Contents1. The Dark and Airless Room 2. The Man-Midwife Enters 3. Building Hospitals, Building Bodies: The Hospital for Lying-In 4. Commonplaces—Species of Maternal Spaces

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Book SynopsisEvaluating the existing position of film as research, Filmmaking in Academia offers clear guidance and practical advice from the planning and conception of research films to the making, evaluation, dissemination and impact of practice-based research.This book aspires to serve as a guide for new and current researchers in screen-based media and creative practice. It seeks to explore the scope, definitions, methodologies, and interdisciplinary (and post-disciplinary) nature of film research projects. Author Agata Lulkowska focuses on how to manage potential challenges when artistic creativity meets research requirements, emphasising how finding the middle ground that serves both purposes often requires redesigning brand-new methodological approaches. Looking specifically at the publication routes for research films, the book highlights current dissemination practices and raises the question of impact throughout to re-contextualise current publication methodologies for pr

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Book SynopsisThis book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how greening can make them healthier and their occupants happier. It teaches how to see unique ideas for spaces and some of the materials needed to create the designs. Inspired by a study that states that 8% of a space needs to have plants in order to positively affect the air quality of the space, this book explores what that minimum would look like in spaces and how it can be done to existing spaces as well as to new site designs, greening both interiors and exteriors. Using the mathematical amount of 10% per square foot, the illustrations start at that quantity of greening and show how it can look. The sites selected are both public and private sites, as well as interior and exterior. As there are more modalities, needs, and locations where people now work, making sure that multiple types of spaces are designed for peopleâs success is more relevant than ever. This includes designs for more traditional offices, open-air offices, commercial spaces, homes, studios, and more. Ways of Greening: using Plans and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings gives readers a way to not only understand greening but to understand how to see greening applied to their place. The two basic ways to see the spaces selected are existing spaces to which greening design is applied afterward and upcoming spaces in which greening design can be built directly into the space. The first type of retrofitting greening into existing spaces can also be combined with the second type of space (new designs). There are examples of both types throughout the book. Essentially, this book addresses ways in which business owners, residents, developers, architects, agencies, and others can integrate greening to improve the air quality and the quality of life with a green solution.Trade ReviewFamulari makes a public call to the design profession in her new book to integrate greening into everyday practice. Each individual involved in shaping the built and natural surroundings has the responsibility to lean on allied professions to create healthier places for people and this book is the recipe you'll want to follow. Inequitable access to green space was exacerbated by the pandemic. It's our responsibility to right these inequities and Famulari puts designers, planners, architects, landscape architects, and other allied professions on notice to step into the role of a change agent. Professor Famulari presents her most important lecture yet. The teachings in this book highlight the vision to easily integrate greening practice.Whether you are new to this work, or a veteran, this book provides green selections of design interventions that can serve as inspiration for a range of contexts and applications. The time is now for greening and biophilic design – health cannot wait one more day. And Famulari shows us just how easy it can be. -- Ashley Zidon, ASLA, AICP. Community planner, researcher, and change-maker.This book addresses the impacts on design and the need to build an inclusive culture - detailing the how and who has access to interact with green space. Stevie's ability to challenge the status quo, specifically with how people and plants interact, is a beautiful push on our responsibility to climate change. She does an excellent job showing us how to prioritize and value plant life and its numerous positive impacts on the earth and life in every facet of daily living.-- Janna Pea, Founder of Pea Nation, communications executive specializing in social impact campaigns and narrative changeTable of ContentsForeword by Kene Okigbo, PLA, ASLA. About the Author. In the Land of Gifted Futures. Giving Gratitude and Thanks To. Introduction. Chapter 1 Understanding Green Design. Chapter 2 Urban Areas. Chapter 3 Commercial Spaces. Chapter 4 Time Invested Spaces: Lofts, Houses, Courtyards, Offices, and Classrooms. Chapter 5 Private and Public Spaces. Bibliography. Image Credits. Index.

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This book is about co-leadership: A leadership practice and structure often found in arts organizations that consist of two or three executives who bridge the art and business divide at the top.Many practitioners recognize this phenomenon but the research on this topic is limited and dispersed. This book assembles a coherent overview and presents new insights of the field. While co-leadership is well institutionalized in the West, it is also criticized for management's constraint of artistic autonomy and for its pluralism that dilutes leadership clarity. However, co-leadership also personifies the strategic objectives of art, audiences, organization, and community, by addressing plural logics navigating the demands of artistic vision and organizational stability. It is an integrating solution. The authors investigate its specifics in the arts, including global practice and its interdisciplinary nature. The theoretical frame of plural leadership supports their empirical explo

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum. Balancing the science and humanities, it exposes recent pedagogical experiments from renown educators, while also interrogating a designerâs agency between science and speculation in the face of climate uncertainty. The teaching experiments are presented across four sections: Abstraction, Organization, Building, and Narrative, exposing core parts of an architectâs education and how educators can simultaneously provide fundamental skills and constructive literacy while instigating environmental sensibilities. Chapters cover issues such as an unstable hydrosphere, water infrastructure, remediating materials, methods of disassembly and adaptive reuse, as well as constructing new aesthetic categories of climate change, and implementing oral histories of construction, among many others.WritteTable of ContentsSection I: Abstraction. Section introduction 1. Experimenting with Dynamic Models : Expanding intuition for spatio-temporal Processes 2. Constructing New Aesthetic Categories of Climate Change 3. Deep Time and Architecture: Restoring Connections between Architecture and Environment Implications 4. Matter and Energy Over Nature and Climat; Approaching Architecture as a Science of Spatial Composition Section II: Organization. Section introduction 5. Unstable Waters : Rethinking design pedagogy to address the instability of the Hydrosphere 6. Solar Sculpting : Investigating the relationship between building Form and Energy Performance 7. Palm House : Investigating the distribution of industrial horticulture in Architecture buildings 8. The Water Dilemma : Descaling water infrastructure Section III: Building Section introduction 9. Natural Building Materials in Architecture Pedagogy : Challenging Conventions Hands on 10. Thermally Active Concrete : Researching remediating Materials 11. Airscapes: Constructing with Dynamic Pneumatics and the ecology of air 12. Material Circulation by Design: From Mining Modernism to Radical Reuse Section IV: Narratives. Section introduction 13. Moving Narratives: Design Pedagogies and Nomadic-Pastoralist Traditions 14. Built Environment as Palimpsest : Disassembly, Reassembly, Recycling, towards experimental Preservation 15. A Theory of Architecture Through the Geologic-Atmospheric Axis, or, Sections as Axis Mundi and Cosmograms 16. Doubt, Rapture, Power and Knowledge: A Four-Part Reflection on Architectural Education Coda: Elephant in the Room: A Fable for Tomorrow

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners collects the outstanding biographical and production overviews of key theatre practitioners first featured in the popular Routledge Performance Practitioners series of guidebooks.Each of the chapters is written by an expert on a particular figure, from Stanislavsky and Brecht to Laban and Decroux, and places their work in its social and historical context. Summaries and analyses of their key productions indicate how each practitioner''s theoretical approaches to performance and the performer were manifested in practice. All 22 practitioners from the original series are represented, with this volume covering those born before the end of the First World War. This is the definitive first step for students, scholars and practitioners hoping to acquaint themselves with the leading names in performance, or deepen their knowledge of these seminal figures. Table of ContentsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction1. STANISLAVSKI (1863–1938)2. MEYERHOLD (1874–1940)3. COPEAU (1879–1949)4. LABAN (1879–1958)5. WIGMAN (1886–1973)6. CHEKHOV (1891–1955)7. BRECHT (1898–1956)8. DECROUX (1898–1991)9. OHNO (1906–2010) and HIJIKATA (1928–1986)10. LITTLEWOOD (1914–2002)Index

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Photography and Visual Culture is a seminal reference source for the ever-changing field of photography. Comprising an impressive range of essays and interviews by experts and scholars from across the globe, this book examines the medium's history, its central issues and emerging trends, and its much-discussed future. The collected essays and interviews explore the current debates surrounding the photograph as object, art, document, propaganda, truth, selling tool, and universal language; the perception of photography archives as burdens, rather than treasures; the continual technological development reshaping the field; photography as a tool of representation and control, and more.One of the most comprehensive volumes of its kind, this companion is essential reading for photographers and historians alike.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction & Terminology Territories The Photographic Document Photographic Expression Useful Photography Dissemination of Photography The Open Boundaries of the Photographic Medium Photography and the Market Photographic Education Outlook

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Book SynopsisThe accessibility of cultural resources via digital platforms is empowering Vietnamese cultural professionals to promote their culture to local and international audiences. This shortform book investigates the significance of digitization in Vietnamese culture, illuminating how cultural professionals are empowered through the process of digitization. The author shows how digitization is not an entirely comprehensive, ethical, or sustainable solution for the cultural sector in Vietnam, as cultural professionals working at nonprofit art spaces and artists experience both opportunities and challenges in digitizing art and culture. Drawing on new interviews with cultural professionals working in the cultural sector in Vietnam, the book will be of interest to scholars and reflective practitioners involved with the cultural and creative industries in South East Asia and globally.Table of Contents1. Digital Culture and Digitization in Asia and the Global South 2. Digitization and Cultural Professionals in Vietnam 3. Digitization and Digital Platforms in Practice 4. Future Prospects and Concerns for Vietnam’s Culture Sector

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Book SynopsisThis accessible, foundational volume explores how modern art developed around the world by comparing contexts and artistic production in Europe, the Americas, Asia, and Africa from circa 1850 through the 1960s. To provide a broader, more comprehensive view of modern art, chronological and thematic approaches will be used and selections from all regions of the world will be includedâfrom Africa, Asia, the Americas, as well as Europe. Each section begins with an overview of the region leading into more detailed case studies of specific countriesâ historical contexts, including their cultural and aesthetic values and the ways in which cultures have interacted with regional neighbours and outside forces. Examples of specific artists and groups will be discussed for each country and will illuminate themes that illustrate cultural distinctions and connect to broader modern trends traced throughout the text. This book will be of interest to students and scholars working in art history, modernism, globalization and decolonization.

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Book SynopsisWorking with Sound is an exploration of the ever-changing working practices of audio development in the era of hybrid collaboration in the games industry. Through learnings from the pre-pandemic remote and isolated worlds of audio work, sound designers, composers, and dialogue designers find themselves equipped uniquely to thrive in the hybrid, remote, and studio-based realms of today's fast-evolving working landscapes. With unique insights into navigating the worlds of isolation and collaboration, this book explores ways of thinking and working in this world, equipping the reader with inspiration to sustainably tackle the many stages of the development process. Working with Sound is an essential guide for professionals working in dynamic audio teams of all sizes, as well as the designers, producers, artists, animators, and programmers who collaborate closely with their colleagues working on game audio and sound.Trade Review'This is a much needed book and I can think of no one better or more appropriate than Rob Bridgett to have written it. Working with Sound is essential reading in its field for students, audio professionals and anyone with an interest in how sound creates narrative and emotional pictures in the mind. After all, as Bridgett reminds us, "sound is the invisible art department".'Seán Street, Emeritus Professor of Radio, Bournemouth University'Rob Bridgett’s book paints an amazingly detailed, broadly informed and inspiring vision of the future for anyone working with sound in the interactive world of entertainment…This outstanding book is an invaluable resource for both seasoned professionals and emerging sound designers and directors.'Wieslaw Woszczyk, Distinguished James McGill Professor, McGill University'While providing a wealth of practical tips and tricks, Bridgett looks beyond the day-to-day tasks and envisions a paradigm shift where audio becomes integral to game design and development. Acknowledging that this fundamental change needs to come from the inside, Bridgett suggests a plethora of strategies in Working with Sound that game audio practitioners can adopt to inspire and cultivate collaboration with other disciplines, leading to a future with more meaningful game audio.'Martin Stig Andersen, Composer, Audio Director (LIMBO, INSIDE, Control)Table of ContentsPart I: Introduction 1. Continual Change 2. Forever Changes Part II: Remote Revolutions 3. Working with Sound: The (Present) Future of Development 4. L-Levels 5. Live Reviews: Time to Listen 6. Diversity of Work 7. Integrated Audio and The Double Edged Sword of Audio Quality 8. Guerilla-Style Remote 9. The Pendulum Shift 10. The Evolving Role of Audio Leadership Part III: Understanding Sound Work: Cinematization 11. First-Principles: Genre and Style 12. Three Factors: Game Genre, Entertainment Genre, and Style 13. The Long Shadows of Cinema 14. Hollywood Sound Part IV: Understanding Creative Work 15. Sound Images: Ambiguity and Clarity 16. Sound Motifs 17. Ambiguity: Language in Collaboration 18. Designing a Game for Sound 19. Creative Techniques 20. Audio Tools 21. Quality 22. Emotional Parameters 23. Why we Might be Doing 66% Too Much Work 24. Long-Term Pillars for Audio Quality 25. Working with Future-Aware Structures 26. Working in a Post-Silo Era 27. Breaking Down the Walls: New Terrains 28. Social Sound Design 29. Haptic Design Part V: Spatial Work 30. Surround and Spatial Sound 31. First Wave Consumer Integration into Surround 32. IMAX 33. Ride Film: Shock and Awe 34. Pushing the Consumer Sound Envelope 35. Spatial Music 36. A Positive Future for Spatial Audio in Games 37. Off-Screen Sound in Games 38. Diegetic Devices: Music and Voice in Third-Person Listener Perspectives Part VI: Planning Sound Work 39. Time 40. Money 41. In The Loop Part VII: The Mix 42. Working with the Mix 43. Creative Principles 44. Techniques 45. Standards 46. Planning 47. Roles and Responsibilities 48. Outreach and Communication 49. Thinking Beyond the Technical 50. Plan to Mix 51. Tools, Techniques and Pipelines 52. Fresh Ears 53. Consistency 54. Dynamic Range Part VIII: The Continual Work of Sound 55. Good Enough - Isn’t 56. The Ubiquity of Entertainment

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Book SynopsisUsing many real-world examples and cases, this book identifies key factors and processes that have contributed to the creation of successful new products, buildings, and innovations, or resulted in some failures. Such factors include the creativity of individuals and groups, their sources of inspiration, the processes of creative design and innovation, and the characteristics of the products, buildings, and innovations themselves.Much has been written about creativity and innovation, but what helps to foster creativity, enable creative ideas to be translated into practical designs, and ensure those new products or buildings succeed as innovations on the market or in use? This book discusses these elements through the author's origination and analysis of examples and case studies ranging from the revolutionary innovation of the smartphone, through radical innovations in domestic appliances and sustainable housing, to creative designs of contemporary jewellery. The broad range Trade Review“In Creative Design and Innovation, Robin Roy provides an in-depth critical, contemporary analysis of some familiar and less familiar product and architectural designs. Roy illustrates the origins of creativity and the critical elements and lessons for innovation success.”Rachel Cooper (OBE), Distinguished Professor of Design Management and Policy, Lancaster University“No-one is better qualified than Robin Roy to write this book. It includes engaging case studies on innovations such as the smartphone, pneumatic tyres, sustainable housing, and many more, with clear explanations of why they succeeded or proved unsuccessful in practice.”Vivien Walsh, retired Professor of Innovation, Alliance Manchester Business School“Robin Roy is a master of drawing fundamental lessons from case studies of designers. This book unpacks the mysteries of the design and innovation process underpinning a broad range of disciplines. It provides practical guidance for aspiring innovators and a template for design researchers exploring case studies of designing.” Peter Lloyd, Professor of Design Methodology, TU Delft“There are many books on creativity, design and innovation, but what intrigues me about this one are the extensive case studies that bring its insights to life. Particularly valuable are the built environment examples, not often included in books on innovation.”Bettina von Stamm, Innovation Philosopher, Founder Innovation Leadership Forum“Drawing on multiple case studies, Creative Design and Innovation provides grounded insights on design and innovation which should be of immense value to a wide audience, including most notably, practitioners, academics and students.”Matthew Cook, Professor of Innovation, School of Engineering and Innovation, The Open UniversityTable of Contents1. Creativity, design, and innovation: Introduction and framework 2. Creativity and innovation in engineering, design, architecture, arts, and media 3. Revolutionary innovation: The smartphone 4. Radical product and building innovations 5. Major product and building innovations 6. Innovative products and buildings 7. Creative product designs 8. Guidelines for successful creative design and innovation

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