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Journal articles on the topic "Degree Discipline: Composition"
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Levack Drever, John. "Soundscape composition: the convergence of ethnography and acousmatic music." Organised Sound 7, no. 1 (April 2002): 21–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1355771802001048.
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Despite roots in acoustic ecology and soundscape studies, the practice and study of soundscape composition is often grouped with, or has grown out of the acousmatic music tradition. This can be observed in the positioning of soundscape compositions juxtaposed with acousmatic music compositions in concert programmes, CD compilations and university syllabuses. Not only does this positioning inform how soundscape composition is listened to, but also how it is produced, sonically and philosophically. If the making and presenting of representations of environmental sound is of fundamental concern to the soundscape artist, then it must be addressed. As this methodological issue is outside of previous musical concerns, to this degree, we must look to other disciplines that are primarily engaged with the making of representation, and that have thoroughly questioned what it is to make and present representations in the world today. One such discipline is ethnography. After briefly charting the genesis of soundscape composition and its underlying principles and motivations, the rest of the paper will present and develop one perspective, that of considering soundscape composition as ethnography.
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Pope, Randolph D. "Why Major in Literature—What Do We Tell Our Students?" PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 117, no. 3 (May 2002): 503–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/003081202x61278.
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The progression from language instruction or composition to the higher discipline of literature is no longer the only or even preferred path everywhere. For example, MIT stresses that its literature program goes beyond the traditional:The program in Literature leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Literature is equivalent to the curricula in English (or literary studies) of the major liberal arts universities. The Literature curriculum is notable also for its inclusion, along with traditional literary themes and topics, of materials drawn from film and media, from popular culture, and from minority and ethnic culture. (“Major”)
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Gleit, Rebecca D. "Cops on Campus: The Racial Patterning of Police in Schools." Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 8 (January 2022): 237802312211080. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/23780231221108037.
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This article describes how the use of sworn law enforcement in American schools is patterned by school racial composition. Three distinct measures are constructed using data from the Civil Rights Data Collection and the School Survey on Crime and Safety: police prevalence, the degree of exposure that students have to police officers within their schools, and the roles of officers within those schools. Results show that police have become increasingly prevalent in schools with the largest shares of white students, especially at the elementary level. Yet youth in schools with the most Black, Latinx, and Native American students experience the highest exposure to police, and police in these schools are more frequently directed to carry out punitive tasks such as discipline. Student exposure to police is also relatively common in the whitest schools, but officers in these settings are more often used for tasks unrelated to punishment, such as teaching.
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Osadcha, Kateryna P., and Hanna Yu Chemerys. "ФОРМУВАННЯ ГРАФІЧНОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ БАКАЛАВРІВ КОМП'ЮТЕРНИХ НАУК У ПРОЦЕСІ НАВЧАННЯ ПРОТОТИПУВАННЯ ПРОГРАМНИХ ІНТЕРФЕЙСІВ." Information Technologies and Learning Tools 67, no. 5 (October 30, 2018): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.33407/itlt.v67i5.2275.
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The article deals with some aspects of the process of forming the future computer science bachelor's graphic competency at the stage of user's interface prototyping in the course of software development. The modern situation has been studied and the urgency of the stage of user's interface prototyping as a mediator in the man-machine coordination during the process of software development is proved. The Conceptual set in the sphere of prototyping is examined, namely — the concepts of wireframe, prototype and mockup. The factors of projects successfulness, the problems in the coordination of the project participants and the methods of their overcoming are being considered. The comparison of the essence and the analysis and the main methods of prototyping and correlating their value during the software development are given. The comparative analysis of the software and on-line resources for prototyping according to the detalization degree and taking into account the basic characteristics of a means, types and stages of prototyping, portability and using the means is carried out. The necessary base of knowledge, skills and knacks, forming during the study of such disciplines as “Computer Graphics” and “The Essential of Computer Design”, as well as essentials of composition, colour theory, ergonomics and typography is determined. The necessity of both the student's mastering an amount of theoretical knowledge and its successful using in his practical activity is stressed. The results of the research can be a substratum for improving the content of the educational and methodical complex in the discipline “Software Projecting” for computer science bachelors by means of introducing the teaching of prototyping from the low-fidelity to high fidelity detalization. The influence of user's interface prototyping on the formation of the future computer science bachelor's professional qualities is determined.
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Solovieva, Vera Valentinovna, Aleksandr Alekseevich Semenov, and Andrey Stepanovich Yaitsky. "Environmental education of students by means of hydrobotany." Samara Journal of Science 8, no. 1 (February 28, 2019): 298–303. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv201981315.
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Currently, environmental education is considered as a key principle of sustainable development of society and nature. It represents the uniform continuous educational process directed on development of a system of ecological knowledge, abilities, skills, valuable installations, experience of activity and competence of the careful attitude to environment and rational nature management. Hydrobotany has great opportunities in terms of environmental education of students. We consider hydrobotanics to be the science of aquatic plants, their communities, processes of overgrowing of ponds and streams. It studies the features of external and internal water macrophytes structure, their life processes, the relationship between them and the environment, diversity, distribution, introduction, role in nature and human life (outecology); composition and structure of aquatic phytocenoses, their production and destruction, as well as the processes of formation of aquatic vegetation and its dynamics (synecology). Hydrobotany has its purpose and objectives, object, subject and methods of research, open laws, special conceptual apparatus, history of development. It occupies a certain place in the system of sciences. In Samara State University of Social Sciences and Education Hydrobotany is included in the curriculum of the main professional educational programs of the bachelors degree Pedagogical education (majors Biology and Geography, Biology and Chemistry, Biology) as a discipline for students choice. We have developed a model of environmental education of students in the process of teaching Hydrobotany. It consists of four components: targeted, substantive, procedural, monitoring and evaluation. The target component-includes the purpose and objectives of the discipline Hydrobotany in the field of environmental education of students. Content component-covers the system of environmental knowledge on Hydrobotany; skills and experience of activities on the ecology of aquatic plants; value systems for aquatic plants and their communities; special competence of aquatic plants ecology study, their protection, careful and rational use. Procedural component-contains forms, methods, tools and technologies of environmental education. Control and evaluation component includes educational results; forms, types and methods of control, as well as a system of evaluation of individual achievements of students.
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Omelchenko, Elena A., and Anna A. Shevtsova. "ON THE ISSUE OF INTERCULTURAL INTERACTION IN THE SYSTEM OF SECONDARY VOCATIONAL EDUCATION (on the example of Sverdlovsk region)." Vestnik Chuvashskogo universiteta, no. 4 (December 25, 2021): 113–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.47026/1810-1909-2021-4-113-125.
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Intensive migration processes of the last thirty years, where the Russian Federation is an active participant, lead to a gradual change in the ethnic composition of residents in a number of Russian regions. On the basis of field research in a number of educational organizations of Sverdlovsk region in 2021 and the analysis of the situation in the field of interethnic relations, the authors substantiate the need for the formation of intercultural competence by means of education. By the population composition with the passing of time Sverdlovsk Region will eventually become even more multinational, including due to migrants from the Central Asian countries coming both to work and to obtain citizenship. The regional authorities take this aspect into account in their work with the population: there is an Advisory Council for Nationalities, dozens of public organizations representing the ethno-cultural interests of a number of diasporas and ethnic groups, large interregional public organizations dealing with interethnic interaction. The problem of adapting children and youth from families with a migration history to a non-ethnic environment deserves attention, since the level of social tension and conflict of interethnic relations in the region where they live will potentially depend on the degree of their inclusion (integration) into the Russian society as they grow up. If multicultural Yekaterinburg schools and schools of Sverdlovsk region from time to time become the subject of consideration by researchers, there are no open access scientific publications of a complex nature that would systematically characterize the situation in the field of interethnic relations in educational organizations in the region, especially at the level of secondary vocational education. The study of the ethno-cultural component representation in the education system of Sverdlovsk region is conducted, as an example, the systematic work in forming intercultural competence in Sverdlovsk Regional Medical College is examined, recommendations are given to introduce “Ethics and culture of interethnic communication” as a basic discipline into the curricula of educational organizations of secondary vocational education.
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Khodakovsky, A. A., and N. I. Voloshchuk. "Analysis of the functioning of the educational and research laboratory “Pharmadar” in the context of the preparation of a Ph.D. on the example of the pedagogical load of the cycle of choice “Preclinical experimental research”." Reports of Vinnytsia National Medical University 23, no. 3 (September 2, 2019): 486–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.31393/reports-vnmedical-2019-23(3)-24.
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The cycle of choice “Preclinical experimental research” is an integral component of the compulsory discipline “Pharmacology”. Successful pedagogical training of scientific personnel (graduate students) became possible thanks to the development of the curriculum, which, first of all, became possible thanks to the efforts of the scientific personnel of the Pharmadar Educational and Research Laboratory. They provide not only the functioning of the cycle, but also carry out the scientific and practical burden of fulfilling the tasks of scientific research and economic calculation programs. The composition of the mandatory documentation of pedagogical (educational) work, on which the training of graduate students studying the cycle “Preclinical Experimental Research” is carried out, includes: a practical training program for applicants for the degree of candidate of medical sciences in the specialty 14.03.05 – “pharmacology”; the provision on attaching to the Department of Pharmacology approved by the Academic Council in order to master the mandatory program “222 – medicine, pharmacology”; thematic and calendar plans; independent work; list of additional literature; guidelines The laboratory staff, with the help of graduate students and doctoral students, have developed, improved and patented a number of methods for providing preclinical studies. Thus, the functioning of an educational research laboratory creates an optimal and rational scientific and practical basis for the preparation of a Ph.D. by mastering a post-graduate cycle of choice “Preclinical experimental research”, which was shown by the example of the functioning of the laboratory. In the future, it is appropriate and promising to develop a curriculum for English-speaking students, given the constant increase in their number among university entrants, and as a result — increase in the proportion of foreign citizens, among graduates and entering postgraduate study.
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Растегаева, М. Н. "CERAMIC PETROGRAPHY: THE HISTORY OF THE METHOD AND THE CURRENT STATE." Proceedings in Archaeology and History of Ancient and Medieval Black Sea Region, S1 (December 9, 2022): 110–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.53737/2713-2021.2022.36.62.004.
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Методы петрографии давно и успешно применяются в геологии для описания и классификации горных пород. Во второй половине XIX в. они были заимствованы исследователями для изучения глиняных изделий, с целью определения компонентного состава сырья и минералов, использованных в качестве отощителя, а также для установления степени их изменений в процессе декарбонизации. Кроме того, петрография позволяет изучать органические остатки в составе формовочной массы с целью определения температуры обжига изделия. Со временем данное направление переросло в отдельную дисциплину, получившую название керамической петрографии и ставшей, по сути, археологическим методом изучения артефактов из глины, сочетающим традиционные археологические (визуальный, морфологический, типологический и т.д.) и естественнонаучные приемы характеристики керамики. В статье рассматривается отечественная и зарубежная историография, посвященная петрографическому анализу, преимущественно, обожженных сосудов. Главный акцент делается на исследованиях, затрагивающих основные вехи развития самого метода, а также характеризующих опыт его применения при изучении керамики античной эпохи. В статье также затрагиваются проблемы современного состояния керамической петрографии в отечественной науке. Petrography methods have long been successfully used in geology to describe and classify rocks. In the late half of the 19th century, they were borrowed by researchers to study clay products in order to establish the component composition of raw materials and minerals used as a non-plastic additives, as well as to determine the degree of their changes in the process of decarbonitization. In addition, petrography makes it possible to study organic residues in the composition of the molding mass in order to determine the firing temperature of the product. Over time, the approach has grown into a separate discipline called ceramic petrography and has become, in fact, an archaeological method of studying clay artifacts, combining traditional archaeological procedures (visual, morphological, typological analyses, etc.) and scientific methods. The article deals with Russian and foreign historiography devoted to the petrographic analysis, mainly of fired vessels. The main emphasis is placed on research that touches on the main milestones of the development of the method itself, as well as characterizing the experience of its application in the study of pottery making in classical antiquity. The article also touches upon the problems of the current state of ceramic petrography in Russian science.
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Nasritdinova, Umida. "Test problems composition methodology of different degrees of difficulties for the "Computer graphics" discipline." E3S Web of Conferences 264 (2021): 03007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202126403007.
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Improving the effectiveness of education in the teaching of computer graphics is the organization of the educational process using new information and communication technologies, as well as quality control of the learning modules. With this in mind, the article provides a theoretical analysis of the methodology of compiling test questions from computer graphics and some related graphic disciplines. The relationship of factor theory to the graphical sciences has been identified. As a result, the three-level test task system structure based on specific formulas and their factors has been studied so far. Also, the system of assessment of students in four categories was tested using a general automated software tool for questionnaires and test control. Based on the results, mathematical statistical analysis was performed, and the range of variation of the four categories was shown.
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Абросимов, С., S. Abrosimov, Д. Тихонов-Бугров, D. Tikhonov-Bugrov, К. Глазунов, and K. Glazunov. "Geometric-Graphic Student Olympiad in St. Petersburg." Geometry & Graphics 7, no. 2 (August 15, 2019): 76–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/article_5d2c350baf0b28.40160405.
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Two geometric-graphic Olympiads are held in St. Petersburg: the urban Olympiad in descriptive geometry, initiated by BSTU “VOENMECH” since 1979, and the Olympiad called “Engineering Computer Graphics”, conducted by LETI and ITMO. The peculiarity of the Olympiad in descriptive geometry is its democracy. Its content and organization features are supervised by the professional community, which is united by the section “Geometry, Graphics, Design” of the House of Scientists named after M. Gorky. Competition tasks are developed not only by the organizers. Accepted and suggestions of participants. The content of the Olympiad eventually changes, contributing to its development. Thus, at the suggestion of a number of participants, a comprehensive task was introduced to know the main sections of the course, the task of composition of the task. Despite the withdrawal of the course of descriptive geometry from a number of standards, the fundamentals of this discipline are kept up to date with engineering graphics, which ensures participation in the Olympiad of 7–10 leading technical universities of the city. Olympiad in engineering computer graphics can be attributed to the problem: the level of tasks, focused exclusively on the bachelor degree; on the principles of organization (problem bank of tasks, features of the appeals process); authoritarian chairman of the jury. As a result, it was boycotted by universities, which, unlike the winners, show decent results at All-Russian Olympiads. Among the All-Russian Olympiads, the Olympiad held by MIT stands out. The organizers managed to create a complex competition, which included the ability to solve interesting applied problems on an orthogonal drawing, possession of tools for creating three-dimensional models and drawings of technical products. Given the experience of MIT, the need to create in St. Petersburg an alternative computer graphics competition that is not purely instrumental in nature, the GUT organized an Olympiad called “Total Drawing”. This competition, held under the direction of the chairman of the jury of Professor D.Voloshinov, is gaining popularity. The article discusses and analyzes the principles of organization and the content of these competitions, offers for their modernization and development.
Books on the topic "Degree Discipline: Composition"
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Anno, Mariko. Piercing the Structure of Tradition. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781939161079.001.0001.
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What does freedom sound like in the context of traditional Japanese theater? Where is the space for innovation, and where can this kind of innovation be located in the rigid instrumentation of the Noh drama? This book investigates flute performance as a space to explore the relationship between tradition and innovation. This first English-language monograph traces the characteristics of the Noh flute (nohkan), its music, and transmission methods and considers the instrument's potential for development in the modern world. The book examines the musical structure and nohkan melodic patterns of five traditional Noh plays and assesses the degree to which Issō School nohkan players maintain to this day the continuity of their musical traditions in three contemporary Noh plays influenced by William Butler Yeats. The book's ethnographic approach draws on interviews with performers and case studies, as well as the author's personal reflection as a nohkan performer and disciple under the tutelage of Noh masters. The book argues that traditions of musical style and usage remain influential in shaping contemporary Noh composition and performance practice, and the existing freedom within fixed patterns can be understood through a firm foundation in Noh tradition.
Book chapters on the topic "Degree Discipline: Composition"
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Radman, Andrej. "Space Always Comes After: It Is Good When It Comes After; It Is Good Only When It Comes After." In Speculative Art Histories. Edinburgh University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474421041.003.0011.
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The chapter suggests that the dominant architectural history is too logocentric and not speculative enough. As such, its only merit is to translate a coexistence of becomings into a succession of neat logically necessary types. The case will be made for the role of topology as the antidote to the pernicious typological essentialism. Architecture needs to be free from the ideas of epoch and destiny. Following Brian Massumi’s lead, the speculative aspect relates to the contingently obligatory becoming, an event: “intrepidly future-facing, far-rangingly foretracing.” While it would appear logical that space should precede affordance, in fact the inverse holds true. The degree zero of spatial experience occurs at the level of the unconscious and is proto-subjective and sub-representational. As Hayles put it, consciousness is overrated. In terms of architectural thinking everything begins from the sensible. However, the task of speculative thinking is to go beyond the sensible to the potentials that make sensibility possible. After all, the basic medium of the discipline of architecture, as we see it, is the ‘space of experience’. This spatium, which is not to be confused with the ‘experience of space’, does not pre-exist but subsists as a virtuality. According to Deleuze, the plane of composition - as a work of sensation - is aesthetic: "it is the material that passes into the sensation." Once aesthetics is drawn into the context of production its realm expands to become a dimension of being itself. Both subjects and objects come to be seen as derivative. Consequently, the mereological relationship - which is perfectly suitable for the realm of the extensive - needs to be radically revamped in order to become capable of capturing topological transformations. But what we are advocating is not a formalisable model. Quite the contrary, any technological determinism needs to be kept at bay. What is needed instead is heuristics as a practice of material inference. However disadvantageous this may seem to the architect, it will prove not to be so once we fully grasp the Affective Turn and its implications for the discipline. It might become apparent that it is through habit, rather than attention, and collectivity, rather than individualism, that we find the (royal) road to the understanding of ‘space’, or better still, that we take a (minor) apprenticeship in spatialisation.
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Gavryushina, Lidia K. "Daniel II, the Archbishop of Serbia." In Materials for the virtual Museum of Slavic Cultures. Issue II, 37–42. Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31168/0440-4.5.
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The article deals with the Serbian hierarch Daniel II (c. 1274–1337), whose life led him from being the Abbot of the Hilandar monastery to becoming the Archbishop of Pech. He proved himself a prolific hagiographer, writing many works that were combined in the collection Lives of kings and archbishops of Serbia . It contained hagiographies of King Urosh and King Dragutin, Queen Helena and King Milutin, Archbishops Arseny I, Ioaniky I, and Eustathius I. Later, it also included the Life of Daniel himself, written by his disciple after the death of his teacher. The Lives of kings and archbishops of Serbia created by Daniel are related in content and composition. As a collection, they represent a kind of typological predecessor of the Book of the Degrees of Royal genealogy, a monumental collection created in the Moscow state about two and a half centuries later. In addition, Daniel was the author of hymnographic works and, according to the opinion of scholars, took part in the drafting of the Charter of King Milutin to the Hilandar monastery.
Conference papers on the topic "Degree Discipline: Composition"
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Ferreira, Rui Manuel Alves, Isabel Maria Simão Alves-Pereira, Joana Manuela Capela-Pires, and Marta Sofia Garcia Candeias. "Functional and conservation value of fruits - a lab approach." In Sixth International Conference on Higher Education Advances. Valencia: Universitat Politècnica de València, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/head20.2020.11082.
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Fruits are a relevant source of phenols and ascorbate, biomolecules which scavenge reactive oxygen species. For this reason, they are considered as healthy for the human being. Fruits quality depends on their levels of antioxidants and enzyme activities that ensure their conservation. The aim of this work was to plan and execute a laboratory class of Enzymology, a discipline of Biochemistry degree of University of Évora, Portugal, for determining the functional and conservation value of three different fruits types, sold in the market of Évora, Portugal. The development of this activity allowed that students of a pilot class participate in a laboratory activity which intended to compare the content of phenols, ascorbate, and polyphenol oxidase enzyme activity present in apple, peach and blueberries pulp. At Lab activity, the students successfully determined markers of functional and conservation value of selected fruits. The skills acquired by the students, in terms of obtaining fruit pulp and their composition in antioxidants, stimulated their commitment degree on the application of biochemistry in the everyday, acquiring thereby significant learning, with a high degree of satisfaction.
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Ings, Welby. "Beyond the Ivory Tower: Practice-led inquiry and post-disciplinary research." In LINK 2021. Tuwhera Open Access, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.24135/link2021.v2i1.171.
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This address considers relationships between professional and postdisciplinary practices as they relate to practice-led design research. When viewed through territorial lenses, the artefacts and systems that many designers in universities develop can be argued as hybrids because they draw into their composition and contexts, diverse disciplinary fields. Procedurally, the address moves outwards from a discussion of the manner in which disciplinary designations, that originated in the secularisation of German universities during the beginning of the nineteenth century, became the template for how much knowledge is currently processed inside the academy. The paper then examines how these demarcations of thought, that included non-classical languages and literatures, social and natural sciences and technology, were disrupted in the 1970s and 1980s, by identity-based disciplines that grew inside universities. These included women’s, lesbian and gay, and ethnic studies. However, of equal importance during this period was the arrival of professional disciplines like design, journalism, nursing, business management, and hospitality. Significantly, many of these professions brought with them values and processes associated with user-centred research. Shaped by the need to respond quickly and effectively to opportunity, practitioners were accustomed to drawing on and integrating knowledge unfettered by disciplinary or professional demarcation. For instance, if a design studio required the input of a government policymaker, a patent attorney and an engineer, it was accustomed to working flexibly with diverse realms of knowledge in the pursuit of an effective outcome. In addition, these professions also employed diverse forms of practice-led inquiry. Based on high levels of situated experimentation, active reflection, and applied professional knowing, these approaches challenged many research and disciplinary conventions within the academy. Although practice-led inquiry, argued as a form of postdisciplinarity practice, is a relatively new concept (Ings, 2019), it may be associated with Wright, Embrick and Henke’s (2015, p. 271) observation that “post-disciplinary studies emerge when scholars forget about disciplines and whether ideas can be identified with any particular one: they identify with learning rather than with disciplines”. Darbellay takes this further. He sees postdisciplinarity as an essential rethinking of the concept of a discipline. He suggests that when scholars position themselves outside of the idea of disciplines, they are able to “construct a new cognitive space, in which it is no longer merely a question of opening up disciplinary borders through degrees of interaction/integration, but of fundamentally challenging the obvious fact of disciplinarity” (2016, p. 367). These authors argue that, postdisciplinarity proposes a profound rethinking of not only knowledge, but also the structures that surround and support it in universities. In the field of design, such approaches are not unfamiliar. To illustrate how practice-led research in design may operate as a postdisciplinary inquiry, this paper employs a case study of the short film Sparrow (2017). In so doing, it unpacks the way in which knowledge from within and beyond conventionally demarcated disciplinary fields, was gathered, interpreted and creatively synthesised. Here, unconstrained by disciplinary demarcations, a designed artefact surfaced through a research fusion that integrated history, medicine, software development, public policy, poetry, typography, illustration, and film production.
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Forget, Thomas, William Philemon, Radnia Noushin, and Dean Crouch. "A Lesson in Abstraction." In 2019 ACSA Teachers Conference. ACSA Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.35483/acsa.teach.2019.20.
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The digital model is both a simple tool of intuitive design thinking used to devise spatial compositions and the base layer of increasingly complex computational practices imbued with layers of contingent information. It has replaced paper as the primary venue of architectural communication, regardless of a user’s level of experience, specific purpose, or degree of sophistication. The ubiquity of the digital model begets complacency toward its implications, which include a significant threat to the logic of the traditional architectural design process established in the Renaissance and upheld throughout centuries of disciplinary change. The extent to which the threat poses a crisis is an open question, and architectural education today has an opportunity (if not a responsibility) to confront that question head-on, so as to produce a generation of practitioners cognizant of the stakes. After a generation of adaptation, and amid a steady stream of innovation that continually (and productively) destabilizes day-to-day practice, the logic of the digital model itself—the framework onto which innovations are applied—is taken for granted. Despite the persistence of increasingly tiresome digital-verses-analog debates, the discipline has yet to reflect critically on the basic nature of the digital model. That inquiry must begin at the most foundational level—the first year of the education of the architect. The project outlined in this paper is a central component of a new foundation design pedagogy currently under development at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. It introduces students to the digital model in a manner that lays bare how contemporary design tools are both alike and unlike traditional ones, and it challenges students to wrestle with the relevance of historical practices in an era of relentless innovation. The description of the project included here is to be deployed in the second iteration of the new program in academic year 2019/2020. Illustrations are drawn from the first iteration in academic year 2018/2019. This is an ongoing experiment in architectural education being conducted in a transparent manner. Students understand that the curriculum is dynamic, not settled, and that their work is contributing to pedagogical and disciplinary research.