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Rawan Mohammad Alkaliwi, Morshid Mayudh Alsulami, Rawan Mohammad Alkaliwi, Morshid Mayudh Alsulami. "Environmentally better positioning of industrial workshops within urban areas (Bani Malik District: Jeddah): تحديد المواقع الأفضل بيئيا للورش الصناعية ضمن المناطق العمرانية: (حي بني مالك: جدة)". Journal of natural sciences, life and applied sciences 6, № 1 (2022): 1–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.26389/ajsrp.a141221.
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The study aims to distribute industrial workshops in Bani Malik neighborhood and identify the neighborhood planning and the overlap between industrial workshops and other uses. From the industrial workshop sites standards used by the competent authorities, land is created for spatial suitability. The methodology relied on field study and comprehensive inventory method in locating workshops and their types and number, which were signed on ARCGIS program and its accessories; and therefore, a space image was used for the study area. The study concluded that the overlap of the workshops is not limited to the random side of the neighborhood, but rather the workshops overlapped with housing, schools, and hospitals in the organized part of Bani Malik3 district. Not all car service center workshops on the main street site were committed, other than light workshops and specialized centers, most of which were committed to it. All workshops of all kinds appeared strongly intertwined with other activities at a distance of less than 500 meters which claims concern for the emergence of environmental and health risks It appears that the lands which are the most suitable for workshops of car service centers numbered only two locations on the main streets only, while the number of light workshops reached 4 sites, and the specialized centers reached 8 in different parts of the neighborhood. The reason for the small number of suitable land may be because the urban area is not compatible with the presence of industrial workshops that require large distances between them and other activities. Study recommends reorganizing industrial workshop sites according to standards in order to maintain the safety of the urban environment from the sources of industrial pollutants and work to permeate the distance of each workshop from other activities within the urban area due to the lack of sufficient spaces, and set up spaces separating the workshops from housing, schools and hospitals, to reduce interference and its problems.
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Smith, Thomas S. J. "‘Stand back and watch us’: Post-capitalist practices in the maker movement." Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 52, no. 3 (2019): 593–610. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308518x19882731.
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This paper examines the economic practices of maker spaces – open workshops that have increased in number over recent years and that aim to provide access to tools, materials and skills for small-scale manufacturing and repair. Scholarly interest in such spaces has been increasing across the social sciences more broadly, parallel to a growing interest in craft and making in economic geography. However, to rectify the ‘capitalocentrism’ of much existing work, the paper examines the case of a workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, through the dual theoretical lens of diverse economies and social practice theory. This conceptual approach sees the space as a novel form of economic ‘being-in-common’, providing diverse and contradictory opportunities for post-capitalist practice. The paper draws conclusions regarding the limits and potential of such spaces for sowing the prefigurative seeds for a more inclusive, sustainable and democratic urbanism.
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Chadwick, Anna. "Imagining Alternative Spaces." Girlhood Studies 12, no. 3 (2019): 99–115. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2019.120309.
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“Sisters Rising” is an Indigenous-led, community-based research study focused on Indigenous teachings related to sovereignty and gender wellbeing. In this article, I reflect on the outcomes of re-searching sexualized violence with Indigenous girls involved with “Sisters Rising” in remote communities in northern British Columbia, Canada. Through an emergent methodology that draws from Indigenous and borderland feminisms to conduct arts- and land-based workshops with girls and community members, I seek to unsettle my relationships to the communities with which I work, and the land on which I work. I look to arts-based methods and witnessing to disrupt traditional hegemonic discourses of settler colonialism. I reflect on how (re)storying spaces requires witnessing that incorporates (self-)critical engagement that destabilizes certainty. This position is a critical space in which to unsettle conceptual and physical geographies and envision alternative spaces where Indigenous girls are seen and heard with dignity and respect.
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Rice, Carla, and Ingrid Mündel. "Multimedia Storytelling Methodology: Notes on Access and Inclusion in Neoliberal Times." Canadian Journal of Disability Studies 8, no. 1 (2019): 118–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.15353/cjds.v8i1.473.
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In this article, the authors examine the impact of using their evolving multimedia storytelling method (digital art and video) to challenge dominant representations of non-normative bodies and foster more inclusive spaces. Drawing on their collaborative work with disability and non-normatively embodied artists and communities, they investigate the challenges of negotiating what ‘access’ and ‘inclusion’ mean beyond the individualizing discourses of neoliberalism without erasing the specificities of differentially-lived experiences. Reflecting on their experiences in a variety of workshops and on a selection of videos made in those workshops, they identify and analyze three iterative ‘movements’ that mark their storytelling processes: from failure to vulnerability, from time to temporality, and from individual voice to collective concerns. The authors end by considering some of the ways they have experimented with developing an iterative workshop method that welcomes difference while simultaneously allowing for an examination of the terms of the shared space and of the mechanisms of inclusion and exclusion operating within that space.
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Majumder, Sarasij. "The Gift of Solidarity: Women Navigating Jewellery Work and Patriarchal Norms in Rural West Bengal, India." Journal of South Asian Development 15, no. 3 (2020): 335–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973174120984578.
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In the context of declining women’s participation in the formal economy in India, this article looks at how women’s work in the informal sector of jewellery-making emerges as a gift. Gendered discourses on work turn men, who worked as labourers, into supervisors who monitor and control work situations and sort and grade final products in jewellery workshops. Following Anna Tsing, I argue that jewellery products start their lives as gifts but as they move from women (who are seen as housewives and family members) to men (who are seen as professionals/experts within the workshop) and beyond, they become commodities. This journey from gift to commodity within the workshop is made possible by a gendered discourse on work and by the dynamics within small landholding middle-caste households. Further, I underscore that women’s informal networks often help them cope with the emotional and affective tensions of work and the demands imposed on them by the men and their own households. Women facilitate the transition from gift to commodity by colluding amongst themselves to work in these informal spaces to maintain household status within peri-urban villages of West Bengal.
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Howard, Frances. "Youth Work, Music Making and Activism." Youth 3, no. 3 (2023): 1053–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/youth3030067.
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Music making holds great potential for youth activism. When combined with youth work, that potential is significantly heightened. This article applies Kuttner’s framework for justice-oriented cultural citizens to data gleaned from five youth workers across three different cities in the East Midlands of England. Each of these youth workers was interviewed about their involvement in music-making activities, from providing instrumental tuition to facilitating lyric-writing workshops, and their perspectives on youth activism. Data from this study highlights the affordances of youth music making in relation to three layers of activism: self-activism, community-level activism and wider social activism. This article concludes by arguing for the importance of music-making spaces for young people and music making practices within youth work.
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Shirokova, Ol'ga, and Alena Pavlyuk. "PLANNING SOLUTIONS FOR SPACES FOR REMOTE OPERATION." Construction and Architecture 9, no. 4 (2021): 86–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/2308-0191-2021-9-4-86-90.
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This article explores the possibilities of remote work. A definition is given, a regulatory framework is identified. The main advantages and disadvantages are analyzed. The negative factors that make it difficult to carry out work at home are identified. To compensate for the proposed use cases of spaces, also called co-working spaces. For the organization of remote work, there are five groups of needs. To meet the needs of the appropriate jobs. These are isolated rooms, open areas, meeting rooms, creative workshops, and rooms for group activi-ties. Typical modular planning solutions consisting of four zones: an office zone, which includes the listed types of premises, a zone of administrative and office premises, a zone of administrative and office premises, a leisure and rec-reation area. If necessary, the possibility of planning decisions is provided.
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de Oliveira Corrêa, Ronaldo, Carmen Rial, and Gilson Leandro Queluz. "The Idea Is for Us to Work Here In The Workshop!: The Re-functionalization Of Artisans’ Economic and Cultural Circuits In Florianopolis, South Brazil." International Review of Social Research 2, no. 1 (2012): 47–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/irsr-2012-0004.
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Abstract: The purpose of the paper is to present and interpret strategies used by urban artisans to (re)functionalize their workshops into showcases where their performances are (re)organized and exhibited. The workshop is presented here as a privileged space where different aesthetic and political, economic and historic experiences (re)construct performances, as well as other systems of artifacts and spatialities. The atelier is understood as architectural space that performatizes globalized scenographies of desire and their fragmentations and overlappings. We conducted an ethnography impregnated by the random relation of events, encounters and exchanges (whether symbolic or economic) in urban contexts. As a result, we present various devices that trigger expression and updating found in both the artisans’ biographical trajectories and in the systems of artifacts and spaces in a recent urban society.
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Clarke, Maree, wãni LeFrère, and Megan A. Evans. "Walking the Talk: A participatory residency." Art & the Public Sphere 8, no. 2 (2019): 177–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/aps_00016_7.
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Walking the Talk is a participatory artist residency that aimed to provide an alternative position in an academic conference. Artists Maree Clarke, wãni LeFrère and Dr Megan Evans were commissioned to create work in response to the themes of the 2018 AAANZ conference. Through performance, video, installation and exhibition, they disrupted the spaces of the conference and explored collapsed histories of the site at RMIT where the conference was held. Maree Clarke and Megan Evans created performance works that interrupted the conference workshops and lectures, and wãni LeFrère created work titled Investigation into Memory that activated a lecture/meeting room to dispel the notion that black bodies are only ever supposed to be in these spaces to be explored, studied, investigated, invisibilized and silenced.
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Bürkner, Hans-Joachim, and Bastian Lange. "New Geographies of Work: Re-Scaling Micro-Worlds." European Spatial Research and Policy 27, no. 1 (2020): 53–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1231-1952.27.1.03.
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The recently emerging new types of collaborative work and unconventional workplaces indicate that shifting social and economic practices have odd spatial implications. The diversity of work, mostly based on hybrid social and economic logics, has brought forth a number of new contextualised spatial constructs in recent years: makerspaces, fab labs, open workshops, and co-working spaces now require detailed analytical reconstruction and conceptualisation. This article is a theoretical discussion of the nature of fluid and contingent spatialisation against the backdrop of binary explanatory categories (e.g. local-global; proximity-distance). Drawing upon modernised concepts of horizontal scaling, we propose a perspective on hybrid work which focuses on contingent multiple, multidirectional and temporal scalings created by a variety of users while developing their own micro-worlds of work.
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Krueger, Anne Elisabeth, and Sarah Minet. "Designing Positive Experiences in Creative Workshops at Work Using a Warm UP Set Based on Psychological Needs." Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 6, no. 10 (2022): 90. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mti6100090.
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With working from home becoming more normalized, creative workshops are increasingly taking place in digital and hybrid form. However, participants are usually less engaged and motivated in these contexts. This is due to less physical presence and activity, complex technical systems and a lack of social interaction and communication. This leaves the facilitators with the challenge that these creative workshops are sometimes not experienced as positively, and therefore participants are not able to work as creatively. An important approach that can strengthen these factors in workshops is the use of warm-ups as a type of playful intervention. Although some research on and compilations of warm-ups exist and may help the situation, they do not yet provide direction on how to specifically promote a positive experience in creative workshops with warm-ups. An important link here is user experience research, which assumes that positive experiences are due to the fulfilment of psychological needs. Based on research about warm-ups and playful interventions in general, we derive categories for classifying warm-ups that can potentially address several specific psychological needs. Then, 28 warm-ups are selected according to their applicability in analogue, digital and hybrid application spaces. Moreover, those 28 warm-ups are assigned to the two most relevant classifying categories. The results are mapped in the form of a ready-to-use Warm UP Set, which is then evaluated for applicability from the facilitators’ perspective and regarding the influence on the emotional experience of the participants. The evaluation shows that the developed Warm UP Set with its categories seems to be suitable to support facilitators in systematically inducing positive experiences in participants in creative workshops.
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Stevens, Hallam. "The Quotidian Labour of High Tech: Innovation and Ordinary Work in Shenzhen." Science, Technology and Society 24, no. 2 (2019): 218–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0971721819841997.
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The literature on the production of high-tech electronics in China—following a Silicon Valley model—focuses on either large-scale manufacturing or the role of start-ups and ‘makers’. The aim of this article is to turn to other kinds of spaces and work in the production of high-tech electronics. I focus here on three kinds of spaces in Shenzhen: the Huaqiangbei electronics market, small-scale factories and industrial design workshops. The electronics economy depends critically not just on ‘makers’ but on all kinds of other labour. In particular, it depends on lower middle-class and low-class work—devices made by small factories and shops, sold by small enterprises and designed for the less wealthy, especially in developing countries. The human networks that connect these individuals are critical to the size, speed and density of the markets, allowing devices to be built and shipped rapidly, for parts and customers to be available.
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De Oliveira Jayme, Bruno, Erika Germanos, and Brent Franco Saccucci. "Recycling Stories: Community Art and Deliberative Democracy Opening Spaces for Civic Engagement." Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies 18, no. 1 (2020): 135–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/1916-4467.40556.
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How can we create meaningful spaces of engagement for citizens who work in the recycling industry in Brazil who suffer marginalization? What can we learn from the Brazilian experience of opening spaces of engagement? Seeking answers for these questions, we entered the journey of participatory action and arts–based research and developed a series of visual arts workshops and public exhibits in the city of São Paulo, Brazil. In this context, the objective of this study is to explore the diverse role of the arts in not just creating spaces for engagement that are inherently deliberatively democratic, but also holding the space for dialogue, knowledge construction and mobilization, and civic engagement.
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Richards, Daniel. "Graves, R. & Hyland, T. (Eds.). (2017). Writing assignments across university disciplines. Bloomington, IN: Trafford." Canadian Journal for Studies in Discourse and Writing/Rédactologie 28 (December 4, 2018): 270–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.741.
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For the last three years, I have been part of a team of multi-disciplinary faculty that holds a weeklong workshop each semester for approximately twenty teachers. These teachers, migrating to our cozy space in the library from all corners of campus, have applied—they get paid a modest sum, which is not nothing—to attend our workshop in the hopes of improving their ability to integrate writing assignments into their courses. The workshops are part of a larger initiative, Improving Disciplinary Writing, which was borne out of a needs assessment from our regional assessment body. It is designed to bring together faculty, through workshops and grants, to think collectively about how writing gets taught and ought to be taught differently across and within disciplines. And what we see time and time again is that although each group of twenty teachers is new each semester, and although the ranks consistently vary from adjunct (sessional) to full professor, and although some work in musty chemistry buildings and some in obscure art buildings and some in sleek see-through engineering buildings, the disembodied echoes of frustrations and complaints and discovery and hope and solace from groups past get re-vocalized by groups present. As facilitators, we are not flustered by this fact; rather, we find our own solace in the connection and camaraderie through shared experience happening across disciplines and spaces on campus.
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Kwong, Qi Jie, Jamalunlaili Abdullah, Sheng Chuan Tan, Tzer Hwai Gilbert Thio, and Win Shyang Yeaw. "A field study of indoor air quality and occupant perception in experimental laboratories and workshops." Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal 30, no. 2 (2019): 467–82. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/meq-04-2018-0074.
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Purpose Maintaining good indoor air quality (IAQ) in the built environment is essential to assure health, safety and productivity of occupants. The purpose of this paper is to report on the preliminary IAQ assessment of selected air-conditioned laboratories and naturally ventilated workshops in a tropical education institution. Design/methodology/approach The concentration levels of five major indoor air pollutants (IAPs) – carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, respirable particulates, formaldehyde (HCHO) and total volatile organic compounds (TVOC) in each sampling area were measured using calibrated air sampling sensors and the tracer-gas analysis was used to determine the ventilation effectiveness. A questionnaire survey was carried out concurrently to study the prevalence of sick building syndrome (SBS) among users of laboratories and workshops and the data collected were statistically analysed using χ2 test. Findings The air pollutant levels were found to be below the threshold limit values set in the local code of practice on IAQ, except for two of the air-conditioned laboratories. This is possibly due to insufficient ventilation, smaller floor area per occupant ratio, long-term exposure to chemical substances, and improper disposal of the used chemical substances. The total particulate levels were higher in naturally ventilated workshops because such spaces were assigned for mechanical works which involved grinding, welding and fabrication. Besides, it was identified that most of the air contaminant levels were not normally distributed (p<0.05) within the sampling areas and SBS like dry eyes, watery eyes, tiredness and dry throat were reported in both laboratories and workshops. The outcomes of this work suggest that an increase of ventilation rate was necessary to reduce the concentration of the IAPs in air-conditioned laboratories and improved housekeeping would help mitigate the prevalence of SBS symptoms. Research limitations/implications This research was carried out in selected laboratories and workshops in a Malaysian educational institution and only five major IAPs stipulated in the Department of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) code of practice were measured. Practical implications The results of this study will enable facility engineers and managers to understand the IAPs concentration levels and potential SBS problems in academic laboratories and workshops. The recommended strategies can be considered to improve IAQ conditions in such spaces. Originality/value Most of the previously conducted IAQ studies focused only on commonly occupied building spaces such as offices, classrooms and houses. Information of the quality of air and SBS conditions in experimental facilities in developing nations that is available is currently very limited. This case study provides detailed information on IAQ in laboratories and workshops in Malaysia with focuses on the concentration levels of particular harmful gases, the prevalence of SBS among users of these facilities and the appropriate mitigation strategies. The results presented are of value to both academic and industry communities.
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Kohlitz, Jeremy, Melita Grant, Ratan Bahadur Budhathoki, et al. "Laying foundations for transformation: Insights from local government engagement on climate-resilient rural water services in Nepal." PLOS Sustainability and Transformation 3, no. 3 (2024): e0000081. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pstr.0000081.
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Transformative change in how local governments support rural water services is required to accommodate the increasingly extreme effects of climate change on water service systems. This study explores the potential for contextualised soft systems thinking activities to prepare local government officials with responsibilities pertaining to rural water services in Nepal to shift towards more transformative thinking. First, the study presents the findings of focus group discussions in two rural districts of Nepal that identified common climate-related problems for rural water access including water shortages, contamination, and unequal burden of impacts. Second, we facilitated workshops with local government and non-government stakeholders, drawing on the focus group findings to frame the challenges for rural water linked to climate change that require local government response. We designed the workshops drawing on ‘transformative spaces’ concepts and included soft systems thinking activities to foster systemic perspectives. Participants learned about worldviews, leverage points, rich pictures, root cause analysis, and theory-of-change based action planning. Following the workshops, the study team participated in reflective sensemaking in which they deliberated on their experiences and notes from facilitating the workshops to assess the extent to which the participants demonstrated transformative thinking about rural water systems. The workshop approach showed promise in shifting how local government participants think about rural water services beyond technical fixes towards addressing deep-seated issues. However, further work is required to foster new relationships necessary to support transformation and grapple with ethical dilemmas pertaining to power dynamics at community and government levels. Nevertheless, the approach presented here is a replicable, low-cost way to prepare local government stakeholders in Nepal for transforming their thinking and systems to ways that enable sustainable rural water service delivery under threats of climate change.
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Moser, Gabrielle. "Affidamento as Curatorial Methodology: Feminist Approaches to Pedagogy and Curating in the Work of EMILIA-AMALIA." Journal of Curatorial Studies 12, no. 2 (2023): 258–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/jcs_00095_1.
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This article examines the possibilities of using the Italian feminist praxis of affidamento, or entrustment, as a curatorial methodology, arguing that it has the capacity to transform galleries into spaces where the generative potential of social differences is foregrounded – rather than repressed – and where intergenerational knowledge, and its attendant affects, can be shared. Reflecting on my role as a founding member of the feminist working group EMILIA-AMALIA, which, since 2016, has organized free film screenings, public talks, collective meals and writing workshops, I chart the ways Italian feminist philosophy has informed the group’s curatorial work and ask whether affidamento offers a model for pedagogical participation within the gallery that recognizes and validates the varied, and often conflicting, needs and desires of generations of feminist practitioners.
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Abdul Rahim, Syafiqah, and Hannah Walters. "Material Moments in Virtual Worlds." Girlhood Studies 15, no. 3 (2022): 1–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2022.150303.
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Covid-19 signalled rapid, near-wholesale shifts to the online world, yet how this affected the establishment of supportive, safe spaces for activism has received scant attention. Based on ongoing work with young women and girls in Malaysia, we discuss the pedagogic processes of feminist consciousness-raising as an informal mode of Girlhood Studies education and how online spaces might be reconfigured to enhance the virtual experience through hybrid workshops. Theorized from a feminist new materialist perspective and guided by the principles that feminism is an everyday practice, and feminism is for everybody, we argue that the hybrid space introduced material and sensory elements, facilitated feelings of connectedness, and helped establish a safe space for participants to engage with feminism and girls’ rights in meaningful ways.
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Nguyen, Josef. "Make Magazine and the Social Reproduction of DIY Science and Technology." Cultural Politics 12, no. 2 (2016): 233–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/17432197-3592124.
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This analysis of Make, a US parenting magazine, focuses on how the periodical attempts to democratize science and technology through do-it-yourself (DIY) politics by rendering it a problem of child-rearing. Positioning the magazine within a broader context of contemporary interest in making and DIY practices, I argue that Make magazine deploys constructions of creative children to naturalize risk-taking as integral to future innovations, as a response to tensions between risks and responsibility underlying DIY modes of science and technology. Make magazine’s content performs what I define as the workshop-function, which distributes protocols through mass media for inaugurating spaces of scientific work outside of professional laboratories run by amateur scientific and technologic subjects. Make magazine highlights how DIY science and making intersects the politics of social reproduction, since the creation of amateur workshops and their operation become integral functions of the home, tying citizenship and political legitimacy to domestic labor in support of scientific and technological innovation.
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Mnguni, Peliwe Pelisa. "The resilience of potential space." Organisational and Social Dynamics 22, no. 2 (2022): 173–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.33212/osd.v22n2.2022.173.
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This article draws on my experiences as a participant in two different but related methodology workshops, a social photo matrix (SPM) and a social dream drawing (SDD) workshop. The notion of potential space is used as a lens through which to make sense of alienation within contemporary places of work. I take seriously the suggestion that creativity is essential in all meaningful life and explore how play can be used to help make contemporary organisations more humane and, in the long term, more productive. I suggest, specifically, that it is by letting go of an obsession with "reality" and a concomitant paralysing fear of play that organisational members can come to connect, first with themselves and then with others. I draw on object relations and social defence theory to suggest that current attacks on creativity are indicative of collective paranoid–schizoid functioning. The resilience of potential spaces, on the other hand, is evidence of an inherent human need for growth and capacity for depressive functioning.
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Nielsen, Emma, and Sofie Pedersen. "Enabling Spaces; Rethinking Materiality and the Invitational Character of Institutional Environments." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 9 (2022): 5577. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph19095577.
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This article explores how physical surroundings may be integrated as a supportive measure in social work efforts. Drawing on ecological psychology and the concept of liminality, the article presents a case study of Kofoed’s School (KS), a social institution in Copenhagen, Denmark. In recent years, KS has undergone a major renovation, opening up previously sheltered workshops to the public. By creating liminal spaces of possibility, where students can take up “both/and” positions allowing for a multitude of ways to participate, students are experiencing increased support and inclusion, which contributes to a growing feeling of citizenship and well-being. Drawing on participant observations and interviews with students, staff members, as well as customers at the school’s shops, we explore how the architectural layout may facilitate students’ flexible and fluid movements between more or less sheltered positions and further discuss how this flexibility may become supportive for their personal development and well-being. We propose to think of such spaces of possibility as enabling spaces, where inclusive architecture contributes to the creation of new possibilities for participation for people in marginalized life positions. This, we suggest, holds a great potential for social work efforts for people experiencing complex social vulnerability.
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Tiew Soo Wei, Muhammad Hafeez Abdul Nasir, Ahmad Sanusi Hassan, Hazril Sherney Basher, Mohd Nasrun Mohd Nawi, and Tajudeen Dele Mustapha. "The Influence of Window-to-Wall Ratio (WWR) on Airflow Profile for Improved Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) in a Naturally-Ventilated Workshop in a Hot-Humid Climate." Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences 116, no. 1 (2024): 139–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.37934/arfmts.116.1.139157.
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Indoor air quality (IAQ) has become a major concern worldwide as indoor air pollution rapidly becomes a public health issue. IAQ plays a pivotal role in occupants' health and comfort and influences their productivity and work efficiency. Many studies have been done on IAQ of common building spaces such as offices, residential buildings, and educational institutions, but the availability of IAQ studies on workshops is limited, considering the significant implications for workers' health and performance. Thus, this paper aims to study the effectiveness of natural ventilation in a workshop based on the influence of different window-to-wall ratios (WWR). Electronic databases are utilized to obtain data, and the findings collected are categorized based on research methodology, issues, and findings. The air movement as part of the physical parameters of IAQ is studied through the application of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) simulation to observe and analyse the airflow pattern and the air velocity of the naturally ventilated workshop with different WWRs. The research outcome underscores the ideal WWR for effective natural ventilation in a workshop is 0.30. However, the study observes that the effectiveness decreases as WWR exceeds 0.50. Further research on the openings' location, inlet, and outlet sizes and application of mechanical ventilation can be conducted to improve the measurement of the IAQ effectiveness in a naturally ventilated workshop.
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Thompson, Naomi. "“Some Angles Are Gonna Be Weird”: Tinkering with Math and Weaving." Sustainability 15, no. 9 (2023): 7363. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su15097363.
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It has been argued that much of how math is taught in schools aligns with a particular epistemology that comes from western mathematicians and philosophers, potentially leading to an undervaluing of diverse skills and abilities. Tinkering, a common STEAM practice, is one way of participating that does not necessarily involve a straightforward path from problem to solution; rather, tinkering may be non-linear, and involve movement back and forth between known and new solutions. This process is not always supported or encouraged in traditional mathematics spaces but may be more available through activities such as crafting. This study examines a weaving workshop with middle-school students, asking the question: When and how do learners tinker in mathematical ways as they learn to weave? Video data were analyzed using qualitative techniques and perspectives informed by interaction analysis and other multimodal analytic techniques. Findings show that youth could be seen tinkering in the workshops in the forms of “negotiating and renegotiating with materials” and “trying unexpected solutions.” Examples from two focal cases break these tinkering forms down in deeper detail and showcase the mathematical engagement made possible by the space to tinker. This work sparks possibilities for designing math learning spaces that honor youths’ personally meaningful ways of doing and being both through the materials used and the practices encouraged.
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Roger-Loppacher, Olga, Pilar Buil, Mireia Tintoré, and Vanessa Prieto-Sandoval. "Promoting Householders' Participation in Household Waste Sorting: A Case for Learning Aluminum Packaging Recycling in Spain." Journal of Teacher Education for Sustainability 24, no. 2 (2022): 48–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jtes-2022-0016.
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Abstract Recycling is a highly relevant issue in environmental behavior. To make it work, it is necessary to involve people. Many efforts have been made to increase people's participation in recycling. This study proposes an informal education to raise awareness among homemakers about recycling, especially aluminum packaging recycling, using workshops and compensating the factors that act as barriers to recycling in Spain. The results are the “Spaces for Dialogue” strategy to increase knowledge, awareness, and recycling intention. The findings present the main barriers to closing the gap between intention to action, and the study highlights the role that mentors play as teachers in facilitating communication and education for sustainable development.
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Ask, Torunn Alise, and Solveig Sagatun. "Frontline Professionals Performing Collaborative Work with Low-Income Families: Challenges across Organizational Boundaries." Nordic Journal of Social Research 11, no. 1 (2020): 66–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.7577/njsr.2223.
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This article discusses certain challenges relating to interagency collaboration between the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration (NAV) and Child Welfare Services (CWS). We have asked what obstacles to holistic work with low-income families who receive measures from NAV and CWS simultaneously can be identified. The departure point is collaboration on a local project at the municipal level. The differences between the views of the individual services (and the mandates based on these views) with regard to parental obligations have proved challenging. Using the theory of institutional logic, we have explored how different logics have influenced these services’ approaches to parenthood and the significance of these influences for interagency collaboration. We have also investigated how caseworkers in the two services have managed to create reflective spaces for negotiating and bridging various understandings to create new ways of working together.
 In addition to collecting and analysing data, our task as researchers has been to facilitate joint working processes in the project. The article is based on interviews with caseworkers from both services, discussions during two workshops, and a subsequent dialogue seminar with employees from the two services.
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Al-Harithy, Howayda, and Batoul Yassine. "The Co-Production of a Shared Community Space in Al-Khodor, Karantina, in the Aftermath of the Beirut Port Blast." Land 12, no. 7 (2023): 1400. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/land12071400.
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This paper explores urban recovery as a participatory bottom-up process that highlights the importance and social significance of spaces of shared memories in reconstituting the built as well as the sociocultural fabrics of a place. It examines the multiple modes of engaging local communities in the process of recovering and rehabilitating shared public spaces, including organizing workshops to identify a space of common social significance, co-designing and co-producing a spatial intervention, and maintaining the intervention over the long term. The paper focuses on Karantina, a neighborhood in Beirut that became the site of post-disaster recovery in the aftermath of the Beirut Port blast in August 2020, and the spatial intervention that the urban recovery team at the Beirut Urban Lab implemented in the sub-neighborhood of Al-Khodor. In doing so, the paper contributes experiences from recent work on participatory modes of engaging the local community groups in Al-Khodor. It highlights the importance of community participation in researching, designing, implementing, and maintaining spatial interventions in the near absence of an active government in a country such as Lebanon.
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Smith, Sara, and Jan Martin. "Practitioner capability." Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning 4, no. 3 (2014): 284–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/heswbl-04-2014-0009.
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of creative activity and storytelling in assisting development of students’ reflective ability and critical thinking. Design/methodology/approach – Eight biomedical science students undertaking year-long work-based placements took part in this action research study. A coding scheme was designed to assess students’ reflections initially and at each stage of the study. Intervention activities involved students using mood boards, images and storytelling to assist development of creative learning spaces with a thematic approach employed to analyse both personal and collective reflections. Post-intervention evaluation considered possible long-term impact on students’ reflective ability. Findings – Students’ pre-intervention reports showed little reflection focusing mainly on competence demonstration and descriptive situation summaries. During the intervention workshops, all students demonstrated both identification of self as a practitioner and a critically reflective approach. However, this was not maintained long term as initial post-intervention reports tended to revert to a more descriptive style of writing suggesting longer-term support is required. Research limitations/implications – The importance of further research into the long-term usefulness of creative collaborative learning spaces in work-based programmes is suggested. Originality/value – This is the first study investigating the approach to supporting critical reflection during work placement in biomedical scientists. It is suggested that the current competence-based training programme provides limited opportunities for developing and embedding critical reflection. Where opportunities are provided, such as creative learning spaces, students’ critical reflection was greatly enhanced. However, it appears essential that this approach is maintained throughout training as critically reflective skills developed during collaborative learning have limited transferability to subsequent reflective report writing.
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Chu, Ling Yi. "AN AUTOETHNOGRAPHIC APPROACH TO IDENTITY EDUCATION AMONGST CROSS-CULTURE KIDS IN LITHUANIAN SCHOOLS." SOCIETY. INTEGRATION. EDUCATION. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference 1 (May 19, 2022): 620–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/sie2022vol1.6843.
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While Lithuanian schools face an influx of repatriated pupils post-Brexit and due to the COVID 19 pandemic, there is still no clear framework to support schools in integrating the increasing Cross Culture Kids (CCKs) and its school community and beyond. This paper examines the application of autoethnography as a pedagogical strategy for school agents to foster identity narrative spaces in classrooms and as a research method for investigating identity formation in educational contexts nurturing cross-cultural competencies in Lithuanian classrooms. This piece is part of the preparation work conducted for the upcoming serial cultural dialogue workshops with CCKs between 15-18, which borrows from the TARMAC ‘multicultural story’ framework (Ward and Keck, 2021). While autoethnography engages individuals in cultural-analysis-style interpretations of self-reflection, this process importantly aids the location of selves in one’s own narratives by exploring the self-other, personal-political, and self-society didactic- for all the stakeholders in the dialogue- such as the workshop facilitators/researchers and the CCKs and its non-CCK counterparts. This leads to the implications of philosophical and practical education approaches exploring identity and intercultural communication in alternative and non-traditional forms (Wall, 2006). Overall, this paper contributes to the formation of cross-culture transitional care awareness and strategies implemented in Lithuanian schools.
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Rezende, Rian, Sabrina Araujo, and Denise Portinari. "Wonder Cards Storytelling: Imagination, Storytelling, and Role-playing in the Creation of Objects, Spaces, and Experiences." International Journal of Role-Playing, no. 8 (December 28, 2018): 15–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.33063/ijrp.vi8.261.
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This article explores storytelling and role-playing as resources to create objects, spaces, and experiences in the field of design. To this end, we present Wonder Cards. The game is an “imagination instrument” that, through distant analogies (de Cruz and de Smedt 2010), assist in the development of narratives. A tale needs to arouse feelings – empathy, love, fear, nostalgia, and many others. The materiality of this abstraction helps the individual generate notions of belonging and temporality for himself and for others (Pallasma 2012). Human beings express themselves through objects and spaces: what we call our material culture. They are an indispensable part of the materialization of sensations and affect. Accordingly, magnificent tales create memories that express the objects and spaces invented. Objects and spaces within an intrinsic narrative create memory. Memory helps construct and preserve cultural and personal identity, since living itself is a constant movement toward recollection (Cardoso 2011). Therefore, the merging of objects with subjectivity is exceedingly important to culture construction. Nonetheless, how does one create these tales? Structures can facilitate this creative process. This article presents the constitutive elements of our creative tool, the implemented experiments, discussions, and debriefings (Atwater 2016) derived from the use of the card game on workshops and design classes at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro. These activities with participants, objects, spaces, and experiences are explored by the creation of narrative scenes and storytelling resources through fantasy (Barthes 2013) and role-playing (Bienia 2016) and by using the Wonder Cards. This union enables the participants to live situations removed from the creative environment where they usually work, thus stimulating creation in new situations and imaginary narrative environments. The Wonder Cards assist in the construction of tales, which inspire the development of objects, spaces, and experiences by the participants.
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Vlassopoulos, Kostas. "Greek History." Greece and Rome 68, no. 2 (2021): 312–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383521000103.
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I commence this review with a major contribution to the social history of classical Athens. Athenian social history is traditionally focused on polarities of class, status, and gender; while these polarities were obviously important, it is equally significant to adopt an interactionist approach and explore the shape of encounters between people belonging to the same or different groups. Rafał Matuszewski has chosen to focus on the interactions and communication between male Athenian citizens: in particular, the various spaces in which those interactions took place, as well as the means of communication. As regards the spaces, he explores in detail the noisy streets, the Agora, the various shops, workshops, and places of commensality and entertainment, the baths, the gymnasia, and the palaestrae. This is an excellent synthesis of a large number of social spaces in classical Athens, which have never been explored in the same detail as, for example, sanctuaries and cemeteries. Equally fascinating is the second part of the work and its detailed exploration of the body as a means of communication, alongside elements of material culture like clothes, houses, and graves. The wealth of material that is collected and examined and the interactionist framework employed have the potential to revolutionize how we study Greek social and cultural history; it is to be hoped that Anglophone readers will make the effort to engage seriously with this important German book.
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Levasseur, Bruno. "In the limelight: French women from the banlieues on stage in Ahmed Madani’s F(l)ammes (2017)." French Cultural Studies 29, no. 3 (2018): 265–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0957155818773925.
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This article considers how French theatre has contributed to debates on the condition of women living in the banlieues in a post-2015 context of terrorist attacks and a nationwide state of emergency. Focusing on the play F(l)ammes (2017) by Ahmed Madani, which interrogates women’s lived experiences, this article examines how theatre, drawing upon psychotherapeutic practices, engages with the complex interweaving of race, class and gender in marginalised French urban spaces. Using Nacira Guénif-Souilamas’s analysis of women from the banlieues and Stuart Hall’s work on the negotiation of multiple identities, this article suggests that F(l)ammes and the acting workshops from which it emerged eschew mass media representations of the French banlieues as violent, dangerous territories and offer an unusual, women-centred counter-discourse on the French nation.
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Kaunda-Khangamwa, Blessings N. "‘A volunteer for life’." Medicine Anthropology Theory 7, no. 2 (2020): 296–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.17157/mat.7.2.5030.
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In a time of renewed interest in the challenges of adolescent sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and service use, increased scholarly attention paid to fieldwork and knowledge production is critical. I describe the pleasure and challenges of engaging with multiple perspectives, spaces, places, and roles at a family centre in Malawi to understand the complexity of the interactions and relationships related to my doctoral fieldwork. This work is part of a large mixed-method study that explores SRH, service use, and resilience among adolescents living with HIV and attending a teen-club clinic in Blantyre, Malawi. Drawing from resilience theory and experiences of reflexivity, I reflect on my roles as a student of medical anthropology and public health, a ‘friend’, an ‘aunt’, and a ‘volunteer’; on my occupation of diverse spaces (clinics, homes, school grounds, digital); and on my use of multiple methods (including participants’ observations, individual and group interviews, workshops, feedback sessions, and fieldnotes), which make up the data collection, analysis, and interpretation processes. The reflections contained in this essay advance our understanding of the implications of the methodological considerations and ethical questions underscoring approaches to adolescents research.
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Gisladottir, Arnthrudur, and Trond Maag. "Accelerating knowledge transfer from research to sound aware practice." INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings 265, no. 3 (2023): 4226–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3397/in_2022_0602.
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Sound is a crucial factor for the health of inhabitants in city environments and plays an essential role in people's general well-being and how they perceive spaces within the urban realm. However, sound is seldom an influential parameter within urban development projects unless there are regulations to fulfill. During the last decades, increased knowledge of the subject has been gained through research activities. Still, findings only slowly reach into the work fields of architects and urban designers. This paper presents a series of workshops designed to gain input on how the transfer of knowledge of urban sound from research findings to the urban planning and design practice could be accelerated. Furthermore, the paper explores how sound experience walks additionally can improve understanding of the relationship between sound and urban space. In particular, developed as city sound models, the walks can support practitioners' knowledge and public involvement in the acoustic environment.
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Bonnet, Jennifer L., and Marisa Méndez-Brady. "Making the mission visible: altmetrics and nontraditional publishing." Digital Library Perspectives 33, no. 4 (2017): 294–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/dlp-01-2017-0002.
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PurposeWhereas traditional book and journal publishing remain the gold standard for many post-secondary institutions, nontraditional publishing is just as prolific at the flagship university in Maine. The university has strong land and sea grant missions that drive a broad research agenda, with an emphasis on community outreach and engagement. However, the impact of researchers’ contributions outside of academe is unlikely to be accurately reflected in promotion, tenure or review processes. Thus, the authors designed a series of altmetrics workshops aimed at seeding conversations around novel ways to track the impact of researchers’ diverse scholarly and creative outputs. Design/methodology/approachThis paper presents a case study of the instructional approach taken at the University of Maine library to facilitate discussions of alternative impact assessments that reach beyond traditional publications. FindingsEvaluations revealed an increased awareness of, and interest in, impact tracking tools that capture both traditional scholarship, like journal articles, and nontraditional scholarly and creative outputs, such as videos, podcasts and newsletters. The authors learned that altmetrics provides an entry point into a broader conversation about scholarly impact, and was best received by those whose scholarly output is not always captured by traditional metrics. Practical implications Scholars are equipped with novel methods for describing the value of their work and discovering a broader audience for their research. Future initiatives will target the needs identified through initial conversations around altmetrics. Originality/valueAltmetrics workshops provide spaces to explore the potential for new tools that capture a range of previously unconsidered measures of impact, and to discuss the implications of those measures.
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Milano, Laura Vanesa. "En el culo del mundo: festivales, autogestión y sexualidad en la pospornografía producida en Argentina / In the ass of the world: Festivals, self-management and sexuality in post-pornography produced in Argentina." Kamchatka. Revista de análisis cultural., no. 9 (August 31, 2017): 485. http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/kam.9.10100.
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Resumen: Este trabajo indaga en las prácticas artísticas de la pospornografía producidas en Argentina y en los modos de producción que se generaron en torno a ellas: Procesos de producción autogestiva, cooperativa y colectiva y creación de espacios nuevos de socialización y resistencia. Entendiendo el posporno como un entrecruzamiento entre arte y activismos de la disidencia sexual, me interesa problematizar estas modalidades del “hacer posporno” tomando como caso las experiencias de los festivales y jornadas realizadas en las ciudades de Buenos Aires y La Plata.Palabras clave: Pospornografía, sexualidad, autogestión, activismo. Abstract: This work investigates the artistic practices of postpornography produced in Argentina and the modes of production that were generated around them: processes of self-management, cooperative, and creation of new spaces of socialization and resistance. Understanding the postpornography as a cross between art and activism of sexual dissidence, I am interested in problematizing these modalities of "doing post-porn" in the contemporary Argentine context. , taking as a case the experiences of festivals and workshops held in the cities of Buenos Aires and La Plata.Keywords: Postpornography, sexuality, self-management, activism.
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Delgado, Francisco. "Extending Learning and Collaboration in Quantum Information with Internet Support: A Future Perspective on Research Education beyond Boundaries, Limitations, and Frontiers." Future Internet 15, no. 5 (2023): 160. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/fi15050160.
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Quantum information is an emerging scientific and technological discipline attracting a growing number of professionals from various related fields. Although it can potentially serve as a valuable source of skilled labor, the Internet provides a way to disseminate information about education, opportunities, and collaboration. In this work, we analyzed, through a blended approach, the sustained effort over 12 years to involve science and engineering students in research education and collaboration, emphasizing the role played by the Internet. Three main spaces have been promoted, workshops, research stays, and a minor, all successfully developed through distance education in 2021–2022, involving students from various locations in Mexico and the United States. The success of these efforts was measured by research-oriented indicators, the number of participants, and their surveyed opinions. The decisive inclusion of the Internet to facilitate the blended approach has accelerated the boost in human resources and research production. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Internet played a crucial role in the digital transformation of this research education initiative, leading to effective educative and collaborative experiences in the “New Normal”.
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Onions, Laura, and Simon Harris. "Printmaking Communities at the Edge of Chaos." IMPACT Printmaking Journal 2 (January 3, 2024): 15. http://dx.doi.org/10.54632/524.impj4.
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The theme for the conference, ‘The Printmakers Voice’, and the notion of a ‘Post-pandemic Voice’, has prompted reflection upon the previously taken-for-granted social and material aspects of printmaking now brought into sharp focus. Utilising ideas from complexity theory and alternative geographies within this paper we consider how the printmaking community we are part of has evolved and how the printmaker's voice and the post-pandemic voice meet. 
 Printmaking is an integral part of the BA (Hons) Fine Art course at the Wolverhampton School of Art. With introductory workshops in the first year, developing into an advanced ‘experimental printmaking and photography’ workshop in the second year. In 2016-17 a ‘Print Club’ developed out of this formal teaching and learning space into weekly sessions on Wednesday evenings. The Club brings together students and staff across a range of courses (not solely fine art) who have a specific interest in pursuing printmaking. There are no set agendas, and print club members work alongside each other on their projects in a supportive environment. Some regulars come each week and those who drop in. Some are trying to realise a project and those who want to sit and chat. Recognising the impacts of space and place on social cohesion and voice, we borrow from feminist geographer Doreen Massey, who stated that ‘space is a product of inter-relations between people and place’[i], in which different trajectories co-exist and are always under construction. Collective moments of social interaction orbit around printing presses, spaces of multiplicity embedded within material practices. [i] Massey, D. (2005) For Space. (London: Sage Publishing).
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Palfreeman, Linda. "British Quaker Aid to Spanish Republican Exiles in Concentration Camps in the South of France (1939–1940)." Religions 13, no. 4 (2022): 312. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel13040312.
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When a failed military coup provoked civil war in Spain in July 1936, British Quakers were among the first t respond to the tremendous need for humanitarian aid among the civilian population. They distributed food and clothing, set up canteens and hospitals, provided schooling and workshops, and organized the evacuation of children from war zones. Then, in January 1939, when the Spanish Republic finally succumbed to the might of the rebel forces, the Quakers accompanied thousands of refugees in their flight towards the French border. This became known as ‘la retirada’ (the Retreat). Once in French territory, the refugees were herded into improvised internment camps. These were simply vast open spaces on the beaches encircled by barbed wire, with no shelter, no latrines and barely any food. Quakers were the first to obtain permits to access the camps in order to alleviate the suffering and deprivation found there. They distributed not only the most basic aid such as food and clothing, but also pencils and notebooks, as well as tools and materials of all kinds to work with. Thus, in characteristic fashion, they provided people with the means by which they could help themselves.
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Torres, Karla. "Intervention of the self-care and continuous care program for university students." Revista Estudios Psicológicos 4, no. 1 (2024): 21–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.35622/j.rep.2024.01.002.
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The Self-care and Continuous Student Care Program (AACES) emerged as a proposal from the Integral Development Unit (UDI), based on suggestions from the General Directorate of Medical Services (DGSM) regarding the results of the global health diagnosis at FES Zaragoza in 2005. In this program, approximately six months of work were carried out, involving various activities that served as interventions to address the identified risk situations among university students. The research aimed to promote self-care and the development of psycho-affective and socio-cultural skills contributing to the overall development of individuals to enhance academic performance among young people at Zaragoza. The study was a qualitative action research, employing interviews for evaluation and feedback. The AACES Program offers a variety of products such as informative modules, preventive campaigns, public educational spaces, university fairs on health and responsible sexuality, reflection forums with experts, informative workshops, personalized attention, and research projects. These efforts consolidate intervention with university students, emphasizing the importance of promoting healthy lifestyles and involving students in contests and activities related to gender equity, sexual diversity, risk prevention, peace culture, and non-violence.
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Orr, Michael, Jon Leach, and Amy Koerbel. "Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2017." Structural Engineer 96, no. 11 (2018): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.56330/qcmi5074.
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The annual Summer Pavilion programme at the Serpentine Gallery in London is unique. It presents the work of an international architect, or design team, who has not completed a building in England at the time of the Gallery's invitation. The design and construction of each pavilion must be completed within six months and it remains situated on the Gallery's lawn throughout the summer for the public to explore and enjoy, before being demounted and relocated to a permanent site. The commission for the 2017 pavilion was accepted by Berlin-based Burkinabe, Francis Kéré and his practice. For the fifth year, AECOM provided technical design services including structural and civil engineering, fire engineering, specialist lighting and electrical design. The project was successfully completed on time and within budget, opening to the public in June 2017. This article describes the technical and engineering challenges of delivering Francis Kéré's vision of a floating steel-and-timber tree-like canopy over the sinuous timber walls that define the spaces inside the pavilion. Those spaces provided a temporary home to a wide range of community-based activities, ranging from cookery classes led by asylum seekers to 'Build your own pavilion' workshops, opening up the world of engineering and design to future generations. A fusion of traditional design methods combined with the very latest digital modelling technologies was used in the delivery of the pavilion. This included pioneering examples of combining augmented and virtual reality throughout the whole design and construction process, which enabled the intricate details of the pavilion to be quickly communicated and fully resolved before fabrication and construction commenced.
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Baird, Josephine. "Larp as a Potential Space for Non-Formal Queer Cultural Heritage." International Journal of Role-Playing, no. 14 (September 19, 2023): 71–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.33063/ijrp.vi14.357.
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Queer experience has, until very recently, been invisible or significantly misrepresented in cultural and scholarly fields of record including history, sociology, and ethnography. Self-recording of our lives, communities, and culture has occurred almost exclusively through non-formal means. Queer heritage has seen recent scholarly study of these non-formal means in the form of archives of oral histories, ephemera, and ethnographies. This work emphasises the critical role safer community, social, and performance spaces play in containing, creating, and disseminating queer histories and heritage. Despite this increased visibility, the need for more grassroots expressions of nonnormative genders and sexualities remains crucial for queer people to find support.
 As part of my wider work exploring the potential live action role-playing games (larps) might have for the exploration of gender subjectivity through play, in this paper I suggest that larps can also provide a space to document, disseminate, and educate on queer experience, history, and culture. Larp is a democratic form of expression that does not require performance skill or training, but rather allows people to experience empowerment, including for those who come from marginalized backgrounds, i.e., through emancipatory bleed (Kemper 2020; Baird 2021; Cazeneuve 2021). Larp has on occasion been used for non-formal education on queer history, such as in the larp Just a Little Lovin’ (2011) about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the 1980s, which includes educational workshops and debriefs on notable historical and cultural themes (Groth, Grasmo, and Edland 2022). Larp used this way is not dissimilar to the way queer social and performance space has been co-created as a container for both meaning-making and heritage for LGBTQIA+ people. On this basis, I argue that game design that seeks to reflect and represent this kind of queer cultural production in social and performance spaces may allow for the non-formal education on LGBTQIA+ lives and heritage, as well as opportunities for personal (gender) expression, exploration, and embodiment.
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Saklavcı, Fatmagül. "THE ART OF TRADITIONAL STICKING AND ITS LAST REPRESENTATIVES IN SİVAS." EUROASIA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES & HUMANITIES 9, no. 1 (2022): 104–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.38064/eurssh.315.
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Carving, processing and ornamentation of wood, which is a material suitable for use with its strength and texture since prehistoric times, and is called woodworking. Stick making, is one of the traditional handicrafts of Sivas province and dates back to the 18th century, is one of the types of woodworking. Stick making, also known as mouthpiece maker, is a branch of art in which items such as mouthpieces, pens, nameplates, crochet handles, candlesticks, and ballpoint pens are prepared by embroidering on wooden materials. The main material traditionally used in stick making is obtained from the "germişek" tree grown in Sivas, Tokat, Erzincan, Kars and Ağrı. The reason for choosing this tree is that its branches are suitable for carving and absorb toxic substances into it. The tree has been taken under protection due to its decline in nature, and today poplar and hornbeam trees are used instead. The sticks, bark is peeled off in the logging machine, are cut and shaped according to the product to be made than the painting and polishing processes, ornaments are made with silk and wheat stalks. Today, there are only a few masters and workshops dealing with stick making in Sivas. In this study, a research has been made about this art and its current status by visiting the masters' workshops. One of these masters, Abdulkaya Yazarlı and his brothers are trying to keep this art alive, they learned and inherited from their father. They learned art from their father Ferit Usta. His master is Sheikh Aziz Baba who is also known as "Çubukçu Baba" is one of the spiritual personalities of the city and he is the most important representative of art in Sivas in the last century. Ferit Usta, by working on Sivas mouthpieces as an alternative to the painted mouthpieces made in Bilecik, developed the work of embroidery with thread and stems and created a style unique to Sivas. Since embroidering with thread is a laborious and time-consuming process, there are almost no people who do this work today. Nowadays craftsmen, who try to survive by working in difficult conditions in narrow spaces, cannot find apprentices who will teach and sustain their profession. In order for art to survive and be passed on to future generations, it is necessary to support people who set their heart on this work and to provide suitable conditions.
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Filova, Natalia, and Lea Rollova. "HUMAN CENTERED DESIGN OF A CHILDREN'S MUSEUM." SWS Journal of SOCIAL SCIENCES AND ART 1, no. 2 (2019): 67–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.35603/ssa2019/issue2.06.
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Traditional museum is typically characterized especially by presenting exhibits. However, it has recently been enriched by many other features that contribute to the attractiveness of exhibitions. Museum spaces nowadays offer various educational events, creative workshops or shops with artefacts and publications.
 This paper is aimed at presenting partial research results orientated to human-centered design of museums for children. The introductory part describes innovative design tools that focus on multisensory presentation of exhibits, hands-on, color impact, emotion perception etc., as well as possibilities of using the Universal Design as a Learning method to create exhibitions for children with special needs. The main part of the work consists of our team's research aimed at exploring the needs of different children, especially children with various disabilities, in the creation of children's museum space and exhibitions. The first phase of research is focused on the analysis of spatial properties, exhibits and interactions between them. The aim was to discover how those factors influence children's attention and impact on their learning ability. This part of the research was carried out in BIBIANA - International House of Art for Children in Bratislava. The end of the paper indicates further research possibilities that will be explored in the next phase of our research in the future.
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Acar-Ciftci, Yasemin. "Bridging Knowledge and Action in the Workplace: An Evaluation on Internship Learning Outcomes of Child Development Associate Degree Program Students." Journal of Education and Learning 9, no. 3 (2020): 174. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/jel.v9n3p174.
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The efficiency of the education systems fundamentally depends on the quality of teaching and learning in classrooms, workshops, laboratories, and other educational spaces. Perfect teachers, well-designed courses, and proper facilities, provision of necessary resources are required for an excellent education, but not enough. This study aims to evaluate child development associate degree program students in their learning during their summer internships the scope of Raelin&rsquo;s Work-Based Learning Model. The individual level of this model takes place two types of learning (theory and practice) and four types of individual learning (conceptualization, experimentation, experience, and reflection) that arise from a matrix of two forms of knowledge (explicit and implicit). This research was designed as a case study, one of the qualitative research methods. Depending on the tradition of qualitative research, observation, semi-structured interview, and document review strategies were used to increase the reliability of this study. In the analysis of the qualitative data, the descriptive analysis technique was used to define and interpret the data in line with the predetermined themes. The findings obtained in this study revealed that although the students made various observations and practices during their internships, it has been identified that these studies did not include the learning types in the context of the model.
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Buckley, E., N. O'Regan, G. Pope, R. Mulcahy, and J. Cooke. "92 THE RISE OF SIMULATION BASED TRAINING IN GERIATRIC MEDICINE?" Age and Ageing 50, Supplement_3 (2021): ii9—ii41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afab219.92.
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Abstract Background Simulation-based training (SBT) offers opportunities for teaching and learning in safe spaces, while learners navigate the acquisition of these complex skills, and work in clinically-realistic teams, supported by faculty. Geriatric medicine is a diverse speciality, requiring trainees to navigate complex social, medical, and ethical issues, necessitating a multifaceted and interdisciplinary approach. Studies describing SBT in geriatric medicine are limited. Methods We hosted an in-situ competition designed to encourage participation in simulation and to develop a simulation faculty network across a hospital group. All healthcare professionals in the hospital group were eligible to enter. Contestants designed a simulation case scenario within a speciality of their choice. Entrants participated in five virtual workshops on core elements of SBT. Six cases were selected to participate in the virtual final. The finalists submitted a video summarising the performance of and evaluation of the learners’ experience of the scenario. Results Thirty-four teams submitted initial SBT proposals and participated in the five virtual SBT workshops over a three-week period. Of these,17.6% (n = 6) were geriatric medicine teams, comprising seven geriatric medicine consultants, four advanced nurse practitioners and 13 non-consultant hospital doctors (five registrars, six senior house officers and two interns). Case scenarios submitted by geriatric medicine teams included acute stroke care, diagnosis and management of delirium, management of perioperative delirium post hip fracture and capacity assessment. Conclusion The level of interest in SBT generated amongst geriatric medicine faculty and trainees suggests this may be a useful tool to enhance the training experience. SBT offers geriatric medicine trainees the opportunity to practice the technical and non-technical skills required to navigate complex, interdisciplinary and challenging patient scenarios, in a protected environment. In this innovation, we identified a range of geriatric medicine-related topics for which SBT was deemed to be valuable by both faculty and trainees and could be facilitated through in-situ simulation settings.
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Lang, Luciana. "“Sometimes you don’t know how to move” cultural savviness and learning the ropes of bureaucracy." Journal of Organizational Ethnography 8, no. 2 (2019): 196–210. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/joe-01-2018-0005.
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Purpose Recent works by organisational anthropologists have identified bureaucracy as a major challenge for unskilled workers in the global economy. Daily encounters with bureaucratic processes only enhance general feelings of inadequacy, frustration and insecurity experienced by social groups who have to rely on precarious work. However, a focus on people’s homespun strategies and on the role of the non-profit sector in helping them to navigate bureaucracy is still incipient. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach The research, ethnographic in its approach, unveils some of these challenges by drawing on 29 interviews with migrant workers in a third sector organisation in Manchester, UK. It explores migrants’ work experiences and aspirations, and the strategies used to navigate the bureaucracy embedded in the organisation of their lives. Informed by the different roles the researcher performed at the centre and by the inter-disciplinary nature of the projects, the methodology includes interviews, participative observation, analysis of life story narratives and drawings, and participation in community workshops. Findings While acknowledging that bureaucracy can keep people in liminal spaces and enhance their sense of insecurity, this paper reveals how personal aspirations and the ability to make connections across different social networks provide the much needed drive that enables migrants to acquire language skills, a tool that helps them to learn the ropes of bureaucratic processes, become culturally savvy, and leave the stage of quasi-citizenship. Originality/value Responses highlight the significance of recent welfare reforms and reveal adaptive mechanisms to deal with resulting uncertainties, which include the use of a variety of social networks, learning hew digital and language skills, and seeking specialized knowledge found in organisations in the third sector. The study also questions the taken-for-granted rationality of bureaucracy, unveiling its messy and ambiguous logic.
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Smetcoren, An-Sofie, and Liesbeth De Donder. "FINDINGS FROM THE ENTOURAGE NOORD PROJECT: CO-CREATING NEW HOUSING MODELS FOR OLDER ADULTS IN BRUSSELS." Innovation in Aging 3, Supplement_1 (2019): S251. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igz038.941.
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Abstract In response to the challenge of an ageing population and the housing crisis in Brussels, the practice-based project ‘Entour-Age Noord: Inspiring and innovative housing & work’ was launched. A main objective was to develop various innovative and small-scaled housing models for older adults. The new housing models were designed to reinforce quality of life of older people who are ageing in the neighbourhood whilst allowing them to choose the models best suited to their needs and wishes. Given the complexity and multidimensionality, participatory-action research was used and the project was divided into six different ‘work packages’ (WP’s). Within these WP’s, different stakeholders and end users (older people, informal caregivers, neighbourhood residents, Community Land Trust, etc.) were involved during various activities (service design methodology, architectural workshops, inspiring visits, focus groups etc.) in order to co-create the answers. First, based on the results, eight personas (=conceptual models of targeted groups) were developed. Second, stemming from the participants needs and wishes (e.g. desire for more social interaction), architectural and spatial design characteristics were detected (e.g. provide common/shared spaces that stimulate encounter). Based on these personas and spatial characteristics, two prototypes of new housing models were conceptually elaborated on paper and two were operationalized and prepared in practice. The spatial and architectural characteristics are not limited to old age but can be of interest of any age group. Future housing developments could take these suggestions into consideration. Furthermore, experiences, opportunities and pitfalls of a co-creative decision-making process with older adults will be discussed.
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Butler, Sophie, Ronnie Adeduro, Rebecca Davies, et al. "Art and mental health in the women's psychiatric intensive care unit." Journal of Psychiatric Intensive Care 16, no. 1 (2020): 15–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.20299/jpi.2019.015.
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It is widely acknowledged in hospitals that the quality of design and environment can influence the quality of patient care, the sense of therapeutic security and the experience of staff. This women's PICU collaborated with the charity Hospital Rooms to realise the valuable role of art within the clinical environment. Experienced artists were commissioned to work in genuine partnership with patients and staff to re-envision the physical environment with the installation of eight imaginative, inventive and PICU compliant art works.<br/> The implementation, and both patient and staff perspectives were evaluated. There was no disruption to clinical care and engagement and participation was enthusiastic. There were 35 patient encounters and 32 staff encounters, including creative workshops and an exhibition.<br/> Patient Experience Data Intelligence Centre (PEDIC) reports showed an improvement following artwork installation. Patients were more likely to recommend the ward, felt more involved in their care and that the ward was comfortable. The art transformed clinical spaces creating opportunity for patients to have exceptional experiences: 'being here feels like sitting in the park'.<br/> Staff evaluation through a 'visual matrix' method that explores shared experience, revealed that the art has introduced further possibility of 'respite and escape' for both patients and staff. There is a sense that 'you feel like it is leading you to somewhere, you feel like there is something more'. It has also engendered 'ownership and pride': it 'feels like pushing boundaries, things you thought could never be considered at all, are now being considered'.
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Noske-Turner, Jessica, Niranjana Sivaram, Aparna Kalley, and Shreyas Hiremath. "Subversive Recipes for Communication for Development and Social Change in Times of Digital Capitalism." Social Sciences 13, no. 8 (2024): 393. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/socsci13080393.
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The era of digital capitalism poses conundrums for communication for development and social change scholarship and practice. On one hand, mainstream social media platforms are an increasingly ubiquitous element of the everyday media practices of growing portions of the global population. On the other, the profit-driven architectures can make these hostile spaces for progressive social change dialogues. While a burgeoning literature exists on the uses of social media as part of hashtag-activism and social movements, much less critical consideration has been given to NGOs’ and civil society organizations’ uses of capitalist-driven social media platforms in their development and social change efforts, and the challenges and compromises they navigate in this, consciously or not. This paper argues that meaningful uses of social media platforms for social change requires cultivating a hacker mindset in order to find tactics to subvert, resist, and appropriate platform logics, combined with an ecological sensibility to understanding media and communication. This paper analyzes how metaphors, specifically of a recipe, can offer a productive, praxis-oriented framework for fostering these sensibilities. The paper draws on insights from workshops with IT for Change, a civil society organization in India, which is both a leader in critiquing the political and economic power of Big Tech especially in the Global South, and beginning to use Instagram for its work on adolescent empowerment.
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Dysthe, Olga. "Opportunities and challenges of dialogic pedagogy in art museum education." Dialogic Pedagogy: An International Online Journal 9 (May 4, 2021): A1—A36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/dpj.2021.317.
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The aim of this interpretative, qualitative research study is to investigate affordances and constraints of dialogic pedagogy in the museums, as well as its broader contribution to society today. The background is my involvement in a Danish development project called ‘Museums and Cultural Institutions as Spaces for Citizenship,’ initiated by seven art museum educators in Copenhagen and supported by the Ministry of Culture. Denmark has a strong dialogic tradition dating back to Grundtvig’s belief in the power of ´the oral word’ to foster democratic ‘Bildung.’ Museum education, on the other hand, has a long tradition of monologic transmission. Still, a more participatory pedagogy has been gaining ground over many years.
 This study is based on the observations of three-hour-long teaching sessions in seven museums and has a Bakhtinian framework. While the overall analysis builds on the whole project, two cases are discussed in more detail. The overarching research question is how central aspects of dialogic pedagogy played out in an art museum context and its opportunities and challenges. The subquestions focus on three central Bakhtinian concepts: How did the educators facilitate multivoicedness during the short museum visits? What role did difference and disagreement play? What opportunities emerged for students to develop internally persuasive discourse? I have chosen these concepts because they are central in dialogism and combined them because they are closely connected in Bakhtin’s work. The final reflections open a wider perspective of how dialogic museum education may contribute to overarching functions of education: qualification, socialization, and subjectification.
 Key findings were that the museum educators’ transition from traditional to dialogic pedagogy was enhanced by their genuine interest in hearing students’ voices. They succeeded in engaging students in multivoiced dialogues but with a tendency towards harmonization rather than the exploration of diversity and difference. The practical aesthetic workshops offered unique opportunities for students to develop their internally persuasive word, i.e., by replacing authoritative interpretations of artworks with their own. Challenges experienced by the educators were, e.g., the dilemmas between preplanning and student choice and between disseminating their professional art knowledge and facilitating students’ meaning making and creativity. In contrast, students found the lack of workshop follow-up problematic.
 The article provides deeper insight into museums as an alternative pedagogical arena. Museum educators and non-museum classroom teachers may find it useful for cultivating greater dialogic interactions in respective learning contexts.