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This book discusses a number of ways in which out-of-school science education can uniquely engage learners with ‘wicked’ global problems such as biodiversity loss and climate change. The idea for the volume originated in discussions among members of the ESERA special interest group on "Science Education in Out-of-School contexts". It emerged from these discussions that out-of-school institutions and experiences offer opportunities for critical engagement in wicked problems that go far beyond what is possible solely in the science classroom. The book opens with a principled discussion of the nature of wicked problems and what addressing them involves. This introduction clarifies key terms...
The book brings to the English-speaking public outstanding texts of prominent Latin American and Caribbean women thinkers translated for the first time into English. All the authors address contemporary issues in the field of social sciences, humanities, literature and translation adopting a theoretical point of view. The book offers a wide-ranging discussion of the contribution of the selected thinkers to show how their contribution moves beyond 'regional/area' studies. It shows how the theoretical and methodological innovations found in the writings of these intellectuals are essential for the establishment of a truly global perspective in the social sciences, literature, translation and political philosophy.
Neuromedia is an innovative examination of shared territories in neurobiological anatomy, physiology and media art. It reveals how scientists investigate perception and behaviour at the molecular, cellular and systems level. It demonstrates how interpretative forms of media art can help to demystify these complexities for diverse audiences. Under the reflective headings of inspiration, construction, challenges and reactions, it offers deep insights into the processes of art and science production. Assisted by essays from a museum director and an art historian, Neuromedia provides the background for readers about an exhibition of the same name at KULTURAMA in Zurich (2012), and suggests an alternative approach to scientific communication. Authors: Robert Atkins, Oliver Biehlmaier, Mitchel Paul Levesque, Stephan Neuhauss, Rolf Pfeifer, Claudia Rütsche, Jill Scott and Esther Stoeckli
"This book serves as a manual for the implementation of such a public experiment on a local or regional level anywhere in the world. Texts by human geographers, art historians, literary scholars and ecologists are complemented by a detailed, step-by-step guide to creating a climate garden. Communities and institutions are thus given a tool to tell their own story, adding a personal and emotional dimension to the often abstract global climate scenarios."--Page 4 de la couverture.
With the rise of smartphones and the proliferation of applications, the ways everyday media users and creative professionals represent, experience, and share the everyday is changing. This collection reflects on emergent creative practices and digital ethnographies of new socialities associated with smartphone cameras in everyday life.
This book verifies the need for the arts and the sciences to work together in order to develop more creative and conceptual approaches to innovation and presentation. By blending ethnographical case studies, scientific viewpoints and critical essays, the focus of this research inquiry is the lab context. For scientists, the lab context is one of the most important educational experiences. For contemporary artists, laboratories are inspiring spaces to investigate, share know-how transfer and search for new collaboration potentials. The nine labs represented in this book are from the natural, computing and engineering sciences. An enclosed comprehensive DVD documents the results, the problems and serves as a guideline for the future of true Art/Sci experiments.
Turbulence and Reconstruction ist eine Anthologie von künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Sichtweisen auf unsere Gesellschaft. Die Autoren gehen davon aus, dass Kunst und Wissenschaft produktive Denkräume bieten und uns dazu ermutigen, neue Konzepte und Kategorisierungen zu entwickeln, die Potenziale freisetzen und von denen wir in Zukunft profitieren können. Wesentlich dabei ist, dass die alten Grenzen zwischen den Disziplinen überwunden und die wechselseitige Wirkung von Technologie und Realität diskutiert werden kann. Turbulenz und Wiederaufbau sind Prozesse, die nicht nur Darstellung, Kategorien, urbane Lebensräume und Energieverbrauch betreffen, sondern auch unsere Beziehung zu Medien und Technologien – und damit zur digitalen Ideologie von Interaktion und Substitution.
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"Bringing together 150 seminal articles from leading scholars, writers and digital artists, Post-Digital charts the history of critical debates on the impact of the digital on art and scholarship today. Collecting over 20 years of major interventions from the pioneering journal electronic book review, this 2-volume set also includes new responses chronicling more recent developments in the field since the original articles, a substantial introduction surveying the long history of thinking about the digital and a comprehensive bibliography of further reading"--
Written by a leading geographer of climate, this book offers a unique guide to students and general readers alike for making sense of this profound, far-reaching, and contested idea. It presents climate change as an idea with a past, a present, and a future. In ten carefully crafted chapters, Climate Change offers a synoptic and inter-disciplinary understanding of the idea of climate change from its varied historical and cultural origins; to its construction more recently through scientific endeavour; to the multiple ways in which political, social, and cultural movements in today’s world seek to make sense of and act upon it; to the possible futures of climate, however it may be governed ...