An ‘armour’ against anguish: Costume design considerations around protecting actors in emotionally distressing roles

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Brayshaw
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Support ◽  
Costume Design ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Emotional Management ◽  
Ethical Design ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
The Relationship

Actors and singers frequently portray characters who experience distressing events, yet this may cause anguish for the performers themselves and require them to perform personal emotional management to cope with their own feelings during a production. This case study discusses and documents my costume design ethos and processes for the Sydney 2018 production of Clare Barron’s play, You Got Older (2015), which required the two lead actors to play characters who were experiencing profound fear, grief and loss. The design approach drew on Monks’s work on the relationship that actors have with their costumes and d’Anjou’s interpretation of Sartrean ethics within the context of a design practice. Once I had determined that the nature of my role as designer for this production would be to offer the actors emotional support through costume, I applied Woodward’s notion of comfort in everyday dress to the context of performance costume to ascertain how costume might contain a talisman and/or function as a form of psychological, ‘soft armour’ within the context of the play. Finally, this report uses Tonkinwise’s writing on ethical design alongside a semi-structured interview with the lead actor in You Got Older, Harriet Gordon-Anderson, to examine the forms that such protections took within my designs for the play and offers methodological considerations regarding designing costumes to protect and comfort performers playing emotionally distressing roles, should the actors require it.

scholarly journals Understanding Human Scale and the Importance of its Relationship with Enclosure

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Austin H. Mackesy-Buckley
Keyword(s):  
Urban Design ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Human Scale ◽  
Design Case Study ◽  
Sphere Of Influence ◽  
Scale Design ◽  
The Relationship

<p>The main objective of the research is to better understand the concept of human scale and the role that it has to play in the design of our urban environments. The need for a clearer, less ambiguous understanding of human scale is identified as a result of its poor definition and numerous manifestations across a multitude of literature. Human scale is an important part of design that flourished particularly in the middle ages, but has largely been neglected in the industrial and technological ages. Its remergence comes with the return of consideration for the comfort of people. Yet we cannot successfully apply a concept we do not wholly understand. Human scale is therefore redefined as a collective concept that embodies the multitude of existing definitions and treats them as aspects of a larger theory. As a broader but more comprehensive definition it better facilitates the identification and exploration of relationships with what are currently treated as separate urban design objectives, such as enclosure, in an endeavour to better understand the influence of human scale. The design case study proposes a design that tests the relationship between enclosure and human scale. A large site is chosen to display how human scale operates at urban, as well as architectural and detailed levels. Through aspiring to achieve a thorough human scale design, without any exclusive emphasis on enclosure, the process and the outcome still reveal that the theoretical relationship identified in the research (that aspects of human scale foster the formation of enclosure) is unavoidable in design practice. Enclosure simply results as a consequence of thorough human scale design. The research suggests that many urban design objectives may fall under human scale's sphere of influence meaning it is not a singular concept, but an ethic of design that has many desireable consequences. While the idealistic nature of the design may be unrealistic to achieve at present, it highlights the incompatibilities with contemporary approaches and succeeds in generating discussion.</p>

Derivational morphology in flux: a case study of word-formation change in German

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Hartmann
Keyword(s):  
Morphological Change ◽  
Word Formation ◽  
Derivational Morphology ◽  
Statistical Association ◽  
Morphological Pattern ◽  
Diachronic Change ◽  
Methodological Considerations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Theoretical Considerations

AbstractThe diachronic change of word-formation patterns is currently gaining increasing interest in cognitive-linguistic and constructionist approaches. This paper contributes to this line of research with a corpus-based investigation of nominalization with the suffix-ungin German. In doing so, it puts forward both theoretical and methodological considerations on morphology and morphological change from a usage-based perspective. Regarding methodology, the long-standing topic of how to measure (changes in) the productivity of a morphological pattern is discussed, and it is shown how statistical association measures can be applied to quantify the relationship between word-formation patterns and their bases. These findings are linked up with theoretical considerations on the interplay between constructional schemas and their respective instances.

scholarly journals Dysfunctional Behavior at the Workplace and Its Impact on Employees’ Job Performance

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Ramzy ◽  
Randa El Bedawy ◽  
Aya Maher
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Job Performance ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Dysfunctional Behavior ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Organizational Dysfunction ◽  
The Relationship

Dysfunctional behavior at the workplace reflects the behavior that violates remarkably the accepted norms at the workplace which is in turn can be destructive to overall organizational performance. This study aims to explore the relationship between dysfunctional behavior at the workplace and employees’ job performance. In order to study the issue of organizational dysfunction in Egypt, a unique organization was taken as a case study, namely SEKEM. This research is qualitative research based on the approach of Action Research. Through this approach, a semi-structured interview was designed by the researchers and used to collect data from the employees of SEKEM. As such, it is recommended to take new approaches to effectively manage dysfunctional behavior at the workplace.

scholarly journals Learning to Die: Analysis of The Cultural Role of Voluntary Death

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 38-49
Author(s):  
Niccolò Martini
Keyword(s):  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Even Start ◽  
General Law ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Real Education ◽  
The Relationship

Voluntary death is a morally and legally grey area in many countries around the world. In my research I studied the topic of euthanasia and assisted suicide in Italy. Specifically, I analyzed the relationship between collective law and individual morality using as case study the phenomenon of voluntary death, which has been making people talk about itself in recent years precisely because of its as yet undefined nature. Using a qualitative approach i.e., semi-structured interview, I listened the voices of a representative sample of Italian doctors in order to collect the opinion of the medical class i.e., the social group that would be most affected by the possible legalization of euthanasia. It has emerged, among other things, that Italy lacks a real education to death. The research has opened a reflection on the range of voluntary death within a Nation where it is illegal. Numerous studies have determined the enormous symbolic baggage present within the concept of death, but in the study of the legalization of voluntary death a new factor has emerged: a legalization is not desired until the population receives a real education on the idea of having to die. Like sex, death is still a taboo in many societies around the world. Is it therefore necessary to fulfill a death education before even start to talk about creating a general law. This research has exalted not only a cultural deficiency but also the desire to remedy it through education, in order to exorcise the fear of an event that sooner or later everyone has to face.

Shared Heritage, Different Paths Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimao

2015 ◽  
Vol 19 (01) ◽  
pp. 45-58
Author(s):  
Kenneth J. Hammond
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Emotional Support ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Personal Relationship ◽  
Confucian Culture ◽  
Intellectual Interest ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship of brother and brother is one of the Five Great Relationships in Confucian culture, yet it has been relatively little studied. The lives of the brothers Wang Shizhen and Wang Shimao in the sixteenth century provide a case study of how two male siblings shared a family heritage of education and political engagement, and pursued parallel careers in public life, yet followed distinct paths in both their intellectual interest and political engagements. The nature of their personal relationship also serves to illustrate how the fraternal bond both structured their respective careers and provided emotional support in times of peril and loss.

Induced Lactation by Adoptive Mothers: A Case Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zilal Saari ◽  
Farahwahida Mohd Yusof
Keyword(s):  
Breast Milk ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Adopted Child ◽  
Adoptive Mothers ◽  
Breast Pump ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship

Induced lactation is a method of stimulating breast milk, carried out by non-pregnant women. It is an alternative for women who are unable to have children naturally but wish to experience motherhood by adopting. In Islamic laws, breastfeeding by a woman of another person’s child will turn their relationship into that of a mother and her own child. The permissibility in Islamic law of breastfeeding another person’s child has been taken as an alternative way for adoptive Muslim mothers to “mahram”ise (a male/female who is forbidden permanently, forever) (or familiarize) the relationship with that adopted child. The objective of this study is to explore the experience of adoptive mothers who have breastfed their adopted children through the method of induced lactation. This study focuses on the technical aspects, on how an adoptive mother stimulates the production of breast milk despite not having gone through the process of pregnancy. This study uses the qualitative study method. This study interviewed 12 respondents comprising of Muslim females who had successfully nursed their adopted children before the age of two and fulfilled the requirement to nurse the child until he is fully satisfied for five sessions. The semi structured interview technique was carried out over a 6 months period between the years 2012 to 2013. Data analysis discovered that two methods of induced lactation were performed, i.e., hormone simulation and breast stimulation. This study also found two devices used in the process of breast stimulation, which are Supplemental Feeding Device and Breast pump. In summary, the process of induced lactation to nurse an adopted child can be a success with the right method, technique and equipment.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Car Dependency And Use of Public Transport in Duhok City- Barriers Analysis And Recommendations

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-68
Author(s):  
Pires H. Abdullah ◽  
Jurgen Perschon ◽  
Ahmed M. Ameen
Keyword(s):  
Public Transport ◽  
Public Transportation ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Microsoft Excel ◽  
Passenger Car ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Motorized Transport

This study was conducted to determine the relationship between car dependency and the use of public transportation in Duhok city. The purpose of this study was to identify the factors that hinder the use of public transportation and the reasons for the absence of public transportation, as well as to determine how to make the young generation change their mobility culture from a passenger car-based system to use public transport. This study was a qualitative study, which consists of Duhok city as a case study for this research, in which purposive, simple random and theoretical sampling was adopted. Two types of Semi-structured interview questions were used one with open-ended questions with governmental experts, the other was open, and the closed-ended question that was used with public people of Duhok city in order to collect the information about transportation situation in Duhok city. This research practiced a qualitative research approach, thus for analyzing data, a thematic coding analysis has been applied. Moreover, for the analysis of close-ended questions, some charts and graphs have been made by utilizing Microsoft Excel Program. This method has been done in order to avoid bias and support data analyzed by other methods of analysis. The study found out that the vehicle or passenger car is the main transport mode in Duhok city, the passenger car provides accessibility and flexibility which public transportation cannot and this is due to the absence of a convenient public transport in Duhok city. In addition, it was pointed out that people can change their minds about favoring the use of public transport over cars, first by developing well-constructed and planned public transport, also with the available of various modes that need to be well integrated with other forms of non-motorized transport, such as pedestrian walkway system, cycling, and taxis.

scholarly journals Investigating the Activity Design and Development Skills of Geography Teachers

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Ali Meydan
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Environmental Properties ◽  
The One ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Academic Year

As geography program has been discussed with the constructivist approach, it has become necessary to enhance the lessons with activities. Geography teachers implement the activities in course books, on the one hand, and also use the activities other teachers prepared or the activities in social network websites, on the other. However, what is more important is teachers’ designing and developing activities considering the conditions of the school they carry on their duties, status of their students, environmental properties and geographical area depending upon acquisitions. The Ministry has also provided conveniences required for designing and developing activities taking the activities in course books and other sources as example.In this research, it was aimed to reveal skills of geography teachers upon designing and developing activities. The research was carried out  by using the case study method, one of qualitative research approach and the opinions of geography's teachers working in Turkey in Nevsehir province, were consulted in the academic year of 2015-2016. The views of 32 geography teachers carrying on their duties in the center and districts of Nevsehir province were collected using semi-structured interview form. Each question in the form was accepted as a main theme, and sub-themes were created depending upon the views. It was concluded in the research that activities performed in the lessons had several benefits upon affective and cognitive development of children, course books, supplementary sources and internet websites were widely used for the activities, school sub-structure was adequate for organizing activities, teachers considered themselves as competent for designing activities, and teachers were able to develop the relationship of activity-acquisition in activities. 

scholarly journals Perilaku Komunikasi Pengguna Media Sosial Tantan Dalam Menjalin Relasi Pertemanan (Studi Pada Mahasiswa Universitas Syiah Kuala Banda Aceh)

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Nadia Muharman ◽  
Riska Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Structured Interview ◽  
Communication Behavior ◽  
Purposive Sampling ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Banda Aceh

Penelitian ini berjudul “Perilaku Komunikasi Pengguna Media Sosial Tantan Dalam Menjalin Relasi Pertemanan (Studi Pada Mahasiswa Universitas Syiah Kuala Banda Aceh).” Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui interaksi pengguna media sosial tantan dalam menjalin relasi pertemanan, mengetahui tindakan pengguna media sosial tantan dalam menjalin relasi pertemanan, mengetahui hubungan pengguna media sosial tantan dalam menjalin relasi pertemanan. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan wawancara terstruktur dalam pengumpulan data. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori mediamorfosis. Dalam pemilihan informan penelitian ini menggunakan metode purposive sampling, sedangkan untuk menganalisis data, menggunakan model analisis data Miles dan Huberman. Hasil penelitian didapatkan bahwa perilaku komunikasi pengguna media sosial Tantan dalam menjalin relasi pertemanan yaitu interaksi informan melakukan chatingan dengan pengguna lain, informan memfokuskan chatingan dengan banyak pengguna agar mendapat lebih banyak teman. Tindakan informan dalam media sosial Tantan yaitu informan hanya membagikan foto, like foto dan melihat video yang dibagikan pengguna lain.Hubungan informan dalam media sosial Tantan pada akhirnya hubungan yang terjalin antara informan dan lawan bicaranya merupakan hubungan pertemanan biasa, tidak berlanjut ke tahap perjodohan. This study entitled "The Communication Behavior of Tantan MediaSocial Users in Establishing Friendship (A Case Study on the Students of Syiah Kuala University, Banda Aceh).” This study aims to understand the interaction, action, and the relationship of the users in developing friendship. This study used qualitative descriptive method with a structured interview for the data collection. The theory used in this research is the mediamorphosis theory. The interviewees were chosen using purposive sampling method, and the data were analyzed using model data analysis Miles and Huberman. The research results obtained that communication behavior of the users in developing friendship was through the interviewees interaction with other users; the interviewees focus on chatting with many users in order to get more friends. The interviewees’ actionson Tantan social media were sharing pictures, giving “like” for other pictures and watching videos shared by other Tantan users. The interviewees’ relationship in Tantan social media with the chatting partners were only developed until friendship stage, and did not continue to be lovers

scholarly journals A teoria do aprendizado orientado ao projeto: Projeto Boulevard Imigração/ The Theory of Project-Based Learning: Boulevard Immigration Project

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cláudio Lima Ferreira ◽  
Fabíola Marialva Marques Gilio
Keyword(s):  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Urban Project ◽  
The University ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe article seeks to demonstrate the relationship between project theory and design practice in the course of Architecture and Urbanism at the University Anhembi Morumbi - São Paulo - Brazil from the application of the Theory of Project-Based Learning (PBL) in order to understand the interrelationship between teaching, research and extension. As a case study we opted for an architectural and urban project, called Boulevard Immigration which is being developed by students and teachers in the Model Office of Architecture and Urbanism at the University Anhembi Morumbi in partnership with Immigration Museum in São Paulo. The importance of this theme is to promote a debate on the relationship between theory and practice in the development of education in Architecture and Urbanism courses, stimulating critical, creative, collaborative and reflective student formation. As investigative procedure method was chosen a bibliographic exploratory research on the Project-Based Learning as a teaching tool that encourages the development of reflection, collaboration and responsibility with social manners and democratic behavior. As final considerations it is clear that the application of PBL provides the students and teachers a set of tools that stimulates the relationship between theory and practice in teaching and learning.RESUMOO artigo visa demonstrar a relação entre teoria e prática projetual no curso de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Uni-versidade Anhembi Morumbi- São Paulo- Brasil, a partir da aplicação da Teoria do Aprendizado Orientado ao Projeto (AOP) visando compreender a inter-relação entre ensino, pesquisa e extensão. Como estudo de caso optou-se por um projeto arquitetônico/urbanístico, denominado de Boulevard Imigração que está sendo desenvolvido por alunos e auxiliados por professores no Escritório Modelo de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Anhembi Morumbi em parceria com técnicos do Museu da Imigração, em São Paulo. A importância deste tema é de promover um debate sobre a relação entre teoria e prática no desenvolvimento do ensino nos cursos de Arquitetura e Urbanismo, estimulando a formação crítica, criativa, colaborativa e reflexiva do estudante. Como método de procedimento investigativo optou-se por uma pesquisa exploratória bibliográfica sobre o Aprendizado Orientado ao Projeto como um instrumento de ensino que estimula o desenvolvimento da reflexão, da colaboração e da responsabilidade com modos sociais e democráticos de comportamento. Como considerações finais percebe-se que a aplicação da Teoria AOP fornece à discente e docentes um conjunto de ferramentas que estimula a relação entre teoria e prática no ensino e aprendizagem. Contato principal: [email protected]

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