scholarly journals Developing a Scenic Design Portfolio

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Elizabeth Springmann
Author(s):  
Geraldine McDermott-Dalton

AbstractThe use of portfolios is deeply embedded in practice within Design education. However, as trends change and technology improves, tensions often arise in the interpretation and presentation of the portfolio activity. Additionally, as more and more digital artefacts are produced by design students, the question arises as to whether the traditional portfolio could be accompanied or replaced by an eportfolio, which could present students’ digital artefacts in a structured fashion. This research investigates how students and faculty in the Design Department of one higher education institution might come together to examine and re-model practices in the context of the design portfolio activity. The study uses Cultural Historical Activity Theory with a Change Laboratory methodology and expansive learning to build transformative agency amongst those involved in the design portfolio activity, with a view to reaching consensus of what a future model of the design eportfolio might look like. Findings indicate that the methodology was successful in collaboratively examining work practices and exposing tensions relating to the current portfolio activity. A tentative future model of a design eportfolio was presented to the group, using institute graduate attributes to provide structure. While the lack of a designer’s ‘personality’ when using a generic eportfolio tool was pointed out, it was agreed that having student work available and accessible in a structured digital format was a requirement for today’s design graduate. Finally, this research approach is considered useful for educational research projects that require collaborative input from various stakeholders into changes in work practices.


REPERTÓRIO ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 298
Author(s):  
Regina Miranda

<p class="p1">Resumo:</p><p class="p2">Ao tomar como contexto teórico as pesquisas em Harmonias Espaciais desenvolvidas pelo teórico de movimento Rudolf Laban na primeira metade do século XX, este artigo considera o longo predomínio da visão de um <em>alguém</em> que habitava um <em>espaço vazio </em>separado do corpo e aponta perspectivas contemporâneas, que<em> </em>tornaram o<em> </em>espaço entre/em ambos mais fluido e plástico. A contribuição teórica aqui apresentada indicou a necessidade da inclusão de configurações geométricas mais instáveis no campo Labaniano e também a criação de percursos para a encarnação de conceitos, que pudessem representar essas novas interações. Como um dos territórios da pesquisa artística que fundamenta esta narrativa, o encontro com a tecnologia foi explorado, inicialmente, como uma forma de ampliar a experiência corpo-espacial dos atuantes formais e informais de uma performance, oferecendo a possibilidade de um desenho cênico que incluía a articulação entre espaços físicos e virtuais e de conexões espaciais de livre escolha. Mais recentemente, a relação se ampliou em uma experiência interdisciplinar de criação cênica e coreográfica em interatividade com processos computacionais. Nos exemplos apontados, o que rege a escolha das tecnologias é o interesse artístico e conceitual de investigar como cada tecnologia pode colaborar na criação, deslocamento e distorção de espaços performáticos.</p><p class="p3"><span class="s1">Palavras-chave: </span>Arte e tecnologia. Artes cênicas. Campo labaniano. Corpo-espaço. Performance imersiva.</p><p class="p3"> </p><p>SHIFTING SPACES: POETICS OF INTERACTION BETWEEN ART AND TECHNOLOGY</p><p class="p1"><em>Abstract:</em></p><p class="p5"><em>Embracing as theoretical context the Space Harmonies’ research developed by movement theorist Rudolf Laban during the first half of the 20th century, this paper considers the long predominance of the vision of someone who inhabited an empty space separated from the body, and points toward contemporary perspectives, which have made the space between/in both more fluid and plastic. The theoretical contribution presented here indicated the need to include more unstable geometric configurations in the Labanian field and the creation of paths for the incarnation of concepts, which could represent these new interactions. As one of the areas of artistic research that underlies this narrative, the encounter with technology was initially explored as a way to broaden the body-space experience of the formal and informal participants of a performance. It offered the possibility of a scenic design that included the articulation between physical and virtual spaces and free-choice spatial connections. More recently, the relationship expanded in an interdisciplinary experience of scenic and choreographic creation in interactivity with computational processes. In the mentioned examples, what defines the choice of the technologies is the artistic and conceptual interest to investigate how each technology can collaborate in the creation, displacement and distortion of performative spaces.</em></p><p class="p3"><span class="s1"><em>Keywords: </em></span><em>Art and technology. Performing arts. Labanian field. Body-space. Immersive performance.</em></p>


1950 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 371
Author(s):  
Edwin Burr Pettet ◽  
Lee Simonson
Keyword(s):  

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Napoli ◽  
Chuck Gloman
Keyword(s):  

1937 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-197
Author(s):  
Lee Mitchell
Keyword(s):  

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