Practice - Based Research in Digital Arts: A Case Study of Wat Phumin, Nan Province, Thailand

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tawipas Pichaichanarong
Keyword(s):  
Digital Arts ◽  
Practice Based Research

scholarly journals Practice-Based Research in Digital Arts: A Case Study of Wat Phumin, Nan Province, Thailand

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-172
Author(s):  
Tawipas Pichaichanarong
Keyword(s):  
Design Research ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
First Episode ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Learning History ◽  
Mural Paintings ◽  
Practice Based Research

ABSTRACTThai mural paintings have played a significant role in Thai society since The Sukhothai Kingdom period (1238-1438 AD) until the present. Wattana Boonjub (2009) points out that Mural painting was used for teaching the Thai people in the past. Throughout history, temples have become a crucial part of Thai' lives; for example, Wat Phumin in Nan Province. Wat Phumin has exceptional architecture, beautiful visual presentations of Buddhist storytelling on the walls which depict scenes from the Buddhist Jataka tales, and scenes of everyday life in Nan. These unique characteristics have attracted many visitors to this temple over the years. Also, when those interested visit Wat Phumin, they experience this temple as a Museum. Loïc Tallon et al. (2008) suggests that the museum experience provides an appropriate situation for learning history in an unconventional setting. As a result, previous research titled “Visual Research Practices on Thai Lanna Mural Painting: A Case Study of Wat Phumin, Nan Province” was presented at The 4th International Conference for Asia Pacific Arts Studies (ICAPAS 2016). The results indicated that the information concerning the Lanna mural paintings inside the temples was overwhelming. However, no directions are facilitating Thai and foreign visitors in viewing and understanding at the first episode of storytelling on Lanna mural paintings inside Wat Phumin. Therefore, this research is the result of finding a solution to facilitating visitors in viewing Buddhist Jataka tales through digital arts and digital technology (such as responsive web design, QR codes, etc.) with practice-based design research. ABSTRAK Lukisan mural Thailand telah memainkan peran penting dalam masyarakat Thailand sejak periode Kerajaan Sukhothai (1238-1438 M) hingga saat ini. Wattana Boonjub (2009) menunjukkan bahwa lukisan Mural digunakan untuk mengajar orang-orang Thailand di masa lalu. Sepanjang sejarah, kuil telah menjadi bagian penting dari kehidupan Thailand; misalnya, Wat Phumin di Provinsi Nan. Wat Phumin memiliki arsitektur yang luar biasa, presentasi visual yang indah dari cerita Buddha di dinding yang menggambarkan adegan dari kisah Buddha Jataka, dan adegan kehidupan sehari-hari di Nan. Karakteristik unik ini telah menarik banyak pengunjung ke kuil ini selama bertahun-tahun. Juga, ketika mereka yang tertarik mengunjungi Wat Phumin, mereka merasakan candi ini sebagai Museum. Loïc Tallon et al. (2008) menunjukkan bahwa pengalaman museum memberikan situasi yang tepat untuk belajar sejarah dalam lingkungan yang tidak konvensional. Sebagai hasilnya, penelitian sebelumnya yang berjudul “Praktik Penelitian Visual pada Lukisan Mural Lanna Thailand: Studi Kasus Wat Phumin, Provinsi Nan” dipresentasikan pada Konferensi Internasional ke-4 untuk Studi Seni Asia Pasifik (ICAPAS 2016). Hasilnya menunjukkan bahwa informasi mengenai lukisan mural Lanna di dalam kuil sangat banyak. Namun, tidak ada arahan yang memfasilitasi pengunjung Thailand dan wisatawan asing dalam melihat dan memahami episode pertama pada cerita tentang lukisan mural Lanna di dalam Wat Phumin. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini adalah hasil dari menemukan solusi untuk memfasilitasi pengunjung dalam melihat cerita Buddha Jataka melalui seni digital dan teknologi digital (seperti desain web responsif, kode QR, dll.) dengan penelitian desain berbasis praktik.

mLearning and Creative Practices

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Laurent Antonczak ◽  
Helen Keegan ◽  
Thomas Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Access ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Creative People ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Gender Minorities ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Academic Sector

The ethos of open sharing of experiences and user generated content enabled by Mobile social media can be problematic in some cases (politics, gender, minorities), and it is not fully understood within the creative and academic sector. Creative people, students, and lecturers can misconceive the value and issues around open and public access to their work online, which include: professionalism, Intellectual Property (IP), collaboration (Gayeski, 2002; Londsdale, Baber, Sharples, & Arvanitis, 2003), peer esteem VS individualism, amateurism, and paranoia. Collectively the authors of this paper have accrued a wide portfolio of experiences in global educational collaboration and practice-based research and, in this position paper, they highlight some of the key ethical challenges that they have found need to be negotiated within global mobile social media education (Andrews, Dyson, Smyth, & Wallace, 2011) and mobile media production (i.e.: photography and video – Wishart & Green, 2010). In order to ground this reflective discussion, the authors use Heutagogy as the learning and teaching framework to guide the qualitative analysis of a specific case study which is built upon the scenario-based approach utilised by Andrews et al., (2013).

Making the Case for Practice-Based Research and the Imperative Role of Design Practitioners

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Freihoefer ◽  
Terri Zborowsky
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Design Work ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Current State ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Architecture And Design ◽  
Validation Tool

The purpose of this article is to justify the need for evidence-based design (EBD) in a research-based architecture and design practice. This article examines the current state of practice-based research (PBR), supports the need for EBD, illustrates PBR methods that can be applied to design work, and explores how findings can be used as a decision-making tool during design and as a validation tool during postoccupancy. As a result, design professions’ body of knowledge will advance and practitioners will be better informed to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the society. Furthermore, characteristics of Friedman’s progressive research program are used as a framework to examine the current state of PBR in design practice. A modified EBD approach is proposed and showcased with a case study of a renovated inpatient unit. The modified approach demonstrates how a highly integrated project team, especially the role of design practitioners, contributed to the success of utilizing baseline findings and evidence in decision-making throughout the design process. Lastly, recommendations and resources for learning research concepts are provided for practitioners. It is the role of practitioners to pave the way for the next generation of design professionals, as the request and expectation for research become more prevalent in design practice.

scholarly journals The Silent Researcher: A New Method for Obtaining a Critical Response to a Holographic Artwork

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pearl John
Keyword(s):  
Research Study ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Qualitative Evaluation ◽  
Aesthetic Development ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The City

A critical context is an essential aspect of practice-based research; however, a lack of structure exists to obtain and evaluate criticism from peers. This paper presents a case study of how the ‘silent student’ critique method used in Higher Education settings in the UK (Elkins, 2014) was adapted for a holographic arts research study. A ‘silent researcher’ critique session with nine experts was held in Aveiro, Portugal, June 2018 to evaluate the author’s digital holographic artwork, on display at the City Museum. The experts asked the author critical questions about the artwork while the author remained silent. The session was filmed, transcribed and processed using a general inductive approach for analysing qualitative evaluation data (Thomas, 2006). This paper outlines the benefits and drawbacks of using this new critique method for research. The benefits included; participant’s careful response to the artwork avoiding engagement of egos of critic and researcher, the drawbacks included the difficulty of evaluating against a pre-determined research question when the discussion could not be steered. This paper evaluates the artwork critiqued describing how the work contributes to the aesthetic development of the medium of holography; which used the Z-axis of holographic space to depict a chronological narrative.

Methodology and Method in Case Study Research

2022 ◽  
pp. 138-154
Author(s):  
Catherine Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Study Research ◽  
Situational Specificity ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Active Contribution ◽  
Insight Into

It is the situational specificity or context of qualitative research that ensures the case study remains a methodological approach, inherently valuable in practice-based research. Since this is inherently complex and multifaceted by nature, being able to provide a means of systematically analysing and framing research investigations is pivotal to the credibility of research that can highlight and illuminate these specific contextual issues. This chapter provides a means by which researchers can begin to frame the complexity of phenomena they wish to investigate by deliberately determining its parameter or scope and then framing or binding this. Beyond these processes, an insight into the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data will be provided so that theoretical outcomes can be framed and posited as part of an active contribution to knowledge. The fact that case study can be posited as both methodology and method ensures its capacity to address the need of being able to undertake context-specific evaluatory research or the overall complexity.

scholarly journals Sources and flow of healthcare built environment design evidence

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeeshani Wanigarathna ◽  
Fred Sherratt ◽  
Andrew D.F. Price ◽  
Simon Austin
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Healthcare Design ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
Ease Of Access ◽  
Published Research

PurposeA substantial amount of research argues that built environmental interventions can improve the outcomes of patients and other users of healthcare facilities, supporting the concept of evidence-based design (EBD). However, the sources of such evidence and its flow into healthcare design are less well understood. This paper aims to provide insights to both the sources and flow of EBD used in three healthcare projects, to reveal practicalities of use and the relationships between them in practice.Design/methodology/approachThree healthcare case study projects provided empirical data on the design of a number of different elements. Inductive thematic analysis was used to identify the source and flow of evidence used in this design, which was subsequently quantised to reveal the dominant patterns therein.FindingsHealthcare design teams use evidence from various sources, the knowledge and experience of the members of the design team being the most common due to both ease of access and thus flow. Practice-based research and peer-reviewed published research flow both directly and indirectly into the design process, whilst collaborations with researchers and research institutions nurture the credibility of the latter.Practical implicationsThe findings can be used to enhance activities that aim to design, conduct and disseminate future EBD research to improve their flow to healthcare designers.Originality/valueThis research contributes to understandings of EBD by exploring the flow of research from various sources in conflation and within real-life environments.

scholarly journals 17. Electro Arts, a Tool of Interactive Digital Education: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-148
Author(s):  
Nelida Nedelcuț ◽  
Ciprian Gabriel Pop ◽  
Amalia Cristina Nedelcuț
Keyword(s):  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Computer Art ◽  
Cultural Consumption ◽  
Digital Arts ◽  
Digital Education ◽  
Innovative Environment ◽  
Computer Based ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This research analyses the impact of the Elektro Arts Festival on the attending audience, based on the responses offered by 98 respondents, highlighting the socio-demographic characteristics of the participants, the interest in computer art and realising an evaluation of the event’s quality by emphasizing preferences and customs of cultural consumption and identifying the communication and advertising channels preferred by the audience. The organizers of the future editions of the event obtained the necessary feedback on the interest manifested in digital arts as well as on the satisfaction and the preferences of the audience. The Elektro Arts Festival is considered an innovative environment propitious to IT-mediated artistic expression, and the newly organized editions have been linked to the research in the field of computer-based numerical technologies.

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