scholarly journals The Role of Narrative Thinking in Design：Taking the Mathematical Hall of the London Science Museum as an Example

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
he xiuchuan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Science Museum ◽  
Narrative Thinking

La narrazione come nuova sintesi di fare-cultura

2012 ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Francesca Pulvirenti
Keyword(s):  
Epistemic Situation ◽  
Living World ◽  
The Road ◽  
Contemporary Research ◽  
Narrative Thinking ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Feminist Discourse

In this paper we outline the boundaries of a new epistemology in which female narration and code overlap with the role of narrativity and complexity in contemporary research, as Paradigms of Transversality. In postmodernity, narrativity emerges as the contextualization of knowledge and complexity utters itself as its current epistemic statute. Knowledges are located in the ‘living world' and as such they should be understood narratively. Narrative, then, goes from being ‘external history' to an increasingly ‘internal paradigm' of knowledge, one that is always (and totally) intertwined with ‘narrative thinking'. Female knowledge finds its right place in this epistemic situation, and the epistemological and philosophical reflections - highlighted by the introduction of the category of gender - allow feminist discourse to state the systematic asymmetry between women and men; in effect, the latter, despite acting on all levels and in all moments of social and cultural life, has no ultimate foundational cause, since gender is a historical construct, and therefore modifiable. In this feminist path, narrative therefore presents itself as a declaration of existence, of being woman and being man, which rests on the cultural as well as the biological. Women and men make up a discursive intrigue, which is peripatetic and adventurous, an interdependent complexity. This narrative reveals our narrative webs and introduces us to an interactive universalism that sets the relational dimension as constitutive of individuals, groups, cultures and identities. The task of education thus is to open the road, through reflexive practices, to different ways of living, centred on personal experiences, and therefore narrative knowledge, in order to enable man and woman to learn to reveal themselves, to think and think of themselves, to tell and tell themselves, to insert themselves into networks of dialogue, so to build sites for innovation and reflexivity and open ‘thresholds' and ‘meeting places' to ‘do-culture'.

scholarly journals The human body on Exhibit: promoting socio-cultural mediations in a science museum

2008 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. C05
Author(s):  
Silvania Sousa do Nascimento
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Scientific Communication ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Communication Studies ◽  
Cultural Mediation

This paper discusses three mediation concept approaches and, consequently, three facets of mediator action.  The approaches presented start with a bibliographical review of the concept of mediation present in education and scientific communication studies.  These approaches serve as a basis for interpreting a semi-directive interview with the director of the Museum of Morphological Sciences of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG).  They also help us reflect on the complexity of organizing the objectives of a museum action that takes into account the transformational role of the meaning of objects in interaction with different socio-cultural subjects.  In conclusion, the museum's purpose in organizing a museum action using socio-cultural mediation approach and with the mediator as a passeur libre among exhibit objects and visitors is highlighted.

Design of a Beverage-Sale Service Robot

2014 ◽  
Vol 902 ◽  
pp. 254-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fang Liu ◽  
Chang Qing Shen ◽  
Yong Bin Liu ◽  
Fan Rang Kong
Keyword(s):  
System Design ◽  
Control Strategy ◽  
Hardware Design ◽  
Robotic System ◽  
Science Museum ◽  
Service Robots ◽  
Service Robot ◽  
Electrical System ◽  
City Life

Service robots are increasing significantly, as they are playing a key role in our city-life. This paper depicts the system design of a beverage-sale robotic system named BSR. BSR can sale beverage such as Coca Cola, beers and Sprite to the clients automatically, working as a human seller. The robotic system can also play the role of a casher doing cash in and check out. In this paper, the hardware design including the mechanical structure and the electrical system are introduced firstly. Then, the control strategy is proposed. BSR has been exhibited in a science museum in China and it is well welcomed by the audiences.

Narrative thinking and the emergence of postpsychological therapies

2006 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
John McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Narrative Therapy ◽  
Psychodynamic Therapy ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Narrative Structures ◽  
Narrative Thinking ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The Social

The growing emergence of an appreciation of the significance of narrative, within philosophy, the social sciences and the humanities, has had a significant impact on theory and practice within the field of counseling and psychotherapy. The influence of narrative thinking has been felt in two main ways. First, concepts of narrative have been assimilated into established forms of practice. For example, within psychoanalysis and psychodynamic therapy, it is now accepted that attention to narrative structures within the discourse of therapy can be used to generate a fuller understanding of the operation of well-known phenomena such as transference. The primary intention of this area of work has been to utilise narrative concepts to permit a deeper understanding of existing ideas about therapeutic processes and procedures. Second, a quite separate set of developments has seen the construction of an approach to therapy which begins from an acknowledgement of the central role of narrative and storytelling in lives and relationships. This alternative approach, generally described as “narrative therapy”, can be characterised as the formation of a postpsychological approach to therapy, which focuses on issues surrounding the performance of narratives within relationships, community and culture, rather than on inner psychological processes within individuals. It is argued that postpsychological narrative therapies have the potential to address key contemporary personal and social dilemmas in ways that are not possible within individualist models of therapy.

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