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Tracing The Landscape: Re-Enchantment, Play, And Spirituality In Parkour, Brett D. Potter

Publications and Scholarship

Parkour, along with “free-running”, is a relatively new but increasingly ubiquitous sport with possibilities for new configurations of ecology and spirituality in global urban contexts. Parkour differs significantly from traditional sports in its use of existing urban topography including walls, fences, and rooftops as an obstacle course/playground to be creatively navigated. Both parkour and “free-running”, in their haptic, intuitive exploration of the environment retrieve an enchanted notion of place with analogues in the religious language of pilgrimage. The parkour practitioner or traceur/traceuse exemplifies what Michael Atkinson terms “human reclamation”—a reclaiming of the body in space, and of the urban environment …

Learning To Be Effective Allies To Indigenous Communities: Perspectives From The Sheridan College Community - Research Report, Bethany Osborne, Ferzana Chaze, Elijah Williams

Publications and Scholarship

In Our Voices: Sheridan’s Indigenous Community and Allies is an arts-based research project conducted in collaboration with the Centre for Indigenous Learning and Support at Sheridan College. The larger research project from which these findings emerged was focused on the dual purposes of understanding how the Sheridan community views the role of an effective ally to Indigenous communities and to highlight stories of strength, resilience and discovery of Sheridan’s Indigenous community members. The research was funded by a Sheridan College SRCA growth grant. This study received ethics approval from the Sheridan Research Ethics Board in May 2018. Data collection began …

Teacherless: The Futures Of Design Education, Andrew Hladkyj

Publications and Scholarship

With the ever-growing disruption of education by technology and the trend toward self-directed and autonomous learning, how might we reimagine legacy postsecondary design education in a “teacherless” society? Through a human-centred examination of today’s educational environment, this Major Research Project (MRP) derives 20 aspirational motivations at the heart of an independent

learning model. It reframes the disconnect between design academia and industry using an ’80s computer game and a Greek myth as fresh paradigms to uncover the value of strategic partnership, addictive learning, and platform-agnostic foundational training in preparing post-secondary design education for the future. This research offers four alternative …

Creating Community And Well-Being Through Art, Tina Dealwis

Articles

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Art History Course Texts, Don Wightman

Course Content

Information on the course readings for the topics covered in an art and art history course.

Animation Field Trips, Don Wightman

Course Content

Information for animation students on visiting the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto to conduct research for their projects.

Art History Course Outline, Don Wightman

Course Content

The course outline for the FAS245H Painting II taught at Sheridan College includes information on studio and discussion topics covered (e.g., painted surface, picture denotation, and Canadian and international painting) as well as required and recommended textbooks.

Art History Course Intro, Don Wightman

Course Content

An Introduction to an art and art history course including information on student expectations, materials required and studio safety.

Art History Articles, Don Wightman

Course Content

A list of writings on art and art philosophy by Edmund Burke Feldman, C.S. Lewis, John Hospers, Clive Bell, Leo Tolstoy, Peter Wollen, and Joseph Kosoth.

Course Description, Don Wightman

Course Content

A five-week animation course taught at Sheridan in 1976/1977 consisted of two main parts: 1) research and ideation sketches during museum visits and 2) final artwork based on the research and preliminary sketches. The course description also included information on assignment requirements and what students would be graded on.

Vr Technology In Medical Training, Heather Cleveland

Publications and Scholarship

The presentation begins with a research question to understand the market and leads into a plan for a game or simulation, including gameplay vision, technical goals, visual direction, audio treatment, financing and more.

Course Readings, Don Wightman

Course Content

Required and optional textbooks on the subjects of art fundamentals, art theories and drawing techniques.

Handouts For Themes, Don Wightman

Course Content

An outline for a design course mentioned the topics covered (e.g., proto-modernism, Gestalt, formalism, and semiotics) and the assignment/handout that accompanied each topic.

Wightman Philosophy, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

A handout with quotes by Don Wightman and other writers on creativity, communication and the relationship between nature and humans.

Museum Reflection, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

Don Wightman reminded students in an animation course to attend the museum visits regularly so they could conduct research for their assignments.

Feedback For Students, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

In a feedback to students in an animation course, Don Wightman provided suggestions on areas for improvement. For example, professionalism and in-depth research.

Art Education Feedback, Don Wightman

Reflective Teaching

Don Wightman provided feedback to his students on their work from the first semester of an art course. While Wightman expressed positive comments on their work, he mentioned that students needed to “acknowledge the relationship between conceptual objectives and visual manifestations” and unify these two in their artwork. Students needed to be more intentional and to connect what they created with the underlying concepts they were trying to convey. He said that in order to facilitate this goal, he would present more restrictive parameters for the assignments in the second semester.

Interactive Inundation Map, Robert Tiegs

Publications and Scholarship

The late 1500s was a difficult period for the Dutch in terms of water management. Over the course of the century, the regional water management boards had difficult maintaining the flood defenses, as a result natural floods became more frequent and devastating, as evidence in the All Saints Day Flood in 1570. At the same time, the Dutch Wars of Independence erupted, which exacerbated the problems through the addition of countless man-made floods, carried out to secure military objectives. These military inundations were ubiquitous and accompanied nearly every single military encounter. This digital history exhibit provides a brief account of …

Brief History Of Military Inundations During The Dutch Wars Of Independence, Robert Tiegs

Publications and Scholarship

The Dutch Wars of Independence was as much a religious civil war as it was a revolt against Spanish Habsburg rule. In this tumultuous period of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century, the rebellious Dutch leaders used the watery landscape to their advantage. Repeatedly throughout the conflict, they used Military Inundations (strategic floods) in order to secure their objectives. Nearly every major encounter, including Brill, Alkmaar, Leiden, and Antwerp involved some form of tactical flooding.