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Big Blows On A Small Stage: Records Of Violence In Jewish Communal Registers, Altona 1765-1776, Elisheva Carlebach

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The incidents of interpersonal violence discussed here were recorded in semi-private registers kept by communal scribes across a period of approximately a decade during the second half of the eighteenth century in the Ashkenazic community of Altona. The Ashkenazic “triple” community, AHW, whose center was Altona, then under the Danish crown, is richly represented by surviving internal and archival records for the early modern period.

The questions explored address the meaning of this level of physical violence and the means by which it was addressed. Was violence tolerated as a way of keeping disputes within the community? How did it …

Jewish Violence In Polish Laws And Courts, Jerzy Mazur

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

This presentation looks at violence in law and in courts in late medieval Poland.

La Mala Sangre: Daily Violence Within The Western Sephardic Diaspora, Daniel Strum

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Recurrent private acts of violence within dense and homogenous communities, or diasporas, illustrate a tension between powerful gossip transmission and imperfect translation of such power into efficient social control.

This presentation explores the manifestation of private violence in the daily life of the Western Sephardic Diaspora in the early seventeenth century, examining inquisitorial sources from Portugal and notarial records from the Netherlands. These sources indicate that as much as group members expected mutual responsibility, trustworthiness and compliance with social norms from their fellow group members. Yet when they felt disappointed, they expressed their resentment aggressively. Aggression took shape of offenses …

Rome, 1571: A Body And A Murder Investigation In The Ghetto, Serena Di Nepi

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The 1571 story of Sabato del Corsetto tells about violence in the Roman ghetto in the second half of Sixteenth Century. It concerns many issues related to violence: family violence; verbal violence; physical violence; violence among women; violence arisen both for economic and personal reasons and even attempt made by the Jewish community to manage violence and violent people.

Eschatological Avengers Or Messianic Saviors? Violence And Physical Strength In The Vernacular Legend Of The Red Jews, Rebekka Voss

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The vernacular legend of the Red Jews allows us to explore the relationship of violence, physical strength and power during the early modern period, extending the traditional treatment of Jews and violence in that era. Violence is often linked to power and physical strength. Violence is typically associated with ruling authorities and the realm of the majority, rather than in the hands of an oppressed minority, as in case of Diaspora Jewry, which has been identified with victimhood. Moreover, in historiography, the perception of Jews as targets of aggression perpetrated by “the other,” whether Christian or Muslim, corresponds to the …

Plague And Violence Against Jews In Early Modern Europe, Samuel Cohn

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Based on Italian chronicles and archival sources Samuel Cohn examined questions of violence against Jews during plague.

Mindfulness: The Holy Grail Of Design Education?, Christian Montarou

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In the field of design education, the term ‘mindfulness’ has been criticised as a mystification of the creative process and derided as a ‘holy grail’ (Moore 2009). I will argue against this criticism, try to establish some general rules for the chaotic diversity of individual creativity and highlight the role of flow and mindfulness in connection with the creative act. These reflections are rooted in my own experiences teaching croquis drawing with a live model, as well as many years as a practicing artist and pedagogue. My main focus is on elucidating the relationship between context and mindfulness in a …

Killed Or Be Killed. Realities And Representations Of Violence In Seventeenth-Century Ukraine, Adam Teller

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

Based on sources related to the 1648 Chmielnicki Uprising, Adam Teller examined "The Realities and Representations of Violence in Seventeenth Century Ukraine"

2013 Emw: Jews And Violence In The Early Modern Period, Emw 2013

Early Modern Workshop: Resources in Jewish History

The 2013 Early Modern Workshop on “Jews and Violence in the Early Modern Period” sought to contextualize the violence involving Jews in the early modern period in order to understand this crucial aspect of their experience. Participating scholars tried to complicate not only the over-simplified notion of Jews as solely victims of violence in the premodern period, but also examined complexities of the question of Jews as victims of violence.

Keynote address by Robert Davis of Ohio State University, "Typologies of Violence in Early Modern Europe"

Translations: Digital & Physical Interchanges, Kyle Miller, Clark Thenhaus

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This paper presents experiments in digital design teaching methodologies at the collegiate level within architectural education. The experiments manifested themselves in the form of three design workshops for students from different levels within the undergraduate architecture degree program at the University of Kentucky. Collectively titled “Translations”, these workshops speculated on strategies for the integration of analogue drawing and making with digital translations within the architectural design process. The events were organized around the concept of employing multiple modes of making, a diverse set of design techniques, and mixed media. The theme of the workshops grew from the belief that multiplication …

A Multidisciplinary Approach To Design Education: Providing A Framework For Informed Designers Of The Future, Zaiba Mian

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This paper recognizes the need to integrate design in all levels of education in order to foster creative skills that are applicable in most aspects of life. It highlights unique challenges associated with teaching design in the digital age and the need to encourage students to see in a critical and meaningful way. The methodology used in design education must build on existing virtual tools to promote a physical reconnection to one’s surroundings in order to promote an appreciation and understanding of place. This paper explores the notion that design does not occur in isolation and is part of a …

“Learning By Doing” Revisited: An Interactive Experience In Teaching Design Methods, Ozge Merzali Celikoglu, Sebnem Timur Ogut

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This study represents an interactive experience towards conducting an undergraduate theory-based design course, ‘Design Theories and Methods’ in a product design department. These types of theoretical courses are usually conducted with a classical form of teaching where the lecturer is in a dominant position and bestows knowledge upon the learner (Wood and Rust, 2003). However, according to constructivist learning theory, knowledge cannot exist independently of the knower, but must be constructed through his own understanding of the situation (Hein, 1991). Therefore while a ‘revisit’ to Bauhaus education model is suggested, the main hypothesis is that “learning by doing” would provide …

How Can We Make It Better? Translating An Innovative Medical Model Into Cutting Edge Design Curriculum, Barbara Mcfall, Cindy Beacham, Kathryn Burton, Ron Dulaney Jr.

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This is a story of design – of designing a viable present in transition from an increasingly obsolete past to a transformative future. More specifically, Karl Aspelund’s seven design process steps (2010) provided the framework for our curriculum redesign at a typical American Land Grant University. The inspiration surfaced from a combination of necessity and vision based on conditions within and around our design unit. Identification of the design problem resulted in key findings, among them that ours is a small design unit in a large university that explicitly favors STEM disciplines. Conceptualization provided a focus on human-centered design culture …

Design Knowledge From Practice(S), Helen Mcallister

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The main premise of this paper is to centralize the experiential mode as a fundamental to Design Research whether by practice–based or by practice-led knowledge. This paper will map the process of different ‘knowings’ of practice, how they manifest themselves into critical knowledge for Design. Through this researcher’s engagement with the experiential, came an understanding that could not otherwise have surfaced without the practice–based inquiry and methodologies. ‘Practice’ is a central imperative of Design, yet the nature of these activities we call ‘practices’ is never the less complex in its critical edification and defining how it contributes and shapes ‘culture …

Social Design, Ruth Mateus-Berr, Nisrine Boukhari, Florian Burger, Alessia Finckenstein, Tanja Gesell, Marta Gomez, Masha Hupalo, Emer Kinsella, Dieter Lang, Elaine Liu, Teresa Morandini, Marie-Christin Rissinger, Frida Robles, Elisabeth Stephan, Stephan Trimmel, Julian Verocai

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This project aims at the collective definition of social design. The process of exploring this definition is considered a workshop that gets people involved and passionate. In this process there are various elements that represented tangible reference points and draw to defined public spaces in the city and central at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Social Design is a well-established term and has various forms of interpretations. Though this project aims to understand more about these interpretations. To achieve this, individuals were animated to think about the term ‘design’ and involved in defining new paradigms. This was done with …

A Methodology For Appraisal And Validation Of User Centered Open Innovation Programs: A Case Study Critical Analysis Of An Energy Supplier Co-Creative Innovation Program, Américo Mateus, Ana Loureiro, Carlos Alves Rosa, Susana Leonor

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Design thinking programs for innovation in accordance to a servicedominant logic (S-D logic) in co-creation with stakeholders is often described in the literature as an adequate procedure for added value and sustainability (Vargo & Webster, 2011; Mateus & Rosa, 2011; Ostrom et al., 2010; Brown, 2009; Vargo & Lusch, 2004, 2006, 2008a, 2008b). However, it seems to be absent from research robust validation methodologies. This article describes an empirically developed methodology for validation of design thinking Ideas(R) Evolution methodology applied to a User Centered Open Innovation Program for a more efficient behavior consumption of home energy. This program was developed …

Energy And Emotions: Transdisciplinary Design Education For Resource Conservation, Tatu Marttila, Karthikeya Archarya, Lutz Gegner, Till Bovermann

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In our contemporary world we are using resources extensively to the point of their depletion. The call for more sustainable ways of living is louder than ever before, asking for a better awareness of the flows of resources and energy. This paper looks into existing design perspectives towards energy use in our daily living. By exploring relevant literature in social sciences and in design, and earlier research related to energy use, we identify a need to connect the design for conservation more strongly with human emotions and their relations in the social realm, and thus iterate the systems collaboratively in …

Digital Gardens With Real Toads In Them: The Place Of Heritage Media In A Digital Art And Design Education, Iain Macdonald

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At a time when digital media is regarded as orthodoxy in education, in advanced global economies there is a pressing argument to review the lessons of the past and reflect on whether they are still applicable. This paper will enquire into today’s issues with digital practices in art and design education using relevant, historical examples from the main changes in approach of the last century. It will also explain how the changes of approach to art and design education has affected the choice of materials, the stress on different skills and the values of different creative arts within the subject. …

Creativity In The Subject Art And Crafts: The Weak Link Between Learning And Assessment, Eva Lutnæs

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This paper explores the assessment of creativity in the Norwegian school subject Art and Crafts. Creativity, or its sibling, originality is frequently used as an assessment criterion in assignments given to pupils at the level of lower secondary education. Written assessment criteria contribute to the public face of the subject, revealing core values to pupils, parents, headmasters and politicians. I have studied the assessment repertoire of teachers when negotiating final grades and legitimising their assessment practice in interviews.The teachers struggle to find words to describe what makes pupils’ design creative or original. Creativity seems to be something that just happens …

Art And Design Schools In Transition: The Uncertain Future Of The Workshop Model, Martin Egge Lundell

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Recent reforms in higher education promote standardization and comparability. However, the academic disciplines set the standard that the art and design schools are expected to adapt to. This new and more theoretical approach can come in direct conflict with the traditional way of teaching at the art and design schools. These schools have traditionally been teaching in accordance with a workshop-oriented method, where theory is more related to and part of practice than in the academic sphere.

Rethinking Pedagogy For Iterative Design Process Learning And Teaching, Jennifer Loy, Samuel Canning

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Product Design as an academic discipline is a relative newcomer to higher education. As a result it has had to adapt to the teaching practices and organisation already in place in Universities. However, with the viability of the current business model of higher education under threat from economic pressures, the dominance of established practice could conceivably be challenged, suggesting the time is right for a review of Product Design education as it operates within academia. Product Design educators need to focus on developing an innovative, practical approach to the organisation of learning based on sound design practice-based principles and provide …

Normal Creativity: What 1,038 T-Shirts Can Tell You About Design Education, Peter Lloyd, Derek Jones

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The study of creativity in design has tended to emphasise its value, scarcity, and location in the individual designer rather than in choices made by a consuming public in the context of a wider culture. This paper, in presenting and developing a view of creativity in design as a normal concept, will present initial results from a study of 1038 student design assignments obtained from a distance-learning course in Design Thinking from The Open University in the UK. We show how ‘normal’ distributions of design outputs can be contived from a structured design process and argue that the creativity that …

A Preliminary Study On Time Management In Undergraduate Industrial Design Students, Li-Hwa Lin, Wenzhi Chen

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Time management is one of the most important factors affecting the learning process and outcome. The purpose of this study aims to explore the time management behaviors and attitudes of undergraduate industrial design students. The study applied a time management questionnaire to 646 students, ranging from sophomores to seniors, from seven universities in Taiwan. The findings are summarized as follows: 1) Most students recognize the importance and effectiveness of time management. 2) Most students are dissatisfied with the time management and methods used. 3) Female students have better planning and control of time than male students. 4) Degree of time …

Tell It With Colours: Case Study Of Multidisciplinary Educational Program For Non-Designer, Mari-Ann Letnes, Ingvild Olsen Olaussen

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The aim of this paper is to identify qualities associated with pupils' interactions with aesthetic learning processes when creating multimodal texts. The study addressed the following research question: How do pupils experience and interact with the appearance of aesthetic elements when they create multimodal expression? The topic chosen is associated with an interest in children’s encounters with art and developing an understanding that will assist practitioners who work with creative processes in their daily activities to take part in teaching in schools. This facilitates the expression of creativity as well as innovation and the development of the pupils’ sensibility with …

From Bauhaus To Desis: Exploring Solution-Focused Methodology For Social Design Education, Yanki C. Lee, Denny K L Ho

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What are the social responsibilities of design schools? In order to explore this question, we employed action research methodology. Through our on-going collaborations with different design schools, our main research goal is to investigate the social role of designers and further of design schools and the design education system as a whole. ‘Ageing in place’, the overarching concept for these labs, was to enable participants to experience and question how the life-course approach to ageing could inspire new community design processes. So far, we have engaged different types of design schools and in this paper, we reflect on one of …

Designing Teaching—Teaching Designing: Teacher’S Guidance In A Virtual Design Studio, Henna Lahti, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen

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This study examined pedagogical aspects of virtual designing. It focused on how an industrial design teacher organized a plastic product design course and how the teacher guided student teams’ design processes in a virtual design studio. The model of Learning by Collaborative Designing was used as a pedagogical and analytical framework. The study employed qualitative content analysis of the teacher’s notes posted to the Moodle database. The results indicated that teaching exhibited three characteristic emphases: problem driven, solution driven and procedural driven. The main part of the teacher’s notes was solution driven statements, including new information, design ideas and evaluating …

An Effect Of Multidisciplinary Design Education: Creative Problem Solving In Collaborative Design Process, Da Eun Kwon, Sun Hee Jang

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This study verified whether the students who received multidisciplinary education can be considered to have attained more creative problem-solving abilities than the students who majored only in design, based on their completion of a project after teaming with students from various other departments. When it is heterogeneous and in the in-depth discussion stage, the EMT (heterogeneous teams, including multidisciplinary design major) produced more creative output than the EDT (heterogeneous team, including design-only major) as a result of an experiment. Therefore we compared the creative process of the EDT and the EMT in the in-depth discussion stage of the heterogeneous groups …

Colour And Light In Design - Levels Of Experiencing Colour And Light, Ulf Klarén, Harald Arnkil, Karin Fridell Anter

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In our designed culture, every environment, object and picture is analyzed from the viewpoint of colour and light. Colour and light play an important role in social life and culture. This paper springs from an epistemological project about concept formation in the field of colour and light. Based on own observations and scientific and scholarly references it presents a graphic model describing possible constituent relations between colour and light experiences. Design is the art of using knowledge – implicit or explicit – about how humans perceive, experience, and relate to the world around. In design all senses are involved, but …

Classroom Architect: Integrating Design Thinking And Math, Jain Kim, Swee Hong David Kwek, Colin Meltzer, Pilar Wong

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Classroom Architect is a project-based curriculum that uses the principles of design thinking to review mathematical concepts, such as measurement, scale and area. The anchor task in this curriculum is to create a 3-D virtual model of the ideal classroom, based on the data the students collect. The curriculum uses design thinking as leverage to help students transfer classroom knowledge to real world problem-solving situations. Specifically, the students go through design thinking process -- user needs discovery, ideation, prototype and redesign. In each step of the process different mathematical concepts are reviewed and reinforced through their application to the task. …

Knowledge Generation In Doctoral Design Education, Martina Maria Keitsch

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Knowledge generation in doctoral design education and its endeavour to meet a variety of interdisciplinary issues from engineering to aesthetics, sustainability and stakeholder requirements can be labelled with what Rittel and Webber called a “wicked problem” [1]. The following article reflects on conditions, methods and challenges to combine design theory and design research practice on a doctoral level. The study case for these reflections is the PhD course, PD 8300: “Topics in design research” at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The course introduces among others a disciplinary architecture for industrial design and three theory of science philosophies related …