Autonomy,spontaneity and creativity in research with children. A study of experience and participation,in central Italy and North West England

ABSTRACT

Research involving children, deemed to have difficulties with conventional means of communication, can perpetuate reductive forms of representation of children’s knowledges and experiences. This article focuses on the possibilities and opportunities that visual and creative methods can offer to researching with children. Children advance their views in and through spontaneous and concrete forms of participation. Autonomy in aesthetic acts is central to this methodology; to explore practices that produce and reproduce presuppositions deriving from societal attitudes affecting research with children, their agency and self-presentation. This cross-cultural study was conducted in Central Italy and North West England: children contributed their perspectives and experiences through participation in a series of creative encounters resulting in aesthetic and embodied outcomes of sociological and educational significance. The study contributes to the debate on children’s autonomy and the value and quality of participation through artistic practice. Examples from the corpus of data, which includes a series of artefacts and over 900 photographs from each geo-cultural context, are presented. The study shows that it is possible to harmonise power imbalances in spaces of creative freedom, in research and education, where children’s choices and agency are respected.     

Identity work in female‐led creative businesses

This study explores the identity work carried out by three female owner‐managers in creative industry businesses, identified in Government reports as a discriminatory industrial sector for women in the UK. Through the development of narratives by the owners and other participants, observation of practice and review of online and offline materials, three cases emerged. These showed overlapping, different identities developed and performed through identity work. Each presented rational and logical persona as business leaders despite observation showing extensive use of intuition and gut feeling in both creative and entrepreneurial aspects of the business. Intuition and gut feeling were seen as inappropriate at work as they belonged to the home sphere, emotionally based and therefore automatically unreliable. While occupying male stereotypes and avoiding the female realm of emotion at work, these women expressed femininity through their emphasis on the maternal, ‘being a good mother' as a desired ideal being embedded in work as well as home practice.     

Underground testing: Name-altering practices as probes in electronic music

Name-altering practices are common in many creative fields—pen names in literature, stage names in the performing arts, and aliases in music. More than just reflecting artistic habits or responding to the need for distinctive brands, these practices can also serve as test devices to probe, validate, and guide the artists’ active participation in a cultural movement. At the same time, they constitute a powerful probe to negotiate the boundaries of a subculture, especially when its features are threatened by appropriation from the mass-oriented culture. Drawing evidence from electronic music, a field where name-altering practices proliferate, we outline dynamics of pseudonymity, polyonymy, and anonymity that surround the use of aliases. We argue that name-altering practices are both a tool that artists use to probe the creative environment and a device to recursively put one’s creative participation to the test. In the context of creative subcultures, name-altering practices constitute a subtle but effective form of underground testing.     

论公众环境权的非排他性

非排他性是公众环境权的核心特性。为适应环境权理论的纵深化发展，除了从外部视角审视环境权的属性、内容、定位等特征之外，应当从内部结构对环境权本质特性予以剖析。生态环境具有公共物品属性，导致生态环境治理受到外部性理论与搭便车效应的制约。由于生态环境具有公众共用性，既有的环境权利理论应当接受非排他性与非竞争性两大特征的改造。公众环境权的非排他性体现在主体的不特定性、客体的非拥挤性和内容的共享性等方面。将公众环境权理解为公众对作为公众共用物的生态环境享有的非排他性权利，意味着可从保障权利主体的非排他性与客体的非拥挤性两个面向来实现对公众环境权的保护。     

万寿岩“动漫旅游”文化创意产业发展模式与策略

动漫旅游文化创意产业是促进万寿岩文化宣传、推广、传承、保护的有效方式,产业发展中可借用经验先导性移用发展模式、形式探索性自主发展模式、多产业交融性联动发展模式、地域性同类产业价值链协作整合发展模式进行产业发展规划。应采取万寿岩动漫旅游文化创意产业园区建设、特色动漫形象设计宣传、童话文学与动漫影视作品及影视后产品延伸推广、客家节庆文化活动介入推动等方式推动产业发展。     

大学与创意城市发展共生系统的建构

大学与城市发展关系是教育学、经济学、管理学、社会学等多学科较为关注的共同学术命题.在大学与城市发展过程中两者形成了一种互动共生关系,一方面大学不仅为城市发展提供智力支持,还承担着城市文化的传承与创造,另一方面城市发展不仅为大学提供办学空间、办学资源,还为大学提供广阔的创业就业舞台.同样,大学作为人才集聚场所,不仅承担着人才的培养,而且还承担创意城市发展的历史使命与担当.基于此,从共生背景、共生单元以及共生模式等视角,努力重组大学的学术组织,寻求大学与创意城市发展之间的均衡发展模式,探索并构建大学与创意城市发展的共生系统,从而促进创意城市和谐发展.     

创意时代“困局”中的传统手工艺--以竹编工艺为例

传统工艺是中国传统文化的重要组成部分,而竹编工艺无论从实用价值还是操作工艺上来说,都是传统工艺的典型代表。随着工业化与信息化生产方式的两次转变,传统工艺在自给自足与工业化的生产方式中进入两难的境地。以竹编工艺为例,在分析其生产方式与边缘化原因后,提出了在当代艺术中发掘传统工艺与当代生活的一种新思维。     

创意产业集群知识创造与分配机理研究

在分散管理模式下,由于企业个人理性与知识创造要求的集体理性的矛盾,使得企业参与知识创造积极性和利润水平都受到了一定程度的削弱。为了克服创意产业集群内知识创造过程中的机会主义,将创意产业集群内知识创造进行集成管理。通过采取集成管理,可以有效克服知识创造过程中企业的道德风险,并达到了知识成果产出最大化条件,双方的知识资本投入和利润也都得到了显著提升,从而实现集体理性和个人理性的完美统一。     

重混创作行为的著作权法规制研究

数字时代，重混创作在促进我国文化创意产业发展的同时也引发了许多著作权问题。相应的措施可对重混创作行为进行规制。首先，可以借鉴美国合理使用制度中的“转换性使用”规则对非营利性重混作品进行规制；其次，在重混音乐、视频领域等特定网络空间内引入默示许可机制；最后，对于其他不适合通过合理使用及默示许可进行规制的重混作品，可以用创意共享许可协议加以处理。     

Afterschool programs that support homeless youth: igniting hope and opportunities in the midst of trauma,uncertainty, and displacement

Across the United States, many afterschool and out-of-school time programs are making constructive and lasting impacts on the lives of homeless children and youth by providing expanded learning opportunities and positive youth development outcomes in a safe space. In this brief, we profile two youth-serving organizations and the After School Division of the California Department of Education to illustrate how afterschool programs can be part of the solution for homeless children and youth. Staff from these organizations shared their practices, successes, challenges, and lessons learned. Most importantly, they shared a message of hope and a vision for what is possible in the midst of trauma, uncertainty, and displacement.