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Vibrant Ecologies of Research
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Ground Works Call for Proposals: Special Edition on Community-Partnered Research/Inquiry
This Ground Works special edition, Creating Knowledge in Common, centers university-community partnered creative inquiry. The editors define creative inquiry as shared, open frameworks of knowl...
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Join Livestreamed Panel Discussion of the Reco(r)ding CripTech Project
Please join us for a free and open-to-the-public livestream of the panel discussion “Reco(r)ding CripTech: a Ground Works project documenting collaborative creative process” on Friday, November 4, ...
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Ground Works Launches First Special Collection
a2ru Ground Works launched its first special collection, Vibrant Ecologies of Research, on August 4, 2022. The collection explores guest Editor Aaron D. Knochel’s question "What are the elements ...
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Realm of the Dead (“Realm”) is a mixed-media installation performance where the installation can also be given separately as an art exhibit. A blend of social work and arts research, Realm incorporates practice-led, engagement, and design research – visual and performance art practi...
Realm of the Dead: A Mixed-Media Installation Performance
Rogério Meireles Pinto
“Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork” was a two-year research project that explored the construction of identity through the act of singing. The heart of the project was a six-month laboratory period in which the three of us worked closely together, on a full-time basis, as skilled perfo...
Judaica: An Embodied Laboratory for Songwork
Ben Spatz, Nazlıhan Eda Erçin, and Agnieszka Mendel
Borrowing the Spanish word for “dinner,” CENAS is a transdisciplinary working group of scholars and artists developing, implementing and evaluating innovative approaches to healthy eating at the individual and community level, with arts practices at its center. Since 2012, CENAS has been involve...
Cultural Engagements in Nutrition, Arts and Sciences (CENAS)
Tamara Underiner, Stephani Etheridge Woodson, Robert Karimi, and Seline Szkupinski Quiroga
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Reviewer commentary on Choreografish: an arts-based, virtual reality, anxiety intervention for autism
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Cripping Media Art Ecologies
Lindsey D. Felt and Vanessa Chang
By remaking the creative design cycle through an accessibility and disability justice lens, Leonardo CripTech Incubator scaffolds new forms of artistic access. Bringing a disability justice lens to art-and-technology research practice and to this incubator’s design, we position ourselves as facilitators in this vibrant ecology, calling up other critical voices in this process.
August 2022 · 10.48807/2022.1.0011 · CC-BY-NC-SA
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