Considering the issues faced by education during the pandemic, the need for design programmes to synchronise with the industry is rather essential. The disconnect between design students' studio practice during the pandemic has aggravated the situation further, considering that the most appointed defect of design programmes is their low involvement with the industry in multidisciplinary projects. What benefits for design students and Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to participate in industry-led projects?
Our collaborative work started in 2019 on the pretext of being part of the organizing committee of the Performance Studies international (PSi) annual conference scheduled for the following year. Under the banner of ‘Crises of Care: Act, respond, engage’, the 2020 conference would bring together various ‘streams’ or sub-conferences that proposed an in-depth focus on a particular theme and corresponding way of working. The four of us (together with Rayya El Zein) proposed a stream titled ‘Ends’.
The piece examines the status of digital performance as a type of peripeteia of contemporary theatre. Using Aristotle’s famous term describing a narrative fork in the road, a sudden plot twist or a fall from grace, it argues that digital technologies have exerted similarly seismic twists and turns in the directions and aesthetics of contemporary theatre productions. Technologies have always been heralded and celebrated, and feared and despised in equal measure, from the Luddites to contemporary digital naysayers, and the same is found to be true for performance practitioners.
The chapter celebrates the histories of radical artistic manifestos and offers a version for the author’s own theatre company, The Chameleons Group (since 1994). The company takes Antonin Artaud’s ideas into multimedia realms, and expands his metaphor of The Theatre and its Double (1938) into new live and virtual performance incarnations.
This report describes the authors’ research project ‘Telepresence Stage’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) ‘COVID-19 Rapid Response’ scheme. The project aims to develop effective and affordable new approaches to connect performers from their separate homes and place them within virtual sets online where they can rehearse and perform together.
The recent attention towards cultural preservation and heritage studies has positioned design to redefine cultural experiences in the contemporary context. Against this backdrop, design is marked by an ability to transform and revitalise cultural practices to change and alter perceptions, generate and disseminate knowledge, and create new value through the curation of experience.
Quality education and lifelong learning is highly valued in Singapore. With improved disability support for learners with special educational needs and disabilities, increasing numbers complete their secondary schooling and wish to continue into post-secondary education. Countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States of America (USA) have a more extended history of legislation to protect the rights of people with disabilities, inclusive education at tertiary level and a more extensive research base.
This case study draws on the original doctoral thesis entitled, “Learners With Special Educational Needs Reflecting on Their First Year at University.” The study of the historical background, recent developments, and issues of concern was a collective case study of special needs students studying at Singapore universities.
While conducting research for my doctoral thesis entitled “Learners With Special Educational Needs Reflecting on Their First Year at University,”I explored the historical background, recent developments, and issues of concern for students with special educational needs and disabilities studying at university in Singapore. Documentary evidence included the collection of historical and present-day local policy documents, parliamentary debates taken from Hansard (the traditional name given to transcriptions of parliamentary debates), and information from university websites.
Many countries keep official records of parliamentary debates. In the UK, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Singapore, these transcriptions are referred to as Hansard, providing a rich resource for researchers exploring the historical and contextual background of governmental policy and legislation. This case study draws on the original doctoral thesis exploring the experiences and issues of concern of students with special educational needs and disabilities reflecting on their first year at university in Singapore.