This paper introduces the Feral Map, an open online map that brings together different creative practices questioning the dominant extractive, technocentric rendering and legitimising of particular algorithmic futures. Building on its initial development drawn upon open urban tree data, it invites people to explore and engage with their surroundings in creative, unfamiliar ways and share their experiences in the form of stories, using different kinds of media, sensory impressions, and personal expressions. These stories can be offered to existing places and local “creatures” (such as animals, ambiences, and glitches) or become new creatures on their own, emphasising mattering and entanglements: that change is the only constant in life. Through this, the map obscures the currently available–mostly quantitative–data about a place, and can help to raise questions about power, values, and structural inequalities that shape the place and its future. The Feral Map has been evolving to include such stories and creatures–or messy data–from different creative, practice-based research projects. Our paper presents the theoretical framing of the Feral Map and its design, how it has been transforming along with the involved projects, as well as our learnings from the process and possible future directions.
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Our approach builds on both the design traditions of participatory design and embodiment. We attempt to connect these traditions to the existing body of knowledge on persuasion. First we describe some basic theoretical concepts and infer how they influence persuasive design. Then we present a basic framework with which we intend to address the different abstraction layers involved. Finally, we discuss the principal differences and meeting areas between the disciplines of design and communication, ending up with some considerations for a persuasion toolbox that is intended to help communication professionals and designers effectively design behavior change interventions that fit the messy lives of people in the real world
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Clusters are the magic answer to regional economic development. Firms in clusters are more innovative; cluster policy dominates EU policy; ‘top-sectors’ and excellence are the choice of national policy makers; clusters are ‘in’. But, clusters are complex, clusters are ‘messy’; there is no clear logic and no one agrees to how it can be successful.
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Clusters are the magic answer to regional economic development. Firms in clusters are more innovative; cluster policy dominates EU policy; ‘top-sectors’ and excellence are the choice of national policy makers; clusters are ‘in’. But, clusters are complex, clusters are ‘messy’; there is no clear logic and no one agrees to how it can be successful.
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Methodological challenges are rarely discussed in depth among outdoor adventure tourism scholars. Despite the prevailing qualitative approaches in this field, and the recognition that the fleetingness of the human experience and the non-linearity and unpredictability of the more-than-human world have the power to influence the research process, the messy, negotiated and often contested researcher’s role has been less considered. In addressing this, the aim here is to critically discuss the methodological approach to explorations of the outdoor experiences through deconstructing the researcher’s role. Through renderings of the existentialist propositions of being in the world and a poststructuralist philosophy of fluidity and flux, the attention is granted to embodied experiences as a way of generating knowledges. Being situated in the research setting, space is created for interrogation of the processual dimensions of commodified outdoor journeys from an emic, researcher-as-tourist perspective. Research in the outdoor scenaria is by no means a linear process but rather a messy, complex and often ruptured journey, further complicated by the ethical concerns, struggles and idiosyncrasies of the researcher. I thus discuss the nuances and complexities of doing the embodied research and the haphazard ways of data collection. In shifting attention to more existential aspects of being in the outdoors through the process of post-experiential reflections, discomfort emerged as a critical quality of the outdoor experience. I thus illuminate the significance of embodied research and epiphenomenal discoveries in the production of new knowledges, to which greater attention, both in theoretical and methodological conversations, should be paid in the future.
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A model of work-related learning based on intentionality and developmental relatedness is proposed here. A shift is called for from an educational perspective on work-related learning to a non-educational perspective in which learning is construed as largely implicit and spontaneous. That is, work-related learning can happen both deliberately and spontaneously as direct or indirect result of work-related interactions. Work-related learning often occurs in messy real life situations, is influenced by various power and social relations, and results in individual learning outcomes as well as shared understandings. The proposed model can help HRD professionals better understand how learning and work are interrelated. It can also help such professionals take individual and work characteristics more carefully into consideration.
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Industrial design practice has broadened from designing (mass-)products towards more open, complex, dynamic, and networked design. Organizations are increasingly hire design professionals and turn their attention towards design as an important capability that can help them generate innovation and improve business outcomes. Organizing design beyond organizations is becoming an interdisciplinary collaboration process rather than a design creation process. This has brought change for industrial designers with regards to the design process and the application of methods. By means of process research methods, this study addresses the question ‘how does an industrial design process evolve in a broadening field of design practice?’. Based on theoretical interpretation of an empirical narrative that tells the story of a design project in healthcare, this paper provides understanding in the messy and complex progression in design processes, and unstable and unpredictable dynamics. It works towards a process innovation model that fits contemporary roles for industrial designers who are adapting their ways of working in novel design challenges.
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Boekbespreking, twee boeken: - Gaby Jacobs, Ruud Meij, Hans Tenwolde en Yanaika Zomer (red.), Goed werk. Verkenningen van normatieve professionalisering. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij SWP, 2008, 317 p., € 31,90. ISBN 978 90 6665 898 1 - Wim Claassen, Marjo ten Bergen, Lia Goyaarts, Hielke Bosma, Werken aan zin in werk. Denk- en werkboek voor begeleiding van professionals. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij SWP, 2008, 155 p., € 19,90. ISBN 978 90 6665 897 4
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Keuzes maken in spannende beroepssituaties is niet enkel het volgen van beroepsstandaarden, het uitvoeren van aangeleerde vaardigheden en het nemen van op evidentie gestoelde beslissingen. Het professioneel handelen is ook doorspekt met dieperliggende motivaties. Die motivaties hangen samen met waarden en normen, die voor ieder persoonlijk zijn. Die waarden en normen zijn geen abstracte begrippen, maar verbonden met onze identiteit, onze ziel. De ziel als metafoor voor het innerlijke, het eigene en de inspiratie in het werk. Kortom, professioneel handelen wordt gekleurd door wie we zijn. Reden genoeg om studenten handvatten te geven om wat zich afspeelt onder de motorkap meer toegankelijk te maken.
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Boekbespreking van ´How to do action research for transformations at a time of eco-social crisis´ van auteur Hilary Bradbury. Hilary Bradbury geeft een overzicht van jaren van innovatie binnen hedendaags actieonderzoek en laat zien waar actieonderzoek voor transformaties (ART) op gericht is: op het reageren op klimaatverandering en het bereiken van wereldwijde duurzaamheidsdoelen. Het boek besteedt bijzondere aandacht aan sociale rechtvaardigheid en brengt mens- en sociale wetenschappen samen, waarbij de impact wordt onderzocht die actieonderzoek kan hebben.
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