An all-day series of talks on the topic of writing for games and other media. The talks cover the basics of character motivations, a solid plot structure that has been used as the basis of multiple commercial projects, and advice for improving scenes and dialogue.
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This is a print publication of the inaugural lecture of Research Professor (Lector) Patricia de Vries at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie, in Amsterdam. In this lecture, she elaborated on the research area of her research group Art & Spatial Praxis. The research group Art & Spatial Praxis focuses on artistic practices that broaden our imaginations of alternative social orders and ways of living within capitalist city structures.The thematic focus of Art & Spatial Praxis builds on Sylvia Wynter’s rich notion of the plot. With her conception of the plot, Wynter connects the historical enclosures of the plantation to today’s cityscapes. The plot stands for other possibilities that are always present. It represents possibilities rooted in different values and different social orders. This is to say, cityscapes and public spaces are relational, contingent and always contested. The plot challenges the forces of domination, appropriation, exploitation, commodification, gentrification, segregation, digitization, and quantification.What if plot work is a praxis that is socially enacted, embodied, narrativised, and materialised in art practices? What could the plot as artistic praxis be(come)? What constitutes it? What conditions and sustains it? What kind of behaviour, ways of seeing, knowing, and relating does it encourage? In short: what does the plot mean as a spatial art praxis in today’s cityscapes? These are some of the questions the research group Art & Spatial Praxis engages with. These are also pressing questions in the increasingly regulated, privatized, surveilled, and diminished public spaces in ever-more neoliberal cities.Over the years, De Vries has written on a range of topics – be it on fungal co-existence or facial recognition technology: the relationship between society, art, design and research is always the connecting thread.
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We report research into the evolvement of a hybrid learning environment where education, companies and government successfully cooperate. This hybrid learning environment—one of the latest inventions in curriculum design—is special because it was neither intended nor planned by the parties involved. With some self-astonishment, the participants in this research experienced a growing acknowledgement of their emerging educational creation, aside from the experience of and appreciation for their cooperation and the increasing turnover. With a bricolage research approach within the scope of a rhizomatic perspective on becoming, a multivocal perspective on the evolvement of the learning environment was pursued. In emphasizing the historical evolvement of the learning environment, our findings challenge the tradition of drawing board design, accompanied by an appeal for re-appreciating professional craftsmanship. In addition, some reflections regarding the research are discussed.
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Inset plots can be used to “zoom in” on densely populated areas of a graph or to add extra relevant data in the form of, for example, distribution plots. However, the standard Stata command for combining plots, graph combine, does not permit this type of seamless integration. Each plot within a graph combine object is allocated a grid cell that cannot be placed within another grid cell— at least not without certain (invariably unwanted) graphical complications. We present a fairly simple work-around to this issue using reproducible examples. The main idea is to plot insets along a second axis and then artificially modify the range of this axis to constrain the inset plot within a specified area of the main graph. Additional tips are included for producing more intricate, multilayered inset graphs.
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From the article: The ‘Axiomatic Design Methodology’ uses ‘Axioms’ that cannot be proven nor derived from physical phenomena. The axioms serve as guidelines for the design process of products and systems. The latest contribution was the addition of the ‘Complexity Axiom’ in 1999. However, the underlying theory of complexity did not get much traction by designers and their managers yet. It emphasises difficulties in the design, not primarily focussing on solutions. The ‘Theory of Complexity’ is converted to a ‘Theory of Maturity’ in this paper. It is supported with a graphical way to plot maturity as it develops. It visualises the results in a way that can be understood by all entities in a company, engineers, managers, and executives. Understanding the maturity of a system enables selection of the right measures to control it. Visualisation enables communication between the interacting parties. If successful development trajectories are understood, eventually from earlier experience, even better corrective actions can be applied. The method appears an affirmative way to graphically represent progression in design, thus presenting advances in a positive context. Though positively presented, it is not the case that the method hides problems; presumed and legitimate project progression can be quite different, which challenges the designer to understand the process. In this way, the method sends out a continuous warning to stay critical on design choices made.
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Blockchains draw everything they touch into a market logic. Is resistance possible?Activist and artistic engagements with blockchain technology point to (at least) threedifferent sets of tactics that aim to subvert this affordance of the technology. The firstis part of an accellerationist logic: riding the waves of capital until capitalism finallycrashes, funding alternative values with whatever profit was accrued while it lasted.The second are part of prefigurative politics: building alternative blockchain systems,often in the form of decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, that perform adifferent kind of politics and social organization, for example cooperativism or self-organized art funding. Then, there are those that explore how blockchain’s logics canbe subverted to make space for different ways of relating in non-financial and more-than-human ways. In this short essay I would like to focus on this third tactic, and toexplore what it might mean, I've been inspired by Patricia de Vries’ take on “plot workas an artistic praxis” (2022) that builds on decolonial theorist Sylvia Wynter describedas “the plot system” that represented small, imperfect corners of relative self-deter-mination within the larger context of colonial plantations (Wynter 1971, 96). De Vriesasks how artistic work, implicated as it is in institutional and capitalist logics, can per-form plot work to create space for relating outside of those logics. But before I adressthis question, it is important to understand what Wynter understands as the logic ofthe plantation.
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Objective. There are no Dutch language disease-specific questionnaires for patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome available that could help Dutch physiotherapists to assess and monitor these symptoms and functional limitations. The aim of this study was to translate the original disease-specific Kujala Patellofemoral Score into Dutch and evaluate its reliability. Methods. The questionnaire was translated from English into Dutch in accordance with internationally recommended guidelines. Reliability was determined in 50 stable subjects with an interval of 1 week. The patient inclusion criteria were age between 14 and 60 years; knowledge of the Dutch language; and the presence of at least three of the following symptoms: pain while taking the stairs, pain when squatting, pain when running, pain when cycling, pain when sitting with knees flexed for a prolonged period, grinding of the patella and a positive clinical patella test. The internal consistency, test–retest reliability, measurement error and limits of agreement were calculated. Results. Internal consistency was 0.78 for the first assessment and 0.80 for the second assessment. The intraclass correlation coefficient (ICCagreement) between the first and second assessments was 0.98. The mean difference between the first and second measurements was 0.64, and standard deviation was 5.51. The standard error measurement was 3.9, and the smallest detectable change was 11. The Bland and Altman plot shows that the limits of agreement are 10.37 and 11.65. Conclusions. The results of the present study indicated that the test–retest reliability translated Dutch version of the Kujala Patellofemoral Score questionnaire is equivalent of the test– retest original English language version and has good internal consistency. Trial registration NTR (TC = 3258). Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Dit lesmateriaal heeft tot doel de leerlingen meer bewust te maken van nut en noodzaak van biodiversiteit en zetten aan tot systeemdenken. Dit op onze schoolterreinen, in productiesystemen en in het stedelijk gebied. Leerlingen gaan deels zelf aan de slag met opdrachten binnen en buiten het schoollokaal. Het schoolterrein is hun onderzoeksgebied. Deze lessenserie heeft Leren voor Duurzame ontwikkeling (LvDO) en de Whole School Approach (WSA) als uitgangspunt voor het gebruikte didactisch model. Onderzoekend leren wordt gestimuleerd, alsmede eigen handelingsperspectief versterkt. Deze lessen zijn van toepassing in lessen Groene Productie (profielmodule 1) en Vergroening Stedelijke Omgeving (profielmodule 3), als PGP project, maar ook zijn ze zeer geschikt voor de lessen biologie (ecologie). Tevens sluit dit thema aan op diverse keuzevakken binnen het vmbo. Aanvullende trefwoorden: vegetatie, bodemdieren, nachtvlinders, inventarisatie, monitoring, onderzoekend leren, biodiversiteit, ecosysteemdiensten, biologie/ecologie, Whole School Approach (WSA), Leren voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (LvDO), vmbo onderbouw, vmbo bovenbouw. Deze uitgave is tot stand gekomen in samenwerking met “Lectoraat Ecologisch Wijs, Insecten en Maatschappij” (NIOO) en Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen en de Vlinderstichting. Voor meer informatie en deelname aan het project kunt u contact opnemen met Marlies Beukenkamp via rewilding@aeres.nl. Bijbehorend docentenhandleiding: Rewilding docentenhandleiding VMBO bovenbouw Het bijbehorende lesmateriaal onderbouw: Biodiversiteit VMBO onderbouw.
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Het gaat al enkele jaren wereldwijd steeds slechter met bijen en vlinders. Nederland is hierop geen uitzondering. Door versnippering, habitatverlies, het gebruik van pesticiden en het toepassen van monoculturen worden deze groepen steeds verder in het nauw gedreven. Met name bijen zijn van groot belang voor de bestuiving van onze gewassen. Een toenemend deel van de samenleving begint meer bewust te worden van het feit dat er ingegrepen moet worden. Op het symposium “Limburgers bijeen voor bijen” is door verschillende organisaties besloten om samen te gaan werken ten behoeve van bijenpopulaties in Limburg en omstreken. Een van de meewerkende organisaties is attractiepark Toverland, te Sevenum. Toverland heeft een van haar themagebieden, de bloemrijk ingerichte Magische Vallei, beschikbaar gesteld voor een inventarisatie van de diversiteit aan bijen en vlinders. Door het park eens per week te bezoeken, waarbij alle bloeiende beplanting afgezocht werd op de aanwezigheid van bijen, het gebruik van malaisevallen, het lopen van een vlinderroute en het bijhouden van losse vlinderwaarnemingen, is geprobeerd de huidige natuurwaarden inzichtelijk te maken.
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Dit lesmateriaal heeft tot doel de leerlingen meer bewust te maken van nut en noodzaak van biodiversiteit en zetten aan tot systeemdenken. Dit op onze schoolterreinen, in productiesystemen en in het stedelijk gebied. Leerlingen gaan deels zelf aan de slag met opdrachten binnen en buiten het schoollokaal. Het schoolterrein is hun onderzoeksgebied. Deze lessenserie heeft Leren voor Duurzame ontwikkeling (LvDO) en de Whole School Approach (WSA) als uitgangspunt voor het gebruikte didactisch model. Onderzoekend leren wordt gestimuleerd, alsmede eigen handelingsperspectief versterkt. Deze lessen zijn van toepassing in lessen Groene Productie (profielmodule 1) en Vergroening Stedelijke Omgeving (profielmodule 3), als PGP project, maar ook zijn ze zeer geschikt voor de lessen biologie (ecologie). Tevens sluit dit thema aan op diverse keuzevakken binnen het vmbo. Aanvullende trefwoorden: vegetatie, bodemdieren, nachtvlinders, inventarisatie, monitoring, onderzoekend leren, biodiversiteit, ecosysteemdiensten, biologie/ecologie, Whole School Approach (WSA), Leren voor Duurzame Ontwikkeling (LvDO), vmbo onderbouw, vmbo bovenbouw. Deze uitgave is tot stand gekomen in samenwerking met “Lectoraat Ecologisch Wijs, Insecten en Maatschappij” (NIOO) en Aeres Hogeschool Wageningen en de Vlinderstichting. Voor meer informatie en deelname aan het project kunt u contactop nemen met Marlies Beukenkamp via rewilding@aeres.nl. Bijbehorend lesmateriaal leerlingen: Rewilding leerlingmateriaal VMBO bovenbouw. Het bijbehorende lesmateriaal onderbouw: Biodiversiteit VMBO onderbouw.
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