In many learning spaces in higher professional education, students are required to do research. At the same time they, and many of their tutors, struggle with the doubt, the uncertainty and even the anxiety that often accompanies the research process. Research shows that uncertainty and safety (‘safe uncertainty’) play an important role in students’ experiences of the research process. In order to study this and to answer the question ‘how to cope with uncertainty during the research process?’, we have designed a tool called ‘research mapping’. In a workshop setting, research mapping visualizes first the research process and, secondly, the elements of safe uncertainty within. Subsequently, dialogue between the participants produces generalized insights in the research process and in the role of safe uncertainty in that process. Next to the benefits for students and tutors, also the learning space of doing research can be improved.
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Depression is a highly prevalent and seriously impairing disorder. Evidence suggests that music therapy can decrease depression, though the music therapy that is offered is often not clearly described in studies. The purpose of this study was to develop an improvisational music therapy intervention based on insights from theory, evidence and clinical practice for young adults with depressive symptoms. The Intervention Mapping method was used and resulted in (1) a model to explain how emotion dysregulation may affect depressive symptoms using the Component Process Model (CPM) as a theoretical framework; (2) a model to clarify as to how improvisational music therapy may change depressive symptoms using synchronisation and emotional resonance; (3) a prototype Emotion-regulating Improvisational Music Therapy for Preventing Depressive symptoms (EIMT-PD); (4) a ten-session improvisational music therapy manual aimed at improving emotion regulation and reducing depressive symptoms; (5) a program implementation plan; and (6) a summary of a multiple baseline study protocol to evaluate the effectiveness and principles of EIMT-PD. EIMT-PD, using synchronisation and emotional resonance may be a promising music therapy to improve emotion regulation and, in line with our expectations, reduce depressive symptoms. More research is needed to assess its effectiveness and principles.
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This article discusses Deep Mapping in Geography teaching and learning by drawing on a case study of a summer school organised during the COVID-19 pandemic. Deep Mapping was used to foster deep learning among the students and teach them about a distant place and people. The exercise tasked the students to work on the creation of layered maps representing the fieldwork site, the city of Vancouver, Canada. Critical student reflections about the Deep Mapping process are used to address some of the benefits and challenges. The Deep Mapping exercise stimulated the students to critically engage with the diverse summer school materials, move beyond a superficial view of the city, maps and mapping, and reflect on their positionality. The method is promising in light of making deep engagement with other places more accessible to those who might not have or be inclined to access such international educational experience and also offers another opportunity for blended learning. In conclusion, we argue that Deep Mapping offers a timely and highly engaging approach to learn about a place and people from another part of the world – be it on location or at a distance.
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Augmented Reality (AR) technologie is een vorm van mens-computer interactie waar de natuurlijke visuele waarneming van de mens wordt aangevuld met computer-gegenereerde informatie, zoals virtuele 3D modellen, aanwijzingen en teksten. Binnen het MKB in de maakindustrie is er grote interesse voor AR. Diverse maakbedrijven zijn geïnteresseerd in de mogelijkheden om met AR hun medewerkers te ondersteunen en/of te trainen en daarmee hun assemblageprocessen efficiënter uit te voeren, met een hogere kwaliteit en op een veilige manier. In dit project willen we het MKB ondersteunen met onderzoek naar mogelijkheden om AR in te zetten in assemblageprocessen. De technische mogelijkheden van AR ontwikkelen zich snel. Er zijn echter de nodige vragen bij de managers van MKB bedrijven: wat zijn huidige en toekomstige mogelijkheden van AR in de assemblage van producten? Wat betekent dit voor de inrichting en organisatie van de assemblage? Hoe ervaren werknemers ondersteuning met AR? In dit RAAK project zal met vijf inhoudelijke werkpakketten antwoord gegeven worden op deze vragen. Resultaten van het project zijn: (i) een aanpak voor het identificeren van kansen van AR in huidige assemblagesituaties, (ii) een aanpak voor het specificeren van een werkplek (of takenpakket) en de benodigde AR-ondersteuning, (iii) ontwerpprincipes (interface-richtlijnen) voor de ontwikkeling van AR-ondersteuning van medewerkers, (iv) een aantal demonstrators (3 of meer) die het ontwikkelen en gebruik van AR in de assemblage illustreren en (v) een (strategische) Roadmapping Methodologie voor het ontwikkelen van AR ondersteunde assemblage binnen een bedrijf. Hiermee wordt duidelijk hoe keuzes in de markt, de inrichting, de besturing en de organisatie van een bedrijf samenhangen met de keuze voor AR-technologie in de assemblage. De resultaten van het project zullen gebruikt worden door de bedrijfspartners in het project en breder uitgezet worden via de netwerken van de verschillende partners in het project. Resultaten zullen ook worden gebruikt in HBO-onderwijs en onderzoek. Het project sluit aan bij diverse initiatieven op het gebied van Smart Industry.
Within the framework of resource efficiency it is important to recycle and reusematerials, replace fossil fuel based products with bio-based alternatives and avoidthe use of toxic substances. New applications are being sought for locally grownbiomass. In the area of Groningen buildings need reinforcement to guarantee safetyfor its users, due to man-induced earthquakes. Plans are to combine the workneeded for reinforcement with the improvement of energy performance of thesebuildings. The idea is to use bio-based building materials, preferably grown andprocessed in the region.In this study it is investigated whether it is feasible to use Typha (a swap plant) as abasis for a bio-based insulation product. In order to start the activities necessary tofurther develop this idea into a commercial product and start a dedicated company,a number of important questions have to be answered in terms of feasibility. Thisstudy therefore aims at mapping economic, organisational and technical issues andassociated risks and possibilities. On the basis of these results a developmenttrajectory can be started to set up a dedicated supply chain with the appropriatepartners, research projects can be designed to develop the missing knowledge andthe required funding can be acquired.
Society continues to place an exaggerated emphasis on women's skins, judging the value of lives lived within, by the colour and condition of these surfaces. This artistic research will explore how the skin of a painting might unpack this site of judgement, highlight its objectification, and offer women alternative visualizations of their own sense of embodiment. This speculative renovation of traditional concepts of portrayal will explore how painting, as an aesthetic body whose material skin is both its surface and its inner content (its representations) can help us imagine our portrayal in a different way, focusing, not on what we look like to others, but on how we sense, touch, and experience. How might we visualise skin from its ghostly inner side? This feminist enquiry will unfold alongside archival research on The Ten Largest (1906-07), a painting series by Swedish Modernist Hilma af Klint. Initial findings suggest the artist was mapping traditional clothing designs into a spectral, painterly idea of a body in time. Fundamental methods research, and access to newly available Af Klint archives, will expand upon these roots in maps and women’s craft practices and explore them as political acts, linked to Swedish Life Reform, and knowingly sidestepping a non-inclusive art history. Blending archival study with a contemporary practice informed by eco-feminism is an approach to artistic research that re-vivifies an historical paradigm that seems remote today, but which may offer a new understanding of the past that allows us to also re-think our present. This mutuality, and Af Klint’s rhizomatic approach to image-making, will therefore also inform the pedagogical development of a Methods Research programme, as part of this post-doc. This will extend across MA and PhD study, and be further enriched by pedagogy research at Cal-Arts, Los Angeles, and Konstfack, Stockholm.
