Reciprocity
When two people interact, give and take, send and receive both ways, reciprocity emerges. Reciprocity requires a certain amount of trust to be established, creating a flow in which both human beings in a rhythm with each other, connect and exchange. Reciprocity is fundamental for sustainable relations, for shared knowledge environments, for communities of practice.
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Participatory Systems
Faced with ecological crisis, climate crisis, a financial crisis and an urban civic crisis in which…
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Living Together
Information- and communication technology offers new possibilities to connect. The opportunity to…
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Notion of ‘presence’
Developments in the four companies appear to show that at least some employees (non-managers…
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‘What a thrill it is to be here!’
‘What a thrill it is to be here!’ Margaret Atwood exclaimed as she addressed the audience of the…
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Recognition beyond recognition
Globalisation transformed Western conceptions of witnessing and bearing witness to gross violations…
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Who, then, is the actual witness?
Western authors walk a thin line. De facto, collaborative undertakings such as ‘Breaking the…
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From oppression to repression: creating hybrid witnessing
Could ‘silence’, as mentioned in the two projects, be rather a reference to the concept of ‘culture…
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Fuzziness over roles and personal life
Managers start to identify with their (harsh) strategies, and blur the boundary between the…
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Reinforcing change
The third stage refers to the development of new strategies: managers starting to emphasise higher
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Concept of presence
Following the literature, these characteristics (as names or data concerning a certain type of…
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Well-being: intra- and interpersonal synchrony
William Condon proposed that being able to entrain in time with another person facilitates physical…
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Rhythm and culture
George Leonard (1981) writes about identity as being ‘the stable, persistent, unique quality that…
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Rhythm in language and music
The rhythmic coupling in Body Moves seems to be akin to music performance. In a choir, for example
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Patterns of synchrony and rhythm
The interest in relating prosody (the patterns of vocalization) to body movement arose from the…
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Sensing between self and other
We know that the probability and speed of response in communication vary with it being mediated or…