Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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The Internet and mediated presence
The transcendence of time and place has been a human drive for centuries. Inventions of script
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Exploring Witnessed Presence (methodology)
The qualitative exploratory study āWitnessed Presence and Systems Engineeringā presented in thisā¦
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New social structures are emerging
Individuals are discovering beneficial ways to use technology, incorporating technology into theirā¦
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The Slow Dance
What impact does the designer-commissioner relationship has on the outcome of the design? What areā¦
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Being Anotherās Witness
How does a designer look at the work of his or her fellow colleagues? What are the issues ofā¦
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Facing Decisions
Precisely how does the designer make his/her decisions in the process of design; what leads him orā¦
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The end of the world
How to imagine the end of the world? Where the land ends and the seas continue, where the weatherā¦
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Witnessing the āSelfā
Self-witnessing is vital to human social interaction. So what happens when a designer fails toā¦
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The Trio
Is the presence of the manufacturer complicating the existing designer-commissioner relationship?
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Crossing Paths
What happens when the slow dance takes on an interesting switch? When the designer dances the stepsā¦
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Multiple Identities
What is a designer? What is the public notion of this group of professionals whose presence isā¦
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How do you compose a moment in which time itself is shared?
How can music bring people together for something more than a fleeting, aesthetic experience? Howā¦
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Professionalism means efficiency.
When contact between people takes place on a professional level it is very purposeful. But itā¦
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As soon as the applause has dyed away, the musicians disappear into the dressing rooms.
Similarly, the audience instantly disintegrates. Some people go home directly, others are engagedā¦
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Since about a hundred years ago, a concert of classical music has been a solitary experience.
The musicians are often far away, on an elevated stage. Your ticket tells you which seat youāreā¦
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For centuries, music was above all something to do.
A concert was not a passive experience, but an activity. In church or during parties andā¦