http://hdl.handle.net/2173/644 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:30:55 GMT 2013-06-18T07:30:55Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97021 Title: Art, health and well-being Authors: Haley, David; Senior, Peter Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97021 2007-07-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97019 Title: The limits of sustainability: the art of ecology Authors: Haley, David Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97019 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97017 Title: Arts in ecology: questions of foresight Authors: Haley, David Abstract: First, to reflect upon the title, ‘Music and Arts in Action’. We might, for certain purposes, consider a coming together of art forms and disciplines. Not the crossovers, mergers and interdisciplinary dialectical fusions we are familiar with, but a convergence or, as the biochemist E. O. Wilson (1999) termed it, a ‘consilience’, a leaping together of different knowledge. Perhaps this is akin to the Nobel physicist David Bohm’s ‘Dialogue – A proposal’ (Bohm, et al, 1991), in which processes, forms and structures synthesise as a creative act? And so we move from the co-joining action of the word ‘and’ to the dynamic agency of ‘in’. Here we may find meaning in ‘…in Action’, the act, or intervention that provokes and evokes a new culture, or a new society, perhaps as the artist Joseph Beuys (1990) aimed for in his concept of ‘Social Sculpture’. Furthermore, that notion of dynamism embedded in ‘in Action’ introduces the ideas of movement, change and transformation – from one place to another, from one time to another, or from one state of being to another. ‘Far from equilibrium’ (Prigogne and Stengers, 1984), this relational interdependence may be understood as that embodied by whole systems ecology, or the process, pattern and structure of Music and Arts. Here and now is where this paper starts, by considering the ways in which this dialogue with and between Music and Arts might, in Action, create questions of foresight and ‘ennobling questions’ (Haley, 2008) that may contribute to many futures becoming. The key message is that environmental, social and cultural sustainability require creative, imaginative and positive approaches, and that the arts can contribute to these. Description: Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published following peer-review in Music and Arts in Action, published by and copyright University of Exeter, Department of Sociology & Philosophy. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/97017 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/2173/89135 Title: Organisation to decoration Authors: Brooker, Graeme Abstract: Interiors is a slippery discipline. Among all designed artefacts, interiors themselves are uniquely ephemeral and hard to define. The practice of interiors is relatively unregulated. The history of interiors is patchy and contested. The theoretical basis of interiors is largely unexplored in comparison to those of other disciplines. How, therefore, might we speculate about the role, validity and purpose of interiors in the 21st century? Thinking inside the box is a reader designed to help students, academics, thinkers and practitioners of interiors do just that. Thinking inside the box is a collection of essays by prominent thinkers in the field of interiors, from Mark Taylor, co-author of ‘Intimus’ to Shashi Caan, the practitioner, and former head of interiors at Parsons, the new School of Design in New York. They address themes ranging from cushions, curtains, and feminism to the relationship between the interior and the enclave in the contemporary age of terror; from the regulation of the profession of interiors to the representation of the interior on the page, and in history. This diverse reader is simply and clearly organised into four main sections: • What is interior design? – debates on the identity, the profession, and the regulation of interior design • Why do we do interior design? – essays on the relationship between theory and practice in interiors • Histories of interior design – stories from the practice of interiors and meditations on the history of the discipline • How do we teach interior design? – case studies from, and reflections upon, the education of the interior designer. Thinking inside the box has been commissioned and edited by the Interiors Forum Scotland, a grouping of interior design academics from the University of Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow Metropolitan University, the Glasgow School of Art, and Napier University, Edinburgh, and The Lighthouse, Scotland’s Centre for Architecture, Design, and the City. Mon, 01 Jan 2007 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/2173/89135 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z