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Energization Survey

February 5, 2013AnnouncementsAggregated Data, Documentations, Imagery, Interaction Designer, Intersections, Line Questionnaire, Maddalena, Passion, Perceptions, Prerogative, Profession, Question Data, Reflection, Study Purposes, Suggestion, Survey Button, Theatre Workers, Thesis, University Of Venice, Venice Italy, Website Www

ABOUT ME

My name is Maddalena and I am a Ph.D. student of Iuav University of Venice (Italy). Â I am an industrial and interaction designer with a passion for theatre and this is why I started my research.Â If you are interested in knowing more information about me:Â www.maddalenadesign.it

Energization is a project I started last year toÂ investigate how perceptions andÂ imagery about energy is going to change Â in the context of performingÂ arts and, above all, buildings for theatre.Â At the moment, I am inviting people to join the debate and I am collecting information.

FIRST STEP:Â THEATRE WORKERS QUESTIONNAIRE

To start knowing more about you I would like to kindly invite you to answer an on-line questionnaire.Â You can decide to answerÂ anonymously or you can insert your name, as you prefer. Â THEATRE WORKERS questionnaire covers different specificÂ areas so,Â if you donâ€™t know some information Â because it is notÂ prerogative of your profession, reallyÂ donâ€™t worryÂ Â (it is not an exam and most of time Â people don’t know some information I am requesting), simply skip and goÂ to next question.

DATA COLLECTION

The dataÂ I am collectingÂ are going to be used only for studyÂ purposes related to my research. Â The results ofÂ the whole questionnaire will be reported as aggregated dataÂ in my Ph.D. thesis Â or other form of scientificÂ documentations (such as for example Energization’s website:Â www.maddalenadesign.it/Â energization)Â ForÂ any suggestion, thought and reflection or question,Â or if you areÂ interested in receiving a copy of the results of this studyÂ (when ready),Â feel free to contact me atÂ maddalena@maddalenadesign.it

WHAT TO DO

When you have 15-20 minutes of time ;):

go to this webpage:Â http://www.maddalenadesign.it/energization/survey/
click onÂ “SURVEY FOR THEATRE WORKERS (people that works in the field of performing arts)”
write the password:Â teatroenergia26
PLEASE BE CAREFUL YOU WILL BE ASKED TO CLICK THE “SUBMIT SURVEY” BUTTON 2 TIMESÂ (otherwise I will notÂ receive you answers)

Thank you so much,

kind regards

Maddalena

Madeline Bunting in todayâ€™s Guardian: the â€œquiet powerhouseâ€ that is RSA Arts & Ecology

July 15, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyCaption, Ecology, Environment, Guardian, Gustav Metzger, Madeleine Bunting, Madeline, New Thoughts, Nod, Perceptions, Powerhouse, Radical Nature, RSA Arts & Ecology, Tim Smit

Radical Natureâ€™s The Dalston Mill project

Madeleine Bunting’s article on the role of arts in changing perceptions about the environment kicks off by looking at Radical Nature’s The Dalston Mill project, and discusses new work Gustav Metzger and new thoughts from Tim Smit and gives a very warmly appreciated nod to the RSA Arts & …

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Change and the power of narrative

June 18, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyEcology Centre, Heather, Ivan, Morison, Perceptions, Power Of Narrative, RSA Arts & Ecology, Story Telling

When it comes to changing perceptions, artist Heather Morison, whose work with Ivan Morison is strongly located in narrative, argues for the importance of story telling in a new interview on the RSA Arts & Ecology Centre website:

One of the things which I find really fascinating is how when you …
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Curating in a read/write culture

April 29, 2009news, RSA Arts & EcologyAmateurs, Art Institutions, Art World, Audiences, Creative Spaces, Facebook, Fad, Flickr, Jim Richardson, Lawrence Lessig, Lip Service, Marketing Tool, Member Communities, Nielsen, Perceptions, Second Generation, Share Content, Social Engagement, Social Networks, Twitter

Jim Richardson, writing in The Art Newspaper, warns galleries and museums of the change that is inevitably coming to the art world. In and editorial â€œFacebook is more than a fadâ€ he writes:

Social networks and blogs are the fastest growing online activities, according to a report published in March by research firm Nielsen Online. Almost 10% of all time spent on the internet is spent on these types of sites, which Nielsen describes as â€œmember communitiesâ€, and they are visited by more than two-thirds of the worldâ€™s online users.

This has not gone unnoticed by museums and galleries, with many creating some kind of presence on sites such as Facebook, Twitter and Flickr. But because this has primarily been done as a marketing tool, institutions are missing a far greater opportunity. By treading gently into the second generation of web development and design, known as Web 2.0, museums risk achieving little, and are effectively paying mere lip service to online social engagement. If they were to make a proper commitment to the enterprise, they could transform their relationship with audiences, change peopleâ€™s perceptions of them and vastly expand the reach of their collections.

The Nielsen research shows that a major factor in the success of social networks is that they allow people to select and share content.

How will what Clay Shirkey called â€œmass amateurizationâ€ penetrate the art world? Lawrence Lessig writes of the change from a Read Only culture to a Read/Write culture. Now, with intitiatives like Creative Spaces, amateurs are not Read Only any more. They can curate too. How are art institutions going to handle the idea that their authority is no longer a given?