PUBLIC SPACE AS CULTURAL RESOURCE

Religion as dialogical resource: a socio-cultural approach.

William James proposed a psychological study of religion examining people's religious experiences, and to see in what sense these were good for them. The recent developments of psychology of religion moved far from that initial proposition. In this paper, we propose a sociocultural perspective to religion that renews with that initial stance. After recalling Vygtotsky's core ideas, we suggest t...

M5fv " Community Players: Gameplay as Public Performance and Cultural

Artifact” Symbolic Systems Forum, 9 March 2006 Henry Lowood Stanford University Let me say right off that I have no problem with critical attention to game design. It’s just that I find the creativity of players more interesting, how they use computer games as platforms for creating their own games, narratives, texts and performances. So what I would like to do today is talk about why some play...

Space as a Resource in Creative Design Practices

Based on longitudinal ethnographic fieldwork in two industrial design departments and two design companies, we explore the role of spatial arrangements for supporting creative design practices within different design studios. From our results, we show that designers explicitly make use of the physical space for 1) communicating and inspiring design ideas, 2) exploring design solutions and 3) ma...

Cultural aspects regarding public health.

Cultural Cognition and Public Policy