Touching heritage: embodied politics in children’s photography

Politics and Photography in Apartheid South Africa

Resistance or struggle photography is a term describing the photographic documentation of conflict between oppressed and oppressor from the perspective of the subjugated. An example of this genre is explored in the context of apartheid South Africa during the 1980s through the work of a collective called Afrapix. This group’s images of the repression of Black and Coloured populations by the apa...

Embodied reflection in practice--'touching the core of caring'.

A study was performed with the aim of clarifying the integration of the caring act of touch with reflection on caring theory. Seven participant nurses in elderly care volunteered as 'coresearchers' and performed a caring act called Rhythmical Embrocation, together with reflective dialogues on caring theory. The project lasted for 6 months and at the end qualitative interviews with participants ...

Touching a Stranger: Designing for Engaging Experience in Embodied Interaction

Within interaction design, several forces have coincided in the last few years to fuel the emergence of a new field of inquiry, which we summarize under the label of embodied interaction. The term was introduced to the HCI community by Dourish (2001) as a way to combine the then-distinct perspectives of tangible interaction (Ullmer & Ishii, 2001) and social computing. Briefly, his point was tha...

Microbial communities affecting albumen photography heritage: a methodological survey

This study is one of the few investigations which analyze albumen prints, perhaps the most important photographic heritage of the late 19(th) and early 20(th) centuries. The chemical composition of photographic samples was assessed using Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray fluorescence. These two non-invasive techniques revealed the complex nature of albumen prints, which are comp...

The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai