This article problematises the concept of ‘resilience’, and globalised power dynamics which lie behind a narrative overcoming adversity in context Palestinian Theatre. By exploring work ASHTAR, specifically focusing on artist Iman Aoun, this paper examines lack political practical solidarity revealed languages agendas resilience. analysis practice is set within theoretical framework border navi...

UNLABELLED Nurses' perceptions and experiences of communication in the operating theatre: a focus group interview BACKGROUND Communication programmes are well established in nurse education. The focus of programmes is most often on communicating with patients with less attention paid to inter-professional communication or skills essential for working in specialised settings. Although there ar...

Building capture and access (C&A) applications for use in the operation theatre differs greatly from C&A applications built to support other settings e.g. meeting rooms or classrooms. Based on field studies of surgical operations, this paper explores how to design C&A applications for the operation theatre. Based on the findings from our field work, we have built the ActiveTheatre, a C&A protot...

In this paper we report about ongoing research on navigation assistance in virtual environments. Our aim is to contribute to the development of forms of navigation assistance that enable non-professional visitors of a virtual environment to find their way without previous training. The environment used in this research is a virtual theatre that models a real world music theatre. This virtual th...

IZINDABA A Vereeniging theatre sister has resigned rather than meet Kopanong Hospital's insistence that she scrub for all theatre evacuations, including those involving 'clean ups' after messy abortions. Sister Wilhelmein Charles is the sole remaining objector among more than two dozen theatre colleagues who signed a petition in 2000 refusing to conduct or be associated with terminations of pre...

Recently we have built the largest Virtual Reality (VR) theatre in the world for the Kyongju World Culture EXPO 2000. Unlike single user VR systems, the VR theatre is characterized by a single shared screen and controlled by a kind of tightly coupled user inputs from several hundreds of people in the audience. The large computer-generated stereo images by the huge cylindrical screen provide the...

This article reports on a pilot study of the use of applied theatre in the dissemination of health research findings and validation of data. The study took place in South Africa, as part of the Southern Africa Stroke Prevention Initiative (SASPI) and was based at the University/Medical Research Council Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit (also known as the Agincourt Unit). ...