The paper discusses how a human-robot team can remain “cohesive” while performing under stress. By cohesive the paper understands the ability of the team to operate effectively, with individual members being interdependent-yet-autonomous in carrying out tasks. For a human-robot team, we argue that this requires robots to (1) have an adequate sense of that interdependency in terms of the social ...

On 3rd October 2002, the youngest German national holiday was celebrated in Berlin: day of unity. This newly established (having begun 1991) is meant to commemorate reunification Germany which took place on 1990. A state-ceremony opera house and a street held at Pariser Platz around Brandenburg Gate. The most important symbolic center re-unified city turned into grounds for huge open-air festiv...

Stemming from one creative experience that emerged in London during the lockdown period of early 2020, called “Emergency Festival”, this article is a result observations based on practice, centred around festival group multicultural, interdisciplinary movement-based researchers and dancers created, curated, participated in. It explores possibility making radical alterity out hitherto previously...

Music may be considered a form of “knotting,” as Ingold (2015, 18) puts it, in which “contrary forces tension and friction are productive generative outcomes.” Interdisciplinary approaches to performative ways knowing have grown exponentially since Blacking's (1973) ethnomusicological research among the Venda late 1950s. Studies sound, sense, performativity flourished multitude strands conteste...