Work in progress: representar o «outro» segundo o pensamento antropofágico casos de estudo - Hans Staden e Les Maîtres Fous

O presente artigo analisa o filme de Luis Alberto Pereira «Hans Staden» (1999), baseado no livro de Hans Staden «Duas Viagens ao Brasil» (1557), e o documentário/filme «Les Maîtres Fous» (1955) de Jean Rouch, tendo em consideração o pensamento antropofágico. Estas obras focalizam o choque cultural entre “civilizado” e “selvagem”, entre ritual canibal e ritual antropofágico, entre o «Nós» e os «Outros», encontros que permitem uma análise mais concreta à concepção de alteridade. A representação cinematográfica permite uma aproximação ao conceito antropofágico de apropriação da cultura externa, para posteriormente a reproduzir numa interpretação segundo a concepção ocidental do que figuram os rituais em questão. O Movimento Antropófago, pelo seu carácter vanguardista, concilia a matriz fundadora brasileira e ao mesmo tempo enaltece a irreverência de análise, e neste artigo serve de fundamento teórico e prático à decomposição dos exemplos. O pensamento antropófago e a sua aplicabilidade aos exemplos seleccionados permitem também aprofundar o estudo sobre o imaginário europeu enquanto recriação de relatos datados de viajantes ou colonizadores, pois a manutenção de um acervo estereotipado historicamente serve como forma de “legitimar” concepções. As duas obras focalizam a representação indígena e africana - o “selvagem” - na construção do imaginário ocidental - “civilizado” - dicotomia que nos permite desmistificar relações interculturais.

Work in progress - learning through role play games

It is commonly accepted that the educational environment has been undergoing considerable change due to the use of the Information and Communication tools. But learning depends upon actions such as experimenting, visualizing and demonstrating through which the learner succeeds in constructing his own knowledge. Although it is not easy to achieve these actions through current ICT supported learning approaches, Role Playing Games (RPG) may well develop such capacities. The creation of an interactive computer game with RPG characteristics, about the 500th anniversary of the city of Funchal, the capital of Madeira Island, is invested with compelling educational/pedagogical implications, aiming clearly at teaching history and social relations through playing. Players interpret different characters in different settings/scenarios, experiencing adventures, meeting challenges and trying to reach multiple and simultaneous goals in the areas of education, entertainment and social integration along the first 150 years of the history of Funchal. Through this process they will live and understand all the social and historical factors of that epoch.

Work-in-progress on a thin IEEE1451.0 - architecture to implement reconfigurable Weblab infrastructures

Institutions have been creating their own specific weblab infrastructures. Usually, they use distinct software and hardware architectures comprehending instruments and modules (I&M) able to be parameterized but difficult to be shared. These aspects are impairing their widespread in education, since collaboration between institutions, in developing and sharing resources, is still low. To handle both aspects, this paper proposes the adoption of the IEEE1451.0 Std. with FPGA technology for creating reconfigurable weblab infrastructures. It is suggested the adoption of an IEEE1451.0 infrastructure with compatible instruments, described in Hardware Description Languages (HDL), to be reconfigured in FPGA-based boards. Besides an overview of the IEEE1451.0 Std., this paper presents a solution currently under development which seeks to enable the reconfiguration and the remote control of weblab infrastructures using a set of IEEE1451.0 HTTP commands.

Contratação Pública Verde: work in progress

Dissertação de mestrado em Direito Administrativo

Thoughts on work-in-progress crowdsourcing metrics of digital collections

The presentation consists of work-in-progress metrics of #digitalkoot, the crowdsourcing project launched by National Library of Finland

Labor Provisions from NAFTA to CAFTA: Standards That Work, or a Work in Progress?

The emerging U.S. approach linking free trade to domestic labor protections is a practical framework on which to base substantive and procedural rights. Nevertheless, much more can be done in future agreements to improve these safeguards for workers in a way that will maximize the gains from trade and reduce the most harmful effects of development. In order to improve future agreements, the U.S. should expand access to consultations within the dispute resolution mechanism, focus complaints on core rights such as organization and bargaining, encourage the development of small independent unions in corporatist cultures, and incorporate the ILO into the dispute settlement process. Finally, the civil law systems of Central America and the Anglo-American common law system may have fundamentally different understandings of the rule of law. This difference in understanding may pose a significant disadvantage for developing or civil law systems entering treaties with the U.S., and should be better understood by both sides in order to maintain the credibility of the law and the effectiveness of the treaty.

'Work in Progress' : una aproximación al proceso de la composición musical, a través del análisis de dos obras originales.

Se representa la concepción avanzada del sistema dodecafónico, desde la creación y análisis de dos obras originales: 'Caballo de flor en el país del sur' y 'Reloj abandonado de las horas', del propio autor de la investigación Imanol Bageneta Messeguer. Para ello se relacionan las estrucutras de la lógica de conjuntos con dos dimensiones musicales, la escala cromática y las operaciones de combinatoria ordinal realizadas entre los sonidos. A partir de aquí se repasan las distinas aplicaciones de la teoría de conjuntos en el ámbito del análisis, para asegurar un producto que exprese una propuesta sonora perfectamente comprensible. La organización del trabajo se divide en cuatro partes, tres apartados de carácter teórico y una reflexión personal sobre los usos de la creación, bajo la forma de un ensayo estético: 'Modelos matemáticos'; 'Propuesta psicoperceptiva'; 'Análisis aplicado a dos obras compuestas por el doctorando' y 'Ensayo: una estética de la tardo-modernidad'. En la primera parte de la investigación se consideran conceptos relativos a la idea de semántica musical, y se valoran las conexiones existentes entre las estrucutras gramaticales del lenguaje y los sistemas musicales. También se discute sobre los tópicos relevantes a la disciplina (tipos de espacio matemático musical y colecciones de sonidos ordenados y no-ordenados), así como las herramientas de la lógica de conjuntos. A continuación, se centra en la medición matemática de similitud entre conjuntos numéricos, incidiendo en la combinatoria hexacordal y las estrategias compartidas entre los indicadores de altura y de orden. Para terminar esta primera parte, se basa en un modelo de estrucutruas combinatorias caracterizado por el tratamiento de series que saturan todos los intervalos, los 'All Interval Sets'. En la segunda parte del trabajo, se revisan contenidos relacionados con la discriminación y memoria musical de secuencias interválicas y la revisión sucesiva de las obras presentadas, realizadas desde un mismo material (el complejo serial de Mallalieu). Dentro del legado de la tradición musical, la posibilidad de expresar nuevos recursos de energía estética e intelectual es un objetivo de difícil resolución. La programación de cualquier temporada de conciertos nos muestra el equilibrio histórico de los mensajes que se suceden, sesgados mayoritariamente hacia un repertorio consolidado. Intentando invertir esa tendencia, la nueva musicología, al igual que otros movimientos intelectuales, pretende una revitalización de su discurso. Su propósito no es capturar los rasgos de una antigua devoción, sino imaginar el rol de lo sonoro en la sociedad y cultura contemporáneas .

El Pràcticum com un 'work in progress' compartit www.eduportfolio.org

Des de fa dos cursos, professors de les universitats de Tarragona, Lleida i Girona desenvolupem un projecte d’innovació centrat en el pràcticum dels Estudis de Mestre el qual, a més de les tutories i seminaris, utilitza el portafoli electrònic com a eina d’intercanvi, acompanyament i presentació de les produccions dels i les estudiants. Des del curs 2009-10, i amb un ajut MQD de l’AGAUR, s’experimenta amb aquesta eina Web 2.0 –www.eduportfolio.org– dissenyada per la Université de Montréal, una plataforma que s’està utilitzant actualment als cinc continents. L’Eduportfolio agilitza la relació practicants-tutors i l’assessorament en l’elaboració progressiva de la memòria del Pràcticum i del projecte que els estudiants han de dur a terme a l’escola, i també obre noves possibilitats en aquest període dedicat a la pràctica docent reflexiva

The Centre of Memories: work in progress. Case of the Michel Giacometti Labour Museum, Setúbal, Portugal

The work on Social Memory, focused on the biographic method and the paths of immaterial Heritage, are the fabric that we have chosen to substantiate the idea of museum. The social dimensions of memory, its construction and representation, are the thickness of the exhibition fabric. The specificity of museological work in contemporary times resembles a fine lace, a meticulous weaving of threads that flow from time, admirable lace, painstaking and complex, created with many needles, made up of hollow spots and stitches (of memories and things forgotten). Repetitions and symmetries are the pace that perpetuates it, the rhythmic grammar that gives it body. A fluid body, a single piece, circumstantial. It is always possible to create new patterns, new compositions, with the same threads. Accurately made, properly made, this lace of memories and things forgotten is always an extraordinary creation, a web of wonder that expands fantasy, generates value and feeds the endless reserve of the community’s knowledge, values and beliefs.