Creative Phase Research Articles

Design and Development of Tools for Risk Evaluation of Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease in Community Pharmacy.

There is an increasing motivation to implement pharmacist-led screening services in community pharmacies. This study aims to develop tools to support the pharmacist in the context of a diabetes and cardiovascular disease risk assessment service. Our development involved a multistep process using a user-centred approach, including a need assessment phase (14 patients, 17 pharmacists) and a creative design phase, followed by the evaluation of the materials (10 patients, 16 pharmacists). Three following themes covering educational needs emerged from stakeholders' discussions: "content", "layout", and "form", with three additional themes regarding the practical organisation: "software", "awareness", and "referral". Based on the need assessment, tools for patient education purposes and awareness campaigns were created. During the development, special attention was paid to the writing style and structure with less text and more graphical colourful elements to suit patients with different health literacy and educational levels. The evaluation phase allowed researchers to observe participants engaging with the materials. Overall, participants were satisfied with the tools. The contents were considered valuable and relevant. However, adaptations were necessary to ensure their understanding and long-term usability. Finally, future research is required to evaluate the materials' impact on patients' behaviour towards their identified risk factors and ensure their effectiveness.

Application and Progress of Cultured Models of Gallbladder Carcinoma.

Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is a malignant tumor of the biliary system that is aggressive, difficult to detect early, and has a low surgical resection rate and poor prognosis. Appropriate in vitro growth models are expected to focus on the study of the biological behavior and assess treatment effects. Nonetheless, cancer initiation, progression, and invasion include spatiotemporal changes and changes in the cell microenvironment intracellular communication, and intracellular molecules, making the development of in vitro growth models very challenging. Recent advances in biomaterial methods and tissue engineering, particularly advances in bioprinting procedures, have paved the way for advances in the creative phase of in vitro cancer research. To date, an increasing number of cultured models of gallbladder disease have emerged, such as two-dimensional (2D) GBC growth cell cultures, three-dimensional (3D) GBC growth cell cultures, xenograft models, and 3D bioprinting methods. These models can serve as stronger platforms, focusing on tumor growth initiation, the association with the microenvironment, angiogenesis, motility, aggression, and infiltration. Bioprinted growth models can also be used for high-throughput drug screening and validation, as well as translational opportunities for individual cancer therapy. This study focused on the exploration, progress, and significance of the development of GBC cultural models. We present our views on the shortcomings of existing models, investigate new innovations, and plan future improvements and application possibilities for cancer models.

La heterodoxia métrica en las "coplas de los pecados mortales" como muestra de la ortodoxia compositiva de Juan de Mena

"This paper establishes the metric usus scribendi of Juan de Mena through the analysis of all his compositions. Mena’s metric regularity is astounding and indisputable, both in his socalled major works and in the minor ones and, indeed, the presence of metrically heterodox verses alerts of a plausible point of textual disruption. The analysis of his entire production following this line of thought allows to suggest new edition proposals for various texts from a global perspective, although the main objective of this article is to propound that the heterodox stanzas of Coplas de los pecados mortales may be an example of Juan de Mena’s first creative phase, not yet corrected."

Kyiv as an inspiration for the work of Karol Szymanowski

Karol Szymanowski was a multidimensional figure. His musical and literary achievements, which are as numerous as his musical compositions, are widely known. He made literary translations, recomposed poetic texts for his songs, and also created librettos for his own stage works so he was a kind of composer sensitive to words and meaning they carry. He drew much of his inspiration from them for his musical works but he remained open to both musical and cultural impulses. In his colourful life, full of various creative accents, the Kyiv episode is clearly visible. These were the years around 1914–1918, when Kyiv became the place of residence of the Szymanowski’s family, sheltering from the war during the winter months. The composer, as was his custom, immersed himself deeply in the then atmosphere of this extraordinary city. During Szymanowski’s stay in Kyiv, the Myths were premiered, Masks and Songs of the Fairy Tale Princess were also created at this time. The Kyiv years constitute one of the most creative phases of the compositional activity of the author of King Roger. This paper discusses the artistic inspirations in Szymanowski’s life during this period, as well as Szymanowski’s connections with Kyiv. It presents the analysis of Myths and Metopes referring to the new form — a free poem, explored by Szymanowski at that time. Places, people and events related to Szymanowski during these years as well as creative inspirations in the context of the musical environment of Kyiv are highlighted here.

Poems in the Shape of Collage: The Case of Antonio Porta

Abstract Since he was a young poet, Antonio Porta has always shown a strong interest in visual arts, in particular for abstract and conceptual painting. Porta began to experiment with collage in 1959, attending some key exhibitions at the Galleria Blu (Milan) and at the Galleria Arco d'Alibert (Rome) together with other Novissimi poets, including Alfredo Giuliani and Nanni Balestrini. This creative phase is often overlooked by critics and scholars. From this viewpoint, this article will show how these works brightly anticipate some crucial stylistic strategies that Porta will adopt in his linear poems later on in his poetic career—especially as regards the assembly of verses and lines. The contribution aims to investigate the connection between these earlier artistic projects and Porta's later works (focusing in particular on La palpebra rovesciata and L'enigma naturale). Lastly, thanks to archival materials stored at the Centro APICE, attention will be given to the profound relationship between these works and the private art gallery of the Paolazzi's family. From some unpublished bills of sale and artist agreements, I will rebuild this form of patronage and the links between paintings hanging on the domestic wall and pictures that Porta describes in his poetical verses. From this viewpoint, the article will investigate the pivotal relationship with Piero Manzoni—whose Achromes were formerly in Porta's father's collection—and Carlo Ramous—a Milanese painter related to his family by an official Atto di accordo, signed in January 1960. In the same year, Ramous drew the cover of La palpebra rovesciata and Porta, for his part, described one of his sculptures (Di fronte alla luna) in the homonymous poem of Rapporti. This philological approach will enable a better understanding of the poems that contain seemingly nonsensical elements but which actually depend on artistic sources.

New Approaches for Textile Colouration and Surface Pattern Using Enzyme-based Biotechnology

The research presented in this paper gives an overview of a study which was undertaken to investigate the potential offered by the enzyme laccase (EC.1.10.3.2) as a creative design tool for innovative colouration and decorative surface pattern of textiles with a focus on providing sustainable alternatives to conventional processes used in industry. Research was conducted in two parts. The control (scientific) phase explored laccases potential for transforming a range of colourless aromatic compounds into coloured polymeric products via its reaction mechanism, and its ability to facilitate the colouration of most commonly used textile fibre types. Reaction processing parameters such as temperature, pH values, aromatic compound concentrations, and reaction times were investigated to achieve a diverse colour palette, ranging from light–medium to dark shades of blue, green, pink, purple, and yellow hues. Wool and nylon fibre types were found to be most suitable for laccase-catalyzed colouration. The creative phase investigated the design potential offered by the enzymatic colouration process developed; different and contrasting substantivity properties offered by various fibre types were exploited to produce shadow, reserve, and contrasting coloured effects on specially woven jacquard fabrics. The research demonstrates the potential offered by laccase as a transformative tool to replace conventional industrial colouration and surface pattern design processes with biological systems, which offer important advantages of simpler processing using milder conditions that eliminate additional chemical use and reduce energy consumption. The adoption of enzyme-based biotechnologies could help the textile industry transition towards a sustainable future.

Bibliographic and Discographic Inquiries in Music Composition

This article touches on developed research designs in music composition called bibliographic and discographic research designs which are geared towards inquiries in music composition that involves producing a creative work and at the same time maintaining the intellectual phase of that creative work. It was established out of an experience encountered in teaching music composition research, supervising and assessing graduate dissertations in music theory and composition. It is situated within the qualitative paradigm of research and links to the compositional process under the framework of the Stage Theory propounded by Wallas. The design has three phases: Data collection and Generation phase, Analytic phase, and Creative phase. These phases provide an epistemic approach in music composition research that may not necessarily need creative ethnomusicological stance for composing intercultural musical artefact. It is envisaged that it advances the relevant knowledge in music composition research by means of practice and to offer solutions to the problems encountered by graduate music composition candidates during their dissertation journey.

An Ecological Approach in Designing Rosella Agrotourism in Kediri Regency

Agrotourism is one of the efforts in preserving biodiversity and can be used as nature tourism. For local farmers, they hope to be able to develop cultivation of this rosella plant which is packaged in the form of agro-tourism. Where rosella is the main crop and commodity that grows and can be a source of income for farmers around this area. Agrotourism can also be useful as a means of education, the processed product of rosella itself is a very popular product in Kediri. This research uses Archer's three-phase method with analytical, creative, and executive phases. Rosella agro-tourism design applies an ecological approach as an effort to preserve nature. In addition, another goal in designing rosella agro-tourism design with an ecological approach can maintain most of the existing land and natural resources. So that agrotourism is able to increase the number of tourists and preserve nature in Kediri Regency, as well as become a means of education. So that this agro-tourism can become the center of a new tourist destination in Kediri Regency, become a tourism that is in harmony and friendly with the surrounding environment, and can improve the creative economy of the surrounding community.

Review: Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History, by Charles L. Leavitt IV

Review: <i>Italian Neorealism: A Cultural History</i>, by Charles L. Leavitt IV

Revitalization and landscape design of the park in Stari Mikanovci, Croatia; role of existing vegetation in generating new landscape solutions

Abstract In this paper, the procedures and indicators of systematic inventorisation and analysis of the existing vegetation of urban landscapes are presented and applied. The analysis of the vitality of existing trees was performed using the Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) method on the location of Park in Stari Mikanovci, Croatia. The results of these analyses were used as a basis for the protection and care of existing vegetation, but also their implementation in the design. For this purpose, four different conceptual solutions for the park design were formed. The process of generating different concepts tried to answer the questions: whether the maximum preservation of vegetation elements is a limiting factor in the creative phase of the design process, and whether consistent preservation of vegetation elements will generate similarities of design solutions. Four conceptual solutions were developed by four different authors who were given the same project task: (a) maximum possible preservation on the basis of analysis of the determined values of existing vegetation, and (b) uniform basic residential and recreational content of the park. All other components and features of the landscape are left as variable, arbitrary and author-determined parameters. Multi-criteria descriptive analysis of the proposed design solutions showed that the existing vegetation is not a limiting factor for the typology, diversity, disposition and degree of intervention in the creative phase of the design process.

Becoming Vincent: Using the “hero’s journey” to connect and design (digital) tourist experiences along Vincent van Gogh’s heritage locations

Abstract This case describes a research and design project, commissioned to Breda University of Applied Sciences (the Netherlands) by several regional tourism organizations in Brabant, a province in the south of the Netherlands. The aim of the project was to draft a narrative concept and storylines that would link and upgrade the various Vincent Van Gogh heritage sites in the area in order to eventually attract international tourists to the province, especially in view of the commemoration of Van Gogh’s 125 th death anniversary in 2015. In the creative phase, we used a 12 steps storytelling model ( Bouma, 2010 ). This is based on Campbell’s “monomyth” or “hero’s journey” (1945). It applies to many great tales and chronologically orders the (metaphorical) steps that drive the “hero” in his actions. We compared the 12 steps to Vincent’s life. The first 6 steps, which took place in Brabant, we placed under the overarching narrative concept of “Becoming Vincent”. At various locations in the province, tourists can experience how the events in Vincent’s early life led him to become the tormented yet brilliant artist so well-known from his time in France (which we defined as “Being Vincent”), thus making a full narrative circle. VIU logo WLCE logo Information Vancouver Island University World Leisure Centre of Excellence © Licia Calvi &amp; Moniek Hover 2022

The Role of Value Engineering in Government Housing Projects in Developing Countries to Improve Value

Government housing projects are among the complex issues facing developing countries’ governments. There have been many attempts to solve problems related to this issue and a lot of effort has been made in this direction. The main problem is lowering the cost of lodging, without sacrificing its quality and the effectiveness by which it fulfills the needs of its occupants. This became possible upon the use of the value engineering technique. Value engineering is an effective tool used to solve problems related to housing, by lowering cost on one hand and sustaining or even ameliorating quality and performance.The purpose of this study is to try to identify a series of proposed solutions and value indicators and to describe their role in improving value in government housing projects. This process may assist the designer in choosing and managing, value indicators during the creative phase, using references from the literature and the analysis of case studies.The literature review identified the reasons for high costs and poor performance, which are often a result of a misunderstanding of the fundamental principles of design criteria and value indicators, followed in government housing projects. The review also pinpointed the most important considerations that improve value.Results obtained in this study feature the positive effects of methods under the umbrella of value engineering, applied in government housing projects. It was found that savings of 15% to 40% can be achieved in the total cost of a certain project, using this technique. Generating ideas in the creative phase is one of the most important stages in value engineering studies. A set of value indicators and proposed solutions in the form of a checklist were derived and can be used in the future, during the creative phase of value engineering studies in the initial design stage of government housing projects.

Learning to create images with computer code

Programming is becoming a part of the school curricula in Norway both in lower and upper secondary education – this includes subjects such as art, design and craft. What can programming contribute to the learning processes of these subjects? ‘Tinkering’ is a creative phase in a learning/working process, emphasising both creation and learning. In this project, visual images are created via computer programming to enhance the main author’s learning. The process is structured into stages. The important phases of the learning process are realised as a result of tinkering with existing codes. An important discovery for the learner, and one key aspect of programming images is that, as a mode, it opens up ways to create repetitions effectively, resulting in various patterns. This turned out to be motivating for the learner. This paper discusses tinkering as a learning process that is relevant to programming within art, design and craft education.

The Musical Force of the Magnetic Field: On the Latest Creative Phase in the Works of Jasna Veličković

Since 2008, Jasna Veličković has been experimenting with and researching within the sound world of the magnetic field—the omnipresent, yet usually completely silent elements in human life. Her journey into the unknown started with an exploration of the sound produced by manipulating coils as parts of complex sound systems, including classical instruments as sound sources. A purely serendipitous event in 2013 led her to the discovery that magnets can also produce sounds when applied to coils in certain ways. This discovery ultimately resulted in the invention of the Velicon, the instrument which she has been composing for and performing on ever since. The investigations of the musical force of the magnetic field also led to the introduction of other seemingly silent objects as sound sources. In this article, I aim to investigate these works both from the diachronic and the synchronic perspective. The key questions will include: (1) mapping Jasna Veličković’s referential worlds—an intricate encounter between music and science/technology, (artistic) experimentation, and electronic music—viewed from the composer’s personal, Serbian, and ‘global’ perspective; (2) the nature of Veličković’s creative process with regard to the reconfiguration of the relationship between composing, experimenting, and improvising; (3) the ramifications of Veličković’s way of breaking loose from the conventional composer-performer-listener chain; and (4) analytical remarks on the prospects of musical structure within the magnetic sound.

THE ROLE OF ONLINE PLATFORMS IN TEACHING ARABIC -‎AL-JAZEERA PLATFORM AS AN EXAMPLE-‎

Online platforms are defined as (websites that have a technical link on the Web, ‎containing units or lessons for teaching the Arabic language, which consist of a ‎number of educational materials and activities that provide a set of multimedia ‎to achieve specific educational goals). Education is no longer confined to ‎educational institutions and universities. Because of the Internet, the field of ‎education has expanded, especially with the emergence of online learning as ‎one of the means that support the teachin/ learning process, transforming it from ‎the well-known indoctrination phase in traditional education to another, more ‎distinguished and creative phase. It works on developing skills through adopting ‎computers and networks in the transfer of knowledge and skills. The importance ‎of these educational platforms has emerged with the breakout of the Corona ‎pandemic, which have led governments to adopt online learning and educational ‎platforms in the delivery of academic material to students - in line with the ‎decisions of closing schools, universities and public facilities, that swept the ‎world, in order to save people's lives in light of the spread of the virus. Here, ‎the importance of educational platforms emerged, including “Al Jazeera ‎platform for teaching Arabic to native and non-native speakers.” This platform ‎relies on Al Jazeera news network, which it is affiliated with, to provide the ‎platform with written, audio and video news, making it with rich and renewable ‎content. This is, in addition to lessons in teaching Arabic. These lessons are on ‎‎ (syntax, morphology, and spelling) divided into three levels (beginner, ‎intermediate, advanced) and each of them is divided into (lower, intermediate, ‎higher) preceded, in the beginner level, with teaching the pronunciation of ‎Arabic sounds. All of this is accompanied by a number of exercises and ‎comprehension questions, with a list of the most prominent words in the text ‎and their translation, and through the tests on the platform, it is possible to ‎determine the linguistic level of the learner. Keywords: Teaching Arabic to non-native speakers, E-Learning, Teaching Arabic sounds.

La influencia de la industrialización en la obra de Gerrit Rietveld. Del módulo al Kernhuis

The appearance of new paradigms in the early 20th century due to the impact of industrialisation unleashed a reformulation of the strategies used for building from the beginning to the creative phase. This paper examines in depth how architect Gerrit Rietveld used industrialisation and the strategy used in his work at the time of the so-called Functionalist Period by analysing his different projects. Without an exhaustive analysis of all his work, the aim was to get to know another facet of the Utrecht architect apart from his best known neoplastic compositional facet, related to his preoccupation with responding to social needs by the efficient organization of space, making use of industrial products and with a special interest in the constructive aspect of his projects. Finally, Rietveld’s figure is associated with that of Habraken and the connections between both Dutch architects are analysed.

Premorbid de novo artistic creativity in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) syndromes.

The emergence of new artistic activities or shifts in artistic style in patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) syndromes is well documented at or after disease onset. However, a closer look in the literature reveals emerging artistic creativity also before FTD onset, although the significance and underlying pathology of such creative endeavors remain elusive. Here, we systematically review relevant studies and report an additional FTD case to elaborate on artistic activities that developed years before disease manifestation by paying particular attention to the sequence of events in individual patients' biography and clinical history. We further discuss the FTD patient's creative activities in the context of their life events, other initial or "premorbid" dementia symptoms or risk factors described in the literature such as mental illness and mild behavioral impairment (MBI), as well as changes in neuronal systems (i.e., neuroimaging and neuropathology). In addition to our FTD patient, we identified five published cases with an FTD syndrome, including three with FTD, one with primary progressive aphasia (PPA), and one with the behavioral variant of PPA (bvPPA). Premorbid novel creativity emerged across different domains (visual, musical, writing), with the FTD diagnosis ensuing artistic productivity by a median of 8years. Data on late-life and pre-dementia life events were available in four cases. The late creative phase in our case was accompanied by personality changes, accentuation of personality traits, and cessation of painting activities occurred with the onset of memory complaints. Thus, premorbid personality changes in FTD patients can be associated with de novo creative activity. Stressful life events may also contribute to the burgeoning of creativity. Moreover, primary neocortical areas that are largely spared by pathology at early FTD stages may facilitate the engagement in artistic activities, offering a window of opportunity for art therapy and other therapeutic interventions during the MBI stage or even earlier.

The Robots Are Leaving the Cage. Imagining the Future of Construction

Architecture today is challenged by technology advancements and the spread of new tools such as robots, which are mediators between digital and physical. This paper aims to outline future trends that will introduce substantial changes in the construction sector and architecture technology. In support of the topic, representative examples of ongoing experimentations are provided. They are relevant to understand the potentials of tools and foreseeable applications to update the building culture. The introduction of new instruments and procedures might afect building methodologies and the relationship between upstream and downstream design workfows. This relationship is an important aspect because upstream strategies inform downstream processes and vice versa. Also, advanced construction tools enrich the creative phase by providing an opportunity for innovative data integration. The use of computational design, digital fabrication, robotics, and cobotics allows for innovating the building sector by promoting a method based on the customization of forms to be operated onsite. In this scenario, robots play the role of compressing the distance between design and production. Current trends open hypothetical potential for the future of construction: there is a chance for the perfect storm to overwhelm the industry shortly, in compliance with The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the Digital Transformation. Digital Transformation will result in the automation of every task that can be automated, accepting that robots want to “leave the cage,” to be embedded in material workfows within hybrid human-machine workspaces. It is expected that architecture, which usually absorbs innovation from other sectors through technological transfer, will become an early adopter of new systems and technologies, always focusing on the design quality at all scales.

Creative affects: affective phases in creative work processes

ABSTRACT The paper investigates the wide spectrum of affects characteristic of creative practice. It is centred on an empirical case study of the different creative phases that characterize the work of a group of professional newspaper cartoonists. The study explores the analytical possibilities of an object-oriented and affect theoretical approach to creative practice. It is loosely inspired by the phenomenology of affect developed by British-Australian feminist and cultural scholar, Sara Ahmed. After a short sketch of the lacunae of traditional sociological theories of action as regards creativity, and an explanation of my selective adaption of Ahmed's work to cover these lacunae, I move on to the empirical section. I begin by analysing the typical affects of the work phase in which the cartoonists struggle to choose what to draw. Next, I delve into the affects belonging to the phase of the actual drawing, a phase characterized by longer moments of intense affective immersion. I then attempt to map some of the means by which the cartoonists preserve affective strength and freshness (of the drawing) during their work processes. Finally, I investigate the collective side to the work of the cartoonists and how collective and creative affects may intensify or reinforce each other.

Natalia Ginzburg e Adriana Motti: due traduttrici per i romanzi di Ivy Compton-Burnett

ABSTRACT This article analyses the role played by Natalia Ginzburg and Adriana Motti in the Italian reception of the English writer Ivy Compton-Burnett during the 1960s. Drawing on archival documents held at the Fondazione Einaudi in Turin and on theories of translation that assimilate this literary practice to reading (Spivak, Calvino), my contribution aims to demonstrate how both Ginzburg and Motti responded to the same ideal of translation, as practised at the Einaudi publishing house. I also illustrate how a case of traduction manqué in Ginzburg’s career gave rise, on the one hand, to a new creative phase and, on the other, to a symbolic passing of the baton to Motti, a silent and expert translator, who was given the task of inventing an Italian voice for this brilliant writer.