Experiential Event Research Articles

Silence: A Novel Co-Produced Experience To Build Community Awareness Of Biodiversity Loss

The current sounds of our world are under threat of disappearing. Undergraduate students and interdisciplinary university teams are at the forefront of generating collaborative research opportunities to create community awareness of biodiversity loss and conservation practices. Recent conservation research has focused on how local communities can begin to reverse the trends of biodiversity loss by using private residences and urban spaces. The inclusion of native plants in backyard gardens is an accessible way to promote ecological restoration. In this co-produced instructional exhibit, “Earth Day Celebration: Silence,” we introduce a novel experiential event that connects instructional design with community collaboration. The event was designed to explore the ways in which society can become engaged in the preservation and protection of biodiversity and our sonic world.

Experiential constructions in Hindi: the encoding of perceptions and bodily sensations

Abstract In this paper, I offer a description of argument-structure constructions of experiential verbs in Hindi, analyzing their syntactic and semantic properties, with a focus on the encoding of two experiential subdomains: perceptions and bodily sensations, the two most semantically different experiential event types (Luraghi, Silvia. 2020. Experiential verbs in Homeric Greek, a constructional approach (Brill’s Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture 27). Boston: Brill; Malchukov, Andrej L. 2005. Case pattern splits, verb types and construction competition. In Mengistu Amberber & Helen de Hoop (eds.), Perspectives on cognitive science, competition and variation in natural languages, 73–117. Amsterdam: Elsevier; Tsunoda, Tasaku. 2015. The hierarchy of two-place predicates: Its limitations and uses. In Andrej L. Malchukov & Bernard Comrie (eds.), Valency classes in the world’s languages, vol. 2, 1597–1626. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton). I rely on data taken from a corpus consisting of Hindi literary texts of the 20th century, interrogated through Sketch Engine and I follow the approach of Cognitive Construction Grammar (Goldberg, Adele. 1995. Constructions: A construction grammar approach to argument structure. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press; Goldberg, Adele. 2006. Constructions at work: The nature of generalization in language. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Hilpert, Martin. 2014. Construction grammar and its applications to English. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press). The paper is structured as follows: Section 1 is an introduction giving the aim of the paper with some remarks on methodological and theoretical issues. Section 2 is a preliminary introduction on the domain of Experience and its encoding strategies. In Section 3, I give some remarks on case in Hindi, and I discuss the semantic–syntactic interplay in the language and the concept of iconicity, which is central in the paper. In Section 4, I present Hindi data and their analysis, focusing firstly on perception verbs (Section 4.1) and then on bodily sensation verbs (Section 4.2). In the last section (Section 5), I draw some conclusions trying to give an account of the type-frequency of each pattern, in order to evaluate the possible semantic constraints of each construction, and I propose a constructionist explanation of the distribution of Hindi argument-structure constructions across the highly variable range of experiential events.

Looking for Laura & Meaning in Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen

FQ contributing editor Manuel Betancourt examines duration in contemporary cinema and the playful innovations of Laura Citarella’s Trenque Lauquen (2022). The 260 minute film is another production by El Pampero Cine, the group that produced the thirteen hour La Flor (Mariano Llinás, 2018), on which Citarella served as producer. Following the disappearance of a woman named Laura, Trenque Lauquen is a recursive mystery both in narrative and form that resists traditional narrative expectations that would elucidate the events of Laura’s disappearance and make her knowable. Betancourt writes that Trenque Lauquen maintains El Pampero Cine’s DIY spirit through creative practices that challenge the linear progression of pre-production, shooting, and editing and in doing so, facilitate Citarella’s reimagining of cinema as an experiential event.

KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES OF BACCALAUREATE SOCIAL WORK STUDENTS ABOUT INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION IN CANADA

Although interprofessional collaboration is a common expectation in social work employment, interprofessional education has not been a robust feature of baccalaureate social work preparation in Canada. There is also a dearth of research on the topic. These gaps are problematic because social workers with baccalaureate degrees are often employed in interprofessional teams in various health care settings in Canada. To address this gap in knowledge, this mixed methods study explores attitudes toward interprofessional collaboration of social work students in a Canadian undergraduate university. Also, the study evaluates the students’ knowledge acquisition of interprofessional competencies after a single interprofessional education event. Findings indicate a positive change in students’ attitudes and enhanced knowledge of the interprofessional care competencies. The study contributes to the limited body of research on interprofessional education of baccalaureate-level social work students in Canada. It also shows the power of a single interprofessional experiential event in benefiting professional education of future social work professionals.

Exploring the antecedents of shared leadership in event organisations

This research explores the antecedents of sharing leadership throughout an event management organisation. Previous research into shared leadership has been shown to improve team performance and effectiveness in organisations with team-based structures, involved in knowledge work and operating within high pressured environments. We propose therefore that shared leadership offers a useful solution to the problems presented by the rapidly changing and challenging event industry environment. However, little is known about how shared leadership happens within project multi-teams and research into the antecedents of shared leadership is still in its infancy. To enrich the current understanding, we employed exploratory qualitative research involving three case study organisations. Our findings were drawn from 34 in-depth interviews and 33 h of observation with participants from all layers of the management hierarchy and employees from across experiential event management agencies. We identified the antecedents of shared leadership at all levels of management: at the leadership team level, organisational leaders must communicate a clear vision, and act with transparency whilst empowering staff to enact leadership. At the project multi-team level, team members must be willing to collaborate with, and recognise the expertise of other team members and, at an individual level, employees must interact with empathy and good communication. Our findings illuminate how the sharing of leadership relies on multi-level interactions in which management, teams and individuals participate. Based on the findings, the implications for both theory and management practice are discussed and, given the exploratory, qualitative, nature of the study, future research directions are recommended.

A Study on the Grammaticalization of Experience Aspect Guo₂

The dynamic auxiliary ‘guo’ can be divided into ‘guo₁’ and ‘guo₂’. Experience aspect guo₂ appeared in Song, and most of them were in the Southern Song period work ZHU ZI YU LEI. The paper investigates the use of the word ‘guo₂’ from Song to Qing, and the combination type of word ‘guo₂’ is gradually rich in syntactic form, and the frequency of use of word ‘guo₂’ is constantly increasing. The grammatical path of ‘guo₂’ is from the verb ‘guo’ to the progressive complement ‘guo’, which implies both propensity and consequence, on the basis of the semantics of the progressive complement ‘guo’, in the Tang period, ‘guo₁’ derived from ‘guo’, which had the function of completing grammar. As the context of the use of ‘guo’ expanded, ‘guo₂’ was derived from ‘guo₁’. The evolution of ‘guo₂’ from ‘guo₁’ is the result of semantic and pragmatic drive. The pragmatic motivation stimulates the meaning of the events, the event meaning determines the event structure, the event structure determines the syntactic structure, and the change of the event significance also determines the change of the syntactic structure accordingly. Changes in event structure can affect the grammatical significance of imaginary words in syntactic structure. ‘guo₁’ is in the event before the sequential event, and ‘guo₂’ is in the experiential event, which is used to evaluate and explain another event. After evolving from ‘guo₁’ to ‘guo₂’, the grammatical meaning, word collocation, and cognitive viewpoint have all changed. The grammatical mechanism of ‘guo₂’ is reanalysis, metonymy, generalization, and contextual absorption.

The Anomaly of Anomaly of Anomaly

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MEMORY OF IMAGINATION – REFLECTIONS OF PQ 2019

The face of the Prague Quadrennial (PQ) has been slowly changing from the traditional gallery style presentation with national competitions toward an immersive experiential event, a festival. But the key question and the main mission of PQ is still the same: finding engaging ways to present and exhibit performance design/scenography. As the curator of the PQ 2019 and also for the next event that will happen in 2023, I present in this brief essay the changings that have been happening along the years, and not only by one curatorship but by a team of curators that work to discuss the artistic vision, where we collaboratively developed an overall concept for all projects of the festival - an example of the teamwork we sought in our exhibitions and performances. Keywords Curator. Curatorship. PQ 2019. Prague Quadrennial.

Bridging the Gap Together: Utilizing Experiential Pedagogy to Teach Poverty and Empathy

ABSTRACT In light of community changes and curricular deficits, it is essential for social work educators to find ways to teach social empathy and poverty content to students who may or may not have had much direct contact with economically diverse households in their formative years. Our framework and research pick up where well-intended policy efforts leave off. Because social empathy may serve as a pathway to close the gap between lived realities, we work toward bridging the divide of socioeconomic difference through social connection. In our experiential learning event, Bridging the Gap Together (BTGT), we partner with a local agency to have a dinner and an interactive question and answer session aimed at humanizing both groups’ lived realities. Experiential learning through intentional social connection may provide an opportunity for social work educators to bridge both sociocultural and curricular gaps.

Verbal groups in Manchu: a systemic functional account

This paper investigates the functional grammar of the Manchu language with a principal focus on verbal groups, based on a folktale in Manchu Veritable Records. The verbal group is positioned as the final structural element of a Manchu clause, involved in creating experiential (event, tense, voice), interpersonal (mood, polarity) and logical (clause and verbal group complexing) functions. Some of the functions are performed at group rank by auxiliaries, some at word rank by suffixation on the event verb. The descriptive account also includes the verbal groups’ involvement in embedding. To facilitate descriptions, system networks are drawn up at various stages to capture the paradigmatic oppositions and interdependencies among different systems. Listed as one of the ‘critically endangered’ languages by UNESCO, the Manchu language has not yet been described, recorded or analyzed from the systemic functional perspective. Within the theoretical framework of systemic functional grammar, this paper attempts to account for one particular aspect of Manchu grammar, in a bid to expand the appliability of Systemic Functional Linguistics and make it contribute effectively to the description and preservation of endangered languages.

Reality of Human Experience and the Search for Unity

Man’s basic attitude towards reality determines his end. Man either opts to accept reality and becomes an optimist or denies and becomes a pessimist. The study presented the reality of human experience. And these experiences of human reality all boil into the experience of one’s self and become a test of subjectivity. In the history of philosophy of Man, this outlook into the experience of the self develops into three stages: first, dualism propagated by the Greeks and Aristotle turned into second, monism which extremely focused on one aspect of human reality in relation to man, then, turned into pluralism which views various aspects of man in relation to the kind of society that becomes the by-product of such development and yet makes the identity of man more complicated. In the history of philosophy, human consciousness was so caught up in dualism between body and spirit-mind that became an issue for philosophers like the Greek such as Socrates, Plato and Aristotle and followers such as Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes and others until it split into extreme monism of either materialism or intellectualism-spiritualism developed into more complex pluralism that resulted to a pluralist society. Hence, there is a call for unity especially for existential-phenomenologist in order to gather and link every piece of event and experience into a complete history of human reality as well as to form this experiential event called humanity.

Time Matters: Case Studies Analyzing Temporal Elements of the Aesthetic Interactive Experience in Interactive Media Art

Art-viewers spend time with art. Digital-media-art viewers' engagement is not only time-based but extendable, since depending on the level of aesthetic interaction, people spend more time with the piece, allowing more time to understand the meaning of the work. Interactive digital media art yields an experiential event to art-viewers. Without this interactive event the artwork’s existence becomes questionable. The meaning is output by an art-viewers input; set in a temporal space. A number of studies in HCI, UI, and UX design have dealt with various aspects of time. This paper intends to analyze time as an aesthetic element, and as the reason art-viewers invest their time with interactive digital media art works for artists and designers to understand what they and their prospective viewers are dealing with.

Integration of Experiential Learning and Leadership Development in a Sport Management Classroom

Experiential learning has been widely used to impact student engagement and provide opportunities to apply theory to practice (Bower, 2013). Sport management faculty regularly use experiential learning in event management, sales classes and internships (Charlton, 2007; McKelvey & Southall, 2008). In addition, educators often include leadership development within their student learning outcomes (COSMA, 2014; MacKie, 2014). This study examines the effectiveness of leadership development activities implemented in an experiential event management course. A case study approach was selected to demonstrate in-depth development and analysis of the course and the integration of strengths-based leadership activities. Students completed the StrengthFinder assessment (Rath & Conchie, 2009), the Strengths Awareness Measure (Schreiner, 2004), and the Strengths of Self Efficacy Scale (Tsai et al., 2014). Significant increases in strengths awareness were reported along with generally high self-efficacy scores. Students reported positive perceptions of the experiential learning experience and increased levels of engagement.

Servicing a heavy metal fandom posthumously: a sociosemiotic account of collective identity formation in Dio's memorial

This study is positioned in the burgeoning research field of collective memory and identity by offering a sociosemiotic account of the formation of fandom identity in the context of Ronnie James Dio's memorial. By drawing on the three major categories whereby collective memory is formed – that is artifacts, processes, places, as well as on the three key sociosemiotic metafunctions which are responsible for shaping a cultural event as sign system – the study scrutinizes the key semiotic resources that shape the experiential event of a memorial. This paper contributes to the extant literature on memory and identity by offering a nuanced, sociosemiotically informed reading of a heavy metal legend's memorial, while attending to the bespoke semiotic resources that comprise it.

<em>Kumakalam na Sikmura</em>: Hunger as Filipino Women's Awakening to Ecofeminist Consciousness

In the Philippines, the vernacular kumakalam na sikmura (literally translated as “gnawing of the stomach”) is used as an image of hunger, a profound experiential event. Hunger as an embodied experience highlights the reciprocity of the body and the world, and the vulnerability of our embodiment is precisely the thread that weaves our embodied experiences together. The body in pain articulated by kumakalam na sikmura in turn becomes a foundational moral experience that will help frame an ecofeminist praxis responsive to issues surrounding women and nature.

Commercialised nostalgia

Purpose– The purpose of this paper was to develop a framework linking the concept of nostalgia and experiential consumption, articulating the transformation of a mundane activity to a special experience, using the context of the small business and afternoon tea.Design/methodology/approach– The methodology is based on a grounded theory approach and draws on multiple methods of data collection including participant observation, in-depth interviews with afternoon tea room managers, researcher introspection and consumer interviews.Findings– By employing nostalgia cues through product, ritual and aesthetics, an idealised home can be constructed emphasising belonging and sharing. The small business owner can be effective in transforming an ordinary activity to an experiential event. Contemporary tea rooms do not replicate tradition; they use it as a cultural resource to construct something novel.Research limitations/implications– This paper demonstrates how the careful configuration of the retail space can be a key success factor, not only for marketers in large flagship brand stores, but also for smaller, independent and local businesses. The essential interplay between product, ritual and aesthetics creates positive moods of belonging and sharing and may increase satisfaction.Practical implications– Understanding the emotional value of everyday experiences is a point of differentiation in a crowded marketplace and may directly influence consumer loyalty. Staging experiences is a key competitive strategy.Originality/value– This paper is one of the few to empirically assess links between the nostalgia paradigm and experiential consumption. Existing research has emphasised large retail spaces; in contrast, the authors demonstrate how consumer experiences can be staged in smaller, independent and local businesses.

Body part metonymies in action and perception frames: a cognitive analysis.

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Engaging global training program delivers high‐performance results

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to describe the impact of the DHL Express CIS Foundation program, a globally consistent learning program, which was developed and delivered to 100,000 employees in 220 countries in 42 languages in less than 18 months. The intention was to motivate, invigorate and inspire those employees to be the best that they could be,Design/methodology/approachResults‐driven learning and development agency NKD Learning created a breakthrough training program designed to invigorate employee engagement, instill a truly customer‐centric mindset and deliver measurable success to international company, DHL Express. The blended learning approach of the bespoke Certified International Specialist (CIS) Foundation Program included a one and a half day experiential event, supported by stand‐alone, hour‐long interactive training modules and painstakingly crafted trainer scripts – which could be easily adapted and translated into 42 languages and still be effective.FindingsIn less than 18 months, all 100,000 DHL Express employees had been through the CIS Foundation and all project deliverables had been achieved to agreed quality, cost and timeline standards. End of program feedback scores averaged 5.8 out of 6. Key employee opinion scores significantly exceeded the agreed targets for Strategy, Employee Engagement, and Learning & Development. The actual scores showed year‐on‐year increases of between 7 and 11 percent, compared to the 1 to 3 percent target increases.Originality/valueThe DHL Express CIS Foundation module course incorporates innovative learning methodologies and approaches, cutting‐edge film and animation support messaging, and hi‐impact learning materials.

Reflection on facilitation of an NMP drug calculation class

In this article, the author describes how the facilitation of a drug calculation class was changed as a result of an experiential learning event. Instead of dictating how students should work out drug calculations, a problem-based learning approach is now used to help students consolidate their own methods for obtaining the correct answers. The aims and objectives of the class were also reviewed in order to relate the content of the lesson to its purpose: developing the competence of students in working out drug calculations in their own way. Learning is a continuous process; we should make the most of reflecting and learning from our personal experiences to improve our future behaviour in the workplace, whether we are non-medical prescribers or non-medical prescriber educators. It is very important to minimize error in drug calculations, as error is associated with harm to patients ( Wright, 2008 ).

From a Phenomenology of the Subject to a Phenomenology of the Event: Reconstructing the Ontological Basis for a Phenomenological Psychology

Abstract In this paper I make the argument that being phenomenologically faithful to human experience means broadening the scope of the phenomenological method to not only include subjective experiences. Instead of reducing the psychological study of phenomena to the subject who ‘has’ an experience and who makes sense of this experience according to his or her own goal-directed plans, I will introduce the idea of starting our research from an understanding of an experience that is more original than the subject who ‘has’ it, since it both happens to this subject and transforms this subject in the process of happening to it. This understanding of experience, which is based in part on insights from the later Heidegger and the work of Jean-Luc Marion, takes the phenomenological reduction beyond what this or that experience meant to a particular subject (a psychological reduction) and looks instead at how this particular subject came into being as part of an experiential event that allowed it to become the subject that it is. I will call this new phenomenology a ‘phenomenology of the event’ and will seek to develop the implications of situating the study of psychological phenomena within such a paradigm.