Problematic Connection Research Articles

Enabling collaborative lesson research

AbstractIn this paper, we interrogate and justify the design of a local project that used collaborative design research in a secondary school in England. As authors, we represent teachers and teacher educators engaged in design research, whereby we acknowledge the difficulties implicit to university and school collaborations within a performative culture. Our analysis recognises the struggle for research‐informed professional judgement in the decision‐making and actions of educators that are situated in schools. A professional learning project is analysed to position teachers and teacher educators as practitioner researchers. In this respect, Stenhouse's work provides an analytical framework that is both a lens through which to interpret the nature of collaborations, as well as a methodology that allows us to understand the way in which we navigate the gap between educators' aspirations and the curriculum design and teaching within the project. The collaborative design research project was stimulated by an aspiration to make trigonometry accessible to low prior attaining pupils in a secondary mathematics classroom. This provides a stimulus for understanding the conditions that enable collaborative lesson inquiry and to question whether it can provoke raised aspirations for young people in inclusive classrooms. This allows us to understand the work of teachers as researchers and research users in an increasingly messy teacher education context. We interrogate the potentially problematic connection between research and practice within collaborative inquiry, as we understand how we enable research that is “held accountable for its relevance to practice” because “that relevance can only be validated by practitioners” (Stenhouse, 1988, p. 49).

The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka by John Zilcosky

Reviewed by: The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka by John Zilcosky Dylan Mohr John Zilcosky, The Language of Trauma: War and Technology in Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2021. 192 pp. John Zilcosky's The Language of Trauma returns to several texts familiar to readers of his previous work such as Kafka's Travels (2003) and Uncanny Encounters (2016). The Language of Trauma further expands Zilcosky's framework for discussing the interplay between literature, medicine, and modernity. Drawing from the failure of positivist thought to deal with the etiologies of trauma, Zilcosky draws out two discursive responses to the trauma of modernity. The first is the development of a language of explanation (as put forward by the medical community). The second is the language of expression (as advanced by writers and artists). Hoffmann, Freud, and Kafka, however, bridged the two discursive fields to both "explain traumatic suffering and let it speak" (15). In other words, these three writers, Zilcosky contends, "allow for new ways of looking at modern literature from the perspective of a crisis in the semiotics of traumatic illness" (14). Zilcosky begins with E.T.A. Hoffmann's "The Sandman" and claims that [End Page 74] the tale of Nathanael's descent into madness following his veiled encounter with Coppelius is actually a war story, a traumatic reenactment of Hoffmann's own experiences during the Battle of Dresden in 1813. Hoffmann's diaries record his experiences as a civilian trapped in Dresden during the battle. He witnessed soldiers decapitated by cannonballs, civilians disemboweled, and bodies torn asunder and clotted back together with congealing blood. Zilcosky reads these entries into "The Sandman" and discovers that the language of the story not only resembles Hoffmann's firsthand accounts of the battle but often quotes from the entries verbatim. This narrative mode, Zilcosky argues, forms an "uncanny subplot" (or an embodied trauma) in a text that seemingly has nothing to do with warfare. Zilcosky's second chapter returns to Freud's 1919 "The Uncanny," a "prototypical modernist crossover text" that, like "The Sandman," also harbors an "undiscovered subtext" of war—this time World War I. The First World War, after all, posed the greatest threat to the core foundations of psychoanalysis. How could one still hold that the causes of all neuroses were sexual in nature, critics of psychoanalysis asked, after witnessing the phenomenon of shell shock in soldiers? Freud, Zilcosky rightly contends, was never able to convincingly connect the war neuroses to sexuality, and this forced Freud to rethink psychoanalysis after the war—most notably in Beyond the Pleasure Principle. In trying to bridge the language of expression and explanation, Zilcosky convincingly outlines a reading of "The Uncanny" that is firmly historical in its lineage with other causal explanations of neuroses such as "Eisenbahnkrankheit" or "vent du boulet" as well as Freud's own source material (ranging from a short story in the English magazine The Strand to Freud's own sons at the front); it is also a reading that allows the text to express its own, unacknowledged traumatic logic—what Zilcosky calls "system-immanent pathologies" that could come to infect anyone, not just soldiers at the front. Such system-immanent pathologies are traced out more fully in the work of Kafka, a writer whose work exemplifies an "obsession with sourceless symptoms" (106). The insurance agents that populate some of Kafka's texts often come up against the problematic connections between the body and its symptoms. It wasn't just Freud's couch where the dramas of medical and legal insistence on locating physical causes for neuroses manifested. There was, in fact, a burgeoning business adjudicating just such things. Specific pathologies emerged from this legal and medical knotting, such as Rentenneurose, the conscious struggle to justify one's neurosis pension. Emerging from that affliction [End Page 75] was its inverse, Rentenkampfneurose, in which "the fight to prove that one was truly ill […] resulted itself in a neurosis" (129). Kafka understood how this medico-legal structure (in the form of social insurance) actually became the "cure and cause," a system-immanent pathology. Kafka's fictions, Zilcosky argues, enacts a poetics of...

Introduction

Introduction

«ДЕРЕВЬЯ КАЧАЮТСЯ БЕЗ ВЕТРА»: РЕЦЕПТИВНЫЙ И ИНТЕРТЕКСТУАЛЬНЫЙ ЖЕСТ ДЕНИСА ТРЕТЬЯКОВА («ЦЕРКОВЬ ДЕТСТВА»)

The article is based on the hypothesis of Yu. Kristeva on gesture as a semiotic text. The text of Denis Tretyakov’s song “Trees (Trees swing without wind)” is considered as a receptive and intertextual gesture. Оbservations made in this article offer the key to this text / gesture: step by step reconstruction of its creative communication with fragments of religious and mystical teachings (Kabbalah, Crowlianism, etc.), literary and journalistic works (“Apollo Bezobrazov” by B. Poplavsky, “Trees took the form of wind” by W.S. Burroughs). As a result, it is established that all the problematic and thematic fields and connections of the text are transferred to the cosmic sphere, and this allows its author to create a universal ontological model of the world.

Military Perspective on Strategic Communications as the “New Kid on the Block”: Narrating the Czech Military Deployment in Afghanistan and the Baltic States

ABSTRACT The military perspective of strategic communications is perceived as a newer dimension of the emergent discipline, even though it has been long dealing with similar issues around the boundaries and definition of the concept. This article builds on the research on narratives as a key tool of strategic communications. It explores how the Czech political and military authorities narrated its armed forces’ contribution to the Resolute Support Mission and the enhanced Forward Presence and how their communications aligned with the NATO narratives. The findings are interpreted in the context of small states’ behavior in foreign and security policy and the leader-follower relationship which implies these states have specific policy objectives that impact upon the narratives justifying their armed forces’ deployment. The findings confirmed the Czech dependence on NATO/US by adopting their argumentation despite the problematic connection of the Afghan mission to the country’s immediate security, or by stressing in the discourse its reputation for loyalty as part of “bandwagon for protection.” At the same time, the authorities were able to tailor the narrative to better align it with the country’s immediate security needs and public perceptions and to limit its communication efforts when needed to avoid potential consistency issues.

Oh, Mother, Who Art Thou? : The Heart of Maternal Darkness in the Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield

Our culture assumes: No love is as great as that of a mother for her child. Motherhood has been perpetually associated with self-effacement and self-abnegation. Adrienne Rich while making a distinction between the actual lived experience of a mother and the institution of motherhood has argued that motherhood is a cultural construct and a far cry from the real experience of mothering. This article traces and examines representations of motherhood in the select short stories of Katherine Mansfield, in the light of Adrienne Rich’s theories in Of Woman Born. Much like Adrienne Rich, Mansfield discredits the traditional assumption that to be a mother is an essential pre-requisite to be a ‘real woman’. Mansfield’s women characters unleash a plurality of voices that aid the readers at viewing maternity as an ambiguous experience. Instead of romanticizing and idealizing the mother-daughter relationship, she offers a problematic connection between both the figures, often pitting them as rivals against each other. Her women characters progressively revolt from within the four walls of the household by their intermittent display of anger and deliberate attempts at failing to conform to the monolithic ideals of femininity.

Migration, service work, and masculinity in the global South: Private security guards in post‐socialist China

AbstractPast research on service work and masculinity has focused on men in traditionally feminized occupations or men in celebrated male‐dominated occupations in the global North, thus neglecting the experiences of men in low status, male‐dominated, and supposedly “masculine” service occupations in the global South. This article attempts to fill the gap by illustrating the problematic connections between work and masculinity among rural‐to‐urban male migrant workers in low paid private security guarding in South China. It examines how macrostructural forces of labor precarization, growing class inequalities, and the emergence of a discourse of consumer supremacy in post‐socialist China has rendered the instrumental, symbolic, and social connections between work and masculinity problematic for this group of workers. It also describes five different strategies employed by these workers to achieve a sense of manhood: practicing combative masculinity; practicing toxic masculinity; constructing a discourse of professionalism; emphasizing their fulfillment of familial responsibility; and espousing an entrepreneurial aspiration.

Decolonialism & Angoasă Morală: Adolescenţa Turbulentă A Deconstrucţiei Postcoloniale

Abstract This paper looks at the relationship between post and decolonialism, two critical movements rooted in political theory and literary studies alike. It considers their similarities and their common ethical stance, while also investigating the reasons for the very necessity of decolonialism as a discipline. The main purpose of the subsequent metacritic analysis (which compares Edward Said’s line of inquiry with recent works by Revathi Krishnaswamy, Walter Mignolo and Sylvia Marcos) is to highlight the methodological evolution that took place especially in the field of literary criticism. Finally, the essay takes into consideration the problematic connections that are being established between European schools of thought and their indigenous counterparts, trying to find ways in which comparatism will not lead to theoretical uniformization, but rather to a set of strategies for reading peripheral literatures and for including them in academic debates on theory.

THE SACRED MOUNT TAISHAN IN THE PROFANE SPACE OF THE CONTEMPORARY CULTURE INDUSTRY OF PRC

e paper seeks to address some questions connected to the conflict between the very nature of sacred places like mount Taishan in China and the contemporary phenomenon of culture industry which has its intrinsic value in exploitation of the national history and culture with the purpose of ensuring economical profit for the state. The author traces the roots and the historical development of the worship of mount Taishan into an emblematic universal symbol of Chineseness and points to possible problematic connection between this symbol and the clear profit-making purpose of one concrete project of the culture industry in PRC – the “Culture Industry Park of Mount Taishan”, whose realization started in 2009. As a meaningful focus of the whole project the landscape mega-spectacle “Chinese Taishan: The Great Sacrifice to Heaven and Earth” is examined through its official media covering and the feedback of the spectators. The paper finds that the promoted “harmony” between the history of the sacred mount Taishan and the contemporary mundane use of it as a cultural resource contains potential dramatical developments.

Inter-relações entre a dívida pública e política monetária no Brasil: uma análise histórica

Resumo O presente artigo tem como objetivo discutir a conexão existente entre a política monetária e a dívida pública no Brasil, destacando as implicações daí decorrentes. Para isso, parte de uma retomada histórica do surgimento do mercado de títulos da dívida pública e das instituições responsáveis por seu gerenciamento. Posteriormente, são discutidos os dados relativos às variáveis ligadas à política monetária e à dívida pública entre 1999 a 2016. A partir da referida análise, observou-se a existência de uma conexão problemática entre duas políticas - monetária e fiscal - dada pela taxa Selic que é, ao mesmo tempo, instrumento de controle da inflação e taxa que remunera parcela expressiva da dívida pública. O trabalho conclui que esta vinculação reduz a eficácia das referidas políticas, requerendo ações como desvinculação da política monetária e da dívida pública, elevação do prazo e duração da dívida, mudança da sua composição e, particularmente, redução da taxa Selic.

Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic

Monsters in the Attic: Women’s Rage and the Gothic

The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain by Oscar E. Vázquez

Reviewed by: The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain by Oscar E. Vázquez María del Pilar Blanco The End Again: Degeneration and Visual Culture in Modern Spain. Oscar E. Vázquez. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2017. Pp. 272. $84.95 (cloth). Reading Oscar E. Vázquez’s excellent The End Again immediately brought to mind Antonio Machado’s “Por tierras de España” (In the Lands of Spain) from his Campos de Castilla (1907–17), a work that I have spent a number of years unpacking with my undergraduate students for the variety of discourses it espouses. In this poem, a speaker contemplates the Castilian landscape directly before his eyes, moving from seemingly detached description of the landscape to a biting diagnosis of the ills befalling a post-1898 “Disaster” Spain—ailments so pervasive they are evidenced on the bodies of the subjects living within this landscape. One of the stanzas reads: “Abunda el hombre malo del campo y de la aldea,/ capaz de insanos vicios y crímenes bestiales,/ que bajo el pardo sayo esconde un alma fea,/ esclava de los siete pecados capitales” (The land and the villages are full of evil men/capable of perverse behaviour and bestial crimes,/ who hide an ugly soul under their dark cloak/like a slave to the seven deadly sins”).1 In class, I ask my students to consider the register of that voice (what is he judging, and why is he so judgmental?), but also the variety of information that seems to accompany the accusations posed herein. Machado’s observer insists on a character connection between man and landscape, as much as he sees in that everyman a generalized outlook on Castille, and Spain as a whole. The poem’s mournful register is weighed down by its stark indictment, which, in one fell swoop, merges references to those bêtes noires of the Catholic faith (the seven deadly sins) and the criminological discourse that was in vogue during the fin-de-siècle, conveying a seamless and problematic connection between physiognomy and behavior. Machado’s sentiment and thinking in this poem is symptomatic of a pessimism over the country’s modernity that had settled in the minds of Spanish writers and artists of the fin-de-siècle. It was a pessimism that found a set of ripe justifications in the medical and sociological [End Page 893] discourses emerging from other European nations—particularly France and Italy—and that described patterns of moral and physical degeneracy in their populations. While critical histories of this sentiment as it is manifested in literature abound, Vázquez’s The End Again presents an original and necessary window into the question of how the visual arts, in conjunction with writing from the period between the 1870s and the 1920s, interpreted this multifaceted questioning of national character. Scholars and students of modernisms unfamiliar with the multi-region Spanish experience will find this an engaging book that digs down into the contradictions within discourses about modernity. Vázquez is clear in setting up his position vis-à-vis modernism: while the book, he writes, does not “take up anew the question of ‘singular,’ ‘comparative,’ or ‘alternative’ modernities,” The End Again “begins with the premise that there were competing definitions of what was modern or backward in Spain, and they were argued in different languages across multiple regional centers” (12). This is a necessarily ambitious project, given the problematic nature of “degeneration” as a term in itself: pervasive as it was across the nineteenth century and beyond, this notion tended to align itself with other, somewhat similar ideas like “decay” and “decadence,” which in turn attracted a wealth of scientific, aesthetic, and historical interpretations. For Spanish thinkers in particular, the soul-searching related to the country’s place in the modern world at the dawn of the twentieth century entailed a tricky ethnic and cultural crisis. As Vázquez ably illustrates, degeneration cropped up in all manner of spaces: in medical journals, in political discussions about the nobility (and their lived spaces, from homes to gardens), or the future of the country’s arts. One of the key questions...

Reworking the postmodern understanding of reality through fantasy in M. Night Shyamalan’s Lady in the Water (2006) and Neil Jordan’s Ondine (2009).

In the two feature films Lady in the Water (2006) and Ondine (2009), M. Night Shyamalan and Neil Jordan, respectively, present us with two grounded-in-reality fairy tales whose two male protagonists come in close contact with two mythical water creatures – encounters that positively reshape their perspective on reality through the use of fantasy. Shyamalan relates the story of an emotionally wrecked middle-aged man who rescues a ‘narf’ (a water nymph in an unoriginated ancient bedtime story) from the pool of the dreary building he is superintending, while Jordan follows the ordeal of a struggling Irish fisherman who accidentally fishes a ‘selkie’ (a Celtic seal-like water creature that has the power to assume full human form on land by shedding its seal skin). The two films negotiate the problematic connection between the fantastic and the real, and question the postmodern concept of representations masking an absence of solid reality as proposed by Jean Baudrillard. The paper focuses on tracing the ontological and linguistic role of fantasy in relation to reality and delineates how acts of storytelling and representation can refashion the human psyche’s perception of reality in a postmodern world by analysing the narrative and psychological means by which this relation is constructed in Shyamalan’s and Jordan’s films. The main argument of the paper is to explore how employing metafictional narrative techniques and reworking the psyche’s ties to fantasy can offer the postmodern individual a more enabling understanding of themselves and their reality.

Kant on Fine Art, Genius and the Threat of Private Meaning

AbstractWittgenstein’s private language argument claims that language and meaning generally are public. It also contends with our appreciation of artworks and reveals the deep connection in our minds between originality and the temptation to think of original meaning as private. This problematic connection of ideas is found in Kant’s theory of fine art. For Kant conceives of the capacity of artistic genius for imaginatively envisioning original content as prior to and independent of finding the artistic means of communicating this content to others. This raises the question of whether we can conceive of art as both original and meaningful without succumbing to privacy.

The ‘Sown Men’ and the Sons of Oedipus: Representations of Land, Earth and City in Euripides’ Phoinissai

The article discusses thematic representations of the city of Thebes in the two central myths of Phoinissai: that of autochthony and the family of Oedipus. The author examines the aberrant nature of autochthonic reproduction specifically in relation to the femaleness of the earth and the effect of this on the present generation, also taking into account the complex ‘gendering’ of the last of the autochthons, Menoikeus, who dies for the city. Discussion of the city’s role in the Oedipus myth includes the complex relationship of Oedipus’ two sons with their native city and associated difficulties of identity and belonging which are linked with the family history of violence between males and with a problematic connection with the native- or fatherland.

Black Lives, Sacred Humanity, and the Racialization of Nature, or Why America Needs Religious Naturalism Today

Research Article| September 01 2017 Black Lives, Sacred Humanity, and the Racialization of Nature, or Why America Needs Religious Naturalism Today Carol Wayne White Carol Wayne White Bucknell University Carol Wayne White is professor of philosophy of religion at Bucknell University, and the author of Poststructuralism, Feminism, and Religion: Triangulating Positions (2002); The Legacy of Anne Conway (1631–70): Reverberations from a Mystical Naturalism (2009); and Black Lives and Sacred Humanity: Toward an African American Religious Naturalism (2016). She has recently published articles addressing the intersections of religious naturalism and queer theory, ecology and religion, and critical race theory and naturalistic views of the human. White is currently working on two new book projects. One explores the tenets of deep ecology and religious naturalism that are expressed in contemporary American nature poets and writers; the other addresses the problematic connections between antiblack racism and speciesism using the tenets of religious naturalism. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Journal of Theology & Philosophy (2017) 38 (2-3): 109–122. https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.38.2-3.0109 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Carol Wayne White; Black Lives, Sacred Humanity, and the Racialization of Nature, or Why America Needs Religious Naturalism Today. American Journal of Theology & Philosophy 1 January 2017; 38 (2-3): 109–122. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/amerjtheophil.38.2-3.0109 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressAmerican Journal of Theology & Philosophy Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright 2017 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois2017 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

"It Is Definitely a Game Changer": A Qualitative Study of Experiences with In-home Overnight Closed-Loop Technology Among Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.

This qualitative study explored trial participants' experiences of four nights of in-home closed loop. Sixteen adults with type 1 diabetes, who completed a randomized crossover trial, were interviewed after four consecutive nights of closed-loop. Interviews were audio recorded, transcribed, and analyzed with a coding framework developed to identify the main themes. Participants had a mean age of 42 ± 10 years, nine were women; mean diabetes duration was 27 ± 7 years, and all were using insulin pumps. Overall, first impressions were positive. Participants found closed-loop easy to use and understand. Most experienced more stable overnight glucose levels, although for some these were similar to usual care or higher than they expected. Compared with their usual treatment, they noticed the proactive nature of the closed-loop, being able to predict trends and deliver micro amounts of insulin. Most reported technical glitches or inconveniences during one or more nights, such as transmission problems, problematic connectivity between devices, ongoing alarms despite addressing low glucose levels, and sensor inaccuracy. Remote monitoring by the trial team and their own hypoglycemic awareness contributed to feelings of trust and safety. Although rare, safety concerns were raised, related to feeling unsure whether the system would respond in time to falling glucose levels. This study provides relevant insights for implementation of closed-loop in the real world. For people with diabetes who are less familiar with technology, remote monitoring for the first few days may provide reassurance, strengthen their trust/skills, and make closed-loop an acceptable option for more people with type 1 diabetes.

Constructing Recidivism Risk for Sentencing

“Evidence-based sentencing” informs criminal sentencing determinations by using statistically derived risk assessment tools to predict a defendant’s likelihood of committing future crimes. By relying on data-driven risk assessment tools, this practice applies Big Data techniques to sentencing. This Article challenges the perception that such risk assessment tools neutrally classify a defendant’s recidivism risk. Scientists who construct such tools necessarily make normative choices and embed them in the tools’ design. Such choices – including how the scientists formulate the data set, how they define “recidivism” and which factors they select to create a risk tool’s underlying algorithm – all require subjective judgment calls and can introduce inadvertent bias. Rendered invisible once tools have been created, decisions about how to select, process and analyze data amount to distinct, if unintended, sentencing policy choices when judges use such risk assessment tools through evidence-based sentencing. That data scientists make such calls present three unique concerns. First, tool creators face diverging interests when exercising their discretion. Data scientists tend to make design choices based on data robustness and tool accuracy, but such interests can conflict with or even contradict sentencing policy. Second, tool creators are ill-equipped to resolve existing racial disparities in the criminal justice system, but their design choices potentially replicate and exacerbate these disparities significantly. Finally, tool creators have little incentive to disclose the policy and data choices made, leading to misuse of and misrepresentation about the value of their seemingly objective and scientifically derived information. A partial solution lies in requiring more transparency about the recidivism risk tools' design. Additionally, those with criminal justice expertise must be included in the tool design process. This Article calls for disclosure of data processing decisions and risk assessment tool assumptions, and review by trained governmental entities to translate the design choices for consumption by judges and probation officers in states that permit evidence-based sentencing. Recognizing the intricate and problematic connection between Big Data and evidence-based sentencing, this Article concludes by considering obstacles to even this modest call for oversight in such a new and sometimes inaccessible area of criminal justice reform.

Perceptions of Playing Culture in Sport: The Problem of Diverse Opinion in the Light of <i>Barnes</i>

Prior to Barnes, the boundaries of injury-causing conduct in sport, susceptible in law to the concept of consent were confined to actions within the rules of a game. Despite Bradshaw and Billinghurst implicitly eluding to a wider interpretation of consent it was Barnes that first acknowledged that contacts outside of the rules of the game can in certain circumstances, be consented to. Thus, we now have the notion of ‘Playing Culture’ firmly expressed in law. This paper addresses the problematic connection between criminal law concepts of consent and ‘Playing Culture’ in light of different perceptions of violence on the sports-field. It summarises a sample of amateur rugby participants’ responses to varying levels of violence and argues that the diversity of perception poses a problem for the organic development of regulation in sport. The paper concludes with some suggestions on how a process of education and reflection within Sports Governing Bodies might achieve a better regulatory relationship with the courts and with the concerns of wider society.

An Analysis of the Concepts for Organization and Arranging with Furniture of Office Spaces

BACKGROUND: With this paper it is made an analysis of the concepts for organization of the furniture and furnishing of office spaces. Two different aspects are beeing developed, which are intended for two different business structures and entities. The comparative approach for two functional divergent concepts allows clearer insight in the requests, the possibilities and the capacities of the premise for each specific purpose. Through the project analyzes the potential users of the office space would have detailed review and knowledge for the planning and the design procedures of the concrete space. The organization of the furniture and the remaining arrangement vary in the two project varieties created for them and are much depended on the analyzes of the anthropometric and ergonomic principles of design being applied in the development of the project varieties.AIM: The aim of the ergonomic analyzes being shown in the paper is to get quality and comfortable working space, in which the human factor is very important.RESULTS: Through better understanding of the ergonomic parameters, the designer can influence on the health and the safety in the working place. In fact, responsibility and task of each designer is to constantly follow the researches in the field of the ergonomic in order to apply, maintain and improve them while designing the furniture and the interior. In this paper the most frequent ergonomic problems are being covered appearing in separate characteristic working places. Also, the amount of communication and manipulation space is being mentioned. Moreover, the nodes with problematic connections are being mentioned and the opportunities to overcome them. CONCLUSION: Only with quality understanding of the human factor, its working place, the equipment, the working environment and the interaction relationships which exist between them, could the furniture and the interiors be designed in healthy and safe manner to create effective and efficient working systems.