Hi everybody,
we are in the process of planning a publication that is aiming to point out the basic foundations and practice potential of improvisation from an interdisciplinary point of view. Which aspects would you like to be added to the below listed alphabetic content samples? Looking forward to suggestions from many different perspectives such as Media and Communication, Cultural Studies, Arts, Cybernetics, Epistemology, Cognitive Research, Philosophy, Pedagogy, Psychology, Medicine, Management, Organization, Politics, Anthropology...
Editors: Leon Tsvasman & Martin A. M. Gansinger
Proposed titles:
Foundations of Improvisation. Compendium for Best Practice.
The Interdisciplinary Directory of Improvisation. Concepts and Practice Potential.
The Large Handbook of Improvisation. Best Practice, Concepts and Foundations.
Aim: to contribute to the emancipation/legitimation/acceptance of the improvisational principle in socially relevant areas such as education, culture, politics, and economy – using the innovative and interdisciplinary approach of a concise compendium focused on extemporaneous concepts and practices
Need for publication: contribution to the improvement of interdisciplinary grounded, improvisation-based forms of communication, organization, and learning in accordance with an increasingly interconnected/participative/media-supported society
Usability:
● independent learning for better personal orientation in relevant areas of practice and individual creative activity
● didactic relevance regarding the possible incorporation of extemporaneous techniques and improvisational practices in the context of innovative working- and learning-environments: interactive teaching, group tasks, project-related tasks, presentations etc.
● application of derived improvisational principles in the fields of management, economy, culture, and politics: providing concepts for differentiated perspectives on organizational, operational and performative tasks
Unique Selling Point: high didactic and economic relevance, based on a unique conceptual approach using a constructivist-inspired, cybernetically justified, epistemological structure that has already been utilized for ''Das grosse Lexikon Medien und Kommunikation'' (Ergon, 2006):
● Definition of term
● Positioning
● Inherent aspects
● Practical context
● Ethical, political, economic, didactic aspects
● Outlook and perspectives
Contributors:
Next to a number of self-authored lemmata within the range of their own expertise and disciplinary borders, the editors rely on a network of valuable contributors from various fields, consisting of authors for ‘‘Das grosse Lexikon Medien und Kommunikation’’ and international researchers of improvisation.
Content samples:
Acting
Actuality
Allopoiesis
Attention
Anticipation
Autopoiesis
Awareness
Cognition
Consciousness
Consistency
Experience
Extemporarity
Extempore speech
Implicit knowledge
Improvisation
Incorporation
Integrated learning
Interaction
Interdependency
Intersubjectivity
Intuition
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Mediality
Mediation
Memory
Memory-based learning
Meta-reflection
Music
Orality
Orientation Objectivity
Perception
Potentiality
Presence
Processual action
Project-based learning
Relevance
Repetition
Responsibility
Selection
Specialization
Subjectivity
Spontaneity
Standardization
Technology
Thematic improvisation
Time
Workflow
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Trobar (Occitan and Castillian verb).
In 16th century Spanish, there is an opposition between "metrificar de repente", i.e. during the performance, and "de pensado", i.e. previously ; both happened without recurring to writing.
Glosa (a poetic and a musical genre in 16th Century Spain)
Décima (a poetic genre that is practiced across the Spanish Speaking world)
Variation
Mimesis / Imitation (see Gregory Nagy's Poetry as Performance).
Bon jour Severine,
merci beaucoup pour les idee, ''metrificar de repente'' must be similar to the term ''fantasieren'' for the improvisational explorations of classical composers. We do have a section for vertical poetry, but your additions contribute to deepen this perspective. Might these be connected to the troubadour tradition in that area? Could you imagine to author some of the suggested terms in the form of lexical entries?
Hello Martin,
indeed "metrificar de repente" is analogous; improvised poetry exists under various names, especially in the Spanish-speaking world (more so than in the French-speaking world, though slam is bringing a welcome renewal). The connection with the troubadour tradition isn't well known, though it seems improvisational practices never really stopped. Sources are scarce and little known, and very few people know much beyond the historical period they specialize in.
I would indeed like to participate to your work – I think it's a necessary one. I could author Trobar, Glosa, Imitation / Mimesis. I can suggest possible authors for Décima.
Hi Severine,
your contribution would be very helpful. As mentioned, we are trying to highlight the practical potential of these rather neglected techniques in the context of a contemporary environment.
The structural guideline would be as follows:
● discursive definition of term (1/4)
● 4-5 major aspects incl. definition of context (2/4)
● didactic, ethical, political, economic implications incl. practical outlook (1/4)
● list of related terms/topics, correlations with other articles (separate)
as recognizable, implicit paragraphs in that order.
A bientot
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