Walley School Community Arts Center Feasibility Study: Appendices

Having a large capacity (over 300 seats) in Walley School demands a major investment in space and cost. Taking this into consideration, the business planning team conducted research and spoke with several individuals in an attempt to inventory and assess the community’s auditorium capabilities. Our research on existing auditorium spaces uncovered many interesting things. We found that there are over 15 existing auditorium spaces available within a 17-mile radius from the Walley School building available for public use

Parkour Fails and Hébertisme: laughing at the New Man

“Parkour Fails” represent a genre of comedic YouTube videos consisting primarily of compilations of failed stunts by practitioners of the extreme sport of parkour. Parkour originated in the suburbs of Paris and involves creative reappropriation of urban furniture. In mass media, it is usually coded as a defiant challenge to urban norms and a symbol of multicultural France’s growing social mobility. However, it was inspired by Hébertisme, a training system embraced by eugenicists and the Vichy government as a way to cultivate the New Man, an idealized figure incarnating fascist values. While parkour athletes do not endorse fascism, many promote their practice with a rhetoric of decadence and decline, return to nature, and masculine power that echoes Vichy’s New Man ideology. This article explores the extent to which parkour fail videos humorously problematize that rhetoric

EARTH/UNEARTH [on the Nature of G-d and Creation]

Inspired by creative research, EARTH/UNEARTH explores the nature of the divine and the act of creation. This triptych of poetry features poems such as “EXPERIENCE OF A TREE (AND SKY)”, “RITUAL/SENSUAL”, and “THE THING THAT DOESN’T COME FROM THINKING” as meditations on the following questions: Is there a hierarchy that exists from G-d to dirt? How does inspiration flow through the hands to creation? And in the strain of creation, how do we care for our bodies? Each section concludes with an opportunity for visual meditation and reflection

Anti-Parasitic Urbanism in Francophone African Fiction: Sow Fall and Boudjedra

The protagonists of Aminata Sow Fall’s La Grève des bàttu (1979) and Rachid Boudjedra’s L’Escargot entêté (1977) are public health officials leading ‘campagnes d’assainissement’ in francophone African cities. They are charged with removing a supposed public health threat from urban space: beggars in the former text and rats in the latter. This article reads the novels alongside Michel Serres’s Le Parasite. It argues that thinking about the sanitation campaigns as part of a more fundamental project to eliminate what the protagonists see as parasites from their cities makes sense of the intersections between hospitality, socio-politics, hygiene, and communication in both texts. Consistent with Serres’s understanding of parasites as intrinsic to systems, the novels depict efforts to eliminate them as doomed to failure, and in the process call into question the violence visited upon those treated as the unwelcome guests of the city. This violence is shown to be linked to French colonialism in the Maghreb and West Africa. Noting the narrator of L’Escargot entêté’s efforts to escape European epistemes in his theorization of the city, the article puts Serres in dialogue with theorists of subaltern urbanism

Parkour Fails and Hébertisme: Laughing at the New Man

“Parkour Fails” represent a genre of comedic YouTube videos consisting primarily of compilations of failed stunts by practitioners of the extreme sport of parkour. Parkour originated in the suburbs of Paris and involves creative reappropriation of urban furniture. In mass media, it is usually coded as a defiant challenge to urban norms and a symbol of multicultural France’s growing social mobility. However, it was inspired by Hébertisme, a training system embraced by eugenicists and the Vichy government as a way to cultivate the New Man, an idealized figure incarnating fascist values. While parkour athletes do not endorse fascism, many promote their practice with a rhetoric of decadence and decline, return to nature, and masculine power that echoes Vichy’s New Man ideology. This article explores the extent to which parkour fail videos humorously problematize that rhetoric

WFH at the Maison de Molière: the Comédie-Française’s use of rehearsal to respond to Covid-19

France’s policy of confinement in response to Covid-19 posed an existential threat to theatres. The Comédie-Française responded with a range of digital and cinematic programming. This article examines Christophe Honoré’s film Guermantes (2021), created following the cancellation of his stage adaptation of Marcel Proust’s Le Côté de Guermantes, and Théâtre à la table, a series of staged readings posted to YouTube between November 2020 and June 2021. These projects are notable for how they centred rehearsal. The article shows how the Comédie-Française mobilised the intimacy of the rehearsal room to compensate for the loss of corporeal presence, and then interrogates Guermantes’s argument for the aesthetic value of rehearsal as an end in itself. However, while these works claim to show the process rather than the product, they in fact show little of the repetitive work of the répétition. Both were also preceded by rehearsals to which audiences were not given access. Noting the proliferation in recent years of rehearsal diaries and documentaries in France, the article concludes by arguing that the Comédie-Française’s response to the pandemic reflects a broader interrogation in contemporary French theatre of the aesthetic value of the rehearsal

Control and system engineering to optimize energy transfer from natural refrigerant heat pump systems

Bacheloroppgave i ingeniørfag, elektronikk. Fakultet for ingeniør- og naturvitskap/ Institutt for datateknologi, elektroteknologi og realfag/ Høgskulen på Vestlandet, campus Bergen.ELE15

The Universal Persistence of the Mandala Motif

This study of the universal persistence of the mandala motif covers the mandala concept, external mandalas, architectural mandalas, and current manifestations