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Knowledge Transfer Conference Scotland

Submitted by Lindsay on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 21:57
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Knowledge Transfer Conference Scotland
St Andrews University
Friday the 4th April 2008

Part One

Knowledge Transfer (KT) involves the two-way flow of ideas, skills and people between the research and higher education community and wider users in Society in the public and private sectors.

Solid Knowledge

Submitted by jaromil on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 12:43
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Solid Knowledge
As privatisation of educational structures progresses, the Academy assumes corporate and business mind-set, while we assist to a shift of the educational mission in society from inclusive to exclusive. The influential play of industries has permeated most academical disciplines, in particular regarding the adoption of technologies. The choice of educators has become biased by logics of short term profit, rather than Solid Knowledge.

Almost Documentary: Celcrabeels' introduction to taxi-to-praxi

Submitted by celcrabeels on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 17:49
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Dear all, I have thought about the questions put to us by Taxi to Praxi. I will elaborate a bit.

How do you define practice-led artistic research?

One has to look at the context, the Bologna Process aims to create a European Higher Education Area by 2010. Due to this process the Belgian Academy’s and University’s recently are merging into one structure. This evolution has created a need for 'PhD candidate researchers in Fine Art ' in the Belgian. academic world.

Apropos Open Source Methodologies

Submitted by Armin Medosch on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 17:30
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When we first started to circulate the call for taxi-to-praxi some of the reactions which I got in private email were of the kind "open source methodology, what's that supposed to be?" - "there is no such things", " etc. Since that moment I thought aha, we are on to something and I should write something about it. This is now not the all conclusive article, but a forum posting, improvised and unfinished.

It would be easy now to come up with references to the so called "hacker ethics". you can get the basic idea from this wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_ethic

How to Get Rich

Submitted by Lindsay on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 15:25
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This is the parting advice from Prof. David Miller after his talk at the Knowledge Transfer Conference held at St Andrews University on the 4th April 2008.


1:21 minutes (791.88 KB)

Death Ray Myth

Submitted by Lindsay on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 12:53
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Part of a lecture at Dundee University by Nobel Prize winner in Physics and Senior Russian Politician Professor Zhores Alferov. He was delivering a talk 'From Einstein to Quantum Physics' where he did not mention anything of parallel universes; this statement is also taken out of context.


0:18 minutes (359.23 KB)

Bath

Submitted by Lindsay on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 11:12
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Subverting the domestic. The bath filling up.


2:14 minutes (2.56 MB)

Lungs

Submitted by Lindsay on Thu, 04/10/2008 - 10:55
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Breathing underwater.


3:27 minutes (3.95 MB)

Tay Bridge

Submitted by Lindsay on Wed, 04/09/2008 - 18:37
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This is a recording of the Tay Bridge from three metres below the water. The recording was made off the North shore directly under the bridge and beside the sea wall. The vibration through the solid sandstone shore supports is quite unbelievable, the water cutting out the audible high frequency noise that we are distracted with in everyday situations, leaving the deep rumblings of a disturbed wall.


2:07 minutes (2.43 MB)
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