Drama Show update

 Drama Show may go off topic, into reality. My own scripts are to explore things when other forms of comment get too difficult. The #CDWalk is intended as a way to look at HE moving online. The history of music retail is a comparison so a walk around space where shops used to be is a setting. Recently there is more obvious events with DVD and end of CD in libraries. HE still a bit of a mystery, very little news. In Exeter HMV is still there with some space for CD / DVD . But Debenhams is empty so I will propose using this as a base for digital production as imagined for HMV last year. At drupa , print show in Germany, there was a display around short run garments produced through digital. Not only patterns and colours but fitted one off to a body scan as you walk in. this could work with T Shirts as at HMV but in a department store with anything fabric. Upper floors for study / production not sure how much space needed for each function. Just imagined at this time , a detailed plan may follow. Meanwhile the FabLab in the Central Library can do short runs of images on various materials.

Student Accommodation continues as an issue. I have to accept the Depot has been built. It may be open to visits in the summer. It is not clear what the scale of this is or how it works with planning. The coach stop is in Sidwell Street. 

Harlequins site will be demolished. The proposed style seems close to the Depot. I will try to avoid this area in future so will explore routes via Queen Street to Guildhall. Maps discussed last year will be amended. 

I have not found any comment on the development opposite St Lukes from sources connected to Exeter University. I may just have missed this. Links are welcome please send if known. I think the Council may accept the Harlequins building close to RAMM as it is round a corner but the clash of styles near St Lukes could become an issue. Both as reality and as a location for a future imagined conversation. So this may turn up on drama show or other radio. Existing clips are Creative Commons so other radio is welcome to comment also.

Meanwhile I am still looking for clips from new performances. Phonic FM is mostly a music signal so the style of promo through sample is fairly normal. Social media also allows content marketing in various forms. This is the main topic but how it works with HE also included. 

The Less Good Idea as in #TempRadioStudio

Trying to catch up with the new year. Though it may be much like last year. I tried to apply for a Temp Radio Studio as art. this did not get any funding but helped me understand what did happen. During lockdown I worked at home on editing bits of sound together. Now the Phonic FM studio is available ( nor for guests yet ) but a portable studio would still be useful. There are many sounds anyway, some recorded. Post pandemic recording is normal , often to video. Sound not a problem.

There is a request for a Creative Fellow in Exeter, very unlikely I meet the criteria but this may be a way to discover more about HE and moving online. The scope is innovation in education practice. The #TempRadioStudio is a method of recording / social media. Probably fits with hybrid but the suggestion is for "no fixed output in mind" .

Following a talk by Bryan Brown I have had a look at the "Less Good Idea" from a centre in South Africa. This seems to be a way to continue a project through modifications while keeping the original inspiration. It may be too difficult to have the equivalent of live radio and total mobility. there could be an edit later, mixing studio and street. this is all to be tested as well as what levels of sound quality an audience may accept.

The application is one page ( edit of blog as of 25thFeb deadline ) plus a video or several stills. Last year I did have a video accepted as a paper , mostly same copy as #TempRadioStudio proposals. There is a pedagogy stream as part of the architecture / media study. I still do not understand it well but it seems to fit with other events in Exeter.

I do a drama show on Phonic FM and work on scripts around #Tags. These include #SiegeK and #CDWalk around online HE and student accommodation. In Exeter student accommodation continues to be a concern so it keeps cropping up as a topic. I am also interested in following on AntiBodies with Middle England ( with campus ) . A show at Maketank looked at empire remains in the city but I would like to include the campus in the space.

The £5,000 budget could include £1,995 for the HUB Caster LITE package from Anderton Tiger. With others from the Wild Show and We Don't Know I have been to BETT several times and looked at equipment for schools radio. this year we are staying away as the pandemic is not over as we see it. But fantasy over budgets continues.

Later there is Learning Technologies. There seems to be fewer stands this year. LinkedIn Learning, Abobe, O'Reilly, Coursera , Futurelearn not booked so far. Catching up with them online could indicate some disruptive options. The summer incubator in Exeter seems to be more incremental on the edges. So come back to this before the application. 

Also possible would be £1000 for fabrics / wall hangings. A temp studio needs better sound.

There are several studios and cafes in Exeter. Comparison tours are possible.

Notes around In Plain Sight

There is a show about slavery at the Royal Albert Memorial  Museum. I will revive my walk / drama from last year about Middle England ( with campus ) . This is a sort of follow on from Middle England , part of Antibodies - show at MakeTank. Middle England looked at sites in Exeter connected with Empire. But not at the university campus. I think this is a bit too limited. Recently I have found a video about Whiteness ( and university league tables ) see previous tweet. My new graphics are on Instagram , trying this out as AntBodies was mostly there. I will repeat them on Twitter #MiddleEnglandWithCampus @will789gb .

The video from Simon Marginson includes a distinction between research intended as shared widely or intended for just one country. I will go back to this as it helps me  describe something i have been thinking about without having words for. My play / script around the Ruins of the Fortresss University includes Donald Clark on AI. His second book is just as good as the first but alas he has blocked me on Twitter so developing the script is now very difficult. It happened around Priyamvada Gopal and stories in the Daily Mail. Previously we had been able to exchange views on Brexit. Sometimes I think I should have different Twitter accounts for different sorts of things but there are some links come across by tweeting about whatever comes next. Online learning is not just about tech, it is a connection. The idea of UK now developing unique standards makes less and less sense.

The show at the RAMM is for several months. The performance will be based on a walk that includes the city and the campus, including bookshops. There may be a script later.

Notes around video on Global Networked HE

There is a very interesting video now on YouTube from the Centre for Global Higher Education. Simon Marginson , who has been hosting most of the previous occasions, explains what he thinks is happening.

Geo-cognitive scales such ‘the global’ or ‘the national’ are constituted by three elements: the material (structural), the imagination/interpretation of agents, and the social practices of agents. ‘Global’ higher education is neither good or bad in itself – it depends on how we understand it and what we do with it.

I intend to follow this up with people I know, partly because "quality assurance" turns up twice. About 25 minutes in Marginson mentions QA as a way to compare international norms. About 46 min in Diana Laurillard claims the QAA is a constraint in the UK with targets that limit some international roles.

Previously I have looked at Management Learning and conferences on Networked Learning. I have found quality has a mixed reputation as a subject. By the way, quality professionals can have various views on HR. Following recent emails I have been sent a paper by Joseph Maciariello on Drucker's book The Practice of Management. 

The corporation simply could not be ignored because of its impact on the lives of people and society. And this new social institution needed to be integrated with the interests of the individual on the one hand (to establish status for people at work) and the state on the other to promote a functioning society of organizations (thereby establishing function or integration of individuals into society).

There is more detail on what was called the Personnel Department in the 1950s but this is copyright material. Anyway the point is that QA and HR might exist together, moving on from Taylor in various ways.

ISO 9000 might be worth another look. Not as a direct model for HE but as an example of a global process in standards. Other quality models are available. It seems the QAA is meeting some resistance in the version of quality it is promoting but there is more to discuss.