Gestalt therapy

extracted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestalt_therapy Gestalt therapy is an existential/experiential form of psychotherapy which emphasizes personal responsibility, and focuses upon the individual’s experience in the present moment, the therapist-client relationship, the environmental and social contexts of a person’s life, and the self-regulating adjustments people make as a result of their overall situation. Edwin Nevis, co-founder of the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland, founder… Continue reading Gestalt therapy

Sleep Monitoring Software

SEV – Open source software for sleep analysis https://web.stanford.edu/~hyatt4/software/sev The SEV is a MATLAB toolbox built for viewing biological data collected from nocturnal polysomnogram sleep studies. It can be used to investigate brain activity (spectral power and spindle density), eye movements during rapid eye movement sleep in patients with post traumatic stress disorder, and the… Continue reading Sleep Monitoring Software

Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad

Outcome Research I decided to explore the cliches used to market cosmetic industry products regarding the effects of gravity on human skin and I tried to imagine how a capitalist mindset might still find ways to profit from the adverse effects of low gravity on Mars (i.e. improved skin elasticity compared to Earth) by changing… Continue reading Martian Wrinkle Cream Ad

Anarchy in the classroom

Outcome I hid a Bluetooth speaker in the classroom’s ceiling and played a 30-minute audio file intended to disturb the class as if the sounds were coming from outside the window/room. The audio which starts just before the class group assembles in the room has a continuous discreet construction site atmosphere to make the participants… Continue reading Anarchy in the classroom

The Culture of the Copy — Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

How is it that the ethical dilemmas at the heart of so many fields of endeavor have become inseparable from our pursuit of copies—of the natural world, or our own creations, indeed our very selves? Summary A stunning, innovative blend of microsociology, cultural history, and philosophical reflection that will fascinate anyone concerned with problems of… Continue reading The Culture of the Copy — Striking Likenesses, Unreasonable Facsimiles

Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories, plus other storyline classifications

Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories   Vladimir Propp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Propp  Vladimir Propp was born on 29 April 1895 in Saint Petersburg to an assimilated Russian family of German descent. His Morphology of the Folktale was published in Russian in 1928. Although it represented a breakthrough in both folkloristics and morphology and influenced Claude Lévi-Strauss and Roland Barthes, it was generally unnoticed in the West until it was translated… Continue reading Kurt Vonnegut, Shape of Stories, plus other storyline classifications