Sentences with phrase «from urban contexts»

NIUSL brings together educators from urban contexts with Harvard faculty and top experts in the field to examine best practices and research - based techniques that support student achievement.

, a documentary film created by a company from Barcelona, that features artists working from the urban context of seven African cities: Cape Town, Douala, Dakar, Luanda, Maputo, Nairobi, and Rabat.

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Images show details of neoclassical structures - columns, beams, pillars and arches - drawing the viewer from the urban context of the modern pillar, from which the projections stem, into a magnificent architectural past.

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Gradually the population was shifting from rural to urban settings, and the meaning and nature of work was being defined in a secular context.

On the basis that the context of practice in BC would be important in relation to the challenges that midwives would experience and the strategies that they would use, midwives with at least 5 years» experience as a midwife in BC were selected from a list of registered midwives, to reflect possible variations in experiences between midwives working in urban and rural locations across BC (lower mainland, Vancouver Island, the interior and Northern BC), and between those working as solo, midwifery group and collaborative practitioners (midwives and family doctors sharing a caseload).

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

It has also meant making links between formal and informal sectors, urban and rural livelihoods, coastal and forest livelihoods, private and public interventions, social conflicts, economic thinking, agriculture, fisheries, environment, poverty alleviation, and subjective and objective wellbeing analyses in order to approach things from a humanitarian and educative and inclusive dimension that will be relevant to my immediate contexts which is Africa and the rest of the world.

In short, the takeaway from the charter literature seems to be that they are, on average, more effective than traditional public schools in urban settings and perhaps should be encouraged there, but that authorizers and policy contexts matter tremendously in determining whether these schools succeed or not.

To capture this context, the study team followed the OCO small school campaign over six years, collected data from multiple sources, and analyzed these data alongside data from six urban districts around the nation.

· Provide district leaders who are knowledgeable about education and urban contexts and skillful in collaborative and democratic decision - making processes, starting with a credentialed superintendent of CPS, and transitioning from mayoral control to a democratically elected school board that is accountable to the public.

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

His referential and detritus - like objects derive their meaning from a discourse based on everyday objects and the urban environment and the meanings they acquire inside a number of socio - cultural contexts that the artist explores.

Created from a variety of source materials — including carved wooden doors, acid - etched metal plates, styrofoam dioramas, hand - carved billboards, and newly developed concrete sculptures -, the work presented in Annihilation engages with the urban context.

The exhibition features a diverse selection of 22 artists working in London and engaging with topical concerns; from the rapidly changing urban context, the environment, technology, gender and race to queer representation, human relations, activism and post-colonial histories.

The series stems from Providence College Galleries» interest in cultivating relationships with artists, scholars and arts communities from around the world in order to draw connections between the city of Providence and other American and international urban contexts.

The series stems from Providence College — Galleries» and the Providence College Art & Art History Department's interest in cultivating relationships with artists, scholars and arts communities from around the world in order to draw connections between the city of Providence and other international urban contexts.

As she often does in her solo shows, Lidén also presents new works that draw on the surrounding urban context of Bolzano, like a series of sculptures made from pieces of road surface: the artist literally brings the street into the venue.

The series stems from an avid interest in cultivating relationships with artists, scholars and arts communities from around the world in order to draw connections between the city of Providence and other international urban contexts, and to provide Providence audiences idiosyncratic glimpses of innovative contemporary artists working in cities around the world.

Cementa festival brings together artists from urban and regional contexts for a 4 - day celebration of the state of contemporary art in Australia.

Kim Córdova looks at recent evolutions in Francis Alÿs's interventions in the social and urban fabrics of cities, as he moves from Mexico City to a more international context.

In this context, that will resonate with current challenges to journalism and urban development, Paris Internationale will welcome 55 galleries as well as eight project spaces from 17 countries.

Laurent isolates these buildings of their urban context and releases them from the street to the sky, to tell the stories, dreams and the hopes of these inhabitants.

Artist Statement: Signs of Growth: Urban Food, is a site - specific installation / performance that took place in October 16 -18, 2009, in the context of Art in Odd Places festival, organized by Simonetta Moro, Eve Mosher and Tatfoo Tan with students at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts.The work entailed identifying and marking «green sites» — or places that potentially might support locally grown food — with signs along 14th street, from Union Square to 10th Avenue.

In this context, Public presents Phil Wagner's diptych of opposing chairs, large - scale sculptures by Mark di Suvero and Oscar Tuazon, and two urban structures built from concrete, wood, and metal mesh by Santiago Roose.

Drawing from classical painting and architecture, the contemporary urban landscape, and popular culture, Scheibitz deconstructs and recombines signs, images, shapes, and architectural fragments in ways that challenge traditional contexts and interpretations.

An assistant professor in the School of Creative Media, the City University of Hong Kong, his multi-disciplinary artistic practice ranges from photography and video to text, performance and installation, focusing on the relationship between anticipation, perception and understanding in communication, mostly in an urban context.

Art in the Open re-frames the plein air tradition in a contemporary context, encouraging both artists and audiences to draw inspiration from the city's natural and urban landscapes.

7, 2015) that presents Lawrence's paintings in context with interpretations of the mass migration from the rural South to the urban North by other artists spanning generations and discplines, including literature, poetry, film and music.

Her previous work has often included old statues, plastic dolls, broken chair legs and crystals from broken chandeliers to reconstruct her urban cultural context.

«Who Knows» speaks both to the context of 21st century surveillance (from the Snowden revelations to the ubiquity of CCTV cameras in urban space) as well to the cultures of gossip, scandal seeking, phone hacking and to the playful and flirtatious eye that people keep on each other through social media.

Klaus Jacob, an earth scientist at Columbia University whose home just north of the city up the Hudson River was flooded by the surge from Hurricane Sandy, has been calling the necessary urban design approach «managed retreat» (Reed Noss of the University of Central Florida has been making the same argument in the context of wildlife conservation).

Local governments can not fund climate change responses on public funding sources only, especially in regional and national contexts where fiscal decentralization and transfers are far from being adequately designed to answer the needs imposed by the new demands in urban area.

These include representing AT&T in the complex real estate aspects of the telephone divestiture in 11 western states, representing developers of major high - rise office projects, shopping centers, and other similar developments in an urban context from the initial acquisition, through the entitlement process, financing, construction, leasing and sale.

The evidence base includes outcomes for schools with a variety of governance structures in many local contexts, ranging from small charter schools to large and small district - run schools in urban and rural communities.

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.