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Barefoot Academic Teaching, Performing Arts as a pedagogical tool in Higher Education

This book delves into essential, yet often overlooked, aspects of educational and scientifi c practices: the involvement of the body in knowledge acquisition and production, the collective nature of creativity, and the potent role of improvisation in all l ...

Schibri-Verlag2024

Improgineering : former à la conception collective par l’improvisation

Simon Nessim Henein, Ramiro Tau

Le projet ASCOPET étudie les arts de la scène comme outil pédagogique pour l’enseignement tertiaire. A l’EPFL, la pratique de l’improvisation, et la création d’une performance collective présentée sur la scène du théâtre l’Arsenic, permettent qinsi de trav ...

Société d'Ergonomie de Langue Française2022

The Dimension of the Body in Higher Education: Matrix of Meanings in Students’ Diaries

Simon Nessim Henein, Ramiro Tau

In this paper, we attempt to show some consequences of bringing the body back into higher education, through the use of performing arts in the curricular context of scientific programs. We start by arguing that dominant traditions in higher education repro ...

2022

Teaching Through Performing Arts in Higher Education: Examples in Engineering and Psychology

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Susanne Martin, Ramiro Tau

This paper introduces two courses making use of performing arts at university level. The first course, taught by Prof. Simon Henein and his colleagues, called Improgineering, aims to teach collective creation through improvisation to master’s degree studen ...

2021

Performing arts as a tool for university education during a pandemic: Moving from an in vivo to an in vitro modality

Simon Nessim Henein, Joëlle Valterio, Ramiro Tau

This paper analyses how a course on improvisation and collective creation in engineering addressed to master's students in Switzerland moved online. The course offers an experience in the field of performing arts, through embodied and situated activities, ...

2021

The sun is no fun without rain: Physical environments affect how we feel about yellow across 55 countries

Maya Roinishvili, Amer Chamseddine, Christine Mohr, Niloufar Pouyan, Nevena Dimitrova, Ahmad Abu-Akel, Meng Zhang, Ramiro Tau

Across cultures, people associate colours with emotions. Here, we test the hypothesis that one driver of this cross-modal correspondence is the physical environment we live in. We focus on a prime example - the association of yellow with joy, - which conce ...

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