Journal & Book Publications
A collection of publications by LASALLE staff, published during their service in the College, is accessible through the Ngee Ann Kongsi Library at the McNally campus.
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Audience As The New Creative: A Study of the Co-creation Role Audience Play in a Participatory Environment to Create Effective Advertising Campaigns with the Creative in the Context of Singapore
Kathryn Shannon Sim Yen Ping
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As digital technology has profoundly changed the way people communicate and interact with each other, there is a need to also change the way in which advertising communicates with its audience. Thus, a good advertising campaign should be one that lever ages on digital communication and cocreation to enable active engagement, participation and reaction from the Audience....
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Sim, Kathryn Shannon. “Audience As The New Creative: A Study of the Co-creation Role Audience Play in a Participatory Environment to Create Effective Advertising Campaigns with the Creative in the Context of Singapore.” Cumulus Conference Proceedings Paris 2018, no. 03/18, 2018, pp. 1178-1197.
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Uncanny Arts and the Aesthetics of Cybernetic-Existentialism
Prof Steve Dixon
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Uncanny' works by a number of contemporary artists are analysed in relation to the themes and insights of both cybernetics and existentialist philosophy. This reveals that central ideas from these largely neglected fields remain current and potent within innovative art practices. Artists employ cybernetic systems to provoke aesthetic sensations of the uncanny, while simultaneously encapsulating existentialist concerns....
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Dixon, Steve. “Uncanny Arts and the Aesthetics of Cybernetic-Existentialism”. Technoetic Arts: A Journal of Speculative Research, vol. 16, no. 2, 2018, pp. 191-214.
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Towards ‘meaningful’ KPIs? Capturing multidimensional impacts in the arts
Audrey Wong Wai Yen
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This paper addresses the current challenges of using KPIs to measure the impacts of the arts, against a framework of what it means to do ‘performance measurement’ for arts organisations....
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Wong, Audrey. “Towards ‘Meaningful’ KPIs? Capturing Multidimensional Impacts in the Arts.” The Art of Measuring the Arts, Institute of Policy Studies, 2018, pp. 18–26.
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The Report of the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts
Audrey Wong Wai Yen
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The Report of the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts (ACCA) released in 1989, is widely seen as the signature document which laid the path for Singapore’s arts development in the late 20th century. It can also be seen as a logical offshoot of the Singapore government’s economic strategy which had undergone a serious review in the wake of the recession of 1985....
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Wong, Audrey. "The Report of the Advisory Council on Culture and the Arts.” The State and the Arts in Singapore, edited by Terence Chong, World Scientific, 2018, pp. 111-126.
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Craft and Culture, Changing the Global Dialog of Fashion
Martin Bonney
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"Fashion content has in recent years become an open access for all to comment and contribute, becoming a language of ambiguity, fixed in rigid social and cultural roles. For many years now, it has been described by many theorists, sociologists as a complex language.
With recent advancements, we need to acknowledge the changes surrounding the language of fashion in a global interactive context....
We accept that fashion is a complex system of ambiguities and even more with the developments in media technologies, fast fashion, and consumerism on the rise has created a new generation of fashion storytellers, image-makers, and curators that produce and share a pastiche of perspectives. These communicators provided the world with uninterrupted white noise, highlighting the discourse of fashion language and its many shifting values. The intent of fashion is two-fold: both informative and communicative. An audience must know what the communicator means to convey where garments are being translated from foreign perspectives and meanings something. Society needs to question the aspect of communication in these times of change, keeping in mind it is not relied upon being fully understood. In the East, we look to the West to be informed and attempt to translate the creativity into a language that we do not fully grasp, re-communicating it as a foreigner. With this research, I aim to examine the power of social media influence on fashion and how it is generating a disjuncts fashion language, the loss of knowledge and heritage across time and space, subsequently creating a local voice through craft and culture changing the global dialog of fashion."
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Bonney, Martin. “Craft and Culture, Changing the Global Dialog of Fashion.” Fashion Futures Conference Proceedings, edited by Li Jun, Donghua University, pp. 362–370.
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Social Innovation through Design. A Model for Design Education
Joselyn Sim
Dr Harah Chon
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Social innovation involves the convergence of human involvement and contemporary society, positioning design practice as a cocreative trajectory towards implementing significant and meaningful change. The social innovation concept has expanded the scope of design’s role in society by means of fostering transparency and community involvement to produce contributions extending beyond the individual designer to impact culture and society....
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Sim, Joselyn and Harah Chon. “Social Innovation through Design. A Model for Design Education.” Cumulus Conference Proceedings Paris 2018, no. 03/18, 2018, pp. 362-381.
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Performance Appraisal on the Hotseat
Dr Edmund Chow
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This exercise is part of a book on experiential approaches to the teaching of Human Resource Management. Specifically, in the teaching of performance appraisal, this activity fulfils three purposes: (i) for students to critique the effectiveness of an existing appraisal system; (ii) for students to suggest a set of criteria for performance evaluation; and (iii) for students to construct measurable performance indicators....
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Chow, Edmund. “Performance appraisal on the hotseat.” Teaching Human Resource Management: An Experiential Approach, edited by Suzanne C. de Janasz and Joanna Crossman, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018, pp. 134-144.
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Introducing Teamworking Workshops to Enhance the Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Design Education
Stanley Lim
Joselyn Sim
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Donald Norman (2010), in his article titled Why Design Education Must Change, advocated an interdisciplinary approach in design pedagogy that allows us to nurture “[…] new kinds of designers, people who can work across disciplines […].” In order for designers to function effectively in the increasingly complex society we live in, it is imperative that they operate in interdisciplinary teams, to collaborate and coordinate with experts from different fields....
In the case of the Faculty of Design in LASALLE College of the Arts Singapore, the push for interdisciplinarity manifested itself in an initiative in the Bachelor’s programme termed Clusters. Students from different design programmes worked in interdisciplinary groups on briefs that were designed to harness the strengths of the various disciplines. Teamworking challenges were observed and reported during the inaugural run of Clusters. It is commonly assumed that students will develop teamworking skills organically in the process to overcome these challenges (Larson, et al., 2015). However, without equipping students with these skills, issues are bound to surface that can affect the success of such interdisciplinary projects.
The paper focuses on the teamwork-oriented approach of the second cycle of Clusters, during which workshops were introduced to prevent and circumvent teamwork problems identified. Tucker’s (2016) “Input-Process-Output Framework of Effectiveness in Student Design Teams” was adapted to develop a model that categorises various tools and exercises aimed at addressing challenges during the different processes of a teamworking experience.
This paper concludes with the insights gathered from the teaching of teamwork skills. The model, tools and exercises pre sented are of value to design educators and curriculum managers who seek to improve students’ perception of teamwork and development of teamwork skills.
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Lim, Stanley and Joselyn Sim. “Introducing Teamworking Workshops to Enhance the Effectiveness of Interdisciplinary Design Education.” Cumulus Conference Proceedings Paris 2018, no. 03/18, 2018, pp. 872-891.