An article on the RAND website explores the use and effectiveness of art-based approaches to public engagement with research. It argues that: “When designing arts-based engagement approaches, it is important to consider that they can bring out experiences in stakeholders that may be challenging to process at an emotional level. Mitigations and management mechanisms toContinue reading “Research, Art, and Emotions”
Category Archives: Contemplations
Multiform Grammar: The Ripple Effect
Combinations of words and images have a ripple effect that includes attracting attention to themselves, retaining that attention, penetrating to and residing in people’s long-term memory, and stimulating the echoing of the stored information. Combinations of words and images are, therefore, seeds that often grow into a culture. This ripple effect is a result ofContinue reading “Multiform Grammar: The Ripple Effect”
Repetition and Variation
Every combination of words and images includes both repetition and variation. For example, when we use a letter, symbol, word, or phrase more than once, or when shapes and colours reappear. Some of the repetitions result from an echo between the words and the images, which may express different kinds – as well as degreesContinue reading “Repetition and Variation”
Grammarly’s Emojis and My Commitment to Make Them Happy
Noa Yaari, CRRS 7/30 (detail), 2019. Mixed media. 21 x 28 cm. Toronto I recently wrote an email to a friend of mine in which I used : ) Since I have Grammarly as a plug-in on my Chrome, I’m able not only to see the level of my grammatical performance but also the toneContinue reading “Grammarly’s Emojis and My Commitment to Make Them Happy”
Multiform Grammar: Exploring Communication through a New Lens
Noa Yaari, CRRS 5/30 (detail), 2019. Mixed media. 21 x 28 cm. Toronto The spaces and times between words and images within a single sequence are a tool with which we can develop effective and creative communication skills. This is due to the resistance of these gaps or “spacetimes” to evaluate the communication through “rightContinue reading “Multiform Grammar: Exploring Communication through a New Lens”
Utilizing Multiform Grammar: A Hands-on Workshop for Professionals and Employees
In February, I’ll be giving hands-on workshops on multiform grammar (MFG) at the Learning Enrichment Foundation (LEF) in Toronto. The participants in these will be the professional clients and the staff at the organization. How can proficiency in MFG benefit the two groups? Before answering this question, I like to explain what “proficiency in MFG”Continue reading “Utilizing Multiform Grammar: A Hands-on Workshop for Professionals and Employees”
On Why Multiform References are an Intimate Rhetorical Device
Multiform References (MFRs) are the rhetorical devices that authors use to shift their readers’ attention between words and images to create a new, unified representation or meaning. I argue here that MFRs are an intimate rhetorical device and that, consequently, they have a significant capacity to evoke emotions among both the author and the readerContinue reading “On Why Multiform References are an Intimate Rhetorical Device”
The Voice Multiform Reference
Does the fact that English is written from left to right and Hebrew from right to left influence the way we use emojis in messages in these two languages? To answer this question, I offer a new kind of multiform reference (MFR), that is, the voice MFR. Multiform References (MFRs) are the rhetorical devices thatContinue reading “The Voice Multiform Reference”
Startup
I recently started to work at an online project that teaches English-speaking kids another language. The program encourages them to shift their attention repetitively between the written words and the images to acquire the new language. These shifts integrate the words and the images into a new hybrid sign that includes both the name ofContinue reading “Startup”
Multiform Grammar and the Sense of Belonging
On August 4, I’ll be giving an online hands-on workshop at the Learning Enrichment Foundation titled “The Artist in Me: Using Art to Build a Sense of Belonging.” In it, I will show my art projects at York University and the University of Toronto and explain how they have helped me develop a positive outlookContinue reading “Multiform Grammar and the Sense of Belonging”
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