Creative Practice Showcases
Featured Aesthetic and Epistemic Violence - Exploring Conditional Hospitality in the Dynamics of Beauty and Knowledge: Examining the Limits of Inclusion and the Power of Aesthetic Practices in Marginalizing Perspectives
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Jacqueline Cofield
This paper explores the interplay between aesthetic violence (Cofield, 2024) and conditional hospitality (Shirazi, 2018), examining how these concepts inform our understanding of inclusion and exclusion within cultural and educational institutions. Building on the historical foundations of aesthetics from figures such as Baumgarten and Kant, who framed aesthetics in terms of beauty and universal judgment, we will transition to contemporary perspectives that emphasize the politics of knowledge and sensory experiences (Bishop, 2012; Chuh, 2019; Rancière, 2013). In this context, aesthetic violence is understood as a form of epistemic violence (Dotson, 2011) where marginalized perspectives are devalued or erased, impacting how knowledge is recognized and validated within these institutions.
Accessibility is Hospitality!: Games, Event Planning, and Accessible Design
Creative Practice Showcase Daniel L. Ireton
Join us as we explore planning and executing events that are accessible and welcoming to people with disabilities. We will walk through our experience planning accessible table-top gaming events at Kansas State University. We use games as a tool to introduce basic task analysis in order to facilitate planning events that are accessible and welcoming. We will discuss different game types and mechanics and how they do and do not work for people with various disabilities. We will walk you through how to spot barriers to dignified participation for people with a wide variety of disabilities. Once we have spotted barriers, we will walk through reducing them through modifications to game play mechanics or, more frequently, creating modified pieces working with local and student artists. While game mechanics and rules are critical from a design standpoint, many gamers are drawn more to artwork and aesthetics than mechanics when selecting what to play. Using thoughtful and creative design, games are frequently made more aesthetically pleasing as well as more accessible. We will demonstrate several games, the barriers we encountered and ways to address those barriers. While games are our springboard, this session is really about understanding event planning from an accessibility first perspective. Our goal is to help you plan events that allow people with disabilities to participate fully and with dignity.
Understanding the Meaning of Color for Social-Emotional-Spiritual intelligence View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Robin Wimbiscus
This project considers the intuitive approach within arts-based pedagogies, which examines how such methods foster student creativity, emotional expression, and critical thinking. However, utilizing art as a tool for processing and understanding trauma, difficult emotions, and behaviors can be dramatically improved by understanding what certain color patterns created in art mean. This method of understanding color patterns is especially relevant for educators, therapists, parents, and future educators seeking to help children in a deep, transformative way. Patterns of concerns that can be identified are not limited to self-harm, harm to others, and trauma-induced fear. The research methods are evidence-based and an adaptive pedagogy for several school districts throughout New England.
