The pilot project set out to capture the rhythmic fluctuations and orientations of BCU’s campuses.
Researchers
Background
Starting from Lefebvre’s conceptualisation of Rhythm, the pilot project set out to capture the rhythmic fluctuations and orientations of BCU’s campuses: City Centre and City South. To grasp the unfolding of their everyday life, it registered the teacher and learner’s spatio-temporal and emotional experience of each institutional space at a particular time (localised temporality), testing the strength of the rhythmanalytical project as a method capable of harnessing the complexity of these articulations in their simultaneity.
Research Aims
- Explore temporal-spatial-affective dimensions of teaching and learning
- Produce a Critique of the University’s Everyday Life
- Test Rhythmanalysis as a method for cultural-historical research
- Contribute to the debate on Accelerated vs. Slow Academy
Method of Research
- Time-Lapse Photography (3 campuses)
- Walking Interviews (accompanied) with participants wearing a GoPro camera (to capture institutional itineraries)
- Audio-recorded Semi-Structured Interviews
- Secondary data analysis (relevant literatures)
Application of Research
- Critique of Contemporary University
- Media Studies and Education
- Impact of Social Acceleration on nature/quality of Academic Labour
- Architecture and Education: spatial configuration and related educational experiences in a post-92 university