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Under the ‘eyes of the pineapple’ and after

When the Vietnamese army entered Cambodia in January 1979, the soldiers found a devastated country…

Witnessing is not a static phenomenon

Witnessing is a shifting category determined by what kind of events are witnessed. This is what the…

Old and new testimonies

It is the first time that I appear before a tribunal. I am overwhelmed in turn by painful souvenirs…

Witnessing is not a static phenomenon

Witnessing is a shifting category determined by what kind of events are witnessed. This is what the…

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To be with You in Unity of Time, Place and Action

To be with You in Unity of Time, Place and Action

Conclusion

Conclusion

When one is witness to another, this artistic research shows that dramaturgy and composition of…

4. Action: No witnessing without imagination

4. Action: No witnessing without imagination

In negotiating trust and truth, in deciding what actions to engage in, in expressing one’s…

3. Relation: The witness signifies

3. Relation: The witness signifies

In the process of witnessing, when negotiating trust and truth, meaning emerges. A witness…

2. Place : shared experience

2. Place : shared experience

Originally being witness refers to being physically present and ‘inscribing’ what happens with…

Outcomes: 1- Time : Systems and structures are host to personal empty time

Outcomes: 1- Time : Systems and structures are host to personal empty time

With the ubiquitous presence of media and the Internet in the day-to-day life of at least 1 billion…

Witness

Witness

For thousands of years the being-witness-to-each-other defines dynamics in religious and non

Participatory Systems

Participatory Systems

Faced with ecological crisis, climate crisis, a financial crisis and an urban civic crisis in which…

Living Together

Living Together

Information- and communication technology offers new possibilities to connect. The opportunity to…

Acknowledgements

As this paper builds on research undertaken while I was Director of the VINNOVA Centre of…

How important is presence?

How important is presence? Is it slowly losing importance in work-life contexts? Or is workplace…

Fig. 17 Varieties of office types in Europe, which all arguably support the presence-in-person paradigm.

Fig. 17 Varieties of office types in Europe, which all arguably support the presence-in-person paradigm.

Chin-Lien Chen - Clockwise from top left: open plan; cellular, landscape, and combi-office. Human interaction and…

Fig. 16 In the early 1990s, mobility in the workplace was limited and experimental, illustrated by initial attempts to integrate computer networks and cordless telephones to specifically support collaborative practices, as here at Ericsson Business Networ

Fig. 16 In the early 1990s, mobility in the workplace was limited and experimental, illustrated by initial attempts to integrate computer networks and cordless telephones to specifically support collaborative practices, as here at Ericsson Business Networ

Chin-Lien Chen - Upon entry to the office, an employee would pick up a cordless phone (charging through the night in…

Fig. 15 A typical open plan workplace where presence is taken for granted.

Fig. 15 A typical open plan workplace where presence is taken for granted.

Chin-Lien Chen - Photograph taken in Stockholm in the early 1990s

New meanings

New meanings

The concepts of working and meeting have quite recently acquired new meanings in the sense that we…

The development of workplace design

The development of workplace design

I put forward that, for a long time, workplace design has been modelled on a presence-in-person…

Open Access / Reference

This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial…

Space of places, space of flows

This special issue shows that new bridges between the space of places and the space of flows are…

Trauma and Witnessing

Stephanie Bezanquen, a French philosopher focusing on cultural representations of genocide and mass…