This review article explores how metaphors and analogies used throughout urban history
can simulate mental imagery to inspire innovation. The study addresses three critical …

This study aims to show how multimodality, that is, the mobilization of various
communicative resources in social actions (Mondada, 2016), can be used to teach grammar …

Highlights•Material properties of sticky notes are used in the performance of social
actions.•A socio-material analytic perspective is introduced and exemplified.•The social and …

This chapter investigates the role and function of textile materials in relation to corrective
sequences in craft education. The analyses explicate how problems are detected, how …

The question of how university students learn to write from and reason with the accumulated
knowledge of disciplinary fields that are new to them is a general concern for higher …

The present study provides an ethnomethodologically informed respecification of intention in
the context of architectural education. The analyses focus on the ways in which participants …

This article explores multimodal communication and social interaction in university-level
architecture education. Drawing on ethnography of North American programs of 'design …

This paper examines semiotic technologies, both in terms of the resources they harness and
the practices developed around their use. It draws on data collected as part of an …

The critique, central to teaching and learning in fine arts studios, allows expert teachers to
apprentice novice art students into their professional community, through feedback and …

Communicative action can be carried out by not only verbal but also embodied means.
People regularly use multimodal resources to make sense for each other. Consider a …