Ongoing
Supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic – SIGMA Applied Research and Innovation Support Programme
Project duration: 09/2023-11/2026
The aim of the project Pasportization of theatres and playing spaces is to set up a methodical way of collecting data on theatres and playing spaces and to create a comprehensive tool that would meaningfully provide data needed for decision-making and activities of target groups. The development of the tool should be validated on a suitably selected sample of data providers that encompasses the diversity of target groups. These groups are both suppliers of research data and purchasers of future services, so the goal is to build mutual trust. The mission is to contribute to improving communication between owners, operators, architects and building designers and other active users of playing spaces and theatres in the country in order to sustainably develop professional conditions for the creation of artistic content and for artistic exchange.
Principal investigator for JAMU: prof. MgA. Mgr. Blanka Chládková
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Supported by the Ministry of Culture under the National Regeneration Plan – Call No. 313/2023 – Support for Creative Learning Projects II – Status of the Artist Initiative
Project duration: 01/2024-06/2024
Development of educational activities based on thematic materials of the web portal Theatrum.online, which is an output of the project supported by TAČR ÉTA. The portal offers methodological materials and suggestions for workshops led by external lecturers. The aim of the project is to introduce teachers to the possibilities of incorporating these activities into their teaching. The methodological practices of the field of theatre and education are presented to secondary school teachers in the form of workshops thematically linked to the individual chapters of the web textbook. An expanding element is the emphasis on activities in which students work in ways that are not common in the classroom. Game-led activities – such as improvisation, storytelling, forum theatre, or exploring creative work practices – are a source of learning and experience.
Principal investigator: Mgr. Kateřina Jebavá, Ph.D.
Supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic from the ÉTA programme, 5th round of public competition
Project duration: 04/2021 – 12/2023
The project Theatre Arts, Practices and Techniques as a Trainer of Communication Skills and Civic, Social and Personal Competences: key competences for the 21st century (JAMUNI) addresses the lack of background and teaching materials for theatre arts education in mainstream secondary schools. Teaching theatre and performing arts is a way to meet educational challenges and achieve the development of competencies for the 21st century: collaboration and problem-solving skills, creativity, critical thinking and communication skills. The core research field of the project is the existing leisure programme #buddypipe, which offers high school youth the opportunity to develop their skills in seminars, online lessons and creative workshops. We want to explore, discuss and apply this development. In the research part of the project we will bring together art professionals, art educators, working artists and secondary school teachers. We will investigate how the activities tested in the leisure education program #buddyjamak lead to the development of adolescents, how they improve the realization of human potential by linking intellectual, physical-cognitive and creative possibilities through the synergistic action of lectures and workshops. The aim of the research project is to create a space for methodological and didactic debate on the possibilities of performing arts practices in relation to the development of high school youth. In a series of Focus Group meetings and joint workshops with secondary school teachers, we will validate the experiences and insights gained. The resulting multimedia publication will open up the possibility of applying the experience and knowledge gained to the widest possible public, and will thus also ensure an improvement in the equality of conditions in access to education: the materials will be able to be used independently by educators as a support for their work with their students in their school environment. The use of the materials will lead to the development of educational methods used in the RDP Culture and Arts educational area and responding to the educational challenges of the 21st century.
Principal investigator for JAMU:
Mgr. Kateřina Jebavá, Ph.D.
Supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic from the ÉTA programme, 1st round of public competition
Project duration: 06/2018 – 05/2022
Project of Masaryk University, Faculty of Social Studies, in which DF is a partner. The aim of the project is to create a new psychometrically validated standardized online psychodiagnostic system that will help educators to identify gifted students. It will be composed of 4 subtests: logical reasoning, spatial abilities, processing speed, socio-emotional deficits. The application will deliberately not only focus on cognitive abilities, but also on extra-intellectual skills. In fact, deficits in these areas can completely mask the intellectual potential of some very gifted children. The application will map in detail the overall ability profile of the tested pupils, their strengths and weaknesses so that the findings can be immediately followed up with targeted development and intervention programmes. We expect that the use of the diagnostic system in schools will result in a significant increase in the number of identified gifted pupils in grades 1-5 each year.
Principal investigator for JAMU:
doc. MgA. Marek Hlavica, Ph.D.
Supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic from the ÉTA programme, 2nd round of public competition
Project duration: 01/2019 – 12/2021
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic disorder causing intellectual disability. People with DS are often excluded from society because of their reduced cognitive and speech abilities, their specific appearance, and because of prejudice. However, the existence of many professional theatres abroad by actors with DS shows that the performing arts is an area in which they can excel and through which they can break down the prejudices of mainstream society that lead to discrimination against people with disabilities. Based on many years of experience with Aldente Theatre, we will create an acting troupe of children and teenagers with DS. We will regularly develop their theatrical abilities in workshops that will lead to the creation of productions with professional theatre artists. The project includes research interviews with the audience and with professional actors. A psychologist and a special educator will be involved in the project and the final report to conceptualize the effect of theatre production on both actors and mainstream audiences.
The aim of the project is to create an artistic research report – through the creation of theatre productions we will name the procedures, methods, principles and describe crisis situations. The resulting report will serve as an initial comprehensive material for other artists. The main impact will be better inclusion of people with disabilities in society.
Principal investigator for JAMU:
MgA. Jitka Vrbková, Ph.D.
Supported by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic from the ZÉTA programme, 2nd round of public competition
Project duration: 06/2019 – 05/2021
The project’s main research team – young researchers from Brno University of Technology – are providing technical solutions for biosignal acquisition, analysis and interpretation, for which they have a software base and licensed workstations for computationally demanding algorithm development for multidimensional data evaluation. Members of the research team have long been involved in signal processing and analysis of biological data in a wide range of biomedical applications. The main goal of the project is to create a teaching methodology for developing the communicative competences of the performer in the field of persuasion and persuasion. The instructional methodology will be a set of documented and explicit procedures by which the persuasion of the performer towards the recipient is enhanced. The proposed teaching methodology will be more effective than conventional approaches to communication skills training by analyzing and then applying knowledge about performer-recipient interaction at the level of physiological expressions. A supporting goal of the project is the development of a comprehensive tool for assessing the effectiveness of persuasion. The effectiveness of persuasion will be assessed objectively by analysing biological signals measured simultaneously in both performer and receiver during their interaction and complemented by a questionnaire survey.
Principal investigator for JAMU:
MgA. Lucia Repašská, Ph.D.
Project number: GA15-12960S
Provider: the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Programme: standard projects
Solution time: 01. 01. 2015 – 31. 12. 2017
The intention of the project was to comprehensively examine the dramatic production created in the Ostrava studio of Czechoslovak Television from its foundation in 1955 until the establishment of the successor public television Czech Television in 1991. The project focused on the critical analysis and interpretation of all approximately 500 dramatic programmes (narrative films and series) and paid special attention to the study of their ideological structures, literal and subtextual contents, ways of representing reality and creating meanings, stereotypes, conventions and narrative models. All works were examined in their contemporary social and artistic contexts and in the context of the production institution itself. The research also aimed to characterise the development and functioning of the Ostrava studio and to explore the social and economic system of production. In addition to the analysis of all available archival sources, the solution also included research interviews with the main actors of the time.
Principal investigator: Marek Hlavica
Project number: GA13-21421S
Provider: the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Programme: standard projects
Solution time: 01. 02. 2013 – 23. 04. 2018
The research was a continuation of the successfully completed project “Documentation and analysis of the production of Brno studio theatres” (No. 408/09/1733).The heuristic research focused on obtaining and processing available documentation (director’s books, audiovisual documents, photographs, scenographic designs, reflections of witnesses, etc.He continued with reconstructions and analyses of selected productions of these theatres, expanded to include HaDivadlo. Partial results of the basic research on this topic, which has so far been minimally treated theatrically, were presented at an international conference organized by JAMU. The project was completed with the publication of eight monographs – three of them are devoted to the activities of these theatres in the given periods, and five monographs present the reconstruction and analysis of the productions of important creators of these theatres (B. Polívka, P. Scherhaufer, A. Goldflam, etc.). The research team led by Prof. Josef Kovalchuk was composed of researchers from JAMU.
Principal Investigator: Josef Kovalčuk
Project number: GPP409/10/P565
Provider: the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Programme: postdoctoral grants
Solution time: 01. 01. 2010 – 31. 12. 2012
The aim of the project was to examine the dramatic fiction produced in the Brno studio of Czechoslovak (now Czech) Television from its inception in 1961 until the breakthrough year 1989. The project focused on a critical analysis of the audiovisual programmes themselves – solitary films and series – especially in terms of dramaturgical choices, scriptwriting and directing, their changes over the years, their main development lines and thematic and genre characterisation. However, it was not only their artistic and craft quality that was examined on individual works, but no less attention was paid to interdisciplinary and cultural analysis, the study and deconstruction of ideological structures, subtextual information, ways of representing reality, stereotypes and conventions. All works were examined in their contemporary social and artistic contexts and in the context of the institution itself. An integral part of the project was the characterisation of its development and functioning, based on the study of available archival sources as well as on interviews with still living witnesses.
Principal investigator: Marek Hlavica
Project number: GA408/09/1733
Provider: the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Programme: standard projects
Solution time: 01. 01. 2009 – 31. 12. 2011
The aim of the research was systematic heuristic documentation and research in the field of Brno studio theatres: the Husa na provázku Theatre and HaDivadlo. The research progressed through the phase of documentation, processing of heuristically based partial studies to the edition of essential documentary materials.
Principal Investigator: Josef Kovalčuk