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Barbara Jenkins
Researcher at Wilfrid Laurier University
Publications - 7
Citations - 113
Barbara Jenkins is an academic researcher from Wilfrid Laurier University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cultural policy & Dialectic. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 7 publications receiving 104 citations.
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Toronto's Cultural Renaissance
TL;DR: The authors analyzes Toronto's Cultural Renaissance in light of changing cultural policies at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels, examining the role these new buildings will play in terms of promoting cultural tourism, city "branding", and nationalism.
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Cultural spending in Ontario, Canada: trends in public and private funding
TL;DR: This paper examined flows of government and private funding to cultural organizations in the province of Ontario, Canada on the basis of the size of these organizations and found that in real terms, government operating grants to organizations that have received large infrastructural grants for building projects were lower in 2006 than in the pre-spending cut era of 1990.
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Bodily Intra-actions with Biometric Devices:
Paula Gardner,Barbara Jenkins +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the interface between biomedia and humans was investigated by inviting participants to interact with biometric devices that measured and visualized their body data, and participants struggled with the interface.
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A guaranteed basic income and the aesthetics of existence
TL;DR: The recent implementation of various guaranteed basic income (GBI) trials presents an opportunity to consider how such policies should be evaluated as discussed by the authors, and if past experience is any guide, they will be ju...
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The Dialectics of Design
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a centuries-long dialectic in design ideology between those who seek to embed design in social mores and those who attempt to disembed it from oppressive discourses.