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Editors: Leon Tsvasman & Martin A. M. Gansinger Proposed titles: Encyclopaedia of Improvisation. Interdisciplinary Concepts and Practice Potential. Handbook of Improvisation. Interdisciplinary Concepts and Practical Issues. Aim: to... more

Editors: Leon Tsvasman & Martin A. M. Gansinger

Proposed titles:

Encyclopaedia of Improvisation. Interdisciplinary Concepts and Practice Potential.

Handbook of Improvisation. Interdisciplinary Concepts and Practical Issues.

Aim: to contribute to the emancipation/legitimation/acceptance of the improvisational principle in socially relevant areas such as education, culture, politics, and economy – using the innovative and interdisciplinary approach of a concise compendium focused on extemporaneous concepts and practices

Need for publication: contribution to the improvement of interdisciplinary grounded, improvisation-based forms of communication, organization, and learning in accordance with an increasingly interconnected/participative/media-supported society

Usability:

● independent learning for better personal orientation in relevant areas of practice and individual creative activity

● didactic relevance regarding the possible incorporation of extemporaneous techniques and improvisational practices in the context of innovative working- and learning-environments: interactive teaching, group tasks, project-related tasks, presentations etc.

● application of derived improvisational principles in the fields of management, economy, culture, and politics: providing concepts for differentiated perspectives on organizational, operational and performative tasks

Unique Selling Point: providing a unique conceptual approach based on a cybernetically justified, epistemological structure that has already been utilized for ‘‘Das grosse Lexikon Medien und Kommunikation’’ (Ergon, 2006):
● Definition of term
● Positioning
● Inherent aspects
● Practical context
● Ethical, political, economic, didactic aspects
● Outlook and perspectives
Contributors:
Next to a number of self-authored lemmata within the range of their own expertise and disciplinary borders, the editors rely on a network of valuable contributors from various fields, consisting of authors for ‘‘Das grosse Lexikon Medien und Kommunikation’’ and others

Content samples:
Acting
Actuality
Allopoiesis
Attention
Anticipation
Autopoiesis
Awareness
Cognition
Consciousness
Consistency
Experience
Extemporarity
Extempore speech
Implicit knowledge
Improvisation
Incorporation
Integrated learning
Interaction
Interdependency
Intersubjectivity
Intuition
Knowledge
Leadership
Learning
Mediality Mediation
Memory
Memory-based learning
Meta-reflection
Music
Orality
Orientation
Objectivity
Perception
Potentiality
Presence
Processual action
Project-based learning
Relevance
Repetition
Responsibility
Selection
Specialization
Subjectivity
Spontaneity
Standardization
Technology
Thematic improvisation
Time
Workflow

Core audience/market:
Due to the establishment of large scale relations between different fields of study the book serves a complementary purpose for interdisciplinary oriented scholars open-minded for input, inspiration or merging of expansive ideas from neighbouring areas. The handbook bears the strong potential to serve as a fundamental resource for universities and various faculty catalogues. Stringent bundling of existing schematizations of extemporaneous aspects and strategies in
Communication, Cultural Studies, Music, Theatre, Poetry, Pedagogy, Management, Psychology, Cognitive Research, Anthropology, Epistemology, Cybernetics, Philosophy allows for a diversified core audience of academics, university libraries and students from various disciplinary backgrounds in Anglophone countries and the global market.
Wider readership:
Due to the explicit focus on interconnections and cross-sections between the various disciplines’ approach to integrate and discuss extemporaneous aspects, there is a considerable potential to equally draw interest among circles outside of the specialized, scientific scope. Explorations into possible application in fields like education, management or creative industries as well as meta-perspectives disclosing undetected patterns of extemporaneous influence on habitual behaviour, artistic performance and even use of new media technology can be considered as issues of general interest, appealing to a wider readership.