Look up template in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Template may mean:

• a stencil, pattern or overlay used in graphic arts (drawing, painting, etc.) and sewing to replicate letters, shapes or designs
• a pre-developed page layout in electronic or paper media used to make new pages with a similar design, pattern, or style
• Form letter, a predefined letter which retains its primary intent when individually customised with variable data or text.

Computer science and information technology[link]

• Template (file format), a standardized non-executable file type used by computer software as a pre-formatted example on which to base other files, especially documents
• Template (C++), a tool for generic programming especially in the C++ language
• Template metaprogramming, a programming technique used by a compiler to generate temporary source code
• Template method, an object-oriented design pattern
• Template processor, a system that combines a template with data to produce an output.
• Template (word processing), a standard document containing layout and styles used to configure word processing software
• Style sheet (web development) or master page on which you can globally edit and format graphic elements and text common to each page of a document
• Web template or web template system, a master page used to produce web pages
• A main document from which mail merge documents are created

Manufacturing[link]

• Mechanical template, used to cut and shape a product, such as:
  • a die (manufacturing)
  • a mold

Molecular genetics[link]

• a strand of DNA which sets the genetic sequence of new strands
• a strand of RNA which translates genes into proteins

Miscellaneous[link]

• Template (racing), a device used in car racing to ensure that the body of the race vehicle adheres to specifications

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Look up talk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Talk may refer to:

• Conversation, interactive communication between two or more people
• Speech, the production of a spoken language
• Interaction, face to face conversations

Software[link]

• Google Talk, a Windows- and web-based instant messaging program
• talk (software), a Unix messaging program
• AppleTalk, an early networking protocol designed by Apple for their Macintosh computers

Music[link]

• Talk (Yes album)
• Talk (Paul Kelly album)
• "Talk" (song), by Coldplay
• "Talk", a song by Tracy Bonham on the album Liverpool Sessions
• Talk Talk, a popular British rock group active from 1981 to 1991
• "Talking", a song by British rock band The Rifles
• "Talk", a song by Redgum from their 1986 album Midnight Sun

Other meanings[link]

• Talk (film)
• Talk (magazine)
• Talk show, a broadcast program format
• Talk radio, a radio format
• Talk (play)

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Richard Sennett (2010)

Richard Sennett (born Chicago, 1 January 1943) is the Centennial Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and University Professor of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett is probably best known for his studies of social ties in cities, and the effects of urban living on individuals in the modern world.

He has been a Fellow of The Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the Royal Society of Literature. He is the founding director of the New York Institute for the Humanities. In 2006 Sennett was the winner of the Hegel Prize awarded by the German city of Stuttgart,^[1] and in 2008 was awarded the Gerda Henkel Prize, worth 100,000 Euros, by the Gerda Henkel Foundation of Düsseldorf, Germany.^[2]

He is married to sociologist Saskia Sassen.

Biography[link]

Richard Sennett grew up in the Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago, coming from a family of Russian emigres. As a child he trained in music, studying the cello and conducting, working with Claus Adam of the Juilliard String Quartet and the conductor Pierre Monteux. When a hand injury put an end to his musical career, he entered academic life. He trained with David Riesman, Erik Erikson, and Oscar Handlin at Harvard, graduating with his Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization in 1969. His intellectual life as an urbanist came into focus during the time he spent as a fellow of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of Harvard and MIT.

Mr. Sennett's scholarly writing centers on the development of cities, the nature of work in modern society, and the sociology of culture. Families Against the City, his earliest book, examines the relation between family and work in 19th Century Chicago. A subsequent quartet of books explores urban life more largely: The Uses of Disorder, an essay about identity formation in cities; The Fall of Public Man, a history of public culture and public space, particularly in London, Paris, and New York in the 18th and 19th Centuries; The Conscience of the Eye, a study of how Renaissance urban design passed into modern city planning, and Flesh and Stone, an overview of the design of cities from ancient to modern times.

Another quartet of books is devoted to labor. The Hidden Injuries of Class is a study of class consciousness among working-class families in Boston; The Corrosion of Character explores how new forms of work are changing people's communal and personal experience; Respect probes the relation of work and reforms of the welfare system. The Culture of the New Capitalism provides an overview of these changes. Authority is an essay in political theory; it addresses the tools of interpretation by which people recast raw power into either legitimate or illegitimate authority.

Sennett currently is working on a project called 'Homo Faber,' exploring material ways of making culture. The first book in this series is The Craftsman, published in 2008; subsequent volumes are Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation, published in 2012, and a future volume on the making of the urban environment.

In the public realm, Sennett founded, and directed for a decade, the New York Institute of the Humanities at New York University. Sennett then chaired a United Nations commission on urban development and design. As president of the American Council on Work, Sennett led a forum, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, for researchers trying to understand the changing pattern of American labor. Most recently he helped create, and has chaired, the Cities Programme at the London School of Economics. In 2006 he served as Chair of the jury of the Venice Biennale.

Sennett's literary hobby is writing about music, including novels with musical themes.

Selected works[link]

• Together: The Rituals, Pleasures, and Politics of Cooperation, Yale (2012), ISBN 0-300-11633-0
• The Foreigner: Two Essays on Exile, Notting Hill (2011), ISBN 1-907903-08-9
• The Craftsman, Allen Lane (2008), ISBN 978-0-7139-9873-3
• The Culture of the New Capitalism, Yale (2006), ISBN 0-300-11992-5
• Respect in a World of Inequality, Penguin (2003), ISBN 0-393-32537-7
• The Corrosion of Character, The Personal Consequences Of Work In the New Capitalism, Norton (1998), ISBN 0-393-31987-3
• Flesh and Stone: The Body And The City In Western Civilization, Norton (1994), ISBN 0-393-31391-3
• The Conscience of the Eye: The design and social life of cities, Faber and Faber (1991), ISBN 0-393-30878-2
• Authority (1980), ISBN 0-571-16189-8
• The Fall of Public Man, Knopf (1977), ISBN 0-14-100757-5
• The Hidden Injuries of Class, with Jonathan Cobb, Knopf (1972), ISBN 0-393-31085-X
• The Uses of Disorder: Personal Identity & City Life (1970), ISBN 0-393-30909-6
• Families Against the City: Middle Class Homes of Industrial Chicago, 1872-1890, Harvard (1970), ISBN 0-674-29226-X
• Classic Essays On The Culture Of Cities, editor (1969), ISBN 0-13-135194-X
• Nineteenth Century Cities: Essays In The New Urban History, coauthor, Yale (1969)

Fiction

• Palais-Royal (1986), ISBN 0-393-31251-8
• An Evening of Brahms (1984)
• The Frog Who Dared to Croak (1982), ISBN 0-374-15884-3

Notes[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• LSE faculty profile
• Guardian: Richard Sennett
• Article (09/2005)
• Article (02/2001)
• Interview (01/2006)
• BBC (01/2006)
• Guantánamo in Germany (with Saskia Sassen) in The Guardian, 21 August 2007 (concerning arrest of German sociologist charged of being "mastermind" of the Militante gruppe)
• Discussion on Craft and skills
• NewYork Times Book Review (April 6, 2008)
• Audio: Richard Sennett in conversation on the BBC World Service discussion show The Forum

Alice Rawsthorn (born 1958 in Manchester) is an English journalist and design commentator. As design critic of the International Herald Tribune, the global edition of The New York Times, she writes the paper's weekly Design column,^[1]which is published every Monday and syndicated to other newspapers and magazines worldwide. A prominent public speaker and broadcaster on design and contemporary culture, she is a member of the Global Agenda Council for Design of the World Economic Forum. Rawsthorn is also a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery in London and Arts Council England.^[2]

Education and early career in journalism[link]

After graduating in art and architectural history^[3] from the Cambridge University in 1980, she won a place on the graduate trainee journalism scheme of the Thomson Organisation and then became media editor of Campaign magazine. In 1985, she joined the staff of the Financial Times, where she worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris and pioneered the paper's coverage of the creative industries before becoming architecture and design critic.^[4]

Work in the arts[link]

During her career at the Financial Times, Rawsthorn became a member of the Design Council and a trustee of the Design Museum. In 2001, she was appointed director of the Design Museum. During her five years as director, the number of visitors to the museum rose by 40%, participation in the education program doubled, and the Design Museum website became the world's most visited design site. The museum also launched the Designer of the Year award, and mounted the Great Design Quest in collaboration with the BBC.^[5] She reportedly resigned in February 2006 over differences with the museum's founder Sir Terence Conran concerning the future direction of the institution.^[6]

Rawsthorn has since been active in the arts on a pro-bono basis. She joined the board of Arts Council England in 2007, having been its lead adviser on the visual arts for four years and chair of the Turning Point review of the contemporary visual arts, which resulted in a record increase in public funding. Rawsthorn was appointed a member of the Arts Council's Visual Arts Board in 2008 and the Arts Policy Committee in 2009. She has served on many arts juries including the Turner Prize for contemporary art, the Stirling Prize for architecture, the British Council's selection panel for the Venice Architecture Biennale, the PEN History Book Prize, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the BAFTA film and television Awards and the Conservation Awards run by the Heritage Lottery Fund. As well as chairing the British Council's Design Advisory Group, she was a member of its Visual Arts Group and Arts Advisory Committee. Rawsthorn was also a member of the British government's advisory panel on the BBC Charter Review.^[7]

Championing design[link]

As well as writing her syndicated column for the International Herald Tribune, Rawsthorn speaks on design all over the world. Since January 2008, she has chaired Talking Design, a quarterly series of conversations with designers, at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Rawsthorn also speaks at important political events including the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland, and is a member of the Forum's Global Agenda Council on Design. She has contributed essays to several books on design and contemporary culture, including monographs of the work of the designers Hella Jongerius and Marc Newson to be published in 2011. She has also written a critically acclaimed biography of the fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent.

References[link]

Bibliography[link]

• Edited by Louise Schouwenberg (2011) "Hella Jongerius: Misfit", Phaidon, ISBN 0-7148-5987-7
• Edited by Bill Moggridge (2010) "Designing Media", The MIT Press, ISBN 0-262-01485-8
• Edited by Arnd Friedrichs and Kerstin Finger (2010) "220º Virus Monobloc: The Infamous Chair", Gestalten, ISBN 978-3-89955-317-8
• Edited by Articulado (2010) "Articulado on Design", ADCV
• Edited by Jean-Pierre Greff (2009) "AC|DC - Contemporary Art, Contemporary Design", JRP Ringier, ISBN 978-3-905770-74-2
• Edited by Katrina Schwartz and Hannah Vaughan (2009) "Rises in the East: A Gallery in Whitechapel", Whitechapel Gallery, ISBN 978-0-85488-171-0
• Edited by Neville Wakefield and Jennifer Higgie (2009) "Frieze Projects and Frieze Talks: 2006-2008", Frieze, ISBN 0-9553201-5-1
• Edited by Bryony Gomez-Paladio and Arman Vit (2008) "Women of Design: Influence and Inspiration", How Books, ISBN 1-60061-085-4
• Edited by Marti Guixe (2007) "Don't Buy It If You Don't Need It", Camper, ISBN 978-84-609-9135-9
• Edited by Malcolm Barnard (2007) "Fashion Theory: A Reader", Routledge, ISBN 978041541304
• Edited by Polly Staple and Melissa Gronlund (2006) "Frieze Projects: Artists Commissions and Talks 2003-2005", Frieze, ISBN 0-9553201-0-0
• Alice Rawsthorn (1999) Marc Newson, Booth-Clibborn Editions, ISBN 1-86154-062-0
• Alice Rawsthorn (1996) Yves Saint Laurent, HarperCollins, ISBN 0-00-255543-3

External links[link]

• Alice Rawsthorn's official website
• Core77: Alice Rawsthorn