cultural landscape

In this week's episode of the High-Performance Teams Podcast, I am joined by Gaurav Krapalani, who shares his long journey leading  Singapore Repertory Theatre (SRT), the way he leads creative teams and some of his learnings.

Gaurav continues his 25-year involvement with SRT, nineteen of which have been as its Artistic Director. During that time, SRT became the first Singaporean theatre company on Broadway in 1998 as Associate Producer on Golden Child, earning three Tony Award nominations. SRT has presented work by several renowned artists, including Peter Brook, Yukio Ninagawa, Simon McBurney, Yael Farber and Trevor Nunn. 
Gaurav served as the Vice-Chair of the International Society of Performing Arts and on the Board of Trustees for Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London. From 2018 to 2021, Gaurav helmed the Singapore International Festival of Arts as its Festival Director.

Some of the topics covered during the conversation:
✅ One of the essential ingredients to create a high-performance team?
✅ How to manage the team's morale when things don't go according to plan.
✅ How do you identify talent?
✅ What can we learn from the military about leadership?

More about Gaurav:
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https://www.srt.com.sg/

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Continuing the discussion of removing cemeteries for public works projects from last week, I look at the example of Quabbin Park Cemetery in Ware, MA and use it as a jumping off point to discuss why the cultural landscape and context in a cemetery is important, and how this is perhaps the greatest loss in cemetery removals.

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To get a look at the underwater exploration of the Quabbin check out this video
 They look at the site of the Enfield Congregational Church cemetery starting around timestamp 26:47 continuing through 32:46. You'll see why maybe things aren't so simple after all!

In this episode of Byte-Sized Human Geography we investigate discuss a concept that tends to stump many intro human geography students — the cultural landscape.  Why does it seem that some places look so similar and why some places are so very different from every place else?  We review toponyms, globalization, sequent occupancy, and a relatively new concept - placelessness.

This is Human Geography byte-sized — big concepts in small chunks of time for all learners at every level. It's Human Geography, made simple!

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Listener Notes: 

Place - what is it like there?
   Physical - 2:22  geography of the naturally occurring environment
   Human - 2:49 how do humans change an environment

Cultural landscape-  3:00, 8:00, 11:00 combined properties of both nature and humans on a place, what we humans have done to develop a given region — includes buildings or any type of structure. The natural landscape is what was there before humans arrived. Carl Sauer’s term.

Toponym  - 3:55, 6:38 from the Greek - literally, "place name"

Globalization - 4:16, 10:52 interconnectivity between regions around the globe via international trade, outsourcing of manufacturing, and technology

Placelessness - 5:00, 14:54 a condition where a place loses its distinctiveness, what makes it unique from another place, caused by globalization/pop culture influences/gentrification.

Sequent occupancy - 5:32, 13:27 layering of civilization over time, remnants of past civilizations in a current cultural landscape.  Look to the great cities for examples of this, but you can find this concept everywhere.  

Additional Resources:

Santa Maria Maggiore Web Cam

Why is Nihon Called Japan in English?

Large Scale Map of Shanghai

First Starbucks in Italy

Rome Colosseum - nice application of sequent occupancy from this camera