MDPE.21:4 - Worked Cases
MDPE.21:4.1 - Selecting an architecture for local Zouk recurrence
A local project wants unfamiliar partners to reproduce a changed timing and partner-response distinction in social Dance Work. Current classes teach fixed sequences with familiar partners, and the event rewards a polished showcase. Two architecture candidates change different relations:
| Candidate architecture | Constituent Methods and Systems | Proposed or observed relations relevant to recurrence |
|---|---|---|
| Choreography-and-showcase | A choreographer fixes phrases; teachers reproduce them; familiar pairs rehearse; a camera and event present the result. | In this unselected candidate, the phrase description or video would be used by teachers in teaching Work; familiar pairs would perform repeated-pair rehearsal Work; and event selectors would use camera-facing observations when choosing showcase material. These are proposed relations, not claims that they currently obtain or cause recurrence. |
| Partnered-recurrence | Teachers use embodied capability tasks and cue-response exercises; dancers rotate partners and music; observers watch supervised social Work; teachers revise tasks and variants. | The selected trial requires teachers to use capability tasks in teaching Work, rotating pairs to perform cue-response Dance Work with changed partners and music, and named observers to report observations of that social Work. It proposes that teachers later use those reports when revising tasks and variants. These are trial requirements and proposed later-use relations; observation during and after the trial establishes which ones obtained. The project tests whether the arrangement supports recurrence with unfamiliar partners; causal contribution remains a trial hypothesis. |
The project selects the partnered-recurrence architecture because the waiting decision concerns social use with unfamiliar partners. The choreography-and-showcase row remains an unselected proposal. The selected architecture is also a trial hypothesis: the project has not yet established that its teaching, partner-rotation, observation, or later-use relations cause recurrence. The selected first change is a six-week rotating-partner and varied-music teaching trial, followed by supervised social Work. Observers record readable response, balance, recovery, refusal, and whether the intended timing survives. Failure returns to the capability or cue relation; success supports only the local architecture decision, not wider Zouk recognition or retention.
MDPE.21:4.2 - Choreo-camps and short-video selection
A travelling workshop network may connect teachers, cities, learners, cameras, video archives, status, and later bookings. The network can reproduce front-facing phrases, clean synchronization, short hooks, and camera-legible detail even when teachers describe a broader dance practice.
The project may compare a camera-and-publication change, a change in how teachers use learner observations, and a coupled candidate that also changes how learners reuse material outside the recorded group. The first test is not view count alone. It observes whether receiving dancers can learn, vary, and perform the intended qualities in another class or event, and whether the changed publication arrangement still selects the same narrow result.
MDPE.21:4.3 - The Call as a medium-and-practice case
The project joins a songbook, singing exercises, choirs, recordings, datasets, AI models, exhibition equipment, and proposed participant relations. Those elements can produce works without yet establishing a reproducible music practice or style line.
Architecture candidates may emphasize choir capability, model-and-dataset interaction, receiving-group teaching, or exhibition circulation and memory. A representative test asks whether another configured group can learn, adapt, and perform the intended musical relations under stated conditions. Produced recordings, publicity, and one successful installation remain different from later cultural recognition or retention.
MDPE.21:4.4 - One commissioned work
If the decision concerns one selected composition, choreography, recording, or performance, use the direct domain and project Methods. Do not enlarge the work into style-development architecture unless later reproduction across variants, performers, conditions, or generations is part of the intended result.