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Showing 1 to 20 of 229 for “"Ecologies"”.
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Patchworked creative practice and mobile ecologies
As the use of mobile technologies, consumer electronics and the internet expand, there are more opportunities for young visual designers around the world to gain access to design industries. Yet differences in infrastructure and spatial configurations create distinct obstacles and opportunities for …
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Emergence: Speculative Ecologies & Evolution in Art
This thesis explores emergence as a focal point within my art practice. Emergence is the phenomenon through which complex systems exhibit properties and behaviors that are not directly attributable to any of the individual components within a system. Instead, these properties emerge through the …
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Designing Display Ecologies for Visual Analysis
… associated with visual analysis in display ecologies is enabling users to seamlessly coordinate and subsequently connect and integrate information across displays. This research primarily addresses these challenges through the creation of interaction and visualization techniques and systems …
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From Connected Digital Art to Cybernetic Ecologies
This thesis is concerned with the development of art systems, and in particular digital art systems. That is, digital artworks that are able to interact with each other, as well as their human viewers or participants. The communication may be over distance via the internet, or in a shared space via …
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Ecologies of Reading in Dante and Rilke
… I trace through Dante and Rilke’s works, but as ‘ecologies of reading’ that offer us alternatives to patriarchal models of poetic tradition. Drawing on the contemporary philosophical schools of New Materialism and Object- Oriented-Ontology, I argue that reading should aim to bring to light …
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Disturbing ecologies : interventions in Boston's seaport district
… understanding of the city as a set of interlaced ecologies, including the biotic (animal, plants, microorganisms), the abiotic (water, wind, sun, soil), the sociocultural (social networks, psychogeography), the political (land uses, wards, school districts), and the economic (land value, capital …
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A behavioral perspective on multi-organised innovation ecologies
Contains fulltext : 116912.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)
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Cloud Ecologies: An Environmental Ethnography of Data Centers
… Hogan and Stefan Helmreich, I introduce “limit ecologies” as a framework for apprehending cloud computing’s turbulent expansion into submarine and extraterrestrial frontiers.
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An Evaluation Method for Thinking in Technology Ecologies
… function in technological display and device ecologies or ecosystems to support human thinking, learning and sensemaking. Based on the theories of Vygotsky's sign mediation triangle, we contribute a method that may allow one to evaluate how technology configurations support (or hinder) …
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Questioning (in) school mathematics : lifeworlds and ecologies of practice
… are better described as regimes of practice. 'Ecologies of practices' is proposed as more flexible construct that allows the diversity of networks and practice in classroomsto be theorised. The nature of particular ecologies can be described(and researched) using similar dimensions to community …
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minoritarian ecologies: performance before a more-than-human world
This practice-based project investigates modalities of performing eco-aesthetic assemblages across the modern nature―culture divide. Assemblages are here understood as non-hierarchical associations between bodies that are different amongst themselves. I argue that eco-aesthetic practices that work …
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Vibrant Risks: Scientific Aquaculture and Political Ecologies in China
This dissertation examines how the dissemination of science in shrimp aquaculture is intertwined with issues of sustainability and risks in south China. In the Leizhou Peninsula of Guangdong Province, shrimp aquaculture took off in the mid-1980s with the dissolution of collective farming, when …
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Vibrating the Web: Sonospheric Studies of Media Infrastructure Ecologies
How can the relationship between media infrastructures and the economies of noise foster the development of a sonospheric art practice? Media infrastructures are the material backbone of the Internet. Such sites underpin the digitally hyperconnected world, but as material assemblages are also …
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Acid ecologies : or the secret lives of Spanish tomatoes/
This thesis seeks to unpack the nature of ecology within architecture, not as a neutral science, but a legitimizing construct, building a future and transforming the ethics of the present towards very deliberate ideological ends, and contingent on certain practices of alienation which themselves …
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Urbanizing the fringe : armatures for reterritorialization of rurban ecologies
… interest group in the preservation of natural ecologies. In an impasse between fallacious optimism and cynical pessimism, the thesis explores the synergetic prospects of grassroots governance and liberal capitalism, for a rurban model of regional development. Keywords: neoliberalism, …
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Critical Experiential Learning And Rhetorical Interventions In New Media Ecologies
… and critical literacy in new media ecologies. Each chapter defines the dilemma, offers a theoretical response, and details a possible pedagogical application for the composition classroom.</p>
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Void Ecologies: Resistance, Commoning and Pleasure in the Discard Space
<p>This dissertation explores the cultural, theoretical and historical ties between discard spaces (or spaces left “outside systems of spatial configuration and signification” (Dibazar 2016, 212) and practices of re-commoning (or reclaiming resources) that address environmental, racial and gendered …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
While moral and medical perspectives have dominated addiction discourse for the past two centuries, addiction specialists and theorists have recently developed ecological alternatives that cross disciplinary boundaries and treat the addicted person holistically. My dissertation excavates a deep …
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Worldly ecologies: Landscape, history, and environmental politics on Jeju Island
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2025-08-01
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Ecologies of digital mapping: Open source communities and grassroots maps
… methods, Susan Leigh Star’s conceptualization of ecologies and Michael Burawoy’s extended case method equally inform it. The dissertation is comprised of eight chapters which explore the role of mapping in contemporary times and why it is worth studying; detail the theoretical and methodological …
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