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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Embodied engagement"”.
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An exploration into young children's embodied engagement with storyworlds through curated storyworld play
This thesis explores young children’s embodied engagement with the storyworlds of picturebooks during a playful activity, called curated storyworld play, within English Reception classrooms. The research draws upon two conventionally opposing theoretical framings, sociocultural and sociomaterial …
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Through the Body: Corporeality, Subjectivity, and Empathy in Contemporary American Art
… dissertation considers the relationship between embodied experience, subjectivity, and empathy expressed in artworks created and exhibited in New York in the early 1990s and linked with identity politics. I focus on works that represented or evoked bodies and elicited viscerally somatic responses …
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Opening spaces for the emergence of community economy initiatives
… the use of natural materials with low embodied carbon is often dismissed as unaffordable. The thesis therefore explores how a community housing enabling organisation might reconcile the apparently conflicting aims of affordability and sustainability. There is a gap in research into this …
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Subjectivity and Embodied Experiences of Time in Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction and Film
… film Spider (2002)-- to demonstrate their engagement with embodied experience. This study argues that subjective experience is inseparable from the process of thinking through and with the body. This focus on embodiment, I argue, often gives way to a privileging of present-time experience, …
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dharmakaya: An investigation into the impact of mindful meditation on dancers’ creative processes in a choreographic environment
… The process of creating the work involved a deep engagement with the principles and practices of meditation in order to consider critically the impact this had on my own creative practice and on dancers’ creative endeavours in the choreographic environment. Integral to this research project is …
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Learning to draw: an active perceptual approach to observational drawing synchronising the eye and hand in time and space
… positions observational drawing as a dynamic embodied engagement with the world; ‘drawing with life’ or ‘drawing life’, rather than drawing from life. The drawing method is defined as presentation (distinct from representation) recognising that perception is transformed by the action of …
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Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg
… contingent upon proximity by considering how embodied engagement might take place at a distance. Developing a broad definition of gesture as a motion away from the (carnal or camera) body that is nonetheless always attached to it, the thesis seeks a state of in-betweenness unmediated by touch. …
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Dreamlands and Ecotones: How can a photographic language be constructed to explore the politics of landscape on the political equator?
… My practice facilitates an imaginative engagement with potential future political sustainability or modification of these landscapes. Visuality plays a pivotal role in the production of contemporary geo-politics. By exploring three of my art projects in relation to historical and …
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Making an exit: Millennials, place-making, and exodus at South Korea’s edge
… landscape through localized, material, and embodied engagement with the space/place of Jeju. Furthermore, this study also incorporates the perspectives of other players on the island – longtime Jeju residents, and the Jeju regional government – and in so doing charts the tensions and …