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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"Heterotopia"”.
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Heterotopia: Loose Space For an Edge City
… can it be loosened by design? The concept of “heterotopia”, as described by Michel Foucault in his essay “Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias”, is a place functioning in nonhegemonic conditions, the place of “otherness” that has more layers of meaning than meet the eye. That concept …
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In Search of Heterotopia: Immersive Experiences in the Museum
Museums everywhere are waging battle to find ways to attract new audience members. In this thesis I draw upon participant observation, interviews, and event planning in order to examine how museums create heterotopic, interactive immersive experiences. I focus on the work of two Seattle-area …
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The Marginal Public: Marginality, Publicness, and Heterotopia in the Space of the City
… Ottawa (OPO). Finally, through the concept of heterotopia, I explore the margins as places of otherness as well as possibility.
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Mimicry, Mirroring, Subversion, and Critique: Reading Heterotopia in the Cubicula of the Sacraments
… Rome, in light of Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia. I argue that the Christian communities that created the Cubicula constructed their spaces and construed the symbolic worlds they conjured there as a way of mimicking, mirroring, subverting, and critiquing the "other" spaces and cultures …
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Real places and impossible spaces: Foucault's Heterotopia in the fiction of James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.G. Sebald
… to restore Michel Foucault’s concept of the heterotopia to its literary origins, and to examine its changing status as a literary motif through the course of twentieth-century fiction. Initially described as an impossible space, representable only in language, the term has found a wider …
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Scenographic thinking is heterotopic. Possible scenography, heterotopia, and retracing an unruly archive: the intersection of design and scenography in expert theatre practice
… process. It presents a conceptual framework of ‘heterotopias’, expanding Michel Foucault’s premise, to argue for ‘scenotopia’ as a new and original contribution to the Theatre and Performance lexicon, addressing the current gap in knowledge which exists at the intersections of theatre design and …
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The Matter of Gautland
… is made to Michel Foucault’s theory of the heterotopia, a spatial framework which has only begun to be applied to Old Norse literature within the last decade. Indeed, this dissertation marks the first time that Foucault’s heterotopia has been used as the theoretical framework for an …
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Scenographic thinking is heterotopic. Possible scenography, heterotopia, and retracing an unruly archive: the intersection of design and scenography in the expert theatre practice of Fred Meller 2001-2018
… process it presents a conceptual framework of ‘heterotopias’, expanding Michel Foucault’s premise, as a new and original contribution to the Theatre and Performance discipline, addressing the current gap in knowledge which exists at the intersections of theatre design and scenography in …
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What Is Care? The Birth and Identity Formation of an Alternative Public Middle School
… character. Thus, I apprehend CARE as a crisis heterotopia, a convoluted and curious site devoid of historical memory as well as theoretical and political situativity, and one that beckons answers to questions of white privilege and racial equality. I further argue that the deficit model for …
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The Inescapable Quest for Happiness: Exploring How the Ideology of Happiness Shapes the Contemporary Consumer Marketplace
… meanings. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of heterotopia (Foucault and Miskowiec 1986), this study shifts the focus away from the individual experience of happiness to a cultural level of understanding, exploring the following question: How does the ideology of happiness in contemporary …
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Bo Mmaruri: Bosadi
… are deconstructed and reconstituted in a heterotopia of my own making. Motivated by the decline in the momentum and visibility of Botswana's women's movements, the project asks how non-male resistance and self-determination has and can operate in Botswana, particularly in traditional and …
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L.A. Micro-Publics : expanding the seams of the transportation system
… contemporary Los Angeles as such a site, a heterotopia built on difference, without a coherent civic identity. In this context, the region's transportation system emerges as both a form of governmentality and the "strategic terrain" for the struggle to redefine citizenship in the urban …
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Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn
… and deconstruction. The resulting paradoxical heterotopia originates from modernist garden city philosophy and is centered annually on a symbolic towering effigy, but the playa canvas provides ample room for communal architecture and services. Citizen engagement occurs do-ocratically in an …
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Die skryf van ʼn lewe: Die funksionaliteit van ruimte in Stephanus Muller se Nagmusiek (2014)
… space as a social product and the principle of heterotopia were used as theoretical approaches to the analysis of the text. In this study the focus of analysis and discussion was on the relationship of Werner Ansbach, the fictional biographer, with the various spaces he enters. Ansbach’s …
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Lifecycle of viral YouTube videos
… of virality supports the claim of Internet as heterotopia.
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Counter-sites in 1980s New York Poetry-Videos
… in which key poetry-videos of the 1980s harness heterotopian spaces to reimagine contemporary social issues. Each of the poets in this thesis engage with a different social issue, from racial to environmental justice, and harness various aspects of the spatial potential of video and its relation …
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The Specter of Representation: Computational Images and Algorithmic Capitalism
… and Michel Foucault’s gesture towards a heterotopia. Finally, it draws from Donna Haraway’s metaphors of the cyborg and <em>sympoiesis</em> to frame the capacity of art to transfigure the limitations of digital network culture into new possibilities for being. Here, it curates practices …
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RAPPRESENTAZIONE DELLO SPAZIO E ARCHITETTURE NARRATIVE NELLA NOVELLISTICA DI SOLDATI (1959-1979)
… as well as the concepts of liminality and heterotopia. In the reconstruction of Soldati’s narrative architectures, the importance of space as space of a text or macrotext has also been considered, a strategic system and distribution of places through the collections support their …
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Land/seascapes of exclusion: social order on the coastal margins
… in social order, coded as places of Otherness (heterotopia), Euclidean coasts, and places in transition reflecting images of both the former and the latter. Drawing on a number of coastal communities, including the Northland community of Otia (otherwise known as the Seaweed Pickers), Taylor’s …
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Discovering Towneley Park : a digital and multimethod approach to understanding the effects of a digital heritage interpretation of a Lancashire park
… meanings. Through theoriesincluding Foucault’s heterotopia (1986) and Deleuze & Guattari’s rhizome (2013), this thesisworks towards an understanding of park heritage as a trans-temporal and trans-spatialnetwork constructed by people. In addition, the thesis explores the role of the …
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