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Showing 1 to 20 of 29461 for “"Making"”.
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Making Rules, Making Tools: How Can Shape Grammar Support Creative Making?
… designers who work independently, designing and making objects with close attention to tools and materials, have not been similarly studied. A renewed interest in craft and making, in part catalysed by new computational and digital fabrication tools at designer’s disposal, strengthens the case …
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Making Coffee
Making Coffee is a fiction film shot in Toronto during the spring of 2014. It is a social drama that explores the fatherson relationship within a contemporary Canadian society. The story also touches upon issues of immigration and the importance of friendship in coping with loneliness in a foreign …
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Making Faces
<p>This dissertation, <em>Making Faces</em>, is a book of prose poems investigating the work of portrait composition as it might be achieved through poetry. The prose poems in <em>Making Faces</em> explore how written expressions of people might be built poetically through—listing, paradox, …
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Making Ethics
A window broke and Annie was involved. What’s of moral importance in a situation like this? Not whether Annie caused the window to break and not whether the window wouldn’t have broken if it weren’t for Annie. What’s morally important is whether Annie broke the window. In this thesis, I first …
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On Making
This is a project about making, or what it fundamentally means to take part in what seems like such a natural, yet remarkable, human trait: the ability to make. There are countless different types of makers in the world, but it seems that of all of them, the architect occupies a unique position. It …
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Making Friends
Making Friends is a collection of animate sculptures showcasing depictions of humans and the human figure through experimental overlap between the mediums of animation and sculpture. Throughout, I explore simultaneity in my own perceptions of ugliness and beauty both in myself and those around me, …
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Making biosecurity, making Mexico : an ethnography of biological invasion
This dissertation tracks what happens when biology, that is, both life forms and knowledge about them, becomes the object of security. While increasing global traffic has led to a greater degree of movement of people, animals, plants, and microbes, biosecurity measures are concerned with regulating …
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Making Memory, Making Meaning: Memorial Museums and the Participatory Audience
… States history. My work examines this meaning-making dynamic in case studies of four memorial museums: The 9/11 Memorial Museum, The Legacy Museum: From Slavery to Mass Incarceration, Manzanar National Historic Site, and Carthage Jail. By combining textual analysis of museums with data from …
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Rationally inattentive decision-making: Bayesian decision-making with information choice
Embargo set by: Seth Robbins for item 112251 Lift date: 2021-08-23T20:46:41Z Reason: Author requested closed access (OA after 2yrs) in Vireo ETD system
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Making Better Lives - Home Making Among Homeless People in Paris
… What factors do they consider when finding and making shelters? I followed people through different institutional settings – a homeless day centre, a needle exchange, a centre for people with alcohol problems and ultimately also a homeless shelter – on their way away from the street always …
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Making with attention
… as a modern artifact, I challenge modes of making and living in contemporary western society through the guise of utilitarian objects. By using materials that have been classified as waste to create sculptural works I bring value to something that had little. I use low-tech and old-world …
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ENGLISH WORD-MAKING
<p>English Word-Making presents the content and methods of modern research in morphology in the form of a textbook for secondary school English students.</p><p>The opening section offers a rationale for the uses of morphology at the secondary level. The emergence of English as a subject in the …
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Making waste public
This thesis questions the boundaries that define waste as a public or private dilemma, investigating these boundaries as productive sites for the imagination of social life. Learning from methods of processing, conveyance and disposal, I investigate a number of possible sites where the …
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Making Models Work
<p>Scientific models are used to investigate reality. Here “model” refers to a representation which is created by an agent for a particular inferential purpose. These purposes include but are not limited to explanation, prediction, exploration, classification, and measurement. Through modeling, …
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Architecture: the making
… is made. To celebrate the materiality, the making, of Building is to give it significance, meaning. To make Building a meaningful work there needs to be an inherent structure, order, to the work. This order must be revealed and strengthened through <b>harmony</b>, <b>articulation</b>, and …
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Knowledge Through Making
Perhaps the quintessential project for an architect is the design of a house. This thesis takes the approach of designing a house by way of a unique construction method. Influenced by the strickbau, or woven wood, method of stacking timber most commonly seen in the Swiss chalet, the project …
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Making Waves: An Exploration In Learning Through Art, Science, And Making
For nearly one hundred years, from progressive education to critical pedagogy, philosophers, researchers, and educators have advocated for listening, respecting, and providing space for the learner’s voice within education. When teaching challenging science content, it is vital to provide both a …
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The making of clothing and the making of London, 1560-1660
… in turn, how London’s rapid growth changed the making, wearing, and meaning of clothing. This dissertation places material evidence at the fore using extant objects from museum collections. It also employs the new methodology of reconstruction to explore craft, ingenuity, and emotional …
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Making Music and Making Place: Mapping Musical Practice in Irish Small Towns
… the co-constitutive relationship between music-making and place-making in Carlow, Wexford and Kilkenny City, in the south-east of Ireland. It argues that musical practice creates meaningful experiences, memories and emotional responses that gather and weave into places. It also finds that all …
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Making our way through multilingualism – reflexivity and decision-making of language students
This thesis investigates reflexivity and decision-making of language students by examining the interplay between what students care about (their multilingual ‘concerns’), and how they understand and act on their structural environments (through multilingual ‘projects’). The research is based on a …
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