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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Practice-led PhD"”.
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Making theatre elastic: a practice-led PhD on performance research with Elastic Theatre, focusing on the body of work produced between 2005 and 2011
… of contemporary tendencies in performance practices, with particular reference to the notion of 'post-dramatic theatre'. This concept of elasticity is presented in relation to three aspects of my productions: respectively, the combination of performance disciplines (Chapter 1), the …
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The space of drawing
This is the written component of a practice - led Phd concerned with the space of drawing. The space that drawing is seen as being able to occupy has undergone significant changes in last ten years. In this thesis I consider the historical and theoretical background to these changes with direct …
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An analysis of design thinking in applied game design.
… a pivotal position between game design knowledge, development team, co-designers, and players. From this complex web of interaction, the designer is still expected to invent a new game. From a design investigation perspective, there is an opportunity to expand our general knowledge of game …
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Diving to The Cinema Beneath the Lake: a novel as immersive, synthetic-magical exploration of the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington
This practice-led PhD explores the role of mimicry (simulation, impersonation, imitation) in the surrealist prose of Claude Cahun, Ithell Colquhoun and Leonora Carrington. It evaluates mimicry both as a feminist critical technique and as a form of camouflage or evasion which provides space and …
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Beyond Photojournalism: Constraints and Contradictions in Hostile Environments
… to pursue and fulfil his/her goal. Moreover, my practice-led PhD thesis incorporates an original series of my photographs from North Korea and Malaysia, which validate my main research question which concerns how context interacts with the photojournalist's situational work.<br/><br/>By means of …
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Visualising Human Migrations in Cape Town The story of three ships through ‘time’, ‘space’ and ‘memory’
This practice-led PhD contributes to an understanding of contemporary art practice as a tool to render visible and unravel capitalist imaginaries within the field of migration studies. Focusing on the theme of contemporary and historical migrations at Cape Town through research conducted on three …
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Drawn together: illustration, community and collective world-making
… key methods used in this research, impact on the practice of illustration? This practice-led PhD argues that collaborative illustration projects can create the possibility for individuals to encounter one another in an expression of community. In carefully considered participatory …
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Digital Visions: Visual Realisations. Mediating image fidelity and digital decay in the cinematographer’s process. A study interrogating digital technologies, agile working and craft knowledge in cinematographic practice.
… technologies, agile working and craft knowledge in cinematographic practice. By Mark Anthony Bond. This is a practice led PhD, consisting of a series of practice artefacts and an accompanying written exegesis. The artefacts include digital films, Outside In, The Garden and a film and …
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An Unfolding Voyage: Rephotography and the Challenger Expedition
… remain largely unseen by a wider public. This practice-led PhD adopts rephotography, a method of taking a photograph from the same vantage point as an existing photographic image, and expands it using participation as a means to reconsider the expedition’s photographs collectively. Centering …
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Interface: concept and context as strategies for innovative fashion design and communication: an analysis from the perspective of the conceptual fashion design practitioner
This practice-led PhD proposes alternative practices in a research and design context that explore the intersection of fashion, fine art and performance methodology and practice. The project exposes and documents the emergence and development of conceptual and experimental fashion and …
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Material INTO Practice, Practice ONTO Body and OUT TO Space; Exploration of sequins as a spatial concept through a new embellishment technique
This practice-led PhD study brings together research about the history, materiality, and development of fashion embellishment, with a particular emphasis on sequins for the first time. It is an interdisciplinary PhD study using cultural studies, art histories, fashion practice and theory, and it …
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Looking for Mary Webb: Part one - Creating a lost diary; Part two - A single violet: the lost diaries of Mary Webb
This practice-led PhD in Creative Writing consists of an historical, biographical novel called A Single Violet, and a critical commentary, Looking for Mary Webb. The novel is infused with nature writing and written in the form of a diary. The Shropshire writer Mary Webb (1881 -1927) published …
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The Importance of Place: A practice-led investigation into the liminal space between artist-doctor and patient-artist, in the process of making art and recovery in the House of Artists and the Gugging Atelier, at Maria Gugging in Austria
… and socially integrated creativity. The practice-led research, which is the subject of this thesis was carried out between 2016 and 2020 using the double perspective of an artist who also lives with chronic mental illness. It aimed to identify a holistic model of ongoing recovery for …