Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Royal College of Art"”.
-
The Royal College of Art : its influence on education, art and design 1900-1950.
The Royal College of Art is considered through its teaching of art and design, and its work as a centre for the training of art teachers. The ideas of some of the staff are evaluated with regard to the need for art and design education. The influence of the diplomates of the College on the areas of …
-
Policy and practice: Design education in England from 1837-1992, with particular reference to furniture courses at Birmingham, Leicester and the Royal College of Art.
This thesis is an examination of policy-making and practice in design education in England from 1837-1992. It takes a longue durée approach to the history of the development of design education to provide a new narrative which shows a pattern of recurring debates concerning the purpose of design …
-
Textual cues, visual fictions: representations of homosexualities in the works of David Hockney
This thesis is concerned with representations of homosexual themes and subjects in the works of David Hockney (b. 1937). A male, homosexual British artist, Hockney came of age during a period in which homosexual acts between males remained criminalised in both Britain and the United States. Openly …
-
Modernism and Paul Olds (1922–1976) Questioning New Zealand’s Story of Art
New Zealand’s established history of art from the nineteenth century reveals significant omissions in its presentation, particularly regarding Māori, Pasifika, Asian, and women artists. Equally overlooked are the diverse manifestations of modernism within New Zealand’s cultural landscape, with …
-
Design as criticism: methods for a critical graphic design practice
This practice-led research is the result of an interest in graphic design as a specific critical activity. Existing in the context of the 2008 financial and subsequent political crisis, both this thesis and my work are situated in an expaded field of graphic design. This research examines the …
-
Photography, Knowledge and the South Kensington Museum
… Museum, through its governing body the Department of Science and Art and its neighbouring institutions in Albertopolis, formed a sophisticated photographic infrastructure. The photographic infrastructure extended beyond the official remit of the Museum and embedded it within wider …
-
Interactive olfactory surfaces: The Wellness Collection: a science fashion story
"Physics Is A Function Of Size. . . " The aim of the research is to create a new interactive communication system by 're-cabling' fabrics for releasing fragrances in 21st century fashion design. A new development, taking inspiration from biology, conjures up Multi-Sensorial Fabrics - based around …
-
Decolonising Advertising through Diversity: Practical strategies for challenging colonial thinking and practices in the production of publicity campaigns within the spectacle of Mexican Advertising.
… generate a conversation about the production of colonial and racist thinking through the spectacle of publicity and create greater diversity in Mexican Advertising? Hybrid practice-academic methods explore how a multimodal campaign can disrupt the colonial and racist thinking underlying …
-
Descolonizando la publicidad a través de la diversidad: Estrategias prácticas para desafiar el pensamiento y las prácticas coloniales en la producción de campañas publicitarias dentro del espectáculo de la publicidad mexicana
… se pregunta: ¿Cómo puede una campaña de carteles descolonizados generar una conversación sobre la producción del pensamiento colonial y racista a través del espectáculo publicitario y crear una mayor diversidad en la publicidad mexicana? Métodos híbridos, prácticos y académicos, exploran …
-
Leather Futures: How leather can be used as a sustainable material of choice for the future
The purpose of this research by practice determines how leather can be used as a sustainable material of choice for the future. Using a design-led methodology, this research develops knowledge for guidelines for the sustainable practice in this traditional industry, in order to make leather a …
-
NATØ: Exploring architecture as a narrative medium in postmodern London
… to be speculated upon through a rich palette of narrative methods. Taking NATØ, the group of young architects led by Nigel Coates that emerged from the Architectural Association in the early 1980s as its subject matter, the thesis questions how architectural production is able to narrate and …
-
Representing Experiences of Digital Systems: The Design and Use of Externalising Models
… practice that explores how people’s experiences of digital systems can be made physically and visually apparent using models and activities I have designed. The theoretical context for this PhD centres on internal and external models of people’s experiences with digital systems. This is an AHRC …
-
Just like me but not exactly: AI, anthropomorphism & the human-technology gap
While artificial intelligence (AI) design continues to aspire towards romanticised visions of intelligence and human-likeness, the increasing dichotomy between its technological and social facets has given rise to tangible evidence of surveillance, inequality and discrimination. This evidence …
-
Unjoyful Laughter and the Non-Likeness of Photographic Portraiture
… non-mimetic images. It uses the portrait of laughter in theory and in practice to explore a ´non-like´, iconic relation between a photograph and its model. In opposition to portraying a specific laughing sitter, here the photograph is more informed by what the viewer brings to his or her …
-
Fragments and Borders: (re)constructing Korean womanhood through patchwork
This thesis is a decolonial feminist exploration of the representation, materials, and histories of Korean women told through Korean patchwork, theorising patchwork as a radical form to reimagine (material) histories of Korean women and women of the Korean diaspora. As an amalgam of different …
-
Interfashionality: Body-oriented Parametric Design and Parametric Thinking 2.0 for 3D-printed Textiles and Fashion
… parametric design. It proposes the adaptation of ‘parametric thinking’ (parametric thinking 2.0) to offer new understandings of 3D printing (3DP) for fashion and textile innovations. The adjective parametric is a term used in this research to: 1) digitally express mathematical approaches, such …
-
Laser Shaping: A method for controlling the elastic behaviour of stretch fabrics for a targeted and graduated compressive effect on the body
… development facility specialising in the joining of materials for industrial applications. The purpose of this research was to develop capability in textiles joining, particularly ultrasonic and laser welding technologies, which is relatively new to TWI. The appointed researcher adopted a …
-
Writing History Under Erasure: Radical Historiographical Practices in Lebanese Postwar Art
This dissertation examines the artistic practices of Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, Rabih Mroué, Walid Raad and Akram Zaatari, Lebanese artists of the so-called jil al-harb, or the war generation, whose work is characterised by a conspicuous engagement with questions of history writing, …