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Showing 1 to 20 of 166 for “"Sensibilities"”.
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Organizing sensibilities of a radical Black girlhood
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2026-05-01
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Memory and Intuition: An Uncovering of Sensibilities
… from personal memory and identifying personal sensibilities. With abstract spatial drawings, architecture's possible influence is understood at a slower pace. Through layered colored pencil drawings, my work attempts to depict human influence and its enhancement on the natural world surrounding …
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Sensor(y) Landscapes : technologies for new perceptual sensibilities
… and sensory perception to afford new perceptual sensibilities. Today's mainstream technologies are well designed for rapid consumption of information and linear, sequential action. A side effect of their effectiveness to task, however, is a loss of undirected, curiosity-driven exploration in the …
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Spatial user interface : augmenting human sensibilities in a domestic kitchen
The real world is not a computer screen. When can augmented reality and ambient interfaces improve the usability of a physical environment? This thesis presents data from design studies and experiments that demonstrate the value for ambient information and augmented reality design. The domestic …
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Dylan Thomas and the Metaphysical Mode: A Study of Shared Sensibilities
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THE CHILD AS DRAMATURG: investigating dramaturgical frameworks steered by child-centric sensibilities
This dissertation questions how it is possible for a child to be considered the dramaturg of a theatrical production specifically catering for early year audiences. The research begins with an investigation of secondary source materials to obtain a working definition of the concepts of child/hood …
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Shielded by Athena: Mythical and Biblical Allusions and the Aesthetic Sensibilities of Louise Gluck's Poetry
Louise Glück is a contemporary American poet who has established herself as a major figure in the literary world. Her work includes poems that use mythical and biblical allusions, often using personae from those sources to frame personal stories. Glück's poetry can be read in light of the New …
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Why did they do it? Moral sensibilities, motivating reasons, and degrees of moral blame in culpable homicide
Humans have a long evolutionary history of violence. The psychological mechanisms underlying aggression can be viewed as “solutions” (albeit undesirable solutions) to any one of a number of adaptive problems that exist in social life. Sometimes that aggression takes the form of the killing of one …
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Expressing South African musical sensibilities In Jazz: the cultural relevance of John Coltrane and the musical impact of Mccoy Tyner
This paper seeks to explore the cultural and spiritual relevance of John Coltrane (1926- 1967) and the musical impact of McCoy “Alfred” Tyner (1938-2020) on two contemporary South African pianists, with a focus on the music of Afrika Mkhize and Nduduzo Makhathini, as well as an insider's …
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The city's pleasures : architectural sensibility in eighteenth-century Istanbul
… The second part focuses on the role of urban sensibilities in shaping a broader cultural horizon of expectations. Through an investigation of the age-old relation between garden and poetry in this period, I show that garden and poetic canon followed a parallel trajectory of "urbanization," …
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Experiencing Inebriation In Place
… think why architecture is not valued through our sensibilities? Or a better question, how can architecture be valued through our sensibilities? Our emotions are developed through our experiences. The movement through the pub, my actions within the space, and the senses being formed from my …
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The performative experiment : a polylogue to practice the malleability of an aesthetic and spatial sense of self
… requires malleable aesthetic and spatial sensibilities which in turn can cultivate a pliable and multiple sense of self. "A sense of self" here draws on William James's and Ulric Neisser's plural ways of conceiving and knowing oneself through self-knowledge, self-consciousness and …
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Uncanny Bodies
… “Uncanny Bodies,” unseemly bits are revealed, sensibilities are questioned, and solid ground morphs into shaky mounds. I delve into how the uncanny challenges traditional views and societal norms about the body. My artwork emphasizes the fluid and often unsettling experiences of physical …
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Believing Anew: Gianni Vattimo and A Form of Faith in Contemporary Culture
… is, in part, due tothe variousreligious sensibilities at playin the present time. On the one hand, there is an attraction to astructured, doctrinal-based form ofreligionthat asksoneto recognise a particular authority and to surrender to it. On the other hand, there is a decline in the …
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“Brightly Colored Magic and Weird Worlds”: Sylvia Plath’s Creation of Personae Through Her Visual Poetics
… her writing in order to argue that her painterly sensibilities are central to her character construction. Specifically, I contend that Plath draws upon a set of visual techniques, which I categorise as hallucinations, mental images, dreams, blurriness, and visual-to-verbal re-inscription. The …
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Interpreting Alaminos : the cultural context of form
… be (a) "personalistic" according to regional sensibilities (b) culturally defined and (c) nationally fulfilling in its accurate representation of the indigenous spirit.
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Real education for the real world : a comparative study of the moral and ethical training of undergraduate commerce and non-commerce students at Concordia University
… the intent to discover any differences on moral sensibilities between commerce and non-commerce students. The study is prefaced by a brief introduction to the issues, as raised by moral philosophy and business theory. The analysis probes issues of moral perception of society and issues of moral …
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(E)merging idioms: integrating jazz and classical ensembles.
… that retains what will be shown to be jazz sensibilities, but which is accessible to performers schooled in the classical tradition. The exegesis briefly discusses the musical influences that have been a part of my compositional aesthetic and approach and provides a detailed commentary of …
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Architectural Advocacy: Public Buildings as Normative Communication
… heightened visual expectations and contemporary sensibilities fostered and reflected by mass media, utilizing architecture's great ability to communicate is the way to trumpet built space's role in civics. Written for the architectural nonexpert, this dissertation explores these issues in terms …
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The Integrated Soundtrack in Practice: an Electroacoustic Sensibility to Composition in Film Sound Design
… creation. Within this relational framework, sensibilities associated with electroacoustic composition are not applied externally to film sound practice, but drawn upon organically as part of the creative process. These sensibilities—particularly attentiveness to the characteristics of sound, …
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