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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Visual Research"”.
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Visual grounded analysis : developing and testing a method for preliminary visual research
… a new design project by performing preliminary visual research is a common practice in educational and studio settings, particularly in Jewellery and Fashion Design. Collecting images around a given subject or theme - for better understanding its visual traits, or for future reference - could be …
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Through the Lens: Using Auto-Driven Photo-Elicitation to Capture the Development of Career Aspirations of Business Management and Fine Art Students
… this study is primarily in the application of a visual research methodology to generate knowledge and understanding in an area that is often associated with quantitative research. Careers and employment research typically focuses on statistical information which can provide general information …
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Artistry in Social Science Research
This interpretive research study is an inquiry into social science researchers’ aesthetic practices in relation with photographic-based research practices. Specifically, it is an hermeneutic study that probes their experiences of practice careers and trajectories of practitioners in relation to …
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S(t)imulation: A comparison of international democracy assistance objectives and non-elite perceptions of democracy in eastern Madagascar
… hybrid regimes. My intention in undertaking this research is not to discredit other variables pertinent to democratic development, but rather to narrowly investigate how ordinary citizens interpret “democracy” and whether these interpretations are compatible with those assumed by the global …
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From lost industrial edifices to a contemporary fantasia: A practice based investigation which examines the character and form of the post industrial shopping mall environment.
… The second aim was to develop a body of visual work through a systematic enquiry of practice based research which would together with a written commentary present both the outcomes of this research and the new knowledge generated through it. Alongside these aims, this study itself has …
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The search for hybrid tectonics in contemporary African architecture: encounters between the global and the local
… of key projects through primary sources and visual research methods. The literature review explored different positions related to technē, technology and tectonics, and consid - ered theories that range from Bhabha's reading of hybridisation to Frampton, Lefaivre and Tzonis' development of …
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Marisol By Jose RIvera: Scenic Design
… of Maryland. The attached packet contains visual research used as inspiration for the design, preliminary models and sketches that track process, technical drafting, and photographs of the performance. Marisol is set in Spanish Harlem during the early nineteen nineties and transforms to a …
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The Working Poor: Negotiating Life
… offers a synthesis of the leisure and poverty research. It reveals some of the creative responses that people use to negotiate balance in their struggles with poverty. Although the participants used a number of strategies to respond to their daily life conditions, leisure emerged as a salient …
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Portable Heritage: perspectives on white mobility in post-apartheid South Africa
… contextualisation and supplementation to my visual research. It must be stressed that this research is not the primary object offered for examination; that important role lies with my body of artworks that work in conjunction with the document. The goal of this document is to locate my …
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Death by Design: Giving Life to Mark Twain’s Posthumous Success, Is He Dead?
… process begins with the textual, historical, and visual research pertaining to the design concept. The various aspects of the costume design process are presented leading up to the execution of the final designs and successful realization of the play, concluding with a final analysis of the work. …
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Our Third Ear: A Multi-Sensory Experience of Sound
… prototype. The culmination of interdisciplinary research and a broad range of creative technologies resulting in a working system. The multi-sensory experience consists of primarily tactile, but also visual responses triggered by music and executed in conjunction with aural music. Tactile …
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Visual and participatory research methods in the development of mass communication health messages for underserved populations
… this study was to evaluate the benefits of using visual and participatory research techniques towards health message development. Demographic information and levels of physical activity were first obtained in a sample of older Hispanic women (n=23; aged 71.9 ± 7.6 years) living in the city of …
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Visually Re-membering the Eastside: Trajectories of Belonging and Displacement in Austin
… to developers as property values increase. This research explores the effects of these pressures and losses in the day-to-day lives of residents who are most vulnerable through visual and anthropologically-informed methods. Through the visual approaches of photovoice and social mapping, this …
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In/Between: Phillipi Photographed
… situates, contextualises and explicates my visual research for this project.
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Perceived Crowding: Consumers’ Lived Experiences of a Tourist Destination
… Paper 1 introduces the two-phase research method, extending visual research through a sequential photo-elicitation approach to explore pre- and post-experience accounts. This method enables richer contextual insights into crowding as a temporally situated phenomenon. Paper 2 …
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Thinking, Seeing, Practicing Architecture: From The Smithsons To Scott Brown And Venturi
… I argue that each couple utilized a mode of visual research that was inspired by the social sciences; each relied on straightforward photographic documentation to represent their findings; and each made similar claims to “defer judgment” and embrace reality on its own terms: “as found.” Their …
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Videos of communication in primary care: a study exploring nurse practitioner and patient consultations in a Walk-in centre
The researcher (an experienced advanced nurse practitioner) examined and interpreted twenty videos of consultations between six nurse practitioners and patients aged between 18 and 65 years. A qualitative visual research method (VS) was used drawing on phenomenology, video elicitation, reflexivity, …
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Trace of Everyday Performance: A Contemporary Reinterpretation of the Ondol and Dot-Jari
This practice-based research investigates floor-based living, focusing upon the realm of Korean everyday life. My particular concern is with the relation of the body to domestic space through memorised rituals, such as cleaning, polishing and removing shoes. The thesis asks the question: how does …
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Visible flows : the dynamics of community-based flood and water resource management and governance in Uthai Thani
… Municipality, Thailand, become our educators, researchers and storytellers for this thesis. Using visual research of documentary video as the tool of investigation, I seek to understand the underlying structure that has led them to successful adaptation in order to prioritize collective actions …
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Inhabited perspectives on the North Coast 500: Re-making local heritage in touristed communities of the Scottish Highlands
… attention from news media, policymakers and researchers, thus far the complex cultural processes associated with the route have not been addressed. Grounded in the experiences and perspectives of local residents, this examination contributes to (and draws closer together) parallel but largely …
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