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Showing 1 to 20 of 49 for “"World-building"”.
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Bourgeois Balkans: world-building in Belgrade and Sofia 1830-1912
… the ambitions and limits of this “bourgeois world-building” through three constitutive processes: the production of space, the gendered transformation of intimate labor, and the re-calibration of state violence. With the advent of autonomous rule, the Balkan capitals were reconstructed as …
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Fantasy Multiverse World-Building: Affect and Affinity in Diana Wynne Jones
… experience in fantasy multiverse storyworlds and its potential to disrupt cognitive processes of Otherization. Building from the premises of Deictic Shift Theory, which explain how storyworld engagement involves orientating oneself to the spaces in which the story takes place, I …
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Collaboration in a multimedia environment: world-building and design strategy in music production
… game design, in which the construction of ‘story worlds’ and complex narrative structures has led to the development of network-based and nonlinear models for production and distribution of media. As part of an emerging discourse on design strategy for decentralized music production, this research …
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Meet Me in the Middle Ages: Engaging with fantasy, reality, and collaborative world-building
… for middle-grade readers which explores the world of medieval fantasy through art, comics, stories, and activities. Throughout the essay, I use my own term “archaeological upcycling” to discuss and explore a variety of relationships between ideas of parts and a whole. I then use it to …
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Healing Bodies: Micro-sites of Sovereignty as Places for Refuge, Regeneration, and World-building
This community engaged thesis project centers the strength-based perspectives of Black and Native American communities engaging in regenerative land care practices within the Coast Salish Territories known today as Seattle, Washington. Representing the significant themes of Black Liberation, …
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Overcoming the State of Oblivion: Decolonial Approaches within Engaged Art Practices
… that claim to challenge dominant models of world-building and present alternative forms of living through the use of decolonial methodologies and political ecology approaches. In particular, I examine ‘alter-institutional practice’ in order to comprehend the role art plays in the search for …
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Narrative tactics for making other worlds possible
… America") authors have taken advantage of a world-building imagination creating their own worlds, and theorizing what they were doing. From the 1960s onwards, fictional worlds were studied from a philosophical point of view, using "possible worlds" theory and modal logic, which consider the …
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Twisting Tales: a guide to fairytale adaptation
… fairytales become an avenue in which to explore world building and narrative, which fairytales naturally lend themselves to. The guidebook also explores more troubling tropes and trends in the fairytale, particularly those regarding women. Marcia K. Lieberman’s essay “Someday My Prince Will …
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Creating Imaginary Worlds on the Page and in the Mind
This PhD by published works explores world-building in the light of the author’s writing practice, which has been informed by his own neurodivergence in general and his aphantasia in particular. It has also been informed by Wolfgang Iser’s phenomenological exploration of the reading process. The …
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Eden Creek
… chapters exhibited focus primarily on dialogue, world-building, and characterization of the two main characters, August and Ellis. Dialogue is a primary driver of characterization and narrative, serving as a vehicle for studying our characters via their interactions with each other. The piece …
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Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop
… one another. They are both practices engaged in building a better world. Urban scholars like Gautam Bhan, Shannon Mattern, and David Harvey propose the city as a space for envisioning the kind of community we want to be—a space for working towards our collective future. By engaging in fictional …
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to world-build engulfed within the undulation - withdrawn yet prevalent
Práce se zabývá vývojem procesu tvorby fikčního světa podle předurčených schémat a pravidel, analýzou jeho vznikající interní topologie a následnou prezentací vytvořeného světa divákovi skrze instalaci inspirovanou nelineárními strukturami gamebooků.
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A thesis about design fiction
… concludes that Design Fiction is a type of ‘World Building’ that may be utilised in many different ways, for example as a communication tool, as an ideation aid, or as a research method. Furthermore, the underlying intentionality of any given Design Fiction must be expressed through …
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Evolving a Theatre of Truth
… I address are the role of feminist theatre in a world dominated by global media and corporate omnipotence; the conflation of theatre and Realpolitick; the limitations of postmodern thought and critical theory, and the struggle not only of the marginalized, but of all of us to create an activist …
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SOME OF US ARE STARING AT THE STARS: SPECULATIVE FICTION, FANDOM, AND TRANS IMAGINATION
… speculative fiction as a survival strategy and worldbuilding tool. Through engagement with trans and nonbinary fans and creators of imaginative works, Damien shows how speculative fiction has powerful material effects for trans lives. Primary attention is given to the possibilities contained in …
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Artists for Humanity's Sake: An Ameliorative Project Concerning Artists and the Existentialist Struggle Against the Dominant Narrative
… are. This means that we must pursue a more just world for all. Interestingly enough, as we look at the evidences of the ways in which cultural violence have been used historically and today as a means to withhold power from the people, we find that participating in the arts grants a great deal of …
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Geopolitics of Digital Literacies: Accounting for Myths and Realities
… rhetorics of digital literacies in the One-Third World. Building on the work of literacy studies and computers and writing scholarship, I define and critique "the digital literacy myth"-a public discourse wherein digital literacies and their technologies are portrayed as inherently democratic for …
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Living in virtual communities : an ethnography of life online
… that is distinct and separate from the real world. Building on the work of other cyberethnographers, I combine original ethnographic research in Cybertown (http: /www. cybertown. com), a Virtual Community, with face-to-face meetings to illustrate how, for many people, cyberspace is just …
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Porting Transmedia Storytelling to Journalism
… of the methodology describe it as the art of world building.</p> <p>This thesis illustrates that journalists can better engage their publics by adapting the methods of transmedia storytelling to journalism. By comparing entertainment transmedia storytelling theory and technique with examples …
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