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Showing 1 to 20 of 1145 for “"craft"”.
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On Craft
<p>Craft is a relationship - a dialogue - between craftsman, tool, and material. Craft begins with the intent of all of these loci, and all of these loci are rooted in Being.</p> <p>Being is known through the consciousness, awareness, and perception of a subject. Being is the inherent existence and …
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Sensor Craft Control Using Drone Craft with Coulomb Propulsion System
… plume impingement problem with neighboring spacecraft and does not contaminate their sensors because it requires essentially no propellant. It is suitable to close formation control on the order of dozens of meters. The Coulomb forces are internal forces of the formation and they influence all …
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Suetonius’ Organizational Craft
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, a Roman civil servant in the first and second centuries CE, was the author of a biographical collection of Rome’s first twelve imperial rulers. My dissertation focuses on this collection, the Caesars, and in it I describe Suetonius’ organizational and structural methods …
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Hybrid body craft
… sensitive design. In this dissertation, Body Craft is defined as existing cultural, historical, and fashion-driven practices and rituals associated with body decoration, ornamentation, and modification. As its name implies, Hybrid Body Craft (HBC) is an attempt to hybridize technology with …
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Spacesuit: space craft
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2003.
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Algorithmic craft : the synthesis of computational design, digital fabrication, and hand craft
… medium of computation. Visual and physical art, craft, and design are interrelated domains that offer exciting possibilities when extended by computation. By forging strong connections between the skill of programming and the construction of personally relevant physical objects, it may be …
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The school of craft
… amount of care is inferred with the thought of craftsmanship. With a decline in craftsmanship in today’s society, the care and thoughtfulness inherent in the skill of making objects are gradually being replaced by the "ready-made" and the immediate. In order to reverse this trend we must educate …
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Perfecting the Craft of Teaching
<p>This ethnographic narrative follows my journey as a fifth grade teacher in the greater Los Angeles area. The purpose of this ethnography is to follow the development of my journey as a first-year teacher. In this ethnography, I explore my positionality and the levels of community, school, and …
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Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism
… making practices it is often not recognised as craft and skill in its own right. In this thesis episodes of studio practice, workshop facilitation, curation and protest explore contemporary repair cultures in London, in order to define Repair-Making; seeing it as a craft of its own, as creating …
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Essays on Craft and Communities
… around one of the timeless modes of production – craft, as well as one of the oldest forms of informal organizing – communities. The three studies in this thesis all explore questions surrounding the motivations of individuals and collectives for continuous engagement with the social structures …
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Adding Value Through Digital Craft
… controlled machines, designers can digitally craft products unique to the individual. Utilizing these aspects to create pleasure, designers can motivate consumers to be more thoughtful in their consumption, extend the desirable life of a product, and change the current societal norm of …
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Performing women’s poetry: an evolving craft
This research project proposes to examine a current cohort of female poets employing performance techniques in their poetries, investigating how these poets continue to adapt and adopt the aesthetics of earlier poets. In recent years, the popularity of poetry in online communities has boomed, with …
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CRAFT : ClusteR-specific Assorted Feature selecTion
… feature selection. We derive a simplified model, CRAFT, by analyzing the asymptotic behavior of the log posterior formulations in a nonparametric MAP-based clustering setting in this framework. The model handles assorted data, i.e., both numeric and categorical data, and the underlying objective …
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Craft-Focused Electronic Musical Instrument Building: Exploring DIY Textiles and Hybrid Craft Techniques in Sound Arts Practice
… research was to explore the concept of a craft focused electronic musical instrument building practice, prioritising textile handcraft materials, techniques and aesthetics in the process of creating new electronic musical instruments and sound artwork. A range of DIY textile crafts and …
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The making of a new South African craft : township craft and development discourse in post-apartheid Cape Town
… effects of development practices in Cape Town's craft scene. A heterodox research design is adopted, drawing on Pierre Bourdieu's ideas on cultural production, notions of authenticity, representation and the modern/traditional dichotomy as well as thoughts on the making of a New South African …
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Knot/Knotting Practice in Craft and Space
Knot/knotting Practice in Craft and Space is a three part research-creation project that used a study of knotting techniques to locate craft in an expanded field of spatial practice. The first part consisted of practical, studio based exercises in which I worked with various natural and synthetic …
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Center for craft : design for expeditionary learning
… - Outward Bound. (1920) "Hours spent by the true craftsman in bringing out the grain which has long been imprisoned in the trunk of a tree, is an act of creation itself. He passes his hand over the satiny texture and finds God within." -George Nakashima, The Soul of a Tree. (1987). This project is …
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
<p>The Craft of Fiction, 1850-1930</p><p>This dissertation considers two models of authorship active in the British nineteenth century: one that viewed the writing of fiction as the province of genius unconnected with the world of work, and another that saw it as a practice requiring a set of …
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Small craft motion in reflected long-crested seas
… an analysis of several aspects of moored small craft motion, concentrating on vessel response to wave action and wave reflection, and briefly examining the effects of irregular waves. Experiments were performed in the National Research Council multidirectional wave basin in Ottawa to determine …
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