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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"creative projects"”.
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Pedal off the Metal: An Investigation into Global Design and the Politics of Consumption
… inequalities as cities are further shaped by creative economic policy. The written research component of this thesis is used to inform my creative projects and communication design practice.
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The Meaning of Discontent: A Multi-method Qualitative Investigation of Women's Lived Experiences with Body Dissatisfaction
… semi-structured interviews and arts-based projects, women between the ages of 20-39 engaged in a critical exploration of their body experiences in order to deepen understanding of the psychological construct of body dissatisfaction and its ongoing influence in their lives. Ten women from …
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Project management and the film industry value chain: the impact of cognitive biases on value creation and learning
… significant insights into our understanding of creative management strategies to manage projects. Building on an extensive body of literature focused on biases in decision-making and their impact on forecasting, implementation and strategy, my thesis explores the concept that deep-seated …
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Inherited memories : performing the archive
… Six. It then shifts towards an analysis of two creative projects; Magnet Theater's Onnest’bo and the Museum’s Re-Imagining Carnival in which the themes of place, home, loss, exile, resistance, advocacy and restitution rotate around experiences of forced removals in general and District Six in …
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Hannah Hoch, Til Brugman, Lesbianism, and Weimar Sexual Subculture
… and Brugman collaborated on a number of creative projects that satirically and critically addressed social and political issues, particularly those related to concepts of gender identity. Knowledge of Weimar sexual and medical discourse found expression in both women’s work and indicates …
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Meet Me in the Middle: An investigation into collective expressions of artists through collaboration
This creative practice research is an investigation into what emerges from collaborative creative practices that are meaningful for artists. It reframes group-artmaking as co-creative expression and explores how artistic agency can be realised through relationality and group intra-action. This was …
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The Thalassocentric Apparatus: Connected art processes from the sea showing multi-scale changes through their own emergence and collapse
… the oceans. Having analysed a number of key creative practices that engage with the contexts described, I develop an arts-centred use of the term 'apparatus'. I show that art apparatuses can be considered to move and change in ways that are also thalassocentric. This model is tested and …
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Complicating the Single Story: A Visual Analysis of Images of Forced Migrants
… of their migration experiences? How do such creative works respond to and resist the dominant ways in which forced migrants are constructed by others? What is the role of visual methodologies in projects aimed at challenging the single story of forced migrant experience? This project is …
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Algorithm and Decision in Musical Composition
Through a series of creative projects this doctorate set out to research how computer-assisted composition (CAC) of music affects decision-making in my compositional practice. By reporting on the creative research journey, this doctorate is a contribution towards a better understanding of the …
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An evaluative case study of the YiPSA prison post-release programme in Cape Town, South Africa
… to new experiences, which were linked to the creative projects that they completed while attending the programme. The findings of the research indicate that the creative methods that were utilized were an effective way of engaging the young people when they left prison, as they appealed to …
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Developing Solar War
Five years ago, I started development on Solar War, with the intent that I would someday publish it. During that time, I worked tirelessly to add features that would make this game unique and stand out. There were also setbacks during my journey, and times when I had to set the game’s development …
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The Effects of Class Size on Student Performance in Reading in the Primary Grades
… time spent working with students on special projects (.004), and time spent developing creative projects for the class (.008).</p>
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Phantasma-agoria of/in crisis. Lens-based media and collective experience of the political in performing ‘image’ and agora.
… to address the political than other forms of creative practices that are presumed to support the culture of consumption. To explore the above tensions between visuality and participatory practices, I critically employed the concept of phantasmagoria, which has been traditionally conceived as …
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Beautiful little moments: a principally ethnographic study of eight East Anglian artists' pedagogies
… a UK-based charitable organisation that offers creative projects for children and adults in and beyond schools. I used a principally ethnographic multiphased research design and adopted methods of data collection and analysis from grounded theory to progres- sively focus on artists’ interests …
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Workarounds in the production of contemporary animation series in the UK: an examination of creative approaches to overcoming production barriers
… navigating the complexities of making commercial creative projects. The study utilises this approach in the investigation of accounts of practitioner processes. This qualitative data is examined through Alter’s (2014) Theory of Workarounds. This process generates new understandings of the …
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The Resistant Body In Sound: Cripping Music Creation Through Technology, Embodiment, And Disability Philosophy
… way that we think about working with disabled creatives. If issues of physical access are all that are taken into consideration we risk creating projects which embed ableists assumptions and practices into our disabled music making, which results in negative experiences for disabled artists. In …