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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"daydream"”.
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Fluid spaces
… for actions but allow players to wander, and to daydream. Such encounters do not connect players to other characters or players, but instead, to the depths of their own past. To achieve this goal, I develop a spatial design approach for video game, which aims to create a form of intimacy in 3D …
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Daydreaming Devices
Daydreaming Devices is a project on aspects of daydream and the design of convertible furniture within the context of art. This thesis addresses the concepts and the design of two daydreaming devices developed during my studies at MIT, the Dreaming Lounge and the Working Unit. Both works create a …
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Paintings and Palaces, or the Lament of the Burger Flipper
… of eight vocalists for a total of sixteen; the Daydream Figures, which are mimed parts; the Man with Gun, which is a spoken part. The opera, in one act consisting of six scenes and an interlude, is based on a libretto by the composer. There is only one scene change: from an essentially empty …
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Multi-form Visualisation: An approach to acousmatic composition
… real and imaginary realms affords a space to daydream to be moved by sounds, the flow of mental images, virtual sensations, and memory-images that one can associate with traces, dots, shapes or textures. This parallel allows me to find my way within the sonic realm, shaping sound materials and …
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The presentation of education in the literature of the modernist period: 1890 – 1939
… for long, as the real world breaks through the daydream and learning begins. An educative methodology in the work which rewards curiosity with a mixture of new understanding and new avenues to explore borrows from an Arnoldian notion of perfection in culture in which education becomes not so …
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Unlocking the psychology of character: imagery of the subconscious in the works of F.M. Dostoevskii
… 1 looks at imagery arising through characters’ daydreams, while the author’s recurrent theme of childhood memories is also analysed as a type of nostalgic daydream. Chapter 2 examines the ‘greyer’ area of dreamlike reality, which in itself operates at two poles: confusion between dream and …
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Mental Life and Medical Illness: A Study of General Practice Patients
… related to physical illness. The popularity of daydreaming (and dreaming) is widespread in the self-help market. Yet research definitions of mental life have seldom included imaginal activities. The aim of this research was to establish a health (and mental life) profile of patients in general …
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Εκτίμηση ψυχικών, σωματικών και κοινωνικών προβλημάτων σε έφηβους αθλητές και μη αθλητές
… participation and experience. 6) Non-athletes daydream more, complain frequently for chest pain and have more frequently cardiovascular and spinal cord problems including scoliosis. 7) Among the adolescents of this study the presence of psychosomatic manifestations (fainting, headaches, vision …
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Unfolding Imagos: an inquiry into the aesthetics of Action-Phenomenology
… of what Bachelard terms an immense philosophical daydream.4 My claim in-depth is, firstly that working with poetic-aesthetic method in this way is restorative: of individual, groups, societies; secondly, that the framings offered in Part V Light are the bases for further in depth research. …
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The Material Imagination: Philip Larkin, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Hardy
This thesis explores the relationship between physicality and imagination in the poetry of Philip Larkin, focusing on different kinds of literal and imaginative space. I adduce two major influences, D. H. Lawrence and Thomas Hardy, who appealed to Larkin as a self-proclaimed ‘materialist’ (Letters …