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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"ecological thinking"”.
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Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference.
… contributes to the wider understanding of 'ecological thinking' in the arts, through the portfolio of peer reviewed research publications of a producer of public art projects in the healthcare and environment settings. A timeline/visual map is included to draw attention to the interrelations …
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Encountering the nonhuman: body and ecological thinking in contemporary Chinese literature and vsual culture
… the lens of the body, this study scrutinizes ecological imaginaries portrayed in Chinese literature, film, and art of the twenty-first century. I contend that comprehending the interconnectedness between human and nonhuman entities is paramount for fostering ecological awareness amid the …
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Evaluation of The Effects of Participatory Methods in The Teaching of Ecological Thinking in Design in Kuwait
… students of interior design that incorporates ecological thinking. It is particularly intended for use at universities and other places of higher education where such contexts are not currently available and, furthermore, where the teaching has been primarily of a didactic, teacher-centred …
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Health in the Urban Environment: Exploring residents’ views and system understandings within the apartment living context in Sydney, Australia, using a complex systems health and wellbeing framework
… approach informed by interpretivism and systems thinking, the research collected data from diverse residents of high-density apartment buildings (four storeys and above) across Sydney. Seventeen residents from different demographics, apartment buildings, and suburbs participated in the research …
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Immersed: Case studies in art and ecology
… in gardening. In seeking sustainability and an ecological civilization we need to first rewrite old ways of thinking and feeling. This thesis examines and critiques the predominant western conceptualisations of the non-human world. Ideas of nature, landscape and wilderness are considered, and …
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The impact of green human resource management and green supply chain management practices on sustainable performance
… management (GHRM) practices that incorporate ecological thinking, these practices are expected to affect Triple Bottom Lines (TBL) of sustainability of manufacturing organisations. This study aims at investigating the linkage between GHRM practices, internal and external GSCM practices, as …
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The impact of ecological thought on architectural theory.
… to, and influence on, architectural thought. Ecological thinking emerged as a subset of biology in the second half of the nineteenth century and developed as a philosophical idea and a political outlook. As an idea that stands in the hinterland between science and society, it has not been …
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Ecologies of addiction in nineteenth-century American literature and culture
… and theorists have recently developed ecological alternatives that cross disciplinary boundaries and treat the addicted person holistically. My dissertation excavates a deep history of ecological thinking on addiction in nineteenth-century literature and culture. Writers such as Charles …
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The Thalassocentric Apparatus: Connected art processes from the sea showing multi-scale changes through their own emergence and collapse
… they are apparent in emerging and collapsing ecological systems (Gunderson, Holling 2002), in systems of human ideas such as the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari and, as I argue, in arts practice. Although attempts to know the sea are inherently difficult, they also offer opportunities. For …
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Finding Fluid Form: A process aesthetic as a means to engage with the prevailing model of thinking in ecological art
… continued use is inappropriate for engaging with ecological issues. In response to this problem the thesis draws together insights from arts practice and theory, Systems Thinking, Cybernetics, Artificial Life research, Deep Ecology and Process Thinking. It develops an experimental framework to …
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Rebuilding the city from an ecological perspective
The depth and severity of the planet's ecological and social crisis demands solutions and actions which exceed the capacity and ability of our dominant paradigm. Western culture -- its set of values, attitudes, ethics, institutions and traditions -- is inherently non-sustainable. This is especially …