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Showing 1 to 20 of 50 for “"impermanence"”.
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A Dialogue between Permanence and Impermanence
This thesis, "A Dialogue Between Permanence and Impermanence," is an exploration of architecture's ability to embody time's duality—its capacity to endure and its inevitability to transform. The project envisions a hotel as a living metaphor for life itself, where the permanence of its structural …
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MAIDAKUTIBVISA - Developing networks of permanence and impermanence within Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe, through the preservation and adaptation of informal infrastructure.
Why? This thesis investigation addresses the issue of dilapidated infrastructure within the informal trading network of Mbare, Harare, Zimbabwe and the informal markets that exist there. This issue of dilapidated and inad - equate infrastructure comes as a hindrance to the struc - tures and spaces …
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Eating Marigolds
… inspired by explorations in the nature of time, impermanence, mortality, family narrative and ritual.</p>
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AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF REPEATED HOMELESSNESS IN OXFORD
… forms of accommodation reflected a pattern of impermanence that became taken for granted by rough sleepers. This impermanence was created by both rough sleepers and non-homeless individuals and parties whose encounters with each other often resulted in rough sleepers moving on. The variety of …
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Foxgloves
This series of poems revolves around grief and impermanence. The poems explore language as a medium through which to discover, uncover and understand, using images from the natural world in an attempt to make sense of the internal emotional landscape of loss.
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Foxgloves
This series of poems revolves around grief and impermanence. The poems explore language as a medium through which to discover, uncover and understand, using images from the natural world in an attempt to make sense of the internal emotional landscape of loss.
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Ephemeral Art: A Philosophical Proposition about the Nature of Time and Being
… with a view to exposing how the concept of impermanence has been constructed within contemporary art and the consequent implications. It is also a practice-led enquiry in which my own creative work provides a concrete point of reference for discussing abstract philosophical concepts. The …
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Everyday Haunting
… It is a story of learning, a testament to impermanence, and a proposal for possibility. The words and work contained in this document are exclusive to the thoughts and actions of one man that hopes to share with others.
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An Arbitrary Formation of Unspecified Value
… forms it takes; the erasure of memories, the impermanence of bodies, and the disintegration of structures. The complex nature of decay necessitated the inclusion of multiple mediums and it is important to note that these notions of decay are presented with an underlying view of time which is …
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Myco-scapes: Multispecies Entanglements in Artmaking
… structure of art collecting through their impermanence. The written thesis describes the artist's studio practice by exploring three primary influences: mycelium (the root-like structures of mushrooms), entanglements (the complex interwoven structures in which we exist), and preventative …
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In Flux
… for representing the complexities of memory, impermanence, and presence.</p>
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Driving with the Dead: Stories of Loss, Journey, and Wonder
… the dead. Managing loss and making peace with impermanence is a timeless and universal human pursuit. Story, art, memory, imagination, and metaphor are tools we can use to help traverse this unmappable terrain.</p>
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Fictions and the scope of the artist in the novels of Janet Frame
… as they are performed, is awareness of life’s impermanence, painfully emphasised by our inevitable mortality. Frame’s work acknowledges and attempts to moderate these facts.
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SHIFTING SPACES IN DIGITAL RHETORIC: EPHEMERA IN THE AGE OF INFINITE MEMORY
… that as storage capacity increases, the relative impermanence and malleability of the objects created within that system also increases. Thus arises an interesting paradox: our ever-growing capacity to store and recall texts ultimately results in the works themselves becoming more ephemeral in …
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‘Past, Present, and Hereafter to be Written’: The Polytemporal Identities of John Dee
… succession is reflected in the instability and impermanence of Dee’s own changing identities. Dee’s concern for his posthumous reputation juxtaposes the self-assuredness of his intellectual self-image, providing glimpses of the man behind the magus. In this thesis Dee is ‘revisited, repeated […] …
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Rocks! (Are Hard To Care For)
… the existential clash between permanence and impermanence, people literally stuck between a rock and a hard place. The two Act play finds Mark, in his 40s, at the epicenter when his safe, predictable life routine is shattered as his relationship with his wife Molly collapses and his boss Derek …
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Spirit, Art, and Care
… Buddhist inform my work’s focus on contemplating impermanence as a path to spiritual transformation. Artmaking is a vehicle for exploring the nature of my reality, and both communicating what I find and sharing the path itself. I take inspiration from mystic/artists such as Hilma af Klint, Sengai …
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Great Fool: Six Poems of Ryōkan for Tenor and Orchestra
… of the poetry as it explores the ideas of impermanence—the nature of any conditioned state to end—and a notion of an emptiness inherent in all things. As any state is only knowable in contrast to another opposing state (fast is not slow, hot is not cold, etc), all states are, in and of …
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Reinhold Niebuhr and an Ethic of Humility in Deliberative Politics
… of Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding of impermanence, anxiety, self-reflection, and empathy borne of humility guide the framework of the argument in that they inform and augment individual political preferences. The author uses these ideas to develop a theory of deliberative politics …
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Regeneration through decay: Architectural prosthetic within the damaged coastline of the South African West Coast
… testing conceptual ideas of permanence and impermanence this results in a speculative design which is nestled within the impacts of time. Stretching the potential of architecture to become an extension of the landscape itself, whilst dissolving silently as if it never existed becoming a form …
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