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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"liveliness"”.
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Human Verses Mountain: Climbing, Language, and the Liveliness of Stone
<p>In the discourse of rock climbing and mountaineering, both for climbers themselves and for the public at large, conflict remains the predominant metaphor for ascent: climbing narratives most often show heroic individuals triumphing over hostile landscapes, conquering their own fears, mastering …
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The Concept of 'Liveliness' in English Visual Culture, c.1560-c.1630
In contrast to the richly visual literature of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England, the period’s visual art is usually seen as impoverished. Historians have emphasised the views of Protestant divines, for whom images were ‘dead and dumb’, and have focused on the limitations placed …
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On Stories of Liveliness: following the Arts of Living on a Damaged Karoo Veld
… movement is believed to instigate multispecies liveliness. Sheep, who were once destroyers of the veld, are now enrolled in practices that are believed to bring back the ‘natural’ vegetation of the Karoo. The thesis problematises the ongoing Western ways of knowing that separate the world into …
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Loveability: A Critical Theory for Understanding Love, Humanness, and Futurity in the Age of the Sex Robot
… of beings and objects’ conjectured liveliness. This thesis delineates how a non-living object can be re-presented as having a life that matters to coloniality when it is positioned Loveable within the dominant ontology. It focuses on robotic objects made Loveable in a contemporary …
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How can Architecture and Urbanism work in a Periphery?
In today's society urban liveliness has moved from the center of city to its periphery in a diluted manner. There exists the continuation of monotonous cityscape as by-product and leftover of architecture and urbanism. Herein lies the question: how to build a meaningful 'place' in a site where the …
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Lightness - A bookstore in Chicago
… with life, it will become a memory, and its liveliness will be entirely lost.... Beauty is ever alive, because it has no past, no future, but the present. You hesitate, turn your head, and it will not be there any more... The project is a bookstore, located in a plaza between two high-rise …
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Piazza Navona, Harvard Square, Piccadilly Circus : a study about morphology and use
… of three squares well-known for their liveliness and attractive power: Piazza Navona (Rome. Italy), Harvard Square (Cambridge, U.S.A.) and Piccadilly Circus (London. England). Based on a historical review, the main aspects influencing the character of the squares are grouped into three …
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A Journey Into Teaching: Through an Indigenous Lens
… student 3 is a bright individual who adds to the liveliness of the class community. Toward the end of my experience, I look at the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic with my students, their community, the Native American community, the LGBTQ+ community, and myself regarding distance learning. Though …
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Machine mediated human perception
… features, in assessment of urban landscape liveliness: Taking the central area of Shanghai as the experimental site, the thesis designs a crowd-sourcing platform to collect residents' perception of streets in Shanghai by evaluating street spaces displayed in the form of rendered 3D model …
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Ways of Monsoon Air: Entanglements and Stories of Matter, Space, and Time
… to engage with the sticky complexity of the liveliness of (and living because of) monsoonal atmosphere. I develop something that I call A Monsoon Air Methodology which I propose is a way of meandering with and because of monsoonal capacities and forms – in inviting generosity of the way …
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To what extent can a cigarette be regarded as a regressed form of infantile 'transitional object' that prolongs into adulthood?
… object and the illusion of its vitality and liveliness. Based on the above results, a discussion on the significance and implications of the current study to smokers, public health policy and the tobacco industry are provided, and the limitations of the current study and the proposed …
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Power playground
… where many languages form part of the daily liveliness. One of the registers used, is sabela. This is a register born in the prison gangs that has filtered out into the streets, and schools within the surrounding areas. This study, conducted in a school on the Cape Flats, follows the …
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Botanical Biopolitics: The Sociopolitical Lives of Flowers in Victorian Britain
… prompted a philosophical re evaluation of plant liveliness as flowering plants were granted agency, used to civilise, domesticate and discipline, their beauty often working to obscure the more complicated reasons behind the promotion of floriculture and floral appreciation. Each of the four …
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Stories "lodged in goods": Reading the thing-culture of the Thousand and One Nights
… Rita Felski identifies as "the transtemporal liveliness of texts". Such a reading draws us towards a discussion of the text not simply as something that we can hold but as a phenomenon, as more thing than object. By looking at the text-as-thing alongside the things in the text, we can see the …
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The Personality and Emotion Profile of Landscapes: Towards a Psychology of Places
… psychologies’: Certain geographic areas emanate liveliness and diversity, others solemnity and earnestness. Such local psychologies capture clusters of similar psychological characteristics. Philosophers and geographers have developed rich accounts of human-places interactions, yet psychological …
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Dissipative urban space
… brought about the problem of segregating the liveliness of the city. Such regulating orders have negated the particularities of the public spaces: the spaces where the mixture of both intended and unintended patterns of activities. and regulated and unregulated forms. acclaimed publicness …
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Parameterizing land use planning : deploying quantitative analysis methods in the practice of city planning
… evolutionary iterative process to evaluate the liveliness of each urban environment, and explore the infinite possible assembly options of urban building blocks from various types and quantities, to enable a genuine datadriven decision making process for land use planning.
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Imagined Common Ground: Rethinking on Language, Translation and Technology
… and how standardization could possibly curb the liveliness of the unwritten or alter its living trajectory. The text ends with a discussion of personal anecdotes, weaving the writing and artistic practices together.
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Social Sculpture: A Plastic Process of Mutual Transformation
… of Social Sculpture, plasticity manifests as ‘liveliness’, the “live” element consists of being fully present in both senses i.e. being in the present time (simultaneously) and being present in space, being there physically. In my work, I perform for and with the camera: I cannot make Social …
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Everyday citizenship: people, place and politics in Philippi
… of infrastructure. Amin (2014) speaks of the liveliness of infrastructure. The term infrastructure is used loosely. It indicates the bigger infrastructural elements like transport infrastructure, yet to come in Philippi, as well as other more basic infrastructure like water, sanitation, and …
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