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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"material engagement"”.
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The DiY ['Do it yourself'] Ethos: A participatory culture of material engagement
… ethos in its approach to technology and materials. Rather than engage with ‘complete’ technologies, such as a technology supplied as ready-to-go item, the DiY practitioners examined in this thesis engage with the raw materials of garbage and recycling, ‘incomplete’, broken and discarded …
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Objects as Portals: Material Engagement and the Arts as a Catalyst for Social Change. Reflecting on the Kapodistrian Orphanage and Aegina Prison
… as a practicing artist and the belief that material objects and practices can, through first-hand exposure, facilitate our connection with our past, our immediate environment, and also with each other.<br/><br/>As part of the practice, an exhibition was organised in January 2018, in the …
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Situated mappings : augmented-reality clay and adaptive interfacing
… neglecting the behavioral aspects of physical materiality. In this thesis, I advocate for the use of expressive mediums of material engagement as part of the design of interaction within interfaces. I present an approach to interfacing using Computer-Mediated Material Interaction (CMMI), by …
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Material matters : process of intuitive design
… the embodied knowing that comes with extended material engagement. The making of these pieces is an experimental and playful process, where methods are tested and discovered by hand. The body is the driver in this way of making, and decisions are made based on the possibilities and limitations …
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Elite networks of the London Season: perspectives from the New Mobilities literature
… Season in the nineteenth century through an engagement with „New Mobilities‟ literature. By positioning the research within this literature and connected theories surrounding material and performative geographies, the research provides a historical perspective to this emerging area of …
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Doing Dutch Wax cloth : practice, politics, and 'the new Africa'
… in the world is negotiated in different forms of material engagement with Dutch Wax cloth--designing, advertising, selling, buying, and tailoring-along the cloth's trajectory between the Netherlands and Togo. Derived from a manual Javanese textile printing technique, Dutch Wax cloth has been …
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Material culture and domestic texts: Textiles in the texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps
<p>In "Material Culture and Domestic Texts: Textiles in the Texts of Warner, Adams, Wilson, Sadlier, Stoddard, and Phelps," I draw from recently revised notions of the discourse of domesticity to argue that the imagery of textile production, consumption, and containment enables authors to configure …
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Intimate Deathscapes: Examining Alternative Discourses of the Dead Body and Death Care Spaces
… the positive influence that can come from more engagement with death, which differ significantly from dominant discourses that pathologize death and cloak it in negativity and fear. Alternatively, they propose embracing mortality as a way of improving one’s life. I conclude that their material …
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Embodied Landscapes: process and participation in filmmaking
… doctoral research project applies experimental materialist filmmaking strategies to explore creative ways of working in landscapes with human and nonhuman participants. The research defines landscapes as multi-vocal gatherings of experiences and assemblages that interact in unfinished stories …
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From Inspiration to Garment Ideas : Elucidating the Threads of Inspiration in Apparel Design Ideation
… process influenced by sociocultural and material factors, and inspiration as both a motivating force and a source of stimuli for design. While design processes have been widely studied, research on inspiration in varied apparel design contexts remains limited. The core aim of my study was …
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The Multidimensional Depth of the Image: Body-Environment-Artefact (A philosophical reflection for graphic design)
… the affective domains of corporeality and materiality in the study of cultural artefacts. Within the discourse of graphic design, however, there remains an enduring focus placed upon models of language and communication to understand the meaning of designed materials. Rather than upholding …
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A history of Ohm's Law: Investigating the flow of electrical ideas through the instruments of their production
… studies of Ohm’s investigations by putting material culture at its heart. Using Ohm’s research as a case study, this project asks: how can the material culture of the physical sciences contribute to contemporary historiography in the history of science? What can we uncover from a …