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Showing 1 to 20 of 39 for “"mending"”.
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Mending
Mending is a body of artwork created in response to ancestral trauma inherited between women. This paper discusses the exhibition of work, which consists of media installation, sculpture, and photography. Mending confronts Walter Benjamin’s patriarchal argument that one must intellectually excavate …
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Evaluating Mending Mamre: An Animal Welfare Intervention
… the findings of an evaluation conducted for the Mending Mamre Mass Education and Sterilisation Programme. This programme had four components: surgical sterilisation of pets and feral cats, basic veterinary care, education sessions and the rehoming of stray dogs. Three evaluations were performed …
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Unravelling: Photographic Explorations Of Mending The Forest
Unravelling: Photographic Explorations of Mending the Forest explores aspects of South Africa's Garden Route Afrotemperate forests and my relationship to them through my artistic practice. This project looks at the unravelling of these forests and at my unravelling within these forests and my …
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Boston Urban Farm : mending the Southwest Corridor
This work studies Boston's segregated nature in terms of race and class especially as this coincides with the physical form of the city. Known for its strong neighborhoods, Boston cannot escape definite boundaries between these communities: ones which are not static, but are constantly shifting. …
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Mindful Mending: The Repair of Thought and Action Amidst Technologies
… I term "cognitive-agentic repair" as the mindful mending of agentic skills/autonomy competency by way of those constitutive cognitive processes that are extended/situated in objects and arrangements of objects that constitute particular material spaces and places (home, workplace). As such, I …
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Breaking; Mending- A New Piece for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra
<p><em>Breaking, Mending- A New Piece for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra</em> is an original composition for oboe and chamber orchestra that explores the role of narrative and historical reference and quotation in contemporary music. In Breaking, Mending, J.S. Bach’s Double Concerto for Oboe and …
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Mending fractured spaces : external legibility and seamlessness in interface design
This thesis presents External Legibility: a property of user interfaces that affects the ability of non-participating observers to understand the context of a user's actions. Claims of its value are supported with arguments from the social sciences and human-computer interaction literature; …
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NATO : Network Architecture Tensile Organization : mending Berlin through public interface
NATO: Network Architecture; Tensile Organization is a project that seeks to create a lighter public forum where architecture mediates a space of metaphor, yet looks towards a hopeful future, in a place laden with the immensity of a dark past. This project exploits the emblematic condition of …
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The Practice of Mending Caring-through-use: A Strategy for Clothing Longevity
This research focuses on mending as an alternative route towards longevity within a sustainability agenda. Mending can be seen as a resourceful method used to maintain clothes in working order by repairing damaged areas of a garment in order to keep it in use. Such an item may mean delaying the …
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Place mending: unscripted urban practice, abstract[ed] city and co-creation of urban space.
… exploration established a future-focused Place Mending toolkit: a key outcome of the study. It emphasised the possibility of integrating digital capture technology, urban sensitivity and empathy to shape and co-create inclusive and resilient urban public spaces. Walking, in this study, was …
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An examination of handtextile practice within commercial, artistic and digital contexts reconfigured through visible mending
… skills in current practice through darning and mending to re-configure moving image and textile artifacts. This research adopts an auto ethnographic and practice-based methodology prioritising a willingness to share, references John Roberts’ (2007) concepts of de-skilling and re-skilling and …
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Mending the seams of an Urban Patchwork Quilt : achieving an 'Ordered Chaos' in temple towns of Southern India
Historically rich and culturally vibrant, the city of Mylapore (located in Tamil Nadu) is a prominent temple town of Southern India, in which the Kapaleeshwarar Temple is treasured. The analysis of this town, in relation to its urban context, demonstrates the need for an architectural typology that …
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The role of Christianity in post-war Liberia : an assessment of how Christianity can play a role in mending societal fragility
Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2016.
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Mend the Gap: How Organisations Can Cultivate Readiness for Group Coaching to Mend After Moral Injury
… the conditions necessary for group coaching as a mending intervention following workplace moral injury. The term "mending" is intentionally used instead of "healing," as it suggests repair and restoration rather than clinical recovery. This distinction holds considerable significance within the …
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Employed women's intentions to purchase apparel sewing services: beliefs, attitudes, and normative influences
Historically, the construction, alteration, and mending of clothing was provided through household production activities, free of charge by the female members of the household or members of the extended family. These practices have changed in some families because of societal and cultural changes …
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Stochastic Sequential Resource Allocation and Passenger Assignment in Aviation Security Systems
… not merely be makeshift political solutions for mending complex problems; they can be the result of modeling, analysis, and planning. This dissertation pro-actively aims to address potential areas of concern that are likely to draw the attention in the future, and addresses some of the challenges …
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Designing Aviation Security Systems: Theory and Practice
… not merely be makeshift political solutions for mending complex problems; they can be the result of modeling, analysis, and planning. This dissertation provides a systematic approach for designing and analyzing aviation security systems, which provides insight into the operation of passenger …
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Biology Through the Lens of Trauma: An Empirical Review of Trauma Treatments
<p>The present literature review aims at mending the research to practice gap for the treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Biological mechanisms of the stress response system are explored as they pertain to trauma and its subsequent effects on the brain and body. In addition, …
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From the Trashcan to the Chicken Bucket: towards an ideology of composting
… of wasting, but that my stories of unlearning, mending, and reimagining wasting will resonate with many lived experiences.
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