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Showing 1 to 20 of 674 for “"performative"”.
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Performative architecture
… On the one hand it introduces the idea of performative architecture (performance in design), and has done so with the desire to contribute directly to the expansion of design education and practice. It proposes stretch the boundaries of the discipline by challenging current paradigms on …
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PERFORMATIVE CORPORATE TRAINING IN TAIWAN
… Southern Illinois University Carbondale. TITLE: PERFORMATIVE CORPORATE TRAINING IN TAIWAN MAJOR PROFESSOR: Dr. Elyse L. Pineau This dissertation attempts to translate performance concepts and techniques into corporate training models for concretely increasing Taiwanese business competencies. I …
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Performance Architecture: A Performative Architectural Practice
… it. Particular attention will be given to my performative renovations, in which domestic spaces are renovated by changing its actions rather than materials. In so doing, this thesis discovers the potential of my interdisciplinary practice to be the possibility of encountering unfamiliar …
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Parametric architecture : performative/responsive assembly components
Current parametric design generates many possible solutions during modeling and design process, but in the final stage, only allows users to choose one solution to develop. This thesis demonstrates a design strategy for physical parametric design that embeds knowledge from simulation tools and …
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Locating performance : textual identity and the performative
… Locating Performance: Textual Identity and the Performative takes the form of a self-interview, which by identifying itself as a performance, points to `the interview' as a structure with both a temporal and physical location beyond the page. Presented in this way the thesis examines the effects …
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Interior Chinatown: Chinatown as a Performative Space
<p>This thesis focuses on Charles Yu’s <em>Interior Chinatown: A Novel</em> (2020), exploring the function of Chinatown in Los Angeles within the novel as a space of creation, that of “Asia” for Hollywood and home for Taiwanese immigrants. I argue that <em>Interior Chinatown</em> offers a unique …
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Spectral futurity: The performative afterlives of mourning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2026-08-01
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Homer and the Art of Performative Technical Communication
A historiographic survey of the early history of technical communication may strike as unnecessary, particularly since the earliest history of technical communication begins and ends with the sophists and Aristotle. Though scholars have occasionally referenced archaic literature in their analysis …
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Engaging Resources for Cultural Events: a Performative Perspective
Festivals and other events are often seen as important means for contributing to the positive image of a place and for increasing visitor numbers, for involving the local community and for creating job opportunities. Organising an event involves the temporary coordination of performers, an …
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Characterising Performative Speech Modes via Analysis by Synthesis
… and Artificial Intelligence research in performative speech, and its acoustic and perceptual properties. However, this speech domain is abstract and highly nuanced, making it highly difficult to characterise in the already complicated realm of expressive speech theories and research. This …
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Integrated design : a generative multi-performative design approach
There are building systems, called "modularized", in which the component systems (for structure, lighting, etc) can be analyzed and synthesized independently since their performance and design do not interact or affect one another. There are other building systems, called "coupled", in which the …
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Merchant Marine Deck Officer Agency Through Performative Acts
… social context), and these actions are in fact performatives (in an Austin sense) derived from a more oral than literate performance production process. These performatives constantly build the mariner's identity within the maritime deck officer community and their successful performatives give …
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The artist's performative practice within the anti-ocularcentric discourse
… particular emphasis on self-portraiture, the performative self, Body Art and my own production. In Part III, the concept of Chiasm/Intertwining - developed from the notions of visuality and Gaze - is discussed in relation to inter-subjectivity in Body Art. The issue of the interaction between …
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Designing performative surfaces : computational interpretation of flow pattern drawings
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.
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Visualising the oral and performative heritage of Ghanaian culinary arts
Submitted in fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Visual and Performing Arts, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2024.
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Jamaican Diasporic Counter-Archives: Performative Archival Imaginings In Ontario, Canada
… in the Jamaican diaspora in Canada? Noting the performative nature of the community’s records, I ask further: What is an archives (repository) of the Jamaican diaspora—its architecture and its functional role? Anchored by critical archival frameworks and a Black feminist lens, I engage in …
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Reversing The Weapons: Recuperating the marginalised body with performative photography
… of the rules that try to control it. Performative self-portrait photography is employed to show the evolution of a marginalised body, first operating as the site of public attack, then as a figure with agency to enact revenge on Internet trolls and finally acting as a body empowered …
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Acting out: a performative exploration of identity, healing, and wholeness
… the methodology of autoethnodrama and other performative based methods—inclusive of but not limited to poetry, framing, monologue, and dialogue—OUT re-imagines and recovers the queer individuals relationship to his/herself, their community, and to the society at large. Specific concepts …
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Performative monuments : public art, commemoration, and history in postwar Europe
The performative monument, as I term an emergent genre of interactive public actions, rests on a new notion of agency in public space, in which political responsibility is performed by historically aware individuals in acts of commemoration. This dissertation argues that public performance art …
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