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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"physical expression"”.
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The body parametric : abstraction of vocal and physical expression in performance
… emotional content, and variety of expression possible through the original physical channels of voice and movement are generally not captured or represented by these technologies and thus cannot be intuitively transferred from body to digital media. Additionally, relevant components …
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Helping the Shoe to Fit
… and language. Connected by their focus on the physical expression of sound through words, these stories range from the creepy and off-putting to loving and comforting. This collection gathers the stories in which I test the ability of my range in terms of both story length and genre. From …
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Shells and Stages for Actuated TUIs: Reconfiguring and Orchestrating Dynamic Physical Interaction
… interactivity and expressibility for dynamic physical interactions. Shells act as passive mechanical attachments for Actuated TUIs that can extend, reconfigure and augment the interactivity and functionality of the hardware. Stages are physical platforms that allow Actuated TUIs to propel on a …
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PLACES : experiencing and making a place in Athens
… ways of life and knowledge which enable its physical expression into coherent and live environments. In our time, when the common languages and the processes that support them have broken down, it has become increasingly difficult for architects to set the ground for new PLACES. The lost …
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Gated communities in Lithuania: the problem of territorial integration /
… of gated living is shaped not only by GCs as a physical expression and architectural form, but also by the existence of a gated mind caused by various fears and a gated life as a voluntary conscious or unconscious choice of residents. Consequently, the methodological conception of the research …
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Border fusion / Fusión en la frontera : integrating industry, habitation and exchange in a divided city
… and organizing spatial element. What is a physical expression of urban form in Otay Mesa that simultaneously accommodates frequently conflicting national, local and environmental objectives for the site? How may man-made infrastructures and natural site systems be exploited, restructured …
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Squeezables : tactile and expressive interfaces for children of all ages
… could benefit from the different modes of physical expression made possible by alternate interfaces. Rather than confining ourselves to one of these traditional kinds of input interfaces for sounds and music, we are pursuing an ambitious dream from a radically new perspective. The ultimate …
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Liminal Space
… through the repetition of form and have become a physical expression of the days that have elapsed in my life since I last saw my son. Liminal space is defined as the space in-between a boundary or a threshold. In this work, I pose the questions: Can liminal space be crossed? How large can this …
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The German Garden City Movement: Architecture, Politics and Urban Transformation, 1902-1931
… and proponents of the idea aimed to offer a physical space where those reforms could be enacted. Architects involved in the movement, such as Richard Riemerschmid, Heinrich Tessenow, and Bruno Taut, searched for new forms in urban planning and architecture to adequately express the realities …
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The Ties That Bind are Not Always Blood: The Importance of the Found Family in Queer, POC-led Narratives
… this process creates social monsters who find physical expression in the speculative fiction narrative. The discussion this thesis engages with reveals how narratives that choose to depict living with deviance and embracing it allows for a representation of alternative engagement with the …
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Towards applied modeling of the human-eco-system an approach of hydrology based integrated modeling of a semi-arid sub-catchment in rural north-west India
… amounts of parameters - with partly doubtful physical expression - and input data are needed. In contradiction to that most soft information about patterns and organizing principles cannot be employed (Seibert and McDonnell 2002). For an analysis of possible strategies on the one hand towards …
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Voices of Midlife Tomboys: A Narrative Study
… and a refusal to be squelched either physically or mentally. Their childhoods were free and independent, but adolescence was difficult for some primarily because they no longer were allowed to roam freely in the male world, and they did not want to live in the female world. Their …
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Football, Femininity and Muscle: An exploration of Heteronormative and Athletic Discources in the lives of elite-level women footballers in South Africa
… elite-level South African football an arena for physical expression and freedom, this empowerment is deeply embedded within the regulatory schemes produced through constructions of a heteronormative feminine aesthetic.
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Analysis in mind
… defenses of it are unsuccessful. For example, Physicalism is the metaphysical thesis that every actual psychological event, property, or process is necessitated by some actual physical event, property, or process. Many philosophers believe that Physicalism is true. Until about the 1960s, those …
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The memory laboratory : reclaiming and remebering the archeological fragments of Cape Town's original shoreline
… urban design play a key role in the spatial and physical expression of collective urban memory. This paper represents the body of work undertaken during this year long thesis investigation and provides the introduction to the architectural design project borne out of this research. The first part …
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Rozložení přítomnosti
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