Search for dissertations about: "Gestalt"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the word Gestalt.

2. 1. Form & Formlessness : Questioning aesthetic abstractions through art projects, cross-disciplinary studies and product design education

   Author : Cheryl Akner Koler; Edith Ackermann; Konstfack; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Aesthetics; Abstractions; Form; Design; Formgiving; Formlessness; Gestalt; Complexity; cross-disciplinary; Design; Design; Konst; Arts; Designdriven och gestaltande kunskapsproduktion; Designdriven och gestaltande kunskapsproduktion; Sensorium; rumsliga perceptioner; Sensorium; rumsliga perceptioner; Materiella kulturer; Materiella kulturer;

   Abstract : This research is based on empirical, embodied studies aimed to generate and regenerate aesthetic reasoning through three approaches:an educational approach concerned with developing an aesthetic discipline, supporting a formgiving process aimed to create tangible artifacts.an art-based approach supporting an open exploration of distortion and formlessnessa multi-disciplinary exploratory approach concerned with aesthetic experiences shared in laborations demonstrating complexity and transformation. READ MORE

4. 2. Recasting Objective Thought : The Venture of Expression in Merleau-Ponty’s Philosophy

   Author : Anna Petronella Foultier; Staffan Carlshamre; Hans Ruin; Leonard Lawlor; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Merleau-Ponty; Saussure; Butler; phenomenology; expression; language; perception; painting; Gestalt theory; linguistics; feminist phenomenology; dance; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : This thesis is about meaning, expression and language in Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, and their role in the phenomenological project as a whole. For Merleau-Ponty, expression is the taking up of a meaning given either in perception or in already acquired forms of expression, thereby repeating, transforming or congealing meaning into gestures, utterances, artworks, ideas or theories. READ MORE

5. 3. Are Beautiful traffic environments safer than Ugly traffic environments?

   Author : Helena Drottenborg; Trafik och väg; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; driving behaviour; traffic safety; eye blink; heart rate; mood; basic emotional process; environmental psychology; gestalt theory; ugly; aesthetics; beautiful; speed.; Road transport technology; Vägtransportteknik;

   Abstract : To link aesthetics to traffic safety, the field of environmental psychology was consid-ered. A new model of driving behaviour was developed, based on Lewin’s (1951) equation, B = f (P,E) and by employing Küllers’ (1991) model of the basic emotional process. READ MORE

6. 4. Binding Three Kinds of Vision

   Author : Leo Poom; Myron Braunstein; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Psychology; Attribute-invariance; binding; contours; edge linking; gestalt-laws; illusory contour; lateral interactions; neuronal mechanisms; tilt effect; vision; Psykologi; Psychology; Psykologi; Psychology; psykologi;

   Abstract : Pictorial cues, together with motion and stereoscopic depth fields, can be used for perception and constitute ‘three kinds’ of vision. Edges in images are important features and can be created in either of these attributes. READ MORE

7. 5. Perceptual Dynamics. Theoretical Foundations and Philosophical Implications of Gestalt Psychology

   Author : Fredrik Sundqvist; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES;

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