Search for dissertations about: "AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE"

Found 3 swedish dissertations containing the words AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE.

  2. 1. Places on Becoming : An Ethnographic Case Study of a Changing City and its Emerging Residential Environments

    Author : Alazar Ejigu; Tigran Haas; Roderick Lawrence; KTH; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; place; placemaking; large-scale housing; ethnography; modernity; condominiums; Addis Ababa; Planering och beslutsanalys; Planning and Decision Analysis;

    Abstract : Some places which once were celebrated by many slowly become places of desolation and social problem while others built with similar intentions and forms continue to flourish. This is typically true of a number of large residential neighbourhoods of Post-World War II Europe and many cities of the global South. READ MORE

  4. 2. In The Making : Traversing the project exhibition In the Desert of Modernity: Colonial Planning and After

    Author : Marion von Osten; Konsthögskolan i Malmö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Colonial planning; Anti-colonial resistance; Decoloniality; Parainstitutional practice; Art and politics;

    Abstract : The principal aim of my PhD research is to think through practices involved in the making of In the Desert of Modernity. Colonial Planning and After (Berlin 2008, Casablanca 2009), that constituted as well as traversed the exhibitions and went beyond. READ MORE

  5. 3. Swahili Social Landscapes : Material expressions of identity, agency, and labour in Zanzibar, 1000–1400 CE

    Author : Henriette Rødland; Neil Price; Stephanie Wynne-Jones; Paul Lane; Thomas Vernet-Habasque; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Swahili; social composition; agency; production; inequality; Archaeology; Arkeologi;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the social and productive landscapes of Tumbatu and Mkokotoni, two neighbouring Swahili sites in the Zanzibar Archipelago, Tanzania, which are dated to the 11th to 15th centuries CE. Emerging on the East African coast around the 7th century CE, the Swahili culture has traditionally been associated with vast Indian Ocean trade networks, stone towns, and a cosmopolitan hierarchical Islamic society, within which social status was negotiated through imported prestige goods and stone architecture. READ MORE