Search for dissertations about: "Konstfack"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 16 swedish dissertations containing the word Konstfack.

  2. 11. Devices. On Hospitality, Hostility and Design

    Author : Martin Avila; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Device; hospitality; hostility; design; languaging; accident; ecology; symbiosis; autopoiesis; umwelt; Device;

    Abstract : This thesis studies and speculates upon the interrelations of artefacts with human and nonhuman agents. These interrelations form assemblages, some of which have emergent properties, becoming manifestations of processes that we cannot fully control or understand. READ MORE

  4. 12. Key Notes on the Unruly City : Social, Material, and Spatial Transgressions

    Author : Adam Bergholm; Catharina Gabrielsson; Robin Wilson; KTH; []
    Keywords : Right to the City; Art; Technology and Design; Konst; teknik och design;

    Abstract : This research departs from three intersecting field studies in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Paris, and includes both my interventions in the urban texture and integrations with existing communities working in the subject field of the Right to the City (Lefebvre 1968). The projects explore the mutable “nature” of cities and build on political philosophies which describe egalitarian actions that have shaped what those places could be. READ MORE

  5. 13. Storyforming : Experiments in creating discursive engagements between people, things and environments

    Author : Loove Broms; Sara Ilstedt Hjelm; Cecilia Katzeff; Johan Redström; Jonathan Chapman; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; interaction design; sustainable design; research through design; critical design; Machine Design; Maskinkonstruktion;

    Abstract : This thesis introduces and critically reflects on a design programme, Storyforming, that explores ways to design objects and places to enrich daily life narratives. Using an experimental design approach, the goal is to exemplify and explore this idea with discursive artefacts that, through their physical and temporal form, act as catalysts in the construction of meaningful experiences. READ MORE

  6. 14. Sustainable Interactions : Studies in the Design of Energy Awareness Artefacts

    Author : Loove Broms; Magnus Bång; Henrik Eriksson; Daniel Fällman; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Interaction design; energy awareness; sustainability; domestication; TECHNOLOGY; TEKNIKVETENSKAP;

    Abstract : This thesis presents a collection of experimental designs that approach the problem of growing electricity consumption in homes. From the perspective of design, the intention has been to critically explore the design space of energy awareness artefacts to reinstate awareness of energy use in everyday practice. READ MORE

  7. 15. You Told Me – work stories and video essays : Verkberättelser och videoessäer

    Author : Magnus Bärtås; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Video essay filmic essay; conceptual art; biography; storytelling; work story verkberättelse; narrator; voice-over; post-construction; narratology; reenactment; Chris Marker; Choi Eun-hee; Video art; Art;

    Abstract : You Told Me is a practice-based research project and consists of three video biographies (the Who is…? series), and two video essays (Kumiko, Johnnie Walker & the Cute (2007), Madame & Little Boy (2009), an introduction with a contextualization and methodology of the field, and three essays. The dissertation is an observation and analysis of certain functions and meanings of narration and narratives in contemporary art, as well as being an experiment with roles, methods, actions, and narrative functions in an artistic medium – the video essay. READ MORE