Search for dissertations about: "MUSEUM"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 100 swedish dissertations containing the word MUSEUM.

  2. 1. The Ambivalent Potentiality of Vulnerability : Museum Pedagogy in Exhibitions on Difficult Matters and its Ethical Implications

    Author : Katrine Tinning; Pedagogik; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Museum pedagogy; Exhibitions on Difficult Matters; vulnerability; History didactics; Relational Pedagogy; Dark Heritage; Difficult Knowledge; Museum Education; Museum Management; Museum Studies; Museum Ethics; Difficult Heritage; Museology;

    Abstract : The aim of this dissertation is to critically investigate and problematize how museum exhibitions on Difficult Matters, like war and sexual violence, can be designed in order to contribute to teaching-learning relations between museum and visitor, which may transform existing perceptions of self, others, and the world and evoke a deepened sense of responsibility in the viewers, i.e. READ MORE

  4. 2. "Not All Museums" : Memory, politics, and museum activism on the move

    Author : Olga Zabalueva; Bodil Axelsson; Malin Thor Tureby; Hans Lauge Hansen; Linköpings universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Museum activism; Museum politics; Sweden; Memory studies; Museum definition; Museumaktivism; Museologi; Kulturella minnen; Minnespolitik; Sverige; Museidefinition;

    Abstract : This dissertation examines the institutional ontology of museums: how it is being changed and which issues and actors are calling for such change.  A museum project that started from scratch in the mid-2010s – the Museum of Movements in Malmö, Sweden – is used as a lens to examine how the global processes of (re)imagining the museum are unfolding in the local Swedish context. READ MORE

  5. 3. Adaptive Robot Presenters : Modelling Grounding in Multimodal Interaction

    Author : Agnes Axelsson; Gabriel Skantze; Johan Boye; Elisabeth André; KTH; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Human-robot interaction; Dialogue; Presentation; Museum; Grounding; Multimodal; Feedback; Classification; Knowledge graphs; KG; KG-to-text; WebNLG; System; Learning; Large Language Model; LLM; människa-robot-interaktion; hri; dialog; presentation; museum; grundning; multimodal; multimodalitet; återmatning; klassifikation; kunskapsgraf; kg; kg-till-text; data-tilltext; webnlg; system; inlärning; lärande. stor språkmodell; llm; Speech and Music Communication; Tal- och musikkommunikation;

    Abstract : This thesis addresses the topic of grounding in human-robot interaction, that is, the process by which the human and robot can ensure mutual understanding. To explore this topic, the scenario of a robot holding a presentation to a human audience is used, where the robot has to process multimodal feedback from the human in order to adapt the presentation to the human's level of understanding. READ MORE

  6. 4. Displaying Loot: The Benin objects and the British Museum

    Author : Staffan Lundén; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benin; Benin bronzes; Benin objects; Britain; British Museum; colonialism; cultural property; Edo; heritage; loot; museums; museum studies; Nigeria; repatriation; representation; restitution; war booty; Westernness; Kulturföremål historia; Beninsk konst historia; Plundringar historia; Återlämning av kulturföremål; Kulturarvsbrott; Great Britain History; Cultural property Repatriation; Beninriket; Storbritannien;

    Abstract : This study deals with the objects, now in the British Museum, that were looted from Benin City, present-day Nigeria, in 1897. It looks at how the museum represents the Benin objects, the Edo/African, the British/Westerner, and the British Museum. READ MORE

  7. 5. The use of museum specimens in conservation genomics

    Author : Johanna von Seth; Love Dalén; Karin Norén; Gernot Segelbacher; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; conservation genomics; museum specimens; genomic erosion; diversity; inbreeding; mutational load; genetic drift; purging; population divergence; local extinction; population decline; Sumatran rhinoceros; kakapo; arctic fox; Chatham Island black robin; Systematic Zoology; zoologisk systematik och evolutionsforskning;

    Abstract : In the face of an increasing number of species being threatened by extinction, museum collections can constitute a powerful resource for acquiring genomic data of endangered taxa. By utilising datasets that combine genomes from present-day populations with those from historical timepoints, several questions relevant for conservation can be investigated. READ MORE