Search for dissertations about: "Place"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 3107 swedish dissertations containing the word Place.

  2. 21. Modalities of Place: On Polarisation and Exclusion in Concepts of Place and in Site-Specific Art

    Author : Gunnar Sandin; Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; interior design; Architecture; Actants; Modalities; Place; Site-Specific Art; Arkitektur; inredningsarkitektur;

    Abstract : In this thesis the notion of place is studied by way of investigating the “non-place” which is excluded or opposed, whenever a place is defined. “Non-place” is used here as a meta-concept, covering various recurring types of opposition to “place,” and it therefore represents a profoundly incoherent spect-rum of realities and concepts. READ MORE

  4. 22. A Nice Place : The Everyday Production of Pleasure and Political Correctness at Work

    Author : Annika Jonsson; Gerd Lindgren; Liselotte Jakobsen; Ingrid Sahlin; Karlstads universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; heterosexuality; gender; work; ethnomethodology; ethnography; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

    Abstract : This dissertation investigates heterosexed reality as an ongoing accomplishment by the members at a workplace. Observations were carried out sporadically for two years at a museum. During this period twelve formal interviews, fifteen informal interviews, three formal group interviews and three informal group interviews were also conducted. READ MORE

  5. 23. Steal this place : the aesthetics of tactical formlessness and "The Free Town of Christiania"

    Author : Maria Hellström; Malmö högskola; []
    Keywords : activism; planning; urbanism; aesthetics;

    Abstract : Studien avhandlar urbana förändrings- och estetiseringsprocesser med utgångspunkt i den själv-organiserande Fristaden Christiania i Köpenhamn. Arbetshypotesen är den att ett uppmärksammande av expressiva, aktivistiska urbana representationsformer kan leda till en annan förståelse av rumslig gestaltning än den som nu dominerar planeringsfältet. READ MORE

  6. 24. Finding One’s Place : An Ethnological Study of Belonging among Swedish Migrants on the Costa del Sol in Spain

    Author : Annie Woube; Birgitta Meurling; Magnus Rodell; Oscar Pripp; Sverker Hyltén-Cavallius; Uppsala universitet; []
    Keywords : lifestyle migration; belonging; transnationality; diaspora; identification; ethnographic fieldwork; migration stories; materiality; Costa del Sol; Sweden; Etnologi; Ethnology;

    Abstract : This study explores how Swedish migrants on the Costa del Sol in Spain create belonging and how this is expressed in migration stories and practiced in the daily life. The migrants are part of a migration phenomenon that is conceptualized as lifestyle migration, often to destinations in association with tourism and leisure. READ MORE

  7. 25. A Seeing Place – Connecting Physical and Virtual Spaces

    Author : Josef Wideström; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; stage; VR; theatre; Virtual Space; virtual reality; place; physical space;

    Abstract : In the experience and design of spaces today, we meet both reality and virtuality. But how is the relation between real and virtual construed? How can we as researchers and designers contribute to resolving the physical-virtual divide regarding spaces? This thesis explores the relations between the physical and the virtual and investigates ways of connecting physical and virtual space, both in theory and practice. READ MORE