Search for dissertations about: "Unsettlement"

Found 4 swedish dissertations containing the word Unsettlement.

  2. 1. Utopian-driven projektive research exploring the field of Metaurbanism

    Author : Nel Janssens; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; Worlding; Urbanisation; Sense-making; Meta-Urbanism; Theory-through-design; Unsettlement; Poetic knowledge building; Imagineering; Utopia-Driven Projective Research; Projectivity;

    Abstract : In this thesis a design-based approach is developed to address the issue of reconceptualising urbanisation. The approach is called utopia-driven projective research and is the result of a process of reflection on a number of conceptual design projects the author participated in. READ MORE

  4. 2. Regenerative Place-making

    Author : Sigrid Östlund; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; waste-resource cycles; dérive; designerly thinking; beyond sustainability; place-making; spatial design; nonmodern narratives; collective public life; regenerative design; schema;

    Abstract : Increased population and movement in the age of unsettlement affects local cultural institutions, ecological constitutions and the ontological sense of belonging. These conditions are arguably influenced by the mounting waste produced by the throw-away culture of the age of the ephemeral. READ MORE

  5. 3. An Inquiry into the Re-Creative Workings of the Unheimliche in Interior Architecture

    Author : Karel Deckers; Chalmers tekniska högskola; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; unheimliche; re-creative; manifold experience; interior architecture; transitory;

    Abstract : Often left unspecified in architectural discourse, the unheimliche (or the uncanny) emerges as a puzzling concept that operates in various disciplines throughout history and geography. The unheimliche concept continuously moves between disciplines, minds, periods and places. READ MORE

  6. 4. Online music distribution and the unpredictability of software logistics

    Author : Maria Eriksson; Pelle Snickars; Patrick Vonderau; Jörgen Skågeby; Umeå universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; music distribution; logistics; software studies; unpredictability; digital methods; media and communication studies; medie- och kommunikationsvetenskap;

    Abstract : This compilation dissertation examines the role of software in online music distribution and critically scrutinizes the increased influence of digital technologies in everyday life. In particular, it explores how software coordinates and arranges things, people, and information surrounding music and thereby exerts a logistical power that makes music calculable and governable online. READ MORE