Search for dissertations about: "aesthetic engagement"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 18 swedish dissertations containing the words aesthetic engagement.

2. 1. Perpetual perspectives : on designing for aesthetic engagement

   Author : Jeroen Peeters; Anna Croon Fors; Ambra Trotto; John Zimmerman; Umeå universitet; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; interaction design; embodiment; embodied interaction design; design research; aesthetic interaction; aesthetic engagement; engagement; design; design;

   Abstract : This dissertation investigates aesthetics of engagement in -interaction. Aesthetic refers to the aesthetic experience, based on a phenomenological and pragmatist understanding: dynamic and personal, appealing mutually to - and formed inseparably by - our bodily, emotional, as well as intellectual faculties. READ MORE

4. 2. Trust in Aesthetic Testimony

   Author : Rebecca Wallbank; Elisabeth Schellekens-Dammann; Derek Matravers; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : Trust; aesthetic testimony; aesthetic belief; Filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : This thesis has two main aims. The first is to examine the kinds of circumstances in which we form new aesthetic beleifs in light of deference to aesthetic testimony. The second aim is to examine some of the implications of forming aesthetic beliefs through deference to aesthetic testimony. READ MORE

5. 3. Aesthetic Valuing and the Self

   Author : Irene Martínez Marín; Elisabeth Schellekens; Keren Gorodeisky; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Aesthetic Judgement; Personal Autonomy; Emotions; Aesthetic Agency; Akrasia; Rational Requirements; Transformative Experiences; Estetik; Aesthetics;

   Abstract : This thesis concerns the relation between aesthetically valuable objects and the agents that aesthetically value them. An investigation is undertaken into the psychology and rationality of such agents. I argue that self-related elements such as emotions and standing value commitments play an irreducible role in successful aesthetic engagement. READ MORE

6. 4. “Distantly a part”: Wallace Stevens and the Poetics of Modernist Autonomy

   Author : Gül Bilge Han; Bo G. Ekelund; Bart Eeckhout; Lee Margaret Jenkins; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Wallace Stevens; aesthetic autonomy; modernism; poetry; social engagement; politics of aesthetics; collectivity; inaesthetics; philosophy; English; engelska;

   Abstract : This dissertation explores the social and political dimensions of aesthetic autonomy as it is given formal expression in Wallace Stevens’s poetry of the 1930s and the early 1940s. Whereas modernist claims to autonomy are often said to rest upon an ideological assertion of art’s detachment from socio-historical concerns, I argue that, in Stevens’s work, autonomy is conceived in relational terms, which gives rise to new lines of interconnection between his poetry and its cultural situation. READ MORE

7. 5. Embodying Openness: A Pragmatist Exploration into the Aesthetic Experience of Design Form-Giving

   Author : Ariana Amacker; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Design research; pragmatism; aesthetic experience; form-giving; arts-based learning;

   Abstract : This thesis explores the tension between a reflective view of design and design as an embodied, aesthetic experience. Most research exploring the nature of design follows a tradition of practice-based design research, which aims to empirically establish what constitutes design by studying what designers do and say. READ MORE