Search for dissertations about: "design and architecture"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 824 swedish dissertations containing the words design and architecture.
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6. Solarscape: The power of humanity in designing solar imaginaries, entangled worlds, and critical sustainable futures
Abstract : Solarscape is a thesis on the phenomenology of the Solar – an experiential, relational, and critical approach to how humans and humanity world-with solar energy in its different forms and manifestations. Using solar panels as a central artefact of concern, I explore surrounding human and non-human relationships through situated individual and collaborative design practices: workshops, interviews, (auto)ethnography, to name a few. READ MORE
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7. Presence Design : Mediated Spaces Extending Architecture
Abstract : This thesis is a contribution to design-led research and addresses a readership in the fields of architecture as well as in media and communications. In juxtaposing the tools of the designer (e.g. READ MORE
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8. The Quest for the Room of Requirement - Why Some Activity-based Flexible Offices Work While Others Do Not
Abstract : The overarching purpose of this thesis is to develop further knowledge of the consequences of relocating to Activity-based Flexible Offices (AFOs). As workspace design innovations, AFOs are increasingly implemented in organisations. AFOs comprise a variety of workspaces for employees to choose from depending on their preferences or activities. READ MORE
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9. Realtime & Development - modes of knowing design computation in architectural practice
Abstract : This thesis examines theoretical, methodological and organisational implications of design computation for architectural practice - from an insider perspective. It also proposes a conceptual model for knowing within this practice, in an approach that interrelates theory and actionable knowledge. READ MORE
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10. Smells: olfactive dimension in designing textile architecture
Abstract : Designing with non-visual attributes challenges ways of representation. This research explores methods for designing with invisible materiality within the research practice, as well as ways of representation through textiles when designing spaces. Exploring textiles and smells within a space, the research program investigates spatial interactions. READ MORE