Search for dissertations about: "design criticism"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 22 swedish dissertations containing the words design criticism.
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1. Design-Politics : An Inquiry into Passports, Camps and Borders
Abstract : This thesis is an interrogation of the contemporary politics of movement and more specifically, migration politics from the perspective of the agency of design and designing. At the core of this thesis lies a series of arguments which invite design researchers and migration scholars to rethink the ways they work with their practices: that states, in order to make effective their abstract notions of borders, nations, citizenship, legal protection and rights are in dire need of what this thesis coins as material articulations. READ MORE
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2. Bling & : Other Breaches in Design
Abstract : The overall theme of this thesis is norm deviations, i.e. breaches, as an approach to illuminating blindspots in the design field in order to handle potential friction that arises constructively. READ MORE
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3. Perspectives on Cooperative Design
Abstract : The cooperative design approach, which research and practice have proven to be successful in several ways, is based on understanding users and their contexts through a variety of methods. This approach of working closely together with the users, however, is not the same thing as letting the users decide themselves what to design. READ MORE
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4. Arkitektur och konsumtion : Reyner Banham och utbytbarhetens estetik
Abstract : The dissertation analyses the relation between architecture, design and consumption according to Peter Reyner Banham’s notion of an “aesthetics of expendability”. This issue is studied through such source materials as texts, buildings, competition entries and exhibitions produced from the early fifties to the early sixties. READ MORE
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5. Teaching and Learning Aesthetics of Interaction
Abstract : This dissertation is framed as an action research project, aiming to explore different means of teaching aesthetics of interaction. As such, it consists of a case study describing the work with a course in interaction design entitled “Aesthetics of Interaction”. READ MORE