Search for dissertations about: "practice-based design research"
Showing result 6 - 10 of 52 swedish dissertations containing the words practice-based design research.
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6. The Myth of the Silhouette : On form thinking in knitwear design
Abstract : This thesis presents and discusses the results of foundational experimental designresearch in the field of fashion design methodology, with a particular focus onknitwear. The research explored and broadened the foundations of form-thinkingin the design process for knitwear and knitting, with the objective of developingalternative form-concepts and working methods relevant to practitioners andstudents active in the field. READ MORE
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7. (re)Forming Accounts of Ethics in Design: Anecdote as a Way to Express the Experience of Designing Together
Abstract : Designers and design researchers routinely engage other people in shaping preferred futures. Despite a growing recognition of designing as a social practice, however, the ethics of engagement often only appear ‘between the lines’ of the accounts design researchers provide about their experiences designing together. READ MORE
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8. Designing tools forconviviality : A design led exploration of ParticipatoryActivity Mapping
Abstract : This thesis is a report of research work that contributes to the understandingof so-called convivial tools. It does this by describing how small enterprisesuse Participatory Activity Mapping as an approach to changing, as well ascaring about, people and the things that hold their work situations together. READ MORE
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9. Body acts queer : Clothing as a performative challenge to heteronormativity
Abstract : This artistic, practice-based thesis has been developed based on the idea that design creates social and ideological change. From this perspective, Body Acts Queer — Clothing as a performative challenge to heteronormativity introduces an artistic way of working with and exploring the performative and ideological functions of clothing with regard to gender, feminism, and queer. READ MORE
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10. Embodying Openness: A Pragmatist Exploration into the Aesthetic Experience of Design Form-Giving
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
