Search for dissertations about: "tropes"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 29 swedish dissertations containing the word tropes.

2. 1. If Tropes

   Author : Anna-Sofia Maurin; Teoretisk filosofi; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; abstract particulars; metaphysics; ontology; resemblance; tropes; Philosophical logic; truth-makers; compresence; Teoretisk filosofi; logik;

   Abstract : The treatise attempts to approach and deal with some of the most fundamental problems facing anyone who wishes to uphold some version of the so-called theory of tropes. Three assumptions serve as a basis for the investigation: (i) tropes (i.e. READ MORE

4. 2. Imagining the Organic City : Modern Tropes of Organization

   Author : Meike Schalk; Kenneth Olwig; Sven Olov Wallenstein; Helena Mattsson; M Christine Boyer; Faculty of Landscape Architecture Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences SLU Alnarp; []
   Keywords : organic; organism; types; evolution; city; society; biology; Patrick Geddes; urban design; metabolism; organization;

   Abstract : The thesis examines three ’organic tropes’ of modern architecture and urban design, addressing different crucial moments of change within modernist discourse. Attention is focused on the institutionalization of ‘town planning’ at the turn of the last century; the shift during the post-war years; and the beginning of urban debate in Japan during the early 1960s. READ MORE

5. 3. Axiological Investigations

   Author : Jonas Olson; Sven Danielsson; Erik Carlson; Brad Hooker; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Practical philosophy; axiology; buck-passing; conditionalism; final value; G.E. Moore; intrinsic goodness; intrinsicalism; supervenience; tropes; Praktisk filosofi; Practical philosophy; Praktisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The subject of this thesis is formal axiology, i.e., the discipline that deals with structural and conceptual questions about value. The main focus is on intrinsic or final value. READ MORE

6. 4. Tropes for the proper of the mass, 4 : The feasts of the blessed Virgin Mary

   Author : Ann-Katrin Andrews Johansson; Eva Odelman; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Latin language; Latin; Latin; latin;

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7. 5. Architectural Prototypes II : Reformations, Speculations and Strategies in the Digital Design Field

   Author : Jonas Runberger; Örjan Wikforss; Katja Tollmar Grillner; Mette Ramsgard Thomsen; KTH; []
   Keywords : TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Architecture; digital design field; reformations; prototypical approach; performance; affect; cognitive estrangement; extrapolation; design fiction; architecture fiction; speculative approaches; digital design tropes; parametric design; operational digital design strategies; design project enquiries;

   Abstract : This doctoral thesis is situated within the digital design field of architecture, and is a continuation of the licentiate thesis Architectural Prototypes: Modes of Design Development and Architectural Practice, presented at the KTH School of Architecture in 2008. The doctoral thesis investigates the current status of the digital design field of architecture, and identifies a number of related discourses. READ MORE