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Circumscribing Tonality: Upper Secondary Music Students Learning the Circle of Fifths
(2020-09-29)The fundamental motivation for this research project is that listening is central to all musical activities, and that semiotic means for visualizing, representing, and conceptualizing music are central to educational ... -
Claiming Space: Discourses on Gender, Popular Music, and Social Change
(2011-01-27)This compilation (portfolio) thesis explores how language is used in the context of gender-equity music initiatives to construct ideas about gender, popular music, and social change. More specifically, it examines the use ... -
Concrete Fashion: Dress, Art, and Engagement in Public Space
(2009-12-11)This dissertation is an example of artistic research that explores the border between fashion design and contemporary art, in order to place situated bodily practices within the larger field of exploration and ideology, ... -
Crying Rya: A Practitioner’s Narrative Through Hand Weaving
(2022-09-02)This research project examines a repeated focus on time and slowness that I have experienced over years in connection with my hand-weaving practice using the Scandinavian technique of rya. Research through my own studio ... -
Cuts and Continuities: Caste-subaltern imaginations of the Bengal famine of 1943
(2023-10-10)The Bengal famine of 1943, in which nearly three million people died, was man-made. A multitude of factors led to the famine, including British colonial policies, war, hoarding and profiteering by local elites and businesses, ... -
Den klingande verklighetens föränderlighet: Mot ett vidgat gestaltningsutrymme
(2022-05-06)For artists, the impact of the symbols in a score on interpretational positions may on some occasions be experienced as problematic. This is especially the case for artists, experiencing the classical musical tradition to ... -
Design for Service: A framework for articulating designers’ contribution as interpreter of users’ experience
(2014-03-11)During the past approximately 15 years designers have paid increasing attention to service and changes in our society, resulting in a new design discipline – service design. In parallel, designers’ contributions to service ... -
Designing Together: A Frugal Design Approach. Exploring Participatory Design in a Global North-South Cooperation Context
(2021-09-07)Since the turn of the millennium, participatory designers have increasingly begun to engage in collaborative research processes in the so-called Global South, targeting sustainable development. The quest is to take on ... -
Designing ‘for' and ‘with' ambiguity: actualising democratic processes in participatory design practices with children
(2020-05-14)In the last thirty years, there has been an increased interest in supporting children’s participation in society, where the results of these practices may or may not have contributed to more democratic outcomes. In this ... -
Devices. On Hospitality, Hostility and Design
(2012-03-14)This thesis studies and speculates upon the interrelations of artefacts with human and nonhuman agents. These interrelations form assemblages, some of which have emergent properties, becoming manifestations of processes ... -
Ecologies of Practices and Thinking
(2015-11-26)How does a new materialist film practice look? To approach this question the practice-led material driven research explores dynamic ecological relations and processes of thinking and practicing. It employs an animist ... -
Embodying Openness: A Pragmatist Exploration into the Aesthetic Experience of Design Form-Giving
(2017-06-12)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 ... -
Exploring pitfalls of participation and ways towards just practices through a participatory design process in Kisumu, Kenya
(2018-04-12)It is my belief that participatory processes can lead to positive transformations for the people involved. However, I do at the same time recognize that participation is inherently ambiguous and complex, and that this makes ... -
Fashion-able. Hacktivism and engaged fashion design
(2008-09-22)This thesis consists of a series of extensive projects which aim to explore a new designer role for fashion. It is a role that experiments with how fashion can be reverse engineered, hacked, tuned and shared among many ... -
For every word has its own shadow: Sunsets, Notes From Underground, Waves
(2015-11-26)Liminality permeates this doctoral project's questions: how can an experience of the liminal exist as an artwork? What things and experiences can orient us towards affectivity and states of becoming? Lisa Tan relates such ... -
Free Ensemble Improvisation
(2009-05-14)The aim of this doctoral project has been to study so-called non-idiomatic improvisation in ensembles consisting of two or three musicians who play together without any restrictions regarding style or genre and without ... -
Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism
(2022-02-04)Propelled by the acute ecological crisis, Geo- Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism moves between artistic affinities and academic disciplines to craft an intervention into the imaginary of ... -
Glitching the Fabric: Strategies of new media art applied to the codes of knitting and weaving
(2018-09-04)The purpose of the research has been to explore the creative possibilities in applying strategies derived from the domain of digital media and glitch art to a range of processes in the domain of textiles—specifically ... -
Händelsehorisont || Event Horizon. Distribuerad fotografi
(2016-09-16)In recent decades, photography as a technology has undergone a series of transformative changes, which have, in turn, entailed different renegotiations of the functions of photography – as image or information, as inscription ... -
Händelser på ytan – shibori som kunskapande rörelse
(2016-05-11)In present times, shibori, though originally a Japanese word, is an international umbrella term for craft techniques related to the dyeing of textiles. In an artistic context, shibori signifies the act of (e)laborating by ...