• Weaving spaces in Nordic cities 

  Tolnov Clausen, Rosa (2025-04-24)

  This thesis explores how free time hand-weaving spaces are organized in urban settings in Sweden, Finland, and Denmark. It departs from, and builds on, the author’s artistic practice of creating public spaces for hand-weaving ...

• Towards Peasant Cultivation of Abundance 

  Sonjasdotter, Åsa (2024-05-17)

  This research investigates modes of relations in peasant crop cultivation. The enquiry follows traces of such practices through artistic means, seeking to construct a conceptual framework that diverges from the capitalist ...

• Situated Agencies: Mediating Places through the Body 

  S. Fari, Nathalie (2024-04-12)

  At a time when our ways of experiencing and inhabiting places in the city have become increasingly entangled with technology, the Situated Agencies: Mediating places through the Body explores how site-specific performance ...

• Rewinding Internationalism. An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary 

  Aikens, Nick (2023-11-17)

  ‘Rewinding Internationalism: An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary’ investigates the relationship between exhibition making, processes of inquiry and the political. The project originates from, and takes place ...

• Techniques of Ecstasy: Rumori - Tracing Sound 

  Järnegard, Esaias (2023-11-03)

  This doctoral thesis proposes the philosophical concept of ontopoetics in relation to an artistic practice of sound (music) and listening. The concept of ontopoetics is used as the backdrop of the developed notion of ...

• I otakt med tiden: En genealogi av svensk musiklärarutbildning 

  Ostendorf, Lena (2023-10-20)

  The aim of this thesis is to contribute to knowledge about how Swedish music teacher education today is governed. The theoretical lens is a Foucauldian genealogical approach according to which the educational context is ...

• Cuts and Continuities: Caste-subaltern imaginations of the Bengal famine of 1943 

  Ranjan, Ram Krishna (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, ...

• ”Sketch and Talk”, Drawing lines between incarcerated humans, the interior, and “stuff”. Design methodologies for (well)-being in prisons, youth homes and psychiatric hospitals 

  James, Franz (2023-08-31)

  With increasing global and local incarceration, the demand for prison beds is rapidly growing. The Swedish government’s plans for implementing youth prisons and amending laws regarding young people’s sentences risk increasing ...

• Slöjdundervisning med nyanlända elever – om multimodal interaktion och kommunikation i slöjdklassrum 

  Gyllerfelt, Emma (2023-05-17)

  This thesis aims to identify and describe sloyd teachers and newly arrived students’ multimodal interaction and communication, and how this is expressed in sloyd teaching and the learning environment of the sloyd classroom. ...

• Crying Rya: A Practitioner’s Narrative Through Hand Weaving 

  Röndahl, Emelie (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 ...

• Den klingande verklighetens föränderlighet: Mot ett vidgat gestaltningsutrymme 

  Löndahl, Tomas (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 ...

• The Objectivity Laboratory: Propositions on Documentary Photography 

  Hamilton, Kerstin (2022-03-21)

  At a moment in history when “post-truth” and “alternative facts” epitomize a political and media landscape that feeds on the circulation of doubt and distrust, The Objectivity Laboratory: Propositions on Documentary ...

• Geo-Aesthetical Discontent: Svalbard, the Guide and Post-Future Essayism 

  la Cour, Eva (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 ...

• An Operatic Game Changer: The Opera Maker as Game Designer and the Potentials of Ludo-Immersive Opera 

  Jalhed, Hedvig (2022-01-28)

  How can live-performed chamber operas be conceptualized as immersive games with interactive features? This artistic study has resulted in a system model through which degrees of immersion may be generated and analyzed from ...

• A Never-Ending Thirst: Artistic Reforms to Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness 

  Alves, André (2021-10-25)

  This text is the dissertation element of my artistic research project, A Never-Ending Thirst: Artistic Reforms to Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness, developed within the doctoral studies program at HDK-Valand—the Academy ...

• Designing Together: A Frugal Design Approach. Exploring Participatory Design in a Global North-South Cooperation Context 

  Hansson, Helena (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 ...

• Jazz in Worship and Worship in Jazz: Exploring the musical language of Liturgical, Sacred, and Spiritual Jazz in a Postsecular Age 

  Steinmetz, Uwe (2021-05-21)

  The aim of this dissertation is to identify musical elements that contribute to the generation of religious meaning in jazz performance and to explore how religious experience can inspire jazz composition. In this study, ...

• Omsorg, välvilja och tystnadskultur – diskursiva dilemman och strategier i lärarutbildningens undervisningspraktik i musik mot yngre åldrar 

  Frick Alexandersson, Monica (2021-03-17)

  The aim of this thesis is to critically scrutinize, identify and problematize discourses in music education within teacher education towards younger ages. The study explores how teaching practice and examinations in music ...

• Television Without Frontiers 

  Ejiksson, Andjeas (2021-02-04)

  Television Without Frontiers revolves around a TV experiment titled Eurikon, realized in 1982 in an effort to explore the possibility of developing a public service channel spanning the entirety of Western Europe and the ...

• Kommunikation i slöjd och hantverksbaserad undervisning 

  Andersson, Joakim (2021-01-14)

  This thesis aims to explore and analyse the different ways in which handicraft [sloyd] teachers communicate when teaching action-based knowledge, and the consequences for communication of different forms of communication ...

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