Browsing Doctoral Theses / Doktorsavhandlingar HDK-Valand by Issue Date
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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 ... -
Noun to Verb: an investigation into the micro-politics of publishing through artistic practice
(2020-10-14)This practice-based inquiry explores the social and political agency of publishing by investigating the micro-politics of making and sharing knowledges from an intersectional feminist perspective. Whether "bound" or ... -
Vem vittnar för vittnet? - Det litterära verket som vittnesmål och översättning
(2020-11-06)Two brothers are riding the subway in Toronto. They have been spending some time in the city as guests of their family – aunts and cousins. Everyone is originally from Iran, but the brothers have lived most of their lives ... -
Kommunikation i slöjd och hantverksbaserad undervisning
(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 ... -
Television Without Frontiers
(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 ... -
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 ... -
A Never-Ending Thirst: Artistic Reforms to Neoliberal-Teflon Imperviousness
(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 ... -
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 ... -
The Objectivity Laboratory: Propositions on Documentary Photography
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Slöjdundervisning med nyanlända elever – om multimodal interaktion och kommunikation i slöjdklassrum
(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. ... -
”Sketch and Talk”, Drawing lines between incarcerated humans, the interior, and “stuff”. Design methodologies for (well)-being in prisons, youth homes and psychiatric hospitals
(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 ... -
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, ... -
Rewinding Internationalism. An Exhibitionary Inquiry on the Political Imaginary
(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 ... -
Towards Peasant Cultivation of Abundance
(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 ... -
Transmundane Architecture: Architectural Control Relationships Through the Lens of More-than-Human Onto-Epistemologies, Degrowth Practices and Occulture
(2024-11-21)Architecture has traditionally focused on human-centred practices, emphasising control over construction processes and creating internal environments that separate humans from their external surroundings. The growing ...