Masteruppsatser / HDK-Valand (2020-)
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Bildämnet i Sverige och Finland En jämförelse mellan de nationella kursplanerna i årskurs 7-9
(2022-06-01)The purpose of this article is to draw attention to differences and similarities between the subject visual arts in Sweden and Finland through analysis of syllabi in both countries in certain selected subject areas. Is ... -
Something's Growing On...
(2022-05-27)he ‘Something’s growing on…’ project explores how a picture book for children can celebrate and highlight the complexity and importance of nature and its unseen microcosms. It is a designinitiated attempt to evoke awareness ... -
Vår festival 2022
(2022-05-27)Vår festival focuses on community building from a participatory design perspective within a multi-ethnic small town in Sweden where 7 to 9 year old children are deprived of participating in their local community and ... -
Domio. Free & challenging play modular play facilities in public spaces
(2022-05-27)Risky elements in play are of great importance to healthy child development. They are naturally attractive to children especially at the age when their athletic performance is developing at a rapid pace. While in many ... -
Adapting the Imposed City Environment as a Playscape together with Children
(2022-05-27)My investigation finds its focus in the design of cities and the perspective of children living within them . My concern is the strengthening of the local community and their opportunity to participate in forming their ... -
The Doorstep Realm Exploring children’s democratic experimentalism in public space
(2022-05-27)The Doorstep Realm explores children’s everyday acts of democracy within the frame of Democratic Experimentalism [Unger, 2001] for the purpose of enriching and extending children’s spatial belonging and democratic engagement ... -
Helping Children Becoming Digital Creators Through Design
(2022-05-27)In 2022, acting in the digital world has become a large part of children’s culture in the west. There are plenty of big companies that approach children as customers and consumers by producing digital entertainment content ... -
BUILDING RELATIONS WITH NATURE BY DESIGN METHODS
(2022-06-03)Culture, art, and design can help us as a society and for each earthling to reflect on the ambivalent relationship between nature and humans in the Anthropocene by raising the critical question of how we can build more ... -
From space to place
(2022-06-02)In this essay, I have discussed a number of choices made through a photographic field work about a chosen place. By considering the archive as a space with a possible built in creative intensity, archive material intertwined ... -
Strategies of counter Image-Making of Arabs' portrayals in Swedish films through a Decolonial Approach
(2022-06-01)Many groups and marginalized communities have been struggling for better representation in the media and film in different countries for many reasons. One of them is the direct effects of stereotypification on their ... -
The Social Matters
(2022)This project explores design as a social practice that provokes changes. The context that this project operates in is a growing private organization, which is a dynamic and marketoriented environment. The two core ... -
Lekkontoret - designing an environment for participatory design practices between adult designers and children
(2021)Article 12 of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child asserts that children have the right to participate in society, express their views and have their opinions respected. A 2009 revision of the Article outlines ... -
beEmpathy DESIGNING WITH AND FOR EMPATHY
(2021-06-04)In my Master thesis, I explore how design can mediate empathy among school children in order to foster creativity, intercultural competence, and complex identities. I focus on the psychology of empathy and on design-informed ... -
Writing with Photography. Language performativity and photography's capacity for semiotics
(2021-01-15)This essay started with the negative of writing a written essay. By so, I wanted to understand how photography operates as a language and what it means when one says "to read" a photograph. Can photography be the substitute ... -
Is it possible to make Ethical Dialogical Art? The ethical implications of applying Intersectional Feminist methods to work with Dialogue-based Community Art.
(2020-11-20)I am a white, non-binary, crip, and queer person with mixed european minority heritage, raised as part of the rural Swedish working class. My understanding of the world is defined by this background as well as by my time ... -
Frankenstein's Mother - Mapping structures, and researching ways of creating new ones, within the interrelated entanglement of artistic practice and motherhood
(2021-01-11)American artist Judy Chicago once told another artist, Helen Million Ruby, that she had to choose between her children and artistic practice. When asked about this, she commented that she was not giving an ultimatum but ... -
The Controlled Hallucinations of a Fragmented Gaze
(2021-01-11)I break down images, both physically as well as philosophically, into bits and pieces to explore questions surrounding visual perception; examining ways of dismantling, reconstructing, and fragmenting them; and questioning ... -
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly Artist.
(2021-01-15)Through critical theories and surveys, the essay is exploring what is written or said about the living and working conditions for artists in Denmark in the 2000s and 2010s. By reflecting on the difficult question of who ...
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