Browsing Masteruppsatser / HDK-Valand (2020-) by Issue Date
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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 ... -
WANDER AROUND WITH GOSSAGE AND THOREAU LOOKING FOR SCHMIDT
(2020-12-17)I was looking for a monument but instead I found an anonymous patch of grass in a cemetery in Berlin which marked the grave of photographer Michel Schmidt. In an attempt to understand I had to go backward into my own ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Effect of image in the time of covid-19 and climate change
(2021-01-15)The aim of this essay is to discuss and try to understand the role of image it’s effect on forming our way of thinking and ideology, specifically in relation to nature crisis and pandemics. On the other side I’m also ... -
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 ... -
Intra-Action – Entanglements Within and Beyond Environmental Photography
(2021-01-15)This essay is an attempt to approach the genre of both landscape and environmental photography, to turn them inside-out, to dissect and to deconstruct them through ecology, ecofeminism, feminist posthumanism and critical ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
”Jag kan inte säga att jag lärde mig något nytt… ”
(2022)Earlier research show that students during the Covid-19 pandemic were greatly affected by the subsequent implementation of distance education in upper-secondary school throughout Sweden. This study aims to explore students’ ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ...