Browsing Masteruppsatser / HDK-Valand (2020-) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Enjoyment as critical practice
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Follow the Witch - The interior designer as a future urban planner for the design between existing walls
(2023)What if most of our future buildings are already built? To build new buildings by claiming new resources and more land, these are habits we need to change if we are serious about shifting to a sustainable way of living. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
”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’ ... -
Leaving Wonderland - An investigation of capitalist visual culture in public spaces through design in relation to female sexuality
(2023)Capitalist visual culture in public spaces have a significant impact on female sexuality by perpetuating unrealistic, sexualizing and objectifying representations of women. Visual media such as advertising, branding, and ... -
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 ... -
LIKU - Building through motions
(2023)LIKU: Building Through Motions project explores the method of designing that is born through children’s performative body movements. It is an attempt to combine child culture design with elements of bodily movements ... -
Line vs Void
(2023)Line vs Void explores abstraction through weaving, it delves into the woven monochrome, and by doing so, emphasizes the narrative that emerges from plain colour and texture. The written part summarises ideas that are ...