Essays about: "Up-Cycling"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 9 essays containing the word Up-Cycling.

  1. 1. The role of motivations and perceived ability to cycle as a mode of transport in an emerging cycling culture - the case study of Cork Metropolitan Area, Ireland

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Nieve Greene; [2023]
    Keywords : travel behaviour; mobility; utilitarian cycling; human infrastructure; built environment; Theory of Planned Behaviour; Politics of Mobility.; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Cycling as mode of transport can be seen as a sustainable and active mode of travel that can be part of the solution for climate change and urban congestion. Many cities in Europe are now investing in cycling to reduce their carbon emissions and make their spaces more liveable and accessible. READ MORE

  3. 2. Urban Uncertainties

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Josephine Harold; [2022]
    Keywords : Urban development; threshold; Stockholm; continuity; zine; urban planning; city; biodiversity; contamination; appropriation; re-use; alteration; Bergs Hamn; Bergs gård; Nacka; up-cycling; cistern;

    Abstract : Throughout the last decades the linear urban development in Stockholm can be retraced to the idea of supply and demand, society’s view on the elimination of risk, while increasingly detaching from natural processes. This thesis offers a critical evaluation of the socio-economic situation of space production, while trying to argue for a new semantic recodification of urban organisational processes while reconnecting to a socio-biodiverse narrative. READ MORE

  4. 3. BODY - FORM - WEAVE : Investigating objects as alternative weaving looms to challenge traditional form of weave with focus on up-cycling.

    University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi

    Author : Märta Wallgren; [2021]
    Keywords : Weave; Fashion; re-make; alternative looms; 3d-weaving; crafts;

    Abstract : This work positions itself in the intersection between art, fashion and crafts. The work aims to challenge traditional ways of making clothes by investigating the relationship between material, form and body through a three dimensional hand weaving technique with focus on up-cycling. READ MORE

  5. 4. Recruiting Cyclists in Uppsala: Why do exchange students cycle?

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaper

    Author : Sims Meyer-Rodrigues; [2019]
    Keywords : Cycling; Social Practice Theory; Recruitment; Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : The current trend of emissions from the transport sector is unsustainable. To increase cycling mitigates these emissions, while also actively promoting health and alleviating congestion within cities. READ MORE

  6. 5. Recycling acoustic products - improving circular economy in an industrial company

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Innovation

    Author : Martin Walter; Fredrik Mayr; [2018]
    Keywords : Circular economy; recycling; up-cycling; acoustic products; waste reduction; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : The construction and demolition sector stands for a large amount of the waste produced every year, roughly one third of all waste produced every year in Sweden, comes from this sector. The construction material manu- facturer Ecophon is a world leading company in manufacturing of acoustic products made out of glass wool, which are used in all kind of buildings and the general geometry of an acoustic product can be described as a rectangular board. READ MORE