Essays about: "modernist"

Showing result 11 - 15 of 80 essays containing the word modernist.

1. 11. Dystopian Narratives:Testing Qualitative Story Completion Method with Theory from Degrowth

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

   Author : Michelle Appelros; [2022]
   Keywords : Story Completion; Method; Degrowth; Climate crisis; Decolonization of the Imaginary; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : In the global north, we seem well informed of the pending climate crisis, but despite criticism of un-sustainability, it seems as if we lack alternatives to eco-modernist solutions. Although not unproblematic, degrowth and other alternatives do exist, but are somehow non-existing in the public debate. READ MORE

3. 12. Vegetation som social konstruktion : en kritisk granskning av värderingar och föreställningar om ordning och oordning vid omvandling av industriområdet Librobäck

   University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural Development

   Author : Kerstin Lindberg; Emma Nygren; [2022]
   Keywords : fysisk planering; förtätning; industrimiljö; vegetation; urban ekologi; biologisk mångfald; värderingar; föreställningar; social konstruktion; ordning och oordning; dikotomi; anomali; metafor;

   Abstract : Urbanisering är ett hot mot biologisk mångfald. När vi människor försämrar eller förstör ekosystem hotas allt liv på jorden. Vårt utnyttjande av naturresurser och ekosystem utgår ifrån modernitetstankar som grundar sig i en dualistisk uppdelning mellan natur och kultur. READ MORE

4. 13. 1000 YEARS ARCHITECTURE

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Erik Odqvist; [2022]
   Keywords : Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Today most architecture being built has a lifespan somewhere between 60 to 120 years. In some cases less, in a few cases more. Construction of buildings is a huge consumer of both energy and resources. In the architectural field environmental sustainability are keywords in the design process. READ MORE

5. 14. Eyes Wide Shut: Seeing the Safety Management System as a State

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

   Author : David J Beausang; [2021]
   Keywords : Safety; Safety Management System; SMS; Risk; Authoritarian High Modernism; Aviation; Responsibilisation; FLMU06; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Airlines are required to manage safety by implementing a Safety Management System (SMS). These systems are built on experience with quality management and seek to provide a structure for organisations to manage the risks presented by and to their individual operations. READ MORE

6. 15. Everyday Urban Architecture : Urban blocks, building typology, architectural elements; reading into the urban form of Stockholm

   University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

   Author : Lizaveta Shylichava; [2021]
   Keywords : everyday urban architecture; urban block; typology; architectural elements;

   Abstract : With the growing role of cities, rapid urbanization, transformation under shifting economic, environmental, social and demographic conditions, the purpose of architecture is changing too. The legacy of the modernist decades left a broken urban fabric of isolated buildings from the urban landscapes of streets, plots, and blocks. READ MORE