Essays about: "value of home"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 259 essays containing the words value of home.

  1. 21. Care and Confusion: A Speculative Ethnography of Youth Residential Care Homes in Sweden

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för tema

    Author : James Barrett; [2022]
    Keywords : youth work; HVB; youth residential care; social work; speculative ethnography; institutional ethnography; fictionalised stories; composite narratives; critical reflexivity;

    Abstract : Through the small-scale and imaginative application of a Speculative Institutional Ethnographical study, fictionalised stories have been created based upon observations in the field at three different Youth Care Home Facilities in Sweden. The locations and characters in these stories are composite narratives comprised of actual details from multiple real life places and people, amalgamated to form fictionalised narratives so as to protect the anonymity of real life people. READ MORE

  3. 22. Where Something Goes Up, Something Else Goes Down : May a meeting between textile and glass disrupt the hierarchical order among materials and techniques?

    University essay from Konstfack/Inredningsarkitektur & Möbeldesign

    Author : Malin Glännestrand; [2022]
    Keywords : Glass; glasfiber; textile; interior designer; spatial design; materials; hierarchies; fusing; knitting; lighting;

    Abstract : We have a tendency to want to sort our surroundings, we set things against each other, value them and place them in a hierarchical order.Where something goes up, something else goes down.We attribute different properties to materials, techniques and spaces and load them with values. READ MORE

  4. 23. Remodelling one’s kitchen without going bananas : A critical perspective on the drivers behind self-initiated renovations of owner-occupied housing

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Westin; [2022]
    Keywords : Home improvements; housing practice; use value; exchange value; political economy;

    Abstract : The present thesis aims to provide new insight into the motives and aspirations behind self-initiated renovations of owner-occupied housing by applying a critical perspective to the phenomenon of home improvements. Furthermore, the thesis argues that the concepts of use value and exchange value point to how economic and non-economic factors are interconnected in contemporary home improvement practice. READ MORE

  5. 24. Collecting the Environment : A Cultural and Aesthetic Historical Analysis of Mushroom Collecting in Sweden from the 19th century to the Present

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia

    Author : Nicole Miller; [2022]
    Keywords : Collecting; Mushrooms; Aesthetics; Environment; History; Sweden; Exhibitions; Natural History; Visual Culture; Fungi; Phenomenology; Ethnomycology; Mycorrhizal Metaphor; Mushroom Time; Collecting the Environment; Nature; Mushroom picking; foraging; aesthetic experience; Svampar; Natur; Sverige; Svamputställningar; visuell kultur;

    Abstract : The aim of this project is to investigate a cultural history of mushroom collecting in Sweden from the 19th century to the present with a focus on connections between aesthetics and the environment.  Collecting is defined broadly as gathering, storing, and accumulating. READ MORE

  6. 25. Security in Smart Locks : Do Consumers Care?

    University essay from Blekinge Tekniska Högskola/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Jonathan Zedig; [2022]
    Keywords : Smart locks; Internet of Things; Security; Smart home protocol;

    Abstract : Background. Smart door locks are either replacing or adding on to more regular mechanical locks today. They come in many different sizes and with many different functionalities. Today, most consumer advertisements focus on the functionalities of the locks and not so much on security. READ MORE