Essays about: "Domesticity"

Showing result 11 - 13 of 13 essays containing the word Domesticity.

  1. 11. The Family Circuit : A New Narrative of American Domesticity

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Designhögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Karey Helms; [2014]
    Keywords : speculative design; design fiction; sustainability; energy harvesting;

    Abstract : As the world endures and approaches a string of energy crises, both financially and environmentally, this project aims to critique and challenge society's relationship with energy by provoking individuals to examine their current habits of energy consumption, consider the future implications of these actions, and question their willingness to make sacrifices for a cleaner environment. This is accomplished through the development of a fictional society in the near future in which individuals are required to produce all the electrical energy that they need or desire to consume. READ MORE

  3. 12. A Domestic Matter

    University essay from Textil

    Author : Hale Güngör Oppenheimer; [2013]
    Keywords : art; painting; textile; wallpaper; pattern; home; domestic; domesticity; installation; animals; collage; oilpainting; window; house; dwelling; belonging; immigration; ghost; migration; immigrant; stranger; foreigner; outsider; inbetween;

    Abstract : This essay is an investigation of the phenomenon of home as an abstract idea. In the first chapter The space in between, I attempt to pinpoint where it is exactly that I find myself situated in relation to ‘the inside’ and ‘the outside’. READ MORE

  4. 13. In Search of Firmness-Parenting and Education in Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

    University essay from Engelska institutionen

    Author : Sari-Leena Viirola; [2012]
    Keywords : Dickens; David Copperfield; parenting; education; upbringing; parent-child relation; child abuse; firmness;

    Abstract : Charles Dickens’s David Copperfield abounds with fatherless and motherless children, whose development into adolescence and adulthood is strongly affected by the parenting skills of the remaining parent. This essay studies different parenting and educational practices in the novel to see their impact on the behaviour and personality of the children. READ MORE