Essays about: "Weaving"

Showing result 31 - 35 of 91 essays containing the word Weaving.

  1. 31. WEAVING IN WOOD : An architectural strategy in Umeå that strive to decrease loneliness and include elderly with physical and cognitive impairments

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet

    Author : Rebecka Littbrand; [2020]
    Keywords : architecture; elderly; impairments; dementia; loneliness; older people; physical and cognitive impairments; physical impairments; cognitive impairments; physical decline; cognitive decline; physical and cognitive decline; social isolation;

    Abstract : WEAVING IN WOOD  An architectural strategy in Umeå that strive to decrease loneliness and include elderly with physical and cognitive impairments A Master Thesis by Rebecka Littbrand                                                                                                   Spring 2020   Background Feelings of loneliness is common in the whole western world, especially among older people. Loneliness is of public health concerns as being a risk factor for many severe diseases and premature mortality. READ MORE

  3. 32. Inhysningssystem och dagliga rutiners påverkan på hästar och utvecklandet av stereotypier

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Equine Studies

    Author : Isabelle Lögdahl; [2020]
    Keywords : behaviour; stereotypies; weaving; housing; equine; management;

    Abstract : The horse has been in human service for about 6,000 years and has been a great asset in warfare and agriculture. Today, the horse is mainly used for leisure and equestrian sports. Horse holders keep horses housed in stables or in various forms of group housing. READ MORE

  4. 33. Fjordparken : en studie om postindustriell stadsomvandling

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Mikaela Persson; [2020]
    Keywords : gestaltningsförslag; hamnområde; postindustri; park; badplats; site; platsomvandling; Filipstad; Oslo;

    Abstract : Traces of industrialization can now be found in the ports of several coastal cities and have been gaining increasing focus in various planning discourses. The aim is to determine how to create better use of the land while weaving its existing qualities in as part of the existing cities, as the challenge in some of these transformation projects is that modern ports often have similar structures and cultural themes, regardless of the areas’ geographical locations and shapes. READ MORE

  5. 34. Kera-Plast : Exploring the plasticization of keratin-based fibers through compression molded human hair in relation to textile design methods

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

    Author : Romy Franziska Kaiser; [2020]
    Keywords : Compression Molding; Plasticization; Keratin Fiber; Human Hair; Textile Design Methods; Textile Thinking; Textile Activism;

    Abstract : The project Kera-Plast aims to re-loop humans and nature by questioning the current systems and ethics through materiality. Human hair, currently considered as waste, functions as the base for the material exploration fabricated through thermo-compression molding. READ MORE

  6. 35. This Devious Subject - about the future of this earthly life, my constructive failure to locate myself, and my being as a relationality of subjectivity, discourse and materiality

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper

    Author : Lovisa Sallén; [2019-10-10]
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    Abstract : Through articulating what I call my weave of understanding, in this thesis I aspire to come to a new understanding of the relation between materiality, discourse and ubjectivity as with my being composing a relationality that figures me a movement in and of the world. Inspired by Arendt’s concept of weaving in combination with Bakhtin’s notion of polyphony and what I call sympathetic reading as my method I interpret and entangle notions from Foucault, Butler, Spivak, Irigaray, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida, hooks, Bhabha and Barad into what I call my weave of understanding. READ MORE