Essays about: "aesthetic medium"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words aesthetic medium.

  1. 1. Teamwork makes the Theme work : A qualitative study on theming and performative labour as a differentiation strategy on SME Cafés in Sweden

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för marknadsföring och turismvetenskap (MTS)

    Author : Zeeb Hala; To Quan Luu; [2023]
    Keywords : servicescape; theming; theme; performative labour; aesthetic labour; emotional labour; interaction; teamwork; café; coffee shop; differentiation; differentiation strategy; Disneyization; SME;

    Abstract : Servicescape is a physical setting where the performance, delivery and consumption are exchanged within a service marketplace. It includes sensory components, such as the theme of the place that has a high impact on customer perceptions and purchasing decisions and providing them with extraordinary experiences (Pine and Gilmore, 1999; Zeithaml, Bitner and Gremler, 2009). READ MORE

  3. 2. Lost in translation : investigating challenges of picturing landscape experience

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

    Author : Rasmus Rinaldo; [2023]
    Keywords : Landscape representation; visualization; digital pictures; aesthetic experience; arts-based method;

    Abstract : The versatile qualities of the drawing medium, from analogue sketches to digital production, makes visual depiction a much used tool in architecture and design because of its ability to communicate ideas, proposals and visions. However, depicting landscape experiences in a picture is claimed to be difficult. READ MORE

  4. 3. Global Cultures – Critical Zone Observatories of Everyday Objects : (A Global Environmental History of Yogurt)

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

    Author : Leni Charbonneau; [2022]
    Keywords : yogurt; biofilm; critical zone observatory; microbiopolitics; probiotic; microbial biodiversity; new materialism; OOO;

    Abstract : This study turns to what is for many an everyday item – yogurt – as a critical zone observatory, a synergistic, place-based laboratory which aims to integrate heterogenous representations of planetary phenomena as they are registered at a common surface. Yogurt has an impressive cultural endurance largely derived from its prominence in various paradigms of health. READ MORE

  5. 4. Too close for comfort : Finding positive aesthetic value in the uncanny valley

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Avdelningen för estetik

    Author : Isabella Svensk; [2022]
    Keywords : The uncanny valley; Masahiro Mori; CGI; 3D animation; Aesthetics;

    Abstract : The goal of this paper is to create a positive account of Masahiro Mori’s theory of the uncanny valley. A theory wherein Mori speculated on the relationship between one’s perceived affinity for a robot and the human-likeness of that same robot. READ MORE

  6. 5. To portray the beautiful, exotic and feminine land of cheap export : How Sweden imagined Japan during Japonism, from 1858 to 1914

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Hugo Ingemarsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Japan studies; image of Japan; Japonisme; Sweden; Orientalism; Ethnocentrism; Colonialism; digital archives; Julia Beck; Richard Bergh; Leander Engström; Gustavsberg; Einar Jolin; Nils Kreuger; Carl Larsson; Karl Nordström; Jenny Nyström; Helmer Osslund; Rörstrand; Alf Wallander; Carl Wilhelmson; Anders Zorn;

    Abstract : This master thesis explores the image of Japan in the artistic creations during Japonism in Sweden. Japan and Sweden first started trading in 1868 and knowledge about Japan in Sweden were limited at best. With the emergence of the Western art movement known as Japonism, ranging from 1858 to 1914, fascination for the unknown country grew in Europe. READ MORE