Essays about: "chaos"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 141 essays containing the word chaos.

  1. 6. Floating Thresholds – On the Idea of the Portal in Architecture

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Ivan Grelz; [2023]
    Keywords : Portal; Gate; Architecture; Theory; Threshold; Liminal; Nature; Myth; Ritual; Speed; Depth;

    Abstract : This project investigates a specific concept within architecture: the portal. Divided into eight independent chapters, all possible to read as stand-alone parts, the thesis – a hybrid essay consisting of text, images, drawings and models – uses the portal as a springboard, or tool, for approaching existing theories on the invisible forces that shape the world and our built environment. READ MORE

  3. 7. The Enlightenment Travels North : The ideology and practice in parish descriptions in early modern Norrland

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Historiska institutionen

    Author : Johan Persson; [2023]
    Keywords : Swedish Enlightenment; Enlightenment; topographical literature; parish descriptions; Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers; travel journals; Norrland; science in practice; superstitions; slumbering riches; imperial gaze; Northern Sweden; Medelpad; Ångermanland; Åsele Lappmark;

    Abstract : This thesis is a study of factory owner Abraham Abrahamson Hülphers’s collections of parish description about the parishes in Norrland, more specifically those about Medelpad and Ångermanland. The thesis seeks to explain how Hülphers’s collections were created in practice while also presenting the descriptions content and analysing the ideology it reproduced. READ MORE

  4. 8. Imagining Arms : Rationality and the Sociotechnical Imaginary of Swedish Defense Requirements Engineering

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : John Welsh; [2023]
    Keywords : Requirements Engineering; Rationality; Science and Technology Studies; Sociotechnical Imaginaries; Defense Systems;

    Abstract : Despite significant efforts at improving requirements engineering in the development of military systems, defense procurement is still plagued by expensive, well-publicized failures. Central to requirements engineering is the concept of rationality – more reason is assumed to eventually ‘solve’ the problem of defense requirements engineering. READ MORE

  5. 9. Line vs Void

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/HDK-Valand - Högskolan för konst och design

    Author : Terese Molin; [2023]
    Keywords : abstract art; colour; gradient; materiality; lines; line; minimalism; monochrome; philosophy; tapestry; textile; visual art; warp; weft; weave; Konstnärligt masterprogram i konsthantverk; Textilkonst;

    Abstract : Line vs Void explores abstraction through weaving, it delves into the woven monochrome, and by doing so, emphasizes the narrative that emerges from plain colour and texture. The written part summarises ideas that are intertwined with the physical work of the project; A series of (four) woven images. READ MORE

  6. 10. Colonial Tendencies of Voluntourism: A Postcolonial Analysis of Weltwärts Testimonials

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Sociologi

    Author : Amelie Aue; [2023]
    Keywords : Voluntourism; Weltwärts; Development; Postcolonial Theory; Coloniality of Power; Orientalism; white Saviorism; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Voluntourism is often described as a sustainable development strategy facilitating Global Learning and cross-cultural exchange. Initiated by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), the voluntourism program Weltwärts strives to create stronger international partnerships, development engagement, and equitable encounters. READ MORE