Essays about: "environmental aesthetics"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 47 essays containing the words environmental aesthetics.
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1. Ethics over aesthetics - A content analysis on the inclusion of environmental ethics within the undergraduate architectural curriculum
University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för didaktik och pedagogisk professionAbstract : This document analysis study primarily investigates the inclusion of environmental ethics with an undergraduate architectural curriculum in Sweden. The curriculum documents analyzed in this study contain specific literature and objectives which primarily guide pedagogy both in theory and in the design studio. READ MORE
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2. Aesthetic Character of Landscape : A Cognitive Account
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Filosofiska institutionenAbstract : In this paper, I present a cognitive account of aesthetic character of landscape. I develop this in response to Emily Brady, who coined the term to refer to the aesthetic individuality of a landscape, which she argues we ought to conserve. READ MORE
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3. Clear as a Bell : A sensory and aesthetic history of timekeeping and eco-social relations in Uppsala and the world
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : Methods of timekeeping have changed drastically throughout history and especially in the last century, as has humanity’s relationship to nature. Building upon existing research into the history of clocks and clock-time this study sketches a long-term chronology with a novel environmental, sensory, and aesthetic analysis. READ MORE
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4. Cultural Sustainability : Influence of Traditional craft on Contemporary craft cross-culturally
University essay from Konstfack/TextilAbstract : Among the four dimensions of sustainability (environmental, economic, social, and cultural), it is the latter aspect that is least examined. However, understanding how culture contributes to the long-term sustainability of communities and societies is one key to a holistic understanding of sustainability itself, and further how it can impact the textile in different cultures. READ MORE
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5. Lost in translation : investigating challenges of picturing landscape experience
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : 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