Essays about: "estrangement"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 15 essays containing the word estrangement.

  1. 6. Estranger Around Us

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Paria Shoaei; [2021]
    Keywords : Estrangement; Displacement; Culture; Defamiliarization; Fragmentation; Intersection; social sustainability;

    Abstract : My thesis project is attempting to investigate the notion of estrangement as a qualitative effect and discover various strategies and technics of estrangement in the field of architecture.These investigations will aim to design a cultural center as an institute for discovering more about the displaced situation of mankind in the twenty-first century, producing a defamiliarized aesthetic that is both alien and strangely contextual to our new cultural identity which embraces the concepts of disorientation and otherness. READ MORE

  3. 7. Seeing feelingly through the Feet : A Design Space for Microopportunities

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS)

    Author : Karolin Valaszkai; [2021]
    Keywords : Author Keywords feet; body awareness; autobiographical design; soma design; micro-opportunities; rituals;

    Abstract : The thesis consists of autobiographical soma research-oriented design for bringing somatic attention to the feet by the concept of micro-opportunities embedded in external artifacts to defamiliarize experiences. There is a growing body of work within the HCI community reporting on pressure-sensitive prototypes for raising bodily awareness alongside heat as a positive embodied response. READ MORE

  4. 8. Infinite surface : An extended reflection on the estrangement of the modern subject

    University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studier

    Author : Mohammad Munib Rehman; [2020]
    Keywords : modernity; estrangement; urban; culture; aesthetics;

    Abstract :   This work is a string of essays that aesthetically frames estrangement as the quintessential experience of modern culture. Accordingly, detachment and distance are themes that persist throughout these essays. They weave their way through the cultural, social, psychological, and spatial dimensions of modern life, but at a tentative remove. READ MORE

  5. 9. CROSSING BORDERS: A Study of Transnational Living in Taiye Selasi’s Ghana Must Go (2014) and No Violet Bulawayo’s We Need New Names (2014)

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Ingegerd Stenport; [2019-10-22]
    Keywords : Taye Selasi; No Violet Bulawayo; Sara Ahmed; Afropoitanism;

    Abstract : Abstract: A number of authors of African descent published ‘Afropolitan’ novels around the year 2010. Several of these diaspora novels dominated the literary scene and caused intense debates about the contested concept of Afropolitanism. The authors Taye Selasi and No Violet Bulawayo challenge colonial images of Africa in their writing. READ MORE

  6. 10. A proposed technique for ideation through artifact shape deviations

    University essay from Södertörns högskola/Medieteknik

    Author : Oliver Träff; [2019]
    Keywords : Ideation; generative design; estrangement; creativity; mixed-initiative systems;

    Abstract : This paper proposes a new ideation technique for how to ideate using sketching and a generative design system based prototype tool. The technique is aimed to support ideation through the exploration of design shape deviations. The tool generates 3D model artifacts with variations in their shapes. READ MORE