Essays about: "material connotations"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 23 essays containing the words material connotations.
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11. Light and Paint:perceptual and emotional effects on space and humans
University essay from KTH/LjusdesignAbstract : In 21st century Scandinavia, the use of colored paint in the built environment has decreasedconsiderably. Instead, color changing LEDs can be found in many homes. In this thesis, an experimentwas set up to investigate how these two coloring methods differ and coincide with regards toemotional response and perception of materiality. READ MORE
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12. write drunk/edit sober
University essay from Högskolan i Borås/Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomiAbstract : This work starts with a simple question of ; Why not to draw the garment directly on the body since this is the way it will inevitably be worn? Working through steps; wrapping into a fabric and drawing the garment on the body to reveal lines for constructing that is directly based on the body, this work shows an alternative way of constructing a garment; the result that is presented can be seen as a base for further development within the field this method has explored. Further, the work challenges the current norms in archetypical garments with the intention to redefine their expression, where the methods aim is to broaden the field of garment construction, investigating the gap between construction lines and material expectations. READ MORE
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13. Good cop, bad cop? : A corpus analysis on the semantic prosody of the noun cop
University essay from Karlstads universitet/Fakulteten för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap (from 2013)Abstract : The public opinion on the favourability towards the police varies greatly in the different populations in the United States. This is a corpus linguistic study that investigates a possible change in semantic prosody of the word cop. READ MORE
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14. Quest of Debris
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : What happens if you never clear the drawing board? If nothing really should be abandoned, what will that mean? Spoiled material, ideas, fragments, duplicates, rubber marks, traces, what are they and how do they affect and interact in architectural processes? What are the patterns, measurements, lines, tectonics of the discarded? And is there, so to speak, a "dark" architecture, a reflection or a shadow of the wanted? Or as Kelley points out in Le Va’s scatter pieces, an anti-architecture. What if I could flip that anti-architecture, into a architecture, what would that mean and what would that look like? . READ MORE
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15. Cars and Environmental Values : A Rhetoric and Semiotics Analysis of How Environmental CSR values are communicated on webpages at General Motors, Hyundai and Volkswagen
University essay fromAbstract : This study is performed by conducting a rhetoric and semiotics analysis on the ‘About Us’-section of the webpages of General Motors, Hyundai and Volkswagen with the aim of finding how the companies used environmental values in their marketing communication. The interest in the topic is a consequence of the challenge that the car industry is facing, to increase their environmental activities in order to please the public as well as the costumers. READ MORE
