Essays about: "space for action"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 217 essays containing the words space for action.

  1. 6. How to fail successfully: the struggles of PAR within academia

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Filosofiska fakulteten; Linköpings universitet/Tema Genus

    Author : Dimitra Moustaka; [2023]
    Keywords : Participatory action research PAR ; decolonial research; asylum interview; coloniality of the academy; intersectionality; self-reflectivity;

    Abstract : This research seeks to explore the origins and values of participatory action research, as well as its role in transforming possibilities to knowledge production and shaping equal relationships between research participants. Drawing from the theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and decoloniality and with a focus on the experience of the asylum interview, the research seeks to explore the ways that those epistemological paradigms intertwine with participatory research to deconstruct the dichotomy between researcher and research subject (expert/community) and re-balance the power differentials embedded within academia, canonical knowledge production and traditional research methodologies, to initiate change. READ MORE

  3. 7. PVCFA: Principal Variation Context Feature Attribution : Distributed Chess for Perturbation-based Saliency Maps

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

    Author : Marco Molinari; [2023]
    Keywords : Chess; Perturbation; Saliency maps; Multiagent; Reinforcement Learning; Schack; Perturbation; Saliency maps; Multiagent; Reinforcement Learning;

    Abstract : The research and development field of computer chess improved more in the last 5 years than in the whole history of computers. Unfortunately these unprecedented results comes with techniques that don’t leave much space to intuition and comprehensibility for humans. READ MORE

  4. 8. 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

  5. 9. ”Ja men jag tror att framtiden är fäbodbruk, fortfarande” : en kvalitativ intervjustudie om fäbodbrukets framtid

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

    Author : Tova Adrelius; [2023]
    Keywords : fäbodbruk; fäbodvall; kulturlandskap; drivkrafter;

    Abstract : Uppsatsens syfte är att undersöka dagens fäbodbruk, hur det upprätthålls och förs vidare till kommande generationer. Den undersöker även olika typer av mervärden som tillsätts fäbodbruket som praktik och själsligt rum, samt drivkrafter för att fortsätta bedriva fäbodbruk. READ MORE

  6. 10. Dynamic simulation of Swedish residential building renovations and its impact on the district heating network

    University essay from KTH/Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM)

    Author : Christopher Bay; Nicolás Pinzón Muñoz; [2023]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : As urbanization continues to rise, cities now account for two-thirds of the world's total energy consumption. The built environment alone contributes to 40% of total energy consumption and a third of total greenhouse gas emissions. With an additional 2. READ MORE