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  1. 1. Othering Heights : A critical urban approach to the narratives embedding the proposed Österskans development in Halmstad, Sweden

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Institutionen för Urbana Studier (US)

    Author : Anna Stohr; [2022]
    Keywords : Urban studies; conviviality; convivial urbanism; Halmstad; Österskans; Sweden; critical urbanism; socio-spatialisation; placemaking; urban design; social sustainability; the built environment; segregation; urbanisation; public space; cityscape; neoliberal planning; densification; social mobility; spatial theory; uneven geographical development; the right to the city; David Harvey; thinking spatially; discourse;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the proposed Österskans development in Halmstad, Sweden from the approach of critical urbanism. With a steady increase of population growth for the past decades and despite the income level of the municipality's population being above the national average - the socio-economic segregation in Halmstad is prevalent. READ MORE

  3. 2. COMPUTATIONAL THINKING FOR ADULTS- DESIGNING AN IMMERSIVE MULTI-MODAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE USING MIXED REALITY

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Lenard George; [2018]
    Keywords : Mixed Reality; Interaction design; Computational thinking; Spatially Augmented Reality;

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  4. 3. The Workers of Society – the Artist, the Housewife and the Nun : A Feminist Marxist Analysis on the Intersections of Art, Care Work and Social Struggles

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

    Author : Airi Triisberg; [2015]
    Keywords : Art workers; domestic and care work; precarious labour; social struggles; autonomist feminist Marxism;

    Abstract : What do art workers, nuns and care workers have in common? How can these commonalities be conceptualised from the perspective of feminist Marxism? How would such conceptualisation open up intersectional and transversal perspectives for social movements struggling against precariousness? Departing from an auto-ethnographic account on activist experiences originating from the art workers’ movement in Tallinn, this thesis aims to theorise the intersection of precarious labour and gender. By using the thinking technology of diffractive reading, it places the debates around unwaged labour within art and care sector into the context of autonomist Marxist thinking. READ MORE

  5. 4. Går det att planera för anpassning till förändringar i det urbana landskapet? - i så fall, hur?

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Elin Holgérus; [2013]
    Keywords : förändringar; resiliens; socio-ekologiska system; stadsplanering; planering; planeringsverktyg; hållbarhet; långsiktighet;

    Abstract : Vi lever i en föränderlig värld vilket ger både möjligheter och utmaningar när det gäller att planera inför framtiden. Vägen dit är inte någon linjär ekvation och för att hantera denna ovisshet krävs stor respekt och anpassning till dynamik och föränderlighet. READ MORE

  6. 5. Extending geographic information systems to urban morphological analysis with a space syntax approach

    University essay from Avdelningen för Industriell utveckling, IT och Samhällsbyggnad

    Author : Mian Wang; [2012]
    Keywords : geographic information systems; space syntax; Axwoman; axial lines; scaling analysis; topological scaling analysis;

    Abstract : Branches of complexity theory have been widely employed in geographic information systems (GIS) to explore phenomena that appear in urban environments. Among these, space syntax, as an urban morphological application of complexity theory, has attracted increasing attention in recent years. READ MORE