The thesis sets out to examine a digitization project of an obsolete art database that was issued by the Finnish joint municipal authority Finlands Svenska Förbund för Utbildning och Kultur (SÖFUK) and KulturÖsterbotten through questions on obsolescence, the reasoning behind using an obsolete database for so long, elements that characterize digitization work in municipal settings and the challenges such a project brings forth. The SÖFUK art database functions as a case study that is being examined through action research supported by previous research on obsolescence and the different approaches to digitization within the humanities; mass, critical, and slow digitization. The goal of the digitization project is to transfer the data from the old MS Access 97 art database to the modern solution Katalogen, and to take new photographs of the artworks because of their unfavourable quality. The goal is hence to digitize the art database anew. The steps taken to digitize the art database are described throughout the digitization process. With the help of a constructed analytical tool supported by previous research on obsolescence, the old art database is analyzed and discussed to answer the question on which types of obsolescence that could be found regarding the database. The thesis is also supported by previous research on the digitization approaches mass, critical and slow digitization, with slow digitization being the favoured approach for the nature of this digitization project. The results show that various findings of obsolescence could be noted in the old art database. Elements of digitization in municipalities can be linked to communication, time management and cooperation. The challenges vary from light being reflected in plexiglass while photographing to difficulties localizing artworks in the municipalities. Why the obsolete art database was used for so long by SÖFUK and KulturÖsterbotten was that an external resource was needed to do the tedious work of localizing the artworks and travel to the fourteen municipalities to photograph each artwork.

Immersive media (IM) is a class of technologies that aim to create an immersive environment for viewers, such as virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), mixed reality (MR or XR), and 360° or panoramic projection installations. The preservation of immersive media is a growing field of research and practice, whether for historical reference of these technologies, or for re-exhibition of artistic/creative works. IM benefits from existing strategies developed for preservation of complex digital and physical media such as software-based art and installation artworks, but the unique characteristics of IM lead to unique preservation needs. Exploring how these needs may be met through expanded documentation and cataloging practices prompts reflection on how such changes could set larger institutional shifts into motion.

En 2015, j’ai mené une enquête de terrain sur les routes de Compostelle. Inspiré de l’héritage théorique de Victor Turner, l’extraquotidienneté liminaire du pèlerinage de Compostelle est envisagé comme voie d’accès pour comprendre le quotidien normal des pèlerins. Le choix d’étudier l’extraquotidienneté se justifie par son rapport d’interdépendance à l’égard du quotidien. En effet, le pèlerinage est un état de passage où se joue une crise qui tire son origine au sein même du quotidien normal. À la suite des entrevues et observations menées, un dénominateur commun semble caractériser l’expérience pèlerine : l’impression de se sentir « ici et maintenant ». L’impressionnante recrudescence de l’affluence pèlerine sur les routes jacquaires, à une époque où les rites se sécularisent et s’individualisent, soulève deux interrogations déterminantes. Si les rites sont effectivement des soupapes de sécurité de la structure sociale quotidienne, de quelle crise témoigne cette recrudescence? De plus, quels attraits propres au pèlerinage de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle justifient un accroissement marqué de son affluence? Dans ce mémoire, il est démontré les conditions selon lesquelles le pèlerinage de Compostelle s’établit en tant qu’anti-structure extraquotidienne. Je trace ensuite le portrait des étapes que franchissent les pèlerins qui entament le périple : la séparation, la crise, l’adaptation et la communitas. Nous verrons que ledit sentiment de présence témoigne de l’atteinte du seuil de la communitas. Afin d’expliquer le sentiment de présence, j’ai recours au concept de flow élaboré par Csikszentmihalyi. Selon Csikszentmihalyi, l’expérience du flow s’accompagne d’une impression d’être présent « ici et maintenant ». Nous verrons que l’expérience extraquotidienne du pèlerinage favorise le flow. À l’opposé, je défends la thèse selon laquelle les processus au cœur de l’accélération sociale font obstacle au flow, notamment : l’incessante obsolescence des pratiques et savoirs à l’ère de l’information et l’altération des perceptions induite par les technologies, et particulièrement le numérique. / In 2015, I conducted fieldwork on St. James Way. As is demonstrated by Victor Turner’s theoretical work, it is this paper’s belief that liminal phenomena, that are manifested during rites of passage such as St. James Way, provide precious insight into the daily life from which it arises from, namely, social structure. The study of extraordinary temporality here is justified thus, by its interdependence to daily life. In fact, liminal phenomena are known to frame crises in daily life. Results of the fieldwork conducted on St. James Way’s extraordinary temporality led to the observation that the impression of ‘being in the moment’ is a prevalent theme amongst pilgrims. The impressive upsurge of pilgrims walking the paths to Santiago, at a time of secularization and individualization, raises questions. If rites of passage are indeed mechanism acting like pressure releasing valve, to which crisis do they owe this surge? Secondly, which aspects of this pilgrimage explain its current appeal? First, it will be argued that St. James Way’s pilgrimage establishes itself as an anti-structure, or put otherwise, an extraordinary temporality. For the purpose of this demonstration, an overview of the stages pilgrims go through will be presented, namely: separation, crisis, adaptation and communitas. Furthermore, we will see that the impression of being in the moment marks the threshold of the communitas. To explain this ‘impression’, this paper invokes a psychological perspective that St. James Way delivers a proper experience of flow. According to Csikszentmihalyi, the flow is known to trigger a feeling of ‘being in the moment’. On the contrary, this research supports the thesis that the structure of daily life fails to deliver an equally optimal experience. Therefore, this paper investigates the processes through which the society of acceleration hinders the experience of flow. Among these processes, emphasis is given here to the impending obsolescence of knowledge in the age of information technology and the altered perception induced by technologies, more specifically, digital devices.

Designing Resilient Distributed embedded Systems is a challenging task. One of the design issues is to guarantee correct behavior of the system during the runtime. It demands verification that information propagated through the system is reliable. The goal of this thesis is a research and implementation of an analysis that should identify obsolescence of variables due to delays caused by scheduling and communication in real-time systems. Analysis will be designed for Ensemble-Based Component System (EBCS) semantics because it enables precise specification and analysis of important properties. The main problem is to find a suitable input model of the analysis and find its possible limits. Effort should be put in balancing between the level of abstraction given to a RDS developer and power of the analysis itself. The main benefit of the analysis will be detection of situations in which data processed in RDS are outdated and can cause incorrect behavior of particular components.

La situation des langues régionales pose aujourd’hui de nombreuses questions, et particulièrement dans des zones linguistiques charnières et transitoires, telles que le département de la Drôme. À l’épreuve du contact de deux domaines linguistiques gallo-romans, l’occitan et le francoprovençal mais également à celui du français, la Drôme est un territoire riche de sa pluralité, tant linguistique que culturelle. Pourtant, à l’heure où la transmission familiale et les pratiques de l’occitan deviennent sporadiques et isolées, il était nécessaire d’établir un état des lieux général de la langue au sein des institutions, scolaires notamment, mais également au sein de la communauté linguistique. Identifier les divers profils de locuteurs, estimer la vitalité des pratiques, évaluer le changement linguistique et faire émerger les représentations linguistiques ont ainsi permis d’exposer une image globale du département. À l’image du territoire, le visage linguistique de la Drôme est tout aussi complexe et pluriel : entre conflits d’identités, de langues et volontés de sauvegarde par l’enseignement. / Nowadays the situation of regional languages raises many questions and more particularly in border and transiting linguistic areas such as the Drôme area. Being in contact with two Gallo-Roman linguistic estates, the Occitan and the Franco-Provencal but also with the French language, Drôme territory is rich from its plurality, both linguistic and cultural. Though at a time when family transmission and use of Occitan has become sporadic and isolated, it is necessary to draw out an overall state of the art of the language within institutions, especially at schools, but also within the linguistic community. Identifying the speakers’ various profiles, measuring the liveliness of the language use, evaluating linguistic shifts and bringing out the linguistic representations did set out a holistic picture of the area. The linguistic representation of the Drôme area is just the same as the territory itself, as complex and manifold: with both an identity and language encounter and the desire to save it through teaching.

This thesis takes a deeper look into customer behaviours when it comes to buying new mobile phones. We take a look at four main types of planned obsolescence we’ve found, which include: economic obsolescence, obsolescence of function, obsolescence of desirability and obsolescence of quality. With a questionnaire and focus group study we try to find out the underlying reasons why users buy new phones while their old ones are still functional. Since this is not a new subject, we try to map the problems we encounter in our study to the four already defined forms described above, and we try to see if there are other forms that are not yet defined. What we found out was that these four categories hold up very well, but are not as separate as one would have thought when reading. While we find out many reasons why people change their phones we do not offer a solution. But we do offer a better understanding of the problem and hope the consumer will take part of the knowledge.

Esse estudo aborda conceitos e obras que inter-relacionam teoria e prática no processo de criação do projeto “algum pequeno oásis de fatalidade, perdido num deserto de erros”, ligada à minha pesquisa de mestrado em Poéticas Visuais, na qual exploro arquivos digitais pessoais e suas implicações nas esferas públicas e privadas através da apropriação de discos rígidos descartados como sucata. O método para criação dessa série de trabalhos foi a de busca, recuperação, compilação e criação de experimentos; busca de HDs descartados como lixo eletrônico, recuperação e compilação de imagens em coleções (catálogos visuais) e criação de experimentos audiovisuais como instalações, websites e livros de artista. As experiências realizadas evocam questões e reflexões sobre pautas do cotidiano contemporâneo como o arquivamento; a privacidade e a vigilância das imagens no ambiente digital/virtual; o excesso de produção visual a partir de dispositivos móveis, entre outros. Essa reflexão foi geradora de 3 encontros-oficinas de reflexão e produção dos quais resultaram a criação de 10 trabalhos colaborativos. Desse grupo de experimentos, 3 trabalhos foram selecionados por mim para serem criados em processo de coautoria. / This study approaches concepts and works that interrelate theory and practice in the process of creating the project “some little oasis of fatality amid a wilderness of error”, linked to my master degree research in Visual Poetry, in which I explore personal digital files and their implications in the public and private spheres through the appropriation of discards Hard Disks as e-waste. The method for creating this series of works was the search, recovery, compilation and creation of experiments; search for discards discarded as electronic waste, recovery and compilation of images in collections (visual catalogs) and creation of audiovisual experiments as installations, websites and artist books. The experiments carried out evoke questions and reflections on contemporary everyday routines such as archiving; privacy and image surveillance in the digital / virtual environment; the excess of visual production from mobile devices, among others. This reflection generated 3 meetings-workshops of reflection and production, which resulted in the creation of 10 collaborative works. From this group of experiments, 3 works were selected by me to be created in the process of co-authorship.

Urban highway infrastructure in North America has been singularly designed for the automobile, severing parts of the urban fabric, blighting our once-thriving city centres and resulting in spaces that are void of the human scale. The Cogswell Interchange in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada is such an infrastructure, cutting through the downtown core and heritage district. This thesis investigates the Cogswell Interchange in an attempt to animate and enliven a dead urban space, reducing traffic and bringing new activity and life to the street. Reappropriating parts of vehicular infrastructure for cyclist and pedestrian use and creating a variety of activities and programs (gallery, gym, restaurant, park) enables an increased connectivity for pedestrians and cyclists and brings a more human-scale urbanity to the site. The infrastructure itself becomes a framework upon which to build, revisioned as an active, vibrant place which people can experience with a renewed sense of wonder and appreciation.

Esse estudo aborda conceitos e obras que inter-relacionam teoria e prática no processo de criação do projeto “algum pequeno oásis de fatalidade, perdido num deserto de erros”, ligada à minha pesquisa de mestrado em Poéticas Visuais, na qual exploro arquivos digitais pessoais e suas implicações nas esferas públicas e privadas através da apropriação de discos rígidos descartados como sucata. O método para criação dessa série de trabalhos foi a de busca, recuperação, compilação e criação de experimentos; busca de HDs descartados como lixo eletrônico, recuperação e compilação de imagens em coleções (catálogos visuais) e criação de experimentos audiovisuais como instalações, websites e livros de artista. As experiências realizadas evocam questões e reflexões sobre pautas do cotidiano contemporâneo como o arquivamento; a privacidade e a vigilância das imagens no ambiente digital/virtual; o excesso de produção visual a partir de dispositivos móveis, entre outros. Essa reflexão foi geradora de 3 encontros-oficinas de reflexão e produção dos quais resultaram a criação de 10 trabalhos colaborativos. Desse grupo de experimentos, 3 trabalhos foram selecionados por mim para serem criados em processo de coautoria. / This study approaches concepts and works that interrelate theory and practice in the process of creating the project “some little oasis of fatality amid a wilderness of error”, linked to my master degree research in Visual Poetry, in which I explore personal digital files and their implications in the public and private spheres through the appropriation of discards Hard Disks as e-waste. The method for creating this series of works was the search, recovery, compilation and creation of experiments; search for discards discarded as electronic waste, recovery and compilation of images in collections (visual catalogs) and creation of audiovisual experiments as installations, websites and artist books. The experiments carried out evoke questions and reflections on contemporary everyday routines such as archiving; privacy and image surveillance in the digital / virtual environment; the excess of visual production from mobile devices, among others. This reflection generated 3 meetings-workshops of reflection and production, which resulted in the creation of 10 collaborative works. From this group of experiments, 3 works were selected by me to be created in the process of co-authorship.

Esse estudo aborda conceitos e obras que inter-relacionam teoria e prática no processo de criação do projeto “algum pequeno oásis de fatalidade, perdido num deserto de erros”, ligada à minha pesquisa de mestrado em Poéticas Visuais, na qual exploro arquivos digitais pessoais e suas implicações nas esferas públicas e privadas através da apropriação de discos rígidos descartados como sucata. O método para criação dessa série de trabalhos foi a de busca, recuperação, compilação e criação de experimentos; busca de HDs descartados como lixo eletrônico, recuperação e compilação de imagens em coleções (catálogos visuais) e criação de experimentos audiovisuais como instalações, websites e livros de artista. As experiências realizadas evocam questões e reflexões sobre pautas do cotidiano contemporâneo como o arquivamento; a privacidade e a vigilância das imagens no ambiente digital/virtual; o excesso de produção visual a partir de dispositivos móveis, entre outros. Essa reflexão foi geradora de 3 encontros-oficinas de reflexão e produção dos quais resultaram a criação de 10 trabalhos colaborativos. Desse grupo de experimentos, 3 trabalhos foram selecionados por mim para serem criados em processo de coautoria. / This study approaches concepts and works that interrelate theory and practice in the process of creating the project “some little oasis of fatality amid a wilderness of error”, linked to my master degree research in Visual Poetry, in which I explore personal digital files and their implications in the public and private spheres through the appropriation of discards Hard Disks as e-waste. The method for creating this series of works was the search, recovery, compilation and creation of experiments; search for discards discarded as electronic waste, recovery and compilation of images in collections (visual catalogs) and creation of audiovisual experiments as installations, websites and artist books. The experiments carried out evoke questions and reflections on contemporary everyday routines such as archiving; privacy and image surveillance in the digital / virtual environment; the excess of visual production from mobile devices, among others. This reflection generated 3 meetings-workshops of reflection and production, which resulted in the creation of 10 collaborative works. From this group of experiments, 3 works were selected by me to be created in the process of co-authorship.