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This research is investigating how one can use narrative tools in the field of interior architecture. Its projects explore different approaches of communicating about and with interiors. Communications, imaginable in the form of conversations, which can take place between the interiors, the interior architects and the users. It’s about learning from an existing space. A knowledge I think we should have before we start to change it. A knowledge that can lead to a deeper understanding and respect towards the interiors and their previous history. It’s about expanding the interior architect’s toolbox with narrative tools. Tools we can use on our own but also in form of workshops, involving the users. It’s about an additional type of understanding of interiors. An understanding that goes beyond the materials, colours, forms and objects it is composed of. It’s about the stories and characters behind the interiors, the narratives. / <p>The full thesis contains copyrighted material which has been removed in the published version.</p>

<p>Software patterns have been proven as a valuable way to storing a repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A pattern is not a finished design that can be directly formed into program code; instead it is a description how to solve a problem that may occur in many situations.</p><p>In the ontology community very little research have been made in producing high-level patterns where the solution shows how an architecture of an ontology based software might look like.</p><p>In this thesis the results of examining how high-level patterns of this type relates to other types of patterns are given and how these patterns would be described are formulated.</p>

A renewed merging of art and design accompanied by the inflation of design in relation to art has been increasingly noted by writers since the 1990s. Some critics and artists such as Dan Graham have celebrated this phenomenon as a critical opportunity; others such as art historian and critic Hal Foster have criticized the trend as a catastrophic loss of the limits required for liberal subjectivity. In the first chapter, I consider Graham's position as outlined in "Art as Design/Design as Art" (1986) and contrast it with Hal Foster's argument as presented in "Design and Crime" (2002). While the writers share some points of reference, it becomes clear that the two texts are based on different critical models. My second and third chapters present case studies of works often considered to be part of the "design art" trend. At either end of the 1990s, Dia Center for the Arts realized large-scale projects: Dan Graham's Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon: Rooftop Urban Park Project for Dia Arts Center (1981- 1991) and Jorge Pardo's Project (1998-2000). Both works fit the profile of art projects that make use of the modes and methods of the fields of architecture and design. My study considers how each project related to its art institutional site, to the greater art historical and contemporary context and to changes in social, political and cultural conditions that unfolded during the 1990s. My third chapter considers works by Andrea Zittel, an artist also often discussed in terms of design, architecture and life style. While Zittel's "critical optimism" offers promise, there are some critical failings of her project. I analyze some of the problems presented by Zittel's works in relation to comparable projects by Dan Graham and Jorge Pardo. These projects question, but also contribute to, the overvaluation of design that accompanies the contemporary phenomenon of obsession with styling self.

A renewed merging of art and design accompanied by the inflation of design in relation to art has been increasingly noted by writers since the 1990s. Some critics and artists such as Dan Graham have celebrated this phenomenon as a critical opportunity; others such as art historian and critic Hal Foster have criticized the trend as a catastrophic loss of the limits required for liberal subjectivity. In the first chapter, I consider Graham's position as outlined in "Art as Design/Design as Art" (1986) and contrast it with Hal Foster's argument as presented in "Design and Crime" (2002). While the writers share some points of reference, it becomes clear that the two texts are based on different critical models. My second and third chapters present case studies of works often considered to be part of the "design art" trend. At either end of the 1990s, Dia Center for the Arts realized large-scale projects: Dan Graham's Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon: Rooftop Urban Park Project for Dia Arts Center (1981- 1991) and Jorge Pardo's Project (1998-2000). Both works fit the profile of art projects that make use of the modes and methods of the fields of architecture and design. My study considers how each project related to its art institutional site, to the greater art historical and contemporary context and to changes in social, political and cultural conditions that unfolded during the 1990s. My third chapter considers works by Andrea Zittel, an artist also often discussed in terms of design, architecture and life style. While Zittel's "critical optimism" offers promise, there are some critical failings of her project. I analyze some of the problems presented by Zittel's works in relation to comparable projects by Dan Graham and Jorge Pardo. These projects question, but also contribute to, the overvaluation of design that accompanies the contemporary phenomenon of obsession with styling self.

A renewed merging of art and design accompanied by the inflation of design in relation to art has been increasingly noted by writers since the 1990s. Some critics and artists such as Dan Graham have celebrated this phenomenon as a critical opportunity; others such as art historian and critic Hal Foster have criticized the trend as a catastrophic loss of the limits required for liberal subjectivity. In the first chapter, I consider Graham's position as outlined in "Art as Design/Design as Art" (1986) and contrast it with Hal Foster's argument as presented in "Design and Crime" (2002). While the writers share some points of reference, it becomes clear that the two texts are based on different critical models. My second and third chapters present case studies of works often considered to be part of the "design art" trend. At either end of the 1990s, Dia Center for the Arts realized large-scale projects: Dan Graham's Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon: Rooftop Urban Park Project for Dia Arts Center (1981- 1991) and Jorge Pardo's Project (1998-2000). Both works fit the profile of art projects that make use of the modes and methods of the fields of architecture and design. My study considers how each project related to its art institutional site, to the greater art historical and contemporary context and to changes in social, political and cultural conditions that unfolded during the 1990s. My third chapter considers works by Andrea Zittel, an artist also often discussed in terms of design, architecture and life style. While Zittel's "critical optimism" offers promise, there are some critical failings of her project. I analyze some of the problems presented by Zittel's works in relation to comparable projects by Dan Graham and Jorge Pardo. These projects question, but also contribute to, the overvaluation of design that accompanies the contemporary phenomenon of obsession with styling self. / Arts, Faculty of / Art History, Visual Art and Theory, Department of / Graduate

Software patterns have been proven as a valuable way to storing a repeatable solution to a commonly occurring problem in software design. A pattern is not a finished design that can be directly formed into program code; instead it is a description how to solve a problem that may occur in many situations. In the ontology community very little research have been made in producing high-level patterns where the solution shows how an architecture of an ontology based software might look like. In this thesis the results of examining how high-level patterns of this type relates to other types of patterns are given and how these patterns would be described are formulated.

O presente trabalho se dedica ao estudo do mobiliário presente nas casas dos povoados de Minas Gerais no século XVIII e início do XIX, entendendo-o como um dos principais elementos para a compreensão da dinâmica dos interiores residenciais e também tomando-o como parte integrante de uma complexa rede de relações, dadas as suas implicações na história social e da \"cultura material\". Deste modo, busca-se analisar os móveis, para além das classificações e descrições estilísticas, com o intuito de aprofundar o entendimento de seus usos e funções e em relação aos ambientes nos quais estes se inseriam, procurando-se também abordar questões relativas às características recorrentes ou particularidades tidas como de produção mineira. Para se cumprir tal objetivo, recorreu-se não apenas à bibliografia de referência mas também a textos coevos e fontes primárias disponíveis em diversos acervos e museus. Do cruzamento de tais informações se buscou estabelecer um diálogo vivo que permite lançar luz sobre importantes mudanças concernentes à vida privada no contexto da América portuguesa no decorrer dos Setecentos e princípio dos Oitocentos, assim como sobre a importância do reconhecimento das especificidades desenvolvidas no ambiente de produção artística e moveleira mineira e de seus condicionantes, questões que apontam ainda outras possibilidades de estudos acerca do móvel em uso na região mineira no século XVIII e início do XIX. / The current work is dedicated to the study of the furniture in the houses of Minas Gerais\' Villages in the 18th and early 19th centuries; understanding it as one of the main elements in the comprehension of the residential interior\'s dynamic. It has also been taken as a part of a complex net of relations, given its implications in the social and \"material culture\" history. Therefore, this study\'s aim is to analyze the furniture beyond the classifications and stylistic descriptions, with the intention of deepening the understanding of its uses and functions in relation to the environment in which the pieces were inserted; as well as approaching matters related to the recurrent characteristics or peculiarities seen as a Minas Gerais\' production. To fulfill such goal, in addition to reference bibliography, coeval texts and primary sources, which are available in several collections and museums, were consulted. By interweaving such information, it was sought to establish a living dialogue which allows light to be shed on important changes regarding the private life in the Portuguese-America\'s context throughout the 700\'s and early 800\'s, as well as on the importance of recognizing the specificities developed in the artistic and furniture production environment in Minas Gerais; issues that point out even more possibilities of study concerning the furniture used in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century in the studied region.

O presente trabalho se dedica ao estudo do mobiliário presente nas casas dos povoados de Minas Gerais no século XVIII e início do XIX, entendendo-o como um dos principais elementos para a compreensão da dinâmica dos interiores residenciais e também tomando-o como parte integrante de uma complexa rede de relações, dadas as suas implicações na história social e da \"cultura material\". Deste modo, busca-se analisar os móveis, para além das classificações e descrições estilísticas, com o intuito de aprofundar o entendimento de seus usos e funções e em relação aos ambientes nos quais estes se inseriam, procurando-se também abordar questões relativas às características recorrentes ou particularidades tidas como de produção mineira. Para se cumprir tal objetivo, recorreu-se não apenas à bibliografia de referência mas também a textos coevos e fontes primárias disponíveis em diversos acervos e museus. Do cruzamento de tais informações se buscou estabelecer um diálogo vivo que permite lançar luz sobre importantes mudanças concernentes à vida privada no contexto da América portuguesa no decorrer dos Setecentos e princípio dos Oitocentos, assim como sobre a importância do reconhecimento das especificidades desenvolvidas no ambiente de produção artística e moveleira mineira e de seus condicionantes, questões que apontam ainda outras possibilidades de estudos acerca do móvel em uso na região mineira no século XVIII e início do XIX. / The current work is dedicated to the study of the furniture in the houses of Minas Gerais\' Villages in the 18th and early 19th centuries; understanding it as one of the main elements in the comprehension of the residential interior\'s dynamic. It has also been taken as a part of a complex net of relations, given its implications in the social and \"material culture\" history. Therefore, this study\'s aim is to analyze the furniture beyond the classifications and stylistic descriptions, with the intention of deepening the understanding of its uses and functions in relation to the environment in which the pieces were inserted; as well as approaching matters related to the recurrent characteristics or peculiarities seen as a Minas Gerais\' production. To fulfill such goal, in addition to reference bibliography, coeval texts and primary sources, which are available in several collections and museums, were consulted. By interweaving such information, it was sought to establish a living dialogue which allows light to be shed on important changes regarding the private life in the Portuguese-America\'s context throughout the 700\'s and early 800\'s, as well as on the importance of recognizing the specificities developed in the artistic and furniture production environment in Minas Gerais; issues that point out even more possibilities of study concerning the furniture used in the Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century in the studied region.

In this Master thesis a new framework for achieving fault tolerance in mechatronic systems is studied. The framework is called service-based fault tolerant control and has the advantage of being completely decentralized and modular and therefore scales very well to large system sizes. First, a method is presented for designing the signal-flow architecture of mechatronic systems of real-life size and complexity. The result is a small set of generic building blocks in the form of design patterns, a concept that has gained widespread popularity in the field of software architecture. Best practises are then established for how each of the design patterns can be extended to support fault tolerance through diagnosis and reconfiguration according to the service-based framework. These extended design patterns can be used either to aid in the construction of new and more complex mechatronic systems or as a methodology for applying service-based fault tolerant control on large existing systems. The presented methods for designing and modelling large-scale mechatronic systems have the advantages of being applicable to a large class of mechatronic systems, being easy to apply without expert knowledge, as well as having the potential for being automated in the future. Finally, a case-study demonstrates how the new methods can be used to construct a fault tolerance architecture for a real-life automotive system currently used by Scania CV AB. As a part of this study a mathematical model for the system was also constructed and implemented. The model can be used for analysis during the development phase as well as troubleshooting in a repair workshop.