Echoes of Experience: The Narrative Forces of the Qu’Appelle Valley explores the possibility of playing on the picturesque notion of a ‘folly’ within this Southern Saskatchewan valley. By incorporating an understanding of the physical and narrative forces that have shaped the valley as both place and space, speculative interventions are proposed that generate an awareness of past conditions in order to provide some trace of those narratives within the future of the valley. This practicum endeavors to use landscape narrative inquiry as a tool that helps one to understand the landscape experience by harkening to the ‘echoes’ that beckon people to the Qu’Appelle Valley’s hills and lakes. The valley is a setting for exploration and for experience. Working within a narrative when designing allows those key experiences to be extracted, along with subsequent narratives, and developed into a three-dimensional space. This results in a meandering yet defined direction of thought and reflection during the course of design. By revealing what was once previously hidden within the landscape, the spirit of place reemerges, and the new design becomes integral in the experience and understanding of self and of place.

Echoes of Experience: The Narrative Forces of the Qu’Appelle Valley explores the possibility of playing on the picturesque notion of a ‘folly’ within this Southern Saskatchewan valley. By incorporating an understanding of the physical and narrative forces that have shaped the valley as both place and space, speculative interventions are proposed that generate an awareness of past conditions in order to provide some trace of those narratives within the future of the valley. This practicum endeavors to use landscape narrative inquiry as a tool that helps one to understand the landscape experience by harkening to the ‘echoes’ that beckon people to the Qu’Appelle Valley’s hills and lakes. The valley is a setting for exploration and for experience. Working within a narrative when designing allows those key experiences to be extracted, along with subsequent narratives, and developed into a three-dimensional space. This results in a meandering yet defined direction of thought and reflection during the course of design. By revealing what was once previously hidden within the landscape, the spirit of place reemerges, and the new design becomes integral in the experience and understanding of self and of place.

Early Modern Players of Folly Thesis Abstract This thesis examines the ways in which folly is used in early modern literature. It asks: how is it that such an ephemeral concept proliferated and endured in the culture of early modern Europe? My understanding of early modern folly as a discursive phenomenon that was used as a way of questioning the knowledge of the ostensibly reasonable world is illustrated by case studies of four characters-four players of folly. Dedicated a chapter each, they are Till Eulenspiegel, the great German jester; Pomet Trpeza, a typically Ragusan wit of Marin Držić's Dundo Maroje; Brother Jan Paleček, a Bohemian representative of holy folly; and Sir John Falstaff, the embodiment of folly in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV. Although they emerge from different cultural, linguistic and generic traditions, they nonetheless share a propensity for employing folly in ways that uncover possibilities for new understandings and challenge rigid certainties of the world around them. Early modernity, the era that produced the works I explore, has become associated with shifts and instabilities. In this Age of Discovery, man was compelled to understand afresh a suddenly unfamiliar world. However, where man and his reason reign, folly gladly follows. I read each of my four players of folly as...

In this project I look at our relationship to Nature and how it is expressed in western material culture.  I propose that this relationship is ambivalent and paradoxical and seek means to make this evident.  I look to 18th century gardens for a historical and cultural context and to Rene Descartes for an explanation as to how this ambivalence came to be.  This is the work of someone who thinks too much, makes cynical and wide sweeping assumptions about human behavior and has access to a workshop 7 days a week for 2 years.

Esta dissertação aborda a história da loucura e a representação literária da doença na obra Canto dos malditos, escrita por Austregésilo Carrano Bueno e publicada em 2004. O objetivo principal da pesquisa é a discussão da loucura subjacente à narrativa do livro de Carrano Bueno, da perspectiva do imaginário social. Para a elaboração da pesquisa foi utilizado o método comparativo, fundamentado em conhecimentos da história, da sociologia, do jornalismo e da crítica literária. Nesta dissertação, o leitor encontra uma possível história da loucura e dos hospitais psiquiátricos no Brasil, uma análise do imaginário criado em torno da loucura e um estudo da representação dos papéis sociais (família, médico e equipe de enfermagem) envolvidos nos processos de internação de doentes e supostos doentes mentais, e também os interesses das instituições. A pesquisa é fundamentada nas teorias do imaginário social, por isso os autores principais que sustentam teoricamente esta dissertação são Michel Maffesoli, Bronislaw Baczko e Cornelius Castoriadis. O filósofo Michel Foucault nos traz a perspectiva histórica da loucura. A pesquisa reflete a exclusão das pessoas que tinham a sua imagem ligada à loucura do convívio social. Essa dissertação justifica-se pois são poucas as pesquisas existentes que abordam o tema da loucura, principalmente a sua representação no imaginário social. / This dissertation deals with the history of madness and the literary representation of the disease in Canto dos malditos, written by Austregésilo Carrano Bueno and published in 2004. The main aim of the research is the discussion of madness underlying the narrative of Carrano Bueno’s book, from the perspective of the social imaginary. In order to carry out the research the comparative methodology was used based on knowledge of history, sociology, journalism and literary review. In this paper the reader finds a possible history of madness and psychiatric hospitals in Brazil, an analysis of the imaginary created around the madness and a study of the representation of the social roles (family, doctor and nursing team) involved in the process of hospitalization of ill and supposedly mentally ill patients, as well as the interests of the institutions. The research is based on theories of social imaginary, therefore the main theoretical authors that support the dissertation are Michel Maffesoli, Bronislaw Baczko and Cornelius Castoriadis. The philosopher Michel Foucault brings us the historical perspective of madness. The research reflects the exclusion of people who had their image linked to the madness of social life. This dissertation is justified because there are few existent researches that approach the subject of madness, especially its representation in the social imaginary.

Cette étude se veut regard anthropologique sur la crise de l'identité masculine à la fin du XIXème siècle. Le célibataire dont parle Maupassant incarne un homme dont la virilité est remise en cause par l'émancipation progressive de la femme, qui en est perçue comme responsable. Le pari de cette thèse était de tester l'hypothèse selon laquelle il existerait un lien entre libertinage, solitude et folie. Nous avons tenté de comprendre comment cette identité masculine en crise, cette "mâlitude", s'exprime et se façonne au contact de l'Autre, la Femme, et à son absence de contact. Nous avancerons que le célibataire qui ne veut et/ou ne peut se constituer en homme, en "vrai" en refusant mariage et enfants, se condamne à voir en la femme fascination et terreur, ce qui le laisse finalement incapable de fonder toute relation et ainsi dans l'impasse, seul face à lui-même, au vide de sa vie, éternel adolescent, déchiré entre ses fantasmes et ses crises d'angoisse. Nous avons examiné le passage du célibataire d'une solitude recherchée et cultivée à une solitude qui se fait prison et à laquelle il ne peut plus échapper. Après avoir tenté de fuir la femme et sa force castratrice, la solitude l'étouffe : seul chez lui, il se crée un être imaginaire, une Ève nouvelle, plus rassurante qu'une vraie femme, afin de combler le vide laissé par la solitude. Ces fantômes se nourriront de sa folie pour le mener vers l'asile ou bien la mort, quand il aura réalisé que le mal n'est finalement pas au cœur de la femme, mais ancré au plus profond de son être. / My dissertation proposes to analyze the crisis of male identity at the end of the nineteenth-century in France through a close study of Guy de Maupassant's bachelors, and show a link between libertinage, solitude and folly. I try to show how this crisis, this "mâlitude", is expressed and molded through contact (or lack of) with women. I argue that the bachelor who does not want and/or cannot become a "man", in the nineteenth-century sense of the term i.e. a husband and a father, is condemned to see in women a source of fascination and terror, leaving him unable to form any human connection. Faced with his lonely self and the vacuum of his life, he remains an eternal adolescent torn between his fantasies and his anguish. The bachelor evolves from cultivated loneliness to stifling isolation. After fleeing women and their castrating force, he tries to imagine an ideal woman who would fill the void in his life, but these ghosts will feed (on) his madness and will lead him to an asylum or death itself, after he realized that evil did not lay in the heart of women after all, but was lurking in his own core.

The project proposes the production of devices to enhance the value or experience of a place as well as to allow research and education in history, collective memory and contemporary times of the city that we live in. Looking at the city through a specific type of architecture, concept or material, and hopefully giving an honest perspective of the space we inhabit. For this project the topic was contemporary ruins and their structural and visual values. Cataloging the timber barn, exploring it in an industrial hall and then exhibiting them on the concrete dolphins in the river, all buildings or structures created purely for convenience but have since lost all or some of this convenience, therefore becoming contemporary ruins. In the end creating structures with the purpose of learning, exhibiting them for others to learn as well; and in the end finding a place and purpose for the structure. Turning the building from a research project into a folly and then into a device for experience. Producing with the goal of learning, placing with the goal of enhancing, without designing specifically for the end product but rather for the process itself.

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"From Lada to Folly" investigates the relationship between an agricultural artefact of Northern Sweden, ladan, and the move of the city of Kiruna. A lada is a structure to store hay which dates back to medieval times as a part of månghussystemet, a Swedish building tradition where each house on a farm had one function. Ladan was analysed on different scales through mapping, photography and model making with the aim of understanding its relation to the landscape. The scale, placement and orientation were the most significant. Subsequently, this information was translated via diagrams to form the basis of a proposal in Kiruna. Four core values are the foundation of Kiruna: timber, water, iron and people. Timber, because the first buildings were built out of wood and because coal from the forest was used to fuel the engines of the mine. Water, as a mode of transportation and a source of energy. Iron, the oar is the main reason why Kiruna exists. People, in the same way natural resources have been extracted out of Kiruna, people have been sent to the city to facilitate this process. Through four corresponding landscapes in the new city centre, the core values forming the origin of Kiruna is revealed. A folly, an unprogrammed structure erected to enhance a landscape and derived from the lada, is placed on each site functioning as a shelter and contextualising the intervention to the region of Northern Sweden. As architecture most often are physical obstacles built to orchestrate our lives, not allowing but limiting our behaviour, this proposal seeks to create free spaces in the city where not the architect but the people themselves can dictate what will happen. Who is the architect to decide whether someone should eat, make love or die in their structure?

Ce travail est consacré à l’étude du personnage allégorique de la Folie sur la scène de l’Académie Royale de Musique entre 1697 et 1718. Qu’il soit suggéré ou personnifié, ce caractère féminin est abondamment présent dans les spectacles de cette période. A la fin du règne de Louis XIV, la Folie fait peu à peu son entrée à l’Opéra. Entourée de Momus, du Carnaval, de Bacchus, de l’Amour et des personnages de la commedia dell’arte, la Folie « ramène les tendres Jeux », « chasse la Raison cruelle » et invite sans cesse à « goûter les charmes de la vie ». En accédant à l’Opéra, cette figure extravagante et enjouée signale une évolution de ton qui préfigure le changement de mœurs associé à la Régence. Mais au-delà de la philosophie hédoniste qu’elle dispense, quel est le sens caché des paroles de la Folie ? Faut-il voir dans la présence de ce personnage une remise en cause de l’ordre établi, de la politique sociale et de l’austérité marquant la fin du règne ? Son utilisation permet-elle, sous la couverture d’une « maladie de l’âme », de critiquer la politique et les mœurs de Louis XIV ? Qui se cachent derrière le discours subversif de la Folie ? Quel est le rôle de cette figure dans les débats esthétiques de l’époque ? Cette recherche explore le rôle, ainsi que le traitement musical, dramatique et scénique d’une telle figure à travers l’étude d’ouvrages créés à l’Opéra. Nous proposons ici un portrait physique, moral et social de la Folie, à la lumière de multiples documents musicaux, textuels et iconographiques de l’époque, et présentons différents traits de caractère du personnage et plusieurs thèmes qui lui sont liés afin de comprendre les raisons de sa présence à cette époque. / This work is devoted to the study of the allegorical figure of Folly on the stage of the Académie Royale de Musique between 1697 and 1718. Suggested or personified, this female character is abundantly present in the spectacles of this period. At the end of the reign of Louis XIV, Folly appears little by little at the Opera. Surrounded by Momus, Carnival, Bacchus, the god of love and the characters of the commedia dell'arte, Folly "brings back the soft Games", "banishes the cruel Reason" and continually invites to "taste the charms of life”. By accessing the Opera, this extravagant and playful figure indicates a change of tone that foreshadows the changing attitudes of the Regency. But beyond the hedonistic philosophy that she provides, what is the hidden meaning of Folly’s words? Should we see a calling into question of the established order, the social policy and the austerity marking the end of the reign? Does its use allow, under the cover of a “disease of the soul”, to criticize the policy and manners of Louis XIV? Who hides behind the subversive speech of Folly? What is the role of this figure in the aesthetic debates of the period? This research explores the role, as well as musical, dramatic and scenic treatments of such a figure through the study of works created at the Opera. We propose here a physical, moral and social portrait of Folly, in the light of multiple musical, textual and iconographic documents of the time, and present different character traits and several themes that are related to it in order to understand the reasons for its presence at this time