Thesis (MPhil)--University of Stellenbosch, 2008. / Bibliography. Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Texas at Austin, 1999. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-178). Available also in a digital version from Dissertation Abstracts.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2009. / Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 347-368).

Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-126). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (doctoral)--Universität, Würzburg. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-167).

Orientador: Paula da Cruz Landim / Banca: Andréa Castello Branco Judice / Banca: Eugenio Andrés Diaz Merino / Banca: Galdenoro Botura Junior / Banca: José Carlos Placido da Silva / Resumo: A prática interdisciplinar do design desenvolvida no cenário dinâmico da atualidade exige dos designers, para além de suas competências técnicas, o aprimoramento constante de suas habilidades de relacionamento interpessoal. Nesse sentido, pode-se afirmar que a gestão de design também abrange a gestão de pessoas. Em ambiente de projeto são estabelecidas relações interpessoais as quais sofrem influência de fatores tais como posturas pessoais, crenças, objetivos e repertórios variados, o que com frequência resulta em embates com potencial para o surgimento de conflitos. Considerando estes aspectos da prática, esta pesquisa teve como objetivo elaborar e avaliar a proposta de um recurso metodológico no formato de jogo que previsse em sua execução a inserção planejada de pontos de pressão nas atividades de projeto com potencial para gerar conflitos, visando seu gerenciamento por parte dos discentes com a colaboração do professor como mediador. A investigação teve início a partir da elaboração de uma revisão bibliográfica sobre os temas pertinentes ao estudo, bem como de uma pesquisa online para identificar junto a designers quais as principais áreas com as quais o design interage e sofre embates em ambiente de projeto. De posse destes dados, foram elaborados pela pesquisadora a mecânica e o design dos elementos que compõem o jogo Projeta. A estrutura do jogo é do tipo cartas e compreende um roteiro de ação dividido em dez etapas dentro das quais os participantes devem desenvolver u... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The interdisciplinary practice of Design developed in today's dynamic scenario requires designers, in addition to their technical skills, to constantly improve their interpersonal relationship skills. Thus, it can be said that design management also covers people management. In the project environment, many interpersonal relationships are established which are influenced by factors such as personal postures, beliefs, goals and varied repertoires, which often results in clashes with the potential for generate conflict. It is believed, therefore, that consider conflict management as a part of the education process for designers and see it as a real possibility and also as an aspect of the project activity, allows students to become familiar with possible situations of conflict when they go to the work field. This research had as objective to elaborate and validate the proposal of a methodological resource in the game format that predicted in its execution the planned insertion of pressure points in the project activities with potential to generate conflicts, aiming at its management by the students / designers with the collaboration of the teacher/manager as mediator. The research began with the preparation of a bibliographical review on the themes pertinent to the study, as well as an online survey to identify with designers the main areas with which the design field interacts and suffers conflicts in the project environment. With this data, the researcher elaborated the mecha... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Doutor

Orientador: João José Caluzi / Banca: José Agatha Parrilha da Silva / Banca: Denise Fernandes de Mello / Resumo: Este estudo foi desenvolvido a partir das observações realizadas pelo professor/pesquisador, durante as aulas de arte ministradas na educação básica, e do questionamento: como os alunos percebem a relação da arte com as outras disciplinas, mais especificamente com as ciências? Dessa forma, a pesquisa tem por objetivo: analisar as concepções dos discentes sobre as disciplinas arte e ciências, bem como propiciar uma reflexão sobre as práticas artísticas e científicas relacionadas à fotografia. Preliminarmente o estudo faz uma reflexão sobre as produções artísticas e científicas, para, em seguida, propor alguns questionamentos revelados pela invenção da fotografia sobre a concepção da imagem como realidade e das ciências como verdade. Tais questionamentos foram discutidos junto aos discentes do 9º ano do ensino fundamental de uma escola pública do interior de São Paulo, a partir de uma sequência didática de cunho interdisciplinar, abordando os conteúdos de ciências e arte aplicados no desenvolvimento da fotografia. Nas respostas dos discentes observou-se a necessidade de práticas interdisciplinares para ampliar e desconstruir determinadas imagens equivocadas que os alunos possuem em relação à arte e à ciência. Desta pesquisa resultou um livro como produto educacional, cuja finalidade é subsidiar a prática docente em propor estudos interdisciplinares relacionando arte, ciências e fotografia. / Abstract: This study was developed from the observation made by the teacher/ researcher during the art classes taught in basic education and the questioning: How do the students realize the relation of art to order disciplines, more specifically the sciences? In this way, the research had the objective of analyzing the students' conceptions about the disciplines of art and sciences, as well as providing a reflection on the artistic and scientific practices related to photography. Preliminarly the study makes a reflection on artistic and scientific production, and then propose some questions revealed by the intervention of photography about the conception of the image as reality and the sciences as truth. These questions were discussed with the students of the 9th year of elementary school in a public school is a small town of São Paulo State, based on an interdisciplinary didactic sequence, addressing the contents of science and art applied in the development of photography. In the responses of the students, the need for interdisciplinary practices was observed to expand and descontruct certain mistaken images that the students posses in relation to art and science. This research resulted in a book as an education product, whose purpose is to subsidize teaching practice in proposing interdisciplinary studies relating art, science and photography / Mestre

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Transcending the boundaries of literature, the works of Edgar Allan Poe and Stanislaw Lem contribute to a dialogue between literary, philosophical, and scientific cultures. A critical approach to these writers that ignores the epistemic dimension in their works opens itself to the charge of misunderstanding their artistic goals and aspirations. In my dissertation I thus define, justify, and conduct an interdisciplinary study of Poe and Lem's works. / My project is underwritten by the epistemological assumption that literary works, and notably works of fiction, can make a contribution to knowledge that can be assessed in terms of interdisciplinary criteria. In the first chapter, where I discuss literature and knowledge within the interdisciplinary context, I examine various epistemological arguments in light of my central assertion. Next I examine the concepts involved in the discussion of literary works. Following the pragmatic re-orientation in literary and philosophical aesthetics, many fundamental concepts we take for granted--artworks, fictions, and texts among them--require exact re-examination and definition. Consequently, in Chapters Two and Three I review and refine the recent theories concerning the nature of works of art, the specificity of literary fictions, and the problem of literary interpretations. / My subsequent discussion of Poe and Lem is built on the theoretical base of (literary) epistemology and analytical aesthetics. I study Poe and Lem's literary fictions and theoretical essays, and the contributions they make to various fields of inquiry. In the process I critique, and sometimes refine, the explicit and implicit hypotheses articulated in their works. Specifically In Chapters Four and Five I discuss strategic and game theoretic models in the interpretation of fiction, including the concepts of communication and rationality. In Chapter Six, completing the epistemological circle inaugurated in Chapter One, I discuss the epistemological and cosmological theories proposed in Poe's "Eureka".

Thesis (doctoral) - Universität, Würzburg. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-167).