I mitt arbete har jag utforskat det konstnärliga religiösa arvet och hur bilder, symboler och fysiska föremål är grundläggande för kulturellt konsensus. Jag har utforskat fenomenet i gemensam tro på något övernaturligt och abstrakt med hjälp av klädkoder, måleri, skulptur, text och rumslig gestaltning. Inspirationen har jag tagit från bland annat kyrkobyggnadens sceniska egenskaper, där föreställningar tar plats. Ett annat tema i verket är kopplingarna till ritualen och innebörden i handlingen, liksom betydelsen av ord och bilder för människors förmåga att forma en tro på något immateriellt. Upplevelse och inlevelse är viktiga delar i vidareförandet av budskap, både inom konst och religion. Min intention med det här verket är kort sagt ett experiment och en parafras på religiös visuell kommunikation, och att jag försökt samla den kärnfulla symboliken som blivit bevarad i det, utifrån min egen tolkning och erfarenhet. Vem eller vilka det här är för är egentligen inte det viktigaste i min mening, utan jag ser det som ett personligt undersökande av något som intresserar mig och förhoppningsvis andra med.

Many organizations from and outside of the IT industry are trying to implement Agile in their ways of working via large scale transformations. The organizations feels the need to become Agile in order to increase their client satisfaction, deliver their product faster, and compete in the rapidly changing market. This Master's thesis was conducted at one of the largest energy utilities in the north of Europe, Company C, in order to analyze their R\&D organization after implementing their large scale Agile transformation. The thesis main research question focused on studying how did the large scale Agile transformation effect the organization ambidexterity, knowledge transfer capabilities, and ability to innovate. The question was analyzed qualitatively via an ethnographic design and a set of semi-structured interviews. The results have shown various challenges within the organization that were introduced after the large scale Agile transformation, such as focusing only on customer satisfaction as a measure of success, and the reduction of knowledge transfer capabilities with the department. The analysisand discussions evaluated the connection between those challenges and the large scale Agile transformation. The main takeaways from the Thesis suggested that the Agile transformation provided the necessary tool for the organization to become more exploitative, however, there was no clear connection between the transformation and the diminishing exploratory practices. Moreover, the large scale Agile transformation supported incremental innovations, but did not negatively impact other types of innovation. Finally, the knowledge transfer capabilities were reduced due to the minimal documentation approach that the organization has implemented. / Många organisationer från och utanför IT-branschen försöker implementera Agile i sina arbetssätt genom storskaliga transformationer. Organisationerna känner behov av att bli Agila för att öka sin kundnöjdhet, leverera sina produkter snabbare och konkurrera på den snabbt föränderliga marknaden. Detta masterarbete genomfördes på ett av de största energiföretagen i norra Europa, Company C, för att analysera deras FoU-organisation efter att ha implementerat sin storskaliga agila-transformation. Arbetets huvudsakliga forskningsfråga fokuserade på att studera hur den storskaliga agila-transformationen påverkade organisationens förmåga till ambidextri, kunskapsöverföring och innovationsförmåga. Frågan analyserades kvalitativt genom en etnografisk design och en uppsättning semistrukturerade intervjuer. Resultaten har visat olika utmaningar inom organisationen som introducerades efter den storskaliga Agile-transformationen, såsom att fokusera endast på kundnöjdhet som en måttstock för framgång och minskningen av kunskapsöverföringsförmågan inom avdelningen. Analysen och diskussionerna utvärderade sambandet mellan dessa utmaningar och den storskaliga Agile-transformationen. Huvudpunkterna från arbetet föreslog att Agile-transformationen gav organisationen de nödvändiga verktygen för att bli mer exploaterande, men det fanns ingen tydlig koppling mellan transformationen och minskningen av utforskande praktiker. Dessutom stödde den storskaliga Agile-transformationen inkrementella innovationer men påverkade inte negativt andra typer av innovation. Slutligen minskade kunskapsöverföringsförmågan på grund av den minimala dokumentationsansatsen som organisationen genomfört.

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The Caveat For many reasons, names have had to be concealed within this document. The events depicted are real and the discussions true. This is an attempt to legitimize the informal, seemingly mundane and sometimes personal: the author’s experiences bringing a folly to the physical, while trespassing into a new world: Islam. This thesis documents a series of interventions at different scales within that world. There is a book, the chair, and the city of Makkah. The events themselves are superimposed onto the traditional language, or professional conventions, used to justify them. Here, they are relegated to the margins of each page. This is akin to how some of the first books were produced, by students in the confines of dark cloisters or hot desert temples, struggling to maintain historical integrity while fighting the natural tendencies of youth. Their master’s voices always looking over the gutter from the opposite page. The sketches for a new Makkah and a monumental demonstration in Canada unfold in parallel to a body of formal research. Together, as seemingly independently as they are, they paint the portrait of an Islam, while building a personality between the lines. That being said: there isn’t a correct way to read it.

The Caveat For many reasons, names have had to be concealed within this document. The events depicted are real and the discussions true. This is an attempt to legitimize the informal, seemingly mundane and sometimes personal: the author’s experiences bringing a folly to the physical, while trespassing into a new world: Islam. This thesis documents a series of interventions at different scales within that world. There is a book, the chair, and the city of Makkah. The events themselves are superimposed onto the traditional language, or professional conventions, used to justify them. Here, they are relegated to the margins of each page. This is akin to how some of the first books were produced, by students in the confines of dark cloisters or hot desert temples, struggling to maintain historical integrity while fighting the natural tendencies of youth. Their master’s voices always looking over the gutter from the opposite page. The sketches for a new Makkah and a monumental demonstration in Canada unfold in parallel to a body of formal research. Together, as seemingly independently as they are, they paint the portrait of an Islam, while building a personality between the lines. That being said: there isn’t a correct way to read it.

The following argument offers a sharper micro-foundational lens for studying human political and social behavior by demonstrating how political science might better incorporate the theory of evolution into its behavioral models, and by showing that differential conflict occasionally prevails over the materialist conflicts depicted in much of the modern social science literature. I take evolutionary psychology's understanding of manifest behavior as a point of departure, and then analyze the manifest behavior in terms of judgments, which are binary measurements at a particular point of reference; in other words, a given manifest behavior either did or did not occur at a particular point in time. I then show that judgments can 1) transmit from one individual to the next, 2) vary according to predictable adaptive processes, and 3) are either extinguished or flourish dependent upon the process of natural selection; judgments, therefore, meet the three requirements of evolutionary theory. Judgments, rather than genes, better describe the process of human political and social evolution, which becomes especially clear when one assesses the consequences of what I term "differential" outcomes in judgments. / text

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Most studies in South Africa focus on male offenders as they make up the majority of the offending population. With female offenders being in the minority, they receive less of the research attention. The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the subjective experience of finding employment with a criminal record from the perspectives of six female former offenders who participated in the study. Participants were asked to share their accounts during semi-structured interviews. The transcripts were analysed using Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis. A total of nine themes were identified, namely; confronting the labour market; it affected my life not my chances; experiences of vocational skills and labour in corrections; current financial status versus previous financial status; those left behind: the impact of incarceration on the family. I am Human too, entering and adjusting in the correctional system, finding God and oneself, and rehabilitation and reintegration programmes. The findings showed that the experience of incarceration cannot be separated from the experience of adjusting back into society and finding employment. Employment and unemployment had an effect on participants’ financial status but also affected self-esteem and the relationship with family. The findings illustrated how participants used different coping methods to deal with not being able to find employment, dealing with the stigma attached to being a former offender as well as adjusting back into the community. The analyses from the interviews were compared to existing literature, thus creating a rich discussion. An overview of the discussion and some recommendations were provided and the limitations of the study were also taken into account. / Psychology / M.A. (Psychology)

L’architecture change parce que le monde change. L’impact des enjeux environnementaux sur la pensée de l’architecture, sur les idées et sur les formes architecturales est le sujet de cette recherche. Le secteur du bâtiment est aujourd’hui considéré comme un levier important pour résoudre la crise environnementale. Cependant, des décalages s’affirment entre des impératifs urgents et règlementaires d’atteindre des objectifs quantitatifs précis, et la nécessité pour l’architecture d’être pensée en lien avec une nouvelle culture environnementale. Transition énergétique. Transition environnementale. Transition architecturale ? Dans quel processus de néomorphisation sommes-nous ? Ce travail de recherche concerne la période de transition engagée à la fin des années 1990 et dont les scénarios se construisent à horizon 2050. L’objectif est de définir des concepts et des outils, pour caractériser de façon ouverte et pluridisciplinaire la transition architecturale vers une architecture environnementale et fournir matière à penser. Les concepts de néomorphisme architectural et de Potentiel Néomorphique (PN) sont créés, pour répondre au contexte d’une transition en cours. Par analogie avec le néologisme désignant un mot nouveau qui renouvelle et enrichit le langage, le néomorphisme architectural désigne une forme nouvelle. Il est de la même façon issu d’un processus morphologique créatif, expérimental, riche et complexe, propre aux périodes de transition. Les Potentiels Néomorphiques de l’architecture environnementale qui en découlent, désignent les nouvelles idées à l’origine des nouvelles formes architecturales. La spécificité de ce travail de recherche repose sur une approche originale de la pensée de l’architecture, des idées aux formes et des formes aux idées, et sur la création d’espaces analogiques. Les espaces analogiques sont constitués à partir de la confrontation de trois corpus : un corpus d’idées (les PN), un corpus de formes architecturales manifestes et un corpus de formes artistiques subversives. Ils sont conçus pour nourrir le débat, questionner la notion de justesse et pour stimuler la pensée de l’architecture, la soustraire au prêt-à-penser et permettre l’impensé. Ces éléments théoriques sont réinvestis dans la réalisation de la maquette d’un thésaurus. Le « Thésaurus de l’architecture environnementale, des idées aux formes et des formes aux idées » est un outil de veille et de connaissance. Il permet de découvrir, s’approprier et penser l’architecture environnementale à travers un nouveau cadre descriptif et des espaces analogiques. Proposé sur le principe d’un outil collaboratif en ligne, il invite à une approche pluriculturelle de l’architecture et permet le partage d’un savoir vivant et réactif. La maquette du Thésaurus de l’architecture environnementale ouvre la voie à des prolongements pédagogiques orientés sur l’identification de nouvelles références. Son ambition est de contribuer à la construction d’une histoire contemporaine des idées et des formes de l’architecture environnementale. / Architecture is changing because the world is changing.The impact of environmental issues on the way of thinking architecture, and also on architectural ideas and architectural forms, is the subject of this research.The building sector is now considered as an important tool in order to solve the environmental crisis. However, discrepancies are increasing between, on the one hand, urgent and regulatory requirements to achieve specific quantitative targets and, on the other, the need for architecture to be thought of in connection with a new environmental culture.Energy transition. Environmental transition. Architectural transition?How to define this neomorphisation process.This research concerns the transition period that started in the late 1990s and where the scenarios are projected up to the 2050s. The objective is to define concepts and tools, to characterize the architectural transition towards an environmental architecture, in an open and multidisciplinary manner, and to provide food for thought.The concepts of “architectural neomorphism” and “Neomorphic Potential” (PN) are created, in response to the context of a transition in progress. By analogy with the neologism which designates a new word that renews and enriches language, architectural neomorphism indicates a new form. In the same way, it results from a morphological process, creative, experimental, rich and complex, specific to transition periods. The resulting “Neomorphic Potentials” of environmental architecture describe the ideas which are behind the new architectural forms.The specific quality of this research work is based on an original approach to architectural thought, from ideas to forms and from forms to ideas, and on the creation of “analogical spaces”. They are composed as a result of the confrontation of three corpora : a corpus of ideas (PN), a corpus of manifest architectural forms and a corpus of subversive artistic forms. They are designed to active debate, to question the concept of accuracy and to stimulate our thinking about architecture, to escape standard ways of thinking and to promote outside-the-box thinking.These theoretical elements are reinvested in making a model of a thesaurus.The "Thesaurus of environmental architecture, from ideas to forms and from forms to ideas" is both a monitoring tool and a resource centre. It gives the opportunity to discover, to take on board and to think environmental architecture through a new descriptive framework using analogical spaces. Offered on the principle of an online collaborative tool, it calls for a multicultural approach to architecture so that knowledge can be shared in a lively, interactive way.The model of the Thesaurus of environmental architecture opens up the way for new teaching methods directed towards the identification of new references. Its ambition is to contribute to a contemporary history of ideas and forms of environmental architecture.

Der Prozess der Globalisierung hat zu einem enormen Anstieg globaler wirtschaftlicher Interdependenzen und entsprechender Interaktionsmöglichkeiten geführt. Gleichzeitig ist die globale Rahmenordnung als defizitär zu charakterisieren und es stellt sich die Frage nach der Vertrauensbasis globaler wirtschaftlicher Zusammenarbeit. Vor diesem Hintergrund untersucht die vorliegende Dissertation den Beitrag Globaler Chartas zur Stabilisierung des Vertrauensverhältnisses von (Welt-) Gesellschaftsmitgliedern und transnationalen Unternehmen. Die Forschungsarbeit verfolgt hierbei zwei Ziele: Erstens die systematische Verortung des Konzepts Vertrauen im Drei-Ebenen-Paradigma der ökonomischen Ethik sowie zweitens die Entwicklung einer Heuristik zur Gestaltung bzw. Weiterentwicklung Globaler Chartas in der Praxis. Die entwickelte Heuristik wird anhand von drei Globalen Chartas beispielhaft illustriert. Zu diesen zählen der UN Global Compact, das Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos sowie die Caux Round Table Prinzipien.:1 Einleitung 1.1 Problemexposition 1.2 Theoretischer Zugriff 1.3 Zielsetzung und Vorgehensweise 2 Grundlegende Axiome der ökonomischen Ethik 2.1 Der Grundkonflikt zwischen Gewinn und Moral 2.2 Die erweiterte Goldene Regel 2.3 Unternehmensverantwortung aus Sicht der ökonomischen Ethik 3 Vertrauen als Grundlage gelingender Kooperation 3.1 Der Vertrauensprozess 3.1.1 Vertrauen des Vertrauensgebers 3.1.1.1 Spezifisches Vertrauen 3.1.1.2 Generalisiertes Vertrauen 3.1.2 Vertrauenswürdigkeit des Vertrauensnehmers 3.1.3 Von Vertrauenswürdigkeit und Vertrauen zu Kooperation 3.2 Vertrauen im Drei-Ebenen-Paradigma 3.2.1 Akteure im Drei-Ebenen-Paradigma 3.2.2 Das Drei-Ebenen-Paradigma 3.2.2.1 Spielzüge 3.2.2.2 Spielregeln 3.2.2.3 Spielverständnis 3.2.2.3.1 Begriffsbestimmung 3.2.2.3.2 Funktionen 3.2.3 Relevante Inkonsistenzen 3.3 Investitionsheuristik 3.4 Synopsis 4 Globale Chartas als Investition in den Faktor Vertrauen 4.1 Begriffsbestimmung „Globale Chartas“ als Initiativen der Global Governance 4.2 Bedingungen der Globalität 4.2.1 Moderne Strukturbedingungen von Interaktionen 4.2.2 Defizitäre globale Rahmenordnung 4.2.3 Globaler (Werte-, Normen- und Motivations-) Pluralismus 4.3 Ansatzpunkte Globaler Chartas im Vertrauensprozess 4.3.1 Globale Chartas als (Meta-) Signal auf Spielzugebene? 4.3.2 Globale Chartas als Institution auf Spielregelebene? 4.3.3 Globale Chartas als Investition in ein gemeinsames Spielverständnis? 4.4 Heuristik zur Gestaltung Globaler Chartas 4.5 Synopsis 5 Illustration der Heuristik 5.1 Der United Nations Global Compact 5.1.1 Zum Bekanntheitsgrad des UNGC 5.1.2 Zum Selbstverständnis des UNGC 5.1.3 Zur Sicherstellung der Glaubwürdigkeit des UNGC 5.1.4 Zum Angebot an belastbaren Orientierungspunkten des UNGC 5.1.5 Zur Ermöglichung der lokalen Interpretation der UNGC Prinzipien 5.2 Das Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos 5.2.1 Zum Bekanntheitsgrad des Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos 5.2.2 Zum Selbstverständnis des Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos 5.2.3 Zur Sicherstellung der Glaubwürdigkeit des Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos 5.2.4 Zum Angebot an belastbaren Orientierungspunkten des Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos 5.2.5 Zur Ermöglichung der lokalen Interpretation des Manifest Globales Wirtschaftsethos 5.3 Die Caux Round Table Prinzipien für verantwortungsvolle Unternehmen 5.3.1 Zum Bekanntheitsgrad der Caux Round Table Prinzipien 5.3.2 Zum Selbstverständnis der Caux Round Table Prinzipien 5.3.3 Zur Sicherstellung der Glaubwürdigkeit der Caux Round Table Prinzipien 5.3.4 Zum Angebot an belastbaren Orientierungspunkten der Caux Round Table Prinzipien 5.3.5 Zur Ermöglichung der lokalen Interpretation der Caux Round Table Prinzipien 5.4 Synopsis 6 Schlussbemerkung LITERATURVERZEICHNIS