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1	Architecture as Mediator Edwards, Lindsay Keyes 06 June 2008 (has links) Having grown up abroad, the topic of architectural mediation has often made me pause. The world abounds with differences, and with today's globalization, many of us are being faced with cultural, social, and a multitude of physical differences/conditions. This thesis seeks to explore the role of architecture as a mediator and seeks designs that transition successfully between differing entities. The project is an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. The program is comprised of young orphans and the project explores how the structure that they occupy can effectively accommodate their specific needs. Challenges which need to be mediated include consideration of two scales, one for the child under the age of 6, and the other for the caretaker who has adult proportions. The building also will need to reconcile cultural stigmatization and attitudes towards orphans while also providing a safe environment. And lastly, the specific social needs of the orphan need to be tended to. The design and experience within the spaces will need to convey feelings of security, affections, and hope. / Master of Architecture mediate orphanage Nairobi (Kenya) mending
2	MENDING ON DISPLAY : Rethinking fashion culture through visible mending Ohlsson, Allis January 2022 (has links) MENDING ON DISPLAY is an exploration of how to involve people in mending and have it be incorporated into everyday life. This was done through mending workshops, investigative conversations and a window display exhibiting visibly mended clothes. With all the devastating news reporting on how the planet is rapidly changing for the worse, it’s important to show that there can be joy in striving towards sustainable solutions, and moving away from current fashion culture does not have to mean compromising on your personal expression. The two main collaborations in the project are with the people interacting with it, and the secondhand store Busfrö. For this type of workshop to engage people in mending it needs to regularly occur, a routine space where one can join in for example once a month in the same place. These places exist already but few know about them, we need more of these initiatives in different contexts in order to spread the engagement in the craft. In my work I invited others to join through workshops, but I also felt welcomed into a bigger context and community network where mending is the binding force. Mending visible mending textile waste fast fashion trends resistance upcycling secondhand fashion culture alternative fashion Design Design
3	Needlework education and the consumer society Teglund, Carl-Mikael January 2011 (has links) The principal purpose of this essay is to research how the development of needlework education interacts and interconnects with consumption patterns. Iceland has been used as a case for this study but any country would be applicable. The point of departure is the assumption that when a society develops more and more into being a consumer society, the needlework education also will change – in drastic forms. And that tracing a development towards consumerism can be traced in the curricula regarding this specific subject. People’s changing attitude towards spending, wasting, and an extravagant living is an important feature which explains the shift between non-consumer societies to a consumer society. Society’s outlook on these features is best reflected by that policy the institutions society uses to form its citizens’ desirable (consumer) behavior. In understanding the development from a non-consumerist society to a consumer society the study on the Icelandic syllabi for needlework and textile education plays a prominent part. A presentation on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the period of time in question has also been used in order to see the general increase of the standard of living and rise of consumerism in Iceland. Also numbers on trade and unemployment have been enclosed in order to give a more telling picture of the development and the results. The spatial imprint of the development of the Icelandic educational system and the development of syllabi for the textile handicraft subject show that an established consumer society firstly can be found in Iceland somewhere between 1960 and 1977, thus slightly ensuing the most immediate period after the World War II. A society that educates its young ones to darn, mend, and knit with the explicit motive to help deprived homes and states that this is a necessary virtue for future housewives cannot rightly be called a consumer society. It is also worth mentioning that the subject was after this breakthrough also available for boys. Furthermore, this seems to coincide with the so called “haftatímanum”, the restriction era, which lasted from 1930 to 1960. During this time the Icelandic government controlled the market having an especially harsh policy on the import of consumer goods, with product rationing as a result. Both of these two matters - the syllabi for the textile handicraft subject and the haftatímanum - had an anaesthetized impact on the development of the Icelandic consumer society. Consumption consumerism the consumer revolution Iceland knitting darning mending needlework education consumption history women's history curricula interpretation
4	Corps malade, corps créateur : fragmenter, rassembler, réparer / Sick body, creative body : fragment, gather, repair Guerra Serres, Laura 28 November 2018 (has links) Le travail de recherche en Arts Plastiques propose de questionner et d’expliciter le processus qui conduit de l’expérience de la maladie à celle de la création. Comment le geste créateur se trouve-t-il activé, transformé par la maladie ? Le travail plastique articulé à l’écriture, tente de vérifier l’hypothèse suivante : c’est à travers le processus de fragmentation (Heinz Kohut), de rassemblement (Anne-Sophie Le Poder) et de réparation (Jeanine Chasseguet-Smirgel) que le corps, devenu créateur, se dépasse tout en reprenant chair, devient autre, traversé par ses propres peurs et douleurs, réparé ou reconstruit par leur passage. La première partie (fragmentation), qui interroge la notion d’espace, analyse des œuvres de Louise Bourgeois et Yayoï Kusama. La fragmentation du corps et sa représentation permettent-elles de figurer la manière dont l’expérience de la maladie s’incarne, s’incorpore dans la création, sans pour autant l’illustrer ? La seconde partie explore le rassemblement comme geste de conciliation avec le corps. Dans le travail de Mona Hatoum, Chiharu Shiota, ou Niki de Saint Phalle, comment le geste de rassemblement devient-il un sang qui soude (Agamben), tout en mettant à l’épreuve du regard la faille du temps ? Dans la troisième partie (réparation), la réflexion se poursuit avec les œuvres de Rebecca Horn, Berlinde de Bruyckere, et la pièce chorégraphique Körper de Sasha Waltz. Sont développées les questions de la mémoire, et de l’altérité dans le processus qui lie corps malade et corps créateur. Dans la singularité de leur plasticité, les matériaux deviennent des lieux pour réécrire le corps dans son expérience de la douleur, sans pour autant la figurer. / The research in Arts suggests questioning and clarifying the process from the illness experience to creation. How is the creative gesture activated, transformed by the illness? The plastic work associated with the writing tries to verify the following hypothesis: it’s through the process of fragmentation (Heinz Kohut), of gathering (Anne-Sophie Le Poder) and mending (Jeanine Chasseguet-Smirgel) that the body, now a creator, surpasses itself while resuming flesh, turns itself into something different, through its own fear and pain, repaired or reconstructed by their passage. The first part (fragmentation), whith the notion of space, analyses Louise Bourgeois and Yayoï Kusama’s works. Does the fragmentation of the body represent the way the experience of the illness is embodied, incorporated into creation, without illustrating it? The second part explores gathering as a gesture of conciliation with the body. In Mona Hatoum, Chiharu Shiota, or Niki de Saint Phalle’s works, how does this gesture become a blood which welds (Agamben), while making us looking at a hole in time? In the third part (Repair), the reflection goes on with Rebecca Horn and Berlinde de Bruyckere ‘s works, and the choreographic play "Körper" by Sasha Waltz. Questions related to the illness and creative body will be linked to memory and otherness. In the peculiarity of their plasticity, materials become places to rewrite the body in its experience of pain, without representing it. Corps Geste créateur Fragmentation Réparation Psychiatrie Body Creative gesture Fragmentation Mending Psychiatry 730 759.07 792
5	Employed women's intentions to purchase apparel sewing services: beliefs, attitudes, and normative influences Watson, Karen Bruck 08 August 2007 (has links) Historically, the construction, alteration, and mending of clothing was provided through household production activities, free of charge by the female members of the household or members of the extended family. These practices have changed in some families because of societal and cultural changes such as the increasing number of women who are employed outside of the household. Apparel construction, alteration, and mending are now available for purchase from service providers in the marketplace. Thus the overall purpose of this research was to examine the nature and foundation of the nonnative influences and attitudes of a sample of employed women toward purchasing apparel sewing services. Ajzen and Fishbein's (1980) reasoned action model which theorizes four stable relationships provided the theoretical framework for the research. The four relationships were Behavior-Intention (BI}, Attitude-Subjective Norm-Intention (ASNI), Behavioral Beliefs-Attitude (BBA), and Normative Beliefs-Subjective Norm (NBSN). Four corresponding objectives were investigated for three sewing services, clothing construction, alteration, and mending. A fifth objective for each apparel sewing service was used to explore the possible associations among a set of external variables and the employed women's estimated attitudes, estimated subjective norms, and the relative weights of the attitudinal and normative components in the ASNI relationship. Questions to measure behaviors, intentions to purchase, attitudes, behavioral beliefs, subjective norms, and normative beliefs were developed according to Ajzen and Fishbein's (1980) guidelines. Additional questions were developed to assess fourteen external variables derived from the review of literature. Two thousand ninety two questionnaires were sent through Virginia Tech's campus mail; 657 (97%) of the 679 (32%) returned were useable for the study. Kendall's Tau testing resulted in significant positive BBA relationships for all three sewing services. Multiple regression testing resulted in significant positive ASNI relationships for all sewing services. Significant positive BBA and NBSN relationships resulted from Pearson Product Moment Correlations for all three sewing services. All four null hypotheses for all three sewing services were rejected and the research hypotheses were supported. The fifth objective was investigated through three null hypothesis for each sewing service; each null hypothesis was tested with each external variable. The external variable, knowing someone who sews for pay, yielded statistically significant results for all three sewing services in the F-tests for the overall regressions, analysis of variance, and in the Tukey' s post hoc test; however this variable did not lead to significant differences in the standardized betas for services of altering and mending clothes, according to the Chow tests. No other external variables had as many significant tests for all three sewing services as knowing someone who sews for pay had, even though there were other significant tests in some of the relationships tested. Ajzen, I., & Fishbein, M. (1980). Understanding attitudes and predicting social behavior. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. / Ph. D. sewing services clothing construction alteration mending attitudes services marketing LD5655.V856 1998.W387
6	Reviving Mending to Benefit the Individual, Community & Industry: A Mixed Methods Study Savocchia, Mathilda 15 September 2021 (has links) No description available. Sustainability Textile Research Home Economics Mending sewing DIY sustainability use phase well-being mental health fashion industry
7	I Mend It With Sugar Lindvall, Charlotta January 2015 (has links) I mend it with sugar Abstract "Gluttony" and "sloth" is the sugar addictions best friend, or could it be that the addiction comes out of a disturbed hormone production caused by the environment that surrounds us? Trying to understand my own sugar addiction I weave in my personal story into my artistic research around this subject. The sugar might be the cause of the pandemic obesity and that's why it has to bee brought up into the light from its darkness down the basement of the food giants that roles over the world economy. There might be no answer yet to the questions I ask myself but it is time that we all do what it takes to get closer to the answers, by questioning the nature of the food that we stuff our self full of, we all have a part of it, or do we? Have our brain already been kidnapped by the white gold that we're no longer capable to think clear? This is a subject that suits very well to be highlighted through body related art, such as jewellery and corpus. We use our body when we eat, our feelings is coming from the inside of our body, by looking at our body and how it acts we can easily see the signs of how we really feel it's just that we forgot to look, we forgot to listen to our body, maybe it's the sugar that has numb our bodies… Sockerberoende Sugaraddiction Socker Sugar Addiction Art Konst Craft; Hantverk Charlotta_Lindvall Mending Masterexamen Ädellab Jewellery+Corpus Stockholm Konstfack Sockerberoende Konst Hantverk Ädellab Konstfack Socker Beroende
8	Richard Rolle, Emendatio vitae: Amendinge of Lyf, a Middle English translation, edited from Dublin, Trinity College, MS 432 Kempster, John Hugh January 2007 (has links) Emendatio vitae was the most widely copied of all Richard Rolle’s writings in fourteenth and fifteenth-century England, and yet in modern scholarship this important work and its early audience have received comparatively little scholarly attention. My aim has been to address this lacuna by producing an edition of one of the seven Middle English translations of the text - Amendinge of Lyf - with notes and glossary. In an introductory study I adopt a dual focus: Rolle’s intended audience, and the actual early readers of this particular Middle English translation. Firstly, I conclude that Rolle may have intended Emendatio vitae as a work of ‘pastoralia’, for secular priests, and therefore with a wider audience of the laity also in mind. This being the case, it demonstrates that the adaptation of traditionally eremitic contemplative writings for a general audience, so widespread in the fifteenth-century, was already stirring in Rolle’s day. Secondly, I look in detail at a specific crosssection of Rolle’s early readership: a translator, several scribes and correctors, and other early readers and owners. The striking thing about this segment of the text’s reception is its breadth, including a priest, a number of prominent lay women and men, and by the end of the fifteenth-century also Dominican and Benedictine nuns. Richard Rolle Emendatio vitae Amendinge of Lyf Mending of Life Hermit Hampole Contemplative Contemplation Mystic Mysticism Middle English Mystics Fourteenth-century England Fifteenth-century England Contemplative Spirituality Vernacular Theology Monasticism Lay Literacy Nicholas Watson Ralph Hanna Hope Emily Allen Rudiger Spahl Alexandra Barratt Medieval Translator Translation Scribe Copyist Editor Edition Middle English Edition Middle English Translation Dominican Benedictine Pastoralia Parnell Wrottesly Nuns Nunnery Monks Monastry Linguistic Atlas Linguistic Profile Paleography Eremitic Glossary

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