Text in Afrikaans / The purpose of this study is the development of a Gestalt therapeutic program for conscious, multisensory perception. The program is aimed at children in the age group between eight and twelve years. A qualitative research approach is used with grounded theory as research strategy. Applied research is used with incidental sampling. The objectives as the steps taken to attain the purpose were literature study of the main concepts, the development of the program, and the refinement of the program. A collective energy model is designed to conduct the program in a group of eight children. After the observation of the interaction in the group and feedback by the group members the program was refined in nine sessions. The research was done in the theoretical framework of gestalt play therapy. / Social work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)

Frågeställning: Vilken utveckling av Akademibokhandelns fysiska butiker kan förstärka konkurrenskraften? Syfte: Uppsatsens syfte är att utreda och analysera vilka olika konkurrensmedel som kan ha relevans för Akademibokhandelns framtid, liksom möjlig utveckling av stödtjänster och potentiell breddning av verksamheten. Vidare är avsikten att klargöra hur tillämpning av sensoriska stimuli i Akademibokhandelns servicelandskap kan få betydelse för kunderna samt hur design och uppbyggnad av servicelandskapen kan stärka verksamheten. Metod: En kvalitativ forskningsmetod har använts med inslag av både induktion och deduktion. Datainsamlingen har skett via djupintervjuer och en fokusgrupp. Vidare har även resultatet genomgått en kvalitativ dataanalys. Resultat och slutsatser: Resultatet visar på att implementeringen av sensoriska stimulin i Akademibokhandelns servicelandskap på många sätt är till fördel för företaget, eftersom de generellt har en positiv påverkan på kundernas tjänsteupplevelse. Vidare konstaterades även att en utveckling av företagets stödtjänster ytterligare skulle stärka deras konkurrenskraft. Teoretiskt och praktiskt bidrag: Det teoretiska bidrag som arbetet genererat är hur ett servicelandskap med fokus på implementering av sinnesmarknadsföring kan gestaltas samt hur en integration mellan olika försäljningskanaler kan ta vid. Vi har även presenterat ett antal praktiska bidrag som är relevanta för Akademibokhandelns framtida utveckling. Nyckelord: Servicelandskap, Detaljhandel, Stödtjänster, Bokhandel, Utveckling, Multisensorik, Sinnesmarknadsföring, Breddning av verksamhet / Research question: Which development of Akademibokhandeln physical stores can enhance competitiveness? Purpose: This thesis aims to investigate and analyse the various means of competition that may have relevance to Akademibokhandelns future, as well as the possible development of support services and the potential expansion of the business. The purpose is to clarify if the application of sensory stimuli in Akademibokhandelns servicescape may have implications for customers as well as how the design and construction of the servicescapes can strengthen the business. Method: The thesis has elements of both induction and deduction, and a qualitative research method has been used. Data has been collected through in-depth interviews and a focus group. The data has gone through a qualitative data analysis. Results and conclusions: The result shows an implementation of sensory stimuli in Akademibokhandeln servicescape in many ways will benefit the company as they generally have a positive impact on the customer service experience. Additionally it was found that a development of the company´s support services would further enhance their competitiveness Theoretical and practical contributions: The theoretical contribution this report has generated is based on how a servicescape with a focus on an implementation of sensory marketing can be portrayed and how integration between different sales channels can be beneficial to the company. We have further on presented a number of practical contributions which we view as relevant to Akademibokhandelns Future Development. Key words: Servicescape, Retail, Support Services, Bookstore, Development, Multi-sensory, Sensory Marketing, Expansion of activities

This study problematizes how the history, theory, and practice of art education (as documented) have predominantly focused on visually-based artworks and on visual aspects of other, multi-sensory artworks. I posit that existing pedagogical approaches become particularly limiting when addressing contemporary artworks that engage multiple senses and question how art educators might adapt such paradigms to consider individual learners’ multi-sensory experiences—particularly, aural, bodily, and spatial, as well as visual, experiences—as they operate in relation to video art in installation. To offer a point of reference for subsequent discussion, I narrate and interpret my own multi-sensory experience of Krzysztof Wodiczko’s "...OUT OF HERE: The Veterans Project" (2009), and then situate both visual and non-visual aspects of my experience in relation to various possible experiences of time, still and changing images, sound, the static or mobile body, other bodies, and space. By synthesizing and building upon recent scholarly literature pertaining to interpretation, multi-sensory and bodily experience, and learner-centered pedagogy, I consider theoretical and practical implications for teaching and learning with video art in installation, and recommend art educators’ mediation through creating communities of questioning, listening, and “speaking with,” in addition to looking. Throughout this study, I argue that encouraging learners to interpret their individual bodily and sensory experiences of artworks should be considered an essential part of the process of making meaning of those artworks in art education environments and, more importantly, of the process of helping learners to become more critically aware of their own sensory experiences in the world. / text

This thesis reports a qualitative study of the use of multimodal technologies in museums— specifically, it examines the relationship between visitor engagement and learning, focusing on the use of multimodal technologies during school trips. The study was conducted in the Natural History Museum and the Churchill Museum, both in London, with participants from several secondary schools. These sites were chosen due to their concern for the added value of learning and public engagement, including their education-orientated investments in technology, museum activities, and architecture. In the course of data collection, visits were made to six schools and both museum sites; the participants included 117 students, 18 teachers, three museum educators, and eight museum curators and media designers. The study used a combination of video data analysis, stimulated recall interviews, document analysis, and engaging students in talk and reflection about their visit both at the museum and afterwards. The qualitative approach and multimodal analysis identify how the students’ social interactions help them construct learning through decontextualised bodily movements, which trigger contextualised discussion. The study demonstrates how multimodal analysis can be used in research to capture a wide scope of information, while maintaining a micro-level of analysis and understanding—here, capturing the detail of students’ interactions and perceptions. The findings suggest that the learning experience in museums is produced through multiple layers of interaction and through the exchange of physical and psychological behaviour among people, resources, and space. Here, the multimodal technologies with which the students engaged essentially acted as initial platforms for sensory stimuli and social interaction, supporting their peer communication and motivating them to further explore both the given topic and their own understanding of their learning methods. It was the students’ further conversation, observation, and participation, however, that created a more meaningful and entertaining learning experience in the museums.

This thesis asks how the curatorial framing of medieval objects - the processes of selection, classification, display and interpretation - affect how medieval objects are made legible within the museum. It investigates how different collectors and curators have deployed medieval objects over a period of two hundred and fifty years of museological practice. Throughout this history, medieval objects have been appropriated within a range of museological narratives that have positioned them variously as objects of curiosity, utility, scientific analysis, nationalistic interest and as sites of scholarly and popular attention. My purpose is to inquire how the epistemological re-positioning of objects is articulated through their presentation within the framework of the collection, museum or temporary exhibition and to question how the mechanics of display facilitate particular readings of medieval objects. I then consider how certain curatorial approaches may produce unintended effects that render the medieval object illegible or problematic in unexpected ways. I also acknowledge that unforeseen exhibitionary outcomes may not be solely due to the effects of curatorial intervention but may be wrought by the agency of objects themselves. This thesis therefore examines medieval objects as active participants that play a crucial role in influencing the communication of curatorial objectives and in affecting how they may be apprehended through exhibitionary practice. The thesis examines sixteen chronologically presented case studies, beginning in the mid eighteenth century and concluding in the early twenty-first century, that represent important or influential episodes in the history of the display of medieval art. It traces a selective history of the various ways medieval objects have been culturally positioned at particular points in time to reveal how curatorial techniques have worked to reinforce or undermine the perception of medieval objects as carriers of specific meanings. Through the examination of historical approaches to the display of medieval objects I reveal how familiar tropes of display, such as the use of specific lighting techniques and stained glass have characterized the museological staging of medieval objects and how these have endured into the twenty-first century. Drawing on performance theory, material culture theory and sensory theory I identify how the biographical histories, material characteristics and sensory properties of medieval objects have been re-activated or suppressed by curators to encourage audiences to engage with them in specific ways. This theoretical approach reveals a previously unacknowledged sensory cultural history of engagement with the medieval object and highlights how historical approaches that have privileged embodied engagement with objects continue to inform contemporary museological practice. I also draw on Actor-Network theory to illuminate how medieval objects may be understood as active agents within the chain of correspondences that links people, objects and exhibitions at particular points throughout this history. In this way I delineate an exhibitionary landscape through which we can understand medieval objects as multi-authored and polysemic entities but principally as the products of exhibitionary practice.

Syfte: Uppsatsen syftar till att undersöka utvecklingen av sinnesmarknadsföring genom att ta reda på hur det används av företag inom dagligvarubranschen.   Metod: Studien har en kvalitativ forskningsstrategi. Fem intervjuer och tio observationer utfördes som metod i undersökningen. Intervjuerna utfördes på fem anställda på olika dagligvarubutiker i Solna, och samma butiker observerades under två tillfällen. Urvalet valdes utifrån ett bekvämlighetsurval.   Slutsatser: Sinnesmarknadsföring är ett relativt okänt begrepp. Synen är människans största sinne och därför riktas marknadsföringen främst mot visuella uttryck. I den här undersökningen har det visat sig att lukten är ett lika viktigt sinne, eftersom att dofter har förmågan att väcka minnen och även stimulera de övriga sinnena. ICA Maxi var den enda butik av samtliga undersökta, som skapade en multisensorisk varumärkesupplevelse där alla sinnen samarbetade. / Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine Sensory marketing by finding out how it is used by companies in the retail industry. Method: The study has a qualitative research strategy. Five interviews and ten observations were carried out as method for the research. The interviews were conducted with five employee at various grocery stores in Solna, the stores were also observed during two occasions. They were selected based on a convenience sample. Conclusion: Sensory marketing is a relatively unknown term. The sight is our biggest sense, therefore are marketers primarily targeting visual expressions. This study has shown that the smell is an important sense, because its ability to evoke memories and stimulate the other senses as well. ICA Maxi was the only store of all investigated who had created a multisensory brand experience where all senses cooperated.

This practicum focuses on end-of-life care for older adults in rural Canada. Specifically, it addresses links between domesticity and terminal illness amongst adults within the building typology of hospice. The objective of the practicum is the creation of a model for hospice design in rural Manitoba. The hospice will be supported in pre-fabricated housing. The practicum will address contemporary issues arising from publicly-funded healthcare, the aging Canadian population, and cultural issues surrounding dying, death, and grieving. The main goals to be achieved with this project were the creation of care facilities that encourage dialogue, education, and wellbeing for all users. Additionally, the facilities will be designed as multi-sensory environments where all human senses can be stimulated, expanding beyond typical visual stimuli.

I denna studie undersöks vad som sker i intensivundervisning där en SUM-elev, elev med särskilda utbildningsbehov i matematik, erbjuds multisensorisk undervisning. Vilken utveckling som sker vad gäller elevens taluppfattning, samt olika uttryck för lärande i undervisningsprocessen är också något som studeras. Studien har en kvalitativ ansats och har genomförts som en fallstudie med en SUM-elev i årskurs ett. Fallstudien innehåller en intervention med matematiktester vilka genomförts före och efter en intensivundervisning i grundläggande taluppfattning. Deltagande observationer av undervisningssekvensen har genomförts, vilka också har filmats. Till analysen används Bruners teori om representationer tillsammans med Vygotskijs teori om lärande ur ett sociokulturellt perspektiv. Representationerna i Bruners teori beskrivs som den enaktiva som är handlingsbaserad, den ikoniska som är bildbaserad och den symboliska som är språkbaserad. Resultatet visar i detta fall att en intensivundervisning med multisensorisk approach påverkar elevens taluppfattning positivt och elevens lösningsfrekvens mellan för- och eftertest tredubblats. En utveckling av bland annat matematiska förmågor var synlig. Eleven utvecklade lärande i de olika representationerna där inledningsvis den enaktiva representationen användes och succesivt även den ikoniska- och symboliska representationen. Resultatet visar en positiv påverkan på elevens självförtroende i matematiska situationer, främst gällande symbolhantering. / This study examines what happens in the situation of intense, multi-sensory instruction for a SEN-student in the subject of mathematics, a student with special education needs in mathematics. What kind of development is happening in terms of the student's number sense, as well as various forms of learning in the teaching process is also something that is studied. The study has a qualitative approach and was implemented as a case study with a SEN-student in the subject of mathematics in year one. The case study includes an intervention with math tests which were taken before and after an intensive teaching of basic number sense. Participant observation of the teaching sequence has been implemented, which also have been filmed. For the analysis Bruner's theory of representations along with Vygotsky's theory of learning from a sociocultural perspective is used. The representations in Bruner's theory is described as the enactive that is action-based, the iconic that is image based and the symbolic which is language-based.  The result in this case shows that an intensive instruction with a multi-sensory approach affects the student's number sense in a positive way. The pupils solution frequency between pre- and posttest tripled. The Pupil developed learning in the different representations where initially the enactive representation was used and gradually even the iconic- and symbolic representation. A development including mathematical competences were visible. The results show a positive impact on the pupil self-confidence in mathematical situations, primarily in situations for symbol processing.

This practicum focuses on end-of-life care for older adults in rural Canada. Specifically, it addresses links between domesticity and terminal illness amongst adults within the building typology of hospice. The objective of the practicum is the creation of a model for hospice design in rural Manitoba. The hospice will be supported in pre-fabricated housing. The practicum will address contemporary issues arising from publicly-funded healthcare, the aging Canadian population, and cultural issues surrounding dying, death, and grieving. The main goals to be achieved with this project were the creation of care facilities that encourage dialogue, education, and wellbeing for all users. Additionally, the facilities will be designed as multi-sensory environments where all human senses can be stimulated, expanding beyond typical visual stimuli.

Text in Afrikaans / The purpose of this study is the development of a Gestalt therapeutic program for conscious, multisensory perception. The program is aimed at children in the age group between eight and twelve years. A qualitative research approach is used with grounded theory as research strategy. Applied research is used with incidental sampling. The objectives as the steps taken to attain the purpose were literature study of the main concepts, the development of the program, and the refinement of the program. A collective energy model is designed to conduct the program in a group of eight children. After the observation of the interaction in the group and feedback by the group members the program was refined in nine sessions. The research was done in the theoretical framework of gestalt play therapy. / Social work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)