Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Western Sydney, 2004. / A thesis presented to the University of Western Sydney, College of Arts, Education and Social Sciences, School of Contemporary Arts, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Contemporary Arts. Includes bibliographies. Electronic version minus appendices 2, 3, 4 is also available online at: http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/29745.

Thesis (M. Arch.)--Carleton University, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 136-138). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaf 21).

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Orientador: Antonio Carlos Vitte / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Geociências / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T23:16:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cisotto_MarianaFerreira_D.pdf: 8471731 bytes, checksum: 56abe044368e520f860dd5cb0cb1208d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: A presente tese consiste em uma pesquisa sobre os a urbanização da província de Santiago do Chile, que segue atualmente o padrão de ocupação de grandes centros urbanos caracterizado como difuso, disperso e denso. Buscamos a compreensão de como a natureza é apropriada no espaço urbano, assumindo a natureza nas cidades como elemento raro no urbano adensado e representado pelos parques públicos urbanos e os bolsões de vegetação em loteamentos residenciais recentes, compreendendo como esses espaços atuam como representativos de natureza. Da disseminação da questão ambiental decorre uma valorização da natureza pelos indivíduos que é utilizada como discurso pelo mercado imobiliário na escala da coletividade, e assim garante valoração por particularidades ambientais, como uma adequada qualidade do ar, um dos elementos raros em Santiago / Abstract: This thesis consists in a research on urbanization of the province of Santiago de Chile, which currently follows the pattern of occupation of large urban centers characterized as diffuse, dense and sprawl city. We are aiming to understand how nature is suitable for urban areas. Natural environment in dense and sprawl cities can be assumed as a rare element. The urban public parks and green areas in housing allotments are the representatives of it, acting as representative of natural environment. The appreciation of green in landscape by individuals is linked with the dissemination of environmental issues. And nowadays the interest in green spaces has been used as a discourse by the real estate market. This process can be visualized in the scale of the comunas of metropolitan Area of Santiago de Chile. Ensuring an assessment by environmental characteristics such as adequate air quality, another rare elements in Santiago / Doutorado / Análise Ambiental e Dinâmica Territorial / Doutora em Geografia

An ecological paradigm shift from the "balance of nature" to the "flux of nature" will change the way we aesthetically appreciate nature if we adopt scientific cognitivism-the view that aesthetic appreciation of nature must be informed by scientific knowledge. Aesthetic judgments are subjective, though we talk about aesthetic qualities as if they were objectively inherent in objects, events, or environments. Aesthetic judgments regarding nature are correct insofar as they are part of a community consensus regarding the currently dominant scientific paradigm. Ecological science is grounded in metaphors: nature is a divine order, a machine, an organism, a community, or a cybernetic system. These metaphors stimulate and guide scientific practice, but do not exist independent of a conceptual framework. They are at most useful fictions in terms of how they reflect the values underlying a paradigm. Contemporary ecology is a science driven more by aesthetic than metaphysical considerations. I review concepts in the history of nature aesthetics such as the picturesque, the sublime, disinterestedness, and formalism. I propose an analogy: just as knowledge of art history and theory should inform aesthetic appreciation of art, knowledge of natural history and ecological theory should inform aesthetic appreciation of nature. The "framing problem," is the problem that natural environments are not discrete objects, so knowing what to focus on in an environment is difficult. The "fusion problem" is the problem of how to fuse the sensory aspect of aesthetic appreciation with highly theoretical scientific knowledge. I resolve these two problems by defending a normative version of the theory-laden observation thesis. Positive aesthetics is the view that insofar as nature is untouched by humans, it is always beautiful and never ugly. I defend an amended and updated version of positive aesthetics that is consistent with the central elements of contemporary ecology, and emphasize the heuristic, exegetical, and pedagogical roles aesthetic qualities play in ecological science.

This thesis deals with the development of a body of my own creative work and the teaching of jewelry-working in the secondary schools. Emphasis in both instances was given to the use of the natural environment as a stimulus for design ideas. The philosophy of nature as art forms has been the focus of my creative endeavors for several years. This lead to the design and completion of jewelry, flatware, and holloware in this study. Knowledge gained in my work experiences formed the basis and background of the presentation of these skills to secondary students.

Three issues related to the prediction of aesthetic response of natural landscapes were investigated. First, information regarding the degree of correspondence between two conceptually different yet commonly used criteria of aesthetic response--ratings of scenic quality and preference ratings--was sought. Second, the relative efficiency of and interrelationships between predictor variables stemming from different philosophical paradigms of landscape aesthetics was of interest. Examination of such a variety of predictors towards the same criteria utilizing the same settings as stimuli had not been previously researched. Direct comparison of types to one another, and in combination as predictors, would indicate both whether different approaches were measuring similar aesthetic response variance, and in what ways they differed. Third, the extent to which a motivational choice model based in expectancy theory could predict environmental preference was of interest. This model represented an aesthetic predictor in terms of environmental utility, i.e., meaningfulness within the context of potential activity, and was thus a departure from traditional predictors based on design elements and the arrangement of physical features. Data were gathered from a total 354 subjects responding to 60 different natural landscape scenes (color slides) from a wide variety of United States' biomes. Results indicated that the two aesthetic criteria were nearly identical, both in relation to one another (r=.98) and through their correlate patterns to 33 predictor variables. Predictor variables from three paradigms: the psychophysical (physical features of the environment), the cognitive (transactional variables involving interpretive patterning of physical variables), and the experiential (environmental utility in terms of potential for activity) were all highly effective. Multiple regression equations for specific types had predicted R-Squares ranging from .47 to .84. In turn, detailed analyses of the transactional and utility variables via multiple regression (using the physical variables as predictors) indicated they could be defined by these managerially controllable terms. Finally, the environmental utility variable was examined in more detail through a variety of expectancy models. Of major interest was that environmental familiarity was a strong moderator of the utility effect, with highly familiar settings yielding more accurate prediction than unfamiliar settings. A number of managerial implications and suggestions for follow-up research are made. / Ph. D. / incomplete_metadata

The relationship between the changes in color values of scenic landscapes, and the corresponding shifts in viewers' preferences to those changed environments, was the focus of the presented research. Color modifications, either natural or based on some human intervention, provide visual clues that an environment has undergone some transformation. These color changes can occur at both the micro and macro scale, can having temporal dimensions, and can be a result of combinations of both physical landscape change, and shifts in an observer's perspective with respect to that landscape. The research reviewed two existing models and related them in an integrated program of scenic change analysis. The first, a bio-physical remote sensing model, identified the relationships between the existing bio-physical environmental conditions and measured color signatures of selected landscape features. The second, a psychophysical perception model, established relationships between the landscape's bio-physical attributes and measured perceptual responses to those environments. By merging aspects of each model, the research related the changing scenic color patterns with observers' responses to those changed environments. The research methodology presented a program of scenic change analysis incorporating several technologies including (1) ground-based biological inventories, (2) remote sensing, (3) geographic information systems (GIS), and (4) computer visualization. A series of investigations focused on landscape scenes selected from a high elevation coniferous forest in southern Utah. Three initial scenic investigations compared (1) the impact of changing view angles on scenic color values, (2) color shifts due to changing sun-illumination angles within a day, and (3) color shifts due to changing biological conditions over a 12-month period. A fourth investigation measured the color changes caused by a spruce bark beetle outbreak, and developed a series of color signatures to simulate the color shifts indicative of an outbreak at different stages of development. These signatures were applied to digitized site photographs to produce a series of visualizations displaying different levels of beetle damage. The visualizations were then applied in a series of perceptual experiments to test the precision and reliability of the visual simulations.

Lam Wai Yin, Helen. / "Architecture Department, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Architecture Programme 2006-2007, design report." / Includes bibliographical references (p. 157).