Males and females differ in morphology and behaviour, so that selection acts differently on the two sexes. This changes the relative reproductive success of males and females, and it is beneficial for parents to bias the sex ratio of their broods in favour of the sex with the best survival and breeding prospects. Differences between the sexes and brood sex ratio in Tengmalm’s owl (Aegolius funereus) in northern Sweden were investigated, using a molecular sexing technique based on PCRamplification of sex-linked CHD1 genes. Among owls caught during autumn migration, females were commoner than males, especially within juveniles. However, in contrast to earlier studies, it was shown that adult males sometimes undertake migratory movements indicatory of nomadism. Measurements of these owls revealed that sexual size dimorphism in Tengmalm’s owl is not as great as previously reported from studies carried out during the breeding season. Females were slightly larger (4% by mass) than males, probably owing to the different roles of males and females during breeding, when this dimorphism is greater. The size difference between male and female nestlings was found to be similar to that for adults in autumn, and to investigate whether this led to differential mortality, the effect of supplementary feeding on mortality of male and female nestlings was studied. Supplementary feeding reduced male mortality when vole abundance was low, and it was concluded that larger female nestlings out-competed their smaller brothers, who then suffered increased mortality when food was scarce. Recruitment of male nestlings into the breeding population declined with decreasing food supply at the time of fledging, a pattern not observed in females. Juvenile males were therefore more vulnerable to food shortage than females, both in the nest and after fledging. Mean brood sex ratio varied significantly among years characterized by different phases of the vole cycle and associated vole abundance. Broods were male-biased (63% males) in a year when the food supply was favourable during spring and summer, neutral (50%) in a year with an intermediate food supply, and female-biased (35% males) in a year when food was in short supply. Parents appeared to adaptively adjust the sex ratio of their broods according to the relative mortality risk and reproductive potential of sons and daughters.

L’étude propose une vue d’ensemble de la création textile à travers différents prismes puisque nous abordons les pratiques artistiques utilisant les costumes d’époque, la broderie, l’assemblage textile, les cheveux, les tissus traditionnels, la tapisserie ou encore l’art du quilting. Qu’il s’agisse des oeuvres de Yinka Shonibare, Louise Bourgeois, Hassan Musa, Faith Ringgold, Kimsooja ou Tracey Emin, chacun des artistes sélectionnés pour notre étude, propose une recherche visant une pertinence culturelle grâce à l’élaboration d’une pratique plastique où expériences personnelles et collectives s’entremêlent. La pertinence culturelle étant entendue ici comme une reconstruction critique et théorique d’une histoire par l’appropriation de matériaux et/ou de techniques textiles spécifiques. Nous avons opté pour un travail thématique afin d’analyser au mieux ce que nous appelons la scène textile globale. Une première partie propose l’analyse des travaux d’artistes réfléchissant sur l’histoire et la culture noire. Nous étudierons une sélection d’oeuvres mettant en lumière deux traumas : l’esclavage et le colonialisme, ainsi que leurs répercussions actuelles sur la culture et la société. Ainsi les travaux de Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Hassan Musa et Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons seront analysés afin de parler de problématiques comme « l’hybridité culturelle », la créolisation, la situation de l’art contemporain africain ou encore la représentation du corps noir dans l’art. Une seconde partie est axée sur les notions d’exil, de diaspora et de l’inconfort induit par le nomadisme, le statut « entre-deux ». Les pratiques de Mona Hatoum, de femmes artistes arabes comme Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian ou Ghazel, ainsi que les travaux de Kimsooja, Janine Antoni et Ana de la Cueva nous permettrons d’entrer au coeur d’une scène artistique dont les enjeux critiques nous portent à réfléchir sur la mondialité, dans ses aspects positifs (enrichissement, échange, dialogue) comme négatifs (uniformisation, standardisation, perte des spécificités locales). Grâce au vecteur textile, chacun de ces artistes appréhende le monde et la société d’une manière à la fois poétique, critique et politique. Une troisième partie est dédiée aux artistes (majoritairement des femmes) ayant choisi l’utilisation de techniques textiles traditionnelles comme la broderie, le tissage ou la tapisserie. Avec l’explosion de la scène féministe depuis les années 1970 jusqu’aux travaux actuels, la broderie n’est désormais plus considérée comme un loisir typiquement féminin, mais comme une véritable arme politique. Une arme dirigée vers le machisme, le patriarcat ou encore les inégalités liées au genre. Dans ce cadre, les pratiques d’artistes comme Elaine Reichek, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Joana Vasconcelos, Tracey Emin, Ghada Amer, Cathy Burghi, permettront d’aborder la broderie dans l’art contemporain de manière diversifiée et hétérogène. À travers ces différentes analyses, nous observons la déconstruction de la hiérarchie des arts et le fait que l’art textile contemporain apparaît comme un art engagé et pertinent, proposant des perspectives de réflexions riches en lien avec les problématiques du monde actuel. / The study advises an overview of the textile creation in the widest sense because we approach the artistic practices using period costumes, embroidery, textile assembly, hair, traditional fabrics, tapestry or quilting art. That it is about works of Yinka Shonibare, Louise Bourgeois, Hassan Musa, Faith Ringgold, Kimsooja or Tracey Emin, each of the artists chosen for the study, is in search of a cultural relevance within his artistic practice where personal and collective experiences are interwoven. The cultural relevance being understood here as a critical and theoretical reconstruction of a (his)story by the mean of appropriation of specific textile materials and techniques. We opted for a thematic work to analyze at best what we call the global textile scene. A first part proposes the analysis of works from artists who think about Black culture and history. We will study works that shade light on two traumas: Slavery and colonialism, as well as their echoes on nowadays culture and society. So the works of Faith Ringgold, Yinka Shonibare, Hassan Musa and Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons will be revealed to speak about issues such as “cultural hybridity”, creolization and the situation of the African contemporary art or also the representation of the Black body in art. A second part is centred on the notions of exile, Diaspora, discomfort caused by nomadism and the “in-between” status. The practices of Mona Hatoum, Arab women artists such as Lalla Essaydi, Shadi Ghadirian or Ghazel, and the works of Kimsooja, Janine Antoni and Ana de la Cueva will allow us to enter the heart of an artistic scene the critical stakes of which carry us to think about the globalisation, within its positive (enrichment, exchanges, dialog) as negatives aspects (standardisation, losing of local specificities). Each of these artists dreads the world and the society in a poetic and political way. The third part is finally dedicated to the women artists who chose the use of traditional techniques as embroidery, weaving or tapestry. Since the explosion of the feminist scene during the 1970s until current works, embroidery is henceforth no more considered as a typically feminine leisure, but as a real political weapon. A weapon steered towards the male chauvinism, patriarchy or gendered disparities. In this frame, the practices of such artists as Elaine Reichek, Judy Chicago, Louise Bourgeois, Joana Vasconcelos, Tracey Emin, Ghada Amer, Cathy Burghi, will allow to approach the embroidery in contemporary art in a diversified and heterogeneous way. Through these various analyses, we observe the deconstruction of art hierarchy and that contemporary textile art appears as a committed and relevant art, proposing perspectives of rich reflections in connection with the actual issues of our world.

A tese pretende articular nomadismo e sustentabilidade através do design. A hipótese visa a confirmar que nomadismo e sustentabilidade estão intimamente relacionados e busca entender de que maneira o designer pode incorporar estes princípios em seu processo de trabalho. Reflete sobre a questão da sustentabilidade, a partir do comportamento nômade, conforme o referencial teórico das contribuições de autores como Bernard Rudofsky, Ezio Manzini, Felix Guatari, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Maffesoli, Paul Zumthor, Robert Kronenburg, Teshome Gabriel, Victor Papanek, dentre outros, sob a ótica do design. A tese inclui resultados de entrevistas, realizadas no Brasil e no exterior, com especialistas e arquitetos que trabalham e vivenciam as temáticas pesquisadas. Contém um levantamento que se refere à identificação e análise de soluções de design para habitar um mundo onde a necessidade de se deslocar tem se tornado cada vez mais recorrente. As propostas para habitações móveis e adaptáveis vão além de categorias usuais, por isso, o design sem fronteiras atravessa os limites entre arquitetura e design por hibridismos que vagueiam entre edifíciosveículos; mobiliárioferramentas; vestuárioequipamentos. Os cinco capítulos são divididos tematicamente nas categorias: Partir; Reconhecer o Local, Conhecer os Outros; Buscar os Recursos; Definir a Duração e Retornar, oferecendo uma chave de leitura sobre a jornada nômade. O objetivo da tese é gerar diretrizes projetuais inovadoras que considerem as formas contemporâneas de vida nômade, respeitando os requisitos ambientais. Estas diretrizes são apresentadas na conclusão, como direcionamento aos designers. / The thesis aims to articulate nomadism and sustainability through design. The hypothesis aims to confirm that nomadism and sustainability are closely related and tries to understand how designer can incorporate these principles in work process. It reflects about sustainability issues and nomadic behavior, accoding to the theoretical referencial of the contributions of authors such as Bernard Rudofsky, Ezio Manzini, Felix Guatari, Gilles Deleuze, Michel Maffesoli, Paul Zumthor, Robert Kronenburg, Teshome Gabriel, Victor Papanek amongst others, under the optics of design. The thesis includes results of interviews, carried through in Brazil and abroad, with specialists and architects who work and experience the thematic searched. It has a survey to identify and to analyze design solutions to inhabit a world where the necessity for dislocation has become more and more recurrent. The proposals for mobile and adaptable dwellings go beyond usual categories, therefore, design without borders crosses the limits between architecture and design to hybrid forms that wanders between buildingvehicles; furnituretools; garmentequipment. The five chapters are divided by theme in categories To go away; To recognize the place, To know the others; To catch resources; To define duration; To go back providing a range of keys for interpretation of the nomadic journey. The goal of the thesis is to generate innovative design directions that consider the contemporaries forms of nomadic life, respecting the environmental requirements. These design directions are presented in the conclusion, as suggestions for designers.

Submitted by Fabiano Vassallo (fabianovassallo2127@gmail.com) on 2017-05-05T18:34:43Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO TAMY PIMENTA VERSÃO FINAL.pdf: 2743585 bytes, checksum: 5b8cca0451dd291ce743ff0b0bf71f92 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Josimara Dias Brumatti (bcgdigital@ndc.uff.br) on 2017-06-12T16:40:29Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO TAMY PIMENTA VERSÃO FINAL.pdf: 2743585 bytes, checksum: 5b8cca0451dd291ce743ff0b0bf71f92 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-06-12T16:40:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) DISSERTAÇÃO TAMY PIMENTA VERSÃO FINAL.pdf: 2743585 bytes, checksum: 5b8cca0451dd291ce743ff0b0bf71f92 (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Esta dissertação propõe-se a analisar o nomadismo presente na obra poética de Rui Pires Cabral – poeta e tradutor português –, desenvolvendo o conceito tanto em seu aspecto geográfico, concernente às movimentações pelo espaço referenciadas nos versos, quanto formal, baseado nos deslocamentos intermidiáticos presentes nessa poética. Nesse sentido, no primeiro momento busca-se pensar como as constantes desterritorializações realizadas pelo eu lírico constituem uma subjetividade desenraizada e forasteira que, por sua vez, é detentora de uma potente resistência face ao sedentarismo imposto pela sociedade; enquanto que, no segundo, objetiva-se demonstrar as relações intermidiáticas entre poesia e música, poesia e outras formas literárias, e poesia e imagem, realizadas a partir de um processo criativo dinâmico ao qual chamamos “nomadismo poético”, com ênfase na colagem / This dissertation aims at analyzing the nomadism inside the poetical work of Rui Pires Cabral – Portuguese poet and translator –, developing the concept in its geographic aspect, concerning the movements along the space referred in the verses, and its formal aspect, based on the intermedial dislocations present in that poetics. Therefore, at first we intend to question how the constant desterritorializations done by the poetical eye constitute a landless and foreign subjectivity that, on its turn, possesses a powerful resistance against the imposed sedentarism; while in the second moment we aim to demonstrate the intermedial relations between poetry and music, poetry and other literary forms, and poetry and image, done through a dynamic creative process which we called “poetical nomadism”, with a focus on collage

My diploma work is focused on topic of environmental responsibility, priviledge of mobility, nomadism, borders and dreaming of utopic un/realities. In site-specific instalation I combine sound, video, painting and text.

Be moving, seek, hunt for sth, can´t find it so far, that is a promise of paradise, or a paradise itself. Mobility as a protest, pursuit of adventure, searching for escape, authenticity or identity.

This thesis "Anything is thing enough to party" seeks to explore the knowledge base of Jane Bennett's vital materialism and analyzes the connections between advanced capitalism, mobility and unpredictable movement of goods and things from the perspective of object oriented ontology. The thesis also focuses on the new perspective of ready-made object and perspective of installation. In order to research the topic and implement the practical part of the project, this study took place in Mexico as a self-initiated art residency in order to explore flows of found objects under the gaze of a foreigner.

In my master thesis I deal the with specific creation of communities on the Internet. The aim of this essay is to contribute to the debate about the problematics of the Internet and its role in the postmodern society. The basic idea is that the physical and virtual world leads to formation of communities. I believe that association with communities can be considered as a natural human phenomenon. Internet is perceived as a space, which provides the opportunity for its users to organize themselves into virtual communities. The question is if the creation of virtual communities is the goal of postmodern society. On the one hand Internet can be seen as a space of strengthening personal individuality, because of freedom and authonomy it provides. But on the other hand communities could place demands on their members, thereby they represent certain limitation of thein member's individuality. In this thesis I verify the hypothesis that the Internet is a space that leads to formation of virtual communities at the expense of developing one's own individuality.

The phenomenon of Digital Nomads (DN) is quickly becoming a rising trend within the knowledge workforce. Their idea is to work remotely and travel the world at the same time. In this thesis 8 semi-structured interviews with DNs were performed to answer the following research questions: (1) What kind of challenges do Digital Nomads face and how do they overcome them? (2) What can we learn from digital nomadism in relation to the future of work? Half of the participants were self-employed DN and the other half were employed by a company. Challenges they faced were divided into three perspectives: individual, work-related and global challenges. Their definition of a ‘true’ DN, their attitudes towards corporate work and experienced challenges are presented in the findings. By analyzing the findings, DN in relation to the future of work is discussed as well as challenges DN and corporates face together and suggestions on how to create a better collaboration between the two is presented.

[pt] Deslocar-se no horizonte impossível propõe múltiplas articulações em torno da questão da estrangeiridade. A narrativa Durante a construção da Muralha da China, de Franz Kafka, oferece o modelo estrutural, em que, a partir de blocos erguidos e dispostos num fluxo de viagem, são compostas zonas de vizinhança heterogêneas. Em 2007, Biño Sauitzvy, artista nascido no sul do Brasil, que havia migrado para a França quatro anos antes, retornava para apresentações de seus dois trabalhos mais recentes, H to H e La Divina. São produções intersecionais, entre a dança-teatro e a performance, em que um jovem diretor de teatro regressa como performer, coreógrafo e bailarino. No contato da narradora da tese com esse corpo novo se dá o encontro com o estrangeiro que se revela ali. É ele o meio disparador deste trabalho. O estrangeiro se apresenta nas relações corpo-gênero-sexo, em discussões em torno do eixo linguagem-língua-escrita-silêncio, em desdobramentos sociais, e em diferentes aparições de fronteiras e suas fissuras. Essa situação se impõe na escrita e é discutida no cruzamento entre trabalhos de arte (performance, dança-teatro, artes plásticas e literatura), pensamento teórico e experiência fabuladora. Busca-se assim a elaboração de uma escrita no caminho aberto pela pesquisadora e escritora americana Maggie Nelson, isto é, o de uma autoteoria — gênero que desenvolve a partir de modos de escrita presentes em obras de Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag e de Paul B. Preciado. É a partir desses textos e espaços que se desenvolve uma escrita em movimento, atravessada, por fim, pela estratégia fragmentária do escritor Jean Genet em Diário de um ladrão e Um cativo apaixonado, produzindo uma tese em que vida, memória, viagem e escrita se percorrem mutuamente. / [en] Moving into the impossible horizon proposes multiple articulations around the issue of foreignness. The narrative During the construction of the Wall of China, by Franz Kafka, offers the structural model, in which, heterogeneous zones of similarities are composed from blocks erected and arranged in a flux of journey. In 2007, Biño Sauitzvy, an artist born in southern Brazil, who had migrated to France four years earlier, returned to give presentations of his two most recent works, H to H and La Divina. They are inter-sectional productions, between dance-theater and performance, in which a young theater director returns as a performer, choreographer and dancer. In the contact of the narrator of the thesis with this new body occurs the encounter with the foreigner that reveals itself there. He is the trigger for this work. The foreigner presents himself in the body-gender-sex relations, in discussions around the language-language-writing-silence axis, in social unfoldings, and in different appearances of frontiers and their fissures. This situation imposes itself in the writing and is discussed in the intersection between works of art (performance, dance-theater, plastic arts and literature), theoretical thinking and the fabling experience. It seeks to elaborate a writing on the path opened by the American researcher and writer Maggie Nelson, that is, of self-theory - a genre that develops from the writing modes present in works by Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag and Paul B Precious. It is from these texts and spaces that a writing in movement is developed, crossed, finally, by the fragmentary strategy of the writer Jean Genet in Diary of a thief and A passionate captive, producing a thesis in which life, memory, travel and writing cross (trespass) each other.