This work is an exploration in which clothes are expanded in space, being the mediator between the body and the surrounding space. Aiming to explore clothes in spatial compositions through deconstruction, generating garment installations that challenge the perception and relationship of body, fashion, and architecture. It consists of a series of experiments that explore the space by opening up, deconstructing, and expanding garments, creating tension between the body, and the arranged or existing space. Exploring the material of design through experiments in order to find a better understanding of it, the research of this applied work is based on the ideas of experimental design research. Resulting in six examples of garment installations that challenge the viewpoint of the importance of clothes as it also proposes a new way of thinking in the communication between fashion and architecture.

Excavations at the Mary M. B. Wakefield Estate in rural Milton, Massachusetts produced an assemblage of household artifacts linked to the Byrnes family, a first-generation Irish-American family who lived in the estate’s farmhouse in the early twentieth century. Though the Byrneses were born in America, they were part of the Irish Diaspora, a community defined by its place outside Ireland yet connected to their homeland and to each other through the self-identification as a member of a diaspora, termed a diasporic consciousness. Through a focus on everyday household practices, I examine how members of the family formed their social identities by balancing the appeal of Americanization with the pull of their Irish heritage. Archaeologists studying the Irish Diaspora have largely focused on the nineteenth-century urban Irish immigrant experience. By reconstructing Milton’s Irish landscape in this period through documentary evidence and spatial analysis, I expand on previous studies by exploring how geographical context and generational status shape the creation and maintenance of a diasporic consciousness. I find that the Irish in Milton, and particularly the Byrnes family, had far less access to the traditional social, cultural, and economic features of urban Irish immigrant enclaves of previous generations, such as the presence of churches, Irish-owned stores, voluntary associations, and Irish neighborhoods. Analyses of artifacts related to foodways and dining, personal adornment and dress, and childrearing and children’s play demonstrate alternate strategies that the Byrnes family used to maintain traditional aspects of Irish society. They purchased specific types and quantities of tableware and beverages needed to fulfill the customs and traditions of Irish hospitality, and infused their daily lives with Catholic devotional rituals and childrearing beliefs. But while they engaged in Irish cultural and religious traditions, they did so within larger household practices that expressed their adoption of American ideals of respectability and refinement, thriftiness, morality, efficiency, and hygiene. By setting a formal table, wearing refined dress, and executing appropriate infant care, the Byrnes constructed a domestic sphere that enabled them to form their own version of respectable Irish-American identity that remained even after they left the farmhouse.

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This dissertation represents a product of research conducted in 2004-2005 examining the curriculum network of an elementary teacher education program at a large public university in the United States. Using ethnographic data (e.g., interviews with preservice teachers and faculty, observations in and outside of coursework, and other artifacts), I address the questions of how preservice teachers characterized relationships between teacher education program components, how those characterizations varied and changed, and how preservice teachers explained the value or relevance of program components to teaching. I discuss how preservice teachers shaped their understandings of main program emphases. I describe how they tended to experience closer correspondence between program recommendations and the policies and philosophies in certain schools and classrooms in suburban county schools near the university compared to the policies and philosophies in certain schools and classrooms they identified as having, for example, fewer resources (e.g., funds, manipulatives). I make the case that the program-based philosophies developed by and for the preservice teachers helped to coordinate context-specific meanings and relevance for program components and further to construct failures of the kind where either (1) schools interfered with the accomplishment of program objectives or (2) program objectives proved unrealistic for schools. Without intending to, and perhaps even contrary to certain program intentions, program suggestions treating instruction as context-independent tended to favor middle-class White children and to marginalize urban or diverse schools and classrooms, or schools having more limited resources, as viable places to engage in program-recommended practices for good teaching. These results have potential implications for practice in teacher education and mathematics education and also have relevance to discussions of ongoing standards-based teacher education and mathematics education reforms. I offer that these results help to reveal certain limitations of popular ways of defining and researching preservice teachers' learning and teacher education program coursework and fieldwork relationships. I raise the question of whether teacher educators or researchers might benefit from considering how to more substantively integrate curriculum and give greater attention to place and to the broader socio-political goals we aim to accomplish through our work. / Ph. D.

This research provides one account of the complex relationship between differentiated experiences of deprivation and the dominant poverty construct in the Jamaican context. It is based on research conducted over a period of nine months in a Jamaican 'squatter' community, Windsor, in the Parish of St. Ann. The study is organised into two 'positional' chapters (conceptual framework and methodology) and four direct 'response' chapters that demonstrate the ways in which the official poverty approach (from concept to policy) resonates with the living experiences of individuals. The 'response' chapters step back from debates on the measurement of poverty so as to critically and reflexively consider the construct's conceptual and definitional antinomies. This is done through: (i) an excavation of a partial social history of poverty discourses in Jamaica; (ii) an evaluation of problems with knowledge production in the participatory method; (iii) an examination of the implications of the abstraction of the poor from spatial relations; and (iv) an exploration of different ways in which individuals 'picture' living in their surroundings. The conclusion drawn is that it is necessary to begin engaging in a multidisciplinary project which accounts for difference within the poverty construct. This is because, insofar as it is possible, the removal of the most extreme forms of deprivation is not in itself sufficient for the eradication of the social relations that give rise to these privative 'conditions'. There instead needs to be critical engagement with relations of deprivation as resident in the social body as a whole in conceptualising poverty.

The scope of this piece of work is to reflect upon a series of past and recent publications as well as those in progress referring to innovations in architectural education which has already led and/or might lead to major shifts in future practices. This is an opportunity for the author to reflect on concepts and ideas for the future of architecture which is currently undergoing innovative developments by embracing new theories and enduring professional formation according to contemporary trends. This reflective work has been based on publication of research, including ongoing editorial work related to this topic. The author’s ideas and philosophy on human-oriented design and fractal patterns of social life has embraced dynamics of urban developments in modern and future cities. She has succeeded in considering, uniquely interpreting and further developing ideas and theories of established authors, such as Christopher Alexander’s concepts on patterns and principles of design and Nikos Salingaros’ thermodynamic models of the built environment. The author was inspired by teachers and renowned scholars in history, philosophy and practices of architecture; her own teachers’ experiences and their teaching had offered a singular momentum in her personal career path. This long process started when her teachers succeeded in placing urbanism and architecture side by side inside the Faculty of Architecture of Florence back in the 1970s. Hence the author reflects not only on recent publications, but also on others that have been published in the last decade or so. In this report it is evident that materials produced during these years have been essential and invaluable for her later endeavours in learning, teaching and the training of designers and architects in Great Britain and beyond.

of Ph.D. Thesis Phenomenological Conception of Space Eliška Luhanová The thesis focuses on the nature of experience which a perceiving self has with other beings and on the conditions which make such an encounter possible. It emphasises the role of the spatiality, which is seen as a defining characteristic of corporeal sensible beings. Broadly speaking, the work belongs to post-phenomenological philosophy. The Introduction summarises the main methodological principles of a phenomenological approach and presents post-phenomenology as a specific discourse which rejects the egocentrism typical of classical, especially Husserlian phenomenology. The exposition proper starts with an outline of a phenomenological theory of perception (Chapter I) and continues by offering an outline of the basic ontological characteristics of sensibly given entities, especially of their trans- empirical nature (Chapter II). The following chapter briefly treats some issues related to the nature of a phenomenal field, which is described as a structure of possible ways in which beings can manifest themselves (Chapter III). The subsequent chapters form the main core of the thesis. They deal with the spatial manner of being of entities which manifest themselves (Chapter IV) and of the self which experiences them (Chapter V). The...

O presente trabalho tem como propósito principal perspectivar analiticamente como os processos de pedagogização forjam e governam determinados espaços e espacialidades. Para tanto, partimos do pressuposto de que as práticas sociais são moduladas por jogos de força que as criam e recriam espacialmente, sobretudo por meio de mecanismos pedagogizantes que ultrapassam o âmbito educacional formal, alastrando-se cada vez mais no cenário urbano contemporâneo. Assim, propomo-nos a analisar a relação entre educação e produção de espaços/espacialidades nas práticas instituídas no Parque Ibirapuera-SP. A investigação tem como marco teórico o pensamento de Michel Foucault, além de mobilizar os trabalhos de Doreen Massey, Edward Soja, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey e Rodrigo Valverde. A cartografia realizada pleiteia-se, portanto, uma derivação da perspectiva arqueogenealógica foucaultiana. De acordo com tal referencial, assinalaram-se práticas que permitiram dimensionar as transformações pedagógicas e espaciais do Parque desde sua criação, apontando para os modos como atualmente se perfaz o governamento das espacialidades e, em igual medida, as contracondutas aí tornadas possíveis. Além do levantamento bibliográfico, operamos segundo duas frentes de trabalho complementares: em primeiro lugar, a análise de documentos oficiais acerca do Parque, dos Processos da Comissão do IV Centenário da Cidade de São Paulo e de discursos jornalísticos veiculados a seu respeito pelo jornal O Estado de S. Paulo em diferentes décadas; em segundo, a observação e o registro de práticas contemporâneas ali em curso. Os resultados evidenciam uma racionalidade vincada em práticas de pedagogização, e estas, aliadas a tecnologias específicas de governamento dos espaços. Um cenário que apresenta lógicas de governo heterogêneas, que coexistem através do tempo, ajustando-se, desajustando-se ou alterando-se. Não obstante, um campo vivo de forças, de sujeitos e práticas de subjetivação. A história arqueogenealógica do Parque, assim como dos diferentes mecanismos pedagogizantes ali em voga, possibilitou deslindar o trânsito dos espaços e o governo das espacialidades pela população que dele faz uso, além das diferentes contestações dos arranjos até então configurados, demarcando traços fugidios de uma heterotopia urbana. / This work main purpose is to create an analytical perspective for how the pedagogical processes forge and govern certain spaces and spatiality. For this, we assume that social practices are modulated by power games that create and recreate them spatially, especially through pedagogical mechanisms that go beyond the formal educational context, increasingly spreading in the contemporary urban scenario. Thus, we propose to analyze the relationship between education and the production of space/spatiality in the practices established on Ibirapuera Park-SP. The investigation has as theoretical framework the thought of Michel Foucault, and mobilizes the works of Doreen Massey, Edward Soja, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey and Rodrigo Valverde. The mapping performed pleads, therefore, a derivation of the Foucauldian archaeogenealogycal perspective. According to this framework, some practices that enabled to size the pedagogical spatial transformations of the Park since its creation where singed, pointing to the ways in which currently the spatiality govern is made, in equal measure, the contraconducts then made possible. In addition to the literature, we operate according to two complementary work fronts: first, the analysis of official documents about the park, the Processes Commission of the fourth centenary of the city of São Paulo and journalistic discourses about the park conveyed by the newspaper O Estado de São Paulo in different decades; Second, the observation and recording of contemporary practices there in progress. The results show a rationality founded in pedagogical practices, and these, together with specific technologies of government of the spaces. A scenario that presents logics of heterogeneous government, which coexist over time, adjusting, maladjustment or alternating. Nevertheless, a living field of powers, of subjects and subjectivity practices. The archaeogenealogycal history of the Park, as well as the different pedagogical mechanisms there in vogue, allowed to unravel the transit of spaces and the government of the spatialitys by the population that makes use of it, in addition to the different challenges of the previously configured arrangements, marking fleeting traces of an urban heterotopia.

Lagunas são corpos de águas interiores, frequentemente orientados em posição paralela à linha de costa, e conectadas ao oceano por um ou mais restritos canais, características essas que as distinguem dos estuários. No sul do Brasil é escasso a ocorrência de ambientes lagunares, sendo os mesmos conhecidos pelo nome de lagoa, entre eles, a Lagoa do Peixe, que está inserido no Parque Nacional da Lagoa do Peixe. Este parque possui status de Reserva da Biosfera da Mata Atlântica, Sítio Ramsar e é parte da Rede Hemisférica de Reservas das Aves Limícolas Migratórias, por se constituir em importante refúgio de aves migratórias do Hemisfério Sul. O fato das lagunas serem sistemas de baixa profundidade, de mistura da coluna d´água, de alta reciclagem de matéria e nutrientes são altamente produtivas e as comunidades fitoplanctônica e microfitobêntica, esta última constituída predominantemente por diatomáceas, desempenham um papel fundamental. Apesar da importância ecológica da Lagoa do Peixe, a sua comunidade de diatomáceas bentônicas é muito pouco conhecida. O estudo teve como objetivos ampliar o conhecimento da composição taxonômica de diatomáceas bentônicas no sistema e entender a variação espacial e sazonal de atributos da comunidade em relação às variáveis ambientais, em um ciclo anual. Amostragens de sedimento foram efetuadas nas margens da porção Norte, Centro e Sul da lagoa, nas diferentes estações do ano, entre junho de 2011 e fevereiro de 2012. Este estudo demonstrou que a comunidade de diatomáceas esteve representada por 62 táxons, distribuídos em 30 gêneros e 20 famílias, sendo composta por espécies salobras e marinhas, com poucos representantes de água doce. Os gêneros que apresentaram maior número de táxons foram Amphora Ehrenb. ex Kütz, Nitzschia Hassall e Diploneis Ehrenb. ex P.T. Cleve. A riqueza, diversidade e equitabilidade) das diatomáceas apresentaram variações no espaço e no tempo. Maiores valores destes atributos foram encontrados na porção Norte da lagoa e na estação do outono. As variações estiveram relacionadas com as variáveis salinidade, temperatura, pluviosidade e ação do vento. São apresentadas 228 ilustrações das espécies com base na análise em microscópios ópticos e eletrônicos. Informações sobre as dimensões, ecologia e distribuição dos táxons também são incluídas. O total de 74% das espécies são primeiras citações para a Lagoa do Peixe, o que demonstra um aporte significativo ao conhecimento da biodiversidade neste sistema lagunar. O estudo taxonômico das diatomáceas neste sistema permitiu também ampliar a diagnose de Cocconeis sawensis Al-Handal et Riaux- Gobin, com base na observação do material tipo, oriundo de um lago salino do Iraque e verificar a ocorrência de variações morfológicas na população de Falcula hyalina Takano. / Lagoons are bodies of inland waters, often parallel to the coastline, and connected to the ocean by one or more restricted channels, which distinguish them from estuaries. In the south of Brazil there are a few lagoon environments, which are known as of Lakes (Lagoas), among them the Lagoa do Peixe, which is part of the Lagoa do Peixe National Park. This park is a Atlantic Forest Biosphere Reserve, Ramsar Site and is part of the Western Hemisphere Shorebird Reserve Network, for being an important refuge for migratory birds in the Southern Hemisphere. The fact that the lagoons are shallow with water column mixing, high-recycled matter and nutrients, the phytoplankton and microphytobenthic communities are highly productive, with the latter composed predominantly of diatoms, fundamental in thi system. Despite the ecological importance of the Lagoa do Peixe, its community of benthic diatoms is little known. The objective of this study was to increase the knowledge of the composition of benthic diatoms in the system and to understand the spatial and seasonal variation of community attributes in relation to environmental variables over an annual cycle. Sediment samples were taken on the shores of the North, Center and South portion of the lagoon, in different seasons of the year, between June 2011 and February 2012. This study showed that the diatom community was represented by 62 taxa, distributed in 30 genera and 20 families, composed mostly of brackish and marine species, with few representatives of fresh water. The genera with the greatest number of taxa were Amphora Ehr. ex Kütz, Nitzschia Hassall and Diploneis Ehr. ex P.T. Cleve. The richness, diversity and equitability of the diatoms varied in space and time. Higher values of these attributes were found in the northern portion of the lagoon and in fall. The variations were related to salinity, temperature, rainfall and wind action. Illustration of 228 species using light and electron microscopy are presented. Information on the dimensions, ecology and distribution of taxa are included. A total of 74% of the species are first reports for Lagoa do Peixe, which demonstrates a significant contribution to the knowledge of biodiversity in this lagoonal system. The taxonomic study of the diatoms in this system also made it possible to increase the diagnosis of Cocconeis sawensis Al-Handal et Riaux-Gobin, based on the observation of the type material from a saline lake in Iraq, and to verify the occurrence of morphological variations in the population of Falcula hyalina Takano.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T14:29:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 versao_final_tese_rodrigorossi.pdf: 12772320 bytes, checksum: f15db1ed94fb9d0703755d1eb1a87b55 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-03-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The purpose of the present thesis is to understand the way in which masculinities are instituted in the daily life of prison space. For this, I take as a space cutout the Hildenbrando de Souza prison located in the city of Ponta Grossa, in Paraná, as a prison spatiality experienced by young men living in its poors peripheries. The temporal cut of the research results from experiences of the investigated group in prison during the youth and that correspond to the period of 2005 to 2013. The researh operationalization involved two stages. The first is related to fieldwork, participant observation, and in-deth interviews with ten male prisioners in the prison system. The second lies in the challenge of constructing the object of study through a methodology of qualitative analysis following its own words and tendencies of meaning that they point out. The studied group trajectories are marked by the territorial experience linked to vulnerability and different illicit acts, diferent spatialities and networks of social relations that corroborate the idea of a trajectory of vulnerability to crime and imprisonment. The normativity constituted in the daily life of prison establishes simultaneous processes of adaptation, disciplinarization and reconfiguration of masculine performances, focusing on the body, food, market exchanges, among other forms of interaction. The prison space is understood as paradoxical because it presents tensions and repositions according to the coexistence between a diversity of subjects, trajectories and axes of inequality and oppression that imply in a type of situated intersectionality. Capable of establish internal differentiations and spatialities proper to the conviviality and spatiality of exile, where inmates who do not follow normativity or who demonstrate deviation to it in the course of their trajectories are banned. The practices of detainees, constituents of the paradoxical prison space, develop through tensions amid the prison system and penitentiary agents, as well as, they can turn to their own collective organization and intervention of penitentiary leaderships and inmates affiliated to the PCC. Therefore, the masculinities built in the daily imprisonment are important references to the constitution and conduct of daily life in prison. / A presente tese tem como objetivo compreender o modo pelo qual se instituem as masculinidades no cotidiano da espacialidade carcerária. Para isso tomo como recorte espacial a Cadeia Pública Hidelbrando de Souza localizada na cidade de Ponta Grossa, no Paraná, como espacialidade carcerária vivenciada por homens jovens habitantes de suas periferias pobres. O recorte temporal da pesquisa decorre das experiências do grupo investigado no cárcere durante a juventude e que correspondem ao período de 2005 a 2013. A operacionalização da pesquisa envolveu duas etapas. A primeira diz respeito ao trabalho de campo, a realização de obervação participante e entrevistas em profundidade com dez homens egressos do sistema carcerário. A segunda, reside no desafio de construir o objeto de estudo através de uma metodologia de análise qualitativa seguindo suas próprias palavras e tendências de sentido que elas apontam. As trajetórias do grupo estudado são marcadas pela vivência territorial ligada à vulnerabilidade e diferentes atos ilícitos, diferentes espacialidades e redes de relações de sociabilidade que corroboram com a ideia de uma trajetória de vulnerabilidade ao crime e à prisão. A normatividade constituída no cotidiano do espaço carcerário institui processos simultâneos de adaptação, de disciplinarização e reconfiguração das performances masculinas, incidindo sobre o corpo, alimentação, mercado de trocas, dentre outras formas de interação. O espaço carcerário é compreendido como paradoxal porque apresenta tensões e reposicionamentos de acordo a convivência entre uma diversidade de sujeitos, trajetórias e eixos de desigualdade e opressão que implicam num tipo de interseccionalidade situada. Capaz de estabelecer diferenciações internas e espacialidades próprias ao convívio e espacialidades de exílio, aonde são banidos os detentos que não seguem à normatividade ou que demonstram desvio à ela no decorrer de suas trajetórias. As práticas dos detentos, instituintes do espaço carcerário paradoxal, se desenvolvem em meio à tensões com o sistema carcerário e agentes penitenciários, assim como, podem se voltar a sua própria organização coletiva e intervenção de lideranças penitenciárias e detentos filiados ao PCC. Portanto, as masculinidades construídas no cotidiano carcerário configuram-se como importantes referenciais à constituição e condução da vida cotidiana na prisão.