This thesis aims to promote living locally through interdisciplinary exchange between art and food. Through the integration of artist studios, food shops, galleries, and a farmers’ market, this project endeavours to defi ne a new relationship between art, craft, food, and marketplace. Two theories are argued in this thesis: fi rst, that there exists a need in today’s society for people to forge stronger relationships with their local communities; and second, that integrating food and art benefi ts each programme respectively, as well as the community. This thesis is located in the small liberal arts community of Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. By situating the project in an existing heritage building on Bridge Street, it refocuses urban life back to the downtown core and addresses current trends of businesses migrating to the periphery.

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Though an installation, the exhibition Four Corners Gateway, examines how history and memory construct us as individuals and construct our national and personal identities and worldviews. All such constructions are ultimately fragmented and fictional. This body of work points at how ideologically formed, subjective narratives are made into ‘truths’. Connecting the personal with the public is my way of playing with history and its paradoxes. The resulting landscapes that I construct can be read as archives of fragments.

The central goal of this thesis is to resituate the development of film noir within the context of the Hollywood studio system that created it. I argue that under the ‘factory’ conditions of the studio’s working environment, a distaste fermented from the screenwriter class that burrowed in the pulp fiction, particularly hard-boiled mystery fiction, of the era. This strain of literature was eventually coupled with the panache of Hollywood style to form a filmic style which was noteworthy for its ability to use Hollywood stylistics to screen a vision of life that was antithetical to that which the studio system wanted to offer to the mass public. I have also attempted to situate the original and most crystallized noir moment in the mid-1940s as part of the continuum of American cinema where the stylistic traces of noir were present prior to that period, and certainly after, but never more coherently than at that moment in the 1940s. I have assembled sources ranging from published interview collections, memoirs, biographies, film criticism and archival collections to develop my argument about the literary, filmic and cultural evolution of film noir in Hollywood.

This study examined how the landscape studio has supported scholarly problem-solving pedagogy. Examination was limited to studio-educators’ published pedagogical research on problem-solving topics and on landscape architecture students’ preferences for solving studio-based problems. A unique multi-method research approach was used to assess the scholarly rigor and breadth of 467 academic articles published between 1997 and 2008 in Landscape Journal, Landscape Research, and Landscape Review. Scholarly rigor was assessed using Boyer’s model of scholarship, Cross and Steadman’s multiple scholarships of teaching, Weimer’s scholarly work on teaching and learning, and Groat and Wang’s architectural research methods. Content analysis was used to catalogue the breadth of problem-solving tools, techniques and theories mentioned in the articles. Research questionnaires, one-on-one interviews, focus groups and formal project presentations surveyed students’ problem-solving preferences. Seventy-eight first and final year students at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland and Washington State University, United States participated. Data were tested to determine whether what studio-educators claimed in the articles were supported by landscape students’ preferences for solving studio-based problems. Results found 56 articles possessed characteristics of scholarly work on teaching and learning and advanced problem-solving knowledge. Twenty-two different problem-solving tools, techniques or theories were mentioned in the articles. Students independently reported a preference for using 20 of the 22 problem-solving approaches. Strongly shared approaches involved cultural awareness and site visits. Approaches recommended by educator-authors, but not preferred by students, involved the environment, teamwork and innovation. Further research may be needed to explain these differences. In conclusion, the landscape studio has supported scholarly problem-solving pedagogy through studio-educators’ pedagogical research published in discipline-based journals and students’ preferences for solving studio-based problems. This study is significant in its use of multi-method approaches to examine scholarly research and teaching. In the future, educator-authors may use information contained in this study to strengthen their teaching and scholarship.

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Orientador: Pelópidas Cyprinio de Oliveira / Banca: Clice de Toledo Sanjar Mazzili / Banca: Sergio Regis Moreira Martins / Resumo: O ateliê é conhecido como o lugar de produção do artista e onde suas indagações são materializadas, pode ser um espaço construído e pensado para isto ou ser improvisado em algum canto, mas é resumidamente um lugar onde o fazer ocorre mesmo em pensamentos que lá fluem. Este ambiente de criação está repleto de objetos escolhidos pelo artista que coexistem e o torna propício a criação, um lugar cheio de memórias e escolhas estéticas e o que talvez fique depois da obra e do artista. Esta pesquisa investiga os guardados do ateliê, como são eleitos e quais são suas influências na formação deste ambiente que se transforma com a arte, assim como tem o poder de transformação no artista e obra. O interesse é abrir estes espaços a novos olhares, investigar suas ações e buscas e como o lugar conta sobre a obra do artista e suas escolhas / Abstract: The studio is known as the place of production of artist and where your key questions can be materialized. Can be a space built and thought to this, some may be improvised, but briefly corner is a place where do occurs even in thoughts that flows. This authoring environment is full of objects chosen by artist who co-exist and makes it conducive to creating a place full of memories and aesthetic choices and what might be after work and artist. This research investigates the object of the studio, as they are elected and what are your influences on training environment transforms with art, as well as it has the power of transformation in the artist. The interest is open these spaces to new sights, investigate their actions and searches and how the place on the work of artist and your choices / Mestre

This master thesis focuses on the opinions and barriers from the BI tool in Report Studio as the part of IBM Cognos BI for the creation of reports. The aim of this thesis is to analyze all the functions of this tool and simplify that experience for other users. The theoretical section of this thesis introduces Business Intelligence as well as the product IBM Cognos BI itself divided into individual components. The final part of thesis introduces and compares similar products available on the market from the competitors. The practical part consists of analysis of Report Studio tool functions followed by applied criteria. In this part, the strengths and weaknesses of Report Studio are mentioned along with proposals of procedures regarding work efficiency using this tool. This section also lists nonstandard examples collected from the client's experience followed by the exact procedures using solution default functions of Report Studio and script language JavaScript.

This study investigates the pedagogical applications of scat-singing within the jazz trombone studio. In addition to the obvious ear-training benefits that the student player can gain from this synthesis, the palette of articulation subtleties and overall musically expressive qualities for trombonists can also be greatly enhanced. These commonalities will encompass the pedagogical focus of this document, utilizing performance recordings and publications by prominent jazz artists and writers to document existing teaching strategies as well as develop new concepts. The first section of this document presents an introduction that includes a historical overview of scat-singing, prominent scat-singing instrumentalists, and concepts and current literature. The second section presents selected biographies on Wycliffe Gordon and Bill Watrous, both prominent jazz trombonists who sing as well as play the trombone. The third section investigates jazz articulation, scat-singing articulation, and doodle-tongue articulation and their relevance to this topic. The fourth section explores musically expressive qualities as analyzed in Bill Watrous’ solo transcription of “Body and Soul.” The final section draws conclusions about the pedagogical applications of scat-singing within the jazz trombone studio and summarizes current teaching strategies. Although this document is not a performance guide, an informed performance of the concepts and examples contained herein is required.

The aim of this diploma thesis is interior design of cosmetic studio located in the basement of family house. The theoretical part deals with the creation of public interiors, formation of new interior and all demands placed on the premises. The practical part includes interior design, which places emphasis on functionality, aesthetic quality and simultaneously takes into account with client´s requirements. In the practical part is also processed design of atypical furniture element, including its structural solution.