Many of the buildings along Robert Sobukwe Street have been renovated in an effort to regenerate the area, including the Sunny Park Mall. These renovations have improved the general perception of the street but not the overall accessibility to the interior spaces behind the facades. The building facades are a barrier between exterior and interior spaces with little integration. A decline in the pedestrian activity of the retail street stores has occurred due to these renovations in other areas. Consideration towards pedestrian users has shifted from the public street to the design for private interiors. Through the understanding of user behaviour, an intervention strategy can be formed to align social needs with the spatial needs of both the public and private users to inform a design which satisfies both. This intervention utilises the principles of way finding, activities and thresholds to build an interface linking the two environments based on the private needs for occupation and public need for interaction. It provides a strategy to incorporate exterior spaces into a design and not limit the field to the space between the walls of existing buildings. To extend the space and create a transition dedicated to engaging the needs of both users is beneficial to the development and sustainability of this context. / Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2014. / Architecture / MInt(Prof) / Unrestricted

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S'appuyant sur une pratique personnelle du dessin, du collage et de la photographie, cette thèse de poïétique explore le thème de l'enfance dans l'art. Conçue comme un " work in progress", elle part d'une recherche sur l'intimité du dessin afin de construire un regard singulier sur : l'exposition de photographies et de vidéographies témoignant de traumas d'enfants. Elle vérifie l'hypothèse selon laquelle l'artiste puise dans sa propre enfance et dans celle des autres afin de conquérir des territoires de créations ignorés, là où prend corps l'altérité intime. La première partie analyse notamment les œuvres de Louise Bourgeois, Mike Kelley et Rosemarie Trockel, pour comprendre comment leurs processus créateurs réactivent l'espace transitionnel et ses phénomènes en nous immergeant dans des souvenirs d'enfances perdus. Dans une deuxième partie, c'est la transfiguration et l'altération radicale des visages d'enfants photographiés par Diane Arbus, Lewis Hine, Sebastiâo Salgado, ou filmés par Gillian Wearing qui sont interrogées. La réflexion se poursuit autour d'enjeux esthétiques et politiques liés à l'utilisation de ces images par des artistes tels que Mathieu Pemot et Catherine Poncin. Enfin, la troisième partie est centrée sur l'œuvre de Gerhard Richter traitant du transfert en tant que processus permettant d'actualiser, par la répétition, les événements passés qui le hantent. Le faire-œuvre qui en témoigne fait corps, devenant ainsi capable de figer ces blessures. Notre thèse, c'est que l'expérience d'un« absorbement » total dans ces œuvres nous incluant et nous excluant simultanément permet à l'artiste et au regardeur de reconnaître l'histoire des autres en lui. / Relying on personal experience in drawing, collage and photography, this thesis on poiesis explores the subject of childhood in Art. Designed as a work in progress, it stems from the intimacy of drawing and aims at constructing a singular outlook from the display of photography and films depicting childhood trauma. It verifies the hypothesis stating that the artist peers into his own childhood and that of others in order to conquer creative fields hitherto ignored, at the threshold of the intimate other. The first section scrutinizes the works of Louis Bourgeois, Mike Kelley and Rosemarie Trockel striving to understand how their creative processes reactivate transitional space -and its associated phenomena- by immersing us in distant recollections of childhood. The second section questions the transfiguration and the dramatic alteration of children's faces filmed and photographed by Diane Arbus, Lewis Hine, Sebastiâo Salgado and Gillian Wearing. The thesis then pursues on to evaluate the aesthetic and political stakes bound to the use of these images by artists, the likes of Mathieu Pemot and Catherine Poncin. Ultimately, the third part is centred on the work of Gerhard Richter dealing with transfer as a means of resurfacing -through reiteration- past events that haunt him. The resulting product thus making it possible to set these wounds in stone. Mythesis is that the experience of total absorption/immersion in these works -simultaneously including and excluding us- makes it possible for the artist and the observer to acknowled e the narratives of ethers within themselves.

La question de la fin de vie et du processus de deuil qui s’ensuit pour le proche du défunt reste toujours d’actualité tant elle comporte d’énigmes. Comment pouvons-nous penser que le travail du deuil puisse être facilité ? La présente recherche a pour objectif d’étudier, en appui sur les travaux et les théories de D. W. Winnicott, comment le soin peut être transitionnel dans la relation et dans l’espace intersubjectif créé par la triade composée du soignant, du patient et du «proche-tiers». A partir d’un échantillon de 30 patients, les entretiens semi-directifs de 21 soignants et de 8 proches ont été analysés. Cette analyse nous permet de montrer de quelle manière le soin est transitionnel dans l’accompagnement. Elle nous montre également quels bénéfices peut avoir l’accompagnement en fin de vie, d’une part pour le patient dans l’ici et maintenant de sa fin de vie, d’autre part, pour le soignant dans l’ici et maintenant de l’accompagnement proposé mais aussi dans «l’après-coup» pour les autres accompagnements qu’il pourra proposer. Enfin, un troisième bénéfice certain est pour le «proche-tiers» dans l’ici et maintenant de l’accompagnement de son proche malade mais également par la suite dans la conduite du deuil. / Questions revolving around end of life and the grieving process that follows for loved ones are as relevant as they are puzzling. Is it unrealistic to think that mourning can be facilitated? This research aims to examine and build upon the work and theories of D. W. Winnicott. This research delves into how care may be transitional in the relationship and in the intersubjective space created by a triad of care: medical caregiver(s), patient and loved ones. From a sample of 30 patients, semi-structured interviews with 21 medical caregivers and 8 relatives were analyzed. This analysis shows how the care is transitional in the accompaniment. This research reveals the benefits of creating a transitional space during end of life care. First and foremost, it assists the patient in the here and the now of end of life; it, then, aids the caregivers. Medical caregivers and loved ones alike benefited from accompanying the patients in death both during the palliative care stages as well as afterwards as they worked through the grieving process.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:22:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Andre Reis Balsini.pdf: 23893629 bytes, checksum: 4d05b9e6a19aef62f762ae38fe54af92 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-30 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Our object of study will be the intermediate space between architecture and the city, the transitional space between inside and outside, private and public. Environments that combine characteristics of opposites means; potentially allowing an interpenetration between architecture and urban space. In our research, we should address of the possibilities and implications in the architecture design, thereof touches to their transitional elements. The study seeks to expand a conceptual field and proposes an interlocution with a series of authors which have looked into the thematic of transitional space and (or) near concepts, complementary, from which we intend to situate ourselves with the discussion concerning of binomials architecture-city, individual-collective, singular-plural, among others. To counteract the concepts investigated a reading of concrete architectural objects, we selected five referential buildings - of public character - in the cities of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, and analyze how the interventions made from the architectural object could result in environments of assemblage, which to have integrated into the urban tissue, and have amplified the possibilities of public space for collective use. Thus, we presented in dissertation, initially, a diversity of approaches to the research object, in order to establish some fundamental considerations for the architecture design of the space of transition. Following, we discuss briefly the question of the project, from the perspective of his own ambivalence of propositive instrument. Completing the study, we explore the unfoldings of the thematic from object, listing five qualitative themes through which we oriented the discussions, in which projective and theoretical referentials were inserted. / Nosso objeto de estudo será o espaço intermediário entre a arquitetura e a cidade, o espaço de transição entre interior e exterior, privado e público. Ambientes que conjugam características de meios opostos; potencialmente, possibilitando uma interpenetração entre a arquitetura e o espaço urbano. Em nossa pesquisa, deveremos tratar das possibilidades e implicações, no projeto de arquitetura, daquilo que toca os seus elementos transicionais. O trabalho busca ampliar um campo conceitual e propõe uma interlocução com uma série de autores, que se debruçaram sobre a temática do espaço de transição e (ou) conceitos próximos, complementares, a partir dos quais, pretendemos nos situar na discussão acerca dos binômios arquitetura-cidade, individual-coletivo, singular-plural, entre outros. Para contrapor aos conceitos investigados uma leitura de objetos arquitetônicos concretos, selecionamos cinco edifícios referenciais de caráter público , situados nas cidades de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro, e analisamos de que forma as intervenções feitas a partir do objeto arquitetônico puderam resultar em ambientes de agenciamento, que se integraram ao tecido urbano e ampliaram as possibilidades de espaço público para o uso coletivo. Assim, apresentamos na dissertação, inicialmente, uma diversidade de enfoques para o objeto de pesquisa, de modo a estabelecer algumas considerações fundamentais para o projeto de arquitetura do espaço de transição. Na sequência, abordamos, concisamente, a questão do projeto, sob a perspectiva de sua própria ambivalência de instrumento propositivo. Completando o estudo, exploramos os desdobramentos da temática do objeto, elencando cinco temas qualitativos, por meio dos quais orientamos as discussões, em que os referenciais projetuais e teóricos foram inseridos.

Esta pesquisa trata do acolhimento de crianças em bibliotecas. A complexidade dos ambientes de informação organizada, a singularidade dos públicos infantis, a inadequação de práticas visando a recepção e iniciação de crianças em bibliotecas integram a problemática do estudo, que buscou sistematizar elementos capazes de orientar processos de acolhimento de crianças (não alfabetizadas) em dispositivos de informação e cultura. Com base no pressuposto de que a constituição de elos/vínculos com a biblioteca, compreendida como espaço transicional, é categoria essencial ao diálogo dos sujeitos com o patrimônio cultural registrado, o processo inicial de ingresso mostra-se questão primordial. O referencial teórico abarcou as noções de acolhimento em diferentes áreas de conhecimento; criança; objeto transicional, biblioteca, dispositivos, mediação cultural e a abordagem da Infoeducação. O estudo baseou-se no método qualitativo, a partir de observação participante e coleta de depoimentos de sujeitos implicados na pesquisa. O objeto empírico do estudo foi o Programa Biblioacolhe, implementado em biblioteca de um Centro Educacional Unificado (CEU) e desenvolvido em 2017, tendo em vista o atendimento de crianças da Educação Infantil. A pesquisa conclui sobre o caráter do acolhimento, como categoria essencial à construção do sentido de pertencimento dos sujeitos em relação à biblioteca, indicando tratar-se de noção ampla implicando diferentes dimensões, de ordem afetiva, cognitiva, cultural, institucional. Os resultados evidenciaram que o processo de inserção significativa e participativa dos sujeitos no dispositivo de informação e cultura é complexo, gradativo, implicando diferentes esferas mutuamente implicadas, em especial, a constituição de um quadro de atores comprometidos e de contextos preparados para a realização do processo de acolhimento. / This research relates children embracement in libraries, questioning the environment complexities of the organized information, the children\'s singularity and the inadequacy of practices that aims the reception and insertion of children in libraries. The study seeks to systematize elements capable of guiding embracement processes to non-literate children in culture and information devices. Based on the assumption that the construction of links/bonds with the library, seen as a transitional space, its an essential category to subject\'s dialogue with the cultural registered patrimony, the initial process of ingression its a major point. The theoretical research covers the notions of embracement in different knowledge areas: children; transitional object, library, devices, cultural mediation and the Infoeducational approach. The qualitative method was the base of the study, from participant observation and testimonies gathering of the subjects related to the research. The empirical object was the Programa Biblioacolhe, implemented on a library of a Unified Educational Center (Centro Educacional Unificado - CEU) and developed in 2017, aiming the reception of children of Child Education. The research concludes the nature of embracement as an essential category to the construct of the subject\'s belonging sense related to the library, indicating that it is a broad notion that implies different dimentions, of affective, cognitive and institutional orders. The results points that the process of insertion, both significative and participative, of the subjects in the informational and cultural device is complex, gradual and implies different circles mutually implicated, specially: the constitution of a board of committed subjects and contexts prepared to the achievement of the embracement process.

À partir de deux enquêtes au sein d’établissements pour personnes âgées dépendantes, une ethnographie de la relation soignant-soigné tente de décrypter la cinétique relationnelle durant l’acte de la toilette. Loin de l’évidence, le refus exprimé parfois violemment par des personnes atteintes de maladie d’Alzheimer, est ressenti par les équipes comme une offense à l’aide proposée. Pourtant ce geste quotidien de bien-être et de confort, par sa fonction de modelage et d’apprivoisement corporel devient un espace de communication sensible permettant de renouer un lien identitaire en cours d’amoindrissement. La présente recherche propose une analyse sur les formes de contractualisation relationnelle des intimes en situation de maladie et d’accompagnement. Dégageant les influences sécuritaires d’une organisation médico-sociale, le temps de la toilette devient un soin protégé relevant d’un espace transitionnel. L’étude particulière d’un soin de toilette permettra de comprendre les processus relationnels dans le temps et l’espace à partir du travail des émotions. L’intime s’intersubjective dans des présences jusqu’au bout de la vie, interrogeant des interactions de reconnaissances mutuelles en mouvement.La méthodologique adoptée traduit ce parcours aux frontières des intimes d’un sujet et d’une démarche dans un contexte de configuration gérontologique. / From two surveys in institutions for the elderly, an ethnography of the doctor-patient relationship attempts to decipher the relational dynamic during the act of personal hygiene for the patient. Not at all obvious, the sometimes violent refusal from people with Alzheimer's disease, is interpreted as offensive to the proposed care. Yet this daily gesture of care-giving and comfort by the creation of familiarity and trust becomes a moment of communication that can strengthen a weakening bond.This research presents an analysis of the types of relationships in the personal context of the disease and of accompaniment. Setting aside the safety imperatives of a medico-social organization, the moment of personal hygiene is a priviledged transistional act. This particular approach to care-giving in personal hygiene can, over time, identify the relational processes from an emotional perspective. The intimate inter-subjectivity lasting until the end of life creating a dialogue of mutual respect and acknowledgement.An appropriate methodology traces this journey to the beginnings of intimacy, a topic and an approach in a context of a gerontological structure.

This dissertation defines and develops transitional space of housing, which is adaptable to the Chinese environment. It is the integration of community, culture element and sustainable development. Although the lifestyle is changing today, the concept of courtyard which comes from the Chinese vernacular building remains in peoples’ minds. It’s not only a form but also an expression of national culture and a sense of space. There are some attempts for Chinese architects to renovate or reconstruct the “courtyard”, but most of them are low-rise buildings. Facing with the high density, high volume urban living environment, Chinese architects only set vii the first floor yard and roof garden in multi-story or high-rise buildings. To improve the community environment, various levels courtyard space, such as the courtyard among units, community courtyard, are set. These courtyards are regarded as public space which not only plays the role of landscaping but also make people feel comfortable. However, there are still some problems, such as sustainable development, privacy. While there are some good attempts for foreign architects to design courtyard in terms of sustainable technology, the housing they design lack the Chinese culture character. So the design of multi-function transitional space raises the interesting questions for future research and development.

Cette thèse, écrite par un praticien qui a l'expérience de l'enseignement avec les élèves autistes, s'inscrit en sciences de l'éducation dans une approche clinique d'orientation psychanalytique. Elle interroge l'expérience des enseignants spécialisés travaillant auprès d'élèves avec des troubles autistiques. L'enjeu pour ces enseignants est de créer un espace psychique et des liens permettant la transmission et l'apprentissage de savoirs. Des transformations accompagnent la posture professionnelle qu'ils ont à construire avec ce public spécifique. En effet, ces élèves, entourés par de nombreux professionnels du soin, de l'éducation et de leurs familles, déstabilisent l'enseignant et les connaissances acquises pendant sa formation. Après un retour sur le cheminement du parcours de recherche, ces questions sont problématisées. Quatre entretiens cliniques réalisés auprès d'enseignants travaillant avec des élèves autistes sont analysés. Des concepts venus des sciences de l'éducation, comme celui de soi-professionnel, et de la psychanalyse, avec certains apports de Donald Woods Winnicott, Wilfred Ruprecht Bion ou Jacques Lacan, sont mis au travail pour explorer les sens possibles de l'expérience rapportée. Certains résultats se dégagent : les enseignants mobilisent des ressources psychiques variées, présentes et passées, personnelles et professionnelles, pour pouvoir entrer en contact avec ces élèves et soutenir un lien d'enseignement inédit. Il apparaît que cet enseignement s'appuie sur les bases fondatrices d'une relation, constituées par la création d'un « espace transitionnel et potentiel » (Winnicott), pour que des liens et des apprentissages se mettent en place. / The author is both a teacher with a vast experience in teaching autistic pupils, and a student of Paris Descartes University in Science of Education, with on a clinical and psychoanalytical approach. The thesis questions the experience of special educational needs (SEN) teachers, specialised in the teaching of pupils with autism. The challenge is to create a psychologically healthy and supportive place as well as bonds conducive to the transfer and acquisition of knowledge. Changes must be done in the professional attitude teachers must adopt. Indeed, their pupils, cared for by numerous healthcare professionals, teachers, as well as their own families are bound to shake the teachers confidence in themselves and in what they have learnt in their professional training. The research trajectory is first analysed, then the questions raised above are presented as problematics. Four clinical interviews carried out by teachers, all working with autistic pupils are analysed. Science of Education concepts such as the self-professional, and psychoanalysis, as well as the works of Donald Woods Winnicott, Wilfred Ruprecht Bion or Jacques Lacan, are used to explore the possible meanings of the reported experience. Some results emerge: teachers conjure up varied psychological resources, present or past, personal or professional, to make contact with their pupils and maintain this unique teaching bond. Their teaching appears to rely on the bases of a relationship created by a transitional and potential space (Winnicott), so that bonds and learning can be set up.

Experimental design is a practice operating at the limit between craftmanship, art and technology. In collaboration with the studio breadeEscalope (Vienna, Austria) this project oscillates between research and production to study the link between industrial and experimental approach to design.  Hitherto initiated from an impulse or a problem requiring solution, the action of designing suggest a product or a service to fulfill needs. In industrial design, the creative process follows contextually anchored steps to frame, define, develop and deliver. For the sake of a pragmatic answer, the delivery is centred around the user and its needs, often leading to an opaque finished product.  Home’s basic, the coat rack was selected to support this study as a concrete product base for trend and consumer behavior analysis. From shared ornamental and functional object placed in the entrance of houses, the coat rack previously “hatstand”, is today an unnoticed domestic object. The final product was hand manufactured with recycled and raw component, allowing transparency on the production process and used material. Stacking up coats on the produced rack create a private space for the user to sit in, questioning the relationship between user and product (ownership, trust, value). Based on architectural concept and design theory, the product aims to bridge creative and technical disciplines to suggest a functional yet questionable product as dialogue starter.  How sustainable are the objects that surround us every day? What is the story of the product? With those question in head the experimental design thinking studio breadedEscalope based in Vienna (Austria), offers an alternative approach to design. Always starting projects with the production process as a story of formations, offering unique and playful outcome to the act of designing. / Experimentell design är en praxis som fungerar på gränsen mellan hantverk, konst och teknik. I samarbete med studio breadeEscalope (Wien, Österrike) pendlar detta projekt mellan forskning och produktion för att studera sambandet mellan industriell och experimentell strategi för design.  Hittills initierad från en impuls eller ett problem som kräver lösning, föreslår åtgärden att designa en produkt eller en tjänst för att uppfylla behoven. Inom industriell design följer den kreativa processen kontextuellt förankrade steg för att rama in, definiera, utveckla och leverera. För ett pragmatiskt svar är leveransen centrerad kring användaren och dess behov, vilket ofta leder till en ogenomskinlig färdig produkt.  Hemmets grund, klädhänget valdes för att stödja denna studie som en konkret produktbas för trend- och konsumentbeteendeanalys. Från delat prydnads- och funktionellt föremål placerat i ingången till hus är klädhänget tidigare "hatstand", idag ett obemärkt inhemskt föremål. Slutprodukten tillverkades för hand med återvunnen och rå komponent, vilket gav insyn i produktionsprocessen och använt material. Att stapla upp rockar på det producerade racket skapar ett privat utrymme för användaren att sitta i och ifrågasätter förhållandet mellan användare och produkt (ägande, förtroende, värde). Baserat på arkitektoniska koncept och designteori syftar produkten till att överbrygga kreativa och tekniska discipliner för att föreslå en funktionell men tvivelaktig produkt som dialogstartare.  Hur hållbara är de objekt som omger oss varje dag? Vad är historien om produkten? Med dessa frågor i huvudet erbjuder den experimentella designtänkande studion breadedEscalope baserad i Wien (Österrike), ett alternativt tillvägagångssätt för design. Alltid starta projekt med produktionsprocessen som en berättelse om formationer, erbjuder unikt och lekfullt resultat till handlingen att designa.