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This thesis explores gay style within urban spaces in downtown Austin, Texas. Employing style as a rhetorical and communicative approach and method, I investigate and analyze how gay style markers are read off the built material environment of urban spaces. Through an application and analysis of a rhetoric of style, I demonstrate how particular downtown Austin districts and neighborhoods can be read as de facto gay districts through a reading of the gay style marker flamboyance. The focus of the thesis is an analysis of the systematic and rhetorical signification of gay style markers, which function to define and constitute particular urban spaces as “gay” districts or neighborhoods. Through of an examination of flamboyance in downtown Austin’s Warehouse District and surrounding districts, I demonstrate gay style is indeed present in a “non-gay” urban space. Ultimately, I argue that gay sexual style markers are capable of being read off the built environment of urban spaces; furthermore, it is these same gay style markers that come to define and constitute gay urban spaces, districts, and neighborhoods. / text

Today China faces the issue of overcrowded urban spaces. Booming automobile ownership is causing massive traffic congestion. Even though public transportation has been promoted and regarded as mainstream within the society, I believe that private vehicles do not necessarily need to be a controversial option in the future. The design process included background research, user definition, packaging studies, ideation, digital form development and context visualization. All these were carefully executed to ensure a sensible and creative result. The proposed concept vehicle envisions greater technical efficiency combined with environmental responsibility. A sports car that is the ultimate carpooling solution during weekdays and a fun getaway drive for the weekends. / <p></p><p></p>

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Cette recherche se situant au carrefour de plusieurs champs de la sociologie interroge la façon dont des figures du monde rural renaissant, à la fois différentes et proches, dans leur rapport au travail, comme dans leur rapport négatif à la ville, parviennent dans une société en crise à s'imaginer une nouvelle existence, en se séparant partiellement ou durablement de l'activité salariée qui n'est plus considérée comme l'unique moyen de réussir leur vie. Le rapport au travail comme le rapport au territoire se trouve rediscuté, et mis en tension, rééclairant cette dualité renaissante entre communauté et société, alors que l'on croyait que la modernité symbolisée par l'urbain et la ville avait définitivement tout emporté en modifiant de façon quasi irréversible la nature des liens sociaux. Nos figures, Hérauts involontaires, entendent nous dire à leur façon que l'esprit communautaire plane encore sur les territoires ruraux où ils se sont installés et qu'il favorise une réactivation des supports sociaux quelque soit notre niveau de vulnérabilité. Ils font fonction de bouclier de protection contre les risques de désaffiliation sociale en redéfinissant les conditions d'un vivreensemble possible largement débarrassées des contraintes d'une vie communautaire de la pré-modernité, sans nécessairement transformer la vie des individus. Les membres de la communauté se comportent comme des tiers invisibles désinstitutionnalisés qui relient, rapprochent et soutiennent les plus en risque dans cet espace vécu, facilitant le réenchâssement d'individus dans des réseaux possibles, redéfinissant ainsi les frontières mouvantes entre la précarité des villes et la précarité des champs. / This research which is at a crossroads of several socio\ogy areas questions the way the figures from the re-awakening of rural areas, which are at the same time different and close, in their relationship to the work, as weil as to the negative relationship to the city, succeed in a society in crisis in imaginating a new existence, by getting partially or permanently rid of the gainful employment which is no longer considered as the only way to have a successful life. Ther elationship to the work as well as the relationship to the territory is re-discussed, and kept in tension, futther illustrating this re-emerging duality between community and society, while it was believed thal modernity symbolized by urban spaces and the city had definitively taken everything away by changing in a near-irreversible way the nature of social connections. Our figures, unwitting heralds want to tell us in their own way, that the community spirit still exists in rural territories where they have settled and thal it favors a reactivation of the social supports regardless of our level of vulnerability. They act as a protective shield against the risks of social disaffiliation in redefining the conditions of a possible "living together" largely freed from the constraints of a community life of pre-modernity, without necessarily transforming the lives of individuals. The community members are behaving like deinstitutionalized, invisible third parties, who connect, bring closer and support those who are the most at risk in this experienced space, easing the re-entrechment of individuals in possible networks, thus reshaping the moving boundaries between the precariousness in the cities and the precariousness in the countrysides.

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Orientador: Silvia Aparecida Guarnieri Ortigoza / Banca: Tania Maria de Campos Leite / Banca: Auro Aparecido Mendes / Resumo: Vivemos em uma sociedade, onde o sistema capitalista desempenha papel determinante nas transformações do espaço geográfico. Partindo do alto dinamismo empregado às instituições e aos agentes transformadores do espaço, notamos que este sistema exerce uma pressão em relação à manutenção das formas e funções espaciais. Como tais formas, estão inseridas neste cenário dinâmico, observa-se uma relação de mudança e de persistência delas, que ocorre simultaneamente, impondo-lhes uma difícil dualidade. Aqui, a persistência de algumas formas frente a grande corrente de transformação é evidenciada. Esse movimento entre mudança e persistência sustenta parte do sistema capitalista. Sendo assim, verificam-se nesse espaço geográfico, formas, persistentes na paisagem, sem sua função original e que agora aparecem à espera de uma nova função. Este é justamente o objeto de estudo desta pesquisa, que busca analisar três formas com diferentes níveis de refuncionalização, tendo como preocupação, esclarecer parte do cenário e dos questionamentos recorrentes às tais formas, aqui chamadas brownfields. Alguns brownfields foram escolhidos em Sumaré/SP, município que, em sua história apresenta transformações espaciais aceleradas e intensas. Partindo de um referencial teórico- metodológico definido e adotado, levantamos alguns pontos acerca das formas estudadas e de suas relações com o espaço geográfico ao qual estão inseridas. / Abstract: We live in a society where the capitalist system plays the foremost role in the space changes in which we are inserted. Serving as model, the high degree of dynamism employed to institutions and to the space changing agents, we notice that the system plays a certain pressure in relation to the balanced preservation of shapes and functions that comprise such space. By the fact that the shapes and their functions are many times choked by the high mutability pressed for the capitalist system, the urban spaces, whether made up of large or medium cities, as for instance, Sumare, in Sao Paulo, and which was the analyzed town, present in its landscapes devious shapes devoid of economic function, that did not follow the urban dynamics and appear in the current scenery as hindrances, as witnessed shapes of another period or dynamics. These shapes have become object of this research that points them out with distinguished levels of refunctioning, having as the main concern, to shed light on part of the scenery and part of the enquiries related to such shapes, so called Brownfields. From a metodological and theoretical standpoint defined and made plain, we point out some worthy issues about the studied shapes and their relations to the geographic space in which they are attached. / Mestre

Every city/place has unique, distinctive qualities. Individuals acquire a sense of place in accordance with their own experiences and perspectives, which may not be the same as the experiences and viewpoints of another person. In this project, I explore, analyze, and re-interpret three places that have creatively and emotionally influenced me and remained in my memory: Times Square, New York City; Insadong, Seoul, South Korea; and Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia. To comprehend and draw a sense of place, I observe, feel, and document the characteristics of each place through different methods and processes, based on my own experiences. In addition, I integrate, apply, and transform my experiences and emotional reaction to the objects, obtained from each place, into new visual form to grasp how the built environment can be used as inspiration and stimulus in developing creative methods and processes in graphic design.

Esta pesquisa compartilha processos pedagógicos de criação de dramaturgia(s) que se desenvolvem por meio das relações entre os mascaramentos corporais dos artistas, o espaço da rua e os transeuntes-espectadores. Apresento uma dramaturgia pensada de forma expandida e processual, que se define pelos deslocamentos e infiltrações desses corpos mascarados no espaço urbano, pela organização das ações dos performers mascarados em jogo com o Espaço e com um público efêmero, que observa e segue, levando consigo suas percepções. A imprevisibilidade, o imponderável, a presença do performer que age motivado por suas questões subjetivas, políticas, sociais, e não por um personagem que irá representar, estão presentes nesse processo de criação fazendo parte dos procedimentos artísticos e pedagógicos propostos, fundamentados nas ideias de Josette Féral, acerca do \"teatro performativo\" e \"teatralidades cotidianas\", e nas ideias de \"multiestabilidade perceptiva\", de Érika Fischer-Lichte, quando fala sobre o espectador que se encontra em um \"entre\" a \"ordem de representação\" e a \"ordem da presença\". / This research benefits from pedagogical processes of creation of dramaturgy (s) which is developed through the interaction of the \'body masks\' of the artist, the \'passers-by-spectators\' and the public space. I present a dramaturgy thought in an expanded and procedural way, defined by the displacement and infiltrations of these masked bodies in urban space, by the organization of the actions of the masked performers interacting with space and with an ephemeral audience that observes and follows, taking with them their perceptions. The unpredictability, the imponderable, the presence of the performer who acts motivated by his subjective, political, and social issues, and not by a character that will play, are present in this process of creation. Thus being part of the artistic and pedagogical procedures proposed. This is based on the ideas of Josette Féral about the \"performative theater\" and \"daily theatricalities\", and Érika Fischer-Lichte\'s ideas of \"perceptual multistability\", when she talks about the spectator who is in \"between\" the \"order of representation\" and the \"order of presence\".

Esta pesquisa compartilha processos pedagógicos de criação de dramaturgia(s) que se desenvolvem por meio das relações entre os mascaramentos corporais dos artistas, o espaço da rua e os transeuntes-espectadores. Apresento uma dramaturgia pensada de forma expandida e processual, que se define pelos deslocamentos e infiltrações desses corpos mascarados no espaço urbano, pela organização das ações dos performers mascarados em jogo com o Espaço e com um público efêmero, que observa e segue, levando consigo suas percepções. A imprevisibilidade, o imponderável, a presença do performer que age motivado por suas questões subjetivas, políticas, sociais, e não por um personagem que irá representar, estão presentes nesse processo de criação fazendo parte dos procedimentos artísticos e pedagógicos propostos, fundamentados nas ideias de Josette Féral, acerca do \"teatro performativo\" e \"teatralidades cotidianas\", e nas ideias de \"multiestabilidade perceptiva\", de Érika Fischer-Lichte, quando fala sobre o espectador que se encontra em um \"entre\" a \"ordem de representação\" e a \"ordem da presença\". / This research benefits from pedagogical processes of creation of dramaturgy (s) which is developed through the interaction of the \'body masks\' of the artist, the \'passers-by-spectators\' and the public space. I present a dramaturgy thought in an expanded and procedural way, defined by the displacement and infiltrations of these masked bodies in urban space, by the organization of the actions of the masked performers interacting with space and with an ephemeral audience that observes and follows, taking with them their perceptions. The unpredictability, the imponderable, the presence of the performer who acts motivated by his subjective, political, and social issues, and not by a character that will play, are present in this process of creation. Thus being part of the artistic and pedagogical procedures proposed. This is based on the ideas of Josette Féral about the \"performative theater\" and \"daily theatricalities\", and Érika Fischer-Lichte\'s ideas of \"perceptual multistability\", when she talks about the spectator who is in \"between\" the \"order of representation\" and the \"order of presence\".