This thesis, comprised of a stage play and exegesis, asks whether the Mike Leigh Method, commonly used by Auteur directors could be adapted to benefit a playwright during the redrafting and development process. I seek to answer this question by examining differing methodologies of drama creation and charting my process as I work to redraft my character driven stage play Deceased Estate through the adaptation and application of the Mike Leigh Method. I contend that Leigh’s method affords a set of honed and proven guidelines that can help the playwright get to the heart of the character driven drama and offer an adapted method template that can be used and furthered by other Playwrights wishing to develop their work in this manner.

Thesis (M.A.) - Carleton University, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 108-114). Also available in electronic format on the Internet.

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Auburn University, 2007. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographic references (p.184-195).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Duquesne University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-131) and index.

Orientador: Ana Maria Martins da Costa Santos / Banca: Arilda Inês Miranda Ribeiro / Banca: Hércules Tolêdo Corrêa / Resumo: Nos últimos anos, o desempenho dos alunos brasileiros em relação à leitura e à escrita, que vem sendo avaliado constantemente por programas educacionais nacionais e internacionais, tem apresentado resultados insatisfatórios. Tendo em vista as deficiências diagnosticadas nestas avaliações educacionais, sobretudo em relação à leitura e à escrita, em dezembro de 2005, foi instituído o projeto Escola de Tempo Integral na rede estadual de ensino de São Paulo com objetivo de modificar esse cenário. As escolas que implantaram a proposta curricular das Escolas de Tempo Integral passaram a oferecer, além das disciplinas do currículo básico, as oficinas curriculares, com proposta de atividades dinâmicas e diversificadas, articuladas aos planos de ensino dos professores e à proposta pedagógica da escola. Dentre as oficinas oferecidas, a da "Hora da Leitura" deve priorizar a formação de leitores, fazendo uso de procedimentos metodológicos que favoreçam novas oportunidades de aprendizagem e ampliação do repertório de leitura, de forma agradável. Esta pesquisa propõe investigar a implementação da "Oficina Hora da Leitura" na 8ª série do ensino fundamental no contexto da proposta da Escola de Tempo Integral de forma a diagnosticar as contribuições dessa oficina para a formação do leitor. Além disso, foram analisadas a prática e a metodologia adotadas pelo professor de acordo com proposta da "Oficina Hora da Leitura", identificando a influência de fatores internos e externos relacionados ao desenvolvimento da oficina e verificando se os objetivos da Escola de Tempo Integral para a "Oficina Hora da Leitura" e os da proposta pedagógica da escola estão sendo alcançados ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The reading and writing performance of Brazilian students, which has been monitored constantly by national and international educational programs, has shown poor results in recent years. In an attempt to correct the deficiencies brought to light in these educational evaluations, above all with respect to reading and writing, the project Full-Time School was implemented in the state of São Paulo public school system in December 2005. The schools that adopted the curricular proposal of Full-Time Schools began to offer, in addition to the subjects of the basic curriculum, curricular workshops based on proposals of dynamic and diversified activities linked to the school's teaching plans and pedagogical project. One of the workshops offered is the "Reading Time" workshop, which seeks to prioritize reader qualifications by using methodological procedures that favor new learning opportunities and expand the students' reading scope in a pleasant manner. The present work through case study proposes to investigate the implementation of the "Reading Time Workshop", within the context of the Full-Time School proposal, in order to diagnose the workshop's contributions to readers' qualifications. Search results point to the need to restructure the curriculum of undergraduate courses in Public and Private Universities for teacher training and practice to be developed in school full time and also in continuing education / Mestre

A presente tese foi desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação Informática na Educação, inserindo-se na linha de pesquisa “Interfaces digitais em educação, arte, linguagem e cognição”. Trata-se de uma pesquisa interdisciplinar que buscou tramar um diálogo entre arte e tecnologia. Mais especificamente, foi realizada uma investigação a respeito da imagem digital, entendendo-a como produzida em um agenciamento maquínico entre computador, considerado como atelier, e o corpo-artista. Desta paisagem, a investigação sobre a imagem digital buscou explorar as possibilidades de indeterminação na imagem, ou seja, suas possibilidades de criação e invenção, numa espécie de escavação até visibilizar o pixel, como o menor elemento da imagem. Metodologicamente realizou-se uma cartografia, escolhendo-se os trabalhos de imagens digitais realizados pela artista gaúcha Liana Timm. Tomou-se Liana como uma personagem estética e suas obras como disparadoras da problematização sobre imagens digitais produzidas no embate criacionista com o computador-atelier. Buscamos, dessa forma, abrir outros espaços para problematizar a imagem digital e suas possíveis conexões, bem como afirmar o computador como uma potência para fomentar maquinismos produtores da diferença e invenção. / The present thesis was developed in the Computer in Education Postgraduate Program, as part of the "Digital interfaces in education, art, language and cognition" line of research. This is an interdisciplinary research that sought to weave a dialogue between art and technology. More specifically, an investigation was carried out regarding the digital image, comprising it as produced by a machinic assemblage between the computer considered as a workshop and the body-artist. From this landscape, the research on digital image sought to explore the possibilities of indeterminacy in the image, ie, its creation and invention possibilities, a kind of digging done to show the pixel as the smallest element of the image. Methodologically, it was done a cartography, picking up the pieces of digital images made by Brazilian artist, Liana Timm. We took Liana as an aesthetic character and her works as the trigger of the problematization about the digital images produced in a creationist clash with the computer-workshop. We seek, therefore, to open up other spaces to discuss the digital image and its possible connections as well as to firm the computer as a potency to foment machinisms producers of difference and invention.

This study and design concept explores the need for a change of the behaviour and recycling knowledge in Nybro Municipality, situated in Eastern Sweden.  The main aim of this study is to provide support for discussion and act as an inspiration for the future development of projects with participatory citizenship. Additionally, to invigorate the need for a sustainable and circular waste management to reach sustainable development.  The theoretical framework set up for this study focus on sustainable development, citizens’ behaviour and knowledge of recycling. The explorative research stage of the project is performed through several methods, including interviews with current waste management companies and Nybro Municipality’s Sustainability Department. Furthermore, a survey of the citizens of Nybro municipality, to investigate the behaviour and knowledge about recycling. Correspondingly, relevant secondary research and compulsory review of the context, waste management and circular economy in Sweden, but also the behaviour within recycling of the system users - citizens, is being examined. The project focuses on sorting and analysing the data and findings by using methods of several different visual thinking tools.  The outcome of the project is a proposal of a design concept to facilitate the recycling of waste for the citizens as the users. Moreover, to emphasize the need and importance of recycling our everyday waste materials. This project is not a solution-based project, but more widely to provide a basis for discussion and inspire.  The goal is to find a way that encourages citizens to recycle waste from products purchased in their daily living. A social design workshop, focusing on circular waste management and recycling behaviour, together with the citizens living in Nybro municipality, will be proposed and co-designed with the municipality’s sustainability department of Nybro Municipality.

The thesis deals with artistic tendencies in the landscape from the sixties to the present. The main attention is focused on historical basics of land art, land art formation in Czech republic and the difference between the American and the European approach in creation. An important issue is finding connections between land art and landscape architecture. The paper describes selected foreign and domestic authors who deal with creation of new public spaces, lying on the border between land art, sculpture and landscape architecture. The literature review also raises the question of applied land art, which uses forms of land art (the same means of expressions and principles) to achieve another objective (eg. solving problems and needs). This direction drifts the form of land art into the interdisciplinary area where the land meets the sociology, landscape architecture, history and other fields that have an impact on shaping of the landscape. Hence projects are created allowing the strengthening of the historical, economic, social and landscape features. It thus creates an opportunity where people can experience the landscape and feel sense of belonging. The practical part outlines the problems of landscape in the project area - Anenská Studánka, arising from landscape analysis.Solution to cultural problems is suggested through applied land art that helps us to talk to people about the problems of the landscape. As a form of applied art land a public exhibition of art in the landscape was chosen, which enables us to attract people to the landscape, to identify problems and landscape values, raise awareness about the history of the site and allow a common experience in the landscape. Applied land art was tested in project Hřebečsko - a region that (DID NOT) disappear(ed), which aimed to raise awareness of local people about the history and identity of the place they live in, and gradually restore the lost relationship between people and the landscape. The aim was to address mainly local people and create a space for meeting, sharing and forming new relationships through the shared experience. The benefit of this thesis is the realization of the project as the main organizer. The thesis thus brings practical experience and knowledge of organizing events (own know - how). The work can serve as a guide for organizing similar projects, which are transferable to other locations.

Este trabalho conta como uma experiência com tecnologias videográficas produziu efeitos nos modos de coordenar ações, produzir distinções e nas emoções de um grupo de trabalhadores e usuários de um serviço de saúde mental, o CAPS II Cais Mental Centro/POA. A Oficina de Imagens é uma atividade terapêutica onde ocorre a produção de imagens que podem resultar em filmes. A ideia central do trabalho gira em torno dos efeitos surgidos a partir da problematização sobre uma série de imagens videográfica produzidas pelo coletivo da Oficina postas ao descarte, e de outras, a serem aproveitadas para construção de um filme. O grupo é tomado por um estranhamento sobre que imagens poderiam ou não compor um filme. Na Oficina de Edição, foi proposto utilizar as imagens descartadas nonsense, ou seja, aquelas desfocadas, tremidas ou fora de enquadre para a construção de um ―outro‖ vídeo – sendo possível, portanto, incluir o que, em um primeiro momento, fora excluído. A edição foi realizada pelo grupo no editor de imagens digital Windows Movie Maker. Esse processo possibilitou produzir deslocamentos e modulações nas redes de conversação entre os participantes. É a partir dessa experiência, que o convidamos a acompanhar, através do efeito patckwork (recurso narrativo), os deslocamentos operativos que se produziram nestes encontros, nestas redes de conversação. Assim, em uma perspectiva metodológica de pesquisa-intervenção, apresentamos alguns deslocamentos, produzidos no fazer com a Oficina de Edição de Imagens. Esse encontro dos integrantes da Oficina com o computador, o editor de imagens, as imagens descartadas, as redes de conversação se dá na ação, no fazer que potencializa a inserção social, autoria e a construção de outros modos de relação com a saúde/loucura, constituindo um plano de compartilhamento e também político, ao operar experiências no plano do "comum". / The main objective of this study is to report how an experience with video technology changed the way the actions were coordinated, the distinctions and emotions are produced in the group of people who work and use the mental health service, o CAPS II Cais Mental Centro/POA. The Image Workshop is a therapeutic activity, in which there are image productions, and they can be transformed into many films. The research focuses on the effects that are trigged through the problematization, concerned to a serie of video images, produced by the group that participated of the Workshop, that were discarded, as well as on the others that were used in the construction of a film. The group was not sure which images could be used in the film. At the Editing Workshop, it was suggested that the discarded images, the nonsense ones, could be used: the ones that were blurred, blur and did not fit in the construction of a video, so we concluded that it was possible to add what was considered firstly something excluded. Editing was performed by the group in the digital image editing, through the Windows Movie Maker. The process trigged many other networks for dialogue, different from the one that was constructed at the Image Workshop inicially, but we cannot consider the former more or less important than the recently produced, they were just seen as new and an opportunity to share experiencies. So, we invit the reader to follow, through the pachwork effect (a narrative resource), the operative replacement that were produced in the Workshops, in the network dialogues. Thus, through a methodological perspective of an intervention research, we present some of the replacement, produced at Editing Image Workshop. The experience that the participants of the group had with the computer, the editing and discarted images, changed the networks for dialogue, that were performed in the action and while the images were produced, so that they develop social inclusion, authorship and the construction of many other ways to deal with health/mental illness, building a new plan of sharing and also political, when many experiences were operated in a level whose experience were shared by all the participantes.

A presente tese foi desenvolvida no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática na Educação, do Grupo de Pesquisa Provia II: Programa Interinstitucional Comunidades de Aprendizagem, Estética do Virtual e Autoria Coletiva, especificamente na linha de pesquisa PPGIE/UFRGS: Interfaces Digitais em educação, Arte, Linguagem e Cognição bem como no Grupo de Pesquisa Políticas Públicas e Produção de Subjetividade, na linha de pesquisa: Redes, artefatos simbólicos e invenção de si. Ela se situa no movimento de desinstitucionalização, da reforma psiquiátrica e do movimento da luta antimanicomial no Brasil. A partir de uma parceria firmada entre a URI – Campus Santo Ângelo e o Centro de Atenção Psicossocial da cidade de Santo Ângelo/RS foi construído projeto de extensão universitária "Construindo laços via recursos informatizados". O mesmo visa à constituição de espaços virtuais para convivência e trocas entre pessoas em sofrimento psíquico. No decurso de três anos foram realizados grupos-oficinas de informática com trinta pessoas em sofrimento psíquico. Tal processo foi registrado em diários de campo, entrevistas formais e informais com participantes e equipe do CAPS, fotografias, filmagens, arquivos de dados. A tese teve como objetivo cartografar as relações humano-máquina e as composições de convivência ocorridas no uso de recursos informatizados. Trata-sede uma pesquisa qualitativa, na modalidade de pesquisa intervenção. O referencial teórico que balizou a tese foi a Filosofia da Diferença na perspectiva de pensar os processos maquínicos de subjetivação e a tecnologia bem como a sociedade de controle, articulada com a proposta foucaultiana de relações saber-poder e da visada institucionalista sobre instituição. Deste tripé outros autores fizeram parte, no sentido de propiciar discussões sobre saúde mental, tecnologia e subjetividade. A partir da cartografia foi possível visibilizar os acoplamentos homem-máquina realizados na oficina, o deslocamento do lugar de apenas louco para o participante da oficina, para o de criador. Assim, o acoplamento com a tecnologia digital teve um vetor para a constituição de um comum, mas não no sentido comunitário e sim no desobramento da produção como constituição da obra mesma. Esse desobramento se deu em trabalhos coletivos (confecção da home page do CAPS, escrita coletiva de texto no Equitext, conversas no MSN,confecção de jornal) tendo como vetor a religião, temas de interesse dos participantes (como busca de informações sobre patologias,tratamento, medicação, receitas culinárias, imagens, cartões) e relações com familiares e equipe do CAPS. / The thesis is placed in the movement of the psychiatric reform in Brazil. From a partnership firmed between URI - Campus Santo Ângelo and psychosocial attention center (CAPS) was constructed project. It aims at the constitution of virtual spaces for nets and exchanges between for people in need of mental health care. In the continuation of three years group-workshops of computer with thirty people in psychic suffering had been carried through. Such process was registered in daily of formal and informal field, interviews with participants and team of the CAPS, photographs, filmings, archives of data. The thesis had as objective to map the relations human being-machine and the occured compositions of nets. One is about a qualitative research, in the intervention research. The theoretical referencial that marked out with buoys the thesis was the Philosophy of the Difference in the perspective to think the processes of subjetivation and the technology as well as the control society; articulated with ways of subjectivation and power relations based on a Foucaultian approach; and about institution. From the cartography he was possible to carried through couplings manmachine in the workshop, the displacement of the place for the participant for the one of creator. Thus, the coupling with the digital technology had a vector for the constitution of a common one, but not in the communitarian direction and yes in the “desobramento” of the production as constitution of the same workmanship. This if gave in collective works having as vector the religion, familiar subjects of interest of the participants (as search of information on diseases, treatment, prescriptions, images, cards) and relations with and team of the CAPS.