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1	Loosely Bound Martin, Alexander 01 January 2016 (has links) I take a poetic approach to graphic design practice. It is a subjectivist approach, which recognizes our human right to willful interpretation. Designers navigate form, culture, and history like poets through language. We are subjective, exploratory engines drawing formal inspiration from figural and analogical associations. Subjectivity in graphic design practice is complex, however. Subjectivity privileges the interaction between object and individual. When we designers interpret the literal world with the poet’s omni-directional sensitivity, we intentionally and intuitively create objects that accrete inexhaustible, extra-literal value for their audience. evocative energy poetry graphic form subjective association meaning Graphic Design
2	Imaginativní interpretace Bible: Kniha Jonáš / Imaginative Biblical Interpretation: The Book of Jonah Virago, Vendula January 2019 (has links) The thesis deals with the Imaginative Biblical Interpretation and its dispositions for grasp- ing the biblical text particularly on the personal level, but also for the scientific use. Meth- od, which has been shaped by the historical need for adaptation for people who lived in the conditions of slavery in America. Also, attention is paid to the key element of imagination, in terms of the ability to recieve and construct mental images, which then act as stimulus for empathy and then deeper understanding of the text. There are three interpretations of the Biblical Book of Jonah in the text, where these facts were demonstrated. Two cases were based on very first confrontation with the text.
3	Remembering, reclaiming, re-remembering : an autoethnographic exploration of professional abuse Applegath, Caroline January 2018 (has links) This thesis is an autoethnographic exploration and articulation of aspects of my lived experience of the longterm impact of professional abuse. It is a context-dependent single case study written from a researcher-participant-counsellor perspective. In my review of the literature I demonstrate the challenges of researching and documenting the direct experiences of women who have been sexually exploited by male professionals. These challenges stem from our natural human tendency to deny traumatic experience, and from the prevailing culture of many social institutions which continues to have the effect of silencing women's voices and discrediting women's experience. The methodological approach I have taken in this thesis is evocative autoethnography. I have chosen this approach in order to document and analyse my present embodied experiences of remembering past abuse, continuing feelings of loss, and unfulfilled longing for resolution and release. I explore the relationship between my past and present selves in context, and consider the therapeutic possibilities of combining memory work, lifewriting, poetry, and imagination to create texts of remembering and re-remembering, to reclaim both what is and what might have been.
4	Exploring Slow Technology in the Home Krogh, Martin January 2015 (has links) In the present thesis a landscape of slow technology in the domestic home is explored to contrast the prevailing fast paced constant-on-and-connected devices of today. Through 3 technology probes (provotypes) deployed in 7 different homes, different parts of this landscape has been unfolded showing what slow technology might mean for interaction designers, from the user perspective, and what potentials it might carry. Potentials include delaying the availability of our devices, working with different layers of intrusiveness, looking into the distant future, and the introduction of small rituals, and routines in our everyday life. As a methodological contribution the novel hybrid slow provotype is proposed. Slow technology Interaction design Technology probes Evocative objects Embodied interactions Annotated portfolio Provotype Home Engineering and Technology Teknik och teknologier
5	Differentiation: a journey to a repertoire of selves Nel, An-Mareé 09 1900 (has links) In this dissertation the author embarks on a journey of storying and re-storying her life. Autoethnographic evocative personal narratives are used as the method of presentation. Congruent with a postmodern stance, the text repositions the reader as a co-participant in dialogue. In this journey there is a move from a reductionistic understanding of "self" to an understanding of "self" as socially constructed, multiple and changing processes. The author's process of differentiation is embodied and informed by this changing view of "self" as part of, being informed by, shaping and being shaped by the conversations she co-creates in dialogical contexts. This means taking a double-sided, reflexive view of relationships and systems, opens a space for a flexible way of being and imparts sensitivity to the discourses she co-creates. This journey entails taking action that keeps a self-reflexive dialogue going, allowing for different voices to emerge and various encounters to become possible. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Autoethnography Evocative personal narratives Differentiation Multiple selves Self as process Reader as author Reflexivity Postmodernism Multiple selves 155.25 Self-disclosure Personal narratives Postmodernism Self Self-perception
6	Differentiation: a journey to a repertoire of selves Nel, An-Mareé 09 1900 (has links) In this dissertation the author embarks on a journey of storying and re-storying her life. Autoethnographic evocative personal narratives are used as the method of presentation. Congruent with a postmodern stance, the text repositions the reader as a co-participant in dialogue. In this journey there is a move from a reductionistic understanding of "self" to an understanding of "self" as socially constructed, multiple and changing processes. The author's process of differentiation is embodied and informed by this changing view of "self" as part of, being informed by, shaping and being shaped by the conversations she co-creates in dialogical contexts. This means taking a double-sided, reflexive view of relationships and systems, opens a space for a flexible way of being and imparts sensitivity to the discourses she co-creates. This journey entails taking action that keeps a self-reflexive dialogue going, allowing for different voices to emerge and various encounters to become possible. / Psychology / M.A. (Clinical Psychology) Autoethnography Evocative personal narratives Differentiation Multiple selves Self as process Reader as author Reflexivity Postmodernism Multiple selves 155.25 Self-disclosure Personal narratives Postmodernism Self Self-perception
7	A little story about big issues : an introspective account of FEMEN Myshko, Yelena January 2018 (has links) This research contributes a detailed personal account of a FEMEN activist. It presents an autophenomenographic analysis of cultural artefacts, including a Retrospective Diary, resulting from the activity of Yelena Myshko in FEMEN between 2012 and 2014. Previously FEMEN has been used as raw material for external analysis by press and academics to fit their individual agendas. To counteract this, Myshko’s research proposes an insider perspective on FEMEN activism. She writes herself in response to academics and FEMEN leader Inna Shevchenko who ignore the contribution of FEMEN Netherlands. Myshko merges author/researcher/researched and uses evocative storytelling to provide an introspective account of sextremism, connecting it to relevant embodiment concepts that illustrate its technology of empowerment and unintended side effects. Through an autophenomenographic analysis of her personal experience, Myshko suggests how FEMEN employs sextremism to create soldiers of feminism. Her research proposes that sextremism is an attitude, a way of life and technology of resistance. For Myshko, sextremism embodies feminist polemic that turns against patriarchy through topless protest. Through personal accounts she illustrates how she internalized this aggressive femininity during physical and mental training. Myshko argues that in protest FEMEN activists communicate to the public and mobilize new activists through feminist snap. In addition, Myshko observes that sextremism produces visual activism that internalizes feminist polemic and transforms it into figurative storytelling. Myshko explains how she reproduced sextremism through body image that made her assertive and empowered her in action. In turn Myshko demonstrates how personal accounts of sextremist embodiment and problems encountered as a woman in the world reproduce FEMEN’s fight in the media. Myshko analysis interviews with the press where she pinpoints topical feminist issues, making FEMEN real and relevant in Western society. Myshko observes that the media appropriated the spectacle created by FEMEN Netherlands but often distorted it and bend the news to fit its own agenda. In addition, the media criticized FEMEN Netherlands for cross-passing national values and power symbols. For Myshko, sextremism is empowering but also destructive. It promotes an unapologetic self-critical attitude that accumulates collateral damage in battle. The sporadic and restrained relationships between activists does not allow intimacy. Because of the eye of the media, tenderness is perceived as weakness and is not aloud. The combination of criticism, media scrutiny and police persecution hurt Myshko’s feelings. These unresolved feelings of hurt led to resentment and disengagement from FEMEN. FEMEN Yelena Myshko sextremism embodiment feminist activism feminist snap feminist polemic body image militant feminism sweaty concept autophenomenography autoethnography feminist writing evocative storytelling retrospective diary dialogic meaning censorship national politics police persecution generational feminism Resistance protest technology Ukraine Netherlands Sara Ahmed Maurice Merleau-Ponty Elizabeth Grosz Mikhail Bakhtin Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson Carolyn Ellis Laurel Richardson Rosemarie Buikema Marta Zarzycka Steven Pressfield Gender Studies Genusstudier

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