Technology has been an ever evolving component of society and civilization, making our life easier but simultaneously creating problems. Now we have become the tools for our tools. It is the reaction to this technology that has led our society to become more and more mechanized and engineered, detaching us from the natural processes and the natural phenomena that make up our interesting world. However, because of the landscape'­s potential for communication and demonstration, it is a critical time for landscape architects to use the landscape, highlighting the interaction between the human and natural processes and create a heightened sense of ecological awareness. This thesis design explores how technology can be integrated into the landscape in order to reveal the natural phenomena of wind on the site. The revelation of wind is achieved through the engagement of the airplanes landing and taking off from Reagan National Airport and one's senses as one can hear wind, see wind, feel wind, smell and taste wind. The sensory experience is one that focuses on the overlapping of the senses in a type of synthesia, creating a rich and dynamic fabric for exploration, interpretation and understanding of wind, its movement and its unique cycles. / Master of Landscape Architecture

Background: Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia. The disease includes, amongother things, memory difficulties and impaired orientation. In the later phases of the disease the relative becomes increasingly dependent on others for help. Relatives have an important role in care by helping the relative to manage everyday tasks. Caring for a relative includes many challenges, where nurses have an important supporting role. Aim: The aim of this study was to shed light on relatives' experiences of caring for a loved one with Alzheimer's disease. Method: Qualitative literature review with thematic analysis method. Results: Two themes: To experience a new life situation and To manage a new life situation. Four subthemes: To experience role changes, To feel fear for the future, To find strategies to handle everyday life and Lack of information, knowledge and support. Conclusion: Relatives experienced their new role as overwhelming. Lack of knowledge and support complicates the care of a loved one. Research highlights the importance of focusing on the needs of the relatives and family focused care in health care. More research is needed on relatives' experiences of family-focused nursing in health care.

The purpose of this study was to explore how women living with an ADHD diagnosis coloured their experiences throughout life. Women continue to be excluded from clinical research and ADHD is a diagnosis that suffers from a significant male bias. As such, there is limited research about women with ADHD. This study employed a thematic analysis approach, inspired by grounded theory. Four women were recruited online after confirming they met criteria. The four women were interviewed with a semi-structured interview protocol, permitting for organic follow-up questions. Data analysis resulted in the identification of the following 4 themes: Negotiating and navigating education; Experiences of mental health; Socioemotional implications of having ADHD; and Strategies used to cope with ADHD. A total of 11 sub-themes were also identified and were correspondingly organized under appropriate main themes. This research is relevant to any professional working with women with an ADHD diagnosis or who may be querying an ADHD diagnosis.

My thesis tries to speculate a building in a scenario where there is a four-dimensional world behind the world we currently inhabit, inspired by the provocative 19th-century romance Flatland. After studying the characters of higher dimensionality, the thesis generalizes a way of perceiving the fourth dimension in three-dimensional building, which has two aspects of space and time. First, expanding the space allow us to perceive each 3D slice of a 4D space. Those slices should be "seen" at the same time if we have four-dimensional senses. This brings up the second aspect, folding time. We travel from one slice to another, spending time that would be no time if we truly experience four dimensionally. The site is a small traffic island in Rosslyn, Virginia, across from Washington DC. Taking the space within the site as a slicer, and applying the method from studying the 4th dimension, we have got series of scenes (represented in box) in different sizes. These scenes are the 3-dimensional sections of the 4-dimensional world that are unseen to all of us, and are only to be "seen" by going into this building on the site. But the nature of going through the 4D in this 3 dimensional way is very personal. And the different sequences create different representations of what the building would be. Thus, I take a journey of our character J as an example to show what a similar building experience would be if we were going into it. The number of 3D sections from 4D is infinite, thus our building is a particular combination of the scenes which are forming one's journey. In our world, visiting this building one enters by arriving at its end (top in this case), and going back down to exit. It is the same in the narrative of J's journey in this building's world. So, reality and imagination merge. Let's find out what it feels like. / Master of Architecture / Architecture is about designing buildings. But studying architecture, sometimes we want to know the things behind the appearance of the building. What happens "inside". Designing a building needs to deal with space. What is inside the space? By going straight in and out of the solidness, we enter the next dimension, the 4th dimension. This is inside and outside the appearance of the building we see every day. Also trying to figure out the meaning of it, the thesis generalizes a way of perceiving the fourth dimension in three-dimensional building, which has two aspects of space and time. First, expanding the 3D space allows us to perceive each 3D slice of a 4D space. Those slices should be "seen" at the same time if we have four-dimensional senses. This brings up the second aspect, folding time. We travel from one slice to another, spending time that would be no time if we truly experience four dimensionally. In the story of our helper J, we found a way, both a solution and a circulation, to visit this "building". Our sequence represents one of the appearances of what the building would be. In our world, visiting this building one enters by arriving at its end (top in this case), going back down and exit. It is the same in the narrative of J's journey in this building's world. So, reality and imagination merge. Let's find out what it feels like.

Background: An ostomy is an artificial opening in the abdomen of a person as a response to a bowel disease, tumour or other issues affecting the bowels. Approximately 43 000 people live with a stoma in Sweden presently. Patients need to be offered information, education and psychological support linked to the stoma procedure. Purpose: The purpose of the literature review was to synthesize patients' experience of how their lives have changed as well as their need for support after receiving a stoma. Method: The study is a literary analysis, using databases PubMed and CIHNAL. Nine articles were reviewed utilising a qualitative content analysis. Results: The first category were Change in quality of life, with sub-categories New normal and Changed self-image. The second category was Need for support with sub-categories Support from the healthcare system and General support. Results showed that patients experienced worsen quality of life due to their stoma and importance support to be able to handle the situation. Conclusion: Life after stoma influences a patient's self-image, quality of life and the patient's sociallife. A difference in experience for a patient can be attributed to how well healthcare providers provide support, information, and education.

Background Maternal morbidity (MM) describes adverse pregnancy-related outcomes, excluding mortality, among the pregnant and postpartum population. It is a concept without a universal definition, and most of the literature consists of clinical definitions rooted within the biomedical model of health. The MM perspectives of women and people with pregnancy experience (WPPE) are less well understood, which has resulted in a recent increase in qualitative research on the topic. However, the literature varies in its descriptions of MM which limits data comparisons across institutions and regions that measure differently. Objectives This study aims to a) understand the conditions and events that WPPE conceptualize as MM, b) identify the themes that arise across WPPE’s experiences, and c) produce a schematic representation of how WPPE conceptualize MM. Methods A concept analysis adapted from the evolutionary model investigated MM from WPPE’s perspectives. The steps included: 1) Identifying and naming the concept and surrogate terms (synonyms) 2) Data collection: literature search consisting of title/abstract and full-text screenings, appraisal, and chart extraction 3) Identifying the concept’s ‘antecedents’ (events that lead to the concept), ‘attributes’ (events that form concept), and ‘consequences’ (events that result from the concept) 4) Analyzing data using thematic analysis 5) Developing a model of the concept Results A literature search identified 40 eligible studies. Analysis of WPPE’s MM perceptions from these studies resulted in a MM concept consisting of four attributes – physical (themes relating to pain, bleeding, and adverse infant outcomes), social (themes relating to financial distress, lack of support, abuse, and mothering), psychological (themes relating to fear and distress), and healthcare-related (themes relating to the provider-patient relationship and healthcare facility). Antecedents that preceded MM included being labelled high-risk, access to care, financial stress, cultural norms, physical symptoms, previous adverse experience, lack of support, lack of information, effects of pregnancy on WPPE’s life, and lack of resources. The consequences that followed MM included continued morbidity, inability or reluctance to conceive again, changes to bodily function, strained relationship with partner, financial stress, and in some instances positive outcomes (e.g., gratitude for surviving, good health of baby). Conclusions This study illustrated the concept of MM from WPPE’s perspectives by identifying its antecedents, attributes and consequences. In doing so, it demonstrated that MM as perceived by WPPE encompasses more than physical attributes, which largely form the basis of current classification systems. Incorporating these findings into clinical definitions can help inform health and community care approaches to increasingly meet WPPE’s needs. / Thesis / Master of Public Health (MPH) / Reducing poor maternal health outcomes is a global health priority. An indicator of maternal health is maternal morbidity (MM), which describes adverse pregnancy-related outcomes, excluding death, among the pregnant and postpartum population. However, MM is a concept without a universal definition. There has been a recent increase in qualitative research on the MM perspectives of women and people with pregnancy experience (WPPE), which are less well-understood than clinical MM definitions. Therefore, our aim was to understand the conditions and events that WPPE consider as MM. We collected our data from qualitative studies that interviewed WPPE about their MM experiences and analyzed the data for themes that we presented in a concept model. Our findings resulted in a MM concept consisting of physical, social, psychological, and healthcare-related attributes. Factors from the pre-pregnancy period contributed to WPPE’s perceived MM experiences and postpartum events with long-term consequences were also relevant to their health and wellbeing. Protective factors including having good support and faith increased WPPE’s resilience in the face of unexpected MM events. This understanding of WPPE’s perspectives may support future research and interventions to reflect their needs and improve healthcare approaches to MM.

The five senses are something we rely on to perceive our external world. Through an architectural sense, meditative and relaxing experiences establish themselves. How one is influenced by their surroundings a sense of self sparks a connection between body and place. Architecture, along with the phenomenon of synesthesia, brings another level of understanding of the world. With architectural spaces that enclose and water, a sense can be amplified and advanced to the forefront of the accompanying senses. Through the perception of one sense through another, the question of how the senses are in association with each other arises. With being submerged underground, a meditative refuge for the self embodies the five senses and the sense - less. Sight, touch, smell, taste, and sound work collectively to convey the experience of synesthesia. The perception of senses through another creates unique experiences and evokes self awareness. / Master of Architecture / The five senses [ sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste ] are something we rely on to perceive our external world. Through an architecture of sense, meditative and relaxing experiences establish themselves. This sense of self sparks a connection between body and place. Architecture, along with the phenomenon of synesthesia, brings another level of understanding of the world. With architecture and water, a sense can be amplified and advanced to the forefront of the accompanying senses. Through the perception of one sense through another, the question of how the senses are in association with each other arises.

The thesis explores the relationship of light, architecture, and humans focusing on both the mathematics of solar movement that informs the architecture and the experiential and spiritual response of human perception to it. The exploration uses the celestial realm as the inspiration and canvas that the design process was built on. The light tunnels, the design concept explored in detail, investigate the consequences of architectural form and space in combination with volumetric, reflected, dispersed, or absorbed light. The design process transforms an instrument derived from the sun dial to a living piece of architecture that responds to human perception to variably objectify and reveal spiritual conditions of the celestial sky. / Master of Architecture / The thesis explores the relationship of light, architecture and humans focusing on both the movement of the sun and the perceptive response to it. The Pilgrimage of the 'temples of inexplicable' is a complex with several pavilions that engage with light and dark to create a space that allows the coexistence of spirituality and science in harmony. The thesis looks into one pavilion in detail – The light tunnels that investigate the movement of the light source, its nature as an object or revelation, and the human perception. The design process transforms an instrument to a living piece of architecture.

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