This dissertation analyses the influence theatre space and the dramatic genre have on the design process, by examining three designs of Greg King: Aladdin (2007), a pantomime presented at the Playhouse Drama Theatre, Oleanna (2008) a drama at the Seabrooke's Theatre, and The Wizard of Oz (2008), a musical presented at the Elizabeth Sneddon Theatre. Through a semiotic analysis of the productions, the scenographic choices of King are interrogated to ascertain the ways theatre space and dramatic genre affected his design choices. The theories around sign systems in the theatre of Keir Elam (1980), Martin Esslin (1987), and Elaine Aston and George Savona (1991) are examined and used to decode King's designs. This dissertation theorises that the theatre space has influenced and continues to influence the decisions and choices of the scenographer, and it is this linkage that informs the discussion around the historical development of the proscenium arch theatre and the scenographer. The case studies offered in this dissertation highlight the challenges involved with the physical limitations of the theatre space, as each venue selected differs in size, shape, and the technical equipment available for the designer. The dramatic text provides the primary basis for both the director and the designer to develop a production concept. However, dramatic texts can be divided into many different genres and the following three genres, namely drama, musical and pantomime, provide the focus for this study. As these three genres have evolved from earlier forms, the historical development of the three genres is examined to ascertain how the genre affects the scenographic process. Atheatre production is the result of a collaboration between many specialists and therefore, the relationship between the designer and other member of the production team is examined. A set design is a visual image of an imagined environment and many designers use symbols, consciously or subconsciously, to communicate their ideas. A theatre production is the result of a collaboration between many specialists and therefore, the relationship between the designer and other member of the production team is examined. A set design is a visual image of an imagined environment and many designers use symbols, consciously or subconsciously, to communicate their ideas. The work of three international designers, Josef Svoboda, Ming Cho Lee and Ralph Koltai is examined further to understand the influence theatre space and the dramatic genre have on the design process. / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2012.

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Que le dépaysement soit devenu la méthode du processus créatif tel est le point de départ de cette réflexion qui prend appui sur un travail plastique personnel développé ces dix dernières années. Une recherche picturale qui devient le révélateur de cette expérience du prépictural, à partir de l'espace perçu et vécu. Exploration qui se renouvelle à même la toile, dans un dialogue dynamique entre paysage intérieur, le paysement et celui de la découverte, le dépaysement. L'espace pictural est construit, structuré et spatialisé à partir des seules couleurs du noir et blanc. Le dépaysement devient alors l'opération qui occasionne des transformations, des glissements, des débordements dans le lieu de la peinture. Celui-ci est en devenir, ni figé, ni statique, il est en mutation permanente car c'est bien à partir des impressions, des sensations et de la sensibilité de l'artiste que la relation au monde se modifie et engendre alors une nouvelle esthétique. Déplacée vers l'architecture, l'expansion du pictural propose au spectateur un nouveau dépaysement, dans le lieu d'exposition. / The starring point of this reflection, based on a personal plastic work developed in the last ten years, is the fact that an experience that I defined "dépaysement", a kind of “displacement in painting", has become my creative process method. This pictorial research becomes the indicator of the pre-pictorial experience, starting from the space that we have seen and lived. This exploration renews itself on the canvas, by the means of a dynamic dialogue between the internal landscape and that of discovery, this displacement. In the picture the space is built, structured and shaped from black and white only. The "dépaysement" becomes the operation that causes transformations, slidings and overflowings of this space, which is not static, but keeps changing and is constantly brought into being by the Impressions, the sensations and the sensibility of the artist, because his relationship with the world changes and generates a new aesthetic, Finally the pictorial expansion, shifted towards the architecture, proposes to the spectator a new disorientation in the exposition place.

Submitted by Stéfany Moreira (stemellra@yahoo.com.br) on 2013-03-04T17:47:37Z No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_PráticaModelagemMatemática.pdf: 719262 bytes, checksum: d633103113f5f4495fbce9e3b18c1927 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Neide Nativa (neide@sisbin.ufop.br) on 2013-03-13T23:23:39Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_PráticaModelagemMatemática.pdf: 719262 bytes, checksum: d633103113f5f4495fbce9e3b18c1927 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2013-03-13T23:23:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 DISSERTAÇÃO_PráticaModelagemMatemática.pdf: 719262 bytes, checksum: d633103113f5f4495fbce9e3b18c1927 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / O presente trabalho apresenta uma pesquisa que aborda a prática de Modelagem Matemática como um cenário de investigação, na perspectiva da formação continuada de Professores de Matemática. Inicialmente, apresentamos algumas concepções de Modelagem Matemática, destacando algumas considerações para a prática docente, além de buscar relações com os cenários de investigação. Nossa metodologia de pesquisa contempla a elaboração e o desenvolvimento de Projetos de Modelagem Matemática relacionados aos preços de uma corrida de táxi e do combustível na bomba, implementados e avaliados por Professores de Matemática nos mais variados níveis de ensino, que cursaram uma disciplina de Modelagem Matemática no Mestrado Profissional em Educação Matemática da UFOP, em 2010. As Considerações Finais do nosso trabalho apontam que o desenvolvimento de Projetos de Modelagem Matemática evidencia a importância do Professor de Matemática: conhecer diversas perspectivas de Modelagem Matemática; vivenciar experiências de Modelagem Matemática em sua formação para desenvolver atividades de Modelagem em sala de aula; refletir sobre o papel das aplicações da Matemática relacionadas a problemas da realidade; valorizar a pesquisa, o tratamento da informação e o trabalho em grupo em sua prática pedagógica; transformar sua sala de aula em um ambiente propício àinvestigação de temas relevantes para os alunos; e saber trabalhar com outras áreas do conhecimento e em ambientes educacionais informatizados. __________________________________________________________________________________________ / ABSTRACT: This paper presents a study focusing on the practice of Mathematical Modeling as a research scenary, in view of the continuing education of Mathematics Teachers. Firstly, some concepts of Mathematical Modeling, highlighting some considerations for teaching practice, in addition seek relationships with research scenary. Our research methodology involves the preparation and development of projects related to Mathematical Modeling prices of a taxi ride and the fuel pump, implemented and evaluated by Mathematics Teachers at various levels of education, who attended a course in Mathematical Modeling at Professional Masters in Mathematical Education of UFOP in 2010. The final considerations of our work indicate that the development of Mathematical Modeling projects demonstrates the importance of Mathematics Teacher: knowledge of various perspectives of Mathematical Modeling, gain experience of Mathematical Modeling in their training to develop modeling activities in the classroom, reflect on the role of applications of Mathematics to problems related to reality, enhancing research, data processing and teamwork in their work; transform your classroom into an environment conducive to research topics relevant to students, and how to work with other areas of knowledge and computerized educational environments.

Com esta pesquisa busquei constituir cenários para investigação para as aulas de matemática a partir da produção decorrente de pesquisas realizadas no Projeto de Iniciação Científica no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Catarinense - Campus Rio do Sul. Para atingir os objetivos propostos por esta pesquisa, elaborei uma possibilidade educacional através da investigação de situações-problema da vida real, o que possibilitou identificar e significar os conceitos matemáticos em análise. A pesquisa foi embasada na teoria da Transposição Didática, discutida por Chevallard, com o intuito de auxiliar no trabalho de adaptar e transformar os conhecimentos produzidos em projetos de Iniciação Científica para um conhecimento que possa ser desenvolvido e produzido em sala de aula. Para que a transposição viesse acontecer num viés reflexivo procurei discutir a Educação Matemática Crítica, segundo Skovsmose. Provocando assim, uma reflexão sobre os conteúdos matemáticos envolvidos e a realidade inerente ao contexto. Ao procurar interagir os pressupostos teóricos com a realidade, atingi o objetivo da pesquisa e denominei este trabalho de Transposição Didática Reflexiva, com o intuito de unir as duas teorias num processo em que o saber a ser ensinado seja adaptado de forma a provocar reflexões, instituindo um cenário para investigação que propicie a participação do aluno no processo, provoque discussões e tomada de decisão, de modo a instigar o sujeito a ser transformador de sua própria realidade. Adotei na pesquisa uma abordagem qualitativa e para a coleta de dados desenvolvi a possibilidade educacional com as primeiras séries do Ensino Médio, observando as atitudes e considerações dos alunos perante as atividades propostas. Também apresento um quadro de limitações que permearam a proposta e como produto final, apresento três propostas de roteiros de aprendizagem que visam subsidiar outros professores que desejem desenvolver possibilidades educacionais, num viés que possibilite a constituição de um cenário para investigação de modo a instigar a curiosidade, o espírito investigativo e a criticidade dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo pedagógico. / Through this work I aimed at building investigative sceneries for the mathematics lessons from the current researches development carried through the Scientific Initiation Project of the Catarinense Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - Campus of Rio do Sul. In order to reach the objectives set for this research, I developed an educational possibility through the investigation of real life problem-situations, which allowed me to identify and make sense of the analyzed mathematical concepts. The research was based on the Didactic Transposition theory - stated by Chevallard - aiming at getting support to the work in order to adapt and transform the knowledge produced with the projects of Scientific Initiation into a knowledge that can be developed and be produced into the classroom. So that the transposition happened into a reflective bias I tried to discuss the Critical Mathematical Education in accordance with Skovsmose, then bringing a reflection on the involved mathematical contents and the reality inherent to the context. When aiming at getting the interaction between the theoretical presuppositions and the reality, I reached the objective of this research and named this work as Reflective Didactic Transposition, intending to join the two theories into a process in which the knowledge to be taught be adapted to be reflectionsprovoking offering an investigation scenery that propitiates the participation of the student into the process and bringing discussions and decision taking, instigating the student - as an individual - to be the one who transforms his/her own reality. I used a qualitative approach in the research, and for the data collection I implemented the educational possibility at Junior High School classes, observing the attitudes and considerations of the students face the proposed activities as well. I also present a limitations figure that interfered with the proposal, and as the final result I present three learning approaches aimed at subsidizing other teachers who want to develop educational possibilities on a bias that turn into possible the constitution of a research scenery in order to instigate the curiosity, the investigative spirit and the critical view of the individuals involved in the pedagogical process.

Com esta pesquisa busquei constituir cenários para investigação para as aulas de matemática a partir da produção decorrente de pesquisas realizadas no Projeto de Iniciação Científica no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Catarinense - Campus Rio do Sul. Para atingir os objetivos propostos por esta pesquisa, elaborei uma possibilidade educacional através da investigação de situações-problema da vida real, o que possibilitou identificar e significar os conceitos matemáticos em análise. A pesquisa foi embasada na teoria da Transposição Didática, discutida por Chevallard, com o intuito de auxiliar no trabalho de adaptar e transformar os conhecimentos produzidos em projetos de Iniciação Científica para um conhecimento que possa ser desenvolvido e produzido em sala de aula. Para que a transposição viesse acontecer num viés reflexivo procurei discutir a Educação Matemática Crítica, segundo Skovsmose. Provocando assim, uma reflexão sobre os conteúdos matemáticos envolvidos e a realidade inerente ao contexto. Ao procurar interagir os pressupostos teóricos com a realidade, atingi o objetivo da pesquisa e denominei este trabalho de Transposição Didática Reflexiva, com o intuito de unir as duas teorias num processo em que o saber a ser ensinado seja adaptado de forma a provocar reflexões, instituindo um cenário para investigação que propicie a participação do aluno no processo, provoque discussões e tomada de decisão, de modo a instigar o sujeito a ser transformador de sua própria realidade. Adotei na pesquisa uma abordagem qualitativa e para a coleta de dados desenvolvi a possibilidade educacional com as primeiras séries do Ensino Médio, observando as atitudes e considerações dos alunos perante as atividades propostas. Também apresento um quadro de limitações que permearam a proposta e como produto final, apresento três propostas de roteiros de aprendizagem que visam subsidiar outros professores que desejem desenvolver possibilidades educacionais, num viés que possibilite a constituição de um cenário para investigação de modo a instigar a curiosidade, o espírito investigativo e a criticidade dos sujeitos envolvidos no processo pedagógico. / Through this work I aimed at building investigative sceneries for the mathematics lessons from the current researches development carried through the Scientific Initiation Project of the Catarinense Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology - Campus of Rio do Sul. In order to reach the objectives set for this research, I developed an educational possibility through the investigation of real life problem-situations, which allowed me to identify and make sense of the analyzed mathematical concepts. The research was based on the Didactic Transposition theory - stated by Chevallard - aiming at getting support to the work in order to adapt and transform the knowledge produced with the projects of Scientific Initiation into a knowledge that can be developed and be produced into the classroom. So that the transposition happened into a reflective bias I tried to discuss the Critical Mathematical Education in accordance with Skovsmose, then bringing a reflection on the involved mathematical contents and the reality inherent to the context. When aiming at getting the interaction between the theoretical presuppositions and the reality, I reached the objective of this research and named this work as Reflective Didactic Transposition, intending to join the two theories into a process in which the knowledge to be taught be adapted to be reflectionsprovoking offering an investigation scenery that propitiates the participation of the student into the process and bringing discussions and decision taking, instigating the student - as an individual - to be the one who transforms his/her own reality. I used a qualitative approach in the research, and for the data collection I implemented the educational possibility at Junior High School classes, observing the attitudes and considerations of the students face the proposed activities as well. I also present a limitations figure that interfered with the proposal, and as the final result I present three learning approaches aimed at subsidizing other teachers who want to develop educational possibilities on a bias that turn into possible the constitution of a research scenery in order to instigate the curiosity, the investigative spirit and the critical view of the individuals involved in the pedagogical process.

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Contemporary operatic scenography has been undergoing broad aesthetic, theatrical and technological transformations. My dissertation analyzes the work of three key designer-directors—Robert Wilson, Achim Freyer, and Karl-Ernst Herrmann—in order to investigate the changing relationship between the visual and the theatrical in contemporary opera, as well as opera’s place within current trends in theatrical design and broader visual culture. Combining an analysis of current productions with wide-ranging archival research, I reconstruct and explore these artists’ individual stylistic development and their mutual influence. Through this focus on the hybrid figure of the contemporary designer-director, I address two key historical changes in operatic culture: first, the greatly increased importance of scenography and visuality in global opera and second, the emergence of new scenographic idioms, which have rapidly displaced the dominance of historicist and realist conventions in staging. Throughout, I show how Wilson, Freyer, and Herrmann’s work has been central to the development of a “new international style” in operatic scenography. Combining close visual analysis with historical contextualization, I examine how this style—characterized by abstraction, rich colors, striking lighting and radical theatrical effects—has transformed the look of opera, while also framing these developments within the longer history of modernist scenography, and the long-standing tensions between stylistic innovation and aesthetic traditionalism.