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Esta pesquisa de mestrado dispõe-se a estudar as relações existentes entre a percepção sensorial têxtil e o corpo vestido, sob a perspectiva de mulheres videntes e não videntes, buscando as semelhanças e diferenças entre essas formas de percepção para assim refletir sobre a ação dos sentidos na interação com o produto têxtil e, mais especificamente, a influência da visão na percepção tátil. Para isso, foram realizadas pesquisas teóricas e práticas que abordam a relação simbólica do tecido com a sociedade, tendo como base a observação de um grupo formado por 45 mulheres com cegueira total congênita, adquirida e também por mulheres dotadas do sentido da visão. Os diálogos estabelecidos na relação do universo feminino e do têxtil como matéria-prima base para a criação das roupas e como as diversas variações de tecidos e suas funções em contato com a pele estimulam diferentes sensações, buscando enfatizar a importância da percepção e sua influência nas preferências e escolhas de consumo de produtos de moda. Com o objetivo de analisar como é possível estabelecer diferentes formas de perceber o tecido e o corpo que o veste e a maneira como auxiliam na formação da identidade visual como elemento constitutivo de uma cultura contemporânea / This dissertation proposes to study the relations between the textile sensorial perception and the dressed body under the perspective of seeing and non-seeing women, researching the similarities and differences from these ways of perception and, specifically, the visions influence over the textile perception. For this, it was made several theoretical and practical researches that approaches the fabrics symbolic relation with the society, which was based on the observation of a group with 45 women with congenital total blindness, by women who have acquired it and also by seing women. The dialogues stated in the relation between the feminine universe and the textile as an element to the creation of clothes and how different tissues and its functions in contact with the skin stimulates different sensations, seeking to emphasize the importance of the perception and its influence on personal preferences and fashion produts consumptions choices. It was analyzed how it is possible to connect different ways of perceiving the fabric and the body that wears it so that assists on the formation of the visual identity as an element to institute a contemporary culture

Mindscape, the subject of this dissertation, is a centre for creative and holistic development in Sunnyside, which will demonstrate how built environments communicate with users through their perception and sensory exploration. The topic covers various fields. The context of the study will be discussed initially, followed by the brief itself. Thereafter, the findings resulting from research conducted in the fields of developmental and environmental psychology ill be provided. Architectural theory will then be investigated. The study will conclude with the interpretation of these findings into a new architectural form, supported by design studies and analytical tools. / Dissertation (MArch (Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Architecture / Unrestricted

The way, how we perceive our environment has a significant impact on our daily lives and thus on our social relationships. On the one hand, humans of today are limiting their experiences of the physical environment, and neglect “spiritual” aspects. On the other hand, a perceptual imbalance has evolved which is accompanied by the rapid urbanisation of today. These two phenomena are associated with each other. The above-mentioned evolved imbalance has a significant impact on human’s life quality. Therefore, the present study investigates the importance of sensory perception as an aspect of human behaviour in the built environment. To examine the topic, firstly, I reviewed past literature written on this topic. Secondly, I conducted qualitative researches regarding the topic, both an open-ended questionnaire and also freeform interviews. The purpose of the qualitative methods described above was to give an insight into the approach and interpretation of the perceptual disturbance.   I conclude with my findings reached through the literature reviews.  That is followed by a suggestion regarding the significance of the participatory education of the designers.   The present paper remains theoretical and approaches to perceptuality from the sensory aspect.

Thesis advisor: Robert S. Lehman / Thesis advisor: Jennifer Greiman / “American Imperception” explores how early American writers investigated the role that political economy plays in the relation between sensory perception and knowledge. This dissertation argues that nineteenth-century American writers used literature to teach their readers to understand how economic forms and forms of economic activity fundamentally shape and train the sensorium to sense in historically and contextually specific ways. In “American Imperception,” I show how literature can make legible otherwise insensible forms of social and economic relations. The impossibility of sensing social and economic form—and the way in which that impossibility is rendered through literature—is what I call in this project “imperception.” Imperception describes the way in which literary form makes intelligible the structures of social, political, and economic life: structures that themselves cannot be sensed directly and which therefore cannot be directly represented by literature. “American Imperception” is focused on how literature interacts with social life within a capitalist modernity defined by the value form and the commodity form, and how literature formalizes the structures of social life through a specifically literary logic, transforming them into something that can be read where they cannot be seen, heard, felt, or represented. This dissertation draws on Karl Marx’s thinking on the senses and the suprasensible to consider how U.S. writers of the nineteenth-century mobilized literary form to make thinkable forms of sociality that cannot be contained by the imperceptible nature of sociality under capital. As I show in this dissertation, the political economy of social life determines what can be sensed, just as what can be sensed marks the horizon of political and social possibility. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2021. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: English.

Text in Afrikaans / The purpose of this study is the development of a Gestalt therapeutic program for conscious, multisensory perception. The program is aimed at children in the age group between eight and twelve years. A qualitative research approach is used with grounded theory as research strategy. Applied research is used with incidental sampling. The objectives as the steps taken to attain the purpose were literature study of the main concepts, the development of the program, and the refinement of the program. A collective energy model is designed to conduct the program in a group of eight children. After the observation of the interaction in the group and feedback by the group members the program was refined in nine sessions. The research was done in the theoretical framework of gestalt play therapy. / Social work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)

Text in Afrikaans / The purpose of this study is the development of a Gestalt therapeutic program for conscious, multisensory perception. The program is aimed at children in the age group between eight and twelve years. A qualitative research approach is used with grounded theory as research strategy. Applied research is used with incidental sampling. The objectives as the steps taken to attain the purpose were literature study of the main concepts, the development of the program, and the refinement of the program. A collective energy model is designed to conduct the program in a group of eight children. After the observation of the interaction in the group and feedback by the group members the program was refined in nine sessions. The research was done in the theoretical framework of gestalt play therapy. / Social work / M. Diac (Play Therapy)

Weather, how we tangibly engage with climate in our everyday lives, is a central underpinning to life in Canada and around the world. This thesis investigates relating to weather through a focused exploration of wind in the everyday lives of fire lookout observers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Stitching together approaches from anthropology, phenomenology and mountain meteorology, it brings to bear insights on coexisting with weather changes through an understanding of lived mountain climates. Perched atop the front ranges of the Alberta Rocky Mountains are located a string of mountain fire lookouts. Tasked with discerning and detecting smoke plumes that may signal the start of a wildfire, lookout observers, who inhabit these remote lookout places for five to six months of the year, are attentive to the wind’s effect on visibility, its role in wildfire processes, and as a force to contend with in their daily lives on the lookout. Through participant observation, interviews and photo elicitation, I draw on fire lookout observers’ past and present experiences of wind, and its role in larger weather processes. With many lookout observers returning to their posts season after season, the breadth and depth of their experience stretches over three decades. Over the course of a summer’s fieldwork, I hiked in, and at times lived with, lookout observers. Walking, as a contemplative research practice, continued beyond the field and into analysis, engaging in a process I call ambulant listening as an alternative to transcribing interviews verbatim. This involved walking and listening to interviews multiple times, with notes later drawn out visually using mind maps. Through this process, I learned that wind stirs up much more than simply considering air in motion. Entwined in a variety of multi-sensory engagements, wind touches on broader themes of awareness, encounter and wonder that emerge as weather consciousness. This study offers a rare lens into a way of life that has been increasingly shuttered across Canada and around the world, while at the same time exemplifying ways of being and knowing weather inherent to coexisting with increasingly uncertain and unpredictable weather patterns in the midst of climate change. / Graduate / 0326, 0334,0314,0344 / kristen.walsh@hotmail.com