Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T14:58:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Mauricio Bacic Olic.pdf: 1592247 bytes, checksum: 8c4dd706852ccef0675e669eea8bd83e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-06-02 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / This theisis analyzes the ways in wich the skaters take ownerships of urban space through motion-generating forms of ownership and property in urban spaces. For this, the research drew on an ethnographic work with the population of skateboarders in order to follow the route of these subjects using a dynamic three-dimensional by metropolis: the body, the skatepark and de city. In this study, therefore, sought to follow the experience of the skaters do in the city, between the smooth and striated from the way they deal with your body to forms more dense clusters in areas predetermined for this practice, even in broader dimensions of sprawl in different lanes, squares ande streets of the metropolitan region of São Paulo / Esta Dissertação tem como objetivo analisar os modos pelos quais os skatistas se apropriam do espaço urbano por meio de movimentos geradores de formas de apropriação e de propriedade sobre o espaça urbano. Para isso, a pesquisa valeu-se de um trabalho de cunho etnográfico junto ao universo de skatistas com o objetivo de acompanhar o itinerário destes sujeitos através de uma dinâmica tridimensional pela metrópole: o corpo, a pista e a cidade. Neste trabalho, portanto, buscou-se seguir a experiência dos skatistas em fazer cidade, entre o liso e o estriado, desde o modo como lidam com seu corpo, passando por formas mais densas de agrupamentos em espaços pré-determinados para sua prática, até em suas dimensões mais amplas de espraiamento por diferentes pistas, praças e ruas da região metropolitana de São Paulo

Today’s society is subject to an increased importance of aesthetics and an increasing individualism. New trends are adopted early by young people, which make it interesting to focus on how identity is formed and meanings are constructed in a youth culture context and in relation to ongoing societal processes of change. The purpose of this dissertation is to interpret and analyse the construction of meaning within the skateboard and snowboard communities in the social and cultural contexts. In particular, this dissertation is about the relationship between three levels, cultural, practice and individual. The title “Traces” alludes to four analytical themes taking different tracks in the book; consumption, gender, place and identity that are reflected in different chapters. However, the individual leaves traces in culture as culture does in the individual. Furthermore, skaters and snowboarders leave actual tracks in their local geography. Theoretically the study has a culture analysis approach with a semiotic base where five theories are intertwined. Johan Fornäs contributes with his interpretation on culture as system of signs and signifying practices, Stuart Hall adds the concept of representations, Kirsten Drotner provides her argumentation regarding aesthetic practices whilst Ulf Hannerz enriches the dissertation with his discussion on transnational culture-flows and the social diffusion of culture. Roger Säljö proposes a socio-cultural perspective of learning where learning is about participation in knowledge and skills. The method used is ethnographical. The multifaceted empirical material, from field studies and interviews, Swedish skateboard and snowboard magazines between 1978 to 2002, skateboard and snowboard videos, press articles, and websites, has been triangulated. In addition, there are three personal albums of skateboarder, snowboarder and surfer Ants Neo. The study shows that there are stereotyped notions about what boarding means and what it means to be a boarder. These notions both create and are created by the boarders themselves but are also used by advertisers for products not related to board sports at all. These notions, based as they are on ideas of resistance and radicalism, serve to emphasise that boarding is masculine. Resistance takes concrete form in its attitude to organized sports and to multinational brands and in the unusual use of places in the urban environment. To be a boarder is, apart form the boarding skills required, to be also part and parcel of these attitudes. The study explains how meaning and identity are created through informal learning processes in youth culture contexts. In these group-forming processes, both the individual and the community are formulated in social, cultural and aesthetic terms.

Submitted by Automa??o e Estat?stica (sst@bczm.ufrn.br) on 2017-03-20T22:48:58Z No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoBalzaModa_DISSERT.pdf: 3052830 bytes, checksum: 9e244029e756b54d998e7bdf6fc44a4a (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Arlan Eloi Leite Silva (eloihistoriador@yahoo.com.br) on 2017-03-24T18:57:38Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoBalzaModa_DISSERT.pdf: 3052830 bytes, checksum: 9e244029e756b54d998e7bdf6fc44a4a (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-03-24T18:57:38Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 RodrigoBalzaModa_DISSERT.pdf: 3052830 bytes, checksum: 9e244029e756b54d998e7bdf6fc44a4a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-08-26 / O trabalho analisa algumas formas de fazer pol?tica entre adeptos do skateboard em Natal-RN. Diante da inexist?ncia de locais apropriados para a pr?tica dessa atividade na cidade, alguns sujeitos passaram a reivindicar pela constru??o de um skatepark p?blico. Diferentes estrat?gias se fortaleceram. Dentre essas, destaca-se o exemplo do que ficou conhecido como, Movimento Skate Potiguar (MSP), uma s?rie de manifesta??es, tais como, passeatas, reuni?es com pol?ticos e campeonatos, organizados em bairros da zona sul da cidade, bem como na Prefeitura e na C?mara Municipal de Vereadores, entre os anos de 2007 e 2011. A partir de uma descri??o dessas mobiliza??es, orientada pela perspectiva dos Estudos Culturais, ingleses e latino-americanos, na ?gide de autores como, Stuart Hall (2005) e Nestor Garcia Canclini (2008), discute-se a quest?o do exerc?cio da cidadania em tempos de globaliza??o da cultura e da economia. De modo geral, este estudo procura mostrar que as mobiliza??es por uma pista de skate p?blica em Natal expressam uma nova maneira de reivindicar por direitos sociais, organizada n?o a partir de interesses de classe, g?nero e nacionalidade, mas mediante o consumo de mercadorias e s?mbolos da cultura do skate, produzida e difundida por empresas de alcance transnacional e pelos meios de comunica??o de massa. / The paper analyzes some ways of doing politics between the skateboard in Natal-RN supporters. Due to the lack of appropriate places to practice this activity in the city, some guys started to demand the construction of a public skatepark. Different strategies have been strengthened. Among these, there is the example of what became known as Movement Potiguar Skateboard (MSP), a series of events, such as marches, meetings with politicians and championships, were organized in area neighborhoods south of the city, as well as in City Hall and the City Council Chamber, between the years 2007 and 2011. From a description of these mobilizations, guided by the perspective of cultural studies English and Latin America, under the auspices of authors such as Stuart Hall (2005) and Nestor Garcia Canclini (2008), is discusses the issue of citizenship in time of globalization of culture and economy. Overall, this study seeks to show that the mobilizations by a public skatepark on Natal express a new way to claim for social rights, organized not from class interests, gender and nationality, but by the consumption of goods and symbols skate culture, produced and disseminated by transnational reach of companies and mass media.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-26T14:52:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 LeonardoBrandao_introducao_cap1.pdf: 597655 bytes, checksum: 292302efd29aed170e2b7976e18c957c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-01-29 / This work had for objective to argue the practical of skate of street (streetskating) through its representations in the urban space. Leaving of the analysis of a North American videoset of documents, intitled "Dogtown and Z-Boys: Where Everything Started ", a series of pertinent questions to the body, the appropriation of the urban spaces and to the youthful processes of identification was developed. One is about a research on the history of the present time, that hits upon for a period of transformations understood enters the decades of 70 and 80 of the passed century, characterized here as of after-modernity. After to characterize the beginning of the development of skate in the United States, was broken for the analysis of this practical in national territory, using itself for in such a way a series of magazines, letters, depositions and photographs of skate. The association between this activity and the contraculture, as well as with movement of the punk-rock and the cunnings of the cultural industry, had revealed good for a context understanding of this practical cultural / Esta dissertação teve por objetivo discutir a prática do skate de rua (streetskate) através de suas representações no espaço urbano. Partindo da análise de um vídeo-documentário norte-americano, intitulado Dogtown and Z-Boys: Onde Tudo Começou , desenvolveu-se uma série de questões pertinentes à corporeidade, à apropriação dos espaços urbanos e aos processos de identificação juvenis. Trata-se de uma pesquisa sobre a história do tempo presente, que atina para um período de transformações compreendido entre as décadas de 70 e 80 do século passado, caracterizado aqui como o da pós-modernidade. Após analisar o início do desenvolvimento do skate nos Estados Unidos, partiu-se para uma discussão dessa prática em território nacional, utilizando-se para tanto uma série de revistas, cartas, depoimentos e fotografias de skate. A associação entre esta atividade e a contracultura, assim como com o movimento do punk-rock e as artimanhas da indústria cultural, mostraram-se profícuas para melhor qualificar essas representações e apropriações do espaço urbano

This dissertation maps a proto-poststructuralist tradition and fuses a subsequent methodology with/in a practice derived from performance studies to uncover a spatially informed corporeal notion of subjectivity. Combining the cultural and historically radical motility of the street skateboard and precursory surfboard with an ambulatory interpretation of radical political philosophy and subjectivity this work explores, through the lens of a drifting practitioner, a quotidian routine in The Commute, and a distinctly urban practice, in The Skateboard Dérive. Functioning as case situations these performance events are used to elaborate, produce, and apply a drifting approach to critical spatial inquiry through the recognition of four elemental notions: drifting, situating, becoming, and fragmenting.

My degree project has been about converting an existing old industrial building into a youth centre. The buildings core focus is culture together with activity and learning. I wanted to use as much material as possible from the old building. Exterior walls and flooring are left almost untouched while a big part of the buildings construction with roof is changed. I made a new roof that could be used as a park.The building is situated close to the city centre of Eskilstuna, aswell as close to the southern suburbs where problems with segregation is an issue. My vision with Strömbrytaren was to make it a social hub, where youth from different backgrounds would meet and socialize. / Mitt examensprojekt har handlat om att omvandla en existerande gammal industribyggnad till ett ungdomshus. Byggnadens främsta fokus ligger på kultur tillsammans med aktivitet och lärande. Jag ville i mitt projekt använda så mycket av byggnadens befintliga material som möjligt. Exteriöra väggar och golv är i princip lämnade orörda medan en stor dela av byggnadens konstruktion och stomme tillsammans med tak är omgjort. Jag skapade ett nytt tak som kunde användas som en park.Byggnaden är situerad nära Eskilstuna centrum, samt de förorter som ligger söder om stadskärnan där segregation har blivit ett stort problem. Min vision med Strömbrytaren har varit att göra det till en social knytpunkt, där ungdomar från olika bakgrunder kan mötas och umgås.

Studien undersöker och utformar ett grafiskt tryck för att främja kvinnliga skateboardåkare.Kvinnor inom skateboard har länge varit i minoritet och de har inte samma utbud när det kommer till varumärken. En bidragande orsak är de fördomar som finns om kvinnliga skateboardåkare. En pilotstudie genomfördes för att undersöka dagens varumärken och vilka preferenser som finns. Inom ramen för studien gjordes även en förstudie för att undersöka vilka kategorier inom deck-art som tilltalar målgruppen. Studiens designprocess använde sig av de teorier och åsikter som framkommit, och syftade till att utforma designalternativ som motsvarade dessa. Resultatet blev att två starka koncept togs fram. Efter en värderingsprocess i form av en kvantitativ enkät, med 19 respondenter, samt kvalitativa intervjuer med två aktiva, kunde en slutgiltig design skapas. Studien visar att den design som tagits fram är lämplig för både skateboard och t-shirt, och var omtyckt av målgruppen.

Skateboards have been around since at least the 1950’s, and skateboarding is most commonly knownas an extreme sport. However, skateboards can be very useful when commuting as they have continued to evolve since the 1950’s, not quite in to the hover board that Marty McFly rides on in Back to the Future, but in to skateboards equipped with electric motors that propels them forward. Electric skateboards, as they are called, are one of the vehicle types that are changing the way humans move around cities. Vehicles that are needed in order to fulfill present and future commuting needs. However, electric skateboards have not yet reached their full potential, especially regarding how their speed is controlled. Current speed control systems gives a riding experience that feels unnatural compared to riding a regular skateboard, and improving upon them can potentially make electric skateboards even safer to ride. In this thesis, an active style of riding, like skateboarding, is compared to the reactive style of riding that is provided by the speed control systems existent in electric skateboards today. The thesis presents a speed control system that utilizes an active style of riding, and the concept is tested by the development of a pedobarography system that can read the interaction between the riders feet and the skateboard deck.

Skateboarding and parkour are categorized as urban sports, which are a type of lifestyle sports that are primarily practiced within urban environments. Compared to regular sports, these sports have a focuson personal enjoyment and freedom to set your own goals. Sport and physical activity are an important factor in both physical health and the development of mental and social skills, but not all sports have the same needs, nor are they treated equally. To gain a better understanding for how the practitioners of urban sports view themselves and what their needs are in relation to sport, a series of semi-structured interviews were conducted, where 6 participants were asked about factors relating to aspects of the sport, relationship to the spaces they occupy and how other practitioners and non-practitioners interacted with them to better understand the relationship between these practitioners and the spaces they occupy. The results of this study were then presented in relation to the theory of loose spaces to explain why these spaces are important to the practitioners, and how their needs for both space and sport can be met from a municipal perspective. The findings show that the participants have common themes between them, and that space becomes an important factor to the participants because it gives them a sense of reality in their practice. The participants describe that without this sense of reality the practice of urban sports becomes artificial and loses meaning to them.To encourage participation in these sports from a municipal perspective there are two key points, availability of space where practitioners aren’t exposed to bystanders and working with public acceptance of sport as a lifestyle activity that doesn’t have to be delegated to specific sporting arenas.

The aim of this study is to better understand the Swedish concept of“förebyggande socialt arbete”, preventive social work. I have conducted elevenqualitative interviews with different key persons and skaters, together withparticipant observation. During the process of analyzing the material I have usedRandall Collins´ concepts of interaction ritual chains together with Jean Laves andEtienne Wengers concept of situated learning. The answers could be split up inthree areas, first those who regard prevention work as building good things for thefuture. The second group to prevent something bad to happen and the third groupregard preventive social work to be repairing what was broken. The first group,mostly architects, included all three levels of the urban system, the social culturecontext, the human interaction and the urban design. The second and third group,mostly participant from the social work area, focused on the individual level.Although social work should be involved in social policy and development areincluded in the Swedish Social Serves Act. The findings is that Swedish definitionof social work need to be wider in order to include the urban design as a part ofsocial prevention work.