This study investigates the perceptual effect of ceiling painting on the viewer in relation to spatiality. Three case studies have been conducted of ceiling paintings by Johan Sylvius from 1690, Karl XI's gallery at Drottningholm Palace; Karl Axel Pehrson Transfigurata from 1978, at Thielska Gallery; and by Malin Gabriella Nordin from 2021, at the restaurant Ricordi, all in Stockholm Sweden. The objects represent ceiling paintings with different mediums, pictorial expressions, and motifs. This study presents how ceiling painting's formal and aesthetic structures and mechanisms activate the viewer's perception and performative action. Together with the room, these elements shape the viewer's overall experience of the ceiling painting and the spaciousness. The perceptual influence takes place in interaction with the individual's subjective psychological make up, which filters the mentally and physically perceived information. This means that each individual's experience is characterized by subjective perceptions: the same colour, expression or form can generate different impressions in different individuals – depending on the individual's previous experience with similar elements. The aim is not to find a common experience, but to track which elements and how they activate the viewer. These elements are the ceiling painting's internal and external factors, which activate the senses and shapes the viewer's movements in the room. Sensations together with the viewer's choreography create an overall experience within the viewer. The thesis in the essay postulates that these structures and mechanisms are conditioned in the ceiling painting's particular placement in the inner ceiling of the room, its materiality and spatial relationship. The perceptual impact is the initial awareness of the art, before the intellectual, ceiling painting is not sought to be interpreted but to be experienced. Most of the research in the visual arts and especially on ceiling painting is devoted primarily to narratology, the narrative content. The purpose of the essay is therefore to highlight ceiling painting as an art form and shed light on its perceptual impact on the viewer and the spatiality, as an introductory part to the subsequent intellectual interpretations. This pre-narratological stage conveys both the sensuous potential of the ceiling painting itself, and knowledge that can contribute with extensions of the narratological content.

La thèse porte sur le work in progress de Raoul Hausmann, "Hylé", dont la genèse exceptionnelle s'étend sur plus de 30 ans (1926-58). "Hylé I" (inédit) et "Hylé II" (2006) traitent des années 1926-33 (Allemagne) et 1933-36 (Ibiza) de la vie de Hausmann. Ces ensembles textuels, qui résultent tous deux du montage d'une centaine d'unités textuelles, transcendent les appartenances génériques au profit d'une identité transgénérique, plurielle et mobile. Au regard du rôle majeur de Hausmann dans le mouvement Dada à Berlin, tant sur le plan théorique que par sa production plastique et poétique, le présent travail pose la question de la continuation d'un projet d'avant-garde dans "Hylé". L'exploration des relations intermédiales entre Hylé et le photomontage, la poésie visuelle et la photographie – formes d'expression investies par Hausmann pendant ou après Dada – permet d'éclairer la permanence de son projet utopique d'une augmentation de la perception sensorielle humaine. L'analyse comparée de "Hylé I" et "Hylé II" s'appuie sur la reconstruction de la genèse du texte à partir des deux grands fonds d'archives français et allemand. Elle montre d'abord, au niveau macrostructurel, que le montage crée un mode de cohérence spatial et dynamique qui concurrence celui de la linéarité narrative, soutenu en cela dans "Hylé II" par une véritable poétique de l'espace. Elle fait ensuite ressortir l'ambivalence d'une entreprise autobiographique qui se forme au cours de la genèse et oscille entre la constitution rétrospective du moi et sa dissolution (ou sa fragmentation). Enfin, elle s'attache à l'expérimentation langagière conçue comme le projet utopique de mettre en mouvement les limites rigides imposées à notre connaissance par le langage, projet qui culmine dans l'écriture multilingue de l'exil dans "Hylé II". / This thesis discusses Raoul Hausmann's work in progress, Hyle, whose genesis lasted over 30 years (1926-1958). "Hyle I" (unpublished) and "Hyle II" (2006) both have strong autobiographical character and deal with the years 1926-33 (Germany) and 1933-36 (Ibiza). Each consists of approximately a hundred units combined together into a textual ensemble, which goes beyond traditional genre classifications and produce a transgeneric, plural and mobile textual identity. Taking into account Hausmann's crucial importance in Berlin Dada both on the theoretical field and for his artistic and poetical production, this thesis looks into the question of the continuation of an avant-garde project within "Hyle". In order to understand what remains of Hausmann's utopian project of an enlargement of human perception, it is most helpful to explore the intermedial relations between the work in progress and Hausmann's practice of photomontage, visual poetry and photography. The comparative analysis of "Hyle I" and "Hyle II" is based on an extensive genetic enquiry using the two principal Hausmann archives in Germany and France. It first focusses on the macrostructural level and highlights how the technique of textual montage creates a spatial and dynamic coherence mode, which is conflicting with that of narrative linearity – this being supported in "Hyle II" by a comprehensive poetics of space. The analysis then sheds some light on the ambiguity of an autobiographical project which forms itself in the course of the genesis and oscillates between retrospective subject constitution and subject fragmentation or dissolution. It finally analyses the language experiment in Hyle as a utopian attempt to shift the verbal bondaries which limit our understanding – culminating in "Hyle II" with the multilingual writing influenced by the exile years. / Die Dissertation untersucht Raoul Hausmanns Work-in-progress "Hyle" unter Berücksichtigung seiner mehr als 30 Jahre umfassenden Textgenese (1926-1958). "Hyle I" (unveröffentlicht) und "Hyle II" (2006) handeln von Hausmanns Leben in den Jahren 1926-33 (Deutschland) und 1933-36 (Ibiza). Diese jeweils aus ca. 100 zusammenmontierten Einheiten bestehenden Textensembles gehen über traditionelle Gattungszugehörigkeit hinaus zugunsten einer transgenerischen, pluralen und beweglichen Identität. Ausgehend von Hausmanns wesentlicher Rolle in Dada-Berlin – im theoretischen wie im künstlerischen und poetischen Bereich – wird in dieser Arbeit der Frage nach der Fortschreibung eines Avantgarde-Projekts in "Hyle" nachgegangen. Das vielfach intermediale Verhältnis des Schreibprojekts zu den Ausdrucksformen der Fotomontage, der visuellen Poesie und der Fotografie wird herausgearbeitet und in Beziehung zu Hausmanns utopischem Projekt einer Erweiterung der menschlichen Wahrnehmung gesetzt. Die vergleichende Analyse von "Hyle I" und "II" erfolgt anhand einer fundierten, sich auf den beiden Haupt-Nachlässen in Deutschland und Frankreich stützenden Rekonstruktion der Textgenese. Sie zeigt zuerst auf makrostruktureller Ebene, wie die Text-Montage einen räumlich-dynamischen, im Spannungsfeld mit einem linear-narrativen stehenden Kohärenzmodus stiftet, und wie sich dies zudem in "Hyle II" in einer umfassende Raumpoetik artikuliert. Die Analyse hebt dann das Ambivalente eines autobiographischen Unternehmens hervor, das sich erst im Laufe der Genese entwickelt und zwischen retrospektiver Ich-Konstitution und Subjekt-Auflösung bzw. -Fragmentierung oszilliert. Sie befasst sich schließlich mit dem Sprachexperiment als einem utopischen Projekt, das den starren, unsere Erkenntnis beschränkenden Grenzen der Sprache erneut Beweglichkeit zu verleihen sucht – und im mehrsprachigen, durch Exil-Erfahrung geprägten Schreiben in "Hyle II" seinen Höhepunkt erreicht.

For almost a century, Virginia Woolf has enchanted readers all over the world with her novel about the gender fluid and time travelling character Orlando. British director Sally Potter adapted Orlando into film in 1992, and her adaptation has since gained immense fame and a continuous presence in world cinema. Potter's Orlando has been the object of a great deal of scholarly interest. However, previous research has predominantly focused on questions of gender and sexuality. Considerably underdiscussed is the film's fascinating conception of time and space. This thesis therefore sets out to analyze Sally Potter's Orlando in order to demonstrate how time and space is shaped in the film.  Theories developed by George Bluestone and André Bazin form the theoretical framework of this thesis. Through a close reading of the film, this thesis demonstrates that Potter establishes an unconventional temporality and spatiality through constructing a nonlinear, often contradictory temporality conveyed through contrasts between the organic and the fantastic, the real and the fictitious. Furthermore, the analysis finds that spatiality in Potter's Orlando is presented as multidimensional, allowing certain characters the possibility to inhabit a "fluid spatiality". Through presenting the past and the present as fused, Potter's Orlando can be understood through the optics of Bluestone's concept of "the flux of time" and Henri Bergsons la durée réelle. Simultaneously, breaks in the narrative presented through intertitles can be read as representing Bergsons idea of l'étendu, while also establishing a tangible spatiality.

Utformningen av våra offentliga miljöer bidrar till att många känner sig otrygga, och oron att utsättas för brott medför att många, speciellt kvinnor, undviker att vistas utomhus. Detta visar att åtgärder som ökar rörligheten och tryggheten för kvinnor i det offentliga rummet är nödvändiga. Detta projekt behandlar ämnet trygghet på offentliga platser, och fokus ligger på offentliga toaletter. Frågan är aktuell och grundar sig i det faktum att det traditionellt sett har byggts fler offentliga toaletter för män än för kvinnor, och att de sällan är utformade för flickor, kvinnor och småbarnsföräldrars behov. Projektets syfte är att förbättra tillgången, utformningen och/eller upplevelsen av offentliga toaletter. Att genom design undersöka hur det offentliga rummet kan bli mer tryggt och tillgängligt för män och kvinnor på lika villkor. / The planning, structure and shape of our urban environments affects our mindsets and perception of safety. The fear of being exposed to crimes causes many, especially women, to avoid certain public places completely. This proves the necessity of increasing and improving the mobility and safety for women in public spaces. This is the topic of this project, and the focus is on public toilets. The issue is relevant and it is based on the fact that cities traditionally have provided more toilets adapted to men (such as urinals), and existing toilets rarely being designed and equipped to fit the needs of women, girls and parents of young children. The purpose of this project is to improve the availability, design and experience of public restrooms. How can one, using design, improve the public space to feel more safe and accessible for men and women on equal terms.