Context for a premise: Norfolk, Virginia, 1986 The original premise for the National Aquarium for the Waterfront, Norfolk, Virginia derived from the realization that a potentially dramatic portion of the city had been separated by a major highway. As a young student of Engineering and Art, I had spent a year in this city, finding that there were few places to dwell. The scale of the streets was lost to the intervention of the highway, and the urban path gave way to meander without destination. I began to perceive zones in the city where I could find solace, take a meal, see Art or hear music; yet the only way to experience these places was to travel through the less hospitable ones. I also began to realize that the worst of the experiences were available in the newest parts of the city, and that neither the architecture, nor the spirit of the city, was being honored in the constructs of man. The site in question was an inlet to a former freight yard with a boatbuilding school on a dock, flanked by two postmodern condominium buildings that effectively isolated it from the waterfront to the north and south. Featured amid the ruins of the tracks were various artifacts including a wheelhouse and a concrete molasses storage tank. A tremendous richness was evident in the vernacular and utilitarian treatments of the waterways. Here was an understanding of the Earth’s oceans, her lifeblood: the power of the sea was apparent in the way man had built along her edges; there was inherent respect, an acknowledgment of her force majeure. The opportunity to work within an urban environment met a long-standing desire to build upon the water’s edge. A desire for an environmental expose yielded a program that would celebrate the life of the sea against a backdrop of neglected waterfront. The primary axis was determined by the figurative procession to the sea, and consequently, was born a program with direction. There came a moment when a method of working within a city became more clear, revealing a means to understanding and accepting the urban labyrinth with all of its complexities. The simplicity of an approach that would carve out places for humans amid structures that bespoke other ideals appears naïve in hindsight, yet it provided a point of departure from which to begin the project. This marked a milestone in my education: the point where I started to learn about urban form, its synthesis and integration. / Master of Architecture

This MFA project aims to express a particular range of emotions in an attempt to convey a sense of timelessness through a series of single figure paintings done from life. This project derives from an interest in exploring the concept of timelessness. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin's Little Girl with Shuttlecock, 1737, gave me the idea to convey timelessness figuratively. The project has employed some of the strategies established by both Chardin and Johannes Vermeer's single figure paintings in relation to composition and design, colour and tone, the brush mark and the narrative. Nevertheless, the expression of stillness is vital in conveying a sense of timelessness.

This MFA project aims to express a particular range of emotions in an attempt to convey a sense of timelessness through a series of single figure paintings done from life. This project derives from an interest in exploring the concept of timelessness. Jean Baptiste Simeon Chardin's Little Girl with Shuttlecock, 1737, gave me the idea to convey timelessness figuratively. The project has employed some of the strategies established by both Chardin and Johannes Vermeer's single figure paintings in relation to composition and design, colour and tone, the brush mark and the narrative. Nevertheless, the expression of stillness is vital in conveying a sense of timelessness.

This study explores the experience of timelessness in music by examining the musical parameters that are in play and how those musical parameters affect and are affected by memory and expectation. I propose three types of musical timelessness that are derived from specific perceptual transitions and based on my analytical findings in music within the indie-rock, post-rock, and electronica/experimental music scenes.

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Jag har i mitt examensarbete gjort en kollektion kläder till den fiktiva Madame Brilliant, baserad på färgstarka personligheter som bl. a Anna Piaggi och Elsa Schiaparelli. Slår man upp ”glamourös” i en svensk-fransk ordbok finner man glamourös heta brilliant och det är just glamour mitt examensarbete handlar om, vardagsglamour.Jag har till Madame Brilliant skapat drömgarderoben. De plagg den excentriska kvinnan alltid drömmer om men aldrig hittar ute i butikerna; Färgstarka feminina kappor, klänningar och hattar att bära till vardags.Jag har i mitt arbete lagt stor vikt på färgkombinationerna, därför är stylingen och de små detaljerna mycket viktiga. Liksom färgerna i en tavla förhöjer varandra, förhöjer kläderna i min kollektion varandra och ger varandra karaktär.Färgsprakande kläder upplevs ofta som billiga, ofta för att de är gjorda i dåliga kvalitéer till tonåringar eller så är de tantiga och gjorda i linne för kulturtanten. Jag har därför gjort en kollektion till kvinnan som varken vill vara tonåring eller tant, kvinnan utan ålder, mina plagg har ingen ålder, bara personlighet. Jag har valt att använda mig av lyxiga material som man oftast inte använder till färgstarka kläder; siden, ull, sammet, viscosecrepe, fjädrar och hårfilt. Jag har även använt mig utav enklare material som bomull och syntetmaterial, men då just för att det ska ge en viss känsla åt plagget. Tygerna har jag gjort mer personliga genom applikationer och att blanda olika mönster och färger i plaggen.För att ge kollektionen en tidlös känsla har jag använt mig av klassiska feminina siluetter, timglasformen, prinsess-skärningen, fodralklänningen. Kläderna i min kollektion ska hålla i flera säsonger och vara bärarinnans favoritplagg. De plagg man aldrig slänger för att de är unika, tidlösa och gjorda i material av bra kvalité.Kollektionen är inspirerad av den kvinnliga kurviga kroppen, d v s kvinnor med midja , byst och rumpa. Mycket av modet ute i butikerna är gjorda till pojkflickan. Mitt mål är att framhäva kurviga kvinnors skönhet, men även personlighet hos var och en, att det inte handlar så mycket om kropp och ett vackert ansikte, med mina kläder spelar det ingen roll hur man ser ut, allt handlar om personlighet. Jag vill med min kollektion sprida färg, glamour, energi, humor och glädje. Säga nej till vardagstristessen och ja till vardagsglamouren!I have in my degree collection made a wardrobe for the fictive lady Madame Brilliant based on colourful women like Anna Piaggi and Elsa Schiaparelli. I have been working with everyday glamour and bright colours. I have created for Madame Brilliant the dream wardrobe. I have made the clothes the colourful women dream of, but never find in stores, feminine coats, dresses and hats, glamorous clothes for everyday life in exclusive fabrics.In my design process I’ve been working with the combination of colours, that’s why the styling and the small details are very important. Just like the colours in a painting give each other life, the clothes in my collection give each other life with the colours and pattern in the fabric.Many people experience brave colour as cheap, often because they’re made in cheap fabrics and are made for teenagers or old ladies without any sense of style and fashion. I have made my collection for the woman/girl without any age who likes clothes with a lot of personality and in exclusive fabrics. I have made my clothes in materials such as wool, silk, velvet, viscosecrepe, feathers to give them a more exclusive look that colourful clothes mostly don’t have.With my collection I want to spread colour, glamour, energy, humour and happiness. / Program: Modedesignutbildningen

This thesis analyses the Delphos gown, created by both Mariano and his wife Henriette Fortuny, as well as the relationship between the gown and its wearers. Following an object-based analysis, the gown is interpreted through perspectives of temporality drawing on theories by Walter Benjamin and Gilles Deleuze. The analysis reveals its timelessness through the concepts of past, present and future embedded in the gown, as well as its in-between location regarding fashion and art. While performing a visual analysis of photographic and painted representations of the gown and its wearers under the umbrella of phenomenology, the study further takes a feminist approach in order to understand how wearing the Delphos gown can be perceived as an act of feminism, in the context of contemporary fashion history and the dress liberation of women.

The role of infinity as an antagonist in Jorge Luis Borges's oeuvre is undeniable. His stories in El jardi­n de senderos que se bifurcan (1941), Ficciones (1944), and El Aleph (1949) exhibit Borges's tendency to evoke dreams, labyrinths, mirrors, and libraries as both conduits for infinity and sources of conflict. Oftentimes, Borges's characters experience discomfort upon encountering the limitations of secular temporal succession. This discomfort is rooted in Borges's pessimism about the subject which is explored in Borges's most comprehensive essay on the issue of time: "A New Refutation of Time." Consequently, this thesis considers Borges's attitude towards the issue of time as postulated in "A New Refutation of Time" and exhibited in his early fiction, continues to acknowledge infinity as a fundamental conflict in Borges's work, and proceeds to search for a solution to this conflict. The analysis in this thesis relies heavily on a comparative study of the themes and symbols in Borges's fiction in order to establish a pattern wherein infinity is portrayed negatively. More importantly, the use of interviews, biographies, and Borges's own fiction, facilitates the construction of cohesive conception of time in his work. Subsequently, this study looks to establish a solution to the problem of infinity and establish a new pattern wherein there is a positive resolution to the narrative. Ultimately, the goal of this thesis is to acknowledge the problem of infinity in Borges's work and then propose a way to escape it.

This diploma thesis deals with the adventure novel Winnetou I by Karl May and with its practical use in foreign language lessons. The first part is focused on the didactics of literature and on the issue how literature can contribute to the development od pupils' competences and which methods could be used in this process. It also introduces the personality of Karl May in relation to his adventure novel Winnetou I. The second part presents an alternative teaching and learning material that was elaborated on the basis of the adventure novel Winnetou I.

The aim of the present study is to analyze the representation of the mythic timelessness and the religious subversion in the novel Pedro Páramo (1953) by the Mexican writer Juan Rulfo. The novel is analyzed from a narratological perspective based on the concept of focalization proposed by the French theoretician Gérard Genette. According to Genette it is possible to identify different levels of focalization depending on the position of the narrative voices.The key question in this investigation is if any salvation is possible in the universe of Pedro Páramo and how the mythic timelessness and the religious subversion are represented in the textual intentionality through the narrative voices. The main conclusion is that there is no possible salvation in the fictional universe of Pedro Páramo. The collective sin is so vast that the intermediation between God and the inhabitants of Comala does not work anymore. Thus, the only possible ”salvation” consists in the separation of the soul from the body the people of Comala experience after death. In Pedro Páramo the dead body is liberated from remorses, but - contrary to the Catholic concepts - becomes a conscious materia sentenced to remember eternally.Keywords: Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo, narratological analysis, Gérard Genette, textual intentionality, focalization, mythic timelessness, religious subversion, narrative voices.