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Encontramos-nos em um momento histórico que privilegia a rediscussão de certos conceitos referentes a diversas áreas do conhecimento, indo da arte à biologia, da filosofia à matemática, passando pela arquitetura. Entre estas diversas questões atuais, este trabalho escolhe a do vazio como assunto central, tratado em duas instâncias: uma, as suas configurações urbanas; a outra, seu papel como elemento conceitual na arquitetura contemporânea. Escolhendo projetos de arquitetura que incluem tais questionamentos entre suas preocupações centrais, quer-se evidenciar a relação de interdependência e de enriquecimento mútuo entre dois tipos de vazio: os resultantes da dinâmica urbana tipicamente metropolitana, e aqueles concebidos no processo projetual de arquitetura. Através de cinco projetos, assinados por cinco arquitetos contemporâneos em quatro diferentes metrópoles, mostra-se o papel específico de cada um destes vazios. Além disso, a primeira parte aborda a questão da memória e da temporalidade, em São Paulo. A segunda parte trata do fim da história única, em Berlim, segundo a definição hegeliana. Finalmente, a terceira parte, relativa às cidades japonesas de Osaka e Tokyo, procura discutir a concepção japonesa do vazio, ligada a noção da efemeridade, e o conceito japonês de superposição de tempo e espaço.O trabalho é apresentado sob forma de uma narrativa interrompida, resultante do percurso pessoal da autora, e ligada por uma trama invisivél que seria, em última instância, o próprio vazio. O trabalho porcura também entender os elementos específicos de nossa época, atraves da arquitetura e do urbanismo, em relação com a literatura, a filosofia e a arte. Busca ainda, esboçar representações da situação selvagem das metrópoles contemporâneas com a ajuda de projetos emblemáticas. / We are living today a moment that favours the rediscussion of some concepts concerning several domains of knowledge, ranging from art to biology, from philosophy to mathematics, to architecture. Amidst these questions, this work chooses that of the void´s role as its central one, which will be treated in two instances: as an urban configuration, and as a conceptual contemporary architectural element. Selecting architectural projects, in which one of the basic criteria is the void´s problematic, this work wants to make clear the relationship in a form of interdependence and mutual enrichment between voids, either ebing a result of an urbain metropolitain dynamic, or those architecturaly conceived. Throughout five projects, signed by five contemporary architects within four metropolises, we try to show the specific role of each void. Furthermore, the first part will approach the questions of memory and temporality at São Paulo. The second part treats the end of the unique history as defined by Hegel, in Berlin. Finaly the third part, concerning the cities of Osaka and Tokyo aimes the discussion on the japanese conception of void, related to the notion of ephemerality in the metropolis, and presents the japanese concept of superposition of time and space. This work is presented as an interrupted narrative, as a result of the author´s own journey and connected by an unvisible frame, which is eventually the void itself. It tries to understand the elements specific to architetcure and urbanism, related to literature, philosophy and art. At the same time, it aims sketching representations of the selvage situation of contemporary metropolises through emblematic architectural projects.

Encontramos-nos em um momento histórico que privilegia a rediscussão de certos conceitos referentes a diversas áreas do conhecimento, indo da arte à biologia, da filosofia à matemática, passando pela arquitetura. Entre estas diversas questões atuais, este trabalho escolhe a do vazio como assunto central, tratado em duas instâncias: uma, as suas configurações urbanas; a outra, seu papel como elemento conceitual na arquitetura contemporânea. Escolhendo projetos de arquitetura que incluem tais questionamentos entre suas preocupações centrais, quer-se evidenciar a relação de interdependência e de enriquecimento mútuo entre dois tipos de vazio: os resultantes da dinâmica urbana tipicamente metropolitana, e aqueles concebidos no processo projetual de arquitetura. Através de cinco projetos, assinados por cinco arquitetos contemporâneos em quatro diferentes metrópoles, mostra-se o papel específico de cada um destes vazios. Além disso, a primeira parte aborda a questão da memória e da temporalidade, em São Paulo. A segunda parte trata do fim da história única, em Berlim, segundo a definição hegeliana. Finalmente, a terceira parte, relativa às cidades japonesas de Osaka e Tokyo, procura discutir a concepção japonesa do vazio, ligada a noção da efemeridade, e o conceito japonês de superposição de tempo e espaço.O trabalho é apresentado sob forma de uma narrativa interrompida, resultante do percurso pessoal da autora, e ligada por uma trama invisivél que seria, em última instância, o próprio vazio. O trabalho porcura também entender os elementos específicos de nossa época, atraves da arquitetura e do urbanismo, em relação com a literatura, a filosofia e a arte. Busca ainda, esboçar representações da situação selvagem das metrópoles contemporâneas com a ajuda de projetos emblemáticas. / We are living today a moment that favours the rediscussion of some concepts concerning several domains of knowledge, ranging from art to biology, from philosophy to mathematics, to architecture. Amidst these questions, this work chooses that of the void´s role as its central one, which will be treated in two instances: as an urban configuration, and as a conceptual contemporary architectural element. Selecting architectural projects, in which one of the basic criteria is the void´s problematic, this work wants to make clear the relationship in a form of interdependence and mutual enrichment between voids, either ebing a result of an urbain metropolitain dynamic, or those architecturaly conceived. Throughout five projects, signed by five contemporary architects within four metropolises, we try to show the specific role of each void. Furthermore, the first part will approach the questions of memory and temporality at São Paulo. The second part treats the end of the unique history as defined by Hegel, in Berlin. Finaly the third part, concerning the cities of Osaka and Tokyo aimes the discussion on the japanese conception of void, related to the notion of ephemerality in the metropolis, and presents the japanese concept of superposition of time and space. This work is presented as an interrupted narrative, as a result of the author´s own journey and connected by an unvisible frame, which is eventually the void itself. It tries to understand the elements specific to architetcure and urbanism, related to literature, philosophy and art. At the same time, it aims sketching representations of the selvage situation of contemporary metropolises through emblematic architectural projects.

This thesis has sought to examine the conceptualisation(s) of the field of Olympic education identified in the English language literature, and to evaluate the planning of Olympic education in practice, specifically in relation to the preparation of Olympic education programmes and systems for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics. When Pierre de Coubertin introduced the modern Olympic Games, one of the ideas for the revival of the Games was to educate young people through sport. Despite Coubertin s educational philosophy, the Olympic Games have long failed to represent ideals of fair play, equal opportunity, and international harmony but being replaced by bribery, corruption, commercialism, drug use and gender discrimination instead. The IOC has strengthened the roles and mission of the Olympic bodies in particular relation to the promotion of Olympic values and Olympism through the implementation of Olympic education. As a policy aim for the Olympic Movement, the development of Olympic education programmes has become a key goal for the IOC and thus host cities/nations. Providing a concept of Olympic and Paralympic education programmes in preparation for staging the Olympic Games is a compulsory requirement for host cities and nations. However, in spite of the IOC s recent explicit and intended commitment to the development of Olympic education policies in practice, explanation of Olympic education as a concept and a set of practices is imprecise and relatively underdeveloped in the Olympic related area. In addition, there is a lack of understanding of how universal values and concepts of Olympic education are perceived and communicated in culturally diverse contexts. The thesis is divided into two related parts, which seeks to provide two fundamental contributions to knowledge in this field. Part One is focused on a meta-narrative review of the English language literature on Olympic education. The methodology of a meta-narrative review is an extension of the systematic review process and facilitates the identification of the contribution of research traditions to the phenomena under review, in this case the conceptualisation and operationalisation of Olympic education. Through the process of meta-narrative review, six research traditions were identified: educational philosophy; critical sociology; curriculum development; education psychology; development of evaluation measures; and policy analysis and evaluation. II The results of the review identified how Olympic education has been conceptualised with various unfolding storylines in different research traditions, and this analysis subsequently provided the basis for the second key element of the study in the form of templates against which to evaluate the Olympic education programmes and systems associated with Tokyo 2020. Part Two employs a case study approach and is focused on the analysis of six cases using a realist evaluation methodology, employing analytic logic models and analysis of Context-Mechanism-Outcome (CMO) configurations. This facilitates the development of explicit and/or implicit causal claims about changes brought about by Japanese Olympic education programmes. The research has also contributed to developing a critical review of Olympic education programmes in a culturally specific, non-western context. Provision of Olympic education, within the context of national legislation requiring its introduction into the school curriculum developed by various stakeholders, represents a unique and culturally specific context for its study. Not only its education system, but also the cultural and historical values embedded within Japanese Olympic education programmes derive from the Japanese understanding of Olympism and universal Olympic values based on the Japanese values such as harmony, in particular applied in the effort in the recovery from national disasters, moral values learned from Judo and physical education, and Japanese ways of expressing hospitality. Thus, this case study of Tokyo 2020 acts as an exemplar in the diffusing of ways of developing and delivering the benefits of Olympic education programmes in culturally specific context.

Thesis (B.A.)--Bi-College (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges) Dept. of East Asian Studies, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references.

Esta dissertação objetiva analisar a obra audiovisual Encontros e desencontros, dirigida pela cineasta norte-americana Sofia Coppola, filmada integralmente no Japão (nas cidades de Tóquio e Quioto), e lançada comercialmente no ano de 2003. A análise pretende relacionar a representação ficcional da cidade por uma diretora estrangeira, as imagens dos espaços urbanos de Tóquio (resultado das medidas de ocidentalização e modernização praticadas no país, a partir da era Meiji) mostrados através da película e sua narrativa. As imagens da capital japonesa criadas pela realizadora vagueiam através do contraste entre o moderno e o tradicional oferecidos pela cultura japonesa, além de apresentar situações e locais de cartão-postal visitados por turistas e outros frequentados por nativos. E, ao contrário de outras obras cinematográficas, as sequências de fotogramas do filme em questão, que mostram as ruas, avenidas, construções arquitetônicas e espaços internos, acabam exercendo papel ativo dentro da narrativa fílmica. / Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2010. This dissertation aims to analyze the audiovisual work Lost in translation, directed by American film maker Sofia Coppola, shot integrally in Japan (in Tokyo and Kyoto), and commercially released in 2003. The analysis intends to relate the fictional representation of the city depicted by a foreign director, the images of Tokyos urban spaces (resulted from measures of Westernization and modernization practiced in the country, since Meiji era) shown through the film and its narrative. The images of the Japanese capital created by the film maker wander through the contrast between modern and traditional offered by Japanese culture, besides presenting situations and post card sites visited by tourists and others frequented by natives. Unlike other films, the sequences of frames of the analyzed movie, which shows the streets, avenues, architectural constructions and interiors spaces exert an active role in the film narrative.

Esta dissertação objetiva analisar a obra audiovisual Encontros e desencontros, dirigida pela cineasta norte-americana Sofia Coppola, filmada integralmente no Japão (nas cidades de Tóquio e Quioto), e lançada comercialmente no ano de 2003. A análise pretende relacionar a representação ficcional da cidade por uma diretora estrangeira, as imagens dos espaços urbanos de Tóquio (resultado das medidas de ocidentalização e modernização praticadas no país, a partir da era Meiji) mostrados através da película e sua narrativa. As imagens da capital japonesa criadas pela realizadora vagueiam através do contraste entre o moderno e o tradicional oferecidos pela cultura japonesa, além de apresentar situações e locais de cartão-postal visitados por turistas e outros frequentados por nativos. E, ao contrário de outras obras cinematográficas, as sequências de fotogramas do filme em questão, que mostram as ruas, avenidas, construções arquitetônicas e espaços internos, acabam exercendo papel ativo dentro da narrativa fílmica. / Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, 2010. This dissertation aims to analyze the audiovisual work Lost in translation, directed by American film maker Sofia Coppola, shot integrally in Japan (in Tokyo and Kyoto), and commercially released in 2003. The analysis intends to relate the fictional representation of the city depicted by a foreign director, the images of Tokyos urban spaces (resulted from measures of Westernization and modernization practiced in the country, since Meiji era) shown through the film and its narrative. The images of the Japanese capital created by the film maker wander through the contrast between modern and traditional offered by Japanese culture, besides presenting situations and post card sites visited by tourists and others frequented by natives. Unlike other films, the sequences of frames of the analyzed movie, which shows the streets, avenues, architectural constructions and interiors spaces exert an active role in the film narrative.

<p>Background: The increasing number of actors on the market has led to a more intense competition among superstores. With this, marketing has gotten an even more essential meaning. The marketing activities superstores perform are adapted to the context in which the store is located. </p><p>Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to, from different theoretical dimensions, compare superstores’ application of marketing strategies in Tokyo with the marketing strategies used by superstores in Stockholm. By such a comparison we also intend to describe possible variations and reasons behind the differences if such should be evident. Research </p><p>Method: The study is based on an approach similar to that of a case study. We have interviewed two Japanese companies with superstores in Tokyo and one Swedish company with a superstore located in Stockholm. The findings were then analyzed and the results compared in order to illuminate the contextual factors the marketing strategies of superstores correlates with. </p><p>Findings: The major differences between marketing of superstores in the chosen contexts are due to many factors but mainly the mobility of the population and all that comes with that, for example traffic conditions and infrastructure. What the working population looks like in terms of demographics and psychographics, what the living and storage spaces look like and of course the size of the city, the larger the city is, the more companies and alternatives are available. All this also affects the population’s mobility and hence also other marketing actions.</p>

Background: The increasing number of actors on the market has led to a more intense competition among superstores. With this, marketing has gotten an even more essential meaning. The marketing activities superstores perform are adapted to the context in which the store is located. Purpose: The purpose of this thesis is to, from different theoretical dimensions, compare superstores’ application of marketing strategies in Tokyo with the marketing strategies used by superstores in Stockholm. By such a comparison we also intend to describe possible variations and reasons behind the differences if such should be evident. Research Method: The study is based on an approach similar to that of a case study. We have interviewed two Japanese companies with superstores in Tokyo and one Swedish company with a superstore located in Stockholm. The findings were then analyzed and the results compared in order to illuminate the contextual factors the marketing strategies of superstores correlates with. Findings: The major differences between marketing of superstores in the chosen contexts are due to many factors but mainly the mobility of the population and all that comes with that, for example traffic conditions and infrastructure. What the working population looks like in terms of demographics and psychographics, what the living and storage spaces look like and of course the size of the city, the larger the city is, the more companies and alternatives are available. All this also affects the population’s mobility and hence also other marketing actions.

This project examines the spatial relationships that exist between Winnipeg, Canada and Tokyo, Japan, with the intent to develop an understanding of the preciseness of the world. Different site-specific systemic conditions were used as critical tools to explore the implication of distinct design catalysts and inhibitors. I have concentrated on the relationships that exist between time and space, to identify and displace localized, momentary events that exist in one site to the other. Familiarities of my local surroundings were deliberately obscured to make explicit a heightened awareness of my position on the planet. This helps to facilitate discussions. I have created a space that is dissembled through abstract understandings of displaced elements in the environment. It is my intention for this space to be experienced in a different way each time we come across it, by shifting and changing ones perception of their character in the world. / October 2008