[pt] A tese investiga a relação entre design, imaginação, sentidos e emoções. Questiona-se: como os objetos e/ou espaços se expressam para o homem e vice-versa? Quais sentidos regem esta comunicação? Como aproximar arte, ciência, imaginação, design e magia? Como criar objetos e espaços que criam encantamento? A partir dessas perguntas, o trabalho mergulha nos conceitos teóricos dos poetas românticos Friedrich Schlegel e Novalis sobre a influência dos fragmentos no pensamento e na criatividade, assim como nas teorias de Richard Holmes a respeito do período histórico conhecido como Age of Wonder — uma época marcada por grandes descobertas, movidas pelo desejo, um certo descompromisso com as regras, e o prazer da descoberta — visando compreender como essa fluidez entre desejo, imaginação, ciência, arte e filosofia influenciava o gênio criativo. Inspirada neste momento do romantismo, a hipótese defendida é a relevância destes elementos, imaginação e sentido, para o desenvolvimento da criatividade e, assim, a criação de um vínculo intuitivo entre sujeitos, artefatos e espaços. Para tal, percorre-se, em especial, o trabalho de Thomas Hankins e Silverman sobre instrumentos e imaginação; as ideias de Pallasmaa sobre sentidos e arquitetura; as teorias de De Cruz e De Smedt sobre analogias distantes; Stafford acerca da educação visual e sensorial existente no século XVIII e XIX, e Sarah Tindal Kareem que aponta como a literatura do século XVIII trouxe a volta da crença no wonder. Embebida por esses juízos, a pesquisa conceitua a ideia central do Wonder Design: a busca por estimular o pensamento criativo fragmentário e não-linear inspirado na associação entre romantismo, encantamento, imaginação e sentidos. Através disso, buscamos estimular a criação de conceitos e projetos que estimulem a imaginação, a criatividade e o senso de wonder. Por wonder entende-se encantamento e maravilhamento, ou seja, elementos que despertam sentidos, emoções e curiosidades no indivíduo. Nossa ideia, foi remover certas amarras racionais no processo do design e permitir uma maior liberdade de criação. O Wonder Design também busca a materialização do abstrato - imaginação e sentidos - em artefatos denominados Objetos Vivos. Para corporificar tais noções, um instrumento da imaginação foi desenvolvido: as Wonder Cards, uma ferramenta criativa em forma de card game para a conceituação de projetos que têm imaginação, sentidos e emoções como parâmetros primordiais. Também foram realizadas experiências iniciais com o que denominamos de Wonder Places, que são elementos conceituais que alteram o espaço e buscam criar uma experiência que influencia o pensamento criativo. As dinâmicas no qual trabalhamos esses conceitos foram realizadas em workshops com públicos variados. Os resultados e as reflexões dessas experiências são apresentados, assim como os possíveis desdobramentos futuros de estudos sobre o que denominamos de Wonder Design. / [en] The following thesis investigates the connection between design, imagination, senses and emotions. We wonder: how are objects and/or spaces expressed for men and vice versa? What senses rule this communication? How to bring art, science, imagination, design and magic closer? How to create objects and spaces that produce enchantment? From these questions onward, we delve into theoretical concepts of romantic poets Friedrich Schlegel and Novalis about the influence of fragments on thinking and creativity, as well as on Richard Holmes theories regarding the historical period known as Age of Wonder- a time period famous for its great discoveries, driven by desire, a kind of disregard to the rules, and the pleasure of discovery-- aiming to fully understand how this fluidity between desire, imagination, science, art and philosophy influenced the creative genius. Inspired by this moment of romanticism, we defend the hypothesis that the relevance of these elements, imagination and sense, for the development of creativity, and thus, the formation of an intuitive link between subjects, artefacts and spaces. To that end, we analyzed mainly the work of Thomas Hankins and Silverman about instruments and imagination; Pallasma s ideas about senses and architecture; De Cruz and De Smedt s theories about distant analogies, Stafford s theories about visual and sensorial education present on the XVIII and XIX centuries, and Sarah Tindal Kareem who points out how the literature of the XVIII century brought back the belief in wonder. Instilled by these judgements, the research conceptualizes the main idea of Wonder Design: the aim to stimulate fragmentary and nonlinear inventive thinking inspired by the association between romanticism, enchantment, imagination and senses. Thereby, we aim to stimulate the creation of concepts and projects that boost imagination, creativity and sense of wonder. By wonder, we mean enchantment and amazement, that is, elements that awaken senses, emotions and curiosity on the individual. Our idea was to remove some rational tethers of the design process and to allow greater freedom of creation. Moreover, Wonder Design aims to materialize the abstract -imagination and senses - through artefacts named Living Objects. To embody these notions, an instrument of imagination was developed: The Wonder Cards, an ingenious tool shaped as a card game to conceptualize projects that use senses, emotions and imagination as primordial baselines. We performed initial experiments with what we named Wonder Places, that are conceptual elements that change space, intending to create an experience that influences creative thinking. We worked with these concepts in dynamics held at workshops with a diversified public. We presented here the results and the reflections of these experiences, as well as possible future developments from studies about what we call Wonder Design.

Wonder has had a rich and diverse history in the western philosophical tradition. Both Plato and Aristotle claim that philosophy begins in wonder, while Descartes marks it as the first of the passions and Heidegger uses it as a signpost for a new trajectory of philosophy away from idealism and nihilism. Despite such a rich history, wonder is almost always thought to be exhausted by the acquisition of knowledge. That is, wonder is thought of almost exclusively in epistemological terms and is discarded as soon as knowledge has been achieved. In this dissertation, I argue for an ontological reorientation of wonder that values wonder beyond its epistemic uses. To do this, I read the phenomenological and ontological work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty through recent developments in object-oriented ontology and new materialism. Much of Merleau-Ponty's work is directed toward dissolving the distinction between subject and object. His insights regarding the mutual constitution of the world lead to the possibility of an operative wonder that occurs between subject and object. Both object-oriented ontology and new materialism radicalize these insights by articulating them in terms of a vibrant or quasi-agential material world. Objects and assemblages of objects are capable of performing the becoming of the world that includes human activity, but is not reduced to it. As such, the world is capable of both self-organization and practice. Ultimately I use the philosophy-physics of Karen Barad to argue that operative wonder acts like a kind of superposition of relations between objects, and thereby accounts for a concept of wonder that is both ontologically significant and acutely generative.

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The thesis examines how users of the Internet Movie Database (IMDb) negotiate feminism in their reviews of four superheroine films – Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel, Birds of Prey: The Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn, and Wonder Woman 1984. By combining critical discourse analysis with methods of corpus linguists, this corpus-based study of over 18,000 reviews analyses the frequency of the topic of feminism in the reviews, words and topics associated with it and the way the reviewers reflect broader mediated discourse over the four films, and the role of IMDb as a space for these reviews. The findings show that feminism is still understood as an anti-male movement where female-led films are shielded from criticism by the mainstream media by the virtue of the lead’s gender, the superheroines are criticised for being overpowered particularly where they have no equal male supporting character and that perceived feminist messaging is usually written off as a forced political agenda or as an insincere cash grab made by corporates which effectively use feminism for promotion. It also reveals IMDb as a highly polarised platform where the users leaving 1- and 10-star reviews are generalized as representatives of different sides of the political spectrum (antifeminist vs feminist, conservative vs liberal) regardless of the actual content of the review.

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

I believe art can offer an antidote to our numbness and rekindle a sense of childlike wonder. Reclaiming Wonder is an installation in which I aim to explore the possibility of evoking the curiosity of childhood in the viewer’s mind and transporting him or her into a dreamlike atmosphere to wander about in wonder through the use of the senses of sight, touch, and hearing. / Includes bibliography. / Thesis (M.F.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2017. / FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection

The aim of this study is to investigate the pedagogical potential of wonder as teaching tool in preschool. The focus of research is on teaching in preschool in the light of the revised preschool curriculum of 2018 and the concept of wonder in classical and contemporary philosophical texts on educational importance of wonder. The purpose of this approach is to create an understanding of wonder, its impact and positive force in the teaching process. How does wonder relate to preschool teaching? How is teaching in preschool interpreted in current preschool discourse? And how can classical philosophical ideas on wonder contribute to contemporary discussions about teaching in preschool? The study is based on the hermeneutic method of research inspired by Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. The study begins with an overview of the main ancient Greek philosophers. Next, I address current research on wonder as a prerequisite for learning during teaching activities. I find that, in spite of the fact that there is a number of science educators, who recognize the value of wonder, explicit notions of wonder as a pedagogical tool a very few. Next, a historical overview of the preschool curriculum and the concepts of teaching and wonder in preschool is undertaken and reveals some controversies with regard to the concept of teaching in its current understanding. The conclusion of the study is that there is some promising empirical evidence in favor of “wonder pedagogy”, which, if applied in preschool, may facilitate the achievement of some of the objectives of preschool curriculum.

As the American superhero films continue to increase their popularity around the globe, and because of the reccurent criticism against their poor and stereotypical representation, this essay aims to analyse the two newly made productions Man of Steel and Wonder Woman from a gender perspective. The essay argues a difference in Superman and Wonder Woman’s superhero images and further discussess the opportunities as well as potential problems the superhero narratives can offer to discuss gender in the EFL classroom.

The presence of metaphorical language in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species has been the source of much debate, particularly in the interaction between Darwin's theory and the Christian faith. The metaphorical language used to describe "nature," "evolution," "natural theology," and "natural selection" is examined?within Christianity prior to Darwin, in Darwin's writing of the Origin, and in the responses of three Victorian Christian critics of science. "Natural selection" and "evolution" had metaphorical meanings prior to Darwin's use of these terms. "Nature" was a highly metaphysical concept, described by the metaphor of natural theology. "Evolution" was associated with epic understandings of human progress. The metaphor of natural theology was particularly important to the faith of Western Christians by the time of Darwin. In order to better understand the role of natural theology, the theories of metaphor developed by Kenneth Burke in "Four Master Tropes" and by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson in Metaphors We Live By are compared. This comparison results in the development of an expansion of Lakoff and Johnson's metaphor theory, a model termed experienced metaphor. This model is used to explain Victorian Christians' emotional adherence to natural theology. Many of the interpreters of Darwin's work, both secular and Christian, saw natural selection as a rival to natural theology. The works of three prominent Victorians who attempted to defend natural theology against the apparent onslaughts of science are evaluated for additional metaphorical language regarding nature and evolution. Philip Gosse, G. K. Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon each produced counter-metaphors to defend natural theology?metaphors of awe/wonder and of sin/destruction. The rhetorical effects of these counter-metaphors promote the rejection of Darwin's theory of evolution. The counter-metaphors identified are still in circulation within the debate over Darwin and Christianity today. The presence of metaphor in this debate deserves greater attention, in order to understand how metaphor affects the thinking of both Christian and secular audiences regarding Darwinian evolution.

This dissertation examines three plays by South African theatre practitioner Brett Bailey as / Thesis (M.A.)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2006.