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Post-AIDS imaginaries: configuring speculative futures in the cultures of HIV intervention
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-24)‘Post-AIDS Imaginaries: Configuring Speculative Futures in the Cultures of HIV Intervention’ addresses the transformation of HIV intervention imaginaries in contemporary queer AIDS media. I focus on three visual case ... -
How the viewer's state of fear can be activated through their auditory perception of horror film sound: a better understanding via two novel empirical-phenomenological procedures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-23)I scrutinised available film literature to identify whether it needed research on one key topic: How the viewer’s state of fear can be activated through their auditory perception of horror film sound. A rigorous and ... -
Doing the crease: text and subjectiness in a liberation of folds
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-11-16)Text appears ordered, yet so much can go wrong. It has a form and a sound, needs to be put together and deciphered, and inherently serves to deliver a message. Inspired by the potential of clumsiness, my research project ... -
Walking in Quito: urban imaginaries of the historical city centre
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-09-30)This research seeks to understand how local residents, merchants and artisans in the city centre of Quito experience, think of and value their everyday place, the historical centre of Quito, henceforth HCQ. This thesis ... -
Conservation of uncertain monuments: the case of prehistoric Scottish brochs
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-09)The sophisticated drystone Iron-Age brochs of Northern Scotland, called Complex Atlantic Roundhouses by archaeologists, have shown the high technological culture of the builders. Their conservation should be based on their ... -
Designing for spatial justice: repurposing Armenia’s post-Soviet rural-urban region
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-08-03)This study assesses landscape changes in rural Armenia in the 30 years since the formation of the independent republic following the collapse of the Soviet Union. The research applies spatial justice theory to interpret ... -
Fox, the nun and the dragon: an autoethnographical opera
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)This thesis re-narrativises the fiction of the dominant composer, deploying a mixed methodology combining Actor Network Theory [ANT] and autoethnography. I propose the concept of the ‘Operatic Collaborator Network [OCN]’, ... -
C. A. Doxiadis and the Islamabad master plan: social engineering in a developing world, from the individual to the global
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The end of empires signified the emergence of new nation-states, bringing to the fore a complex nexus of needs on a global scale. The transfer of Western expertise to the Global South and the dissemination of a modernist ... -
Hand colouring of prints and illustrations from Nuremberg in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-29)The late fifteenth and early sixteenth century was a significant transitional period for printmaking, book printing, and manuscript production. Owners bought single-sheet illuminations and hand-coloured prints on the open ... -
Manifestation of human agency designing the hybrid guitar for the humanisation of digital composition and performance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-01)This research presents an exploration of personalised humanised approaches to performing and controlling digital music, as well as encapsulating human presence and feel in digital musical performance tools. Specifically, ... -
Interpretation of musical dreams: expanding hermeneutic approaches to the dream aesthetic in Franz Schubert’s music
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-28)The concept of the dream has offered a highly rewarding avenue for modern scholars to interpret Franz Schubert’s instrumental music. In this thesis, I propose that this hermeneutic window could be significantly more ... -
Saundaryalaharī
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-20)The Soundarya Lahari or Saundaryalaharī (Sanskrit: सौन्दर्यलहरी) meaning "Waves Of Beauty" is a famous literary work in Sanskrit believed to be written by sage Pushpadanta and Adi Shankara. It was written in the 8th Century ... -
I Am Narrating Lost Memories Through Pinecone Structures
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-17)In the island of Corfu in Greece, there are four sculptures of pinecones hanging in the streets around Saint Spyridon’s church in the old town; these pinecones can also be found around the icons of the Saint inside the ... -
‘La trato como reina [I treat her like a queen]’: an exploration of the role of hand-embroidered artworks as an active communication tool to raise awareness of the high levels of violence against women in Chile
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-06-17)The aim of this practice-based doctoral research is to explore the role that my hand- embroidered artworks might play in actively communicating with non-specialist audiences about the high levels of violence against women ... -
Local Colourism in Korean and Taiwanese art under Japanese colonial rule: the native artists' national identity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-07-13)This thesis aims to present a new perspective to interpret Local Colourism in Korean and Taiwanese art by investigating its origin and the link between these nations, within the context of the artistic milieu during ... -
Lived residencies, experiential learning and thick geographies: how artists produce knowledge(s) in the social studio
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-05-25)This practice-based research articulates how contemporary artists learn from their peers and others within social studio, or group, artists’ residency (SSAR), and ways in which the disruption of one’s habitus contributes ... -
Lives of the interview: the development of the artist interview in twentieth-century Britain and the United States
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-04-21)This thesis examines interviews with artists in Britain and the United States, mapping changes in their form, function and status over the twentieth century, and highlighting Transatlantic connections. The modern meaning ... -
“How can you have music therapy without humour?!”: a phenomenologically informed arts-based reflexive study exploring humour in music therapy with persons living with dementia
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-22)In music therapy practice, humour is closely linked to playfulness and play and is largely taken for granted by music therapists. Despite music therapists’ anecdotal interest, to date there has been little in-depth focus ... -
Collecting practice and institutional legacy of Lillie P. Bliss (1864-1931)
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)The aim of this thesis is to advance the study of the history of collecting through the reassessment of an underestimated exemplar in the fields of culture and philanthropy. The examination of Bliss's motivation, methods, ... -
Playing no solo imagination: synthesising the rhythmic emergence of sound and sign through embodied drum kit performance and writing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2022-03-21)This practice-based PhD explores musical imagination by examining the relationships of embodied musical performance and writing. The submission comprises audio recordings of original musical material and accompanying ...
