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Concept of collapsibility/new interior design approach: a design framework for understanding and designing change and impermanence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)In this thesis, I argue that in a world characterised by change, contemporary interior designers lack competent guidance on how to interpret and design notions of impermanence, and how to experiment through practice with ... -
Beyond genius: the reception, reputation and afterlife of Robert Adam
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)Robert Adam is today remembered as one of the greatest British architects working in the eighteenth century—the moniker ‘genius’ has become a permanent fixture. My doctoral thesis challenges the idea of ‘genius’ as applied ... -
I don’t know where paradise is: queer paths through museums and libraries
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)This dissertation charts the research and creation of a body of artistic work that dialogues with the domestic spaces, private libraries, and kinship bonds of a group of looselyconnected gay cultural and intellectual figures ... -
Chinese walking urbanism: notions, life stages and vending - walking space in smaller Chinese cities
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)While 54.5% of the world’s population lives in cities, urban sprawl has led to typically less walkable car-dominated urban environments. A decrease in physical activity – especially walking – is resulting in more than 5 ... -
Manuscript illumination in Ottonian and early Salian St Gall: iconography, liturgy and devotion
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)This study explores the production of illuminated manuscripts in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Abbey of St Gall, Switzerland, in the period c. 975-1075. Although this monastic institution witnessed a celebrated era ... -
Portfolio of electro-instrumental composition incorporating multilayered processes for automated live electronics
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-07-02)The music presented here expresses a deeply interconnected relationship between acoustic instrumental sound and computer-produced electro-acoustic material. Throughout this process of research, I was determined to investigate ... -
Sound infrastructures of the German Democratic Republic: renewing sound technology during state socialism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-27)This thesis analyses the German Democratic Republic’s (GDR) efforts to create and maintain modern sound technology infrastructures to deliver culture to its citizens. Analyses of GDR heavy and hi-tech industries and the ... -
'Going-on': silence and lateness in the work of John Hejduk and Samuel Beckett
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-22)By means of critical comparison, this thesis develops new understandings of two distinguished late modernists – the architect and educator John Hejduk and the author Samuel Beckett. Hejduk once describing his praxis as ... -
Sir William Bruce’s Hopetoun House: the architectural, economic and social analysis of a post-Restoration Scottish country seat
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-14)This dissertation examines the patronage, design, and construction of Sir William Bruce’s Hopetoun House (circa 1698-1721). It was built as the country seat of the Hope family, who became the Earls of Hopetoun in 1703. ... -
Developing music improvisation workshops for preschool children through Action Research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-01-22)Improvisation in music is an important skill, which is increasingly valued, and an essential part of curricula at all educational levels. However, understandings of improvisation are conflicting and contradictory approaches ... -
From the art institution to instituent praxis: configurations of power in the contemporary European art world
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-12-16)The thesis is the outcome of research that considers ontological and political conceptualisations of the notion of institution in relation to practices and discourses in the contemporary European art world and the power ... -
Crafting the 21st century UK artisan-silversmith: exploring the elements of a silversmith development framework
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-26)This thesis makes a contribution to our understanding of how artisan-silversmiths in the United Kingdom develop and become commercially and personally successful by asking the question: Which elements of artisan-silversmiths’ ... -
Facilitating musical learning in Scottish Primary Schools: an interview-based study of generalist primary teachers’, primary music specialists’ and community music practitioners’ views and experiences
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)Confidence in teaching music has been a long-standing issue for Scottish generalist primary teachers, and, amidst cuts to specialist teachers and instrumental music in Scottish schools, generalist teachers are increasingly ... -
Le cadre déborde: framing Dora Maar's photographic works in dialogue with surrealism
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)The photographic oeuvre of the French artist Dora Maar (1907-1997) has remained critically neglected since her death over twenty years ago. Although several monographs addressing her life and art have been published in ... -
How picturebooks enable intercultural communication: a practice-based approach
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)My research project is a practice-based exploration of ways in which visual narrative engages readers of picturebooks in intercultural communication. My approach to designing and illustrating picturebooks uses an ... -
Displaying fashion history: the linear, open, virtual, and absent museum
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)This doctoral project engages with historical and critical debates surrounding the presence of fashion exhibitions in the museum. In particular, it problematises the issue of the temporal distance between artefacts and ... -
Walking with: spatial approaches to intimacy
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)The questions of intimacy, its spatial dimensions, and its creative potential lie in the heart of this thesis. People often think of intimacy as that which is private and secret, placing it in nooks and quiet places that ... -
Crafting women’s narratives: the material impact of twenty-first century romance fiction on contemporary steampunk dress
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)Science fiction author K.W. Jeter coined the term ‘steampunk’ in his 1987 letter to the editor of Locus magazine, using it to encompass the burgeoning literary trend of madcap ‘gonzo’-historical Victorian adventure novels. ... -
Dissolving [in]tangible cultural heritage: exploring material performative endurance in a locus of temporal transition
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)This thesis investigates and extends the concept of intangible cultural heritage in order to dissolve the normative and static image of tangible heritage fostered by conservation practices that promote spectacle-heritage. ... -
Branding the Douro territory: wine labels – a missing dialogue
(The University of Edinburgh, 2019-11-27)This thesis argues that the design of wine labels is a crucial aspect of contemporary wine communication, in particular for niche wines operating in the global market. The thesis focuses on dry wines of the Douro Demarcated ...
