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Designing objectiles as diagrams for movement
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This practice-based research investigates objectiles as diagrams for movement and emphasises the importance of designing for the ongoing processual and affective encounters between artefacts and bodies rather than ... -
Radical cheek: black camp, racial kitsch, and Patrick Kelly’s subversive fashions
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-11-29)This doctoral research is the first comprehensive study of Patrick Kelly’s work. It examines the work of the late fashion designer who is most known for being the first American to be accepted into the Chambre Syndicale ... -
Chen Shizeng (1876-1923) and his practice for modernising Chinese scholarly painting in early twentieth-century Beijing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This dissertation offers the first in-depth and comprehensive study of the approaches deployed by Chen Shizeng 陳師曾 (1876-1923) to modernise and revive wenren hua 文人畫 (scholar painting, scholarly painting or literati painting) ... -
Body in the gallery: posthumanist ethics and the nonhuman animal body in contemporary art
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research examines how the manifestation of the nonhuman animal in contemporary visual art is often entrenched in prevailing human systems and practices of violence against nonhuman species. Furthermore, the divide ... -
Sebastiano Serlio's architectural principles in Britain, 1600-1750
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis examines the reception of the woodcut-illustrated architectural treatises and architectural mathematics of the Bolognese architect-painter Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) in Britain from the ‘Scientific ... -
Architecture, media and archives: the fun palace of Joan Littlewood and Cedric Price as a cultural project
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This research represents a new kind of critical investigation of the renowned Fun Palace as a complex cultural project, one that exceeds its remarkable architectural significance. The Fun Palace maps an extensive network ... -
Immersivities: agency and interiority in contemporary environments
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This project tracks elements of a conceptual and ethical vocabulary shared by immersive environments that have been designed to engender an aestheticized, consumable experience – often with entertainment, pedagogy or ... -
Giorgio Vasari’s Libro de’ disegni and the Art of Drawing in Cinquecento Florence
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), both before and especially during the revision in the 1560s of his famous series of artists’ biographies, Le vite de’ più eccellenti pittori, scultori et architettori, cultivated a parallel ... -
Corrugated iron Buildings in Britain: cultural significance and conservation challenges
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)By the early part of the nineteenth century it had become possible to roll wrought iron into large flat sheets. At the same time, driven by the need for better trade facilities, the London docklands were being built. ... -
Beauty captured in an 'instant': Pierre Bonnard's transformation of the everyday
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The main purpose of this thesis is to demonstrate how the French Symbolist values that Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947) acquired as a young painter in Paris in the 1890s continued to shape his artistic aims throughout his long ... -
As long as I've got my music, I'll get there in the end': a mixed-methods investigation of music listening andhealth and wellbeing
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Music listening can address a wide range of needs in everyday life, including enhancing health and wellbeing. Research on the relationship between music listening and health and wellbeing often presents conflicting ... -
From sight to sound: exploring creativity, improvisation and interactivity in graphic composition and performance
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)This thesis examines practitioner perspectives on graphic scores and applies the findings compositionally. Since first appearing in the 1950’s, graphic scores’ idiosyncratic musical notations and methods of performance ... -
Mouthwork - public address and laboured expression: conditions of gesture, voice, and senses of time as practice-led research
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)The Western conventions of public speaking owe their development to ancient Graeco-Roman traditions. The practiced delivery of the voice and gestures was part of a daily routine which trained boys to grow into eloquent ... -
Social housing and sustainability: a case study of Leon, Mexico
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The way social housing in Mexico is procured could play a significant role in the sustainable development of the country. This thesis seeks to identify the critical challenges in enabling social housing. It identifies ... -
Disrupting surveillance: critical software design-led practice to obfuscate and reveal surveillance economies and knowledge monopolies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Big data collection, behavioural economics and targeted advertisement are changing the dynamics and notions of our individuality and societies. By mobilising critical design methods, I made a series of critical design works ... -
Loyal exchange: the material and visual culture of Jacobite exile, c.1716 - c.1760
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)By examining the material and visual culture of Jacobite exile between c.1716 and c.1760, this thesis looks more deeply into the exiled court of James VIII/III in Rome. Prompted by the theme of exile to consider less ... -
Daylighting pedagogy: How can new pedagogic approaches for daylighting enhance opportunities for engaging with daylight in spatial design education?
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Experience of spatial design practice (architecture, interior and lighting design) and spatial design teaching in the UK has highlighted a growing dichotomy in the field of architectural daylighting design. A separation ... -
Historical analysis and remaking of two German keyed guitars from the Romantic period using traditional and digital technologies
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This creative practice PhD examines and reconstructs two nineteenth-century German guitars: one made in Mittenwald by Mathias Neüner in 1810; the other bearing the names F. Fiala and Matteo Sprenger, probably made in ... -
Fashioning space: transforming the use of textiles and their inherent properties by integrating spatial and garment design practices in space design and fabrication
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis aims to transform and extend the use of textile as a construction material in spatial design by integrating garment design practice. It builds on current research which explores how—rather than making new ... -
Greek landscapes through the spectrum of crisis. An ethnographic approach to perceptions and meanings of insular landscape in times of recession
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)The Greek crisis in 2010 was a rupture spread across all aspects of the country’s social milieu causing a discontinuity in its evolutionary course. This abrupt shift of society was transmitted to its produced space, namely ...
