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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 ... -
Every contact leaves a trace: a forensic feminist investigation into women administrators, gentrification and the artist studio
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)In the early 1970s, artists in London worked together to establish studios in former industrial buildings across the city. This model, and its role within gentrification, has been well-documented in scholarship (Florida, ... -
Tricolour, shield, and Cross of Savoy: 'Sabaudian medievalism,' the Risorgimento, and neo-medieval architecture in Italy, c.1814-1864.
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)On 23 March 1848, the King of Piedmont-Sardinia released a celebrated proclamation to the people of Lombardy and Venetia, which was a manifestation of patriotic hopes that concluded by addressing the flag that Piedmontese ... -
Critical designing with communities: the case of a housing rights campaign in Leith, Edinburgh
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)Recent movements of participatory democracy in welfare states have changed the governance from public administration to the hands of social agents. The call for a responsible and rational agent has now become all the ... -
The Poetics and Politics of Withdrawal: cultural negotiations of dynastic change in seventeenth-century China
(The University of Edinburgh, 2021-07-31)This thesis explores modalities of withdrawal by individuals from educated elites in seventeenth-century China when faced with the catastrophe of dynastic transition. Examining how withdrawal was enacted, manipulated, ... -
'Loving Vincent' and 'I'm OK': two approaches to documenting the life of an artist
(https://animateddocs.wordpress.com/, 2020-05)A short review and comparison of two animated films on lives of artists: Loving Vincent (directed by D. Kobiela and H. Welchman) and I'm OK (directed by Lizzy Hobbs). -
Animation and Peace Studies: An Encounter for Societal Betterment
(Animationstudies 2.0, 2020-04)Short peer reviewed online article on the curated subject INTERDISCIPLINARY OPPORTUNITY OF ANIMATION -
Screening domesticity
(The University of Edinburgh, 2020-11-30)Screening Domesticity explores the mediatisation of domestic space over the past century through four exploratory case studies – the Villa Müller (Adolf Loos, 1930), the Maison de Verre (Pierre Chareau, 1932), Case Study ... -
Kenneth Leighton 1929 - 1988
(The University of Edinburgh, 1991)Kenneth Leighton's compositional output numbers more than 150 major items, of which over one third are choral. Religion played a significant part in his life, and there is a spiritual quality about much of his work. His ...
